Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-12-07
FOREIGN ARTICLES.

FOREIGN ARTICLES.
Extract 81 letter, dated London, 9th Octu-
Der 1919.
g. The scheme adopted by our ministers
Of giving land and encouragement to those
who enigrats to the Cape OF Good Hope, ad
ded 10 the melancholy accounts we have
from your side. reduces the emigration TO
your country. Fifty thousand entered their
names in one week. Our government send
them out free of expense, and make other
provision for them"
London, Oct. 80.
Twenty warrant officers (boatswains, guE-
ners, and carpenters.) have been selected
from ,he ordinary at this port, and appoint
cd 10 the ships on the lakes OF Canada. Our
sum otmouey to create, is, we understand,
going fast TO decay. The force on the four
lakes, namely, ST. Lawrence, Ontario, Erie,
and Huron, consists Of one ship Of SO guns,
one OF Sc, four Of 80, one Of 90, two Of IL,
and five schooncrs, besides gun briggs.
Portsmouth paper.
Newfoundland Gazettes TO the 29'h Sept.
have been received His MaJesy's snip
Ce.e;tc, captain Pecbell had seized an Ame-
rican brig, having on board India goods,
which were Illegally destined for Halifax
from the United States, to the amount of co.
000!. The American had gone into La Have
in the night, and anchored close along side
Of the BcIlette, Chen lying there on the look
out for smugglers, which she had informa.
tion were expected on the coast and on
captain Pechell's sending boat on board,
her cargo was reported TO consist OF -four
and slaves but si!ict search being made
the above goods were discovered slowed a
way in a bulk head prepared for the pur-
pose. A crew was Immediately put on board
from the Belette, and the vessel ordered tor
Halifax.
paris, Oct. g.
The trial Of The Editor and publisher Of
the translation Of Mr. ilobhouse's history of
the " Hundred Days" took place before
the Assize court of Paris yesterday. This
translation was originally printed at Client.
and copy of it was purchased from ira
weller in Paris by NJ. Domerc, one Of the
defendants in the present case. This copy
was shown TO the other defendant, Regnault
WARM, who ttought il might be published
If some parts, which reflected with too much
severity upon the King and the Royal fami
y, were suppressed. Regnaut WARM, un.
Gertcok the task at erasing the most offensive
parts, and these alterations being made. the
BOOB was printed. Five copies of the rub
LEGATION were, in pursuance OF law, deposit
ed in the public Office; 4S4 copies were sent
TO Brussels, Cheat, Geneva, Naples, War
saw, Turin, and other foreign towns. 487
were distributed among the booksellers al
Paris, and % were presented TO the friends
Of The publishers. The publication was
charged as libellous, in having made for
NAL attsck upon the inviolabity of the kings
person, the order of succession 10 the throne,
and tn" constitutional authority of his majes-
t.. Severa! passages in the work were
charged as calumnics against the members
Of the Royal Family. The jury pronounced
he two prisoners not guilty of formal attacks
upon the insiolabiIi,y of the kings person,
&c. but they declared them guilty of public
insults towards the King and Royal Family !;
and the court, after some deliberaton, sem
fenced D0merc to six months Imprisonment
aud 900 francs fine; and Regnault WARM
10 che years imprisonment and l,oo9 francs
ine.
Cons tontinopie, Sept. 10.
We have just witnessed a great ministe-
rial revolution. The grand Seignior all al,
once caused a grand evee TO be announced,
10 which all the Ministers repaired. When
they were thus assembled, be began by de-
claring that he deposed the Multi, Mustapba
Aassim Efendi, and appointed in his place
the former Grand Judge of Romelia, Hadge
iaIel, Efendi. A few days afterwards he
deposed the Grand Master OF the Ceremonies,