Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-09-16

o,,, Il ball cartrige. We have not
'. - heard Of any disturbance in the coun.
- aod all the coaches have arrived this
morning.
q The situation of the city is most ave-
81 The drums beat to arms at ten
orIock at night and continued until II,
when almost every citizen wasundcr arms.
The engagement continued until 4 O'Clock
and " thin these two hours two of the gid
,rri;usnt have been killed in the neighbour
hood Of shr Royal Hospital"
Fvn tie Hi5sruior Jeavnal, dated Mn :
da, Jxb Is.
On Saturday evening last, government
! having had int.ination that depot of
mixes and other engines of destruction,
had been made by newly organized
horde Of insurgents in the vicinity of
Bndgefoot street, detachment of caval.
! ~ had been ordered by gen. Dunn from
che barracks, which were joined by a COM
pany of yeomen infantry, part of the Ii
berry Rangers, now rnder the command
Of the Earl of Meath, having arrived at
the spot where their instructions directed
hem, after skirmish of few minutes
With the populace, in which few lives
wee lost, great number of pixies were
toun, also several combustibles, parcels
Of nails, fragments of iron, glass compost
clay, oakum and other materials.
With these were discovered numbe,
Of deallark, in pieces of various lengths,
from 2 y Is feet in length, with clrcu-
lar cavity in each of about three incnes
diameter, filed with gunpowder, to each
aperture was applied wooden plug,
with handle and vent hole, or receptacle
for fuzs appeared on the upper surface
Of the timber about tue middle: This
machine vas supposed to have been in
tended TO aid the projected operations of
setting f.e TO Dublin Barracks, Several
kegs Of powder were discovered, with par
GELS made of four musket balls in each,
and I'm tube of about two inches long,
through which fire was designed to have
been communicated 70 Whatever vehicle
was constructed to discharge them.
A fui,of green uniform, with gold
apaulcts and iplcndid embroidery was
alto found, and feveral papers, by which
the train of operations fixed by thole de.
luded people, was dilcoyered and will
doubtlels be prevented. Among The me
laneholy difaisess Of the night might be
reckoned The rnureer of Lord Kilwarden,
chief Juaice OF the court Of Kings Bench,
ard the Rev. Arthur Wolfe, his nephew,
who accompanied him with the ladies of
his lordhlp's !family, in carriage to town.
The wouad he received was a large Ia
cerated one in the tids, having the appear
ance of being inflicted by a ihot from
blunderbufs.
A privy council have been fitting yes.
terday at the Cattle, and did not break up
until late hour laft night: procla-
nation, Offering reward Of Ioool. for
the difccyery of the murdcrers OF Lord
Kilwasdcp, and the Rev. Arthur Wolfe,
had been iGu.d, upwards of one hundred
priiouers had been lodged Yesterday in Ihe
new Preyot in the barracks. A prialed
notice from the lord Mayor and board af
magitrates was yesterday handed about,
apprizing the citizens Of Dublin, that from
the recent dilturbances, they feel it in.
cumbsnr on them TO reinforce the infur
rceiion Aa purfaant to which it became
penal during the lat rebellion, for any
citizen not on military duty, to be out
later than eighso'clock in the evening.
The following is copy of the letter
which MIR. Forbes, consul of the United
States 10 Hamburg, sent TO the captains
of bis nation:
Hamburg JaL II.
uS1R.