Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-02-07


victory.
:" Caaro.--The accounts from this place TO
the early part of May. mention that the
plague bad been raging there with great vlo-
leDce our travellers from Bombay, were
detained some weeks by it, but had lett It
for Alexandria, some days before the Jessy
left Suez."
Kutch.-For these several years past
this devoted country has been visited both by
famine and pestiIence, which, added to in
testine broils. has very much thlnned ITS po-
pulation. Twenty years ago, with the ex-
ception ofboatmen, and the Bhattias, there
was not a native of Hutch to be seen, bat now
thew have commenced agriculture. and form
very prominent portion OF the inhabitants
of Bombay. and we have but little doubt but
this last dreadful visitation, will induce ma
nv more to emigrate, should not the foster
ing hand of the British government not oEty
afford present aid, but future instruction in
pointing out to them the natural resources OF
their country, now useless for want OF ener-
gy in the inhabitants. We allude to its irCn
and coal mines; some small quantity of The
former is occasionally brought to Bombay,
and specimens Of coal found on the surface,
LEAD US to suppose that this substance might
be found of good quality. This is by no
means visionary speculation, for it is
well known fact, that the price OF Gre wood,
and consequently all other kinds of wood,
have been annually increasing"
"We have been favored with some no.
tees respecting the Chevalier Ferdini, men
toned in former paragraph.
"This traveller departed from Italy in the
autumn of 1917, and proceeding to Egypt,
was the second who entered into the Pyra-
mid of Ccphrenes, and accompanied Lord
Belmore into Nuba. He has also travelled
to Idumea. Phlicia, Judea, Samaria, Cali
lee, Phencia, Syria and Mesepotamia.-
After having performed a very dangerous
journey and visited the ruins Of Thebes,
Memphis, AscaIon, Tyre, Sidon, Antioch,
and Jerusalem, he reached Balbec and Pal
myra.
&c Returned into Egypt, he crossed the
Red Sea, and visited Mounts Horeb g. Sinai.
q" He now meditates proceeding to Baby
Ion. and from thence through Persia into In
dia."
Calcutta, Sept |.
1t appears that Mr. Vince lock. the unfcr-
tunae Baptist Missionary, who was drown
Cd during the passage Of the Britannia from
Rangoon to Calcutta, had been in a state of
mental arrangement for some days previous
to the fatal accident The window Of the
quarter gallery. TO hich he had retired being
found open, on the first alarm Of his being
missing, this awful occurrence may with e
quail appearance of reason be attributed Ell
ther to accident or to the unhappy state Of
mind which we have alluded to.
Mr.. Wheelock was a very worthy young
gentleman, native Of Boston,
By private letter received from Batavia
by the Am. ship Glide, we learn the confr-
nation OF the fact which we announced few !
DAYS since, on the authority of letters from
/ enang, namely the expulsion of the Dutch
from Palembapg hy the Malays, with the
loss of III men ana 2 officers killed. The
Nalays had a battery o. 80 pieces OF cannon,
which the Dutch attempted 10 storm three
times, but were repused.
His Burmah Majesty, the King Of Ava, de-
parted this life on the 9th of June, 1919, at
a very advanced age, and after a reign OF
SO successive years.
The Prince Regents grandson of the late
King of Ava, succeeded him, and assembled |
the throne on the sixth and Oh the seventh,
the remains of the deceased king (atteEded |
by his successors with the Princes of Tau9- |
moo, Prone, and others, as Chief mourners,)
were with solemn ceremony and grandeur,
placed on the funeral pile, composed OF san
dial wood, and various other odoriferous
combustibles. The torch was applied to
this by the hands of the Princes, and the |
occasionally poured out costly oils !
on the fuel until the corpse was totally con-
sumed, when the ashes were carefully col |
iected together, put in an urn and deposited |
i'll royal cemetry, as relic for the uture
veneration OF his deceased Majesty's descen-