Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-06-15

turday the a5sh uIs. She sailed from i.
folk for Charleston, loaded with corn
con, &c. and was thirteen days out u
she encountered most tremendous s'
from the eastward: and although es NV
possible sxertion was made by the cas
aud seamen 10 keep her off shore, she NV
driven BY the violence of the wind on 4
shoals at North Island, and immedia..
went to pieces. The crew with much All
Guilty preserved their lives; the vessel -
cargo entirely lost.
Captain Campbell, of the schr. Victo,
from New York, informs that ano,baa
schooner was on shore about league to
southwark OF the lighthouse, which, f,os
her situation at the time she.was obse,yss
he is induced to believe will go to pieces.
(Gecrgeto1Oa Gazette.
The Journal de Paris, says London b.
per, contains the following deplorabIe BIZ
ture of the state of society in France AM
most strikingly illustrates the evils arisp,
from the facility of.divorce permitted bytbs
first national assembly, which deserves Al
the censure which can be passed upouiu
for the extravaganza and wiskednsss j
this one assembly may be justly accused i
all the wars which have desolated Euron
for the last IA years:
Marriages increase in proportion a.
divorces decrease, which may convince our
speculative philosophers and metaphysics
ans, that their calculations concerning ii.
happiness Of civil society are as erroneou.
in this case as many others. Their maxms
unfortunately for Frances converted into
laws by the national convention, the mos
immoral, cruel, and ignorant, of all her "a.
tional assemblies of permitting full lb.r.
ty for every one to divorce, even for mo.
mentary disagreement of temper, hav,
made more prostitutes and bastalds 10
France, during TIE last ten years. than ii.
depravity of the ten proceeding cent?
RE. Among the wretches perishing in our
streets by want or disease, who offer then
faded charms to Drums ards and libertine,,
Of twelve, eight are DIVORCED women; and
Of orphans begging by our doors, crowdng
our hospitals, prisons or scafolds, niusy
out Of an hundred are children neglected,
or by divorced parents, and therefore owe
their misery & guilt. to the former Infamous
laws Of divorce.
Lesj3afsrs.-A mo.ion was made during tn:
laft lefion In the houfe of representatives Of the
United States, which one of the wife.heads win.
ed to have referred to the committee Of CON-
merce and manufactures, bu, not being muha
an orator, or like Friend Sloane of New. Jaky,
not wilhing to fpeak on fubjed he did not un'
deritand, he wrote on piece of paper, and hard,
ed it to friend" Rein, toe tbay lsma
of Ksma,jt ard Mausvakfa,es-Sornethng d
the fame famp, will b. rccelleeted was de
member of the Lao houfe Of delegates Of Wig.
MIA. A gentleman had made motion whid
this learned laqygipe, did not underGand, and
therefore requeRcd to have il explained. lhn
was very Reasonable, and another member q
qually wife, rofe and oblervej, that "b. beg
ged leave in reply to the geatleman from -
to fate that the motion now before the hout
had been predicated--" 90, Sir, faid this mo-
dern Solomon, am perfectly fa,ished did na
know, Sir, that the motion had been Srdirnh1i
if | had known, Sir, that the motion had bea
bredirstsd, ihould not have faid a word on ths
fubjea.-aere are two precious fpecnens Of A
meriean Legislators ENoysN Ledgr.l
PENNSYLVANIA POLITICS.