Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1815-05-06

the person and estates of bis master. q hry
have seized all his riches, which were im>
mense, The renegade physician Mahmet
has lately been strangled by the order of the
| same minister.
| January %.
Jussuf Xoggia has enjoyed but few mo-
| ments the post to which he was raised by
the last revolution. After the massacre of
! the family of Ottoman, he formed pro
Ject to destroy the usurper and his sons, and
to mount the throne himself
The 22d he came out of the Seraglio, and
| went throughout Tuuis with the pomp of
| sovereign. He ordered money TO be distri.
outed TO the soldiers, to prepare them for a
new revolution. The Regent was informed
OF this /; and when Jussuf Koggia returned
to the Scraglio. the chief of the Mamelukes
arrested him in the name of the hey, and
! seized him fast by the beard Koggia drew
MS Poniard, and iDortally wounded the Ma
meiuke chief, and severely the soldiers who
surrounded him bst in spite of his vigo-
rous resistance he was thrown to the ground,
carried all boodly andshalf dead to the pre-
sence OF the bey. The latter, after having
reproached him with his treachery and in !.
gratitude, ordered his head cut off on the
spot winch was instan aneously done. The
enraged populace dragged his corpse all
over the city, and the military had much
difficulty to tear from them the horrid re
mains OF the mutiated carcase. His parti.
sans are arrested, and great changes are
rum ored. The soldiers have taken the
oath OF fidelity to Sadi Mahmoud Fiassen.
ana the massacres have ceased Every one
mas quietly returned to his ordinary occu.
patrons as it nothing had happened.
loidi Ottoman succeeded Hamuda Pacha,
ms orotner' who died the oath of September
last, after peaceful reign of thirty two
years.
First arrival from Jamaica since The Peace.
", NEW York, April 90.
~, S.eroay arrived at this port, the British
ship Cuba, from Monteeo Bay. Gam \ with
full cargo of rum, moiasses' &c.
By this arrival the Editors of the Mer
camille Advertiser, have received a file of
jamaica papers to the LIST inst. from which
we nave made several marine and other
extracts, which follow:
D.c KINGSTON, April /.
Fifty three Spanish Gentlemen arrived in
me schooner Cariotta from Carthapena
we learn by them that the Inhabitants of
mat city were in the greatest CONSERVATION.
owing TO Its being ascertained that General
boilvar, at the head of an army from San-a
zee, vas whhinhalf league of Carthag ma
business was IN consequence completely at
stand.
The convoy from Mexico. laden with six
| millions of specie and a quantity of cochi-
neal, and other valuables, arrived at Alapa
(ahout IS leagues from La Vera Cruel on
the iIth November last, and, although there
was an immense body of troops with them.
they mad not reached La Vera Cruz, in Con.
sequence ct the insurgents being very nu.
merous, when the PEspoir brig left that
| port.
On the 18th of January General Aeuilar.
| at the head of 1900 Royalists, lief, La Vera
Cruz for the interior, and was attacked by
body of Insurgents, when the General and
several officers were wounded, and thew
were compelled to return to La Vera Cruz
on the 9Th.
The following Proclamation has been is
sued by General Marimon, President of the
Congress sitting at Cathageua:
A PROCLAMATION.
TO the Iha6i'ants Of Carthagena.
FELLOW CITIZENS,
An army, under tine command ofGene
raj Bolivar approaches for the purpose of
invading YOUR Capital. This army pretends
to call itself the Army of the Union -
1t rs IN his pay, and composed principally
VI Orehadine soldiers, your confederates
| and brethren, Under these circumstances
you know what ought to be your duty
My voice will not be raised but to declare
| to you that il this army belongs to the Uni.
IN, and is paid by us it is not for the pur.
pose OF invading our territory. The Gen
erai Government, in whose name / address
you, and which, as your Representative,
assisted in establishing, is a paternal Go
Vernment 1t loves you it has not forgot
ten your efforts and the sacrifices you have
made to secure independence, and far o.
theTwise than having declared that war
should be waged against you, it has ex
pressly directed that il should be avoided.
The General acts in contradiction to the
| orders OF the Government under which he
serves therefore let your conduct be re-
gulated accordingly.
JUAN MARIMON, President
of the Congress IN Commission
Carthagena, March IS, 1915.
BY the American schooner Macaria. which
arrived on Sunday, in 81 days from Bati-
more, we received the intelligence of the
Ratification Of the Treaty of Peace between
Great Britain andlthe United States.
Captain John Simpson, late of the shin
Ottawa, of and from Liverpool, bound to
this port with a valuable cargo of mer.
chanfliza al NJ