Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1801-10-05
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ters from Vienna, we are at,rrea the En-
gihll cat ne' has prevailed on the iioufe o,
Ani',iS OF to difarm ill ge,yral peace
be efiet'e> ard thag OR government il.
return, VII .ltitt upon the modifi alton &,
ne treatyci i unneviilv. The negoc,a-
ton on THIS beet has been carr.yd O.
through lhusrt, ard il is upon this buii
| NETS he has OF late had 70 many ,ntsrylem 5
with rhe Emperor.
The negoc'atlon, or correfpondence be
| tween Lord Hawke ibury and Nj. One,
isfurely protraeted ,oa unconmcn leng III :
whatever may he the iiiue, we have a II ghs
to expect very voiaminous publ,caslorl
on The fubjett.
We learn from BuHora, that the esea,
Granafy in Old Cairo was very fparnely
iSored at The time the enemy were driven
into thar city, as greaS quantities q grain
had been taken away, and fent into vori
Gus parts. his is 4 very Gpacous place,
and fnrrounded by iqua,e wall. For
merly the tribute which uled TO be paid
to the Grand Se;gnior in corn was laid UP
at this Place, which is eaiiea Jyielh's
Granary.
Remarkable Cbarnt7er. MIR. Guy, the
founder OF the noble Hofpital that bears
his name in Southwark, was as remark able
tor his private partimony as his ,ublic mu-
nthcence- He invariably dined alone, and
ioiied proof ihees, or an Old newipaper,
was his conaant fubititute for table cloth.
II is recorded OF him, that as he was one
winter evening fitting in his room, nedi-
tatlng over handful Of half lighted EN-
bers confined within the narrow precincts
ora brick itose, and withou; apy candle
a rerion who Came 10 enquire for him as
INTRODUCED, and after the hrlt compliments
were paGed, and the gue; req e.,ed 10 take
a feat, Mr.. Guy Lighted atarthing candle,
and deiir>d to know the pu'port Of the
gentlemaars Witt. The yiiitor was the
famous Vniture Hoi kins, immorralized
by Pope in the lines
"Wbeu Hopkips dies, tbouLaxdkgbts at
lend
The qy,eteb, h5at hvmg, Ia4'd a eaaa2es
eua."
have been told, Jays Hopkins, that
you, fir, are better veried in the, rudent
and necehasy AT OF lasing, than any man
nov living, and ] shcfef re wait upon you
for 4 Ieiior ct fru -a!iiy:; an art in which
ufcd to think | cxceiled but am told
ny all rhat know you, that you are great
ly my fuperior-" And is thar ali you
come about? Dad Guy) why, then, we
csn talk this matter over in the dark :"
70 laying, he, with great delberation, cx
tinguifhed his new lighted tarthing candle.
Struck witt, this iniiance of economy,
Hopkins acknowledged hinfeli convinced
of the Others hyperion thrift, and took his
leave.
Augnft rs. A comfortable degree Of
alarm lately pervaded our new coDqueits
IN India, by the intended introduction OF
European laws into Myiore; the Britiih
government has, in confequence, deemed
il necehary to declare, that the rights OF
fathers and matters of families, as exer-
cited by the Hindu and Mahomedan laws,
are to be preferyed to them and that any
act, fanctioned by the rules or laws #
Gait, 10 Tar as retrectS the inemperS OF the
fame family only, is not 10 he deemed a
crime, or recognizable by any criminal court
If Juice. although il be por jaitihable by
The laws of Egg
Maidfone ahizes have elapfed without
the rial OF the celebrated miis Rooertfon
Of Biackheath, as predicted by the .pewlpa-
pers. The irulh is, that the lady is fill
in Huntingdon Gaol none of her frauds
having amounted to whar is criminal in
legal ienfe. She certainly did give her.
felia falfe character and fhe' by 70 doing
oas certainly obtaiLed credit: but from