VALENCIENNES

SIEGE OF.—Besieged from May 23rd to July 14th, when the French garrison surrendered to the Duke of York, 1793. Retaken by the French, on capitulation; the garrison and 1100 emigrants made prisoners, with immense stores, viz. 200 cannon, 1,000,000 pounds of gunpowder, 8,000,000 florins in specie, 6,000,000 of livres, 1000 head of cattle, ., on August 30th, 1794. VALUE OF PRINCES.—£400,000 was the price paid to the Scots for delivering up to the English Charles I. Margaret of Anjou was ransomed for £12,500. £1,000 offered by Parliament for the head of Charles II. £30,000 for that of the Pretender. Richard I was ransomed for the large sum of £100,000 or 150,000 marks; he had before been sold by the Duke Leopold of Austria, to the Emperor Henry IV, for £60,000. King John, of France, was to be redeemed by his subjects for the enormous sum of 3,000,000 crowns, but they could not raise the amount.