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Monthly Chronicle.
MONTHLY CHRONICLE .
FOREIGN - INTELLIGENCE . THE French have made a considerable and almost unobstructed progress in Germany . Since our last , Manheim and other places of less consequence have surrendered to their arms . The leaders in ( he Dutch republic have adjudged the Stadtholder to be guilty of High Treason for giving orders to the Governor of Surinam in South America to surrender that place to the British troops .
- Some serious disturbances have taken place in Corsica ; but by the intrepid measures of Sir Gilbert Elliot , seconded by the influence of Paoli , they have for the greater parts ' ubsided . - .- '"' ' _ The French Convention have decreed the incorporation of Belgium and other conquered countries with the French Republic , - thereby realizing the projects of the Brissotin Ministry , in extending their boundary to the banks of the Rhine . The effect which , this immense acquisition of territory , and consequent augmentation of power , will have upon the present system of European politics ,-a short time must demonstrate . "
. PARIS . * The Public have been long prepared to hear of some violent explosion bursting forth in Paris , resulting from the odium in which the'Convention is held , not only in the capital , but through many of the departments , in consequence of the decrees passed for re-electingtwo-thirds of its own body , and for dissolving the Primary Assemblies by force . ' : . Beside these two decreesthe Sections had become extremelirritated against
, y the Convention for having convened so large a military force around Paris , and armed a number of persons disgorged from the prisons where they were confined ior their atrocious murders , in order to act against the Sections . The latter were , nowdetermined to be no longer inactive , and accordingly , in the night of the 4 th October , and early on the 5 th instant , several of the Sections shewed themselves in open insurrection . The Section of Lepelletier took the lead , and flew fo arms . Some other Sections followed the example . The Convention ,, onhearing of this revolt
, sent an armed force to subdue it ; but in consequence of a parley between , the Commander MENOU and the Chiefs of the Sections , the military retired . . " ^' Section however appears to have taken advantage of this interval in fortifying itself more strongly against the troops of the Convention ; which , find-i ing that the Section continued to be extremely disorderly , ordered the troops tci inarch a second time against it ; and here a very violent affray ensued , in which ' many were killed on both sides . The firing continued through the whole of that
day , and the conflict did not cease till the 7 U 1 , when tranquillity was restored ; The destruction of two thousand of the National Guards evidently shews that the resistance made by the Sections , though short , was desperate . The Convention have begun to exercise the power which they obtained by this victory , for the consolidation of their own authority . They have established Military Commissions , and many of their adversaries have been already tried , and some exe * cuted . HAMBURGH , Oct . 6 .
The Regency of his Majesty ' s German territories has at length acceded to the treaty of Basle , and these countries will henceforward be considered as neutral , and defended as such by Prussia . On this account the Hanoverian army will be put upon the peace establishment . But it has been found expedient to send all the emigrant legions , and their mercenary troops , out of the Electoral dominions o / Hanover . Nothing butthevery critical situation of . the Electorate has dictated ! the adoption of such a measure , which may . be , considered as merely , prudential and time-serviiij _ . VOL . V . oa
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Monthly Chronicle.
MONTHLY CHRONICLE .
FOREIGN - INTELLIGENCE . THE French have made a considerable and almost unobstructed progress in Germany . Since our last , Manheim and other places of less consequence have surrendered to their arms . The leaders in ( he Dutch republic have adjudged the Stadtholder to be guilty of High Treason for giving orders to the Governor of Surinam in South America to surrender that place to the British troops .
- Some serious disturbances have taken place in Corsica ; but by the intrepid measures of Sir Gilbert Elliot , seconded by the influence of Paoli , they have for the greater parts ' ubsided . - .- '"' ' _ The French Convention have decreed the incorporation of Belgium and other conquered countries with the French Republic , - thereby realizing the projects of the Brissotin Ministry , in extending their boundary to the banks of the Rhine . The effect which , this immense acquisition of territory , and consequent augmentation of power , will have upon the present system of European politics ,-a short time must demonstrate . "
. PARIS . * The Public have been long prepared to hear of some violent explosion bursting forth in Paris , resulting from the odium in which the'Convention is held , not only in the capital , but through many of the departments , in consequence of the decrees passed for re-electingtwo-thirds of its own body , and for dissolving the Primary Assemblies by force . ' : . Beside these two decreesthe Sections had become extremelirritated against
, y the Convention for having convened so large a military force around Paris , and armed a number of persons disgorged from the prisons where they were confined ior their atrocious murders , in order to act against the Sections . The latter were , nowdetermined to be no longer inactive , and accordingly , in the night of the 4 th October , and early on the 5 th instant , several of the Sections shewed themselves in open insurrection . The Section of Lepelletier took the lead , and flew fo arms . Some other Sections followed the example . The Convention ,, onhearing of this revolt
, sent an armed force to subdue it ; but in consequence of a parley between , the Commander MENOU and the Chiefs of the Sections , the military retired . . " ^' Section however appears to have taken advantage of this interval in fortifying itself more strongly against the troops of the Convention ; which , find-i ing that the Section continued to be extremely disorderly , ordered the troops tci inarch a second time against it ; and here a very violent affray ensued , in which ' many were killed on both sides . The firing continued through the whole of that
day , and the conflict did not cease till the 7 U 1 , when tranquillity was restored ; The destruction of two thousand of the National Guards evidently shews that the resistance made by the Sections , though short , was desperate . The Convention have begun to exercise the power which they obtained by this victory , for the consolidation of their own authority . They have established Military Commissions , and many of their adversaries have been already tried , and some exe * cuted . HAMBURGH , Oct . 6 .
The Regency of his Majesty ' s German territories has at length acceded to the treaty of Basle , and these countries will henceforward be considered as neutral , and defended as such by Prussia . On this account the Hanoverian army will be put upon the peace establishment . But it has been found expedient to send all the emigrant legions , and their mercenary troops , out of the Electoral dominions o / Hanover . Nothing butthevery critical situation of . the Electorate has dictated ! the adoption of such a measure , which may . be , considered as merely , prudential and time-serviiij _ . VOL . V . oa