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for and. sitting as representa- | fame; but they were very soon 
“tives. quieted, but not till after they 
And in order to accomplifh | had destroyed allthe disorder- 
this, a long and solemn oath is | ly houses of the place. 
to be taken, that each person On the 4th of last month, a 
who becomes a member, will, |subscription was opened at 
‘at the hazard of his life and| Armagh in order to make a 
property, and by every means| donation to the National Af 
in his power, endeavour to ac- | sembly of France, to enable it 
complith this great purpose. to carry on the war against 
On the arrival-of captain|the king of Hungary. The 
Edwards of tlt Pandora, at | Belfast second society of uni- 
Copang, the capital of the | ted Irifhmen, at a meeting late- 
Dutch settlements at Timor, |iy, also unanimously resolved 
in the schooner,. after the lofs] on contributing their fhare of 
of the‘thip, they were treated | money to afsist the people of 
with the greatest humanity | France in the present war. 
and attention by governor] On the 23d of May, died, 
Wanjon,and the other gentle-|in the 74th year of hisage, the 
men ofthe place. There they | right honourable George Brid- 
found eight men, a woman, and | ges Rodney, lord Rodney; ba- 
two children, who had made|ron Rodney of Rodney Stoke, 
their escape from Botany Bay,| Somersetfhire, baronet and 
in an open six-oared cutter. K. B. an admiral of the white, 
Orders have been ifsued|and vice admiral of England. 
from the. admiralty for the | His lordfhip is succeeded in his . 
-thips of war which areto com-|estate by his eldest son the 
pose the squadrons on foreign | honourable George Rodney. 
stations, to be ready for sail- Chere lately arrived in 
ing on the fhortest notice. Glasgow, from the island of 
"Phe. store-thiy ps and. trans-| Bara, twenty - four families, 
ports for carrying the convicts | consisting of 131 men, women, 
of both sexes. to Botany-Bay, ;and children, all of whom the 
are to go out under convoy of |afsociation for preventing emi- 
the Lyon man of war of sixty-| gration has taken charge of, 
four guns going on the Asiatic | and procured employment for 
station. them, in and about Glasgow. 
_ There were some distur-} Twenty farnilies more are soon 
dances at Birmingham on the | expected fromthe island ofMull. 
22d of last month, occasioned! The king has lately signed 
by the death of a soldier, in a proclamation for preventing 
consequence of wounds he had |the officers, privates, or any 0- 
aeccived in a house of bad therindividual under the Britifb 
