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increase the town rates, already too 
heavy to be borne ; and as there is 
no answering for the conduét of 
armed men, when insulted on their 
duty, my advice is, to keep out of 
the way. It is the sight of a large 
crowd of curious persons that én- 
courages the real rioters, who 
would be afraid to act if left in 
the street by themselves. Let every 
peaceable man, therefore, stay in 
his own house, and there keep his 
servants and children, and, my 
word for it, the rioting will imme- 
diately cease.’’ 
The intense cold which set 
in on Thursday night the 18th, 
there is great reason to apprehend, 
will materially check the progress 
of vegetation; and from the in- 
formation already come to hand, 
much mischief has been done among 
the flocks, just shorn of their 
wool, and deprived of that warm 
clothing which from the unsea- 
sonable severity of the weather was 
then so peculiarly necessary. At 
Broadchalk, Wilts, near 2000 sheep 
perished, about half of which were 
the property of one farmer ; and 
120 at Downton: 120 were killed 
at Steeple-Langford, the greater 
part of which suffered from the 
hail-storm; Mr. Russel, near Shafts. 
bury, lost no less than 300; 60 
were lost in Coombe and its neigh- 
bourhood ; rooat Place-farm, Swal- 
low-clift; and a great many at 
Codford, and on almost all the 
farms around Salisbury Plain, In 
short, it is computed that one- 
fourth of the flocks in Wiltshire 
are destroyed by this sudden and 
unexpected calamity. ; 
26th Earl Fitzwilliam, attend. 
* ed by lord George Caven- 
dish, and Mr. Beresford, attended 
by sir George Montgomery, met in ~ 
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a field near Tyburn turnpike, to 
settle an unhappy dispute, which 
had arisen in the late political 
quarrel about places and pensions. 
Just as the principals had taken 
their ground at twelve paces dis. 
tance, a magistrate with peace offi. 
cers came up and prevented any 
further proceedings. 
Drep.—S8th. At Paris, inhis 11th 
year, Louis XVII. only son of the 
Jate king of France. This important 
event was thus announced to the 
national convention by Sevestre, in 
the name of the committee of pub- 
lic safety : ‘* For some time the son 
of Capet had been troubled by a 
swelling of the right knee, and an- 
other of the left wrist. His appetite 
failed, andhe was at length attacked 
by a fever. The celebrated Dessault 
was appointed to visit and attend 
him; his talents and his probity 
convinced us, that none of the at. 
tentions due to humanity would be 
spared. Dessault died on the 16th 
of this month, June 4; and your 
committee appointed as his succes- 
sor citizen Pelletany a very distin- 
guished officer of health; citizen 
Demanger, first physician of the 
hospital of health, was added to 
the former. Faithful to the prin- 
ciples of humanity, your committee 
neglected nothing to re-establish 
the health of the sick youth. The 
disease, however, manifested alarm. 
ing symptoms. At eleven yester. 
day morning, the bulletin deliver- 
ed to us announced great and im- 
mediate danger; and this morn.’ 
ing, at a quarter past two, we were 
apprized of young Capet’s death. 
I propose that the. minute in which 
it is entered may be deposited in 
the national archives.’? Decreed, 
The above report to be’ inserted 
in the bulletin, Louis XVII. was 
born 
