Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-01-08

ed to be tolIed-an order which il Is tht
Office of the lord mayor ts give. II toliec
from twelve o'clock this day TO one
Lord Sidmouth sent also to the diiier'
ent theatres, commanding them to be
shut; and the following binary
Gazette was published about one O'CLOCK
London Gazette Extraordinary, Thurs
day, November 6.
Whitehall, Nor. 6.
Her ROYAL Ilighness the Princess
Charlotte Augusta, daughter Of his Roy
al Hishness the Prince Regent, and con-
sort Of his Serene Highnsss the Prince
Leopold Of SAKE Cobourg, was delivered
Of a still-5orn male child, at 9 o'clock
| last night, and about half past 10 her
Royal Highness was seized with grea,
difficulty Of breathing, restlessness. and
| exhaustion, which alarming symptoms in
| creased till half past two o'clock lhi,
| morning, when her Royal Highness ex
pired, to the inexpressible grief Of bis
Royal Tlighness the Prince Regent, Of
her iIlust,ious consort, the Prince Leo.
po d, and of all the royal family.
His Royal Highoess the Prince Regent
had been tor week or ten days past in
Suffolk. As soon as the illness of the
Princess Charlotte was pronounced. an
express was sent to apprize his Royal
Hiehness. who Immediately, with ali o
parents affection and anxiety, returned
to town on his way to Ctaremont. His
Royal Hishness on his journey to towu
stopped two messengers on the road with
dispatches to him. They announced the
slow progress of the labor; but added
that no danger wa, apprehended. A
third messenger with the account Of the
delivery Of still.born child passed him
in the night. His Royal Highness ar,
rived at arlton House about 4 O'Clock
10 the morning, with the intention of pro.
ceeding, without alighting, to Clarenont,
when the Duke OF York and one of the
ministers arrived with the fatal intelli-
yence. which has blasted his and the ma
toms hope, and involved the ,chole Bri-
fish family, from its most exalted to its
humb!est members, in the deepest aflic-
ton.
In what way his Royal Highness re-
ccived the dreadful tidings, caA anly be
conceived by those who have knOwn what
i, is to lose an only daughter and cIi,d
in the bloom OF yontb and health. Equal.
" impossible would il be t. describe the
glief Of Prince Leopold.
Liverpool, ,Nor. S.
The greater part OF the Foreign
Journals Of the week are as uninte-
resting as usual. but the last private
communication from Paris. contain
the substance Of a note or rcscript.
said to have been presented to the Mi
nisters Of the Great Allied Powers by
the Due dc Richelieu, which is of con-
siderable importance. as far as re-
spects the future tranquility of France.
A very large part, it appears, OF the
regular relcnue of tie country had
been set apart Tor the liquidation Of its
debts, national and individual, in the
treaty of 1915. These claims arose
partly from the recuniary compensa-
lions exacted b. The Allies. as the re-
suit of their conquest, and the price
of their forbearance anu partly from
the debts, contracted by the French
Government and the French People,
pre-, ious to that period. The facility
with which the new Government oI
France was compelled to yicl,Sto
these demands, has brought on such
an immense number Of additional clai.
mants, as to threaten to overwhelm
| the financial resources even of thai
opuient country. The Ministers Of
Louis XVIII. feel themselves, there,
fore. at least obliged to make stand
They see that Foreign Governments
as we'll as individuals. are seeking Il
take advantage of the helpless condi
ton of their country, to bring for
ward demands which had before been
cunsidered as hopeless. On this con
viction, they have presented a remon
STRANGE to the ministers of the Great
| Allied Powers, stating the Immense
pccuniary efforts which France ha'
already made, and the impossibility
of fulfilling the additional demands
now made upon her. without the e
,ident danger of riskins the securit,
of the Government, and tbs tranquil
! ity of the country.
The provincial papers in sImost al
the commercial or manufacturing dis