Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-03-27

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| introduce new system, and the chances
would be, that the nation would fall under
the experiment.
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| Of Miscellaneous Items, from London Papers.
The minister of war of the kingdom OF
Wirtemberg, has presented to the Chamber
| a project of a law for raising 4,5Oo con-
| scripts, out of the class of young men born
in 1899.
Very severe gales in the Mediterranean
and the Adriatic Gulf, has caused the loss OF
many rich trading vessels.
Intelligence from C~onstantinople to the
9th December, states that the Pachas who
had been sent against the rebels OF Aleppo
had not succeeded in their mission. All
communication between Aleppo and the Ot-
toman Empire had been intercepted. 1T was
the same with respect to Bagdad. Ibe pro.
! secutions againststhe Armenians continued.
The ravages of the plague had been terrible
from the middle Of November to the middle
of December. The two Greek hospitals
had lost one third of their sick.
A great Instruction is said 10 have broke
out at Smyrna.
The Prussian Court is to wear mourning
| three weeks for the death uf the king OF En-
gland.
On the subject of the difficulties existing
between the king of England and his minis.
tiers with regard to the queen, a London pa
per SAYS, that the law officers OF the crown
| had made a report to his majesty's cabinet
council, that upon the body OF evidence sub
nitted to them, i. was their unanimous opini-
on, that an Indictment or impeachment a.
| gainst the queen could not be legally SUSTAIN
ed. The cabinet had also unanimously de.
cided hat no process for a divorce could be
agitated, but they submitted a short bill,
which might be brought into Parliament with
a probability of its passing the two Houses,
declaring in its preamble, that as their ma
~iesties had been separated and had lived Sc
parate for several years, it was not expedi-
ent that the queeu should have the ceremo-
NY Of coronation And if this should pass,
that her majesty might be inclined, on a
suitable provision, to remain abroad. With
this view, an Order in Council had passed
lor the alteration o. the Church service, in
which the special prayer for her majesty
is omitted.
At a supper lately given by the emperor of
Russia, at Petersburgh, silver vases, weigh
Ing SIX hundred and eighty pounds, were pla-
ced on the table.
Ia January last, a peasant woman near
Rome, at the age of 81 years and ID days,
became the mother of t wins, a boy and a
girl.
On the Gath Of January, at the moment
of beating the evening drum, a number of
armed inhabitants and some soldiers OF the
regiment Of Soira, assembled in the square
of St. Anthony, (Cadiz) and uttered cries of
I" long live the constitution" with the sound
of tamborines. The crowd then pushed to-
wards the soldiers of the barracks of ST. He
lena but these soldiers were under arms,
and received the revolters with a brisk fire,
killed fourteen and wounded many, when
they retreated. On the night previous, the
revulters fired howitzer shells from the Tar
ra-Garda, on the Corta-Dura. but without
injury.
At the solicitation Of the Duke d'Angou-
leme, the king has issued all ordinance for
staying the process commenced against Gen.
Gilley. The Duke was the first to announce
the intelligence TO the generals wife.
The Duchess of York was sick at Oat-
lands. She is attended by Sir Henry Hal
ford.
An inquest has been held in the London
Hospital, on the body of Ann Vineyard, q
fortune.,eller, aged 60, who died in conse.