Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1822-01-24

the former was completely victorious,
making prisoners of several hundred Of
Their antagonists. The next Mails from
that quarter will probably bring US the
particulars of this combat.
The utility of the Telegraph is daily
becoming more apparent. All the Marine
| Insurance Offices in the city of New York,
seven in number. have subscribed so dol
lars each towards its support.
The Jamaica Courant Of December l0'h
received by the U. S. schr. Shark, states
that the mortality occasioned by the mea-
sizes in the Island OF Jamaica, which had
become epidemic, had caused the death
OF upwards of 5000 blacks within a few
months, and that the disease was still pre-
vailing in many ports. Many white per-
sons had also fallen victims 10 the same
disease.
William w. Wcolsey, Esq. Treasurer
of the American Bible Society, has re.
ceived. during the last month, the sum of
1850 dollars and 8 cents; and during the
same period, the Agent, j. Niche, Esq.
has issued Bibles, Testaments, and Epls-
ties, amounting to 1888 dollars and 72 cts.
A Cayenne December Price Current
quotes brown sugar, ID. 25 centimes. clay
ed sugar 62; coffee, {. 10; cotton l 10,
cocoa, IS; rocoa 1 To-; ta6a | 40 the pot;
molasses | 90 per gal; dye woods 40f. the
thousand.
We are indebted to capt. Clark, for the
lollowin ing notice of the Markets at Trini-
dad de Cuba, 18th ult.-Provisions gene
rally were looking up; Flour Is a l8;
Beet IL a Is, Corn Meal dull and no sales;
Sugar 6 a 8; Molasses. none in market;
Coffee 20 a "a cents, scarce. Beacon.
Market at ST. Pierres. (Martinique) De
cember %.
Molasses 80 35 sous, and scarce. A.
merican produce very low.
Norfolk, January ~.
Late Bermuda Papers.-W We are lndebt-
ed to capt. Magrath, OF the schnr. William
s. Mary, reported under our marine head,
for a 6ie of the Bermuda GaZettee from
l7ih November to 22d December inclu-
siye, r~ecstved at the Steam boat Hotel reud-
ING Room. The last number is exclusive
ly occupied with the Message of the Pres
idem of the United States, at the open
ing of the present session of congress,
which is given without other remark
than, that having been favored with a copy
OF tat a late hour on Saturday, (tbe day
on which the Gazette Usually appears,
they had found it necessary, in order to
give it, to postpone the publication of the
, Gazette until Monday nooi,-no slight
mtimation Of the interest which this docu-
ment excites there.
From the Gazettee of the 9Th Decem.
Der, we copy the following articles-the
6rs, showing the sentiments entertained at
Bermuda, as respects the policy OF our
RestricfsUe Laws, and the expectations
formed of their probable repeal by the
present Congress; the second relative 10
the actions instituted by those citizens
tho have been the victims of the arbitrary
AMI unjust rule OF the Despot who now
fills the Governors chair OF that Island.
From the Bermuda Gazette Dec. s..
As the commercial business of this Co
lony has been in a languishing state fol
some time past, we are much pleased in
discerning a CLEAN which We hope will
brighten our future prospects. The sub
ject OF the trade with our Colonies has re-
Gently been agitated with apparent earn.
estness In the United States; and from
what we can gather from their public
prints, we have good reason to expect that
the question in some shape OF other, will
ere long be brought before Congress; when
we doubt not the impolicy OF their haviga-
| ton laws will at least be so far acknow.
lodged as to produce some relaxation OF
the present restrictions. The least that we
may reasonably expect, is the repeal OF
the supplementary Act of April 1920,
which prohibited the importation of West
India produce into their ports through this
and the other Free Ports. BY an extract
in our first page 1t will be seen, that the