Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1817-02-07


american produce; -Four Sl6 II )
meal 4s to so, panch'h; beef 10 bbl' !
pork 90; butter s5 cents per ID; lard 81;
soap ID: candles %: cheese 90: tobacco
lis.
West India produce: sugar So pei
lcwt: coffee Is, molasses 50 cents PEI
gal: rum so; hides IS per Id: cocoa Biz
per cwt.
The price OF icur at Halifax s9d ia
lnuary, was Is to Is dollars and very
scarce,
/ Halifrr. Jan, l5-2s.
! We understand tina: tor the future the
English mails for Nova Scotia, &c dur
Iiag the winter months, will be sent irsn
FaImnuth to New York, ana not 10 Der
nuda as heretofore.
he last mail from Quebec reached
Fredericktown in I've days and half q
ldis,ar ce Of 500 mi,es.
Her Lady.hip the eountess Of Dalhous;
gaze an elegant ball and supper on h''
Majyty's birth nigh. upwards OF 2O(
\ Persons were present.
! A curious piece Of etiquette (says
the Washington Weekly gazette
occurred In ConstaniinOple. The
Seraglio caught fre. and n" person
dared to approach in order 10 extin-
guish the same, far fear Of seeing
the ladies, which is contrary to the
law Of Musselmen The ladies' oil
the aarem, however, amounting "a
about fty Alike true women, set W
thei- pipes and squalled most Vocite'
rously f,r assistance. aud the nearer
the llames approached the more pres.
sing were their invitations to the men
to assist them. The Turks however
did not approach until the flames ac
ttuail, threatened destruction 80 the
. fair eastigcs; AZ length they were
released, each of them trcorous'y
yelled so that. on this alarming oc-
casiop, no law was violated, and no
decorum outraged.
3 tn, King and .rr. Hes,. Mr.. West
wss in England when the war Of tse re,
volulian broke oat, and openly took .
I situr&s,anA in htha's Of the colonies, 'hp
=, rebels as thev we're tacn called. h
: persnnsIly stood wei, with the king at The
time, as in snct he hai ever dane; hor
some IF his enemies or rivals seized ms
occasion tn atten,pt TO dtprec'atc him,
/ ana spoke of il TO his maIasty, in = way
well calculated iHUr ;i,eir object. His &C.
pv, wli'e it did hoUor 10 lis heart, an5
caeetuai!v rebuke!l tacir little malice.
-onvrred ie-,nn dat al may not Rave
lcaru"d " W ell, ueil, YOU sec! not tell
me that. West j. an hottest fellow 81"
ike ;.-o the 5ptterfar IL. a rlan thai
d,n'- love his owe ceunrry, wn,i't I0.e
any country, an" there is 40 taith te be
put in h!lu."
Miss 3oyce Of Dairy i.ane Tia
trr. Was in the habit Of occasionally
locking ut her fingers. while paying.
apparently II nut really to assist her
recollection. One evening. the pla,
WIS 4" Wild Gnnse Chase rcsoitlns|
with mcrc Frequency than usual IT.
in;s ugIy trick, avoicc from the pitt
uncnurteoasly addressed her With
:. Oriana, is.'youri part written on
your nails -
She with inEnite readiness and
good AImnar REALIZED.
why. critic, ,iH!s complain with
brow seTCr2 f: |
Why blame YOU that, which al:
the world C0mMends !
" Nanc can more perfect in horI
part appear.
"'Thsn she who has il at her MI
gers cads."
The long reiterated and lr-ccho-
ed Thunder Of applause which thisi
produced gave Mr.. Critic an oppor-
tanity to escape before the inop'ta-
BILE .Cut. with him" could be seTV-
a.. ,,no,, b.c ,,nr,cop