The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1816-06-12


" The. initiative assumed by the com
nit,ee, in opening credit OF 100000
Ot anDuu les Tor the minister of finance,
ayas not contested. Nothing is doubt.
less mot ! generous than the confidence
placed ty the chamber in The deposi,o
RIGS of the royal authority but, at the
same time nothing is more prudent than
GAe reserve Imposed on the minister,
rot to apply Tic six millions which have
thus been vuled, except in diminishing
ior the future, il the occasion should
arise, the extraordinary burtheus of the
state. Ii is true wisdom 10 foresee
every thing circumstances may en-.
harrass the Payment OF the cont.ibu.
l;oas.
Acasc os great importance will come
hciore tho I.ounal OF commerce in a
sjw days. n port folio containing pa
per 10 .he value of Two millions, was
left at tho Thuillcries, on The 2oth oi
March. The usurper on his airiva!,
took ;ssSsession OF it, and constituted i,
his private property lie took it with
him TO Waterloo. Havoc, when he
fed, abandontd the Carriage, the port
folio remained in il. We IIe ignorant
into what hands it fell but il is Ger.
tain that the bills have been negotiated
at banking house in Luudo ~,
tribunal Of commerce will have 10 pro
hnunce Oh the validity OF The tramsac
lion.
The French funds are highcr.
The marriage Of the priaccsS Char
ln;te, aud prince OF Cobourg IS M. fnc
cher postponed, as some paps layo
asserted il. 1t will be ceIeo.G;a5 ~
Thursday week, I'd of May.
We received this morning Amer
tan papers TO Tive l7;h of las, month.
W"e&t advanced this mornin, at
market 6s pc quarter, and a1ur los a
lack
The duke de Chatre had an audience
IF his royal highpess, resigned his
sRission from Louis XVIII. to the Bri,
-jsh court, and took his formal leave.
lie leaves London, on his return 10
France, on Wednesday.
The marquis D'OsmonI, the sue.
cessor to the duke de Chatre. was af
'cIwards introduced TO the prince re-
gent by lord Castlereagh His excel
Iency bad private audience ofhis roy
81 hIghDcss, delivered his credentials,
and was most graci0usiy received
The project of sir Sidney Smith for
the repression of the Barbary pirates,
add the rescuing christians from Save
Tyr appears TO attract considerable II
tention at Paris. A meeting Of cheva
Tiers, and other jealous prom oters of
this laudabie undertaking was lately
held in Paris, OF which sir Sidney was
president, and at which were presen,
vi5count de Chateaubriaud, peer #
France, discount Bin dc Bourbon
msmber OF the chamber of deputies
Viscount lie Montmorency, WHO claim,
descent from the first christian baron,
together with several other cminenr
persons.
Falmouth, -4hrii l2--The Hichin.
brooke packet, captain James, arrived
yesterday mornins from New York and
Halifax, brought no particular news.
~ report was IN circulatioss that Napo
le"n Bonsparte had arrived in the u
nIted States, saving been taken off the
island OF ST. Helena by an American
ship; but lie report received very lit.
tie edit
Dover, .HhrH 81 Another gerv
large Instrumentation OF troops is alb at
10 take place heCe from France. This
garrison is made the grand depot for all
the regiments in F,snce
Deal, AhrR lS..-Saiied, the Lady's
AdyrntuTs for America.
Deal .fhril l9 Put back, the Young
Dixon, Sutton, for Philadelphia
Paris, AbriEI8.
The Gazette Piedmonteze of the 9th Of
April contains the following article &c 1t
is with the most lively regret that our
Court has received this day an account of
ahe premature death of u Empress of Aus
tria, which took place al Verona IN the 9TH,
at seven o'clock in the afternoon. THE
Empress, who was daughter of the late
Archdukc Ferdinand, sister ofthe reigning
Dixie of Modena, and of the Queen of Sar-
dina, was born on the 18th of December,
1887.
A letter from an Austrian officer, inser.
ted IN the Colmar Journal, gives formal
contradiction to the report published IN
some ofthe German papers, and particu-
jarly the Allgemeine Zeitung, Of certain
bloody contests having taken place in the
VoSgeS, between some Austrian soldiers and
the French peasantry. The Austrian Of
fcer, on the contrary, asserts, that the
greatest haru1onv prev1ils between then,