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wife, sod the two !often which he had written in
the night. Be afterwards tooleout of his pocket
some pieces of gold and gave theist to the Cu-
rate, saying 66 this Is for the poor." Arrived at I
the grate, the carriage took a ,:irection a little to
the left, sad stopt at about 40 paces from the grate,
cid 30 from the wall. At the foot of which the
esecution was to take place, a picket of veterans
had beenhere since fire o'clock in the morning; the
moment the carriage atop*, • they formed in order
bf battle. An Officer of Gens d'armerie got first
out of the carriage, and was followed by the Mir-
ilia', who appeared to be asking him if that was the,:
place of .esecation. lie walked with a firm step tit
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reithin eight paces of the wall, and turning with yip
rarity towards the soldiers, be said, 46 Comrades.
fire at me, sod aim straight." He concluded in these
words, taking off his hat with his left hand,
and placing the right upon his' breast- The.
Officer of the platoon gave the signal with his
sword, and the Marshal fell dead. Many balls
were aimed at his head. The body of the Marshal
gas taken op and placed upon a litter ; ii meg im-
posed for a quarter of an hour to those who wit-
urssed the eaecutiou and the public, and afterwards
taken, covered with a cloth, by veterans to the
Hospital of Maternity, co doubt to be conveyed to
Lis family.

fl,e Sentence pronounced by the Chancellor of
France was as follows :—The Chamber, after having

deliberated, seeing that it results from the instruc-

Mon of the discussions, that' Marshal Nay, Prince •a step faVlter, and overturned the Conan
i from its being offensive to his principles.
lot Moskwa, is convicted of having in the night .
I Tat leconc Tax.—The following. document re-
between the 13th and 14th of March, 1815, received lacing to the subject of she Income fax may afford
any emissaries from the Usurper ; of having, en the ' our readers some satisfactory information. CHARLES
aid 14th of March, read, upon the public place of TaTr.on, Esq. M.l'. of Hollycomh, near liphook,
let a farm from Michaelmas, 1814, and in April
Louis le Soupier, department of Jura, at the head
fol-
lowing, the tenant being insolvent, he was obliged to
rf his army, a Proclamation, tending to cause revolt take back his farm without any rent, and in so bad a
tad defection ; to have immediately given orders to state, that the produce to Michaelmas, 1815, would
join the enemy, and to hare himself, at the head of not pay the labour, rates,and taxes, yet both landlord
his troops, effected this junction ; that it, cons..' and tenant's taxes were demanded of him for the rent
quence he is convicted of the crime of high treason, It was mewed at. The question naturally asked of
the Government was—Wilt the 'demand he enforced
sad of an attempt against the safety uf the State, • •
;Ili the cow* of Exchequer ?—To this case,. which is
whose object was to change the form of the Go. nay- io.prev,eatot an uncommon one, the following
refitment, and the legitimate order of succession !reply was made by- the CitAtrecu.oa of the Ex-
to the Throne—pronounces him guilty of the mottle& l—
onying-street, N....• 27' ISIS.
crimes provided for by the 77th, 87th, 88th, 1024 1 as 41C4914.2h p
avin • received from
g various quarters re-
Articles of the Penal Cede, Ist and sth of Title I. presentations respecting the Property Tax chargeable
f the law, 21st Brumaire, of the year 5, and of on land, in cases where a reduction has taken plate
he Ist Title of the 34 Article of the same law. iin the rent, I have delayed replying to the letter
! which I had the honour of receiving from you, on the
la consequence, in eAptication of the said Articles,
11th ultimo, until the subject had undergone a full
condemns Michael Ney, Marshal of France, Duke consideration. I have now the satisfaction of inform.
of Elchingee, Prince of the Mostws, Ex-Peer ing you, that instructions have been lately given to
et France, to the punishment of death, and the ex. I the Board of Taxes, which, it is hoped, will biSfoond
peaces of the total; orders that the sentence shalt effectual fur removing any reasonable ground of corn.
ezecuted conformably to the dispositions of the plaint upon this point.
I I have the honour to remain, Sir, your very
law of the 12th of May, 1793, under the super- obedient servant,
Inbandance of the Commissioner of the King ; and " N. VANSITTART.
" Chas. TR.tor. P.-q. At P."
conformably to the faculty granted by the Royal The instructions given to the Board of Taxes, men-
Ordonnance of the 12th of November,—orders that dosed in the Chancellor of the Exchequer's letter,
the present sentence shall be pronounced publicly ; we presume are those which authorise District Com.
the accused not to be present, but in presence of his misnomers to reduce the assessments, under certain
Counsel, or those duly called, and that it shall be i conditions, upon appeals being made to them.
THEATRE, DRURY-LANE—Last year, to exhibit
read and certified to the condemned by the Secretary
the strength of the company, the parts of Othello
Recorder, acting as Register under the superiuten. and !ago were alternately performed by Mr. Keast,
dance of the Commissioners of the King. Mr. RAE, Mr. POPE, and Mr. EI.LIITOY. In imi-
tation of this practice, though the public voice de-
cided distinctly in favour of Mr. KEAN for the cha-
racter of Othello, (in which, by the bye, many
judges are of opinion he shines full as conspicuous as
in Richard,) Mr. RAZ, last night represented the
Moor, and Mr. KE.tN the part of logo. It is uni-
versally admitted that Mr. RAE has great force in
the display of the vehement passions; and accord.
ingly in the burst of Wylie's jealousy in the third
Act, as well es In the dying scene, he justly
gained great applause. Mr. KEAN'S Lugo is not hi.
happiest effort. Ile seemed to hurry ()tor the earlier
parts of the play, as if his heart had not gone with the
representation —and yet there is scarcely any charac-
ter better calculated to draw from him those touch-
ing interjections which are so peculiarly his own
than this consummate hynocrite. Some of thew
striking expressions there were, and they were not
lost on the discriminating part of the audience, but
they were few, and its general the representation was
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Lution,

Abroad her name was commanding--at lime her

situation was prospers* and happy. Learning/. 14
Arts, Agricultero (the great foundatios •of •W
People's comfort), flourished under the Gisternitietet,
of Napoleon'
I Under that Government there was no heart-burn-
ings—division amongst the people and domestic air-
content were unknown, because the GoVernment
did not encourage the bad passions of the people—
it adopted a wiser policy--it administered the laws
with a fair, even, and impartial hand. Religious
• intolerance cud religious persecution—the disgrace
I of every Government and the curse of every country
!.where they find protection, were unknown in
France ; every man of every religion was eligible
to fill every station in the State to which his virtues,
his merits, and capacity might recommend hitne.--
During the period of his administration there cannot
Ibe produced one solitary instance where religion
. operated as e bar to preferment—a else and liberal
policy, unknown, we lament to say, in a country
where the principles of liberty are better under-
stood.
We are not the eulogists of Napoleon's Govern-
ment—we have often enlarged upon its errors'and
enormities ; but on this point of religious freedom no
government in the world was more free, or mere
enlightened.
The people of coarse were peaceable, happy, and,
charitable to each other—it remained for the housel
Bourb:in to call into action the worst passions of
the multitude, end to blow into a flame the embers,
of religions persecution. 1
It is distressing to dwell on the shocking scenes
which have recently occurred in France. We have
Iheard indeed of horrible deeds committed nearer
!home—but the mind cannot he easily familiarized to
I acts from which the best feelings of our nature recoil.
If ever our own country has been disgraced by such
scenes, we would they were obliterated from the
memory—the 41. bad times," we hope, ire gone by,
and we look up with hope and with confidence to
the expected measure of freedom, concitiation, and
repose.—But to return to the state of Fiance.
Under Napoleon, peisecution was unknown—
ender Louis, persecution has raised its frightful
head. The conclusion is inevitable. The. Gover-
nment is answerable for the excesses of the People,
and all the odium, the disgrace, and the infamy of
those persecutions are inseparable from the Execu-
tive of France. This subject is of a nature most
Interestieg and most distressing in every point of
view. 'llse wrongs of the unfortunate Protestants
in France loudly call on the humanity of the world.
The Irish Press—the pure, the independent Press of
Ireland, will do its duty. We shall labour to put
down the spirit of persecution in another country,
as we have ever laboured to resist oppression and hi-
justice in our own.

lONE FURTHER PARTICULARS RESPECTING THE LAST
MOMENTS OF MARSHAL NIT.
He was in a profound sleep when his Lady came
at four o'clock in (he morning, with her four
children, and Madame Gamot, her sister. On en-
tering the room Madame Ney fell down in a swoon;
her husband, with the help of the guards, raised her
ap. He spoke for some time in a low voice to his
children. By his desire his family withdrew.
It i. affirmed, that on the day of execution, Ma-
dame Ney, not knowing that it was already over,
went to the Thuilleries at ten o'clock in the morn-
ing, to implore the clemency of his Majesty,and that
h.e Duke de Duras, to whom she addressed herself
to get admission, was obliged to inform her the Mar-
shall was no more.

AN ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY Aso MURDER.—A
man, dressed in a blue coat, light waistcoat, white
neck handkerchief, high shirt collar, linen panta-
loons, and white stockings, with light features, and
cerotty whiskers, and about five fret ten inches in
height, called at the office of Messrs. Bigg and Son,
in Stephen-street, Bristol, about seven o'clock on
Wednesday night the 6th inst. and enquired of a
clerk, whether Mr. Bigg was within ; cn being told
that lie was not, he then enquired, and found from
the clerk, that he was the only person then in the!
office. The villain left the office, and in half an
hour after he opened the outer office door, and stole
quietly up stairs ; the clerk hearing a noise, immedi•
ately went to the upper office, and found the man)
concealed behind the door, who immediately knocked
him down with a large stick, held him to the door
and drew* clasp knife upon him, threatening in-
stantly to mu►der him if he did not tell him where
the money was. The clerk having refused, he cru-
elly brat him, ■nd stabbed him with the knife lit the
arm : a violent scuffle ensued, when the clerk, having
disengaged himself, got hold' of a poker, and with it
broke, as he supposed, the villain's right afm, as be
immediately dropped it, and cried out that it was
broken ; the villain then stabbed him in the breast
with his left hand ; the clerk, however, drove him
off wi►it she poker ; but, on running away, the vil-
lain threw the knife at him, which is stow in Messrs..
Bigg's possession. Fifty guineas reward is offered
for his apprehension.
After a lapse of 91 years, two Bank of England
notes, value &L each, were, on Thursday last, sent
into the Bank of England by an eminent banker,
(hod in the )ear 17.34. They were- found in a bet
belonging to en old farmer, lately decease:l, in the
west of 4nglanti.

M. Olivier, Counsellor of the Court of Cass'. tame.—Desdemonn is one of Mrs. Baimev's hest
tion, is appointed Reporter of the affair of Lava- performances. Her manner of wooing Othello to
lette. The Advocate-General, who is to be con- recal Corsi°, is full of nature; and Mrs: (i Lovea's
Emilia, like every thing she enacts, is full of ani-
evened, is not yet appointed. ani-
mation.
--ow-- Mr. Stokes, a pedestrian at Bristol, has just ac-
A Flanders Mail, which arrived this forenoon,
compliiihed an undertaking of walking 1000 miles
has brought the following account of a Crusade in twenty successive days. He has done it with the
which the European Powers have agreed to under- greatest apparent ease. In would seem from this
lake against the States of Barbary. The Sovereigns, and some other specimens, that man is hardly aware
is crawl Masters of the several Military Orders in of his full capabilities; we are almost disposed to
believe,that as the human being surpasses all other
their dominions, animals s, are to have a suit of armour from,
in '
intelligence, so he would be found their
and to he kept under the banner, of the Port ! ! superior (if proper experiments were made) in every
Roue, Nov. Rl.—lt is asserted that the Ministers possible combination or application of strength, active
of the great Powers hare delivered to his Eminence and passive.
Friday, the Bth instant, the Commissiont•rs of
the Cardinal Secretary of State the Treaty of Ai&
Hackney Coaches convicted Rebell David, the driver
once relative to the war against the Barbary Powers ; of the hackney
chariot, No. 1198, in the penalty of
and that it has been ratified by all the Sovereigns, in i 401. (which was paid), for misbehaviour in his em.
their quality of Grand Masters of the several Mili- ployment, by being drunk and using abusive lan.
tary and Religious Orders in their dominions. By this gunge to the Complainant, at Clapton, on the 13th
u_ It. David refused to appear to the first and second
act the Powers engage not only to put an end to
summons, not being aware that the Commissioners
the White Slave Trade, which the African Govern- .
had power to enforce his attendance by a. warrant,
bent carry on with equal insolence and impunity, which was issued for that purpose, and lie was brought
hot in order to prevent the return of acts of yin. up by a warrant accordingly. The bsth of his pry-
lin.ce which disgrace humanity ; the Powers also di- sent Majesty, cap. 140, seat. 13, authorises the
flare, that they will establish there the form of Go- Commissioners or Magistrates to issue their warrant
for the apprehension of any owner or driver, when
"fitment, which shall afford the best guarantee.— it
may appear to them necessary, to compel their sp..
The contingent of the Powers for this new species of pearance to answer to any complaint. Sixteen other
•ar will lie the same; and no one shall be permitted, hackney-coachmen were convicted in several penal.
seder any 1,,,,,e,,ce whatever, to keep op a greater ties, which were paid, for various offences, on the
l'alber of troops than is fixed by the Treaty. Om day.

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All the troops shall have tbahlasee uniforms. -PiOTESTAIIITERVECUIYONre. FRANCE. If dr:l L I NTE Is LIG g.NIC B.
Ili, 'Holiness shall be at . libeity to send a Legates. ' .4--smer.—.
but who shall out interfere in temporal matters. . i Dr tt. DEC i 1 L.Zain. • sutra from alai 44
[mutt TUE DUMAN SENTINEL.) : 7 ," • '
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sailed, the fraorick, Deisnium, for damaier ; At-
‘
This Treaty, which. consists of 133 artier,- The fli sir eil, distractiors, and debasement Of :this
• • Site'
Fisher, for laths i end setend *Moire prilfetti ' •
unfortanitecauntry, 'Cord to the world to *Owl NON,
that all the Christians shalt be' set at liberty, and , ,
,„ •,:••il ..
cannot make a part of the army destined to weepy an" ahltir7 w'r°lllol- If there bea country threat- 'taco unit ilown. . . , ~ .. •..
ened with investors—if there be • people ItarterA Ila T
l by
- Af.nUH, DEC. 9.---Arriireld' the kr rab n' . Capit... ' "
the country. .
• the iusirliont foe with professioot of leoppoi riled es: -• ' • •
The Sublime Porte, it is said, remains neuter lel surances ef 64444y—0h t
let
that
ppopio
heitow.the nalker, fa d:yi .Donnutim, fbr •bnlers ; Alia Siediak ~
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this war, and wlll receive guarantees for its Pastrepean 1 eilustian of. _bleeding, hannbiod Franco—ter jbow, .b. ' ig• lii;°li.Par!“°,?; "I'4. t;°ll44",''fr•°°° atakilifi
1 • , 1 view hi t3lrilin front St:
. -t all the Varied icertee of art loiechoutlio In - for 414100.4 h ; iii,,.lll.B.ititel s 1 tl,
possessions.
• dishonour • li il
~,, foreign foe quartered in the heart of. iahiests Nowtognillll4l4l-4° --f I Ilk -o(4Xelif'ircal •
One is astonished at knowing. the treaty against ,
• her utetropter Monarch hi red- i co bier .
.., go ir rer , arid patter, Capt:Cotesmostbb for Lisbon; lite. Frcde:
the Pirate,, and not to know any thine of whet has . deo i,,,d,,...,__- litip
. p saer, riand ltepreientstives sanguinary, '4-roe c• ". 9 etc" packet, thr.ilter end Malta.
seed in the Consistory, where the•struir htte been'ondignified,
.p.intolerant, and corrupt Lawspre'. • •in
_ , I - Poittsmontel, Duc. 11.--,,Come the Preartriie;
'treated. ' I failed, Liberty extinguished, iteli • gran persecuseue. •., • .
I INOOPSOT), snips the I,oa nil, 1051 ma lIIIChoy and cattle.
tits certain that his fatless has not yet potiebed ~ Valour dishonoured, and Security destroyed. (At
i there 10.,k to this, and if one 'Kirke emotion elitists —Arrired the general Washington, Wooit, from
apy Roll on the subject of this new crusade.
Liberty re. Afriertdria ; the Sedtio, Johnson, sod theChrtstloe,
Ithisid that his Holiness will give to the Grand °n"Pu'llt hil"nr---ir- Coentry be de",
, aspecue tseur,retnes•erwiH collect around thesationalstandsrdi Nall terti from Alicsut.—gailed the Duris, --; fur
Masters of the Military Orders a sit of armour
Orders, their country ouly with their lives. - ?
iRI 'Jan i' '•' ' • .
and 'a basiner.—.The whole of the Allied farces is . History does not,affori a more striking coritrast•• :'°' • : e'r:-.....:::4- ' • •
1 M SEGA-rat dec. 11.---The ftraadbriebre test In. -
fixed by Treaty at 45,000 men. Several gollies have : than the present at ate of Fa a e raster, compared • with . .. r.
been armed at Ancona.. ! her situation under Napoleon. Ruled by his mighty diurnal, is iss .thesette eiteatOn as when we fait wierte; •
'genius. she tepidly rose in the scale of national The weather is become •moderate, and a sloop has got.
On authority of letters from Spain, it Is cur. t"PeritY and military fame—the success of her alongside of her to take oat part of heel. cargn..ll
.reett reported that FERDINAND vi I. hue deprived arms—great, rapid, and irresistible, astonished, t4,redlsh brig, will' thither. has come into our roach
Whilst it. threatened to humble the world—the great
the iscayans of the ancient privileges they irate so this morning, in a very leaky state • , name yet itir-
long enjoyed. It sill he rementberwl, that the three actions of former times—the mighty achievements of
known.--‘Sererel casks of wine have beers picked up
I provinces of Gelpescos, Alibi, and Biscay, had a . Cour, Marius, and Hentribal, were loaf in the i
freer Constitution than the other parts of. speiss :glories which shone on the victoriova sword of A - at see, and brought into this harbour.: !or the:. par:
which was called the privileges of •Diicay. Ac. ' 'PGieett
I
cording to the. tenor of the said Constitution, the
Biaeayans formed their Provincial Juntas or Cartes —his name was the terror of his rue, and sic- Oculars about them to-morrow., • . •
tory attended his foot-steps. Elevated by his mighty I Sri Etitti tis,
hand, Imperial France looked down from the pin- DEC. 11.—S6verit casks of wine Otani
some straoded vessel continues to be htoog ht into ' •
eerie of her greatness, ou the crowd of suppiiant •
ander the shade of an old tree, called Gamic., said this Harbour And other parts of the it.le of Sheppy ;
Nations who bent before her in the bumbled attitude
to be 400 years old. This tree the French destroyed I some of them are marked as follows :—W. 5..--
i when they were in Spain, and realm 'Luso has gone : of subjection or d''Pe"cla"cP• •

It. sea A. A. A. G. W.--Aeveral barrels df tar

have also been brought in from a straneed rPssel ;
name tsuknown.—The ship last on the Flone Sand
is the Asps, Player, of Hartley, bound to London,
WO cools.
avassuert, Dec. 11.—The wreck on the. Good.
wbs land proves to be the •Cancord, of SJuderlond.
Savona emboss and cables have been picked up, and
brought into this harbour.—Arrited the Juno Is,
' rend Perseverance G. K. transports, with troops
from Ostend.— A boat is just come in with tine'
casks of French wines picked up oil the Foreland,
!And several mute casks are seen floating about.

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KEAN h studying Kiteltr, in. Every Mtn, ix his
Humour, and Sir Giles (hierreack, in A Nets Wag
to Pei Old Debi's, in both of Whith characters lid is
nearly ready.
FEMALE Feossratax.—Ou Saturday evening a
snatch was made, and which is likely to escite consi-
derable interest In Maidstone. Mary Frith, *
female pedestrian, is to commence in a few days after
Toffee and hii see finish ; shit is mother of six chit-
; dren, and 36years of are, living in Maidstone she
is backed for 30 guineas by three gentlemen there,
and is to perform for 20 surcessive days 30 miles a
day, in the Roebuck Field.
Friday the dinghies of Jonathan Best, of Cross.
gate, Durham, 26 years old, made a Meat violent
and unaccountable attack upon herself by cutting
out the greatest part of her tongue with a case knife.
Mr. Jackson, sergebn, being not for, succeeded in
stopping the hemorrhage, but not till she had lost a
considerable quantity of blood. The violence of
the youug woman, however, is such as to occasinit
great fears that the ligature may be removed, and
she continues in great danger. ller father was in
the room when slut committed the act,. but had 'not
power to prevent It.
FATAL &NMI of Smat.t.stex.—Latio.y died,
Mrs. Chisfer wife nV, Mt. Chester; Miss Mary
Vickars, her sister; Mr. Ole. Vickers. her younger
brother, about 20 years ; and - Boys', a. nephew._
PI years of age—all Or the smallpox, within a fern •
dap of each other. They were 'lathes of Mazer)._
near ?lirket Derpiug.
It is notorious, that no -persons are more exposit/I
to depredations in this great metropolis than sailors,
and mere 'particularly those who are ignorant of the
language and customs of our country ; but it is not
so generally known that, in addition to the oilier
abuses which are practised upon them in their places
of resort, they are occasionally made to pay, by
certain harpies, for getting them into all hospital !!
An instance of it has very recently been discovered at
the London Hospital, and'a Charge, on this accnont,
of no less than tco pounds, traced to the inmate of a
licensed lodging-how. We are happy to hear, that
information has been given, of
.the fact in a proper
'winter, and, we trust, the public authorities null
always attend to sue% representations. The houses
frequented by sailors would seem to stand in need of
nisch vigilance and regulation ; and the resident
cers of hospitels would assist materially in repressing
an imposition which equally attaches eespicion to the
innocent, and disgrace to the guilty, by, noticing any
case like that we have stated, which may happen to
fell within their observation, in a similar manner.
A CAUTION TO SERVANT MAIDS.—On Saturday
morning last an accident happened at the house of
Mr. F. Neil, Princes-street, Hanover.equare, which
had pearly proved fatal to his hoofs maid. She bad
just lit the fire in the front parlour, and incautiously
placed the candlestick with a lighted candle on the
carpet behind where she stool', whets her clothes
coming in contact with the flare immediately ea..
eeloped the poor woman in flames; in this alarming
state she ran into the hall screaming for the assistance)
of her fellow-servants, when Mr. Neil, who was •
then at breakfast in an adjoining room, hastened to
the spot, when he found the poor creature in the
most imminent danger; he immediately took her in
his arms and carded her to the breakfast room, where
he-recollected his great coat hung on the beck of a
wrapping k round her, for-
;iihnaiart,eleylisitj igia
succeeded
d in extinguishing the dames, but
•.not before the poor woman was dreadfully burnt.—
It may not be unworthy of remark that this is the
third person *horn Mr. through his humane
exertions, has saved from the jaws of death. His
father, through the same laudable impulse, and at
the risk, of his owls. life, had rescued that, of hie
most judoists,. Maud from a watery grans and Isle
grandfather periahed id a similar andeqtraily praise.
urtby attempt.. . •