Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1799-12-16

Holland-Printed IN zoos.
y p the year 1892, when Duke Albert of Saxo
II ny entered Holland to puniIh the liotous
peafants, he condemned the inhabitants of Ak
naar to pay fine of Goo forms, for having.
icryed in an enterprise agsiaa Leyden.
In 1878, the. Duke Of Alva having taken
Harlem after tiegc of thirty one weeks, fent
two thonfand five hundred men with view of
taking Alkmaar by furprife brt they were re-
pulled, and obliged to retire to Heyloo.
On The 2If of Auguf, the Duke of Ava
made another attack on Alkmaar, and ieized
upon the TWO entries of the channel to the eaa
to top the paiiage both by land and water, and
funk fhip full of tones at the entry of their
haven: FROM this period, with near thirty thou
an1 men. having made fevcral fruitlefs aIault.
asainf the town, the garrilon and fighting in
inhabisants, which never amounted to two thou.
land, on the 18th day of September. the Span
iards ieemed determined on another vigorous
ahault, and began to place their planks on the
ditch, put forth their forlorn hopes, &c.
The night following, being the 18th of Sept.
1873, there appeared prodigous fgn in the
air; for the moon, which was in her 1aft quar-.
ter, began about nine o'clock at night 10 ihine
ayain9 the courfe of nature, whereas it fhould
not have appeared before midnight this pro
Dizzy was good prefage 10 the beGeged, and
gave them more courage.
The SPaniaids, on the 18th of September,
began furiouay to batter the town with twenty
pieces of ordnance, and continued the whole
day endeavoring to enter feveral breaches which
they had made, but in which they were repeat.
edly repulfed, and driven back with great lofs,
having upwards Of Eve hundred lain.
AmongR the befeged who defended the
place thus valiently, was one Cornelis. Scotch.
man, who had been an enfgn in Harlem, and
fuiPeded Of wanting courage, but he amply
wiped off the Rigma by 1aying, with his own
hand, aeof the Spaniards who had come to en-
Ave the Hollandcrs.
On the 10th of Sept. at nine in the morning
the Duke renewed the afault, but meeting with
no better fuccefs on the z5h following. he be-
gan to prepare for retreating, by packing up
the baggage and flores Of bis army /; and on
the 9th day of Oaobrr all the Spanifh forces
made their retrA in order Of battle, and march.
ed from Oat Dorp towards Bergen, fome of the
befieged Immediately fallying out without or.
ders, & went to Out Dep, which was an ancient
and renowned village, brt which they burned.
Amp thus paGsd the iisge Of Alkmaar, ut the
end of feven weeks, with the lois Of 400 Spa
niards killed.. and two great commanders, one
Of whom was buried at Beverwyck, and the
other at Amaerdxn, with great funeral pomp
1T remarkable that neither Parliament, nor
The merchants themielves, appear to be acqua,nt-
ed with the principal caufc OF the Rsgnation in
the fugar market namely. the djguik of that
article ~ great part ofthe Community Jfyes It be-
came 70 dsar.- Several families have csafcd to
fweesen their tea, and this is found to be more
or lefs the cafe all over the Kingdom. Spices,
from hmilar caule, have long been 10 tie fame
prcdicament.-Th belt remedy for retoring
coniumption ia either is efficiently obvious |;
nor fhould it be early Discontinued, as fuch re.
friction, like declenGon, can only be expected
to be progrelive. This is the more neceHal y,
as the evil will o,heswife continue to isereaIe.
PRINCE ABDUL GALE, the eldca fon Of
the late Tippoo Sultaun, is pofcGed of ltrong
natural understanding. He is now nineteen
years ofage, and was the favourite Of the Mar
quis Corvallis during the time the hoRage
Princes rcmaioed with his iordfhp, whole par
siality f-emsd to be marked by the magnificent
rrefant he made to piince Abdul Gale on bis
return to Setingapatam, on The ratification of.he
treaty ofI7os; bis lorllhip preientrd him, a
fnong other things, with the moa ccRly palan-
quin which the mechanics of India could pro-
duee, ornan,en,cd with fold Oliver and gold
'nouldugs ; the psnnels were decorated with
mathematical devices Characteristic of the pre-
jadises of the people of Myfore, fupPorted by
two fn<kss, Whole color in the fun iurpaAed
any thing the kind ihort of life. We arein.
formed that this prince Is Of an amisble difpof.
ron. aud roaeG.s qualities rarely to be met with
in his aacsisors.
The art Of ihplulaiag his Seen brought to
comfortable gree CT perleaien in India
The scaleby Cattle, CT 1900 tons, built ar
Bombay by the .psifees, or natives. IS lately
arrived in tho FLYER with cotton On account OF
the company. The Shaik, Coufros. or Cyrus
r. 60. oT 400 IONS launched lalt March