GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, London, November, 1798  

* Marie Antoinette beheading
* Eyewitness account of execution

Inside has an interesting letter which begins: "I was an eye-witness of the death of Marie Antoinette. The accounts given of that melancholy event are generally true. She was dressed in a white dimity jacket & petticoat..." with much more detail including: "...Her head was shown to the people, of whom I think 20,000 were assembled; it was then thrown into the basket with her body..." (see).
Near the back are news reports including over half a page headed: "America" with  much on the yellow fever epidemic (see).
Included are both full page plates of churches called for.
Complete in 88 pages, 5 by 8 inches, full title/contents page with an engraving of St. John's Gate.

Background: This eyewitness account published in the November 1798 issue of The Gentleman’s Magazine details the October 16, 1793 execution of Marie Antoinette, a pivotal turning point in the French Revolution that symbolized the absolute demise of the Bourbon monarchy and the escalation of the radical Reign of Terror. Five years after her death at the Place de la Révolution, the correspondent’s vivid recollections—such as her modest white dimity attire, her transport by open charrette, and the gruesome display of her severed head to a raucous crowd of 20,000 assembled spectators—underscored the total stripping away of royal privilege and the brutal shift from royal decree to mob sovereignty. Beyond documenting the physical reality of her guillotine death and subsequent burial in a basket, the publication of this letter in a prominent London periodical highlighted the enduring British fascination with—and profound horror toward—the revolutionary Jacobin regime's violence, serving as both a historical record and anti-revolutionary propaganda during the ongoing French Revolutionary Wars.

A very nice magazine from the "mother country". This was the first periodical to use the word "magazine" in its title, having begun in 1731 and lasting until 1907.