historical chronicle. . xv 
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MISCELLANEOUS. 
The late General Custine was about to be acquitted by the Revolutionary 
ribunal;"but Roberspierre sent some of his emifsaries to that *Tribunal 
tell them, that if Custine was not executed on the following day, the 
pads of the jury fhould be carried about on pikes—This had the desired ef- 
ct.—After the exécutioner had struck off his head, which was bald, he 
bok it by the ear, and fhewed it to the people, who set up an immoderate 
out of laughter. 
Anecdote.—When Field-Marfhal Freytag was taken prisoner at Rexpoede, 
e French Hufsar who feized him, perceiving that he had a valuable watch, 
id, “ Give me your watch ;” The Marshal instantly complied with the 
emand of his captor. A fhort time after, when he was liberated by the 
allantry of General Walmoden, and the French Hufsar had become a pri~ 
bner in his turn, the latter with great unconcern, pulled the|Marthal’s 
‘atch out of his pocket, and presenting it to him, faid, ‘‘ Since fate has 
ned against me, take back this watch ; it belonged to you, and it would 
ot be so well to let others strip me of it.” 
Marfhal Freytag admiring this principled conduct of the Sans Cudlote, 
‘ho did not know him, took back the watch, and immediately after pre- 
ented it to the Frenchman, saying, “‘ Keep the watch: it fhali not become 
nine, for I have been your prisoner.” 
The late violation of private property in Paris, by the seizures of the 
aifse d’Escompte, and the East-India House, contributed greatly to the 
@ounter-revolution in Toulon. The merchants finding all security contemn- 
d and outraged, abandoned at once the interest of the plunderers, and 
inrew themselves for safety into the hands of the Englifh, who will no doubt 
ehave to them with that generosity which such unlimited confidence de- 
ands. 
| ‘The costly effects seized on by the imperial Government, when M. de Se- 
fmonville and Maret were arrested, and which were attached to their splen- 
lid embaisy, have beed carried to Vienna, where they are at present depo- 
“app They turnout to be of immense valve, and consist of the following 
ticles : 
_ Two very magnificent state carriages—the private instructions of the a- 
bove two gentlemen—two cafkets, belonging to the late French King, valu- 
ed at two millions of florins; among other precious jewels, is the famous 
@orilliant called the Regent—two other cafkets, with jewellery—a table ser- 
vice of gold, for twenty persons—200,000 Lous d’Ors in gold and bills of ex- 
fehange—a large quantity of gold tapestry, Jace, &c. All these articles his 
mperial Majesty has promised to take care of. 
Ay! EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY- 
§ A Gentleman, who was pafsing up the east sideof Hatton Garden, about five 
*clock on the afternoon of Sep. 20, heard indistinctly frequent cries of mur- 
der! accompanied with groans, which at length appeared to him to proceed 
rom the inner rooms of one of the houses. No answer being returned to 
his repeated knocks at the door, he procured a ladder from a glazier’s ser- 
fant, who was pafsing by, and both afsended toa window, where they 2- 
in heard the cries, but the latter person was so much alarmed that he re- 
ed to be the firs, in entering the houfe, and it was necefsary to descend 
he ladder, to change their position. After this interruption, they and soma 
bther persons searched every room in the house, in which they found neither _ 
mhabitants nor furniture. 5 
