Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1808-08-04

| the amount of the cargo brought. BY this
cautious wording of the answer, debts tho
not pasiti0eb forbidden to be taken away IN
merchandise, are virtualy so. Thus the
parties were obliged, from pure necessity,
to resort to deception to get permission to
fill their vessels, by entering at the custom
house, and paying heavy duties on articles
to the amount of 1000 dollars, none Of which
were on board. This fiction has succeeded.
But were all differences settled, the govern
or's proclamation would prohibit any
vessel from taxing away property that did
not proceed from the cargo she brought.
S Flour is at GO dollars land none good.
At Barbados it is at 40 dollars, which is
more than here, considering the difference
Of exchange"
A mutiny lately broke out among the
troops at Fort-Augusta, Jamaica. During
the time the I'd West-India regiment was at
exercise, about 50 recruits belonging to the
regiment, rushed out of the fort with their
arms, and before any stop could be put to
them, they killed their major and adiutant,
and committed some other acts of enormity.
Seven ofthe offenders have been shot. The
temper of INSTRUMENTATION and mutiny e.
vinced by this regiment generally has IN
duced the inhabitants to petition the govern
ment for Its removal from the island. Acts
OF tunlult, INSTRUMENTATION, and riot, have
also been committed at Barbados, by ano-
Their OF theseW. India regiments, the 1st, in
which several lives have been lost. The en-
ployment of this particular description of
people in the army, has always been viewed
by the people OF the w. India Islands, with
the utmost adherence; conceiving themto be
weak and contemplate, as means of pro-
lection and defence and dreadfully formi-
dabie In the danger of their example.
10 the Editor Of the AZ. 1ork Mercantile
dayertiser,
SIR,
1t has been lately represented to me, that
Nature, who has carefully implanted in eve
~ organized being the principles of self-pre-
servation, to the ONION is peculiarly provi-
dental IN adapting its defence against the
cold ofwinter. That the last summer Ct 70
no farther back the coats of Onions were
very thin, as the following winter was mild
and that their coats this summer are thick
and strong an infallible indication that the
ensuing winter will be severe. This being
a circumstance consisten. with the economy
of Nature, and therefore highly probable,
though not generally known and remarked,
| wish 1t to be made as public as possible.
It may to posterity become an interesting
tact and it uay perhaps enable us,when We
examine into the conduct & manners OF the
ancients, to discover that the Egyptians did
not worship their ONIONS for nothing.
HIBEMACULAE.
We have conversed with a gentleman
who has lately arrived from jamaica, from
whom We learn that our embargo does not
produce the effects, in that island that were
expected. The inhabitants believe that the
embargo was laid by this government with
view to distress the English islands but
as they are CERTAIN it will not have this effect
they feel no resentment. Provisions, though
high in comparison, are not alarming -four
is sold from &c to so dollars per barrel. In
dian corn IS plenty and becoming more so
daily. The lands producing two crops, and
when necessary three crops per year, this
with the ground provisions, and supplies
from Europe and Canada, are adequate to
the wants of the island, exclusive of our en-
barge breakers. Sailed provisions were
not derived from the Z. States before the
embargo. The article for which the most
apprehension is expressed, is 7Ohite oak staves
But of those there is a su6iciency in the ISL
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