Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-11-12

&c. ana unroye a part Of our runniag rig.
ging. AL our stores, quadran.s, chars.
what money they could 6nd& nv hat.boots.
shoes, writing desk, watch, pistols and c.
ven Bosom pin, did not escape their rapaci-
~. However We consider ourselves fortu.
nate in coming eff with one thing, thasihey
almost frightened US our OIL mean our
lives.''
4 The loss of this Oessel suas about SIS.
hundred dsAars; they did not pAmder the
cGrgs.
The late statistical history of France,
published by Herbin, viii exhibit the pro.
bable population OF that Empire. sMirabeau
the elder, in 1854, gave the population of
France az 18 millions. The Able D'Ex.
Pilly, In 1772, gave il 22 millions. when
Button gave 1t 81 millions, and Bouvallet
Desbroses, IN 1889, reported 81 millions.
In 1891, the Committee OF the assembly
reported it the first time at % millions, but
at the second time, at % millions. NJ.
Brong published in 1897. the actual popu-
latien including Corsica, at 81 millions.
OF these, rs millions were On the ancient
domain of France, above three millions
were on the reunited provinces, aud one
and an haFNon the countries between the
Rhine and Moselle. In 1898, De Pere
reported TO the Council 33 millions, includ.
ing % millions on the territory Of France,
millions on the resented provinces, IS
thousand on the territory of Geneva, and
one and an halt million in the departments
on the left bank of the Rhine. The returns
BY the protects, in August, 1902, gives the
general population of 33 millions, but this
population was increased nearly two mil.
hons by the reunion Of Piedmont, an Is
land of Elba, in September, 1902. This
number IS Judged not far from truth, espe.
cially if We employ the large numbers. and
omit the!fractions. Tito this population we
. add that of holland and of Italy, and the
countries in which the French have con.
trout, we shah find vast power in the pre-
sent state OF the French Empire.-When
the population of France was given at 26
millions; above 90 millions were consider.
cd as inhabitants OF the country, and above
S million 10 the cities. Des Brosses In his
work on the wealth of France, adds above
one million TO the above amount of the Pc.
pulatlon, and gives above millions to the
cities, so that the population of the country
to the cities is about to one. The Great
Lavoisier divides the population of France
into the following classes. Population ef
large towns. not including culrivators, at 8
millions; workmen, 6 millions; labourers
in agriculture, 4 millions vintagers at one
million and loths. Pr0priesors of Vine
yards soo,ooo; Shopkeepers, sc. at the
charge Of agriculture, one million and 8
tenths. Proprietors living on the produce
of their estates, $50 thousand. In the class
of sailors, manufacturers, mobiles, ecclesi.
astics, sc. only so thousand short of two
millions, and the French army at ESQ, 900,
giving in all 25 millions. This gives the
city population as sto II.
Salem Register.
A commercial friend has politely favored
US (the Charleston Times) with copy of
the following interesting document -
CASE.
Il Bremen ship, laden with cargo of
Spanish colonial produce { american brsber-
fyJ destined from the Havanaa, to Caves
and q marker.
Your opinion IS requested, whether, when
she arrives, she can be legally sent to Hol.
land; or, if not to Holland, may she go to
any neutral port?
OPINION.
The instruc ioos issued by his majesty
for the present war, have not that exemp-
ton which existed in he former ins,ruc.
tons in favor of neutral vessels coming
from any hostile colony. The destination,
therefore. which was protected in the late
war;, to Cowes and market, is now left as