Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1799-05-20
Foreign Articles.
sELoslcA (Twky) FEB. =.

TIKI risas is friouay employed in the
means Of driving the Freuch out OF Egypt; in
cosfequencc of which the Grand Seigror has
flu .d d 6rman, BIZ which he orders, that all the
i,auiport lhps which can be procured ihould
be Attended az Smyrna, FIR the embakation
of our troops For This purpofe Cara Gilman
Oglou, eur Pasha, has been ordered to ieleet
the choicea troops of Natolia for that expedi
ron. The Paoha Of Acri has received a Carte
Bdaaekr, and all The O her Pachas Of Syria have
been enioaed TO pay obedience TO bis COM
mands. Buonapa1te, in expectation of being
attacked on that fde, il terrifying Damietta,
with the erea'ea activity, and has placed in it
a very nuneI Gus earrilon. 1t is however iup-
fofcd, tn. The Pacha Of hcfi will not a6t feri-
Gully, until The armament preparing at Smyrna
ihall have arrived before Alexandri, in order
10 make combined attack on the two oppoiitc
points.
A Greek veFel, containing the Frenchmen
in difguife, and amongl them the Secretary OF
Buonaparte, was captured by Turkifh fhip,
and the piifoners tent to Conlian,inople. There
was found upon them, in lequlns ard pialtres,
about a million and half hvres tournois--
The Republican General does not allow III.
expectation from Egypt Of Coffee or Rice. both
articles Of great importance in the Levant, and
the fcarcity of which is much felt at Conltant.
nopie.
PARIS MARCH II.
Letters from S,ratburg, dated the cd inf.
mention. g That the French army had march.
Ell into Suatia by the county Of Wirtemburgh,
and was to proceed until it met the Aultran
army, commanded by the Archduke CHARLEs,
which it is faid has advanced as far as Ulm.
and even beyond that place. Our army is not
TO halt for FIVE days. The frff ifroke will pro.
badly be dreaiful. The French diviGon com
manded by Gen. Ferino croled the bridge of
the Rhire at Battle on the ut, and took the road
of Frickthal. His head quarters are at Rhein.
FIELD, but viii not, it is fuppoled remain there
long. One divi6on Of the army of Mertz paaed
the Rhine oppoite to Philipiburg, and block
AIDES that fortrefs, in which there are about
1900 troops Of the Empire .an
FRANKFORT, MARCH 9.
The following is the Ultimate of the AuGrian
forces circulated here :-Ico,ooo infantry, and
~ regiments of cavalry, TO be employed in
Italy on the Lech $780, 600 infan,ry, and q
regiments Of cavalry; in the Tyrol 36 battal-
ions !; and on the frontiers of the hereditary
States, a. battalions Of infantry.
LONDON, MARCH 40.
The King has been peafcd to declare all the
ports in the United Provinces (HoNand) TO be
in fate of blockade; and that all veIels which
may attempt to enter any of them, will be dealt
with according TO the law of nations. ,t
The Dutch have nine fail of the line, ready
for launching but they are utterly deltitutc Of
naval ecu pmenes. 1t Is expected, as the French
Directory has the abiolu,e controul of all the
Batavian forces, that Dutch fquadron will be
fent to form part of the expedition from Brett.
EARrHoyAxz.-The following letter to the
Editor of a Scotch paper gives an account of
an earthquake which happened at Conlric, in
Per'hihire, at which place repeated ihocks have
been felt in the eou:fe ola few years
Csmrie, March 2, 1893.
{" On Sabbath, the z4th of FEBRUARY, We had a
very fmart fhock of an earthquake in this place
and mel ..bourhood. Ithappened about twelve
minutes before two O'Clock in The afternoon, and
was accompanied and followed with a very loud
iubterraneous .noife. This ihock and one we
had Oh the 18th of January, we're incomparably
more violent and alarming than we ever felt
before. The motion of the earth was from
Wea to EAT, and might lat two feconds, bat
the nofe which accompanied it continued much
longer. The wind had been blowing in violent
sults the preceding part of the day, till about
two minutes before the fhock when it funk into
a calm and when the motion of the earth
ceafed, the wind began to blow furiou0y The
Church. in which many of us were attended,
gave fudden jerk, and threatened to fall over
our heads but in the kind providence of God.
no harm was done. 1t was to US very foemn
fcene indeed.-A country fhaken to the extent
Of perhaps. Gxty Engliih miles in one direction,
and about twenty probably in another The
huge Crampians around us reeling on their
bales, and ourfelves in danger of being buried
in the bowels of the earth %
RENdRKABLE CASE
The following remarkable innanee of the failure Of
voiitoD. extracted from DR.. Crichions Egy o, Azu