Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-10-12
Foreign Articles.


[From London papers received at N. York
Liuerpool, August 60.
United States--The opposition papers
have raised the alarm of a new war with
America. II is almost pity that il has not
taken place, to afford them the qualification
OF going to their old pursuit of predicting
shame and discontinue; and to give them
the opportunity of again maniiesting their
bitter and indomitable hostility to their own
country. Government, they tell US, is seek.
ing occasions for a war, and the Seizure of
Pensacola, and, for any thing that yet ap-
pears TO the contrary, the murder of Arbuth-
not and Ambrister, have happily occurred
to favor the purpose. II is proof of their
moderation, that they have no! changed
their own Government with having advi-
sed these measures, and with employing
Gen. Jackson to execute them. Explana-
tions will, doubtless, be demanded, and we
hope, they may be given. If Jackson's
conduct has not been authorised, as we
are bound to believe, by his government, i
will be disavowed, and nothing more will
follow. 1.-THE government Of the U. States
pursue a course OF ambitious aggression,
it must be depressed but its repression
does not necessarily suppose war with
England. They will oppose themselves
not so much to England as to associated
Europe, and will be expected to be bound
by that international law, which alone binds
her and every other power to the great fami-
ly of nations. Courier.
Some thousands of quarters of English
and foreign wheat are now on board vessels
lying in the river Thames; and every
granary on its banks, that could be procu-
red, has been taken for the purpose OF sto-
ring.
Lord Casllereagh will set of in the first
week OF September, to attend the Congress
at Aix-la- Chapelle.
A London paper states, that Lord Ellen
borough has nearly recovered from his in
disposition hut his Lordship expresses his
determination 10 retire from the tatigues Of
office.
Mr. Justice Abbott is spoken of as likely
to succeed Lord Peterborough, on the re-
tirement OF his Lordship from the Court Of
Kings Bench.
Report says that the Earl of Mulgrave is
to be the first Lord Of the Admiralty, and
the Duke ofWellington, Master-General Of
tuC NIdiildhSc.
It's asserted Paris papers that the OPEN
ing Of the Congress at Ai.::-la-C hapelle is
deferred, and defnitiyely fixed for the eth
Of September next. Ills coWectured, that
the sovereigns, who will assemble in that
town, will remain there two or three
months.
Intelligence from Bohemia announces
that Field Marshal Prince Butcher has fall
len i'll at Schlan, and that his situation is
alarming.
A young girl was executed at Baden, on
the 9th inst. for poisoning her mistress, in
order to marry her old master, who was in
love with her.
Lord Cochrane has actually sailed from
Boulogne for South America, as supposed,
and taxed his wife with him.
A lady of distinction, at Berlin, has been
condemned to hard labor, for cruel treat
ment towards male orphan which she
brought up
Letters have been received from the
Duke of Clarence. His Royal Higbness
has abandoned the idea of residing abroad.
.algiers, June 1.-THE plague continues |
to prevail in this Capital with this uncom-
mon variation, that the number of daily !