Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1823-03-25
WILD WOMAN.

Extract Of a pri0Gte Letter from Madrid,
December 28.
"a truce to politics for one day. and let
us sympaihize with the charming fair ones
oi Madrid, who are dying to see the wild
woman that has lately been found in the
Sierra de montero, a desolale and iude
range of mountains in the south. She had
been seen occasionally by the goatherds
as they wandered through the mountains
The tale At length reached Cordovs, and
the authorities sent officers in pursul! Of
her. They succeeded in experimenting
| her, and she is now in enc OF the public
hos pitfalls of that city. She is not al'oge-
Their destitute of understanding, nor Igno-
| rant of language, as she can say ieW
words, such as pepu, papa, CATO, Cat. com
pc, the country, and Some te" others -
When she was asked if she would like to
return 10 the country, she nodded her
head in the Affirmative. She eats what
ever is given TO Der, but prefers uncooked
meats and vegetables. In the beginning
cooked victsals did not agree with her,
and made her sick {; she eats with an ex-
traordinary appetite Her clothes appear
as II they were placed on stick f; her
1
ing her shoes, in spite OF every care mat
was taken TO prevent her. Sometimes she
has thrown off all garments, and runs out
quite naked into the kitchen garden. She
has been found alter az interval OF two
| days coi!ed up in place iull OF mire, and
at another time she has been discovered IN
| the dunshill of the stable. She IS about
Is years old, Of a short stature, deep
brown color, proruding lips, and so rough
as almost in appearance 10 resemble
wolf. She sleeps by day as well as night,
without any regularity, and generally coil
ed up. Sometimes her sleep has continue
for rs hours successfully, either in bed or
on the ground, with or without covering
She keeps her eyes mostly closed, anG
when she is alone she cries for three hours
together, and the next three she laughs
The Duke de Rivs, the Constitutional AL.
cade OF Cordova, has taken great deal
! of trouble to find the origin OF this female,
but it has bafled all his inquiries, and he
has given them up in despair. 1t IS sup.
posed she belongs to parents not less Wild
than herself. who are still undiscovered IN
! the mountains.
BALTIMORE, March 20.-Tbe Span
| ish nation, like ourselves, in 1916, have
undertakento modify their institutions,
with view Of rendering them more
conducive to their own happiness. o.
this point they are the sole Judges; and
| any interference by q foreign power, IS
| a gross and criminal violation of tbei'
natural rights. Vet, of such violation,
he Holy Allies are guilty; and all the
mlseries, all the crimes, all the loss OF
lives and destruction of property (says
the Boston Patriot) that will ensue in
this nnhallowed crusade against the
rights of mankind, will be imputable
to these eceptred tyrant
The conduct OF tire en peror OF Rus
sia is stamped with peculiar dePravity.
The very Spanish constitution against
which he is now embodying his Cos
| sacs, he approved and accepted in 1879
And the same man who once uttered
80 much miserable cant about holy al
lianc es, peace societies, and bible socie.
ties. now prohibits the preacing Of the
Gospe! of peace among his subjects, for
fear of informing them they are some
thing more than beasts of burden
The old kingof France too, Cypress
ed with all the Ills that afflict human.
ty, and tot.ering on the brink ct the
grave, is sending an hundred thousand
bayonete, commanded by prince Of
his Darn family. to coerce twelve mi
lions of human beings. every one borI
rec and equal with himself, into sur
rendering all their natural rights int
the hands of one man
1t lie impossible to contemplate Thu
picture, without pity for the folly,
we'll as horror for the impiety and pre-
sumption. Of this worm of the dies
T is Bourbon family has been the sore
rurse that ever afflicted the warld :
YER since the death Of Henry " VIII
ryas the only member of it that ever