The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1822-07-15
LATEST FROM, EUROPE.


ct ship James Chopper, capt. Reid. ar
rived yesterday from Liverpool, having
left that port on the LIST of tho month,
and brough, London papers to the even,
ing ofthe 30th May. We have receive
ed regular files. The ship has brought
upwards OF 1000 letters.
MIR. Dodge, American consul at Mar.
settles, passenger in tho James Crop.
per, has brought dispatches for govern
ment from our minister in France.
There docs not appear to be any inn
portan' political intelligence. The ac-
counts continue to be contradictory with
regard TO the relations between Russia
and Turkey.
The accounts from Constan,inople arc
to the 9th Of April. On the 18Th, the
Forte again answered the notes OF the
Austrian and British MINISTERS, but in
terms, it is said, moi at ali varying from
his manifesto of the 2Sth Feb.
The West India and American trade
bill, and the colonial trade bill passed in
committee OF the house Of commons ON
the 24th, aud were ordered for f,r,brr
discussion on the S0tt.
The royal assent was given 10 the bill
appropriating 50,000i. for the employ
ment on the public works of the Irish
poor.
The bill for the admission of Roman
Catholic Peers into the Upper House Of
parliament, was to be put OFF, ON account
ofthe absence of earl Grey, by whom it
should have been moved. 1t is general.
ly calculated that a majority of so to so,
will defeat the bill. AT the head of these
it is said, is the duke of York. The king
himself is said TO be favorable to The
measure.
In France the elections were expected
TO result in favor of the Liberals. The
duke ue Cazes has reappcalen at court.
The duke OF Richelieo was buried on
tho 10th of May. Marshal Soult has had
a private interview with the king.
The accounts from Spain are no later
than have before reached US by way of
Gibraltar and Boston.
A considerable sensation was produced
in London by the intelligence of the stop
page oil the British trade with China, on
account OF the affair of the Topaze fri.
gate. The advices were not SO late from
China as have reached here, and furnish
no additional particulars relative to that
occurrence.
1t is stated that the price of specie has
been materially lowered in England by
the large importations from the u. States
and South America. We observe the
price is left in blank in the last Lloyd's
list. Portuguese gold in bars, rs IT'S Cd.
A Liverpool paper mentions that a
conspiracy 10 overturn the constitutional
system of Portugal had been discovered
at Lisbon, and defeated. Twenty SIX
individuals, none of them of distinctions
had been apprehended, and six of thcpi
had been sent our --fs.he isiuEsforu.
The distress in Ireland continued, and.
the measures Ior the relief of the poor
were undated.
William Benbow, the publisher, has
been brought before the police O: Lon-
don, and entered into sureties TO appear
al the next sessions to answer to an in
dictment preferred against him at the
suit of the society for the suppression of
vice, for selling indecent prints.
The Spanish schr. Iris, arrived here
yesterday IN six days from Havana, spoke
on the 9Th inst. off the Moro, the U. S.
schr SHARK, capt. Perry, from cruize,
who informed she had that morning cap
tured two small piratical schrs. and an
open boat with eleven men. The Shark
had net a sick man on board. Bali. Nm.
The celebrated Able Sieard, whose
death we lately announced, was buried on
Monday at Paris. His remains were at
tended by a military escort, Members
ofthe Institute, and the deaf and dumb
pupils Of the deceased. Two days before
his death, he addressed these words to the
Able Goudelin, the director of the Deaf
and Dumb School, OF Bordeaux ,-4Aay
dear brother, ready to die, bequeath to
yeu my dear cbildren-i bequea,h their
IsQuls TO your religion, their. bodies 10.
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| your enlightened capacity. Perform this
noble task, and die tranquil" Ion. M