Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-10-03
LONDON, August Is.

LONDON, August Is.
After the report of hostilities breaking out
again in the North had nearly died away, it
has been revived with fresh vigor. Bonaparte
it is said, intends to proceed to Germany i'm
mediately, and to assemble French, Prussian,
and the troops of the Rhenish Confederacy on
the frontiers of Poland. Preparations are said
to be actually making at Eytau for his recep-
ton. One letter from Prussia says, the die
is cast-war is inevitable
We do not think that Russia will go to war
with France before she makes her peace with
Turkey. Though the very circumstance OF
her being at war with another power, might
determine Bonaparte to commence hostilities
against her. Be this, however, as it may, the
fact of a change in the Russian councils, re-
lative TO the continental system, is admitted
in her ports this season, and a list of l3l YES
sells which had gained admission, was yester-
day handed about among the merchants.
Contradictory.
An article from Petersburg, of July Is, says
-" On the 18th instant, the commissioners
of the customs will sell by public auction, for
the benefit of the revenue. quantity of arti-
cles of ironmongery which has been confs-
Gated as being of English manufacture.
= august Is.
Count Gotorp, king of Sweden, was still
at Toningen OH the 18th ult. 1t was thought
he would be sent to Suabia.
About fifty tons of specie, amounting to a
million sterling, belonging to the East-India
Company, were landed at Deal last week.
A mail from Anhot arrived this morning.
1t has brought deplorable accounts of the 81.
tuation of every part of the continent. No
trade no manufactures estates rapidly fall
ing in value, while the burthens imposed on
them are INCREASING. And to these calaini-
ties the damage done in many parts by light
ming and tempests, by hail storms of extraor-
binary duration, by incsssant rains which lave
overlooked rivers, and destroyed the homes
and hopes of husbandmen We have subioin-
ed some of these affecting accounts.
WATERFORD, August 81. s
In our last we announced the arrival in this
city of ten of the priests who had recently
landed at Dartmouth from France. They had
resided about year in Paris, and they left that
city because they wished to escape from the
tyranny of Bonaparte, of whose measures they.
speak in terms of the most indignant and un-
qualified reprobation.
The largest church in Paris generally pre-
sents no greater congregation OIL Sundays or
holidays, than from 90 to 80 females. In
Rome, before the order Gas we may call it)
for the dispersion of the clergy, there were
$3.50 priests. When the Ecclesiastics of that
city were called upon to take the oath of fde-
lity to the Emperor, as King of Italy, Only one
was found who would do SO. The second per-
son who was required to swear, refused. He
was Immediately embraced by all his brethren,
who, una voce, declared they could acknow-
ledge no ether Sovereign of the Patrimony of
St. Peter but the Pope. The consequence of
which was the arrest of multitades; and short
ly alter, only four priests were to be found in
the whole city. The priests were transported
to different fortresses 600 of them were i'm
INJURED in the dungeons of Alexandria in Pied
mont The fact of the accommodation of
Bonaparte is placed beyond all question by the
arrival of these gentlemen.
Before the reverend gentlemen left Paris,
the Ecclesiastical Council, recently assembled
in that city by Bonaparte, had been broken up;
for not being sufficiently subservient to his
will. Itappears, that some of the measures re-
commended to the Council for their adoption
had in view the investiture Of Bonaparte with
powers inconsistent with the usages, and sub.
versiye of the unity of the Roman Catholic
Church; for this grand point, LOG members
of the Council voted against the measure, and
only Is for it. It will surprise our readers to
learn, that the celebrated Cardinal Maury, the
once exilcd and jealous advocate of the Bour-
bons, and of the Church, was at the head of
this trifing minority. The minority OF the
Council, with their Facilitating leader, form a
Secret Committee, and were celebrating on
the means necessary to carry Bonaparte's sa-
crilegiOus measures into effect. Its under