Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1821-03-27

riding now pre sen,s very different ap'
pea,ance. All the English families have
left the town: and Admirals, captains anu
officers. live Oh bard; and no one Is allow
ed to, be ashore after sunset II oe'us uS"'
gerous to d. so. The const'tu''opa''s's' Of
as they call themselves, the Carbonarl' u Is
,.o,, t,ov, dislike US. as j, is evident 10
them that we are here to protect lhe 'o1 a.
family. The old king was yesterday taken
on board the Vengeur, ~, by The English
boats. and sailed in tie night to Leghorn.-
His embsrka,ion was effected privately; all
the barges of the feet, with the captain Of
each ship, were ordered alongside the
Rochetort in the afternoon, they then pro-
ceeded to the dock-yard with the Admiral
where an attendant ran down to tell them
they had mistaken the place, and that the
King was anxiously waiting for them IN Inc
same subterraneous passage from which
the royal family were taken by Lord Nelson
to the Vanguard. He was found waiting
attended only By bis family and lew pn-
ya,e guards. The captains had been adv'-
sed against going publicly to The Palace to
take him. as the conse quences might nave
been serious. The king jumped in the boat
without assistance, or without allowing the
Admiral or any officers time to land; he
seemed 10 consider himself secure when he
got amongst his friends. the English. as he
called them; he resembled a man delivered
from death. He embraced all his family
before be seated himself in the boat, and
when seated, Prince Leopold, his son.
jumped in and embraced him again; their
separation was deeply affecting. The boat
then pulled to the Vengeur, and all the
ships, French and English, manned their
yards, and fired royal salutes, with three
cheers. 10 the Bay, the Neapoltans had a
IA and two or three frigates. They paid
no respect On this occasion, having neither
cheered, saluted. nor manned yards. In
fact, believe they were too much asto-
nished to do any thing. The old King was
handed up the ships side by two midsbip-
| men. When he reached the quarter deck,
he actually jumped for joy, exclaiming-
.Mea casa, mea cusa - My house, my
house) His second wife, not being OF
royal blood, she is not styled Queen.) and
his two daughters by her, accompanied him.
| believe the soldiers and inhabitants hard
Iy knew word about his going; there are
about 1000 soldiers in the place, they now
look har at us when we go on shore. The
Vengeu, and Revolulionnaire. with French
fiigate, sailed at o'clock al night. blowing
hard. 1t appears that about two in the
morning, while they were beating out OF
the bay, asblack squall came on, which rem.
dered it difficult TO distinguish each other.
Captain Maitland. however, being on deck,
perceived ship so near him, that it was
impossible to avoid falling on board of Ter,
and therefore gave the unknown ship the
stem. She proved to be the Revoluionnare
The shock carried away the latter's main
chains, stove in all her bulwarKs and gun.
vale; from the fore TO the main mast, and
sprung the main mast. The Vengeur was
damaged about the howsprit, rigging and
stem. In the morning we could perceive
them standing in for BAHIA Bay"
SarOny, Jan. 8.
In our kingdom, the cradle of the Protes'
tant religion. the Cathoick clergy allow
themselves pretentions Of very serious ma
ture, since the small number of Catholic IN
habitsnts have obtained the free exercise OF
of their religion and equal rights with the
protestants.
They impede in every possible way mar
riages between Protestants & Carholicks IN.
less they engage to educate their Children
in the Catholic religion, and even to declare
such marriages as null, unless celebrated by
Catholic priest. That circumstances OF
this kind must have been frequent. may be
inferred from this. that the university oil
Leipzig has thought it proper to bring the
subject before the deit.
London paper Of January %. saws, Re-
cent letters from the Gambia contain the dis
agreeable intelligence Of some sanguinary
successes obtained by the Moors over the
French on the Upper Senegal. 1t is nc
small aggravation of the misfortune, that il
involved the loss Of French vessel, carsy.