Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-04-17
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From the " 7 Com .adrer. .4pril IL.

The brig Tom iiszard captain Hot
d idge, is below, in SO days fom Liver
pool. She bring. London dates to the
Cd, and Li.erpool to the 4th of March.
Her letter bags are not yet delivered at
the post.office. We have received one
package Of our Londen papers, but meme
oi our Lloyd's or Shipping L SITS. We
have also been favored with CONNER
| cial letter, dated at Liverpool on the Sd
| o. March, from which extracts will be
found below
The prominent articles Of intelligence
nv this arrival relate to the death OF the
king of Sweden, and an attempt made at
Paris On the life Of the duke Of yelling
ton.
In relation to the latter event, letter
from Paris, which will be found below,
contains all the particulars we have yet
received. Respecting the former, our
latest London Courier thus remarks -
The death of the king of Sweden is an
event Of more interest to party feeling
than to political power. BernAdotte will
succeed 10 tie throne, and Sweden will
remain precisely as she was. He indeed
may fear to meet an ungracious counte.
uance on all sides He may apprehend
that the enemies OF law, now niCknamed
Legitimacy, may scowl upon his great
ness, as a child of the revolution; but if
he has been a child, at least he has not
been champion Of jacobini.m. A SOL
der Of fortune, the French revolution
threw him upon his present eminence,
which bis superior mind and gracious
services to both Danes and Saedes Sc
cured to him. He dethroned no prince
by fraud, he trampled down no dynasty
by revolutionary 'ueian hoofs, he pillaged
no country, he insulted no people. The
reigning king Of Sweden, conscious Of
unmerited unpopularity, in disgust abdi-
Gated the throne, and was Iegjtimately
succeeded by his uncle, favorltc of The
peepe, To prop this change against the
power Of Bona parte, under which almost
all the thrones of Europe were then tot
tering, Bernadotte was called in by the
pepular part aud appointed next IN sue
cesslon as Crown Prince. He was not
indebted to Bonaparte or TO France for
Ills promotion, but to the humanity aud
wisdom with which he exercised in the
north his authority as French viceroy.
Revolutionary principles were as well
satisfied by this proceeding as the more
strict principles Of legitimacy. He was
a child OF the French revolution, and he
was the choice Of the people OF sweden,
not suddenly elevated to the throne, but
to ascend it in due succession, after fu-
ture services should have confirmed the
gratitude which the past had Created
Thus his accession must be as popular as
it is Just ard irrepreachaole."
The amount Of Bank of England notes
in circulation, on the 18th Of January
last, Wa, sO,6l9, 44Ol, being something
above two millions more than on the cor
responding day in January, 1917. The
increase is entirely in notes above 81 /;
in the smaller notes there has been de-
crease of about 7-O,O09l.
The Criterion, Avery, from New York,
arrived a, Gravesend 18th Feb. the So
Ion, from do. at do. 18th; the Amity,
Carolina Ann and Ganges, all from N.
York. at Liverpool.
Extract of letter to commercial house
in this city, received by the ION Ha-
card.
liverpool, Feb. 81.
We wrote you on the 7th relative to
our cotton market; since when, from the
very animated demand, it has continued
to improve in price, and extensive sales
AVE been made at all advance of Lid
| Per To- in uplsnds. For some days past
ne have no, had so tive an inqn,ry, al
| though much business would have been
done a. a trIRing reduction-2i Led
would BE- taken readily TOR good apiands,
| and q ! Al would Us readily BE- gwen ;
but our sales OF this description have TIL
! week been limited, owing 10 the reius Il
either 10 recehe on the one hand, or t.