Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-05-26
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SATURDAY, MAY IS,
Ns. SYswpEN,

mot dc-anu wnat tney inc SouhSh ~''' Nv
REGARDING certain wells. VIII you eEdeavor
:, obtain such addition to said bill a. shall
r,eulats some other matters, intimately COR
,sc,ed, now and heretofore, with said wells.
no, we pray you, find out and inform US, Of
,be farther intention of the Council, respect
ing this very delicate and al interesting sub
;e,t-whether they will substitute the Madrid
A. Edinburgh customs for the wells, There
being some Seotchmen in the Council, butno
s,,niards that We know OF, some of US aup-
mise that the Edinburgh plan will prevail,
aDSmuch agreeable convenience is antieipat-
Cd through its adoption: for then 10 one need
Gar to 70 abroad, even under circumstances
,t.t have usually, heretofore, inflicted con-
sn.ment; since on any crisis, however sud-
Ian or unlocked for, they will be certain of
meeting, at the'instant, some pleasant i,ene'
r,n, temple Of relief, with which our city will
then abound---or, whether every one may
according rs momentary but urgent exigenee
,boll dictate; or inclination with better lei
sure, will permit; resort to the streets, to
,bs fields, or 10 the river side instead Of the
we'll. Aforesaid. We would pray, lift be the
Measure Of the Council, that the river DO
made the sole depository asin that case we
nigh. reasonably and fairly hope for very
srea. and p,.asing improvement in our fish
marke.--ana this probable consequence, 1t 10
DO, doubted, will be a very important eensi-
dsrs,ion and powerful Involvement 10 its r.
dop,ion. The female 9r1art'soo of the COM
muni,y must advocate this measure, since
they will derive particular benefit and graft
sca.ion, from its expected Improvement OF
the process Of househouid washing, to say
nothing Of ito agreeable effecrs in culinary.
operation.
In truth, MIR. Snowdsn, We are anxious to
know whore and how the Council Go intend
that We and our successors shall DO, what we
and our predecessors have always used 20 do
at the wells Aforesaid. We arc plain men,
Mr. Snowden, and do not pretend to see SO
deep into these things as the protector OF
this bill can do but we do hunbly conceive
that il the Council have determined to revc-
lutionizc our present long established custom
in so very important mates as the abolition
Of the wells, that the Council is morally
bound law is out of the question hers) to -
dept and decree some other Uniform means to
answer the same enas as the wells ds--that
every one may know hew they can, by law,
do t.eir business--or that tho Council do
ordain that no sitisen, particularly after ton
years hence, shall ever have any neeesss-y
occasion for sither well or substitute Of any
/ kind.
Fray, you Mr.. Snowdsn, do have this mat
Ter placed again before the Council, and by
reporting their farther solemn will thereon
favor all the
INTERESTED CITIZENS.
More empty treasures than su,s.-Ihe
consequences Of complying with Bouaparte's
anii.eommereial system, have been precise
IL similar ON both sides of the Adantic.-
Russia has lately BY an Ukase declared
her treasur, to be bankrupt. The misera-
bic king of Denmark is worse than bank
fups. Whilst his own subjects will not
trust him, he is compelled to mortgage his
province Of Holssein, and, we suppose, all
Our Tonningen property with it, to the
Dutch to obtain supplies of money. Ae-
eording to late accounts, which the reader
may Psruse under the Salem head, Bona.
parse is thought to Be about to fsreelose the
mortgage BY taking the property into his
possession. In doing this, we wish more
than we can hope, he May not, like grip.
ping landlord, seize the moveables which