Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-02-23

tugueSe consul az Gibraltar, dated NOV. D.
From the 10th to the Goth of Oct. there
died of The plague in the city of Tangiers,
153 persons--ana from The 21st October
TO the Cd Nov. 254; consequently 4o7
deaths in 20 days, withthe remarkable DIFF
ference of nearly tvo-thirds more in the
last ten days. The eontagion continued
with the same fury, in the ehsirons Of the
city, and had communicated itself to the
population of Scilla."
FIom4he N. York Commercial .4av. Feb. Is.
FROM ENGLAND.
BY the arrival Of the ship Messenger, at
Salem, We have received from our London
correspondent the Courier Of December
sist. and the General Shipping and Com
mercial List Of The 10th.
.american Stocks on the 18th ofDec.
Three per cents IS, new six per cents
l0i i02. Bank shares f96.
We find II stated in the Courier, that
within the last week or two, wheat had faf-
len considerably in price, and that there
seems every prospec, that after the next
general average shall have been ascertain
ed, the ports will be closed against the in
truduction Of Wheat. That general ave-
rage will be calculated in about a fortnight,
but in the mean time it has been taken for
the tour weeks already past. At the end
81 the fistweek, the average price ofwheat
was 8is per quarter; at the end of the Sc
cond week It was Dos Tod; at the end Of
The third week 80s Cd and at the end Of
the fourth week 79s lid.
. Falmouth, Dec. Is.
Sailed, the Richmond, Jenkins, for Lon.
don.
At He'll, Dec. II.
Samuel Whitbread, Porthill. Quebec.
Milford, Dec. Ia.
Sailed, the Henry, Kindall, for Whining
ton.
t'f At Bremen, Dec. 10.
Atlas, Jenison, Baltimore.
Helpoet, Dec. IA.
Sailed, Bayard, Watkins, Baltimore,
The Amelia, Nile, OF and for New York,
from Amsterdam, was driven ashore on
Taftsness, near Kirkwall, on the 9th Zee.
From the Salem Register Of FEB. II.
LATEST FROM ENGLAND.
The ship Messenger, capt. Burlington,
arrived at this port yesterday afternoon. 81
days from Cowes. We are indebted to the
friendly attention Of Mr.. George Archer, jr.
supercargo of the Messenger. for file of
the London Morning Chronicle to the Esd
Of December.
London, Dee. sz.
The .Agemeiae Zeitung states. that Abra-
ham Ufenheimen, the Jew Banker, who
lately failed at Vienna, had lent several
millions of francs to the Grown of Spain,
and that bis loss from the extraordinary fall
of the Spanish paper was immense. This
failure was Immediately felt on the Change
al Vienna.
Dec. 90.
The accounts from Constantinople state;
that the greatest activity prevailed in the
naval arsenal there ship Of so guns, and
another Of "a guns were launched 10 the
course oflast month.
By letter from Cairo, dated the 18th
Oct published at Florence by Osman Aga.
a General in the service of the Viceroy of
Egypt, it appears that the Wechabites had
been again totally defeated, and their Ca
liph Or Prince, Abdallah, with all his fami-
", had been taken prisoners by ibraham |
Pacha, the son of the Vicer6y.
Letters from Madrid of the 9TH inst. state |
that large bodies of banditti, who are as
sembled in the mountains, made decents
upon the frontier towns and villages, and !
laid them under contribution.
Douer, Dec. 20:
Ar. yesterday, the Chichester pacbA,
with Lord and Lady Castlereagh, andG -
This morning the Duke of yelling ton
ded from the Lord Duncan, under ID
lutte.
Hamburger, Dec. o.
The young men destined for s. America
who were recently arrested here at the re-
quest Of the Spanish Minister, were after i
wards set at liberty They then assembled
to the number Of 800, and proceeded to
the Danish Tertiary, where they effected
their embarkation without experiencing
the slightest obstacle.
G-istinnn. Dec