Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-09-21
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THB VERY AGE AND BoDY or THE TIME
HIS FORM AND PREssgRE." 49,
| SATURDAY MORNING, Sept. Il.
! The Mayor of New,York has issued a
Proclamation, !" prohibiting all intercourse
1 ant! communication between the city and coun-
/ ty of New Fork and the city of Amboy in the
! state Of New-Jersey," ON accour of a Pestiler-
! tial Disease which is represented to prevail! in
the latter place.
From he u. York Mercantile .adrertiser.
! We are authorised to state, from an
, unquestionable source. that the testimony
given to the Court of Enquiry by Captain
i Charles Ludlow. in the affair OF the Pre-
=, sident and Little Belt, differs very mate.
. rally from the detail published in the Co
iumbian. and copied from that paper into
/ the Mercantile Advertiser.
Captain Ludlow informed the Court,
that when the first gun was fired he was
not in situation TO see the Little Belt
(hemg employed at The time in giving di-
rec.ions TO shorten sail on the President.
and was in the act Of backing the mizcn
topsaiD; and that he had no doubt but
the Little Belt fired the first gun. as he
did not feel any jar or concussiou on hear
ING the report, which must have been the
case had it come from the President.
The correction above noticed aliudes to
palpable absurdity in Capt. Luellow's testimo-
ny, as published in this Gazette, extracted
from the New York Columbian. In that state
ment Capt. Ludlow was made to say, " he was
uncertain which fired the first gun, but the
second was from the President, &c. We shall
probably receive an official account of the
whole testimony ina few days.
Disagreement among " Republicans"
The National Inteligencer of Thursday
SAYS that the new Senators of Maryland are
+" al REPURLIcANs: the Wing of Wednes-
day says that 6 a majority or more is demo-
cratic" and then goes OH to complain that one
OF two Federaiists and Tories are amongst the
chosen. So far the gentlemen disagree and
it is not cur business to reconcile the blum
ders of such political doctors: We merely
mention the facts to shew what strange things
may happen.
Ayast, there, MFR. Printcr-Y0u stow
away such parcel Of long legged palaver
in YOUR paper. that a body's upperworks
are all coniiustrated-I want to have a
little 90 ashore jaw with you-You must
know Pve just arrived from Lisbon-Bo-
naparte's people have been trying to play
the devil in that country. but they've not
been able TO get TO windward of the Bri-
tish, so they told me the old cock swcars
he'll take trick at the helm himself and
drive that Wellington and his crew Into
the sea-IIowsomever, the British don't
value his staggering They told me Il
great many stories about them Monshurs,
as how they tied women and children to
trees in the sun, and left the poor souls
there to die-rhinks I, if that's the
course YOU steer, my hearties. the devil
send his compliments toyou say We'll.
Mr.. Printer, / ax'd every body come
athwart. what BonaMrte was killing them
people for. but nobody told me any thing
like the clean thing-Some SAID one thing,
and some another-Ben Bobs'ay, our
Steward, one Of your deep ft!lcrs, says
that Boney anl the King Of Portugal had a
quarrel, and that the king wouldn't fight,
SO Boney is kicking up all tits Robbery
by way tallia,ion, l think they call it,
Well, says I, its pity them people should
suffer for other folks misdoings-But
vou know every things ordered aloft-
each bullet has got its commission, as the
song says, so 1 spose we mustn't grumole
-Howsorneyer, that Portugal is a iine
country-There is not much OF the hard
stuff; but plenty of wine, figs, almonds
oranges, and such like small ware-ben
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