Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-11-20
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 90.

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6bop hole.-We suspect that the note in
tae National Inteligencer OF Monday last,
AZ ich we have been led to consider as Off
eial, is only paragraph Of the editor, unau-
,atrised by the government. Wecan hard
II believe the government could make an
saJiicit asserDation, that they had no know
lesge of Mr.. Erskine's instructions. For
RE honor of the great Mr.. Smith, we think
The little Mr. Smith mus, shoulder this pa
racraph. For, paradoxical as it may appear,
the Ett!e man is much abler to bear 1t than
the great one.
sfcsskm Whiteside, Esq. was on the 2sth
MI. unanimously reelected a Senator OF
the United States iron the state of Tcnnes-
see for SIX years commencing on the 18th Of
llarch next.
Edspard Lioyd, Esquire, was on Monday
las. reelected governor of the state Of Ma
syland.
From Hayanna.--We have been favored
Is a valuable correspondents at Havana,
With the following documents, which explain
the state ct our commercial admission to
that place.--I[ Bat. Fed Rep.
" The president, governor and captain
general and the insendant general of the ar
nv and royal revenue OF this island, have
determined by decree of yesterday, that
the foreiga vessels anchored in The road OF
This place and those which have been psr
ni.;ed an entry, on account of inconveni-
rnce. may unload the articles permitted BY
the ROYAL Cedala of the 3O,h April, 1894.
Accordingly the consignees will make the
maaifests of all their lading for the dispatch
Of tie articles expressed IT that indulgence,
which viii cease on the 5o.h Of April, 1910.
(Sipnell "ISLA.
HAVANA, 10Th Sept 1909.
X Meaning the 22d april
EpEact f.cm the Royal Ceeula, concerning
the negro trade, dated at Araajeus, April
%, 1904.
declare for the benefit Of my subjects,
that eturns, which for want Of negroes on
account of their excessive d%arness, or for
other Just causes, they may make tools for
the mechanic arts and utensils for the arts
which are the subject of the Sd article of
The Cedula of the year 1791, in planks for
sugar boxes, slaves or hoops, shall be free
from all duty, and even though they may be
imported by foreigners with new negroes,
aud no. for themselves only but prohibit
the entry into my ports of foreign vessels,
even with cargoes of these articles, unless
they bring at the same time new negroes
! hut neither Spaniards nor Foreigners, who
carry on this trade can import iron and steel
though they be of the national produce, IN
der the pretext oftheir being necessary for
mendlng and repairing the saidtoois or uten-
sls, nor otherwise.
French Pnaishnents. Mr.. Randolph,
advocating an amelioration of the martial
code Of the United States, remarked that
corporal punishments were abolished in the
armies of France. By the following ex-
tract from the Sketch Of the Code OF Con-
serption which has lately been published, it
appears that the punishment OF death is re-
tanned in two instances.
"Ihe nature of the Cd, the punishment
Of the ball, merits notice. An iron ball Of
Slb. W.. and fastened to an iron chain Of Z
iset 10 length, is attached to the leg'of the
dsserter. He, In the first instance, hears
bus sen,ence read on his knees, and is con-
asaned to hard. labor during ten hours dai-
y, and, in the interval of rest, to be chain
Cd in solitary confinement. This sentence
Vigorously executed, and embittered by
all the external marks of icnorniny 10 dress