1797] 
** Citizens, I beg of you to difperfe, 
and not ftay here to be butchered; 
we fhall hereafter fee, whether or not 
the Bow-ftreet magiftrates are the inter- 
preters of the law ?’? Mr. F. denied the 
charge i fo/o, but produced bail. Mr- 
Conant, one of the magiftrates of Marl- 
borough-ftreet, appeared againft Binns 
and HopGson; he declared, that what 
he heard ‘the prifoners fay, was before 
the proclamation had been read, but 
confidering it of a dangerous tendency, 
he.ordéred them to be taken into cuf- 
atody: in conclufion, the parties were 
bound over to anfwer the-complaint’ at 
the next quarter fetfions, themfelves in 
100l. each, and two fureties of sol. each. 
On the fame day, a meeting was held 
at Norwich, of the. friends of parlia- 
mentary reform, to take into confidera- 
tion ‘an addrefs to his majedty, of a 
fimilar nature to that of the London 
Correfponding Society. The addrefs 
was read, and the bulinefs of the meet- 
ing carried on without interruption, A 
meeting of the members of a fimilar 
fociery, and their friends, was alfo held at 
Nottingham on the fame day, and con- 
dufted in a manner which met with the 
approbation of the magiltrates them- 
felves. 
Thefe tranfaétions are mentioned here, 
as they certainly, in the prefent flate of 
the nation, may be faid to belong to 
Public Affun's. The late trial of Mr. 
BINNS at the ailizes of Warwick, for 
feditious expreffions, lafted nearly twelve 
hours, when the jury retired, and after 
deliberating about three hours, followed 
the judge to his chambers, and delivered 
a verdiGt of zot guilty. 
The naval tranfaétions during the lat 
‘month haye not been very important, 
fince the manifeft fuperiority of the Bri- 
tith fleets has prevented thofe of her 
enemies from coming out of their har- 
bours. The Dutch fleet ftill remains 
blocked up imthe Texel by the Britith 
State of Public Ajairs.—Great Britain....Ireland, €%c. 
fhips, under the command of admiral — 
Duncan. The fleet of the French re- 
public have been for a confiderable time 
confined to the harbour of Brett, by 
the vigilance of the fleet under lord 
Bridport ; and the principal part of the 
Spanifh navy have been fiill more clofely 
cooped uo in the port of Cadiz, by 
lord St. Vincent. Under the exprefs 
orders of his lordfhip, Cadiz has been 
bombarded feveral times. On the 3d of 
Juiy, rear-admiral Nelfon having made 
his difpofitions, a bomb, covered by a 
gua-boat, launches, and barges of the 
147 
Britifh fleet, was placed near the tower 
of St. Sebaftian, and fired fome hells 
into the town. A fecond bombardment 
took place on the night of the 5th of 
July, which produced confiderable effeét 
in the town, and among the fhipping ; 
ten fail of the, line having warped out of 
the range of the fhells, with much pre- 
cipitation, the following morning. 
FRELAND: | 
The welfare of Ircland ought to be 
near the heart of every patriotic Englifh. 
man. Should the liberties of the fifter 
kingdom be ever deftroyed by “a vigour 
beyond the law,’ thofe of England may 
be faid to be approaching their grave. 
The intelligence lately received from 
that unfortunate country abound with, fo 
many details of horrid murders and ex- 
taordinary imprifonments, that we fins 
cerely hope they may prove to have 
been greatly exaggerated. While the 
accounts of the diitreffes of the unem- 
ployed manufaéturers of Dublin mutt 
Move every heart but of thofe men who 
have caufed thefe calamities, it muft 
excite fome pleafure to learn, that the 
hands of the bountiful and humane have 
fo liberally contributed to alleviate at 
leaft, if not to remove the diftreffes of {a 
ufeful a clafs of their fellow-creatures. 
FRANCE. 
The Executive Directory, about the 
20th of July, fent a meffage to the’ mi- 
nifter of finance, informing him{'that 
the enemies of the republic fought to 
infpire apprehenfion in the minds of the 
purchafers of the national domains, and 
by that manceuvre to difcourage thofe | 
citizens who withed to make purchafes. 
The Directory, therefore, direély 
charged him to make the moft minute 
enquiry into the fubjeét, and to affure the 
proprietors of national domains, that at 
no time would any diftinétion be made 
between their acquifitions and the inhe- 
ritances derived from their fathers. That - 
the property which the national fove- 
reignty had fold them was placed under 
the fafeguard of the conftitutional aét, 
under the proteétion of the laws, and 
under the guarantee of French integrity. 
‘That the principles which had deftroyed 
the old errors, the truths which annihilat- 
ed fanaticifm, the public force which had 
driven the coalefced armies from the 
frontiers, would be able to perfeét the 
fales they have legally made. If fome 
perfons claimed a right to an indemnity, 
the public treafure would provide for it, 
but the fale fhould be executed. That 
thefe were the true principles which. the 
Executive 

