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Monthly Chronicle.

a Sovereign , are seldom in unison with bis heart and his thoughts : besides the EMPEROR is the man of all Vienna who has the least influence in his own Cabinet . Mr . PITT and the French Executive Directory know it well . There are a great number of French here , under the general denomination of merchants of Havre , Nantz , Bourdeaux , Sec . Sec . They all wear the National cockade publickly ; and on the 271 : 1 of last month celebrated the fall of ROEESFIEKKE - To-morrow the same society is to celebrate the fall of the throne , and the establishment of the French Republic . You might find it difficult to

reconcile these two extremes , if I did not tell you that TALEYUASD P _ . _ IK . OHI > , tbe ci-devant Bishop of ACTIN ' , and the Abbe de St . PHAR , the bastard of d'OuLEAMS , are particularly remarkable among these zealous republicans . It is they who are at head of the cockades , and who sport the most enormous ones . While these gentlemen hoist the signal of republicanism , the Emigrants for the altar and tbe throne , a title which is become a term of contempt , vie with the Jews of Hamburgh in cunning . All the morning they are running about the streets with a bundle of stockings , handkerchiefs , and waiscoatsunder their

, arms ; and in the evening resume at the theatre or the coffee-house , the titles , the impudence , and the airs , of Marquisses and Counts . I am informed by letters from the Isles d'Hieres , that an armed aviso captured oft ' those islands a large bark laden with Italian Emigrants , who made no resistance . Being interrogated concerning the place to which they meant to retire , they answered that they were bound to Toulon , being well assured that they should find no safer asylum against the French , than France itself . The Directory was much struck with this strong and spirited answer .

IMPORTANT NOTE . The foilotving official note has been sent from the Minister of foreign Affairs , to the French Ambassador ( BARTHELEMY ) in Switzerland : " The French Government , are informed , that the English , after having stop' ped , during the war , under the most frivolous pretexts , every neutral vessel , have just given the most positive orders to the Commanders of their ships of war , lo seize , indiscriminately , all the cargoes which they may suppose to be destined

to the French . " Whatever injury France may have sustained from this conduct , she has nevertheless , continued to give the only example of the most inviolable respect for the law of nations , which constitutes the pledge and security of their civilization . But , after having long tolerated the offence of this Machiavelian system of policy , she at length finds herself compelled by the most urgent motives , to have recourse to reprisals against England . " The Executive Directory , therefore , orders all the political Agents of the

French Republic will act against the ships of every country , in the same manner in which those governments suffer lhe English to act against them . ' ' This measure ought not surprize them , since it would be very easy to demons . rate , that it is imperiously prescribed by necessity , and it is only the effect of a lawful defence . If these Powers had known how to make their Commerce respected by the English , we should have had no occasion to have recourse to this atilicting extremity . . " They will recollectthat the French Republicever generous , proposed to ,

, , all lhe Belligerent Powers to respect Commerce ; but that this proposition , honourable to the Government which made it , and dictated by the most perfect Philanthropy , was rejecled with pride by a Government accustomed to . treat with contempt the most sacred Laws of Humanity , & c . " Ar . icA . XT , June 2 S . The beginning of this month a most terrible and obstinate battle was fought near Corsica , between an Algeri .-ie rover and two Neapolitan frigate .., joined by

one of the Pope ' s garda cos ' . as . The action was severe , long , and bloody ; it lasted from ten o ' clock in the morning fill four in theaftemoon , without intermission ; the combatants were for a long lime within pistol shot of each other . The pirate uifl ' eret - much , beinrj mo ; t of the thy a bclwixt an incessant and vrdi-directed fire

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LONDON: Article 2
TO READERS , CORRESPONDENTS , Sec. Article 3
THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE, AND CABINET 0F UNIVERSAL LITERATURE. Article 4
A DEFENCE OF MASONRY, Article 4
A CHARGE DELIVERED TO THE MEMBERS OF THE UNION LODGE, Article 8
HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF WILLIAM OF WYKEHAM. Article 10
ON THE CAUSES OF THE HIGH PRICE OF CORN. Article 17
DESCRIPTION OF THE KINGDOM OF MOROCCO. Article 19
ON FEMALE EDUCATION. Article 21
ESSAYS ON SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH HISTORY AND CLASSICAL LEARNING. Article 23
LOUIS XII. KING OF FRANCE. Article 28
DEATH OF THE GREAT MARSHAL TURENNE. Article 29
CURIOUS PARTICULARS RELATIVE TO THE JEWS. Article 31
Untitled Article 34
DESCRIPTION OF A PORTABLE GYN, FOR MOUNTING OR DISMOUNTING ORDNANCE: Article 36
EXCERPTA ET COLLECTANEA. Article 38
THE POISONOUS QUALITY OF MUSCLES CONSIDERED. Article 42
To the EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE. Article 43
REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. Article 44
POETRY. Article 52
ODE TO FANCY. Article 53
A POETICAL REVERIE ON THE GOUT. Article 54
ON SEEING A VERY SENSIBLE WOMAN WEEPING, WITH A BEAUTIFUL CHILD AT HER SIDE, IN THE SAME SITUATION. Article 55
ON THE AUTHOR OF THE BALLAD CALLED THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD. Article 56
A PIECE FROM A SERIOUS MUSICAL COMPOSITION. Article 57
MASONIC INTELLIGENCE. Article 58
MONTHLY CHRONICLE. Article 60
HOME NEWS. Article 62
OBITUARY. Article 66
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Monthly Chronicle.

a Sovereign , are seldom in unison with bis heart and his thoughts : besides the EMPEROR is the man of all Vienna who has the least influence in his own Cabinet . Mr . PITT and the French Executive Directory know it well . There are a great number of French here , under the general denomination of merchants of Havre , Nantz , Bourdeaux , Sec . Sec . They all wear the National cockade publickly ; and on the 271 : 1 of last month celebrated the fall of ROEESFIEKKE - To-morrow the same society is to celebrate the fall of the throne , and the establishment of the French Republic . You might find it difficult to

reconcile these two extremes , if I did not tell you that TALEYUASD P _ . _ IK . OHI > , tbe ci-devant Bishop of ACTIN ' , and the Abbe de St . PHAR , the bastard of d'OuLEAMS , are particularly remarkable among these zealous republicans . It is they who are at head of the cockades , and who sport the most enormous ones . While these gentlemen hoist the signal of republicanism , the Emigrants for the altar and tbe throne , a title which is become a term of contempt , vie with the Jews of Hamburgh in cunning . All the morning they are running about the streets with a bundle of stockings , handkerchiefs , and waiscoatsunder their

, arms ; and in the evening resume at the theatre or the coffee-house , the titles , the impudence , and the airs , of Marquisses and Counts . I am informed by letters from the Isles d'Hieres , that an armed aviso captured oft ' those islands a large bark laden with Italian Emigrants , who made no resistance . Being interrogated concerning the place to which they meant to retire , they answered that they were bound to Toulon , being well assured that they should find no safer asylum against the French , than France itself . The Directory was much struck with this strong and spirited answer .

IMPORTANT NOTE . The foilotving official note has been sent from the Minister of foreign Affairs , to the French Ambassador ( BARTHELEMY ) in Switzerland : " The French Government , are informed , that the English , after having stop' ped , during the war , under the most frivolous pretexts , every neutral vessel , have just given the most positive orders to the Commanders of their ships of war , lo seize , indiscriminately , all the cargoes which they may suppose to be destined

to the French . " Whatever injury France may have sustained from this conduct , she has nevertheless , continued to give the only example of the most inviolable respect for the law of nations , which constitutes the pledge and security of their civilization . But , after having long tolerated the offence of this Machiavelian system of policy , she at length finds herself compelled by the most urgent motives , to have recourse to reprisals against England . " The Executive Directory , therefore , orders all the political Agents of the

French Republic will act against the ships of every country , in the same manner in which those governments suffer lhe English to act against them . ' ' This measure ought not surprize them , since it would be very easy to demons . rate , that it is imperiously prescribed by necessity , and it is only the effect of a lawful defence . If these Powers had known how to make their Commerce respected by the English , we should have had no occasion to have recourse to this atilicting extremity . . " They will recollectthat the French Republicever generous , proposed to ,

, , all lhe Belligerent Powers to respect Commerce ; but that this proposition , honourable to the Government which made it , and dictated by the most perfect Philanthropy , was rejecled with pride by a Government accustomed to . treat with contempt the most sacred Laws of Humanity , & c . " Ar . icA . XT , June 2 S . The beginning of this month a most terrible and obstinate battle was fought near Corsica , between an Algeri .-ie rover and two Neapolitan frigate .., joined by

one of the Pope ' s garda cos ' . as . The action was severe , long , and bloody ; it lasted from ten o ' clock in the morning fill four in theaftemoon , without intermission ; the combatants were for a long lime within pistol shot of each other . The pirate uifl ' eret - much , beinrj mo ; t of the thy a bclwixt an incessant and vrdi-directed fire

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