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Article MONTHLY CHRONICLE. ← Page 5 of 6 →
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Monthly Chronicle.
The terms on which this loan is concluded are as follow ; for every tool . English money , paid to government , the subscriber is to have in our funds , 1 . s . d . 75003 per cent , consols . 25 o o 4 per cents . 0 6 4 " ; long annuities . 20 16 8 3 per cents . Imperial loan . 2 aim for
1 5 per . as an annuity 25 years . The usual discount to be allowed for prompt payment ; and we understand the interest on the Imperial loan takes" place from last May . In this agreement it is stipulated , that two millions of the navy debt are to be funded ; that five millions of navy bills are to be paid in the course of a year ; and that two millions and a half arc to be bought up in the course of a year . Should Parliament not think fit to ratify the Emperor's loan , then there will only be wanted eighteen millions sterling ; and the subscribers are in that case ;
to have for each 1 ool . 1 . s . d . 100 o o 3 per cent , consols . 33 68 4 per cents . 0126 long annuity , which will form an equal proportion , as though the Imperial loan took place . The above loan is the greatest money negotiation that ever took place in this or any other country at one time .
As a proof that the war is meant to be prosecuted against France with redoubled vigour another campaign , the contractors for camp-equipage have received notice from the Board of Ordnance , that farther contracts for twelve months would be made from the 25 th of the present month to Dec . 25 , 1795 .
According to a list which has been published of the troops under the command of Generals Pichegru and Jottrdan , they amount to 200 , 000 men . 8 5 , 000 of whom are employed in sieges and blockades , 45 , 000 in garrisons , and 40 , 000 occupy the Rhine from Bonn to Cleves ; insomuch that there are only about 30 , 000 men under the command of General Pichegru , on the banks of the Waal , to carry on the operations against the British . We are happy to announce the complete triumph of the Moderates over the Jacobins . The hall of the Jacobins has been shut up border of the Convention
y , and a seal placed on their papers . In the sitting of .. the Convention on the 7 th instant , Breard announced that that division of the Toulon fleet which had been so long blocked up in the Gulph . of St . Juan , and which the enemy had never been able to attack in its moorings , had returned to that port , without having met with any British or Spanish ships on its passage . Expedient practised by tbe Frenchfor the speedaugmentation of their and far
, y navy , providing a constant supply of additional ships . — To every district , or smaller division of the Republic , exact models of the several timbers that go to the construction of ships of war of various dimensions , are sent by a commissary appointed for that purpose , with orders to the peasants to fell such trees as they occasionally find suitable for any of those timbers ; which having cut out in the rough , according to the fore-mentioned models , to which they can always have access , they must send forthwith to the nearest dock-yardwhere these timbers are
, finished , and put together by the ship- builders there ; such parts of any particular description as are redundant being reserved for a scarcity of them in any other yard . Thus a sort of manufactory is established , where , as in that of watches in ¦ Switzerland , the peasants are employed ill , making the several parts , the exact use of which , in combination with the whole , they themselves are often ignorant of , but which in the hands of the finishers concur with the rest , and complete the machine .
Cheap and easy method of extinguishing Fires . — . At each end of the fire-engine place a large tub as a reservoir for supplying the engine ; into these tubs throw some pot ash-occasionally , so as to keep the water " highly impregnated ; this water , thrown into the lire by the engine , will soon extinguish all flame .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Monthly Chronicle.
The terms on which this loan is concluded are as follow ; for every tool . English money , paid to government , the subscriber is to have in our funds , 1 . s . d . 75003 per cent , consols . 25 o o 4 per cents . 0 6 4 " ; long annuities . 20 16 8 3 per cents . Imperial loan . 2 aim for
1 5 per . as an annuity 25 years . The usual discount to be allowed for prompt payment ; and we understand the interest on the Imperial loan takes" place from last May . In this agreement it is stipulated , that two millions of the navy debt are to be funded ; that five millions of navy bills are to be paid in the course of a year ; and that two millions and a half arc to be bought up in the course of a year . Should Parliament not think fit to ratify the Emperor's loan , then there will only be wanted eighteen millions sterling ; and the subscribers are in that case ;
to have for each 1 ool . 1 . s . d . 100 o o 3 per cent , consols . 33 68 4 per cents . 0126 long annuity , which will form an equal proportion , as though the Imperial loan took place . The above loan is the greatest money negotiation that ever took place in this or any other country at one time .
As a proof that the war is meant to be prosecuted against France with redoubled vigour another campaign , the contractors for camp-equipage have received notice from the Board of Ordnance , that farther contracts for twelve months would be made from the 25 th of the present month to Dec . 25 , 1795 .
According to a list which has been published of the troops under the command of Generals Pichegru and Jottrdan , they amount to 200 , 000 men . 8 5 , 000 of whom are employed in sieges and blockades , 45 , 000 in garrisons , and 40 , 000 occupy the Rhine from Bonn to Cleves ; insomuch that there are only about 30 , 000 men under the command of General Pichegru , on the banks of the Waal , to carry on the operations against the British . We are happy to announce the complete triumph of the Moderates over the Jacobins . The hall of the Jacobins has been shut up border of the Convention
y , and a seal placed on their papers . In the sitting of .. the Convention on the 7 th instant , Breard announced that that division of the Toulon fleet which had been so long blocked up in the Gulph . of St . Juan , and which the enemy had never been able to attack in its moorings , had returned to that port , without having met with any British or Spanish ships on its passage . Expedient practised by tbe Frenchfor the speedaugmentation of their and far
, y navy , providing a constant supply of additional ships . — To every district , or smaller division of the Republic , exact models of the several timbers that go to the construction of ships of war of various dimensions , are sent by a commissary appointed for that purpose , with orders to the peasants to fell such trees as they occasionally find suitable for any of those timbers ; which having cut out in the rough , according to the fore-mentioned models , to which they can always have access , they must send forthwith to the nearest dock-yardwhere these timbers are
, finished , and put together by the ship- builders there ; such parts of any particular description as are redundant being reserved for a scarcity of them in any other yard . Thus a sort of manufactory is established , where , as in that of watches in ¦ Switzerland , the peasants are employed ill , making the several parts , the exact use of which , in combination with the whole , they themselves are often ignorant of , but which in the hands of the finishers concur with the rest , and complete the machine .
Cheap and easy method of extinguishing Fires . — . At each end of the fire-engine place a large tub as a reservoir for supplying the engine ; into these tubs throw some pot ash-occasionally , so as to keep the water " highly impregnated ; this water , thrown into the lire by the engine , will soon extinguish all flame .