Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-09-15

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| improve the existing prices OF the tunds.--
| The market in Consols for the account cio-
sed Yesterday at So 7.8 $40 SO Omnium at
| i premium and Navy Elves at LOO 5-8.
It is said that Gordon of troops is about
10 invest the metropolis. pending the ensa-
ing trial Of the queen, and that an encamp-
mani of 5000 men will be formed on Black
heath. =, az
The Paris Journals Of Wednesday last ar.
rived this morning. They supply no intel
ligence of any interest An article from Vi
emma states, that the Persian ambassador
had arrived in that place on the 18th inst
Accounts from Madrid of the 18th inst. an
| nounce the arrest of the curate OrtolozzI,
who il is said is implicated in the conspiracy
recently discovered at Seville. This eccle-
siastic, under the late system, was jealous
advocate for the king, over whom, 1t IS al
| legged. he exercised great influence.
French Funds-Juiy rs.
! Five per cents $4,000. Bank Stock, 1871
| SOC.
| Bya mail which arrived this morning, we
! have received Dutch papers to the Goth inst.
| The following extract is dated Berlin, the
! ! lth inst
"Within these few days the discount on
bills OF exchange has risen at Berlin to per
cent. This rise is ascribed to the numerous
speculations which are now making here as
well as in other places, on the new great
! loan of one hundred million Of rubles, now
negotiating for Russia, by Mr.. Ruthschild,
OF London. Grea, eagerness is every where
shown 10 subscribe to the loan.
London. July go.
| We have received Paris papers of We'd
nesday last, but their contents are wholly
devoid Of general interest. Public prayers
are daily offered to hea7en in almost every
part of France for the happy delivery OF the
duchess of Berri, and for the birth of a prince.
Paris, July 25.
On Sunday it was reported that NJ Hyde
de Melville was appointed Ambassador at
! the court OF the Brazils, and that the Mar.
quis de Riviere would give up the embassy
to Constantinople, to coed the deceased
Count de Puyseger, in quality ofCaptain OF
/ the Guards OF his Royal Highness Monsieur.
One of the most affl citing and awful events
ever remembered in this neighborhood, oc-
Cured at lhorrcIitf Iron Works on Wednes-
| day last. During Inc tremendous thunder
storm in the afternoon, the workmeD, in pre-
sence Of all the resident proprietors, were
casting TIT shaft, about FIVE tons weight, in
perpendicular mould when the casting
was nearly complete, the liquid mass sud.
denly shut up, like cataract of fire from the
oriice o. volcano, and mingled with clouds
of heated sand. fell i1fed hot flakes on eve-
~ side. Of about forty persons present, 29
were burnt more or less severely; but par
ticulars of the manner in which wounds and
death were inflicted during this dreadful ex-
ploslcn, would be too shocking for perusal-
Three men persisted on the spot, and six
others have died since.
The Amity saw a ship yesterday of South
Hampstead, supposed to be the Eliza Jane,
from Liverpool for New York.
Captain Maxwell boarded the ship James
Monroe, off Sandy Hook. yesterday after
noon, and dispatched letters for Liverpool.
The Hercules. Cobb, was to leave Liver.
pool tor New York on the llth August, and
| the Magnet Oh he g5th.
| The ship Francis Henrietta, went into Ii
verpool on tn I'd August.
The Packet ship Albion arrived at Liver
po on the 3Uth July, in 20 days from New
York.
! The Braganza arrived on the ed August
from New ork.
.arrived at Liverpool-Jane, Philadelphia;
! Missouri. Baltimore illinois, Newly ork
Procrls, New Brunswick; Benz. Shaw, do;
Arno, Quebec; blary Ann, do; Caricks, do;
Camlllus, do; Eliza, do.
Vessels up al Liverpool for the .. States.
Armata, Baltimore w. p Johnson, New
Orleans; Harriet Smith, marlborough
Tropic, Portland; Neptune, Philadelphia
Henry, do; Vulcan, Savannah Tobacco
Plant. Virginia.
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