grant him fome favours. The great affection fhe had for her husband, determined her to the facrifice of her honour; fhe inftantly flew to the prison to acquaint him that he was no more a prifoner, telling him in confidence of the facrifice fhe had made to obtain his liberty. Some days after, this Proconful guillotined the hufband, and even the wife. Another faw a girl in tears, imploring at his feet the suspension of the judgment of her father; tears and prayers are of no avail; the Proconful kicks her from him, and tears 'her petition. Dif tracted by grief, fome expreffions efcape her; he had her arrested, and dragged before the Revolutionary Tribunal of Paris; the was feven months pregnant, when guillotined. "Another, at the iffue of an orgie, wished to fee a fhow; the judges were at the feast; four priefts and four nuns were drawn out of the dungeons; they appeared, were condemned, and perished; after which the guests put themselves at table again. "Another parodying the faying of Titus, faid, Liberty has loft a day, no one has been guillo'tined.' "Another arrested, brought up, and guillotined an old man of 80 years, father of twelve children, under a pretext of his having monopolized the offices of Mayor, and of Judge of the Peace: the true motive was an old perfonal refentment. "There is not wheat enough in France for all the population, faid another; it is neceffary to facrifice half to nourish the remainder. Above all, we ought to deftroy the women; they breed too fast. "Another burnt whole communes, and guillotined part of the inhabitants. to Thefe, escorted by cannon, raised contributions pay the debauches they were guilty of with the Pretorian guards, and granted only two hours to furnish the fum demanded. "These "These took to themselves the most beautiful palaces in the cities where they ftaid, affecting the pomp and cafe of Kings; and while the people overrun the court-yards of their palaces to wait their prefence and bread, they indolently reclined on fophas in the interior of their feraglios, flowly occupying themselves with the important bufinefs of getting their likeneffes taken :-the fact took place at Bourdeaux. "Our colleagues Freron, Barras, Sallicetti, Gafparin, Robespierre the younger, and General Marquis Delapeype, brother-in-law of Freron, have charged themselves to attend to the shooting of 800 inhabitants of Toulon, to guillotine all the Federalifts of Marseilles, as well as to demolish the most elegant monuments of art in this city, and to deluge with blood all the South of France." MONDAY, 11th SEPTEMBER. Republican Magiftrates.-Several daring robberies, and a great number of trifling thefts, have been committed within thefe few days paft. A fellow had the impudence, the day before yesterday, to take a piece of check from a fhop-door, in the middle of the day. He was perceived by a man in the ftreet, and made to give up his prey; but was fuffered to go about his business; that is, to go and rob somebody else. Inftances of this fort will grow more and more frequent every day, unlefs fome measures (effective measures I mean) are taken to prevent them. But our magiftrates are gone-I do not believe there are a tenth part of the conftables left in town. No man whofe office it is to adminifter justice, or watch over the peace and safety of the city, fhould have deserted it in this time of public calamity and danger. I believe the overfeers of the poor are gone, to a man; and thus is the temptation to rob increased, creased, by the difficulty of obtaining relief in a lawful way, at the fame time that property is left unprotected by its owners. It is faid, that magiftrates, and other public officers, may lofe their lives by staying to perform their duty in guarding the city. Juft as well might a fentinel quit his poft, because it is poffible the enemy may shoot him!-They may die ! very well: when they are dead, we will get others; but while they are alive, and think their offices worth holding, to them we have a right to look for the performance of their duty. We have a right to quit our homes, and leave them under their guardianship. We are in the fituation defcribed by Dryden, when he exclaims: "What should the people do when left alone? I remember that Moncreef, the Governor of the ifland of St. John, fuffered no one to cross the ice at the fetting in of winter, till he himself had tried its ftrength, which he used to do in a day or two after the river was frozen over, with a long pole in his hand, and with no other company than a New foundland dog. How different this Governor's conduct from that of ours! but Moncreef never wore a bloody liberty cap, or fpent his time in boozing with French fans-culottes ! Magiftrates ought, in times of public danger and calamity, to be an example to others in endeavouring to render the people tranquil, and to provide for the fecurity of their perfons and property. They ought to be the grenadiers of the community, the first to advance, and the laft to retreat. But ours is, alas! no grenadier, except it be at a Carmagnole civic féte, where the enemy is attacked glafs in hand, and where vaunting toafts, belched from the blackvomit lungs of drunkennefs, form the diftinguished and heroic deeds of the day. VOL. VII. L There There he is, indeed, a hero. From fuch a combat he never flies, while there is a cork undrawn, or a bottle undrained. French Brutality.-FRIEND PORCUPINE, AS I have not feen the enclosed fpecimen of democratic brutality published in any of our papers, I take the liberty of fending it thee for that purpose, as in my opinion, if proof were yet wanting of the depravity of manners introduced by the French revolution, this fingle inftance would be fufficient. Yours, A FRIEND. Penzance, March 28.-The following event has been the fubject of much converfation in this town and neighbourhood : One Mifs, of the iflands of Scilly, being engaged to a young man now in London, he wrote to her about a fortnight ago, to requeft that she would come to town, and that the marriage ceremony might take place there, as he could not poffibly come to her. He defired her to come by land; but as there was a small veffel about to fail from Scilly for London, the and her mother, and a young woman of the fame island, went on board, with a view of faving time and expenfe; but the very next day they were taken by a French privateer. It is a pride to an Englishman to reflect on the glorious conduct of his countrymen on fuch occafions as this, a thoufand inftances of which might be adduced, though only one fhall now be mentioned, which ought to be fresh in the memory of every Frenchman. When the captain of one of our frigates, who is highly efteemed both as an officer and a gentleman, lately took a large frigate on the coaft of France, which had many ladies on board, he immediately haftened to quiet their alarms, affured them of their perfect fafety, pu fafety, and after treating them with the utmost attention and politeness, fent them on fhore with all their property. Hear now the conduct of these pils of the new philofophy! They no fooner boarded the Scilly veffel, than, actuated by a motive which exposes the highest infamy of human nature, they fent all the failors and the old lady on fhore, but refused to part with the young ones. In vain did they fall on their knees, and with ftreaming eyes and dishevelled hair pour out the moft fervent fupplications to be sent back to their friends. As foon might the cries of innocent lambs deliver them from the gripe of ferocious wolves as the prayers and tears of these unfortunate girls excite compaffion in their adamantine hearts. The beautiful petitioners, for beautiful they were in the extreme, were rudely feized, and forcibly dragged on board the privateer, amidft fuch fhrieks of female and parental agony as no language can exprefs. Divine Providence did not fuffer these monfters to reach their own coafts, for they were taken by one of our frigates a few days after; but Mifs had been treated fo brutishly, that the died as foon as fhe was brought on fhore, and her unhappy companion, it is thought, cannot long furvive. TUESDAY, 12th SEPTEMBER. Virginia Church Lands. Inftructions given by the Citizens of the firft Battalion of Rockbridge County, Auguft, 3, 1797, to their Delegates in the enfuing Seffion of the Affembly. That the inftructions of the citizens of Rockbridge to their Delegates in the enfuing feffion of the Affembly might not be the fentiments of a junto, but of the freemen generally, each company of militia of the firft battalion chofe two men in their L 2 bounds, |