SHORX pHRONICLE 



OFiEVENtS. 



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FoREic,::. ■ '■, 



f the Englilh families 

 ■ liiiiii tlie Frtnch ter- 

 imarr fron- 

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jiftimation, -by ordf 1 

 fibnal Aficmbly, til - 



nioval out of France is ucccf- 

 sary for their ov.n security. 



A few weeks ago at Liege^ 

 at the sale of a library be- 

 longing to a deceased law- 

 yer, the sale of Voltaire's 

 Questions on the Encyclopedic 

 and Montesquieu's Spirit of 

 Laws were forbid by order of 

 the Government. i 



Twelve or fourteen persons 

 were killed, and many more 

 wounded, by an earthquake in 

 Zante, on the 1 3th of Novem- 

 ber. The greatest part of t!ie 

 inhabitants have since resided 

 in tents in the open country. 



Emigration.' — A gentleman 

 of Glasgow has received a let- 

 ter from a correspondent in 

 New Brunswick, dated lOth 

 November 1791, in which, al- 

 ter giving a tiattcring account 

 ■of the country, in order to in- 

 duce his friend to settle there 

 bqJ begging this account may 



■VOL. Vll. 



be, spread. 1 > adds,— " Do you 

 still foilov.' the sea?— pf>v_/y 

 '■real I Jim for speculation iinth 

 n Ci!!-»'j of men and ivomen ser- 

 vcnilsfrom the north ofScol/and, 

 who ivouid SELL to much profit^ 

 if indented for four or five years. 

 Two hundred and fifty in a brig 

 would not stock this place with 

 anv superfluous number, as la- 

 bourers on farms, and some me- 

 chanics, {viz. weavers, wrights, 

 masons.) are much wanted by 

 the landed gtntlemen here. 



The cattle list for the city 

 of Paris last year, is 130,000 

 oxen, 76 calves, 850,000 flieep, 

 and 30,000 pigs. 



Accounts received in town 

 lately from Brest, announce 

 the speedy preparations making 

 t'.icre for equipping, with all 

 e.vpeJition, thirteen sail of the 

 line and four frigates. 



In the course of last month, 

 two Englilh (hips ^arrived at 

 Marseilles ; on coming to an- 

 chor, they fired a salute, which 

 was returned by one of the forts. 

 They then hoisted the Frencb 

 national flag, and saluted it witW 

 three cheeis. This compliment 



