iv historical chronicle. 
the eastern world, are in a de- jrelative to the French revoluté- 
plorable situation. - At the}on. 3d. That he did not tell 
Cape of Good Hope a revolt | all he knew upon his examina- 
is hourly looked for—at Bata-|tion. 4th. That he was mem- 
via, where the same spirit of|ber of a club connected with 
disaffection prevailed, a pesti- | foreign clubs, | 
lential fever had swept off} The following sentence is 
1600 of their troops; and a|pafsed on Ankerstroem ; ‘ that 
whole Chinese colony, consist- | he is adjudged to be infamous 
ing of more than 2000 persons, | and unworthy of anyofthe rights 
had likewise been destroyed | of a citizen. That he fhall be 
by it. put into the pillory fortwo hours’ 
The states of Brabant. af-]in the forenoon for three suc- 
sembled on the 17th April, | cefsive days, and whipt with 
when they agreed to grant the | six pair of rods. ‘That his 
subsidies with-held from the | head thall be severed from his 
two late emperors, and made |body, his right hand cut off, 
solemn profefsions of attach-|and his body, thus mutilated, 
ment and submifsion to their | fhall be impaled. An inscrip- 
new sovereign. The only boon |tion to be placed on the pil- 
they afked in return, was the |lory as follows: ‘ Johan Ja- 
restoration of the five former|cob Ankerstroem, afsafsin of 
counsellors of the council of |the king.’ He was pillored and 
Brabant, which is to be grant-.| flogged on the 12th ult. sor 
ed. the first time, 
The Rufsian forces employ-|_ The duke regent has given 
ed against the Turks, are now his property to his children 
on their return. (who are to change their 
Ismael was evacuated and re-| names) though it was forfei- 
stored to the Turks on the |ted to the state by the laws. 
25th of last February. The king of Hungary and 
The council of two hundred | Bohemia has ifsued an edict 
of Bern; have condemned Mr Jenjoining all the French, 
Rofset to 25 years imprison-| who are not emigrants, to quit 
‘ment on the following charges: | the city of Brufsels in forty- 
ist. That being the afsefsor of | eight hours; and those who 
Lausanne, he did not denounce | may be in the other cities, and 
the crime of a banquet, on the | places of the low countries, are 
14th of July last, in honour of | to quit his dominions within 
the French revolution. 2d. { eight days after the publicati- 
That he suffered buttons and | on of the edict. 
ribbons to be worn, and songs} ‘The council of finances at 
to be sung at the said banquet, | Brufsels have publifhed an or- 
