Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-04-08

ulSCOSereu AZ dOCut uIstdheo VI "'"S Hoe'o
journey from the Red Sea, an ancient city
built in the mountains, between the 24th
and 25th degree Of latitude. There are
still 300 houses in existence. Among the
ruins are found temples dedicated to vari-
Gus divnities. There are | l statues, and
various ruins of others. He has also dis
covered the ancient stations that were ap-
pointed on the route through the desert,
going from the Red Sea to the Valley of
the Nile. Those stations are at regular
distances of nine hours between EACH
This route is undoubtedly one Of those ira
vesed by the commerce OF India, COM
merce which so fourishing at the time Of
Lagides, aad under the first Emperors.--
The situation il now ascertained of the
Emerald mine, of which no certain know
ledge was had for several ages.
A young French traveller, nephew Of
Count Mollien. ex minister, has succeededin
reaching Tombuctoo, by way of Selgal.
His family has just received letter from
him in which he announces his safe arri-
val in that celebrated town, hitherto un-
known TO Europeans, and which the unfor-
tunats Munso Park twice vainly attempted
| to reach.
II issaid that considerable quantity of
English bank notes, of one and two pound
each, have been forged in Paris, and sent
to England.
The eldest son ofthe deceased Austrian
Minister, Count Wallis, is, it is said, to be
! married to the daughter of Fouche, the ex-
French Minister.
The Inquisitor General of Spain has full
minated bis anathema against a work re-
Gently introduced into that country, enti-
tied The Coming of the Messiah in his
Glory and Majesty" by John Josephet Ben
Ezra. He orders all the copies Of this
work to be delivered up, and prohibits it
being in future sole, kept, read, or printed,
ander the pain of the grand excommunica-
ton, and fine of Zoo ducats to defray
the eXpences OF tine Holy Office.--He says
the book has occa,ione much disorder and
anxiety in the minds Of many persons, the
learned as well as the unIearned.
Philadelphia, .April, S.
Extract of letter dated Tunis, Dec. IL, to
aGentleman in Boston.
The plague, after desolating the king
dom of Algiers, has appeared here also 1t
broke ont early in October in this city, and
has since spread through great part Of the
kingdom. 1t IS estimated that the Bey
looses more than 1000 subjects daily. In
this city alone, whose population does not
much exceed loo, 900, the number of
deaths per day is about Soon one day
last week it amounted TO $50, and we think
quite favourably of the public health when
it deseends towards Zoo. will not at
tempt 10 depict to you the horrors Of pesti-
lence. My mind has been 90 overplied
with them that it has lost all excitability,
and all feeling Of personal damage. The
population of the city has already suffered
a diminution of more that 80, 900 by death
and emigration-probably more than 49,
900 have fallen victims to the plague in the
course of 8 months. One vast suburb is
literally dispeopled.-You may form some
idea OF the ravages of the malady, and of
the exac!ness with which justice is here ad.
ministered in certain respects, from the re-
markable fact that poor cobler was the
other day summoned from his stall, at the
corner Of neighboring street, 10 take pos
session as sole iRheritor, of twelve different
estates at once. As | sit in my parlour
hear during the day almost one unbroken
song from the funeral professions passing
beneath the windows, like platoons of the
same army, often bearing two bodies on the
same bier, and of which no less than ninty
have fallen under our observation in the
course of few hours. The burden OF their
hymn is frequently that charitable text of
the Koran, ''Send, o Allah, send death 10
the infdels." The stiffness of the night is
broken by the shrieks of woman, heard
from every quarter, lamenting in the orien-
tai manner over the bodies of those who
have just ceased TO live. lit is, Of course,
impossible to calculate the duration of this
calamity: but there is reason to fear il will
increase in the spring. We once read to-
gether Thucydides's account Of the plague !;
OF Athens, little thinking at that time that