Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-04-10

fast on Friday morning lie Goes Lol enter
at all INTO conversation With the officers.
Atpresent ii seems not TO be understood
whetberthe delinquents will be placed ON
their triaf upon charge Of high treason or
of murder.
Though only 25 persons were in the loft
at the time when they were surprised BY inc
Police, yet It is understood, that in the
course the evening not less than DO had been
present but half oithem had skunk away.
il is supposed, from suspicion that Inc
Cabinet ministers would not dine together
at Lord Hsrfowby's the remaining bali be-
gan gradually to entertain the same suspl-
cion, and were, it issaid. deliberatlng whe-
Their they should defer their diabolicalapur-
pose 10 another night-when Ruthven burst
into the room.
M. Sicard, Mr.. Brougham's courier 70
the Queen, arrived in townyesterday having
gone by Mount Gents to Bologna. Florence
and Leghorn, where he met her majesty.
AS be only left Dover the 3lst January, this
: an instance of extraordinary despatch. II
is said that her majesty was to set out on her
return to this country, as. soon as she nao
reposed for few days at her Villa near
pesaro, having been much fatIgued win nef
late dangerous voyage from Toulon 10 Leg
horn, in which very bad weather was en-
coun,ered, Her majesty was, we under
stand, greatly affected by the sudden news
Of the late kings death.
Died. General the Hon. Sir A. Maitland.
Twenty-seyen delegates from the Radical
Societies in correspondence with the elias
cow leaders, were apprehended, in conclave,
on the evening of the 22d Of February, at
the house of winner in the Gallowgate, and
their papers secured.
Parliament was prorogued on the 28th OF
February to the 18th Of March, when new
parliament was to meet. The king was so
much indsposed that he could not attend.
Electioneerng was the order Of the day.
The London Courier states, that by the
last accounts from Spain, the insurgents were
evidently gaining strength, and extending
their operations. No trial of strength had
pet occurred.
Another faux pas in high Life was the Lon
lon talk on the FIRST ult. The wife OF an e.
nnent banker had eloped with an officer in
he army.
Died, February 10, Princess Ann Eliza
beth Louisa, widow of Prince Ferdinand OF
Prussia, aged 80.
THE KING's SPEECH.
Speech of his Majesty's Commissioners in
prorogueing Parliament this afternoon.
> M Lords and Gentlemen,
Sc We are commanded by his majesty to
inform you, that it is great disappointment
10 his majesty. that on this first and solemn
occasion he is prevented by Indisposition
from meeting you in person.
1t would have been consolation to his
majesty to give utterance in this place to
those feelings which his majesty and the ma
ton alike deplore the loss Of Sovereign,
the common father of all his people.
g The king commands us to inform you,
that in determining to call without delay the
new parliament, his majesty has been in
auenced by the consideration Of what is
most expedient for public business, as well
as most conducive to general convenience.
g Gentlemen Of the House Of Commons,
1--WE are directed by his majesty to thank
you for the provision which you have made
for the several branches of the public SER
vice, from the commencement of the pre-
sent year, and during the interval which
must elapse before new parliament Jean
be assembled.
yNy Lords and Gentlemen
's We are commanded to inform you, that
in taking leave of the present parliament,
his majesty cannot refrain from conveying
to you his warmest assurances of the sense
which his majesty eniertains of the impor-
tant services which you have rendered the
country
" Deeply as his majesty lamented that
designs and practices such as those which
you have been recently called upon to re-
press, should have. existed in this free and
happy country, he cannot sufficiently COM
mend the prudence and irmness with which
you directed your attention to the means