Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1812-05-16

and j OnnlHgen, on slnlllar condltiohs 70 liiose
recently granted for the ports OF France.
We are sorry to learn, that AID. Sir Sydney
Smiths dangerously i'll His complaint is
low fever, which for long time has preyed
upon his constitution.
We understand 8 homeward bound mer-
chantmen were discovered entering the port
of Malaga together; the greater part of which
il was reported, had been captured by French
priyateers.
Arrived the American schooner Bctsey, j.
HIGH master, from Nantz, with cargo con-
sisting of silks, cambrics, brandy, &c. bound
to Boston, late from Penzance, detained and
sent in there, few days since, by the Niemen
and Madusa frigates.
The emperor Of Austria has issued re-
script to the States of Hungary, in which he,
in substance states, that under existing cir
cumstances he cannot desist from the demand
he has made of l2, 100000 III money for the
wants ofthe empire.
In1hortation of Corn-Corn to the amount
of twelve millions sterling was imported into
England in 1911, nine of which were paid by
licensed barters, and other three millions In
specie.
Disturbance in Fsance.-The French pa
pers mention that tumutuous assembly at
Cacn had committed much disorder, under
pretence of the DEAFNESS OF provisions Some
women broke into the houses OF the corn
dealers, and stole from thence linen and goods.
On the 9TH ult. 81 persons were accused be-
fore the military commission, when men and
S women were condemned TO suffer death
eight were sentenced to eight years hard Ia
Dor, and ten to FIVE years solitary confinement.
It is said that Mr.. Chimney, late OF the
Treasury, has left the country and is on his
way across the Atlantic.
Petitions against TIE Orders in Council.
The petition from Leeds, had from 10 to II
thousand signatures That from Birmingham
was signed by 90 thousand persons III days
and required $50 feet of parchment; and
on Friday last, at meeting of Merchants,
Manufacturers, and other inhabitants OF Shelf
field and the neighborhood, held at Town
Hall, Resolutions, respecting petltloping Par
lament to advise His Royal Highncss the
Prince Regent to rescind the " Orders In
Council" were passed, and petitions, the same
in substance as those lately presented to the
Regent, were voted.
April 8.
We have received Cadiz papers to the 25th
ult. SouIt has left the lines before that city
and proceeded in the direction OF Seville. The
French began to lombard Cadlz on the 9Th,
and the fire was continued daily, but without
hAiner a great scdrUFty OF Pr
visions in Andalusia, the whole coast OF Spain
from Puerto Santa Maria to Ayamonte, has
been declared in state of blockade, The more
efectually to distress the French before Ca
diz, and prevent their receiving supplies by
sea.-The new constitution has been finally
settled and sanctioned in the cortes The
18th article settles the succession III the
Throne of Spain, in which especial care is
taken to exclude the Bonaparte dynasty.
Seven or eight of our sail Of the line were
off Brest when the French squadron must
have reached that port, but the weather was
so hazy and the gales were so strong, that they
stole in unperceived. Our squadron was un-
Commodore King
Five sail of French line Of battle ships are
said to have dropped down the Scheldt to
Flushing ready for a start
April 10.
French papers to the Sd, 4th and 5th inst.
were received in town last night. In the Mo-
nteur of the Sd inst we find, not only con-
6rmation of the rumoured march OF the French
Imperial Guard from Spain, but boosted de-
duction from that movement Of the resistless
power of France. Four regiments Of this
chosen body are stated to have arrived i'll Pa
ris, almost at the moment that the intelligence
of their march from Spain had been announc-
ed 1t is probable that the intelligence of their
was studiously concealed, with a
view to give eclat to their appearance, and thus
silence the remarks that might have been eli
cited, by a comparison of this retrogade move
ment, with the memorable illumination, "that
ere few short weeks were past, not village
In the Peninsula should be unsubdued." The