Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1817-10-17
From the Baltimore Feiierdt Repubi,
can, October Ia.
EERnpEAN SuMMARI.


ed by the latest arrivals, We shall en-
deavour to condense such articles, as
we have not roam 10 furnish i'm de-
tail. The prussian and Dutch for
trcssrs are repairing with great &C
tivity throughout the low countries.
and the bordering parts of Germany.
A grand frte WAS given at Paris on
The esd OF August, at which the Dnke
Of Wellington. the foreign Ministers.
and many officers Of distinction at
tended, and what is unusual on such
occasions. the King of Prussia, under
the assumed name of Count de Rupin,
presented himself to compliment
their mjesties. At Copenhagen a
question is propounded by the govern
ment. what is the most practicable
mode of diminishing the number of
the poor, and it is further stated as
the opinion of the Government, that
marriages between young people, with
out the means of supporting them,
have contributed to increase the num-
Der of paupers--a grave conclusion.
aud which no matrimonial politician
can possibly doubt ! The opening If
the new port of Middieburg. took
Lace onthc 9Th instant, with great So
lemnity, in the presence Of the king
Of the Netherlands. As late as Sept.
6. the Doctors who attend the king
Of england. gave the following ours
ous and Original ctrtiiirate Sc tbs
Majesty has passed the last nonth
in tranquil an.i comfortable stats -
His Majcst's disorder continued un.
altered. buI his health IS good )" IN
oltlru time, Insanity Was deemed q
disorder ! regard To France, a
shocking insurrectloa is stitca to have
bruarn out in Lyons, equal in cnor.
nit, to the worst peri d. of the re,o.
lution. Following this article, we
perceive another oil the same date, re-
presenting the instruction as a tri-
fing thing. and easily repressed BY
The energy Of the laws. Subsequent
information from Lyons makes no
merton at all OF the cirLulnstance.--
The Emperor of Russia is said to be
reducing his army to peace establish
ment, and another article informs us
that M reduction IF the army of oc-
cupation is to axe place ia the course
of this J AZ. Nothing is said in the
confederation IF the intelligence some
time since received from Madrid, that
all ;hr Allied Powers had appointed
Commissioners to meet in Germany,
to decide on what course should be
adopted with regard tn their in;erfer-
ehcc. in behalf of Ferdinand, against
his revolted colonies. In a London
paper, a calculation is made the
quantity of flour shipped in one year
from the United States to Liverpool;
it amounts tO 4eS,5I4 bills. which TO-
gether with the grain brought from
the same country would b. sufficient
to load 1856 vessels of one hundred
tons each. Sardinia has established
a new Concordat with the Holy See.
We select the following shocking ac-
c;dent, amongst the several with
waici, the late intelligence a5ounds =:
A shocking accident happened onFri.
day se'nnight, to an unfortunate man
named Stokor. working at Riddles
Wa!lsend culliery near Kenton. He
was employed along with another man
in taking the small Goals from the
screens, and throwing them upon the
heap, which is well known is general
" on fire in the inside. Ofthis oc-
Caslun he had left the security of the
wall, along which the bsrrows were
trundied, aud was proceeding over the
top of the heap to throw his load more
over il, when as he WAS passing over
its centre, the surfa, Suddenly FIJI in
with IT'S weight, the inside being burnt
quite hollow, and he was ingulfcd in
the burning abyss, which Instantly
CLOSED upon him. and seat forth a 20.
lurae rr fame and smoke like the era
ter { a volcano. The person who
wa, working along with him, was not
aware OF the fate of bis companion.
till he perceived the flames bursting
from the opening made in tie heap ::
any assistance to the unfortunate suf-
fcrrr was entirely cut Of his power
MT a yestage Of the body has been
seen.