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PARIS , Dec . to . " M . Van den Yver , the famous banker , has been executed , with two of his sons . / They were found guilty of endeavouring to ruin the credit of France , having advanced large sums of money to Madame du Barrc , who sent them to Great Britain to be placed in the British Funds ; of having lent 200 , 000 livres to the Bishop of Rochefoucauit , and the same sum to M . Rohan Chabot ; and , finally , of having been fonud at the Louvre with the Knig hts of the Poignard , to whoie
corps they belonged . " The Ex-minister of Finance , Claviere , has stabbed himself in prison . " M . Emmery , the . former Mayor of Dunkirk , has been executed . " ' Dec . 19 . " The Revolutionary Tribunal has just condemned to death the following persons , viz . Anthony Machi , Grocer , and James Louis Tonnelier , Mercer , both Commissaries of Equipment ; Bernard Lemonnier , and John Baptist Giblin , Taylors : all convicted of delapidation of the Funds of the Republic by fraudulent
purchases . John James Claudius Risson , of Dieppe , Inspector of Sale in the Fish-markets , convicted of incivic expressions , is condemned to transportation , and his property is confiscated for the bchefit of the Republic . The wood has been fixed as an object of the first necessity . ; but the cart * and waggons have not been fixed according to the Maximum ; for which reason the Carriers demand six or seven . livres for their trouble , and for the food of their
horses . MANHEIM , Dec . 12 . " The French renewed their attacks on the gth inst . with great rage at Woertfi , attempting to break through the right wing of the Allies at Buzcndorf and Douendorf , defended by the corps de Condc ; but they were repulsed with great jlaughter .
" The people of Frankfort are constantly employed in preparing for the defence of that city and its environs , as they are afraid of a visit from the Republicans should the rivers happen to freeze . " It is now resolved to form a cordon of between 10 and 12 , 000 German peasants . "
BRUSSELS , Dec . 19 . " A great number of suspicious foreigners have just been taken up in this city and its environs , being suspected as French emissaries , or as fomenters of civil discord and anarchy . " The British Army which had lately its head quarters at Ghent , is expected to move to those parts of our frontiers which are the moss defenceless . " The French continue their incursions as usual , and have ravaged and deseroyed
the whole country about Funics and Nieuport . In other districts the cottagers are so mucn afraid of their appraoch , that they pack up all their effects and property , and retire to the inland country . " HAMBURGH , Dec . 19 . " By a ship which is just arrived here , from Nantz , we have received intelligence that 133 of the most respectable inhabitants had presented a petition to the
Commandant , intreating him to surrender the city to the Royalists , rather than suffer it to be converted into a heap of ruins b y a bombardment . " The petitioners were afterwards denounced at Paris , and the Conmittee of Public Safety sent orders to put them all under arrest . These orders were immediatel y executed , and they were linked togethsr by a chains three and thrjc , aad escorted to Paris , "
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Foreign Occurrences.
PARIS , Dec . to . " M . Van den Yver , the famous banker , has been executed , with two of his sons . / They were found guilty of endeavouring to ruin the credit of France , having advanced large sums of money to Madame du Barrc , who sent them to Great Britain to be placed in the British Funds ; of having lent 200 , 000 livres to the Bishop of Rochefoucauit , and the same sum to M . Rohan Chabot ; and , finally , of having been fonud at the Louvre with the Knig hts of the Poignard , to whoie
corps they belonged . " The Ex-minister of Finance , Claviere , has stabbed himself in prison . " M . Emmery , the . former Mayor of Dunkirk , has been executed . " ' Dec . 19 . " The Revolutionary Tribunal has just condemned to death the following persons , viz . Anthony Machi , Grocer , and James Louis Tonnelier , Mercer , both Commissaries of Equipment ; Bernard Lemonnier , and John Baptist Giblin , Taylors : all convicted of delapidation of the Funds of the Republic by fraudulent
purchases . John James Claudius Risson , of Dieppe , Inspector of Sale in the Fish-markets , convicted of incivic expressions , is condemned to transportation , and his property is confiscated for the bchefit of the Republic . The wood has been fixed as an object of the first necessity . ; but the cart * and waggons have not been fixed according to the Maximum ; for which reason the Carriers demand six or seven . livres for their trouble , and for the food of their
horses . MANHEIM , Dec . 12 . " The French renewed their attacks on the gth inst . with great rage at Woertfi , attempting to break through the right wing of the Allies at Buzcndorf and Douendorf , defended by the corps de Condc ; but they were repulsed with great jlaughter .
" The people of Frankfort are constantly employed in preparing for the defence of that city and its environs , as they are afraid of a visit from the Republicans should the rivers happen to freeze . " It is now resolved to form a cordon of between 10 and 12 , 000 German peasants . "
BRUSSELS , Dec . 19 . " A great number of suspicious foreigners have just been taken up in this city and its environs , being suspected as French emissaries , or as fomenters of civil discord and anarchy . " The British Army which had lately its head quarters at Ghent , is expected to move to those parts of our frontiers which are the moss defenceless . " The French continue their incursions as usual , and have ravaged and deseroyed
the whole country about Funics and Nieuport . In other districts the cottagers are so mucn afraid of their appraoch , that they pack up all their effects and property , and retire to the inland country . " HAMBURGH , Dec . 19 . " By a ship which is just arrived here , from Nantz , we have received intelligence that 133 of the most respectable inhabitants had presented a petition to the
Commandant , intreating him to surrender the city to the Royalists , rather than suffer it to be converted into a heap of ruins b y a bombardment . " The petitioners were afterwards denounced at Paris , and the Conmittee of Public Safety sent orders to put them all under arrest . These orders were immediatel y executed , and they were linked togethsr by a chains three and thrjc , aad escorted to Paris , "