Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1819-04-20

10 such stuff as this. III you had any
true religion you would feel differently
am afraid some wicked and desiguin:
person has had influence sufficient owe
you TO make you fanatics"
John the trumpeter.-Be careful 0
what you say, aud how you act, for thi
boy (peinting TO Slater has had in four o
five months, between and 600 vision
from above, although he is only II year.
of age"
Alderman Bry dyes" If you cannot
conduct yourselves properly as trades
men, now you are brought before me, il
is my duty to prevent a repetition oil youi
misconduct; you do not look like mad.
men, but you act as SUCH,
John the trumpeter.-" As you like,
we will do: we cannot be injured"
Alderman Bridges" You must be
the dupes of some licked and designing
persons that have made you act as you
have done. will send you all TO Bride.
well If some respectable person does not
come forward aud give me an assurance,
that you win not transgress in the same
way again. / viii not take your own
promises"
John the trumpeter.-" We have not
one to give us character, and we want
none from any person on earth.
Catharine, the wife of John the trum-
peter, produced book, and exclaimed
Read that, and you will see our char
acters uoder the hand of Jesus Christ"
Alderman Bridges then asked the boy,
Slater, was he the son of any Of the Pris-
oners He looked most indignant, and
replied, 81 am not the sou Of any man"
Samuel Jones, the carpenter We
are ordered by God to go through the
city for three days, and proclaim the glo-
rious news of the Prince of Peace having
come on earth, and we are determined to
fulfil his orders"
Alderman Bridges" 1t becomes my
duty to prevent your carrying your reso-
buttons into effect--sor if you are deter
mined TO proclaim it, you must do SO in
BridewelE, for TO that place / commit
you.'
Several of the Officers stated, that
they would not be answerabIe for the
lives Of the Prisoners if they we're to take
them on foot 10 Brideweii, as tine mob was
so infuriated against them.
Alderman Bridges desired that car
riages might be obtained, which being
done, the Prisoners were conveyed to
Bridewell, followed by great number
of persons.
Thursday The above persons were a.
gain brought before the sitting Magistrate,
Alderman c. Smith, when they were dis
charged, on an assurance that there would
be no repetition Of their previous conduct
Extract of a letter dated Tanis, Dec. IL,
to a Gentleman in Boston.
The plague, after desolating the king
dom of Algiers has appeared here also. 1t
broke out early in October in this city,
and has since spread through great part
OF the kingdom. II is estimated that the
Dey loses more than 1000 subjects daily
In this city alone, whose population does
not much exceed 1905 the number Of
deaths per day is about 300. On one
day last week il amounted TO $50, and we
think quite favorably Of the public health
when it descends towards 200. I will
not attempt TO depict to you the horrors
Of pestilence. My mind has been SO
overplied with them that it has lost all
exeitability, and all feeling of personal
damage. The population of this city has
already suffered diminution of more
than 10000, by death and emigration
probably more than $4,000 have fallen
victims TO the plague 10 the course Of 8
months. One vast suburb is literally
dispeopled. You may form some idea of
the rsvages of the malady, and of the ex-
actness with which justice is here admin
istered in certain respects, from the re-
markable fact that poor cobler was the
other day summoned from his stall, al the
corner OF neighboring street, to take
possession, as sole inheritor, Of IL diff
ferent estates at once. As | sit in my
parlour hear during the day almost one
unbroken song from the funeral process
sions passing beneath the windows like
platooDs OF the same army, often bearing
two bodies on the same bier, and Of which
DO less than ninety 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 to the infidels." The
stiffness Of night is broken by the shrieks
OF women, heard from every quarter, la
mentiDg 10 the oriental manner over the
bodies Of those who have just ceased to
live. 1t is, of course, impossible 10 cal.
culate the duration Of this calamity but
there is reason to fear it will increase il
the spring. We once read together Thu
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