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state of arrest, before sentence was pronounced —The order $qys that this 
is a measure of general safety; that the arrest fhall last only 24 hours and 
that every attention fhall be paid to these prisoners. 
Some accounts state that the queen was acquitted by the Tribunal, but 
that a sanguifary mob seized, upon the unhappy qucen and murdered her ! 
We mere-y state this rumour, though we donot think it weil authenticated; 
but in fact, the execution of an_unjust sentence by reguiar forms is as re- 
pugnant to humanity as the most savage outrages of a lawlefs mob. 
, DoM, STIC 
The government of Britain have at icagth declared by the following man- 
ifesto, what are the objects they wih ultimately t. attain by the present 
wat. Perhaps had this been publifhed many months ago, and had it been 
accompanied by another to the same effect by the other allies, the effusion 
of much blood might have been prevented It is hoped it may not still be 
too late to be of some service. 
Briti/h manefisto. 
Whitehall Octuber.29. 1793- 
The following Declaration has been sent, by his majesty’s command, to 
the commanders of his majesty’s fleets and armies employed against 
’ France, and to his majesty’s ministers residing at foreign courts. 
The circumstances, in consequence of which his majesty has found him- 
self engaged in a defensive war against France, are known already to all 
Europe. The objects which his majesty has proposed to himself from the 
commencement of the war are of equal notoriety. To repel an unprovoked 
aggrefsion, to contribute to the immediate defence of his allies, to obtain 
for them and for himself a just indemnification, and to provide, as far as 
circumstances will allow, for the future security of his own subjects, and 
efall the other nations of Europe ; these are the points for which hism:- 
jesty has felt it incumbent on him to employ all the means which he derives 
from the resources of his dominions, from the zeal and affection of his 
people, and from the unquestionable justice of his cause. 
But,it has become daily more and more evident how much the internal 
situation of France obstructs the conclusior of a solid and permanent treaty, 
which can alone fulfil bismrsjesty’s just and salutary views for the accom- 
plifiment of these important objects, and for restoring the general tranquil- 
lity of Europe. His majesty sees, therefore, with the utmost satisfaction, 
the prospect, which the present circumstances’ 2fford him, of accelerating 
the return of peace, by making to the well disposed part of the people of 
France, a more particular declaration of the principles which animate him, 
of the objects to which his views are directed, and of the conduct which it 
is his intention to persue. With respect to the present situation of affairs, 
the events of the war, the coafidence reposed in him by one of the most 
considerable cities of France, and, above all, the with which is manifested 
almest universally in that country, to fiud a refuge fron: the tyranny by 
which it is now overwhelmed, render this explanation on his majesty’s part a 
prefsing and indespensable duty: and his majesty !cels additional satisfac- 
tion in making such a declaratiin, from the hope ot finding, in the other 
powers engaged with him in the common cause, sentiments and views per- 
tectly comformable to his own. 
From the first period, when his most christian majesty Louis the xvr. had 
called his people around him, to join in concerting measures for their com- 
mon happineis, the king has uniformly fhewn by his conduct the sincerity 
ef his withes for the succefs of so difficult, but at the same time, so interes- 
ting an undertaking. His majesty was deeply afflicted with all the misfora 
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