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Monthly Chronicle.
MONTHLY CHRONICLE .
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . THE French Legislature has , amongst more serious subjects , not neglected to employ itself in regulating the oW ... of the different functionaries , all of which they have decreed shall be ofthe growth and manufacture of the Republic . The COUNCIL OF 500 . —A long white robe and blue girdle , with a scarlet cloak , all of woollen . The cap of blue velvet . ,. The COUNCIL OF ANCIENTS . —The same form of dress . The robe a violet
blue , the girdle scr . rlet , the cloak white , and all woollen . The cap of velvet , the same colour as the robe . The EXECUTIVE DIRECTORY—Has two kinds , of dress : one for its-ordinary functions , ancl the other for assisting in the National festivals . The ordinary suit . —A cloak dress , back and sleeves of a bright orange colour , lined with white , and richly embroidered with gold on the front and back . A long white kersey waistcoat embroidered with gold . A white silk scarf fringed with gold , and black silk breeches . A black round hat , turned up on one side , and ornamented with a bunch of
tricoloured feathers . The sword worn in a shoulder-belt on the waistcoat . The colour of the belt bright orange . The grand suit . A cloak dress of blue , and a cloak of scarlet over it . Besides these there tu-e appropriate dresses for all the Minister .., Judges , & c . and insignia of office for all the public functionaries of whatever description . The daughter of Louis XVI . in the Temple spends the greatest part , of the day in the gardenand there she embroidersknits or reads . She rather runs
, , than walks , and has a very majestic face . Since she has been made acquainted with the tragic end of her parents and brother , she weeps very often . The people in the neighbourhood , since the last decree in her favour , treat her every day with concerts in the surrounding houses , and open the windows that she may hear the music when in the garden . An important victory has been gained over the French under General Jourdan by the Austrians , which ended in the French being driven across the Rhine ,
great numbers , who escaped the sword , being drowned in that river . Atreatyof matrimonial union is about to take place between the young King ofSweden , and the Princess Louisa Charlotte of Mecklenburgh Schwerin . An insurrection ofthe Maroon Indians , in the island of Jamaica , -has been
attended with very serious consequences to the Government of the island , and to many individuals therein . The insurgents have however been driven back to the mountains with considerable loss . This affair happened in September last . Colonel Fitch , of the 83 d regiment , . and several of his men lost their lives in a skirmish with the Maroons . —Twenty officers , and nine privates of a Provincial regiment ( Westmoreland militia ) , were likewise killed in a previous conflict . The Maroon Indians in Jamaica are the remains of the Spanish slaves , who
contended for their liberties when we took that island , As they preferred death to a return to bondage , after many bloody contests , it was at length prudently determined to come to pacific terms with them . A ' treaty was accordingly agreed on about sixty years ago , betwixt the British Government and the Heads of those Indians , which has been most scrupulously observed on both sides up to the above events . HOME NEWS , Oct . 0 . In the evening , as J . B . Norton , Esq . Collector of the Customs , at Shoreham was returning home from Southwick , he was robbed and murdered by two fellows , one of them a private , and the other a drummer iri the Westminster Regiment of Militia . —Mr . Norton was found in a-dry ditch the next morning
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Monthly Chronicle.
MONTHLY CHRONICLE .
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . THE French Legislature has , amongst more serious subjects , not neglected to employ itself in regulating the oW ... of the different functionaries , all of which they have decreed shall be ofthe growth and manufacture of the Republic . The COUNCIL OF 500 . —A long white robe and blue girdle , with a scarlet cloak , all of woollen . The cap of blue velvet . ,. The COUNCIL OF ANCIENTS . —The same form of dress . The robe a violet
blue , the girdle scr . rlet , the cloak white , and all woollen . The cap of velvet , the same colour as the robe . The EXECUTIVE DIRECTORY—Has two kinds , of dress : one for its-ordinary functions , ancl the other for assisting in the National festivals . The ordinary suit . —A cloak dress , back and sleeves of a bright orange colour , lined with white , and richly embroidered with gold on the front and back . A long white kersey waistcoat embroidered with gold . A white silk scarf fringed with gold , and black silk breeches . A black round hat , turned up on one side , and ornamented with a bunch of
tricoloured feathers . The sword worn in a shoulder-belt on the waistcoat . The colour of the belt bright orange . The grand suit . A cloak dress of blue , and a cloak of scarlet over it . Besides these there tu-e appropriate dresses for all the Minister .., Judges , & c . and insignia of office for all the public functionaries of whatever description . The daughter of Louis XVI . in the Temple spends the greatest part , of the day in the gardenand there she embroidersknits or reads . She rather runs
, , than walks , and has a very majestic face . Since she has been made acquainted with the tragic end of her parents and brother , she weeps very often . The people in the neighbourhood , since the last decree in her favour , treat her every day with concerts in the surrounding houses , and open the windows that she may hear the music when in the garden . An important victory has been gained over the French under General Jourdan by the Austrians , which ended in the French being driven across the Rhine ,
great numbers , who escaped the sword , being drowned in that river . Atreatyof matrimonial union is about to take place between the young King ofSweden , and the Princess Louisa Charlotte of Mecklenburgh Schwerin . An insurrection ofthe Maroon Indians , in the island of Jamaica , -has been
attended with very serious consequences to the Government of the island , and to many individuals therein . The insurgents have however been driven back to the mountains with considerable loss . This affair happened in September last . Colonel Fitch , of the 83 d regiment , . and several of his men lost their lives in a skirmish with the Maroons . —Twenty officers , and nine privates of a Provincial regiment ( Westmoreland militia ) , were likewise killed in a previous conflict . The Maroon Indians in Jamaica are the remains of the Spanish slaves , who
contended for their liberties when we took that island , As they preferred death to a return to bondage , after many bloody contests , it was at length prudently determined to come to pacific terms with them . A ' treaty was accordingly agreed on about sixty years ago , betwixt the British Government and the Heads of those Indians , which has been most scrupulously observed on both sides up to the above events . HOME NEWS , Oct . 0 . In the evening , as J . B . Norton , Esq . Collector of the Customs , at Shoreham was returning home from Southwick , he was robbed and murdered by two fellows , one of them a private , and the other a drummer iri the Westminster Regiment of Militia . —Mr . Norton was found in a-dry ditch the next morning