Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-03-18

"This leads me into another subject. This
Is their transatlantic possessions. However
any one may think the present . contest
merely one for government YOU NAV rest
assured that the integrity of the Spanish EN-.
pire is an object which viii be reiieiously at
tended to by Spain. To her is of little con-
sequence whether the creatures of Yesterday
think proper to deny access to her ministers.
That, she will take care ofherself. But shouid
any power presume to attack any part of her
domin!ons or assist any party in raising re-
bellion, it will meet on the part Of Spain, with
a most strenuous opposition.
g Though the aff.irs of the United States
are here but of very little importance, CAM
not avoid asking what MIR. Madison is about?
perceive in his organ the Intelligencer, the
same spirit OF malevolence towards Great
Britsm and misrepresentation OF her conduct,
that has distinguished his whole life since
1894 or 1875, when he declared "that the
United States ought to make no peace with
the cneRy of France
"Cadiz December 90, 1910.
Grinding the vessel has not vet sailed for
Boston, ! take the opportunity of enclosing
some periodical papers; the sentiments con-
tanned i'll Their, viii prove to you that the tax
ing OF the shackels from the press, has not
been without it's effects 1t remains therefore
o,ly to be seen whether it produces, good or
evil.
t'Of Military nature, there is nothing
new. The enemy have reached the town with
their new invented shells, but in so partial
manner as to excite little or no apprehension
of any serious consequences 1t is reported
that large reinforcement Of English troops
is expected to join the army here. Some say
from SiciiT---whcrc there are 10000 others
believe that a body Of s or 5000 that has
been kept at Cork Or its ncighbourhood ior
some time past, will be Sent here. It is not
improbable. A sostie might be made and
landing affected lii the bay that would put the
$1,000 Frenchmen over the way to their
SHIFT"
The verbal accounts from Cadiz are that
the authorities and people were fall Of conf
dcnce ard spirits ;-that the town was like
store-house, full Of merchandise ;.--shat the
shells which the French had succeeded in
throwing into the city were OF d new conseruc.
ton: Our informant examined one Of them
ana saw it wei& hcd---its diameter was nine
inches arG its "eigh Is lLs.-.T wo thirds Of
cavity were filled ~. lead. the char third
WIS Z Chamber il which, when fred We Con
timed suiphurous composition intended to
give 4 Momentum to The shell. O4lv seven
of Them had reached thc Town, ard Only one
la, done injury. That one fcl! into school
49, ii, I'D killed tive small chiidrcG---one of
W t.. whose legs had been cut off, was plac-
Ell in the market square. ard eXitcd the most
bitter exocrations OF the French invaders.
At the last dates none of these shells bad
been fired into the town. This was reported
hy some, 70 lie occasioned by the bursting O..
tic machine from which the were fred,
ard the destruction of ten or twelve of the
French artilerists and by others, to be in
consequence of flag sent to the French COM
n ,nder, Informing him that if he persisted in
his attemps to throw shells into Cadiz town,
the fleet should be ordered to batter down the
towns Of Rota and St.Mary's, which are in pos
session ofthc French, and which could be eli
fccted in few hours. The shipping had re-
Ceivcd no injury from tho cannonade; and
each OF the men of war had cannon in their
waists, elevated As deg. for the purpose of
throwing small shells into the French lines.
The point from which the French fired their
shells into Ctdiz was from behind the islt,..d
Of Matagarda. This landrcmaincd inruHs.
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