Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1812-05-05
F0RETG.y I.NTELLTGENCE.
Recei0ed by The ship Milo, Caht, Gl9ver, ar
Ylued at Boston in % days from Dublin.
DUBLIN, March so.


We have still no news from Portugal, tho
Mail has arrived from Lisbon. 1t Is said in
a letter from Plymouth, that the French IN
dictate a design of attacking Tarffa once more.
Such, we are told, was the opinion at Gibral-
tar, when the Entrcpenant touched at this for
tress. This We should not BY any means think
unlikely.
Regarding the news of the North, we have
nothing more recent than what the reader col
ected from NapoIeon's State Documents.
There is one circumstance, however, which
we deem it worthy to notice. 1t is SAID that
at Napoleon's Levee, which is described AS
hign.y magnificent, the Ambassadors from
all nations we're present, except the Russlat'
Plenipotcntiaiy. A strong fact, and worthy
serious reflection.
Letters from Paris of the 18th, mention
that Bonaparte still remained IN the capital,
but bis departure was shortly expected.
Lord Melville is officially announced First
LORD the Admiralty.
The hottest press that has taken place Tor
some years in Dublin, was on the river Or
Thursday night; and number OF fine able
bodied >.,...~ i,"~s.red Fer Che 7vIYiUU,
Il is again said Bonaparte has left Paris, APP
pointing regency, and sending the Empress
and his son To Vienna.
BY the dispatches of Ballasteros; it appears
he has rcpused a: Padrol de Re- ia division of
the enemy.
Some additional letters have been received
from Corunna to the date of the nth inst
from these we learn, that considerable guam
THY of arms have been delivered to the Chief
tians CT the forces in Gallacia and its neigh
borhood, and that the activity of the English,
in this important particular, had given great
satisfaction to the provincial government.
Shipwrecks along the coast Of England, have
been unusually numerous during the late
storm
A rumour was circulated in London, on the
28th March, that Cadiz had been captured by
the French. The news is said to have come
from Paris, but no traces of probability or
sources through which ii was received, could
be found.
Col Horsford, of the 18th Regt. is appoint
ed Brlgadier General, and to the command
of the troops in Bermuda.
The Prince Regent of Portugal has given
the grand Order Of the Cross to Gems. Hill,
Graham, and Spencer.
A convoy is appointed to sail from Leith
Roads for Wingo Sound, 1T the end of this
month, (April)
LONDON, March 81.
Prince Regents Court-Yesterday, soon
after one O'Clock his Royal Highnes the Prince
Regent held Court at Carlton House, when
the Marquis of Winchester as Groom of the
Stole, the Earl of Yarmouth, as Vice Cham
berlain, and Colonel M'MaIon, as Keeper Of
the Prvy Purse aud Private Secretary, were
introduced and sworn into his Maesty's Most
Honorable Pfivy Council, and took their pla-
ces at the Board accordingly.
1t is said that the Right Hon. George Rose
is to be called up to the House of Peers, by
the title of Baron Syndhurst
The funds experienced a further depression
to day. The per cent. Consols fell from 60
to SO Ia, and the other stocks were effected
in the same proportion. A greater panic in
the Stock market has not been Witnessed for
some time. Various are the causes to which
have been ascribed TIE fail of the funds with
in these few days, and more particularly the
further fall of to-day.
The defalcation of MIR. Chennery, of the
Treasury, is mentioned as one of the causes.
We learn that in addition to the sum of IS,
Oool of which that Gentleman is deficient, that
he has lost in Stock Exchange bargains about
23OOO more.
The loan for the present, it is said, will be
Of much greater magnitude than was first ex-