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10th, 30 11th, 33 12th, 8 13th, 20 From 14 to 17th 103 17 to 20th 50 On the 21st, 26 22d, 14 25th, 48 27th, 29 Total guillotined in Paris in the month of June 483 _July_ Religious worship abolished at Liege, the priests banished, and the churches demolished. 3. Sir Gilbert Elliot receives the crown of Corsica in the name of the King of Great-Britain. Proclamation of the Stadtholder on the dangers which threaten Holland. A festival of the human race at Paris--it ends with adopting poor children. The French take Mons and Ostend; 87 persons guillotined. Newport also falls to the French--130 emigrants shot. Tournay taken by the same. The British 7. forced to evacuate Alost. Fifty persons condemned to death. 8. The Austrians quit Brussels; the French enter it, and retake Landrecy. Spires, Mechlin, and Louvain, abandoned by the allies. Sixty persons guillotined at Brest. Robespierre, in an address to the convention, is heard for the first time with coolness. The plunder of the churches of Brabant is sent to the convention, together with two millions of livres in specie from Mons. 18. Namur opens its gates to the French. 19. Revolution at Geneva. The convention is charged in its accounts with 150 reams of paper a day;--each of its decrees costs 83,000 livres; on the first of April last, 6800 decrees had be
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