Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-03-13

| A dreadful fire broke out this morning in
the Strand, which has destroyed the dwell
ing of Mr.. Cary, chart-seller, and that OF
his brother the optician. The fire is not
| yet extingushed, and grea! amount OF pro-
perry is destroyed.
On Thursday, the Thames was frozen
over below London Bridge; aud az three
o'clock in the afternoon, lit was not navlga-
| ble from Blackfriars' to Westminster. The
docks and wharfs are inundated with goods.
| The severe frost is still more severely felt IN
| IFS consequence, as il puts almost All entire
stop to commerce. Were it not for this, the
commercial world would assume briskness
unusual at this time of the year, as there is
great influx of foreign orders, and conf
dence is in considerable degree restored.
The hon. Mr. Bagot, late minister in A.
merica, is appointed Ambassador 10 st. re-
tersburg.
The Prince Regentha appointed Antho-
ny Barclay, Esq. to be his .Malesty's Com
missioner for carrying into effect the 9th and
7lb articles OF the Treaty of Client, vice
John OgiIvy, Esq. deceased.
The American Quaker, Stevens, celebra-
ted as second Howard, had an audience OF
the Pope on the 2Ist ult AS the principles
| of his sect do not permit him to take off his
hat. and as it might be inconvenient for him
10 keepit on his head, he proposed that some
person in the anti-chamber should take the
trouble of uncovering him. This Office was
performed by M. Capacina, in the depart
ment of the Secretary Of State.
1t appears no longer doubtful that Sir Tho.
mas Maitland is to be removed from the
command in the Mediterranean, and is 10 be
succeeded by Lord William Bentick, whe is
| now at Rome.
Friday evening week, bis .Najesty's store
ship Weymouth. Mr.. Richard Turner, com
mander, sailed for the Cape of Good Hope,
with 47O settlers, men, women and children,
for that colony.
! By the Flanders mail we have the follow
ing paragraph dated Hamburg, Jan. To-
| A most serious Instruction, attended with
much bloodshed, has broken out at Smyrna,
the palace ofthe Pacha was considerably da-
mayed, and the Facha himself with great d't-
hculty escaped.
Cobbett proposes to raise fund for fur
thering the cause otIthe Reform in way
such as his discretion shall point out. The
sum which he thinks will be required will be
$1,000. This is to be collected among the
male and female Retormers, and lodged in
his hands; 10 be used solely by him.
The American ship Randolph, capt. Ste
phens, has been captured off .Nargarlta, by
pirate. His crew and passengers were
sent to Puerto Cabello. This vessel, ii
seems, had been employed previously in
transporting number of British troops from
the island of Margarita to the Spanish Nam,
which bad arrived out from Dublin, forming
part of The Legion OF Gen. D'Evereaux.
We lament to state, that advice was re-
ceived at Kensingon Palace, on Sunday, an
nouncing that his Royal Hiehness the Duke
of Kent's illness had assumed most alarming
symptoms.
.Li0srpool, Jan. l8.
The parliamentary recess will afford to
the members an opportunity of directing
their attention to the state of the country, &
the calm which the restrictive bills on pub
lie meetings and on the discussions OF the
press have tended to produce, will enable
them TO enter upon the enquiries 10 which
our situation will give rise, with more COM
posure than the subject could otherwise
have obtained. The great object Of atten-
ton ought to be the national debt. BY the
operation Of that stupendous engine. the mid
die classes of the community are sinking in
to decay, and the laborers are becoming
paupers. The pressure is more than the
country can bear. The sum Withdrawn from
trade in the shape Of taxes is disrroportion-
ed to the capital of the country, and even
the neeessaries of life are from the same
cause so unequally diffused, that many of the
poor, particularly in the manufacturing dis
tricts, are suffering privations in a year o.
peace and plenty which they have before
seldom endured under the combined infu.
ence of war and scarcity.
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