Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-05-09

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England. He will take the stage from this
tomorrow morning for Norfolk, where he
will take swift .ailing vessel and make the.
best Of his way to England"
LEatract Of a Attsr. dated Bordeaur, 18th
1larch, to a AouSe IN NezO 2 ork.
The Spanish prisoners who were taken
at Saragossa are daily arriving in France.
| They were offered their liberty provided
they took the oath TO the new king Joseph.
This they peremptorily refused. The siege
! lasted As days, and was tie most disastrous
and bloody known in the annals OF history.
Its presumed that the French lost between
20 and 50 900 men, andehe inhabitants as
! many. Tie city is now a mere desert, and
the Inhabitants dying daily in great Numbers
in tae hospital prisons. Il is said Of an Ell
aea!fc. It isa phenomenon 10 nave a plague
in the winter season, when the mountains
aee covered with snow. Frost we know is
death TO contagion. When we recoIlect what
took place at Jafa, would it be presump-
-tion to charge this desola.;ng rnalady among
the Spaniards to .......? It's progress is
confined TO them--alo Irencdme1a al { It's VIC
tins. 1t was an object Of much consequence
to Put the heroic and mineral Palafox out
of the way. This was accordingly accom-
,plished Q Ia aqgAe Esgbtis's1se. He took
sick immediatly after eating plate Of soup
and died in three DAYS. While he lived,
the oppressed Spaniards had q ralyina
point. Amidst the general corruption and
/ inlbecility ofthe Chiefs, he alone stood fore
most il lie RANKS Of courage, Ylrtue and
talents.
''Ihe Spanish causeis NOT yet lost, fer
there is in The great body OF the people, a
deadly hatred ana adherence If the French.
Their vengeance only wants a proper direc-.
ton under able and honest leaders, to purge.
their natal soil OF its pcY6dious ard bloody
invaders. he austrian war viii relieve
Spain, and by their united and vigorous Ell
forts, assisted BY the Aeets and resources Of
England, the Independence OF the world
may YET be secured.
'.You can form TO idea Of che misery and
distress oi the wretohed people Of France.
| We are pressed down to the earth ~ the
relentless hand Of military despotism our
property, our sons and our domestics, are
all in constant requisition, and torn from Us
to supply the never-cnding and Unsuitable
,requlsls;ons OF the emperor"
We have the pleasure. Of nnunicating
10 the public, at the instance Of gen. Tur-
|. reau, the minister plenipotentiary Of France,
the following official document relative to a
subject interesting to science and humans
ty: ! It is particularly worthy OF the notice
{ of suchsphysicians in this country, as have
written or contemplate writing, or the ma
{ ture of the GROUP.
Nationa! LatelIsrncer.
Iran8atioa.
MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR.
The minister of the interior, Gonsbte dc
Z Empire, decreed on the 21st July, 1907,
! for the competition opened by order OF his
majesty the emperor and king, on the. sob
iect of the disorder known. under the name
Of the CRoUR; after having consulted the
medical college at Parls-decrees as fol
lows:
AgT.r1. Tie time fixed on the FIRST Of
January, 1909, for the competition upon
the subject e The Group, is prorogucd till
the 31st July in this year.
Art. 2. Those physicians who have al
ready addressed their treatises to the mi
Mister of France ,1nay Withdraw them, if
they think proper for revision. They need
only note the time Of sendipg memoirs sand
the motto or device with which they are
prcfaced or headed as distinctive mark.
Signed, ,CRETBT.
Paris, 18th January, 1909.
True Goty,
TURkEAU, Min. Plen. of France.
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