Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1808-12-23

be seized and wrested from you upon srspi-
: cion--your houses entered and examined on
suspicion and if butchery follows on suspi-
cion, it is no more than you have to expect.
Turn not your eyes towards the temples Of
justice, they are shut against you appeal
not to your government, it is the very
source from whence all your calamities
flow.
AZ 1ork Even. Post. &
The embargo bill, No. $, introduced into
the senate, by Mr. Giles, bill which, if we
did not fear the thrust Of a bayoneti as a res
ward for the truth of our assertion, we should
SAP, lays the axe to the root OF civil liberty,
and for some days under discussion In that
body, was Yesterday recommitted to the COM
mittee that reported it, and two new members
added. Wash Fed.
At the back Of the Speakers Chair III
the hall Of the House of Represe ntatives, is
alarge American Eagle, the emblem of the
nation AS the character of the United
States is entirely committed, the Eagle
should be Instantly distnounted, and Land
Terrapin, more dignihed brave and gene
grous in It's nature, should be hoisted on the,
Eagles pedestal. The Terrapin has FIVE
beautiful Sritss onfthe back, answering to
the FIVE embargo laws, with which the 60
vernment has lnhumanly lacerated itself for
twelve months.
Fed Rep.
North America may be styled in Europe,
The Grand Western Monastery, whose
monks suffer voluntary castigation, to "spite
the devil Old Nick Napoleon vexes the.
hao1ks, and they fagelate themselves to be
revenged.
Nick occasionally anuses himself by put
ting red hot coal upon the back Of ihe A.
mcrican 1errapin, and 50 sure as it thursts
Its head from under the Shell, b NM raps
him upon she noodle, and like Scaramouch
his head Instantly disappears; it seeks
hgnihed retirement. Fine fun tor
French Monkey to arause himself with
teazing an inoFensive, helpless terrapin,
that never did any body "Aarm."
ibid.
Naturalists say that Terrapin can live
without eating, with his head within his
she'll, twelve months ard day--a Monkey
or Lion, nct more than three days.
Ibid.
OH YEz So THE. EMBRGo TELLS, -
INDEED
Extract Of a letter fran a respectable house
ia Cadsz, to his correspondent in N. 10rh,
dated,
OCTOBER s.
The. consequent peace between US ana
Great Britain has caused our ports & those
.oG Portugal ,obe opento British navigation;
and the spirit OF speculation has been SO
great, that they have overstocked every
market in the Mediterranean, as likewise
this place, with al kinds of provisions and
colonial produce, prices Of which may be
considered nominal we however quote
them for your government. The only arti-
Gle that would answer now is pipe slaves,
and tue first arrival would i'll our opinion
command 100 to $50 dolls. per thousand on
board dressed.
(" White HAVANA sugar, 10 to IL dollars
per quintal--brown do. 8 to 10 do.--Aour
dollars barrel-English fish of last catch
S to A dolls. per uinsal-English butter
Is cents per lb.-rice 6 dollars per gum
tai"
Electoral 4Schism. The complicated and
heavy modification that now presses upon
our democrats, from the schism which took
place in the city on Wednesday last, among
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