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

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The House adjourned.
Further ertrac's from English papers
receivcd ut Boston. by the Herald, capt.
Fox, and the Packet ship .a1ntty, .UaG
7ceH, at Ne7c Eojk.
Accounts from Cadiz. on the Gath
October, state that the sickness in An
dalusia had very much decreased. The
number Of deaths in Cadi2. from the
22d to the aJlh Oct. was one fourth less
than in an eqnal number Of days immr.
diately preceding.
Another change has taken place in
the Spanish ministry. Don Jose naz,
the minister of finance, has been festo-
ed to his former situation Of director
general Of annuities, and the porte lcu
lie Of The finances has been transferred
to Don Antonio Gonzales Salmon, no.
norary counsellor of the war depart
ment.
II is stated that change is to take
place in the French Ministry. De
Cazes is to be Continued.- Dessolles,
St. Cyr, and Lewis are to retire.
A proclamation had been issued, de-
claring the county Of Roscommon, in
Ireland, in state III disturbance.
Sir Francis BuIdctt las received no
tice that an information has been filed
against him for his Letter to the electors
OF Westminster.
Goblet has arrived in England from
New York. There had been a large
meeting of the people, which Cobbett
addressed at considerable length on
the subject of reform, Mr.. paine's re-
mains, &c. A public dinner was given
to him in the evening at the Castle Inn,
at which the beverage consisted Of pure
water.
The bills proposed in Parliament, and
which we're under debate, are to the
following Effect. A stamp duty upon
all publications, except religious tracts,
and such works consisting Of fewer than
a stated number of sheets. 2. Persons
convicted second time Of political
libel, are submitted to a rs inprison-
ment, Punishment or transportation, at
the discre. ion of the court. 8, Ali prin-
tiers and publishers OF works contem-
plated in the first law, are required to
enter into securities with two sure;ies,
to be answerable for penalties. 4. Pub
lie meetings not convened by regular
constituted authorities, are prohibited,
unless notice Of the intended meeting be
given, and it Is made unlawful tor per-
sons not resident in the parish OF town
ship to attend such meeting. S. Magi:-
trales, upon information OF suspicion,
arc empowered to enter an. mars house
in search Of arms, and to seize them If
found, giving persons suffering such sl-
sits, right OF appeal to the quarter ses-
slOns.
Viscount Lanelles has been appointed
lieutenant Of the county of York.
The Earl OF Egremont has also been
appointed Lieutenant, and Castos TO-
tuloram Of the county of Sussex.
i'fi y-nine editions oil the scriptures,
consisting CT $4,000 copies, arc how
printing by the Bible Society.
Accounts have been recei, ed from the
Hccla and Griper, employed on the nor
therp expedition. they had reached
tho 18th degree of latitude, as far north
as captain Ross was able to penetrate.
1t seemed to be the opinion of the pre-
sent yoyagers, that there is no passage
out of Baftin's Bay. But they have de-
tcrmined TO pass tie winter there, and
prosecute their enquiries in the spring.
A Liverpool paper of November 80,
states that the King of England is has