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Gazette Of The United States & Evening Advertiser
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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In Lyons, France, the revolutionary tribunal symbolically guillotined effigies of the kings of Great Britain, Spain, Prussia, and Sardinia, the Emperor, the Pope, and Mr. Pitt on December 30. An effigy of Toulon as a traitorous woman was burned amid public celebrations.
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BALTIMORE, April 26.
On the 30th of December last, the revolutionary tribunal of Lyons ordered the kings of Great Britain, Spain, Prussia, and Sardinia, the Emperor, the Pope, and Mr. Pitt, to be executed in the great square of that city. They were accordingly, in effigy, surrendered to the executioner and guillotined.
To heighten the impression produced by this national farce, Toulon was exhibited under the form of a woman, wearing on her breast the words, "I have betrayed my country:" On the other—"I am the w---of Kings."
This figure was afterwards burnt amidst the loudest acclamations of the people, who were singing and dancing around the funeral pile.
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Lyons
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30th Of December Last
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effigies guillotined and toulon effigy burned amid public acclamations
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The revolutionary tribunal ordered the execution of foreign monarchs and leaders in effigy in the great square; they were guillotined. Toulon was depicted as a woman betraying her country and serving kings, then burned while people sang and danced.