Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1819-09-04
j." II. HALFORD,
+" w. HEBERDEN,
/" M. BAILLIE,
g R. WILLIS"
BOSTON, JULY 27.
L. S. SHIP FRANKLIN.

Captain Edes, from Palermo, informs,
that the emperor Of Austria, and the king
of Naples, with several members Of their
respective families, dined on board the
United States ship Franklin, Commo-
dore Stewart, at Naples, on the tlrst OF
June last.
During the visit very unfortunate
accident happened. One of the young
princes, in passing about to view the
equipments of the ship, had the misfor-
tune to fall down the main hatchway,
and was severely injured.
The United States squadron passed
Palermo on the I'd of June for Gibraltar,
and the Franklin came out OF the Straits
on the 2lst, leaving the rest of the squad
ron at Gibraltar.
1t is probable Com. Stewart intended
to visit Cadiz.
The house of commons of Upper
Canada have presented an address to the
lieutenant governor praying him TO cause
to be prosecuted by the attorney general,
the authors, printers, and publishers OF
a publication which has appeared in the
Niagara Spectator, signed Robert Gour-
lag the commons by their vote declared
/" the said publication to be scandalous,
malicious, and traitorous libel, tending
to disturb the peace of the province and
to excite instruction against the gov
eminent"
HIGHLY IMPORTANT.
NEw-YoRK, JULY 81.
By the arrival yesterday afternoon of
the United States ship Hornet, Captain
Reed, from Cadiz, which place she left
on the I'd of July, we are informed as
follows:
A Spanish squadron of G ships of "a
guns, of from So to A guns, and seve-
raj sloops of war, sc. were lying in the
harbor of Cadiz. 1t was currently re-
ported there that $4,000 troops would
also embark, and the whole would be
destined for the protection Of the Nori-
das, and not for South America, as was
originally contemplated. A French
squadron of one frigate and 6 briggs have
already joined the expedition; we learn
they will sail under the Spanish flag.
An action was fought off Cadiz, about
the 18th June, between the Spanish ma
tional gun brig Voluntaro, of IA guns,
and the Buenos Ayres government brig
Independence, of Is guns-when,
shameful to relate, the latter was defeat
ed. The Voluntaro had arrived at Ca
diz, much cut up in sails and rigging.
Both vessels fought under the flag of the
United States
The officers and crew Of the Patriot
privateer Constitution, taken some time
since near Gibraltar, CATER being on
shore) are at Cadiz, in dungeons. Gen.
O'Donnel, governor of Cadiz, had re-
ceiyed an order from the king granting
a pardon to all Spanish subjects found
on board that vessel, and command TO
execute all the foreigners. He, how
ever, demonstrated against this barbarity.
The result of his refusal we do not
know: 70 Americans are among the
prisoners.
The United States ship Franklin ar
rived at Cadiz on the goth June, with
the honorable Jonathan Russell and fam
lily; but finding they could not be ac
commodated with passage on board the
Hornet, they returned in her to Gibral-
tar on the 9th, where they will embark
in merchant ship for the U. States.
All our squadron is at Gibraltar.
The French national corvette, Lie
Noormande, was to sail from Cadiz, on
the 18th July for Newly ork, to invite
home all of the French exiles. Mr..
Tunis, our consul there, will return in
her.
Doctor Heap and Lieutenant Berry of
the navy, are passengers in the Hornet.
ddvocQte.
Addhional-Capt. Reed, of the Hor-
net, has passed through Baltimore on his
way TO the seat of government, with dis
patches, and gives it as his opinion that
the treaty zviH be ratified. And the
Franklin Gazette says, " We learn from
letters received by the Hornet, that the
treaty is not ratified, but it is suhhoSed
it will be. The rumor of the assassina-
ton of D'Yrujo is idle; he was displaced
and banshed about the middle of June,
and it is said D'Onis is to succeed him
Eguia, the minister of war, would pro-
badly share the same fate. The cXpe-
dition at Cadiz is progressing, but time
of sailing uncertain, supposed about the
first of August.
BOSTON, JULY 90.
The latter part of April there were
several bloody contests at Constantine
pie between the Janissaries and other
tronns in that ca1,ita land frannuiIitv