Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1813-08-03
From the Stg.

"A letter Of which the following is an
extract, fell into the hands Of an &C.,
quen:Apce, who politely hanaed us
an extract from it for publication
supposipg (as it certainly willy be read
with great interest bv every Amerl
can, as being the last letter ever writ
ten by one of the most gallant gene.
rails in our army. who fel.,gloriously
at the head Of his column at the re-
duction of York. Heaven was GER
tainly propitious to his DraTer, for, by
his gallantry, he has 'tur"ed the scalr
ofthe auar, and SLEPT in the arms Of
victsry."
Ex,rsct of a letter from the late Gene
raj Pike, to his father. written a.
Brown sville near Sack rs Harbor,
the day before the expedition set out
from the latter place, in which that va
liable officer lost his lie.
81 embark tomorrow in the fleet at
Sacket's Harbor, a, the head OF column
of 500 choice troops, on secret ex
pedi'ion-if success attends my steps
homo, AID glory await ny name--it de-
feat. still! snail it be said We died like
brave men md conferred honor, even
in death, on the AMERICAN NAME.
=" Should be the happy mortal de'-
tined'to turn the scale of war will rot
YOU rejoice, o my father May Hea-
ven be propitious and smile on the cause
of my ccunt.y-But if we are destined
to fall, may ray fall be like VOLTS
sleet, in the arms Of Dietory."
Extract Of a letter from an american
gentleman IN Codiz, to his friend tn
.Nezv. Haven, dated
JUNE l. 1918.
"For the fourth. time, since the ia.
nous second of May 1917, have the
r, encn evacuated the capitol of this
country Letters from thence tate, that
tha plce was abandoned sin DAYS ago
7 &c ,roeps retired rith the greatest pre-
cfplta,lon and E.npecinado entered
i'm lately Afterwards, az the bead OF a
suoog party Of GU ri!as. Re fouod the
place co.'s ole'ciy sacked every thing
yaluablc had been carried 2wsy, or tes
troyed Tho royal cablne, of .s'nral BIS
tory, one of The mast extensive IN the
world, sas cuilod ol>yery thing .rare'and
curious tie sga:ahpus IS u cloths pinr-
Lered. IL shoSt, every specie u 4. pre-
dauon. worthy o. G:thic ,gef, was coul-
mittad upon, The u,i2strnato town ard
inhabitonts e AIadrid. But their suF.r-
ings are probably q an end The French
have retired, never ta eater The place
again
lord " ellington is already upon the
march, having under his copmard, up.
wards Of O,e0o British, amongst ehlch
=. az te reckoued $4,000 cavalry; more
than double tbc number ever sest to
foreign country by England. The com
bined forces N the peninsula, do not fall
much shortot 10000 men, ard an i'm
mcnse train Ct artillery,
"O'Donnell, wbora I saw with his ar
my at Seville, in February last, has
ndfCNtu I9I''NV Ol'dbioi 10 Io"s''e So".
tile Gene-A. Elio is expected to do the
same with his corps.
An Ecclesiastical War has Just COM
menced in this country. In edition to
what I wrote you on the subject few
days ago, the following outrageous act ct
treason was lately cenSpittet on the high
church of Seville. On the day Of ST
Ferdinand the Catholic, the officiating
clergyman preached a long DISCOURSE, {;
the sole object of which was, to convince
the auditors thu, the Cortes, assembled
in Cadiz, were self-created body of he.
relics and free masons that their edicts
were null, and ought not to be obeyed by
any friend to his country: that as they
had abolished so anciest tribunal as the
Holy Inquisition,' every deputy belong
ing to the congress ought to b burnt'at
tire stake He further obserred that the
religion Of the country was jerpa rdised,
and that government purposed t" force
heresl down the threats OF the people,
by means the military; but for his own
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