Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1823-12-24


tent We think, moreover, that tn,
powers of Europe, and France in partic-
ular, would scarcely venture their fleets
in the face of such an armament on our
part. We have no more to add at pres
emf upon this subject. On the one hand
we deprecate war, unless in case OF
very extraordinary necessity. On the
other, we should be sorry to see the
principle of legitimacy, in its present
extent, asserted by the confederated
sovereigns in the new world. One thing.
however, it is important to add-that.
from the necessary extension of our ma
val service, we believe no further re-
mission Of taxes is to take place.
The London Courier of the 9th Nov.
contains long statement of the final
proceedings of the Spanish Cortes at Ca
diz, drawn up by two of the leading
members of that body who had reach
ed London. They assert and grove that
at their last sitting there were lO7 mem
bers present, and they enumerate 119
who never failed in their duty. " The
Cortes," say they, {" neither prostituted
themselves, restored absolute power,
nor authorized the last absurd measures
of The Executive Government'
/ By accounts from Antioch, to June
80, we learn that shocks of earthquakes
continued to be felt almost daily through
out Syria, which in some instances, have
done great damage. This, however, is
not the only calamity with which that
country is visited. During the last
week of May and the whole Of June,
it rained violently. The Orontes
oyerflowed its banks, and swept away
men, cattle, houses, &c. Upwards of
one thousand persons have persisted.
At the close of June, the plague broke
out at BENT.
Dreadful! foundations IN the North of Haly
and the Tyro!.
lNspRUcK, Oct. 90
According to all accounts, the valley
of the Adige, from Bolzano to beyond
Trent, presented the most melancholy
appearance, the whole valley present
ing, almost without interruption, an en-.
tire lake. The rising of the Adige, in
undating the whole valley near Trent,
united with the impetuous torrent of the
Fessina. has had no parallel foc many
Years. The city of Trent, has been
several times in danger of being partly
destroyed by this raging stream, and
fears were still entertained on the 18th,
as the rain continued TO fall in tor
rents. 1t was every moment expected
that the bridge of St. Lorenzo would be
carried away by the Adige. The accu-
mulated waters of the Adige flowed to
Verona, after overthrowing four hous-
es in Castle Nuovo. A third part of
that great city is under water, and in
many parts, up to the first stories of
the houses. The communication is kept
up, partly over the roofs. and partly by
breaking through the walls between the
houses. Tho Adige has likewise risen
to great height above its banks in two
places below Leguago. II is said that
similar calamities have taken place on
the Pc. Almost all the roads are i'm
passahle, and the communication inter-
rupted, SO that the extent of the devas-
tation cannot yet be known.
From CADIz.-The schooner Butcher,
Captain Smith, arrived at Baltimore on
Tuesday, in SO days from Cadiz, bearing
dispatches for government. She left
at that port the U. S. frigate Constitu-
ton, and schooner Nonsuch. The for
mer landed our minister, Mr.. Nelson, at
Cadiz, on the Sd of November, and was
tosail for Gibraltar on the 9th, all we'll.
There were also in the port of Cadiz,
two French ships of the line and four
trigates, with several smaller vessels.
The French were putting naval stores
tor three years in the city of CadiZ.
There were about three thousand men
there. The Spanish men of war, as
they arrived from sea, were sent TO the
navy yard, stripped aid laid up. The
Spanish troops we're not permitted 10 be
under arms in the city. The French
frigate LIE Tonnant, sailed from Cadz
Oh the 9th November, with a Spanish
Governor for HAVANA, and to bring
home the present one-Cadiz was over
stocked with American produce.