Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1806-04-04
BY THIS DAYS MAIL,
BALTIMORE, April 8.

BALTIMORE, April 8.
Lateit European Intelligence.
The ship United States arrived below yes
terday, after sshort passage Of IS days
from london, her accounts therefore are
fourteen or fifteen days latter than these
before received. MIR. Porviance, son
ofshe collector of this port, with other
passengers came up last evening in the
Annapolis packet. The gcn,leisaa named
politelyforwarded.us number off onton
papers of dates e7, IS, %, 81, and aoth
Of February, and others, irregular and
rot SO late. Their contents clain bat
fliae interest, this eur readers will ne.
cessarily calculate whea We inform them
that the following selections are the
most important We could furnish.
LoNDoa, Feb. 81.
Capture Of Medina Last oighs pack
ct arrived at the India house from Mr.
Barker, the company's resident at Bagdas,
containing an account of the capture OF
Medina By the Wahabses, whose army ha.
wing bsen reinforced from the desert, has
overwhelmed the adjacent country, and
taken the city by assault, with infinite
bloodshed and devastation. They set fire
TO Medlna,in various places, destroyed the
mosques, after having rsnsacked them Of
their valuable shrlnes and treasures, and
completely demolished the tomb Of the
prophet.
Some thousands Of females Of the first
rank were carried off by the beseigers into
the desert, with anumber of the princi.
pal male inhablgants. a troop of camels
were alsosent awav with jewels and other
treasure to an immense amount.
Our letters from Holland continue to
assert, that Bonaparse perseveres in his
earnest entreaties to the king Of Prussia,
to induce his majesty to shut his ports
against the commerce of England, and i,
is feared that the irnplscable tyrant will
ultimately carry his point in this respect.
Much, however, will depend upon the
result OF the negotiations now pending at
Berlin. in which the Danish minister takes
"a conspicuous part.
"A council of the cabinet ministers wss
yesterday afternoon held at Mr.. Secretary
Fox,,s Office, in Downing street. Rumor
stated, that the Deliberations related to the
subject Of peace; but We could not trace
this rernor TO any authentic source.
A private letter froa Bremen Of the
11thiust. contains thefollowing article, re.
,lative to the sentences passed On the officers
whose conduct produced the recent mis-
fortunes OF the house of Austria:
You have Of course heard that the
archduke Charles has caused thorough
investigation into the causes of the mis-.
fortunes of the Imperial arms Ia Germany,
aud, astonishing to think, the undermen-
tened persons, SO high in the confidence
of his majesty, are said to have had the
following sentences passed upon chem, for
the criminal part they have acted in the late
,ransartionss
/. Prince Auersberg, TO be deprived of no.
bility, his estates coniacated, aud imPri-
soned ten years la the fortress of Spiel.
berg.
Prince LAMBERT, imprisoned for life, 10
the said fortress.
General Jell, sentenced to be shot.
Priyy counsellor Calenbach, ordered to
quit the imperial states.
Counsellor Faszbender, to be dismissed
from his Office.
Field marshal Kaunitz, and field mar.
shall Nuremberg, have committed suicide
while under arrest.
All the staff officers of the regiments Of
Kaunitz and Spork, reduced and digrac