Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1823-07-31


THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 81.
PROCLAMATION.
The President of the United States, having
authorized Quarantine for the District OF Co.
lumbia--
Re il therefore known, That in conformity
Herewith, and BY and with the advice of the
Board of Health, do hereby declare, that the
said Quarantine, as respects this port, is flor
the present located On board the ship Fair FRA.
der, anchored in the Potomac, one mile. below
the town Of AlexandriG aad all whom e may
concern. are required to take notice, and gov
.ern themselves according to written instruc-
tions given the Superintendent of Quarantine.
Given from under my hand this 29th day Of
July, 1923.
CHR. NEALE, Mayor Of Nerandria.
information arrived in town few DAYS ago,
says the Mississippi Monticello Gazette of
June 2D that Uar has been declared betweeen
the Choctaws and Greek Indians; but it was
not sscertained which nation had declared war,
OF when hostilties would take place.
Accordin to official returns Of some stats.
ticsl facts relative to Paris, more than one half
the children born IN that city a. illegitimate.
Having seen it mentioned in several papers,
chat the Secretary of the Navy had been APP
pointed to fill the vacancy on the bench ofthe
Supreme Court, occasioned by the death of
Judge Living ston, we thought proper before
noticing it in oar paper. to apply to the proper
source for correct information on the subject,
and learn that Mr. Thompson has given his as
sent to accept the office; and the appointment
may be considered as substantially made, altho'
no commission has vet been actually issued,
and it IS understood that he will not enter upon
the duties of the office until he has bronghtto
close some business in the Department. with
the details of which he is acquainted, that
no della. may be occasioned by his resignation.
Mr. Tho npson, it will be recollected, was,
when appointed Secretary of the Navy, Chief
Justice of the state OF New York, and had been
on the bench OF the Supreme Court fthat state
for IL years. We have no doubt that his ap-
pontment to the bench OF the Supreme Court
of the United States will give very general sa-
tisfaction, his experience and his personal qua
hties elninently fitting him for that station.
INatiOnal Intettigenccr.
The Boston Evening Gazette states, that
Captain Hull has been appointed to command
the u. s saua5ronin the Pacific Ocean. at his
own request. His original expectation was to
have relieved Captain Jones in the Medterra-
mean, in which case Commodore Chauncey
was to have proceeded to the Pacific. This ar
ranuement was altered at the solicitation OF
Captain HILL, who will sail to his point OF des
tnation in the U 5. Frigate, now at Norfolk,
In the course of a short time.
ISi,. Hudson Lo,re VS.. UNedrd Another
unsuccessful effort was made in the Court OF
Kings Bench on the 9th June, to bring on the
libel cause of Sir Hudson Lowe against ON
IA, when the Court stated that it had no autho
rity to INK any given day for the trial. Are we
to infer from this, that Ministers were afraid to
ge INTO the case. from an apprehension that DIS
closures would be made, which might imph
cate certain persons too deeply in the cruel and
wanton treatment received by their illustrious
captive, or that it was wished to hold up the
suit in tsrrore,a, for the purpose of preventing
the additional pm hlication which O'Meara had
announced, and in which he promised fully to
dev elope the conduct of all the parties concern
ed in this infamous transaction? IN either case,
the postponemcnt IS ar from rejecting credit
ON the British government
Brick.making.-A patent or privilege has
been obtained at ST. Petersburg for press Tor
rnaking bricks, which is not only to diminish
the LABOR, but to perfectthe forms Of the bricks.
b. means of this machine, not only bricks,
both solid and hollow can be made, but tubes
strai Iht or crooked, cormces, flutes tor col
umns, and other architectural ornaments
The patentee is Mr.. Thomas, who proposes
to establish model brick yard, with improved
ovens for baking the bricks Three or four
men can produce it is said, with this machine.
from ten to twelve thousand bricks daily, or
different forms.
Died, at Grenada, on the 9Th ultimo, 4. F.
Webster, Esq. in the 43d year of his age -
This gentleman was native of Grenada, and
highly respected in that community. He was
most uncommonly large and stout in his per.
son, as may be well imag ined, when his corpse
weighed SIS pounds. II was impossible from
its bulk, to get the coffin into the door Of the
house where he lay; his body was therefore
put into il in the street. and carried to the grave
bv twenty persons. although the place of in-
terment was not many yards distant.
Extract Of letter to a respectable merchant Z"
Baltimore, G4ted 81. Johns, Porto R'co,
J,ne IS.
"There are now off this harhor French
frisate and man of war brig, dispatched by the
Governor of Martinique with proposals to tins
government to enter into an agreement to sus'
pend all hostllities in these seas during the pre-
sent struggle in Europe. on the ground that
the colonies viii OF course follow the fate OF the
rnnther country The anSm.. -aknrned WAS