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Monthly Chronicle.
'On landing at the Quay Mr . Harvey appeared quite dejected" , and extremely pale ; but Mr . Slogan's fortitude did not apparently forsake him , until he approached the jaiC where he beheld his friend Keogh ' s head on a sp ike . Oil ' enquiring whose head that was , and hearing it was ICeogh ] s , be seemed like a man electrified , and sunk into all the anguish of despair and guilt . He never recovered any shew of spirits . They were both tried the next morning and convicted . On tbe ensuing day they were banged ,
pursuant to their sentence . ' A reward of ioooi . had been offered for the _ ippre- _ hension of Mr . Harvey , who had an estate of 3 , 00 c ! . a year in the county of Wexford .
CAPTURE GF MILTA . PARIS . JULY I . r The Executive ' Bireftory sent the following message , relative to tbe taking of Malta , to the Council of Five Hundred . ' For a long period the government of Malta had dared to exhibit hostile sentiments against France . It had extended the most audacious favour and
countenance to the emigrants , to whom they gave admittance into their island , as well as to those of the Knig hts who augmented the army of Conde . —Its constitution imposed upon it a law ofthe most strict neutrality ; yet even at the time when this princip le was most loudly professed , it gave to Spain , at war with us , the permission to recruit her sailors at Malta .. It has continued since to g ive the same indulgence to the English ; the same reo . uest was frequently made by the French , and most indignantly repulsed . If any
Maltese , if any Frenchman resident at Malta , shewed themselves more favourable to the French cause , they were persecuted , plunged into dungeons , and treated as malefaftors . It should have seemed that the hatred of so petty a state against France could not have displayed itself in more decisive acts .
Nevertheless , the Grand Master , in a manifesto of the 10 th of October , 1793 , ventured to declare that the King of Naples having intimated to him his state of war , he eagerly seized on the opportunity to shut the ports of Malta against all French ships . He went still farther ; he declared in the same manifesto , that the money belonging to France , deposited at Malta at this period , should ' no longer be considered but as money subject to the expence of the undertakingsof the Kings of France . In a word , it was added , that before that ,
though information was received that a new envoy was on the road , thej ' would receive no such person , nor any other as the agent of the pretended republic of France , whom the Grand Master ( these are the veiy words ) , neither can , nor wishes , nor ought to recognize . ' The government of Malta , to be sure , could not more effeftuallyat that time shew a disposition more hostile to France ; but this state of war has subsisted ever since . '
' On the 9 th of June , this year , the demand made , by the Commander of the French forces in these seas , to be allowed his convenience of " taking in water at the different anchoring grounds about the island , was refused , with the ironical form that the Grand Master could not permit more than two transports at a time , which would have required three hundred days , to water the French troops . What audacity thus to insult the army of the Republic , commanded bGeneral Buonaparte !'
y ' On the 10 th , in the morning , the French troops were landed at various points ofthe island . Through the day the place was invested on every side , and cannonaded with the greatest alacrity . The besieged made a sortie , in which the Chief of Brigade Marmont , at the head of the 19 th , carried the standard of the Order . ' e OH . the ' nth . - ia the moraiag , the ICniriit of the Order of St . John of
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Monthly Chronicle.
'On landing at the Quay Mr . Harvey appeared quite dejected" , and extremely pale ; but Mr . Slogan's fortitude did not apparently forsake him , until he approached the jaiC where he beheld his friend Keogh ' s head on a sp ike . Oil ' enquiring whose head that was , and hearing it was ICeogh ] s , be seemed like a man electrified , and sunk into all the anguish of despair and guilt . He never recovered any shew of spirits . They were both tried the next morning and convicted . On tbe ensuing day they were banged ,
pursuant to their sentence . ' A reward of ioooi . had been offered for the _ ippre- _ hension of Mr . Harvey , who had an estate of 3 , 00 c ! . a year in the county of Wexford .
CAPTURE GF MILTA . PARIS . JULY I . r The Executive ' Bireftory sent the following message , relative to tbe taking of Malta , to the Council of Five Hundred . ' For a long period the government of Malta had dared to exhibit hostile sentiments against France . It had extended the most audacious favour and
countenance to the emigrants , to whom they gave admittance into their island , as well as to those of the Knig hts who augmented the army of Conde . —Its constitution imposed upon it a law ofthe most strict neutrality ; yet even at the time when this princip le was most loudly professed , it gave to Spain , at war with us , the permission to recruit her sailors at Malta .. It has continued since to g ive the same indulgence to the English ; the same reo . uest was frequently made by the French , and most indignantly repulsed . If any
Maltese , if any Frenchman resident at Malta , shewed themselves more favourable to the French cause , they were persecuted , plunged into dungeons , and treated as malefaftors . It should have seemed that the hatred of so petty a state against France could not have displayed itself in more decisive acts .
Nevertheless , the Grand Master , in a manifesto of the 10 th of October , 1793 , ventured to declare that the King of Naples having intimated to him his state of war , he eagerly seized on the opportunity to shut the ports of Malta against all French ships . He went still farther ; he declared in the same manifesto , that the money belonging to France , deposited at Malta at this period , should ' no longer be considered but as money subject to the expence of the undertakingsof the Kings of France . In a word , it was added , that before that ,
though information was received that a new envoy was on the road , thej ' would receive no such person , nor any other as the agent of the pretended republic of France , whom the Grand Master ( these are the veiy words ) , neither can , nor wishes , nor ought to recognize . ' The government of Malta , to be sure , could not more effeftuallyat that time shew a disposition more hostile to France ; but this state of war has subsisted ever since . '
' On the 9 th of June , this year , the demand made , by the Commander of the French forces in these seas , to be allowed his convenience of " taking in water at the different anchoring grounds about the island , was refused , with the ironical form that the Grand Master could not permit more than two transports at a time , which would have required three hundred days , to water the French troops . What audacity thus to insult the army of the Republic , commanded bGeneral Buonaparte !'
y ' On the 10 th , in the morning , the French troops were landed at various points ofthe island . Through the day the place was invested on every side , and cannonaded with the greatest alacrity . The besieged made a sortie , in which the Chief of Brigade Marmont , at the head of the 19 th , carried the standard of the Order . ' e OH . the ' nth . - ia the moraiag , the ICniriit of the Order of St . John of