Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-09-30

siops Of several royal DEGREES, or clrcu-
lars of the ministers, VIZ likewise take
particular notice OF the extention--to
all foreigners detained in the prisons OF
the State for being in any way concern
cd in the rising of the settlements pc
yond the seas-of the Amnesty lately
granted to the Frenchmen and Anglo
Americans in the same prediramcnt ;
with this restriction, however, that such
English subjects as have declared ! +
the Insurgents since it was prcilibiltn
by Parliament. are excluded from the
benefit of the Amnesty; an order tor the
issuing ammunition to the militia, when
ever the municipal bodies or civil go
,ernols shall require it !; and another
order putting half pay officers who en-
list as non. commissioned officers or
priyates in the regiments OF militia,
upon the same footing, while on duty,
with the other individuals OF the same
rank in those corps, with respect to the
uniform which they arc 10 wear, and
the punishment TO be inflicted upon them
if they render themselves liable to 1T IN
their new capacities.
His Catholic Majesty set out for
Sacedon on the goth inst.
Gibraltar August S.
The account of the si'tings of tho
Coltes, in the Government GGzeltes re-
ceived this week, is again nearly filled
up with motions, &c. generally referred
to the standing or to special Commit
tees. AS announced in our last, we
shall confne ourselves to All abstract
of the most important Resolutions come
to by the Assembly, which are but few
in number.
On the 22nd July, it suspended the
execution of Decree, of the Esd De-
cember 1913. for the abolition of the
monopoly of Tobacco and other articles;
and confirmed all the Orders, given by
his Majesty since the 9th Of March
last, for enforcing the existing laws a.
pom the subject, until the adoption OF
HC" i lHdHt1di ~ olOhs
On the Gath, i: decreed, that the du-
ty on Oil, exported in National bottoms
shall henceforth be one fourth of real
vellon per arrobe, and, in Foreign yes
sells, three reals.
On the Goth, taking into considera-
ton the privilege granted by the late
Government TO certain Individuals to
import foreign -four into the Isle of Gu
ba and others, in Foreign bottoms,
without paying higher duties than if the
took place in National yes
sels-and the payments making by the
Treasury to those individuals, in pur-
suance Of certain agreements entered
into between Government and them for
the partial REIMBURSEMENT OF these pri
Cortes not only confirmed
the suspension CT both privileges and
which has been ordered by
his Majesty since his adoption of the
Constitution, but declared the prisile-
ges and the subsequent agreements null
and of no effect and further directed
the Committee of Finances to propose
W hatever means they might think most
adequate to indemnify the nation for
the losses which she has sustained in
consequence of the privileges and a
greements; and also to give their opin-
ion on the question whether or not they
should be punished who advised, or
were instrumental towards Government
entering into, these agreements.
And, lastly, on the s7th, the Cortes
decreed, that, until the next Legisla-
ture, shall order what it may deem pro
per on the subject, the importation of
Foreign Grain and Flour into the ports
of the Peninsula and adjacent Islands
shall be prohibited from and after the
receipt of the present Decree, SO long
as the price of wheat shall not exceed
80 RS. vn. feneague, and that of flour,
100 per quintal. BY the price of wheat
is to be understood its average price in
the maritime markets of the Peninsula.
An exception is made in favor of the
Balearic Islands for the whole time they
shall continue in their present lamen-
table state nor is tho above prohibition
at any time, to extend to the Canary
Islands, or to the Settlement on the
coast of Africa.
The denial, complained of by Gen.
Lacy's Widow, of Document which
the Cortes have since directed to be 81