MISCELLANEOUS.

The late General Custine was about to be acquitted by the Revolutionary Tribunal; but Roberspierre sent some of his emifsaries to that Tribunal to tell them, that if Custine was not executed on the following day, the heads of the jury fhould be carried about on pikes-This had the desired ef fect. After the executioner had struck off his head, which was bald, he took it by the ear, and fhewed it to the people, who set up an immoderate fhout of laughter.

Anecdote.-When Field-Marshal Freytag was taken prisoner at Rexpoede, the French Hufsar who feized him, perceiving that he had a valuable watch, faid, "Give me your watch;" The Marshal instantly complied with the demand of his captor. A fhort time after, when he was liberated by the gallantry of General Walmoden, and the French Hufsar had become a prisoner in his turn, the latter with great unconcern, pulled the Marshal's watch out of his pocket, and presenting it to him, faid, "Since fate has turned against me, take back this watch; it belonged to you, and it would not be so well to let others strip me of it."

Marfhal Freytag admiring this principled conduct of the Sans Cullote, who did not know him, took back the watch, and immediately after presented it to the Frenchman, saying, "Keep the watch it shall not become mine, for I have been your prisoner."

The late violation of private property in Paris, by the seizures of the Caisse d'Escompte, and the East-India House, contributed greatly to the counter-revolution in Toulon. The merchants finding all security contemned and outraged, abandoned at once the interest of the plunderers, and threw themselves for safety into the hands of the English, who will no doubt behave to them with that generosity which such unlimited confidence demands.

The costly effects seized on by the imperial Government, when M. de Semonville and Maret were arrested, and which were attached to their splendid embassy, have beed carried to Vienna, where they are at present deposited. They turn out to be of immense value, and consist of the following articles:

Two very magnificent state carriages-the private instructions of the above two gentlemen-two cafkets, belonging to the late French King, valued at two millions of florins; among other precious jewels, is the famous brilliant called the Regent-two other cafkets, with jewellery-a table service of gold, for twenty persons-200,000 Lous d'Ors in gold and bills of exchange-a large quantity of gold tapestry, lace, &c. All these articles his Imperial Majesty has promised to take care of.

EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY

A Gentleman, who was pafsing up the east side of Hatton Garden, about five o'clock on the afternoon of Sep. 20, heard indistinctly frequent cries of murder! accompanied with groans, which at length appeared to him to proceed from the inner rooms of one of the houses. No answer being returned to His repeated knocks at the door, he procured a ladder from a glazier's ser vant, who was pafsing by, and both afsended to a window, where they a gain heard the cries, but the latter person was so much alarmed that he refused to be the first in entering the house, and it was necefsary to descend the ladder, to change their position. After this interruption, they and som other persons searched every room in the house, in which they found neither inhabitants nor furniture.

At length in a cellar in the yard, over which was a locked grating, they discovered a youth of about 18 years of age, bound hands and feet, and while they were releasing him, the police officers, who had been sent for, arrived. It appeared, that the young man, who is collecting clerk to Mefs. Lubbock, had gone to the house with a bill upon the owner, who is in the country. The door was opened to him by two men, who immediately siezed, rifled his pockets of his cash and notes, bound him, and locked him into the cellar; after which they made their escape over the garden wall, promising to return and release him at ten at night. He was happily released without injury than from his alarm, and taken in a coach immediately to Mess. Lub

bock's.

The Dutch, in their accounts of their late retreats, attribute them to the check received by the Duke of York and General Freytag, and to their be ing left with only 7000 men to guard a vast extent of country, while the French were 30,000. They say they fought with great bravery. They had three licutenant colonels killed. Prince Frederick of Orange, Prince Christian of Denmark, and Major-general Wertensleben, wounded-and Majorgeneral Gravemoer is wounded and taken prisoner, after having his horse fhot under h.m.

M. Malefherbes, one of the official defenders of the late King of France, it is said, has just been arrefted as a suspicious person.

Deseze, another defender of the unfortunate monarch, has been obliged to fly, and it is thought he is come over to England.

It is said that Bailie, the first mayor of Paris, has been arrested at Melun, and is on his way to Paris.

Prince Waldeck was the other day in company with some officers of Condè, reconnoitring near Lauterburg the French line, and met with a French picket also of officers. The officers of Condé saluted first, and then the Prince, which was returned by the French with the hands only, without pulling off their hats.

The Prince began a conversation with them.-They were extremely polite said their army was very strong; that their preparations for defence were excellent; that every thing they wanted was brought them with the greatest willingness; but that instead of money they had only affignats.

During this conversation Prince Waldeck dropped one of his gloves, which was immediately taken up and returned to the Prince by a servant of a French colonel. The Prince gave this servant three ducats, which he thankfully accepted, alleging, that there was not fo much ready cash in the whole regiment. After which Prince Waldeck said to the French colonel that he was surprised he could put himself at the head of such men. The French officer replied, "We fight for our native country, and deem it an honour to command such men; but with you it is quite different."

All on a sudden they were apprised that they were in conference with the Imperial General Prince Waldeck; upon which they inmediately pulled off their hats, fhowed him all pofible reipect under the most flattering exprefsions; clapped spurs to their horses, and exclaimed, "Adieu, Mr General; -in the field of battle we fhall see one another again!"

A few days since an English gentleman chanced to be standing with a Dutch merchant on the quay of Rotterdam, when an American vefsel entered the port-" There," faid Mynheer, pointing to Mifs Tanky, "that is what we should be doing instead of wasting our dollars and spilling our blood."

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 6.

FOREIGN.

Warlike operations.

SINCE our last the military operations in France have been vigorous tho'

nothing decisive on the frontiers of France has yet happened. On the one hand the French having used every effort to augment their army near Lisle, attacked the allied army under the Prince de Cobourg on the 16th and 17th last, with so much vigour as to compel him to raise the siege of Maubeuge, and to retreat beyond the Sambre. The lofs on either side during this severe conflict is not yet known; but it must have been considerable. Prince Cobourg's army is not broken. The retreat was effected in good order, and none of the artillery lost. He now occupies a strong position it is said in the neighbourhood of Mons. This gives a check at least to the progrefs of the allies there in the mean while.

The French have at the same time made another vigorous effort to enter Austrian Flanders on the west; Furnes, a small defenceless place near Dunkirk has been taken, Newport has been summoned to surrender to a body of troops said to be ten thousand strong, and has been saved for the present merely by the effect of the inundations made on the surrounding country; Ostend and Bruges are both threatened by the same body of forces, and such preparations as are capable of being made for defending such defenceleís places are going forward with alacrity, though it seems pretty evident that if the enemy are able to keep the field, and no superior force can be brought against them there, these towns could not make great resistence. Several bomb vefsels, gun boats, and frigates are brought before Ostend to afsist in the defence, should it be necessàrv.

On the other hand while the army on the Rhine was weakened to forward these undertakings, General Wurmser attacked the formidable lines of Wefsenburgh, which he completely carried, and thus got an entrance into the territories of France on that quarter; an object which, for many months past, the Prussians have in vain attempted to effect, and which might probably have baffled their utmost efforts during the campaign, but for the circumstance above stated. Landau is said to have already surrendered; and by the last accounts Strasburgh was said to be upon the point of surrendering; but this wants confirmation. Whether the French have acted wisely in thus admitting the enemy into their comparatively defenceless frontier on the east, in order to give a check to the progrefs of the enemy upon the

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north, which amidst so many strongly fortified places must have beenat best but slow, we pretend not at present to say. It is perhaps of more consequence for them at present to gain an apparent victory than we are aware of. Time will fhow.

In the interior of France the troops of the national convention seem, is, if the accounts that reach us can be believed, to have met with considerable success. Lyons opened it gates to them on the 9th ult. after the garrison had to the number of 30,000 men secretly made its escape from thence. They have been pursued, and by the account of the republican generals most of them have been cut to pieces. By the same accounts the royalists in Vendèe have sustained several defeats. The Spaniards, they say, have been also repulsed in the lower Pyrenees, and the Savoyards driven out of Piedmont. But these reports are of doubtful authority. Surmises likewise are abroad that general Conclaux has left the army near Toulon, and taken refuge among the English in that place. But neither is this information to be relied on.

But it is altogether certain that the national convention irritated by the defection of the Lyonoise, and the obstinate defence they made when besieged, have passed a decree to raze that city to the foundation, and not to leave one stone upon another, except a few houses belonging to a select number of true sans culottes. This severe decree, unexampled in the history of past times, unless it be by the decree of the Athenians to raze the city of Lesbos, and put to the sword the whole of its inhabitants, men, women, and children, which was next day reversed by that giddy people, be put in competition with it. This seems to have been done with a view to please the Parisians, who have long looked upon Lyons as a sort of rival to Paris. And there is little reason to suspect that it will not be carried into effect. The city of Lyons before the present trouble was sup posed to contain not less than 150,000 inhabitants, and was the most opulent manufacturing town in France.

The queen of France.

Had not the world been long prepared for the event, by a series of atrocities fast succeeding each other, in an uninterrupted series for a long while past, the murder of the queen of France would have excited the most lively sensations of horror. In the present state of things, it has been considered as little more than an ordinary event. She, poor woman, is at length at her rest, and beyond the power of farther outrage. Her son and daugher yet remain, probably to afford another, and a still more unexampled in. stance of the wonderful lengths to which the wickedness of the human heart can be carried when uncurb'd by a sense of moral rectitude, religion, or the law. The following is a succinct account of the mock trial, by which they disgraced the sacred forms of justice.

CONDEMNATION AND EXECUTION OF THE QUEEN OF FRANCE.

The decree of the Convention, ordering that her trial fhould come on within eight days, was implicitly obeyed by the Revolutionary Tribunal. The trial took place on the 15th ult.

The following is an extract of part of the proceedings:

ACT OF ACCUSATION, OR INDICTMENT.

MARIE ANTOINETTE stands charged,

1st, With having dilapidated and lavished the finances of the nation, in concert with the execrable Calonne, by causing to be transmitted to the Emperor several millions, which still serve to carry on the war with France.

2dly, With having, in imitation of Brunehaud, and De Medecis, who also called themselves queens of France, conspired against the liberty of the French nation.

3dly, With having sought to starve the people in 1789.

4thly, With having excited the murders of October 5. and 6.

5thly, With having, in concert with Bailly and la Fayette, caused the patriots to be butchered in the Champ de Mars.

6thly, With having prevailed upon the Swiss to fire on the people on the Loth of August.

7hly, With having, like another Agrippina, forgotten that he was a mother, in order to commit incest with her son.

Marie Antoinette heard the reading of the act of accusation, without seeming to be in the least moved.

[Here the interrogatory began.]

President-"What is your name?"

Queen" Marie Antoinette, of Lorrain and Austria.”

President--" Your quality."

Queen- "I am the widow of Louis Capet king of the French."

[Here the witnefses were called in.]

Laurent Lecointre, the first witnefs, formerly chief of division of the national guard of Versailles, and at present a member of the National Convention, related the historical occurrences of the 5th and 6th of October and from his relation it appeared, that the ci-devant gardes de corps, of life-guards, were the first aggrefsors. Lecointre spoke also, though not as an ocular witnefs of the nocturnal riot which was occasioned Oct. 1. at "Marie Versailles by the late king's life-guards in the hall of the Opera. Antoinette," said he, "repaired to that banquet :-she applauded the conduct of the guards: fhe also visited the regiment of Nafsau and the chafseurs of Trois Eveches, who were quartered in the Orangerie of the Gardens of Versailles."