Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1821-11-26
Petersburg. Mop. 2S.
MAIL ROBBERY.

Petersburg. MOO. 70.
ANOTHER MAIL ROBBERY.
1t will be seen by the following,eiter
and enclosure from the Postmasteao of Fa-
etteville. to the Postmaster of Peters
burg, that the Mail Of the United States
was robbed on the night of the 10th inst.
near Marion Court -house, South Caro-
Ina. This is the third attempt upon the
Mail within three or four weeks time;
and as vet in neither instance have the
perpetrators been discovered. The fire.
auent repetition of these attacks in SO
many different parts of the country, in SO
short space is enough really tocreate Sc
rious th0'ts in the public mind; and If
some effectual remedy cannot be applied,
all confidence in the mail as medium of
conveyance, must soon be at a, end.
Posr OFFICE, Fayetteville, NoO. g.
Dean Sir
You will perceive by the handful en-
closed that Just reached home III time to
take measures fer the apprehension of a.
mother set of depredators upon the Mail.
As yet am notm possession of the cir
cumstance attending the robbery in South
Carolina have learned however that it
toolS place in the night whilst the Driver
wascrossing a swamp; that the mail was
cut open, the packets for Charleston, Sa-
yaanah sc. ali except one) opened and
the letters scattered in the road, This
afternoon the southern Mail arrives again,
i'll should receive the particulars, will
satjoin postscript.
Irpiy and very respectfully,
JOHN M'RAE.
THOMAS SHORE, ESQ.
P. s. The Southern Mail has ar
rived, but brings not word OF the rob-
Der.
Office of the Boston Daily Advertiser,
November III p. NJ.
GibrGttar, Sept, 90.
a private letter OF the lith from Mad
rid states General Morillo to have re.
suned tie military command Of the Prov
ince.
A French Colonel, of the name of Mon
tarlot, concerned in the late plot of Sara
gossa, who had succeeded in etfecting his
escape from that Capital when the plot
was discovered, has been arrested since,
and sent to Jacs, with five individuals by
whom he vas accompanied in his flight
The Piedemontese Gen. Baudancont Ia
Refugee penHoned by the Spanish 60
verument) has also ooen arrested at Va
lsncia, on its being ascertained that he
eocresponded with Montarlot, and had
lately been urged to proceed to Saragos-
ga for the purpose OF assisting in the exc
cution of hii plans.
Gen. RieSo arrived at Lerida on the
7th,
September 25.
Several changes have taken place in the
Portuguese Administration. His Males
ty, intending to appoint the Minister Of
the interior, Vice Admiral Quintella, to
another situation, has nominated Nj. Fer
reira dc Arulose Castro to succeed him.
DR. Costa takes charge of the Finances,
in lieu of DIR. Celho, resigned.-And Dr.
Csryaibo is entrusted with the newly
created Department of justice, Ecclesi-
astical Affairs and Public Safety.
The representatives. of Rio Janeiro
took their seats in the Cortes on the 10th
last.
The account of Gen. Morillo's having
been re-instated in his high office of capt.
General of New CASTLE, is officially con-
frrned. The charges against his Excel
lency tSse Chronicle Of the 5lst of the
last month"; have been sscertained to be
wholly void of foundation.
Lieut.. General (MachaeD Allava, has
been appointed Conmandant General
ad iHterim Of the Military District ofAr-
ragon, uies gen Riego.
September 26.
A second attempt having been made by
the the mob of Madrid. in the night of the
18th inst. to parade General Riego's Por-
trait about the streets, in direct opposi-
ton to the orders of the Civil governor is
sued on tina. very day, the troops were
directed to dispense rioters, and obeyed
No particulars have hitherto been given
ia the papers.
September 81.
Tine liberty of speech having,,bsen gross
" abu..d OF late, at the meetings of the
Patriotic Society at the Lafontana Coffee
house in Madrid, the Civil governor of
the Province ordered them to be suspen-
d,i On rhe 18th, and Oh the next day. as 8