CHRONICLE. 
diers have the most unbounded 
indulgence of their ruling passions, 
of rapacity, cruelty, and lust. In 
the city of Hanover, and even in 
the public streets, women of the 
highest rank have been violated by 
the lowest of that brutal soldiery, in 
the presence of their husbands and 
fathers, and subjected, at the same 
time, to such additional and unde- 
scribable outrages, as the savage fury 
of the violaters, inflamed by drun- 
kenness, could contrive. The names 
of some of these unfortunate ladies 
_are mentioned, but the honour of 
their families, and the peace of their 
own future lives, forbid their pub- 
lication. The baron de K sa 
well known partisan of French phi- 
losophy and politics, went to the 
commandant of Hanover, and claim- 
ed his protection as an admirer of 
the French revolution. But he 
found no more favour in the sight 
of the Aga of sultan Bonaparte’s 
janissaries, than the most loyal no- 
-bleman in Hanover. 
officer told him, ‘¢ All that jaco- 
binism is now out of fashion—go 
about your business!” Nor have 
we heard that the philosophers of 
Goettingen, the enthusiasts of equa- 
lity and perfectibility, have been at 
all better rent 
What happenin the great towns, 
and what befals persons of rank, 
are of course better known than the 
calamities of the body of the people. 
It is for this reason only that we 
have selected them. They are, in 
fact, a perfectly fair specimen of the 
treatment of the whole miserable 
people. Every village exhibits the 
same scenes in miniature. The pea- 
sants, who have more spirit, pa- 
triotism, and loyalty, than their su- 
periors, have already, in several 
parts of the country, been driven 
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into insurrection ; many villages have 
been burnt to the ground, and two 
districts have been delivered over to 
all the horrors of military execu- 
tion. The whole electorate, which 
is one of the most prosperous coun- 
tries of the empire, will, by a few 
months of such tyranny, be laid ab« 
solutely waste. 
Intelligence was this day received 
of the unconditional surrender of the 
island of St. Lucia, to his majesty’s 
forces under lieut. gen. Grinfield, 
commander in chief in the Wind- 
ward and Leeward Caribbee Islands. 
(for particulars, vide appendix.) 
The number of English confined 
in France, are said to amount to 
11,000; those in Holland to 1,300 
persons ! 
The Bombay Courier, received 
this day, gives the following account 
of a dreadful accident which happen- 
ed to a boy on board the Ganges, 
on her passage to China. 
‘¢ During our detention at Angar 
Point, on the coast of Java, on the 
5th day of May last, John Walker, 
boatswain’s boy of the Ganges, aged 
13, swimming alongside of the ship 
when at anchor, and ata few yards 
distance from our boat with three 
men in it, was discovered by a shark, 
who immediately approached him ; 
and, in spite of the exertions of the 
boat’s crew to intimidate the hungry 
monster, he laid hold of the unfor- 
tunate boy, by including in his mouth 
the whole of the right leg and more 
than half the thigh, pulling him be- 
neath the water close alongside the 
ship, when upwards of 100 men were 
spectators of the scene, and kept 
him below for near two minutes, in 
which time he had tore off his leg 
and thigh to the extent above men- 
tioned. The boy once more made 
his appearance on the surface of the 
Ke water 
