Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-04-11

being SGttytS0 WIFI UNlo % 6Oosaos eai1 stlS
pr;ce, agreed to take it. The merchant was
to deliver il 10 their order: and they were
to settle in The afternoon. They LETT the store,
drew up an order for the goods. and one.
changing bis dress to that Of draynan, de,
liberately went to the stand mounted a dray,
[the owner. perhaps, being drinking bis
bser) proceeded to thu store, presented
the order, received the goods, and drove of {!
The two gentlemsn, the goods and the
dray and horse have never since been heard
.of!!!
London. Mnreh2.
Extract Of letter from Leghorn. dated Feb
ruary re.
"The Princess of Wales arrived here on
the 10th from Marseiiles, with a limited suite.
A few hours afterwards courier from Lon
don brought her the intelligence of the death
of King George the III. We are ignorant
whether this news will change the princess's
Intended route, or whether she will continue
to reside at Pesaro."
By decree Of the King Of the Neither
lands, and subsequent order Of the Burgo.
masters Of Amsterdam, the celebrated Bank
Of Amsterdam, whose functions, till within a
recent period, have borne so large share
In the money transactions offoreign countries
with Holland, has ceased to exist. The
whole Of its accounts will be finally closed
on or before the 28th OF July next.
An article in the Client Journal, describes
the King of Prussia as being very melancho-
ly. and almost incapable oftransacting bust
ness. He has ordered the strictest economy
in his household.
From Genoa, i, is stated, on the authority
of letters from Cairo, that the Pacha Of Egypt
had seized upon Palestine. and that divi.
sion Of his army had entered Jerusalem.
We learn with regret the death of Joseph
Richie, esq. at Mourzuk. Africa, about 400
miles south Of Tripoli. He was employed
under the auspices Of the government, to
make discoveries in the interior of Africa, and
particularly to Penetrate through the great
desert of Tombuctoo. Great additions to
geographical science were expected from his
labors.
We have authority to state. says'the Morn
ing Chronicle, that there was no injunction
whatever contained in the will of the late
Duke of Grafton, 10 any person, to publish
any of5is manuscript papers, either after the
death Of his majesty, or al any other time.
.Mun,sh, January 60.
DR.. Vogel has submitted 10 a careful exa-
mination in the laboratory of our academy,
the surprising discovery OF Mr.. Braconnot, Of
Nancy, of the effects Of concentrated suIphu-
ric acid on wood and linen. He has NOT only
fully confirmed this discovery, but has ex-
tended his own experiments. with equal sue
cess, to other similar vegetable substances,
such as old paper, both printed and written
upon, & cut straw By diluting til. sulpho-
ric acid with due addition of water. saw
dust, cut linen, per, &c. were converted
into gum and saecharine matter. II must
excite great interest in all rejecting minds to
see an lndissoluble tasteless substance. like
the 6laments of wood, converted by chemi-
cal reaction, into two new bodies, and che
mistry thus exercise power, which but late
ly appeared to belong to nature alone, and in
particular to vegetation. This artificial Tor
nation OF sugar and gum, BOW discovered,
must not be confounded with the extraction
OF these two substances from bodies in which
they already existed. What has now been
is a Transformation, metamor-
phosis, of which the most ingenious chemist
had previously no idea; and il affords new
proof of the boundless extent OF chemistry.
From, the Bait. Morning Cbron. .aprsl 8.
We publishto-day sundry articles of in
telligence, received by the late arrival at
New York, from Liverpool. 1t is not how
ever peculiarly interesting from the slight
sketch of the debate given in the house Of
commons, il seems perfectly evident, that
the opposition party mean to entrench them
selves behind the popularity ofthe Queen Of
England. lnthe allowance which is made
to the Princess OF Wales in lthe civil list es-
innate, the Queen is still recognizs by
that title. The party in opposition insisted
that there was no such person then in exis-
'tence, the former Princess Of Wales being