Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-09-07

everv street.
18th, 18th, l4sh THERMiDoR.
Loadoa PVased. Tie doors OF private
houses forced. Bands OF drunken sol-
dlers dragging wives and daughters ON
Tbe arm, : of husbands and fathers, and
violating them publicly. Many l'ns-
bands who had the tsmerly to resist,
hutcbered,in the presence Of tlieif elnidlen'
Flames seen in hnndfed different places
bursting from houses which bad been set
FIRE TO by the vtUaeIy OF the troops !;
Churches broken open and the plate pun,
dered The psws and affairs converted
into stablng Four Bishops murdered
who had taken refuge in Westminster
Abbey, The screams OF women and
children mix with the cries OF the soldiers
--Yiue Ia Re3u6lignef Yips Bos0parte !
St. Martins church converted into a
ae6,f for the property acquired by the Pill
lags Of the soldiery.
18th THEaMIDoR.
A proclamation published BY the hrst
Consul, promising trotedion TO the lnlla-
bitants.
The houses of the principal Nobility
and Generals appropriated TO the use OF
the French Generals. Every housels re
CURED to furnish Sc nary rations OF bread
and meat for the troops.
At Council Of State, presided by 30
napar.e, the two Houses OF P4rlianent
are solemnly abolished, and ordered to be
replaced by Senate sna Council OF state.
General Massenai is appointed President OF
the former, and General Dessodes OF the
latter. The Courts OF Law are directed
TO discontinue their slttlngs, and are gre
placed by mi!isary tribunals.
Is TnERMIDoR.
A contribution of twenty millions or
dered to be levied upon London. a de-
putation was TENT to Bonsparte to rerre-
tent the impoGioility Of complying with
the demand, The Bank and the capital
having been piliaged. After waiting IN
the anti. chamber of the coniul tour hours,
the deputation are informed by Name
luke guard, that Bonaparte will not fee
them. Two hundred Of the principal
citizens arc ordered 70 be imprlioned
ill. the contribution is paid.
IT TaERMlIDoR.
A plot difcovered by Fouchc againlt
the Firlt Conful, and three hundred, iup-
pofed to be implicated init, TENT 10 the
Tower. !.
Intersections in different parts Of the
capital on account Of the exceacs Of the
foiIiers and Of the contribution OF tweoty
millions. Cannon planted a, all the pFln-
cipal avenues, and a heay fire OF crap
n,ot kept up again& the infurganis.
Lords Melton, ST. Vincent and Dun
can, Mears. Arlington, Pitt. Sheridan
Grey, twenty Peers aud Commoners
among the latter is Sir Sidney Smith, rtl
ed by the military tribunals for having
been concerned in the miurreafn agalnlt
France and ientenced to be ihof. Sen
tence was immediately carried into exc
cution in Hyde Park.
Is THERMIDoR.
The dock yards ordered TO Tend all tn,
timber, hemp, anchors, mats &c. &c
France. The relations of the bIltllh TAI
lors at (aa tent to plilon I'LL the fhips are
brought into port. placed at the ddpolal o.
the French Dctachmenis difpatched TO the
different countries TO difatm The people.
The Island ordered to be divided into
departments and military divisions; the
name of London to Be changed for Bona.
pare opoly and the appellation OF the
country to be altered from G Britain to
th,1 Of La FrAnce ,n/ulaire, Edln5urg tc
AXE the name Of Lacieuvils, Dublin, that
of MaDsn epslis.
FROM THE CHARLESTON COURIER.