Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-01-29

not continue IN once more IMAM SIX weeks.
Twenty men per company are to be adj
ded to the regiments in England. The in
yalids are to do garrison duty.
The Directors of the Bank of England
have given orders to have bars Of gold in
readiness for bullion payments, on the lst of
February next.
On the 18th of November, the fever at
Cadiz, had so far subsidized, that TIE Deum
and general thanksgiving was TO take place
the next day.
The Persian Ambassador has been on a
tour through Ireland and Scotland.
A letter from Madrid, dated the 9th OF
November, says" The Real Giro ( branch
of the royal treasury pays most regularly all
the bills drawn by the embassies abroad, but
on no account such az are drawn within the
kingdom. Eight millions of real uellon, &C
cepted by order ofgovernment for provisions
supplied by merchants in the provinces Tor
the expeditonary army, have been protest
ed.--Nobody will take these bills even at
40 per cent discount"
The ground for erecting barracks, to hold
SEQ men, has been laid out near Manches-
Ter.
The Greek house ofGeorges Catachi, at
Leghorn, stopped payment on the 18th OF
Oct tor 500, 900 piastres.
An article from Vienna Of Oct, %, says,
cabinet courier has arrived from Warsaw
II is said that this courier brings the ntelli-
gence that the Emperor of Russia accedes to
all the resolutions adopted at Carlsbad, but
that he postpones 10 another opportunity
several territorial arrangements relative to
Poland, and various secondary States OF
Germany.
NEW SOUTH WALES.
The progress OF the settlement in New
South Wales has been so great, that the IN
habitants are enabled to make expectations
of surplu, produce. The population OF the
territory is 25, $50 souls, being an increase
in one year, of nearly 5000 inhabitants.
Acres Of wheat in cultivation 20,l00
Ditto of ground ready for maize $500
Ditto Of barley, oats, pease & beans
in cultivation l,39o
Ditro ofpotatoes 100
Ditto of gardens and orchards $50
Ditto of cleared ground 49,6Oe
Total quantity OF acres held by IN
diyiduals $50, 800
Liue Stock.
Total number Of horned cattle in
the territory 55,450
Ditto Of sheep POI gao
Ditto sfswine 1850
Ditto OF horses $500
As criterion of the luxuries enjoyed by
the inhabitants in fruit, one garden. belong
ing 10 gentleman few miles FROM Sidney,
contains the following extensive variety, and
which are generally dispersed over the
whole Of New South Wales, viz. oranges,
citrons, lemons, pomegranates, loquatts,
guavas, the olive, grapes sof every species,
pine apples, peaches, nectarines, apricots,
apples, pears, plums, figs English, Cape,
and China mulberries walnuts, Spanish
chesnuis, almonds, medlars, raspberries,
strawberries, melons, ounces and the caper,
with Others of minor value and such is the
abundance Of peaches, that the swine of the
settlers are fed with them. nn Van Dieman's
Land tie currant and gooseberry are parti-
cuarly fine.
At an annual examination Of the public
schools at Parmatta, black native girl,
belonging 10 the Orphan School founded by
Mrs. King, bore away the second prize;
thus proving the aborigines are susceptible
of sufficient mental improvement to adapt
them to the purposes OF civilized asso-
citation.
A newspaper printed at Sidney, announ-
ces, that literary periodical! work was I'M
to be published, under the title
of I" The Austral3sian Magazine and Quar-
terly Register Of Agricultural and CONNER
cial Information, the Fine Arts, &c.
In the house of commons, on the 3Oth OF
November. Mr.. Grenfell asked, whether
any, and what provision, had been made by
government for the payment of the FIVE mil
lions, that had been advanced by the bank
of England, and which was soon 10 be paid.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer. in re-
ply, said, the House might recolIect his hay-