Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1816-08-19

1.-THE present year. They also REASONABLE
calculate, that they viii soon make al
Immense population Of good. native Cit
lxens The Hibernian editors do moi
seem to like this accession to our strength
Captain Bond, Of the British brig Pete
ellis, from Gaudaloupe informs. that the
French Governor Larduaoi had arrived
lat Gaulaloupe, Il took possession of that
Island on the 25th July.
.4nother L;ft.--'The Britith sloop Ann.
from Nassau. arrived Yesterday with Six
|tY Three Thousand Dollars in SPECIE.
We hope this article will soon be more
plenty thaa dry goods.
With much satisfaction we present the
following decisions of two Of the mos,
learned societies in Europe, ona question
deeply interesting to this country and
particularly to this city. Y e have long
entertained entire confidence that the
great truth here affirmed would first or
last be established. tits the triumph Of
fact over sophistrv.
Extract Of a letter finm gentleman In
England to a physician III this city, da.
ted June rs, 1916.
/" The decisions of the Royal College of
Physicians of London and those Of the
lnny Medical Beard, are at length
brought to a close. These two learned
and experienced bodies hare been for
some time past dernted to consitlera
ton OF al! the facts connected with the
'.ature and character of the yellow fever.
,attcuiaily as it has Of late years ap-
peared III Spain. The College has de
clded that the yellow fever is conta-
sious diseased The Army Medical
Beard, at the head Of which presides Sir
James Mae G egor, have also givcA it as
their opinion that the yellow fever is in
IFS nature contagious, and from the evi
dence advanced in the writings Of Sir
James Fellows and DR.. Pvn, t'ev fur
ther add their conviction that the fever
Of Spaiu IS not only strictly contagious.
but thai Ike other disorders OF a specific
character it generally affects the human
frame but once. Your experience Of the
tevcr az i; has prevailed in New-York
since l7795, VII! enable you to determine
how tar tais last opjrioa holds good when
apyaiea to this pestiltnce. when imported
,iate your climates. Those ,.bo have once
had the disortlcr are certainly less sus.
cpRf}b(e II It's influence second time.
Tie necessity ola strict adherence to your
Improved system of quarantine laws and
I4li ,nanici2ai regulations foY The purpose
'of domestic cleanliness, cannot be ton
strongly enforced. On. this s,t,ect the
|poval College and The Army aledical
Board .a.s-a'.,,:t:csdi +; tuin;e.; ! add no
more. at present.. An ab>tf'act ol,the o! !
fetal ilacuments dn these itpportant mat
tefs is in my. POSSESSION. and si,a,l bel
shortly. caan@t bat
ihink,it rendering all important seryicrI
to your country ty giving Pr; itity to the
resaiss ni the deliberations Of these dis
iiuguiShed associatioas-The contrary
doctrine, maintaining that d.H'arent tc
vcrs are OF one comM0h origin is Sc IN
fnunded Ia ii.c and so perniclolis in its
that tho sooner it is dis
carde,l 'llc better it will be for the inter
ests ofhumanity,"
I Aud BY consequence an impdttable
disease. Ed, L. Post.
,Haarafs' Catastrophe. We learn from
uadoubted authority, that Il Young wo-
man. Of good character, made away with
herself on Thursday last, about mile
from Hoboken ferry, where her body was
found, and brought tn this city and IN
tered en- Friday, agreeahly to the request
in the following Memorandum, which
was found III her boso,n.
t" That "l'oevcr finds my body mat
Rave same means OF discovering who | am:
I will give YOU the particulars
Is was born III the town Of Rye, state
of n. Y. IN my early life ! lived with an
aunt in that place. Fm these three
years past have resided in the city Of
New Turk, and have committed many
errors, bar no heinous crimes. My pa
rcntS row live in the CITY CT New Ynsk.1
rnemios have pursuadel my mother a
gainst ne she has treated ire with the
creates coniaess ever sinceI lived " It'll
her. it's this that has driven me to this
hol!id act. Why shouId wish 10 live 2
have M friends 10 we'll wisheFs; my
parents ,lespise ne. WHO shoald look