Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1803-10-07

to exist. Gard; the distress Of The, eeasa
tails in this department is general. ''pl'
They require, annually, s as'fe'.
Their revenues amount to oo aIs
They are in arrear e,s O9s
They have lost 4 as sI's s
La'ldes. The hospitals are threatened: 10y a
total destruction: the sick can procure mn M
ther food nor medicine. A'''
FoUSDLINGs.
AAier. The nurses haze FIVE wear. :.
ges due to them; they viii, therefore va :.
ceive no more foundlings. Nine.tan'%s'
are LOST. Cautak Extreme penury obI;. .as
this>dcpartment to feed It's fouadIinps y, 1l'
goats milk. Seven-eights die before tb ,s'
are one year old. Gbareate (inferie,,ra}
Of two hundred infants, received at S,;n
ties, one only has lived. Creuse. TwsIr.
or fifteen are sucked by two nurses, D,
rennees (autes). Between the years 2 aS9
8, 3O66 infants were received into H.
hospital at Tarbes: there are OIL, ,9s
alive.
SOLICITATIONS FOR RELIEF.
Gard. The landholders are ruined. and
even no longer cultivate their vineyards
An immense number of labourers are with.
out bread, and are reduced to desperation
Nara. The fields have been stripped, tbe
proprictors plundered, their houses burnt.
and yet the memorable collectors Of the re.
venue mission receiving the taxes.
PRISONS.
AUeyron. The dungeons at Vile Fran.
che are SO damp, that straw, placed there
rots Immediately. No where are the VIC.
men separated from the men, or the con.
victed from those who are simply detained,
B0uchss du Rhone. When the Rhone is
high, the waters filter through the walls, and
inundate the cells at Tarascon. No one
comes out without rheumatism forlife.
blanche. The prison at Mortain has no
roof: the courtyard Of this prison is a
complete common sewer. Ilqrne. The
prison is in such state that the prisoners
in it are threatened with instant death by
It's fail. Disc. A dungeon, % feetsquay'
5 feet high, and seven feet below the level
of the ground, constitutes the prison a!
Brateuil. The innocent, the accused, and
convicted, without distinction ofsex orage,
are all heaped together in this horrid tomb.
During the year it hasreceiYed altogether
1913 persons,
GREAT ROADS.
The roads, in every direction, are impas.
sable. Vorges. The roads are SO entirely
ruined, that the country people carry ofthe
stonesto build houses, or 70 form enclosures.
Vaa. The roads are muddy abyss, which
sometimes swallows up carriages, horses,
and drivers.
CROSSROADS.
Name and Lire. The roads are so ex-
ecrable, that some commHnes have no in-
tercourse with one another. Noyd. So
bad that they can hardly be said to ex-
ist.
CANALS.
Tonne. The canal of Burgundy, which
has cost 5000, coo G6oo,ooo) is falling
in ruins. The money it cost will be all
thrown away, if the completion is not spec
Oily attended to,
PORTS.
The worksat Cherbourg has beenneglec'
ted, and are in state ofruin. Bridges are
as bad as the roads.
PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.
AiSne. All the schools have been sold:
the children are left in state of id.eness
and vagrancy; they have no idea OF su,
preme being, and 80 notion of right and
wrong. Forests. Few persons, in this
country, can sign their own names. MeuSe.
(inferieure3. 1t is to be feared that in 10
years not one person, in a hundred, Will DC
able to write.
REGISTERS.
Arrege. Not only ignorance, but wiliai
mistatements are found in the registers
To save persons from military conscrlptl-