Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1821-09-05


adam about 500 miles, where they found
it wide, and with sufficient depth Of wa
ter for boasts of considerable burthen.-
They all agree that south line from its
source will fall at least fifty miles uest of
Red river.
1t is said that the gentlemen who have
the direction Of this exploring party. ex-
pect to complete the running Of the above
boundaries in about six months; but those
who have practical snowledge Of large
portion of the country over which they
have to travel, say that it cannot possibly
be completed in less than one year.
We are anxious for the speedy compile
tion of the objects, of this expedition,
which will add much to the geographic
cal knowledge of large and interesting
portion of the territory of the United
States hitherto but partially or very i'm
perfectly known.
From the London Morning Chronicle,
July 10.
Extract of a letter from DR.. O'Meara,
commenting on the report OF the Eng
Gsh physicians who opened tie body Of
Napoleon Bonaparte at ST. Helena
1T is very important first to observe
that this report IS not signed by professor
Antommarchi, although governor Lowe
asserts that the whole Of the medical gen
tiemen concurred in report OH the al
pearances; and nextiy. assert, without
dread OF contradiction, that no man ever
saw an instance OF cancer Of the stomach
proceeding through all its stages, from
its commencement to death, in seven
weeks and one day Cancer OF the sto-
mach is tedious lingering disea Sc, keep
ing the patient in torture for months; but
here we have the stomach, to nearly its
ease in Seven reehS! With respect to the
ass rtion of hereditary cancer, promul ga
ted through fabricated letter by those
who had the Gazette report in their pos
session, it is too contemplate to be Sc
rious y refuted.
No respectable ancient author ever
mentioned, no modern practitioner ever
met such disease; it is desperate ex-
pertinent practised upon public credulity,
too gross to impose upon the most unin-
formed, but naturally enough to be haz-
arded by those who are willing to impute
the death of the victim to any other cause
rather than the true one. 1t is only sur
prising that they have not followed it up
by calculation of how many years may
eiaPse before the stomach ofyoung Napo-
leon Is to enter upca lis paternal inheri-
lance The story is too ridiculous for
argument, and those who have fabricated
1t might JUS as well assert The existence
of hereditary murder, or any other moral
depravity which may happen to be upper
most in their memories.
| do not assert positively the proximate
cause of the "eath OF Napoleon; that can
only be known with certainty to the al
mighty disposer of all life and death; but
] asse unhesitatingly, that i was has
tened oy the treatment he experienced;
by this transpo: tation to tropicalclimate;
by the petty vexat!ons inflicted in his i'm
prisonment; by the numherless minute
and studied notifications. which none
but mind like his could have endured,
and a: length by that arrangement of the
digestive organs which mental anxiety
invariably produces Such is my opin-
ion, not originating in the indignation of
the moment, but formed and dciiberated
long ago, and delivered by me IN lam
guage not to be misunderstood, at two
different periods of Napoleon's deten-
ton
told his majesty's ministers, emphati-
cally, that if the same treatment was con
tinued, his premature death might not
be SO immediate. but was quite as inevi
table, as if it had taken place under the
hands Of the 'executioner' To these
documents nov direct the eyes of Eu-
rope, as the testimonies of my judgment,
and to the erent point for the accuracy
with which it was formed"
The following is extracted from Miss Al
ken's memoirs of the Court of Queen Eli.
zabe th"-a work OF which we took so lie no.
tice few days sinCe:-
Soon after these events, Henry conf rmed
the new impressions which his subjects had
received OF his character, by an ACT of extra.
ordinary. but not unprovoked severity. which
involved in the destruction one of the most
ancient and powerful house among the peer
age of Ireland that of Fitzgerald, Earl of
Kildare. The nobleman who now bore ih.
tile had married for his second wife lady