Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-06-14

have joined the federal troops ana are now
At the distance OF six leagues only from this
capital.
March IT, Authority has been given to
! Balcarce!to do whatever he may think best;
he is disposed tomake war on the federal
forces, and is taking all measures for that
purpose.
Marcha, The best officers have fed and
passed over to the federalisls--also some of
the city guards.
March 10. regiment of citizens with
their colonel the regiment of veterans with
their colonel that of ArgentinCs with about
SO men, have fed and gone over to the fe-
deralists.
March II. The grenadiers and two whole
bands of music have done the same. Bal
carce has summoned every inhabiiant to
arms in defence Of the dignity Of this great
community. He has also invoked the aid Of
all the slaves, offering them their freedom.
But no one will consent to fight. We expect
some remarkable events tonight.
March l2. Atout II o'clock last night
the troops upon which Balcarce relied, and
which he kept shut up in the fort, revolted (;
broke open the gates and made of-6ring
vollies in the air as they went to the camp of
the federalists. The valiant Balcarce, whs
had proclaimed Sarratea and all the other fu-
gitives, traitors to their country, took to
flight in his turn, letting himself down by a
rope from the top of the fort to the river.
AT 5o'clock this morning the federalists
and all the troops who had deserted 10 them,
entered the city crying, " Live Sarratea !
Our Country and our Union !" And without
accident or boodshed, each inhabitant re-
tired TO his dwelling the officers and SOL
diers totheir respective quarters; Sarratea
| TO his post as governor /; and Ramirez with
his army to the extensive barracks construct
ed contiguous to the square formerly that Of
the bull fights.
In the following days down to the present
1.-THE 18th OF March, many of the adherents
of Puerrydon have been taken. Balcarce,
however, and some 8 or 8 of the leaders
have escaped. All the members of the
Congress who signed the agreement which
surrendered this country to the prince Of
Lucca, have also been taken, with the ex
ception of three who accompanied their sig
nature with protest.
The head Of Pompey the Great is in New
York lat least, such is the opinion of the
learned in that city and il is not altogether
irrational. Commodore Stewart brought
home in the Franklin, two Egyptian num-
mics (embalmed bodies) the one human
head, the other dog, of the species that
were worshipped by the Egyptians. They
were brought to Leghorn from Egypt, by an
Armenian, in 1919. and obtained by the Re-
verend Thomas Hall, in May OF that year.
The Dog, or Anubis, was found, among other
mummies, in the pyramid last opened. The
head was discovered by some persons, in
digging the canal from the Nile 10 Alexan-
drla, cased in stone coffin and was pur-
chased of slave by the Armenian. Now.
the reasons for supposing the Head no other
than Pompey's, are these: As this Head
was found in stone vase separate from The
trunk, and shews moreover marks of having
been severed before it was embalmed; and
as the honors of embalmiDg were conferred
upon none hut the sirtuous or the illustrious,
this could not be The head Of low born
raletactor. History no where furnishes an
instance of any one being embalmed, whose
crimes had subjected him to the punishment
of death-tbe common mode of which was
decaptation Though Pompey was assas-
sinated on the Egyptian shore, at Pelus;uln,
which is on the extreme mouth of the Nile
over against Alexandria, and his body was
devoted TO The humble funeral pile where he
lay !; the court of Ptolemy was at Alexan-
dria, where the head was carried. 1t was there
the mean prince presented it to Caesar, it ha-
wing been preserved (embalmed \ for that pur-
pose; and Caesar commanded il should be III
TERED in the suburbs Of Alexandria DRY
denis Translation Of App,an Here, then,
is singular instance of an embal,ned head
alone and the coincidence is altogether
striking. There is room nevertheless for
doubt. In the first place, the iucredulous
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