Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va.) 1802-1810, 1808-05-06

NIOu" uc ETSnEH auO OetunAu papers
represent this Russian force as consist.
ing of IS ships Of different rates, having
on board 5000 men.
BALTIMORE, MAYA.
Extracts from letters received at Phila-
delphia.-
" Hdv0nr0h, AorH 10, 1908.
The object of the present serves to
inf rim you, that -four Is up now to 26
dollars per barrel.
"Kngston, Jam. March 30, 1905.
There is not any arrival from your
quarter. We now begin seriously to
feel the effects ofyour embargo. Flour
is now retailing at 80 dollars per barrel
corn meal at is dollars rice ~ and Is
dollars per lOolbs.-The latter article
was sold yesterday at IL 1-2 by the fifty
tierces!! What we will do here short
Wy God only knows. Nothing is the
~theme at present but war between Ameri-
ca and England. cannot allow myself
to think that this is the case, tho il
seems the general opinion. Yesterday
a new governor arrived (sav the duke of
Manchester, and London papers to the
18th ult.s They are silent as to the dif.
ference between your country and 6.
Britain. A cargo Of lumber would now
sellwel. Shingles, in particular, would
pay handsomely. would advise vou
to send cargo of them the very first
opening. Corn and FISH are the only ar
TIDES that donot rise rapidly. This is
to be aCcounted for from the great guam
tity at market, aud the abundant crops of
Provisions"
The sloon Poplar, has arrived at Phila-
delphia from Grenada, and brings Gre
NADIA paper of the SOth ultirno, which
contains an account of most dreadful
FIRE at Port Spain Trinidad, on the
2A;h March, nearly the whole OF which
place was DESTROYED, leaving the inhabi-
tsnts N the most distressing situation,
tEirs ..cned, as they are with famine.
On dis occasion, gov. HlsLoP issued
apr.c&mAtion, tHar,nS date the 25th,
the neg. day stter the hre, opening the
whole Of the ports 10 the island for the
introductiou If provisions and lumbtr
for ionr mcn.hs,. with PermiSsion to ex-
por, NV OF the productions Of the island.
Mar, IL law was also declared, and the
suiTe,inE inhabitants, bearing arms, 10
be snrn,sh. d with rations in the same
prcpor,ion as H. b. NJ. troops. Ves-
sis hid been dispatched to the different
islauds Tor supplies ofProvisions and Luna
Der.
BY the brig Hope, captain A ndrews,
arrived on MONDAY 18th inst pc Marble
head from Gijou in Spain, 10 the bay Of
Blscay> we have news from that country
to the 10th Of last month. 1t appears
that the city of Pampleuse, in the king
dom Of Navarro and that Of Figueyras
in the principality of Catalonia, had been
garrisoned with French troops. with the
consent and BY order of the king Of
Spain, and therefore without any op7o-
siticn frou. the com nandant OF the same ;
tina, the Roche fort fact had joined that
Of Car,hegena, eansistinS OF 10 ships OF
the linz, &c. and have proceeded thence
jointly to Telio4tss tir general OPT
Mon Of the bes, informed class in Spain
was that the prince Of Asturias, the .hsir
app rent Of the throne, would be m4rrasd
to Miss BE auharnois, daughter oil. the
ambassador, a niece Of the empress al
France :; and that Murat had already
arrived ia Madrid, no doubt prsParato-
ry to the coming Of the emperor and the
contamination Of the said event, together
with other arrangements. such a. allos'
ting Portugalas dowry to his said niece
There were in Fsrrol 5 ships OF the line,
one new, OF 1870 guns, and 3 friga.es
ready for sea. r. u =.
DBTEESS-Au American vessel
originally bound from Savannah to Phi
ladeInhiaL since the embargo, laden with