Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1822-07-25

chrystals, some larger, others smaller,
but all of a cubcal form One small
fire warns both cisterns, by operating
ON the tubes. The water in the upper
cistern is sometimes as hot as $50 deg.
Fahrenheit.
We are unable to say with what ia
city salt may be manufactured ON this
plan-but we are informed it can be
made with much less expense than by
the usual mode. The sample sent us ls
very superior, and resembling in some
respects, the ST. Ubes salt.
IOmondaga Register.
THE following is an extract OF letter
from European gentleman, residing in
Gibraltar, 10 friend in the United States,
and presents an interesting sketch OF Eu-
ropean affairs. That portion Of the piece
in which the political condition of the
peninsulas of Spain and Italy is represent
ed. is Of most sombre cast indeed, and
leaves but little encouragement to the
friends of liberty to augur any permanent
good from revolutionary experiments IN
that quarter. The opinions Of the writer.
who is man of the first intelligence, and
an attentive observer of political events,
are entitled to the highest respect.]
Norfolk Herald.
"GIBRALTAR, May 4.
"Although it is now pretty long tlne
since | told you, that the question of peace
or war in the East of our Continent was
not settled, cannot but repeat the same
to day, the differences between Russia
and Turkey not being adjusted on the one
hand, and there being no formal declara-
ton of war on .he other. Ii must be ac-
knowledged, however, that appearances
are more hostile than when last wrote.
On the 2Sth Of Feb as you probably have
heard before this, the Divan, elated by
Ali's fall, blu, chiefly influenced by the
hordes of mad Janissaries by which it is
beset, rejected Alexander's ultimatum, land
thus afforded BIN plausible pretence for
commencing those hostiities for which he
has been so long preparing We have
not. however, heard as yet Of what he die
on the receipt of this piece of intelligence;
and il remains to be seen whether be will
Law bold of the favorable and wished for
opportunity, or suffer himself to be any
longer turned from his purpose by the OBJ
| jections of the other great Continental
| Powers and OF England i hese, OF course,
continue as much interested as ever in OPP
posing the overthrow OF the Turkish En-
pire, and we may, consequently, suppose
I fhox al in MOI ioau
| to avert war so likely to lead to that
dreaded catastrophe. Austria, in pafticu-
lar, must feel, that her existence is at
stake; and, although the others are not so
Immediately threatened, the only differ
ence, after all, is that of few years more
or less; for, if the already overgrown Rus
sian Empire should be further augmented
| by the annexation of the Sultan's domin,
ions, every other nation on the ContineAt
or in the island. of Europe, must submit,
| some day or other, 10 its irresistible supe
riorlty.
| France continues restless. Those
| turbulent spirits cannot be reconciled to a
state Of tranquility. 1t is an undoubted
| fact, that they have not, at any period Of
| their thirty years revolution, enjoyed one
hundredth part of the freedom they now
have: and yet they do not seem to be afraid
| of plunging again INTO the revolutionary
stream. Of Germany, nothing bias been
said Of late; and this is rather good
omen. There is. however, but too much
reason 10 believe, that, there, likewise,
the natives sigh after changes, the issue Of
which mus, at least be problens,ical.-
Italy only waits for an opportunity to
) hnl- oH 4 hott ~
| very light, but which she would perhaps
think more supportab'e, il she had been
suffered 10 taste, tor few years, the
sweets of liberty which soon degsner.
| ates into RIGHTEOUSNESS in countries, the
natives of which, like those of the neigh
boring Peninsula, are at once corrupt and
| ignorant. In this latter and unfortunate
quarter, government is literally at an end
Every town, every village, sets itself
| above the orders Of the late Central Au.
| thorties; and the Local ones must humor
the mob in every thing, if they wish to
continue in Office. The roads are literally
covered with banditti; the travellers and
mails are interrupted the moment they are
out of the gates of large cities; towns, by
no means insignificant, ale often entered
By those lawless gangs in open day, and
the wealthiest inhabitants either plumber
ed on the spot, or carried away to be al
forwards ransoned. Both the general and
provincial treasures are empty; all sala-
RES, pensions, &'c. in arrear; smuggling in
the most hourishing state. and coasts and
ports blockaded by privateers. 1t neces-
sarily follows, that the Commercial Dis.
tricUs are ruined, and the Agricultural
ones, left without markets for their pro-