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Monthly Chronicle.
contained between three and four thousand houses . The population of these three is estimated at 100 , 000 souls ; and , besides these , a number of villages in the same territory were likewise destroyed , scarcely a tenth part of the inhabitants having escaped the dreadful catastrophe . The King of Spain , by the unanimous advice of his Council of State , has made a deduction of four per cent , from all civil salaries , pensions , grants , & c . during the war ; a deduction of twenty-five per cent , from the salaries of all the
counsellors of state ; and ordered , that no minister or other person shall receive " more than one salary , however many places of employments he may possess . Ah insurrection has broken out in South Prussia , a part of the dominions of ¦ Poland wrested from it by Frederic in the partition of 1773 . From this event the affairs of Poland begin to assume a brilliant aspectj arid to revive not only the drooping spirits of the oppressed patriots of that country , but those of every friend of well-regulated liberty throughout Europe .
The Prussian troops have altogether evacuated Poland , leaving only a garrison in Cracow and Sendomi ' r . We find a paragraph in the Leyden Gazette , of which the following is a-traftsiation : " The total want of discipline in the army under the Duke of York having " occasioned various painful representations , his Royal Highness has published . * ' a General Order , dated from his head-quarters at Grosbeck , the 23 d
ofSep" tembef , to recal his officers and soldiers to their duty : and . it is to be hoped " that these orders , and the examples of just severity which they announce , , " will put a stop to the disorders complained of . " Theonly remark we can make on the above is , that God knows the . difficulties and distresses to which our unfortunate countrymen are exposed ; they must exceed all former example ^ or surely the honour and character . of the British officer ' and soldier would never have been subject to so disgraceful a report as the above . The immense armies of the French Republic are to be further augmented . Those under Jourdan and Pichegru are to receive reinforcements which will increase their numbers to 300 , 000 men .
HOME NEWS . Sept . 29 . Feing Michaelmas-day , a Common Hall was held at Guildhall for the choice of Lord-Mayor , when Thomas Skinner , Esq . was chosen , being next in rotation to Mr . Alderman Watson , who is no * abroad in the service of his country . Mr . Alderman Skinner was received by the Hal ! with much applause ; and on his election made a short and pointed speech , ' assuring the Livery of his attachment to our glorious constitution , and the welfare and happiness of his
fellow-citizens . 30 . A very singular fraud was effected by one Benjamin Lara , a stock-jobber , who having agreed with Mr . Decosta for the purchase of three hundred Irish lottery tickets , gave his draft on Ladbroke and Co . for the amount , which was returned for want of effects , Mr . Lara never having kept cash at their house : some' suspicion immediately arising , an enquiry took place , and it was proved that Lara had left the tickets as security with a person from whom he had
borrowed 2 , 600 k which sum being paid him in large bank notes , he immediately got changed for small ones , and-was gone oft "; a pursuit then took place , but too late , for on going to his . house at Peckham a post-chaise and four was found waiting at the door , which he had ordered to convey him to Romford , but having had some intimation that the affair was discovered , - he made his escape from the back part of his house . A bank note of fifty pounds , one of those he had received far the tickets , was found in the house .
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Monthly Chronicle.
contained between three and four thousand houses . The population of these three is estimated at 100 , 000 souls ; and , besides these , a number of villages in the same territory were likewise destroyed , scarcely a tenth part of the inhabitants having escaped the dreadful catastrophe . The King of Spain , by the unanimous advice of his Council of State , has made a deduction of four per cent , from all civil salaries , pensions , grants , & c . during the war ; a deduction of twenty-five per cent , from the salaries of all the
counsellors of state ; and ordered , that no minister or other person shall receive " more than one salary , however many places of employments he may possess . Ah insurrection has broken out in South Prussia , a part of the dominions of ¦ Poland wrested from it by Frederic in the partition of 1773 . From this event the affairs of Poland begin to assume a brilliant aspectj arid to revive not only the drooping spirits of the oppressed patriots of that country , but those of every friend of well-regulated liberty throughout Europe .
The Prussian troops have altogether evacuated Poland , leaving only a garrison in Cracow and Sendomi ' r . We find a paragraph in the Leyden Gazette , of which the following is a-traftsiation : " The total want of discipline in the army under the Duke of York having " occasioned various painful representations , his Royal Highness has published . * ' a General Order , dated from his head-quarters at Grosbeck , the 23 d
ofSep" tembef , to recal his officers and soldiers to their duty : and . it is to be hoped " that these orders , and the examples of just severity which they announce , , " will put a stop to the disorders complained of . " Theonly remark we can make on the above is , that God knows the . difficulties and distresses to which our unfortunate countrymen are exposed ; they must exceed all former example ^ or surely the honour and character . of the British officer ' and soldier would never have been subject to so disgraceful a report as the above . The immense armies of the French Republic are to be further augmented . Those under Jourdan and Pichegru are to receive reinforcements which will increase their numbers to 300 , 000 men .
HOME NEWS . Sept . 29 . Feing Michaelmas-day , a Common Hall was held at Guildhall for the choice of Lord-Mayor , when Thomas Skinner , Esq . was chosen , being next in rotation to Mr . Alderman Watson , who is no * abroad in the service of his country . Mr . Alderman Skinner was received by the Hal ! with much applause ; and on his election made a short and pointed speech , ' assuring the Livery of his attachment to our glorious constitution , and the welfare and happiness of his
fellow-citizens . 30 . A very singular fraud was effected by one Benjamin Lara , a stock-jobber , who having agreed with Mr . Decosta for the purchase of three hundred Irish lottery tickets , gave his draft on Ladbroke and Co . for the amount , which was returned for want of effects , Mr . Lara never having kept cash at their house : some' suspicion immediately arising , an enquiry took place , and it was proved that Lara had left the tickets as security with a person from whom he had
borrowed 2 , 600 k which sum being paid him in large bank notes , he immediately got changed for small ones , and-was gone oft "; a pursuit then took place , but too late , for on going to his . house at Peckham a post-chaise and four was found waiting at the door , which he had ordered to convey him to Romford , but having had some intimation that the affair was discovered , - he made his escape from the back part of his house . A bank note of fifty pounds , one of those he had received far the tickets , was found in the house .