Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-11-20

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are capt. Donaldson, William Russell, E.
Greves and +: Meek % mates ana $50
seamen.
In political essay, published at Paris.
September IS, it is said !" France has AZ,
interest wholly continental, her revenue a
rises from the produce Of her fields, OF her
vines, her olives, her tobacco, and from the
cottons Of her southern provinces. The
consumption of colonial produce has wlthla
three years diminished one half in Europe.
The sugar from grapes is sold cheaper than
the cane sugar ever was the colt ons OF
Naples and Rome are superior to those q
| America.. England will be astonished at
the progress of the naturalization Of the
plants of America On the continent.
"The success Of our continental system,
and of the efforts of our chymists and aeri.
culturalists, are the great causes Of the di-
| minution Of British commerce. The ef-
fects will be more eficacous than the de-
crees of Milan and Berlin. Let these de-
crees continue in force a fen years longsr,
and they zviA make Themselves teh century
atler they haze been yevakea.'
THE French papers are all under the ina
| mediate control of an officer Of the French
| governmental
CHARLESTON, Nav. fs.
Arrived, brig Sally. Eliza, Boaz Bell,
Turks Island, II days-Salt-In distress,
bound to Alexandria. On the 2lst ultimo,
lat. ss, captain Bell experienced violent
gale of wind from east, in which the mate,
! Mr.. Thomas Zones, native of Maryland,
was washed overheard and drowned the
stern boat carried away, aud the quarter
boards stove'in.
| Also, sch'r Liberty, Fox, East Florida,
A days. BY this arrival we have received
accounts of the following SHIPwREeKs, on
the Florida shore,.yiz
Ship Caroline, Daniel Curtis, master, of
| and from New Orleans. with a cargo of
! cotton, bound to Liverpool, went ashore on
the 18th ult. in lat. 81, g, the vessel and
cargo entirely lost; one Of the crew died Of
fatigue days after landing; the rest were
| all saved, and have arrived here in the Lii
| bertv.
The Spanish ship Union, Domingo An
! tonic Lordua, master, from HAVANA bound
to London, with cargo Of logwood, went
ashore on the same day, in the. same gale,
and near the same place with the Caroline :
| The captain, mate, second. mate, and two
men were drowned the remainder Of the
crew, fifteen in number, were saved, and,ar
! also passengers in the Libcrty. The Spa
| nish brig African, Don Francisco Garcia,
master, from Havarua bound to New York,
| went on shore at the same time and place !;
the vessel, cargo and one man, were lost.
| Captain George, Mouldsr, passenger in
the African, together with the crew Of !
that vessel, have arrived in the Liberty !; /
the captain and Mr.. Jacob Ogden, pas
senger, were lost on the beach, the wea.
ther being SO boisterous !: was impossible
to get them on board and indeed so COM
pletrly was the Liberty filed, being but a
small pilot boat, that it seems a!rnos. i'm
possible to have taken more on board, and
those who were in her were compelled to
remain in the respective stations in which
they were placed, for fear of upsetting her
should they all get upon one side. The
schooue. Triton, John Hand, Jan. master,
of Philadelphia, from HAVANA, with a car.
60 of sugar, coffee and logwood, bound to
Richmond, was wrecked on the nineteenth