Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-09-01

himself as sacrificed to misrepre.enlatton.
At length bis pscuniary resources failed,
and the affecting humiiat on Of poverty
was added 10 the, anguish of wounded
spirit, Afterrepeated appeals, which were
either neglected or not received, finding it
no longer in his power TO struggle with the
evils which beset him-unable to dig, and
ashamed to beg, he resolved deliberately
to put an end to his existetce, in the pre-
sence ofthe sovereign VINO had been BY de-
signing men so strongly prejudiced against
him. Accordingly he watched 10, for IN
opportunity; and as the king in his car
riage was descending Constitution Hill, in
the Green Park, in the month of August o.
that year, (l79l) the Unhappy man, falling
on one knee, lodged the contents OF pistol
in his own heart. CURfO.
A letter from HAVANA, Of August 5, re-
eeived at Boston, mentions that the Pique
frigate sailed on the Sd inst. for Jamaica,
with the money from the Tay, six per cent
having heen deducted for duties. The Se'
miramis, Sir James l. Yeo, sailed on the
4th of August for England, in consequence
of Sir James being very sick. No salutes
took place. IN. Y. .Mer. .idUer. Aug. 90.
We have been favored with Halifax
paper of the 18th inst. On the 18th, the
earl of Dalhous;e, governor of Nova Scotia
and its dependencies, issued his proclama-
ton, publishing the order in council by
which Halifax and St. Johns are designated
as free ports, and declaring the port OF Ha-
lifax to be now open, and considered as O.
pen from the 10th Of July last. Ibid.
Correetion.-We have published from
the Charleston Times, an account Of Col.
M'Donald and number of English officers
his companions, having accidentally fallen
into the hands of the SpanislfRoyalists and
been put to death. We are happy now 10
state, from the Aurora, that Col. NJ Donald
is al this moment in the United States, and
his companions were in July at St. Fernan-
do de Apure." I.Ner- York Columbian.
Disease among Catls.-lt appears by a
New-Orleans paper that many cattle had
died in that vicinity by disease now
known 10 be the hollow horn, but which d.
sease being unknown to the inhabitants,
was presumed to be the carbuncie. A gen.
tleman had prescribed boring the horn and
injecting vinegar and salt, by which many
diseased cattle had been saved. Ibid.
Pipassiray.--A friend, who travelled
some distance to get information on the SUBJ
ject, has left with us small bunch of the
Pipsissiway, celebrated for the cure of
cancers. Ii is an evergreen, found plenti-
fully in all parts Of tine country; but not
what is generally called winter-green. Id.
Hoar.-The .Nerma,ds reported 10 have
been lately seen in North Carolina, proved
to be mere maids. Ibid.
Mr.. Cooper, the celebrated American
tragedian, from the last accounts was play
ing with great success in Ireland.
The Newark Messenger fondly antici-
ps.es that protecting associations, after the
example of the one at New Brunswick,
will speedily be formed throughout the
state of New-Jersey, and the barbarous
and disgusting traffic in human flesh so Pfc
valent, be utterly abolished"
There are two Peace Societies in Massa-
chusetts, one in Maine. one in Rhode-Is-
land, one in the city of New-York, one in
Caynga county and one in Chenango couh-
ty. IN. Y. and two in Ohio. One is pro-
posed IN Pennsylvania. and one in North
Carolina. CdtskiH Recorder.
The Methodists have erected seminary
at Baltimore, for the instruction Of youth,
especially for young men who may be call
ed to preach the gospel bid.
The town Of Cincinnati (Qhio) contains
nearly eleven thousand inhabitants
Estwick Evans, Esq. the celebrated Pc
destrian, intends publishing, in duodeci-
mo volume, his late pedestrian Tour" of
1000 miles, through the western states and
territories, during the winter and spring Of
1918, interspersed with brief reflections
upon great variety Of topic,-religous,
political, sentimental, &c. &c. The work