Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1822-11-05

81 Cuba
Accounts respecting the Greeks con-
;lnus contradictory. Some affirm that
hey have obtained new .ictorles--oth-
ers that they have been subdued.
The Russian Army, under Wittgen
stein, have taken up new and extensive
cantonments, which will be held till the
question of peace or war with Turkey
is finally settled
1t is said scheme has been formed
to unite the Spanish ahl Portuguese
crowns in the House of Braganza, set
ting aside the Bourbon Family--and as
a preparatory step it is proposed to
make a treaty offensive and defensive.
1t is limited that Riegois averse to this
plan.
The Liberal Gen. Torrijos, has an
| nounced his intention of executing the
leaoers of the Royal Troops opposed to
him; butthe latter have obliged him to
| retreat.
The Spanish Government is about
negotiating new lean. The terms
| now spoken off are so. SIS and 81.
The King of France has bestowed
the decoration of the Legion OF Honor
! on the Naval 1t. de Reverseaux, for
saving 40 Turks from being massacred
at Athens. Also on the 1t Hargon.
No person is permitted to play on any
instru ment of music or sing in the
streets of Paris, without license.
London. September 10.
TRADE WITH FRANCE.
The following notice has been for
warded to the New England Coffee
House. London:
! Consulate Of the United States, Lon
don, September 10, 1922.
g BY decision of the French Govern
ment under date of the 5th inst. Amer
lean vessels may enter the ports of
| France, and remain with their cargces
on board, until the lst of October VIXEN
the commercial arrangement, lately
concluded, goes into effect.
(Sigped) "THOS. ASPINWAL."
1t is whispered in the political circles,
that LORD Palmerston las signified his
wish to retire from the War Depart
ment, and that he is to be succeeded by
Lord William Bentick 1t is added,
that Lord Palnerston is to be raised
to the English Pee.age
The premises OF Er. Bsyley, hat
manufacturer,i lin Bridge-street, London,
are destroyed by fire. Hats to the "a
mount of 10000 pounds were destroyed.
The drought had been SO great in the
Eastern Pyrenees, that the rivers were
dry. Water was procured at a great
distance, for ordinary consumpion.-
In some places the people were obliged
to regulate the distribution of wafer
The crops were almost destroyed
The cider harvest had commenced in
Devonshire. and would prove the great
! est known for many years. One farm
sr would make between five and six
hundred hogsheads.
The Turkish frigats to which Of late
public attention has been SO much di
rected, was on Monday towed from
Deptford to GraveseDd by the Talbot
steam packet.
EAST INDIES.
On the Cd Of April, fire broke ont
! in one of the suburbs of Surat, which
! consumed upwards of 1900 houses, with
all their contents the property of not
less than 70O0 Of that class of the native
community employed in weaving
Meetings had been held in Bombay to
raise funds to relieve the sufferers.
The Siamese fitted out go sail Of
junks IN March, to cruise against the
Pesgue traders to Penang. This was
done at the instigasion Of the Portu-
guese factory at hancock, who had ur.
ged theSiamess to make conquests Of al
the Malay states
The government of Bengal have or
dered a scientific expedition to be fit
ted out, under the superintendent Of
the company's astronomer. for the pur-
pose of ascer'aining the length Of the
pendulum at the Equator, to combine
with the operations lately performed in
Eng land. France, Madras, and other
partG Of the globe.
| A letter from Berra, dated the 9Th Of
March, mentions that Hindoo widow,
who was about to be sacrificed on the
funeral pile Of her husband, leaped out
the mcment the fans reached her,
She would have been instantly cut to
pieces by the Hindoos, had not the Tn.
| glish protected her.
Two shocks of an earthquake we're
! felt on the 9th Of March, near Dacca.