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Monthly Chronicle.
g . The British Convention . After the signal and decisive triumph which the Friend ? of Good Order obtained at the end of last year , when Associations of Loyal Citizens every where stood forward to testify their zeal for the Constitution as at present established , their confidence in those who arc now in the Administration of Public Affairs , and their abhorrence of the wild Revolutionary Projects of persons styling themselves Friends of the People , it was scarcel y to be imagined , that men could be found mad or wicked enough to revive a conduct which had thus called
forth the energy of the Nation . A set of men , however , have latel y assembled at Edinburgh , styling themselves The British Convention . —In imitation of that assemblage of Regicides and Ruffians , in France calling . themselves The National Convention , they divided themselves into Sections ; they gave to one another the epithet of Citizen , formed Committees of Organization , and in short so framed themselves on their detested model , as to infer- their approbation , in every instance , of those scenes which r . U Europe has viewed with astonishment and abhorrence .
Every one will naturally conclude , that such proceedings could sot long evade either the vigilance or the just resentment of the Law . B y a Correspondent at Edinburgh we are enabled to lay the following intelligence before the Public , which we have no doubt will prove highly satisfactory . EDINBURGH , Dec . 5 . " You will not be surprized , after reading the Debates in The British Convention lately assembled at this place , and published in the Edinburgh Gazetteer of the 26 th of November and 3 d instant , that the most distinguished
Leaders of these Friends of the People should have merited the particular notice of the Friends sf the Constitution . The Sheriff of the County issued his warrant this morning , for apprehending and bringing before him the following respectable personages , who , to the great joy and satisfaction of ail descriptions of people , are at this ¦ moment under examination in the Sheriff Clerk ' s Office , viz . Messrs . Gerald ,
Margaret , Sinclair , and Calander , Delegates from the Corresponding and Constitutional Societies in London ; Messrs Scott and two Rosses , Publishers and Conductors of the Edinburgh Gazetteer ; Skirving , Secretary General to the British Convention ; and Brown , a Delegate from Sheffield . All these Worthies wers surprized in their beds at an earlv hour this morning , and all their papers secured . " 16 . The Coroner's Inquest sat on the body of a Mr . Slaughter , of Clifford's Inn , who was found murdered in his apartments on Saturday last . When the door of
his chambers was broke open by his friends , he was found stretched on the floor with his brains beat out , ancl the apartments plundered . The Jury brought in their verdict " Wilful Murder , " by some person or persons unknown . It is said that Mr . Pitt will not find it necessary to impose any new tax the ensuing Session of Parliament ; but that making the war-taxes imposed for the Spanish armament permanent , and revising some of the old ones , so as to make them more productive , will be sufficient .
Fifty-four thousand pounds per annum have fallen into the Exchequer during the present year , consisting of old grants and annuities which have expired . 10 . Sir James Marriot , Judge Advocate of the High Court of Admiralty , delivered the provisionally decision of the Court respecting the St . Jago Spanish Register-ship , which was re-captured by the subjects of this country . " That the ship and cargo should be restored to his Catholic Majesty , and his subjects the claimants—agreeable to their prayer ; and that one eighth of the value ,
( after deducting the expence on both sides ) be paid for salvage : provided , that within six months it shall be declared by his Catholic Majesty by some public act . that all ships and cargoes that are or shall be captured b y the King of Spain , together with private ships to be fitted out , belonging to this country , be restored upon the like terms to his Britannic Majesty ; otherwise , the said ship St . Jago shall be considered as a good and lawful prize to the British recaptors . "
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Monthly Chronicle.
g . The British Convention . After the signal and decisive triumph which the Friend ? of Good Order obtained at the end of last year , when Associations of Loyal Citizens every where stood forward to testify their zeal for the Constitution as at present established , their confidence in those who arc now in the Administration of Public Affairs , and their abhorrence of the wild Revolutionary Projects of persons styling themselves Friends of the People , it was scarcel y to be imagined , that men could be found mad or wicked enough to revive a conduct which had thus called
forth the energy of the Nation . A set of men , however , have latel y assembled at Edinburgh , styling themselves The British Convention . —In imitation of that assemblage of Regicides and Ruffians , in France calling . themselves The National Convention , they divided themselves into Sections ; they gave to one another the epithet of Citizen , formed Committees of Organization , and in short so framed themselves on their detested model , as to infer- their approbation , in every instance , of those scenes which r . U Europe has viewed with astonishment and abhorrence .
Every one will naturally conclude , that such proceedings could sot long evade either the vigilance or the just resentment of the Law . B y a Correspondent at Edinburgh we are enabled to lay the following intelligence before the Public , which we have no doubt will prove highly satisfactory . EDINBURGH , Dec . 5 . " You will not be surprized , after reading the Debates in The British Convention lately assembled at this place , and published in the Edinburgh Gazetteer of the 26 th of November and 3 d instant , that the most distinguished
Leaders of these Friends of the People should have merited the particular notice of the Friends sf the Constitution . The Sheriff of the County issued his warrant this morning , for apprehending and bringing before him the following respectable personages , who , to the great joy and satisfaction of ail descriptions of people , are at this ¦ moment under examination in the Sheriff Clerk ' s Office , viz . Messrs . Gerald ,
Margaret , Sinclair , and Calander , Delegates from the Corresponding and Constitutional Societies in London ; Messrs Scott and two Rosses , Publishers and Conductors of the Edinburgh Gazetteer ; Skirving , Secretary General to the British Convention ; and Brown , a Delegate from Sheffield . All these Worthies wers surprized in their beds at an earlv hour this morning , and all their papers secured . " 16 . The Coroner's Inquest sat on the body of a Mr . Slaughter , of Clifford's Inn , who was found murdered in his apartments on Saturday last . When the door of
his chambers was broke open by his friends , he was found stretched on the floor with his brains beat out , ancl the apartments plundered . The Jury brought in their verdict " Wilful Murder , " by some person or persons unknown . It is said that Mr . Pitt will not find it necessary to impose any new tax the ensuing Session of Parliament ; but that making the war-taxes imposed for the Spanish armament permanent , and revising some of the old ones , so as to make them more productive , will be sufficient .
Fifty-four thousand pounds per annum have fallen into the Exchequer during the present year , consisting of old grants and annuities which have expired . 10 . Sir James Marriot , Judge Advocate of the High Court of Admiralty , delivered the provisionally decision of the Court respecting the St . Jago Spanish Register-ship , which was re-captured by the subjects of this country . " That the ship and cargo should be restored to his Catholic Majesty , and his subjects the claimants—agreeable to their prayer ; and that one eighth of the value ,
( after deducting the expence on both sides ) be paid for salvage : provided , that within six months it shall be declared by his Catholic Majesty by some public act . that all ships and cargoes that are or shall be captured b y the King of Spain , together with private ships to be fitted out , belonging to this country , be restored upon the like terms to his Britannic Majesty ; otherwise , the said ship St . Jago shall be considered as a good and lawful prize to the British recaptors . "