Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1812-05-22

7O,OOO Mechanics VIII be thrown out of en-.
ploy.
London, Apr il6.
Petit ons against the Orders in Council
The petition from Leeds, had from Is
to IL tho usand signatures. That from Biz.
mingham was sigued by 20 thousand Der
sons in 4 days-and required $50 feet of
parchment and on Friday last, at a meet.
ing of Merchants, Manufacturers, and o..
Their inhabitants of Sheffield and the NEIGH.
bourhood, held at Town Hall, Resolutions
respecting petitioning Parliament to advise
His Royal Highness the Prince Regent II,
rescind the "Orders in Council were pass.
ed, and petitions, the same in substance a.
those lately presented to the Regent, vera
voted.
April 8,
We have received Cadiz papers to the
25th ult. Soult has left the lines before
that city and proceeded in the direction Of
Seville. The French began to lombard
Cadiz on the 18th, and the FIRE was con-
tinued daily, but without effect. There
being a great scarcity of provisions in An
dalusia, the whole coast OF Spain from Puer-
to Santa Maria to Ayamonte, has been de,
clared in a state of blockade, the more eff
f~ectually to distress the French before Ca.
diz, and prevent their receiving supplies by
sea.--The new constitution has been final
ly settled and sanctioned in the cortes. Tbe
18th article settles the succession in the
Throne of Spain, in which especial care 10
taken to exclude the Bonaparte dynasty.
HOUSE OF LORDS-April 8.
Irish CathoHcs.-On the motion of the
Earl of Donoughmore, the order for sum.
moning their lordships for 10. morrow, in
the discussion relative to his msjes,y's Ro-
man Catholic subjects, was discharged,
and renewed for Tuesday the 21st inst.
ORDERS IN COUNCIL.
Earl Fitzwilliam presented a petition
from certain merchants and manufacturers
engaged in the Wooden trade 10 the West
Riding of Yorkshire, against the orders in
council which having been read at the ia
BILE, his Iordship observed, that the state
ment of SO respectable a body Of men was
highly deserving of attention. The petit
ton, he understood, was signed by fifteen
thousand persons, whose complaints of the
grievances under which they labored, in
SSooN n dCbSC - ~ cIpACooiOo Va IC oiQSlC
in council, he should feel it his duty to CALI
the attention of the house TO on Tuesday
the 28th instant, for which day he moved
that the lords be summoned. Ordered.
April 10.
Extract efa letter fran Retersburgh.
fittings looks now more serious than e.
yer, and seem TO indicate a speedy rupture.
The general opinion is in favor of a War
and for a War, our Army, thank God, Is
in the best possible situation, and the plan
of operations is entirely different from that
before resorted to, and more adapted to
oppose the legions Of Bonaparte with sue.
cess. All matters are In a promising state,
excepting the Turkish Peace; Yet, as to
this particular, great hopes are still enter
tanned that it will be coscluded.
can Adjutant of the King of Prussia is
arrived, and has impaired, it is said, not
the Intentions of his Master, but those OF
the French Emperor, who wishes to con'
tinue in amity with Russia.
"Count Loevenhjelon, Adjutant of the
king of Sweden, is also arrived, and no
question is made as to the subsistence OF
the closest connection between the two
countries. or that Russia will assist Sweden
in taking possession of Norway, by sending
forces from Archangel.
Regulations are now on the taps tor
establishing an uniform system for the tran"
sit trade ; but these appear to me to be,
under the present circumstances, prema-
ture, since, SHOULD a war break out. a sc.
neral interruption to with Ger
many must inevitably be occasioned."
April1f.
COURIER OFFICE, tzvo o'clock.
We have just received the following let