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■fURDAY, Ofl. 12, 1793-1 IhE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE, ■ AND I gazette of the state. pRE ED O Mos the PRESS and TRIAL by JURY fliall remain inviolatt. CsnJ!itutisnofGttrgi '*• \7uGVSTA: Printed by JOHN E. SMITH, Printer to the States Efays, Articles of Intelligence, Advertisements, (Sc. will be gratefully received, end every kind of Printing performed. PARIS, July 14. The Revolutionary Tribunal has pronoun ced sentence of death upon the following cine persons, accused of having attempted to take awav the life of Leonard Bourdon, at Orleans, on the-15th of March, viz. Benoit Couet, stock broker, aged 50 John Henry Gellet, holier, 39 Adrian Buiffort, merchant, 25 Nicolas Jacquet jun. gentleman, 25 J. Baptist Pouffot, recruiting officer, 42 J,. Baptist Quefnel, musician, 38 James de la Salle, wax bleacher, 43 C. Philip Nonneville, gentleman, 30 Charles Taffin, freeholder, 35 After the Prelident had communicated to she accused the declaration of the jury they pH on their knees, declaring, with tears and firieks, that they had been 4eceived, and Here innocent! This moving fpeftacle prevented the ydges from pronouncing sentence, which gas not done till the ,12th inst. at 40 clock P the afternoon. They were executed yeflerday, at half >aft 2 oTlock ih the afternoon, in the Square Le la Revolution. The greatest part of the Deflators murmered aloud, curling both the Convention and the Revolutionary Tribu nal. 18. The funefal of Marat was celebrated the day before yesterday with the greatest pomp and folemnity* All the feftions join ed in the procelfion, some with their colors, but all of them with their standards. An immense croud of people attended it. Four women bore the bathing machine, in which Marat was Handing when he was alfaflinated} Kis Ihirt, stained with blood, was carried by another Amazon, at the top of a pike. Ari ter this followed a wooden bedstead, on which the corpse of Marat was carried by citizens. His head was uncovered, and the galb made by the knife of the affafiin could be easily distinguished. The procelfion mov ed through several streets, and was saluted on its march by several difeharges of artille ry. At half past ten o’clock at night, the remains of Marat were deposited in a grave dug in the yard of the club of the Cordeliers, between four Indian trees. At the base of Jiis bed of state, the following words were inferibed: MARAT, The Friend of the People, AlTalfinated by the enemies of the People. Enemies of thfe Country, Moderate your Joy; He will find Avengers! Charlotte la Corde was tried yesterday for the murder of Marat, the friend of the People, by the revolutionary tribunal. Her countenance displayed heroic disdain, and her answers, by their boldness, struck every beholder with aftonilhment. At the beginning of her trial she thus ad dressed her judges: K I did not expeftto appear before you. I always thought I should be delivered up to the rage ot the people, torn in pieces, and that my head, {luck upon the top of a pike, would have preceded Marat on his date bed, to serve as a rallying point to Frenchmen, it there Ihil arc any worthy cf that name. But, happen v hat will,* if I have the honors cl the guil lotine, and my clay cold remains are buried, GEORG IA they will soon have conferred on them the honors of the Pantheon, and my memory • will be more honoured in France than that of Judith of Bethulia.” Sentence of death was pronounced against this resolute woman, and file was executed in the evening. LONDON, July 23. Affajfination of MARAT. This sanguinary man has experienced the fame fate which he himifelf caused to be inflifted on so many of his viftims! A-young lady of Caen, in Normandy, in stigated, no doubt, by a with to put a peri od to the excefles of a merciless incendiary, left her native city, and repaired to Pa ris. After a long and scrupulous enquiry, hav ing at length converted her fuimifes refpefl ing his crimes into certainty, Ihe determined to rival the heroifin of Joan d’Arc, and, like that maiden, save her country. Having accordingly obtained an interview with the pretended friend of tlie people, Ihe quefti ened hint relative to the patriotism of several acknowledged parrizans of liberty J and while his unhallowed lips were uttering exe crations against them, Ihe plucked a dagger from her bosom, and plunged it in his heart. Thus fell, after a lhort but too prosperous reign over the Parisian rabble, and by a wo man’s hand, that Marat, who ought to have fallen a viftim to public justice, and died, not in his closet, but on a public fcaffold. Marat died immediately after receiving the blow from Marie Anne Charlotte Corde, who came from Caen in Normandy, with a refutation of exterminating that monster in human (hape from the society of the world. This lady, according to the bell accounts, is a very pretty woman, of well known repub lican sentiments, but who deplored the pre sent terrible situation ol her country. Hav ing obtained admission into his presence, ihe expatiated upon all the horrors which her country had been plunged into by Marat and his adherents, and expressed particular de testation on account of the infamous business of the 3 1 ft of May. Marat said that ail the arrested members were traitors; and that their heads Ihould come Shortly to the block—whereupon the lady {tabbed him with a knife which Ihe had concealed; faying to him, “ wretch that thou art, thy death lhall precede their V’. She ' instantly named herfelf, and furrendcred a prisoner. , A letter of a late date, from the combi ned armies, mentions, that three Irenca officers! had just deferred, and had been conducted to the duke of York’s quarters. They declare to his royal highness’s aids-du cimp, thafCuftine was dangeroully ill of a fever. „ A dreadful sickness rages in Valenciennes. The garrison fuifers much from this; but it is certain, that, at the commencement ot the siege, they amounted to more than nine thou sand men. BOSTO N, Sept. 9. Capt. j. Freeman, from Bayonne, in France, but lad from St. Andcro, where he was carriedoy aS; amlb privateer, and which he left the lad of July—informs that the Spaniards do but very little in the war, and do not appear disposed to rifque much. VOL. Via. No. 3C6.3 While he was at Bayonne, it was expe&ed for 19 days, that the Spaniards were meditat ing an attack upon that place, but when he came away it was reported that they were all called off for another expedition. On Friday last arrived and anchored helow the Caftlc, the French privateer Marseilles, of 22 guns, Citizen L’Ecuyer, Commander; the saluted the Castle with 15 guns, which were returned by that tortrefs. , The Marfeillcs was fitted out at Havre-de- Grace, and has been cruising off the Wellern Islands about fix weeks: She has been re markably fortunate, having taken prizes, some of them are very rich. *he following is a lift of them, as handed us by a correfpondent< The (loop Young Gerard, from Curacoa to Rotterdam, arrived at Boston. The fehooner Concordia, from Demarara, for Amsterdam, sent for the port of Bofton* not yet arrived. The English privateer, (hip Good Intent, <yf 17 guns, arrived at New-York. The (hip Harpooner, copper bottomed, from Brazil for Bristol, arrived at Boston. The brig Chance, from Lisbon for New foundland, with fait, given to the priloners, to go wherever they pleased. The brig Brothers, from Cadiz, for Newfoundland, with fait, burned at sea. The ship , from New-York, for Newfoundland, with flour and bread, sent for Boston, since arrived at Portsmouth. The American (hip President, trom Hull in England, for Baltimore, with Englilh goods, Britifti property, arrived at Boston, and since released to the original owners. We are informed that there are now build ing in this commonwealth,, near an hundred fail of veflels; from 150 to 800 tons burthen; a great number of which will be launched this autumn. NEW-YORK, Sept. 17. The Methodist congregation in this city have appointed Wednesday next to be obferv cd by them as a day peculiarly set apart for fading and prayer, to implore the interpo sition of the Almighty in favor of the inha bitants of Philadelphia, and that he would be pleased to avert from this city a like dreadful calamity. By the Governor. To prevent market boat,s and others go ing on board or approaching too nearveflels which may be performing quarantine below the point of Governor’s Island, notice is hereby given, that the health-ofiicer will cause a black flag, to be constantly display ed at the mast head of such veflels rcfpcc tively. Given at the city of New-York, this 15th day of September, 1793. GEORGE CLINTON. Extract of a letter from an officer on hoard the Boston frigate, •to his friend, in New-York, dated Hah fax, An*nji 26. “ Before this reaches you, you will have heard of the atilion between us and the Am bufeade; our loss is a§ follows:—Captain Courtney and Mr. of the marines, killed early in the aftion, with eight others, and 24 wounded, amongst which are the firft and second lieutenants, hut not danger oifly. We have fuifered a little in our hull, but very much ia our rigging j cur