Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1819-06-08
LATE FOREIGN NEWS.

A fact of great public importance was
stated OH Wednesday week by Lord Har-
rowby. 1t is this, that the bank is at
present in possession of treasure fully
equal to the discharge of its engagements.
1t is with much regret that we commu-
nicate the following extract of letter
from The agent to Lloyd's at the Cape Of
Good Hope, dated Esd January:
arrived, the Frances Charlotte, Field,
from Bengal and Madras. She brings ac-
counts that a most violent hurricane was
experienced at Madras on the Oath of Oc-
iober, during which the Queen Charlotte
was totally lost, with all on board; that
the Lady Castlereagh, and Cornwall, both
loaded for England, had been dismasted,
add so much damaged as TO be condemned !;
that the Georgiana ard Harriet, had put
into the Roads after the hurricane, COM
pletely disabled at sea and that the Bark
worth was blown out to sea, and had not
been heard Of"
LONDON, April 20.
Commerce continues in most distress
ing state of stagnation. Two houses in
the city connected with the Manchester
trade have stopped payment, one of which
is stated TO have paper out to the amount
of 250,O00i.
We are sorry to state, that very un-
pleasant intelligence respecting the plague
in Barbary was yesterday received. The
letters were dated the / 9TH of March, at
which time the plague, which had been
decreasing for some months, had returned
with redoubled fury. The deaths were
greater than had been experienced during
the last fatal year. The inhabitants were
neglecting all their usual ayocations, and
we're shutting themselves up in their huts.
Advices from Valenciennes speak 10
ominous terms of the exertions now ma
king by the present war minister for en-
powering France to assume such an atti-
tude as shall become her military rank
amongst the nations. The pHrport OF
this intelligence is as uneonciliating to our
interests as meDscing to our fame; since,
1t appears, the Douaniers now outstripI
their usual zeal, and consider il as nothing
less than triumph to seize upon British
goods whatsoever, and wheresoever they
possibly can.
The Liverpool Mercury says, that the
Duke Of Wellington refused to present to
the House Of Lords the Anti Catholic Pc
tition Of the corporation OF Dublin.
Mr.. Frazer. one of the assistants TO the
British resident at Delhi, and gentleman
Of great abilities, has undertaken jour
ney TO the sources Of the rivers Sutulele
and JumDa, which promises much inter-
esting information.
Invention. M. Schmidt, ar inhabitant
Of Mecklenburgb, has lately Invented al
machine which ploughs and harrows the
land without human assistance. 1t is put
in motion by four large wind mill salls.
The inventor has presented model Oh u
to The duke Of Meeklenburgh, and intends
to submit il to the Meckienburgf agricni-
tural society for examination.
Tin Mines In France. In the Noun |
tains of Blond, (Haute Vienne, when
had not been heretofore examined un
mines have been discovered, and the ricn-
ness Of the yein ascertained. TN TINS
time, no tin miues have been wrought 10
France. /
The Bank of England has capital o. !
Ia, sos, 800 hounds sterling, or 64,92o,ooo
dollars. The building covers 40 extent
Of several acres, and employs 100 clerks
about SO more than are at present occupi-
ed by our government 10 the public offices
at Washington. -,
The population Of London in lsil was
,O39, 900 souls, and by estimate $4,000
strangers are constantly in that metropolis,
making the whole number IL millions
! of souls.