Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-06-16

~ p'iue' The o,
tent 81 our communion, Willie it ne, w.
sarily epcreases our influence as =,
dy, exposes us to many countervs;! w.
evils. If the demon of party shmHas
YER haunt our councils; if secta.,,
.iealousies should hereafter arise ~ q
vide our strength; if in wordy coS, s
about what the gospel is We should ~
get the charity and lose the influence w.t.
the gospel itself; or if, in seeking CIV
rity we sacrifice truth this cbunS
great, and wide and flouMshlnr as r..
may become great and a wide le,nl,
ti"n, a spirited ruin I; wasted by eps,
and dilapidatcd by decay. our chl1rs
n,ay have to lift up their hands over i.
departed glory, and exclaim, "Al,s
that great city - Thatthi melancb,
ly fate Ca fate which has already IA,
Fsed on many church as confident
perpetuity as we Can be) shall ueverbe
the lot of the Presbyterian church IN
these United States, the Assembly Con.
fden,ly hope; but their hope rests ua
on men but on end. The period of tIs
world, the voice Of prophecy, tile as.
poets Of providence, the relative situa.
ton of our country, all seem unitedly
to point TO future glory Of Zion UPON
our shores; yet in the soul cheering
prospect, let us not fors ct present duty,
nor lose sight of our absolute depend.
ance upon God; but with meek hope and
chastened Joy, let us watch, let US Ia.
Dor, but above all let Il. pray.
Published by order of the General
Assembly,
Attest,
WILLIAM NELL, Stated Clerk.
Philadelphia, May, 1920.
Extract Of q letter from CarthageR,
dated 18th May.
"The ship Corsair, capt. Robinson
belonging to New York was captured
while at anchor in the mouth of the ri.
yer St. John de Nicaragua by Patriot
privateer and carried to Providence,
tried and liberated. She returned TO
St. Johns, discharged her cargo, and
was loading with beef for Havana, ex
perted to sail about Goth May. The
brig Gov. Jones, of Charleston. was
lying at anchor in St. Johns"
Office of the Mercantile Advertiser,
.Ns7U York, June Il.
A letter from Havana, of the gath
nit. states that the Spanish General Re-
novales, died in the Moro Castle on the
a2d. He has of late resided in New.
Orleans, hut proceeded to Havana on
business of the recent events in Span.
He was arrested at Havana witt seye.
raj other officers on charge of having
attempted a conspiracy to overthrow
the present Government and establish
the independence of Cuba.
Up to tue esth of May. no instruc-
tons from the new government oil SPAN
had been received at Havana.
From the Norfolk Herald, June e.
Among the passengers landed at Old
Point Comfort. on Friday, from the
schr. Harvest, Emery, from Charleston
bound to Baltimore, were Gene'sl
Gaines. and Mai. James NJ. Glass'i'
of the U. S. army. They have slDe0
arrived in town.
Capt, Maglathlln, of the schr' Eliza
& Betsey. from Pnrt-au-Prlnce, repre-
sents that place to be very sickly; lns
schr. Mercator (of Middletown) was
probably the only vessel which had tn'
tirely escaped the ravages of diseass Sc
Capt. Small of the schr. Ciarissa' (l'OD
this polD had been sick, but rec0s ''di'.
his marcs however IeH"i"
posed. All the crew of the Na'tv
from n. Orleans) were sick WIN 1 'nv
exception of the captain.--On sunu''
night the 4th il st. Moses NIrkei' ''
a lad of about Is; and only SON D, WI
owner of the Eliza & Betsey, d'eu do
was consigned to watcry grave
[Lytord's Reading Room 0"0"''
.asw York, jane J"
LATEST FR0AI ENGLAND.
The Criterion, capt. Avery, orlns'
London papers to the Sd uEt. iIIciu'n1
The execution Of Arthur ThistlewYO'J,
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