Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1823-04-03
wOa8lQM YR VS.
BALTIMORE, March 2.
EUROPE.

The ship noticed yesterday as re-
ported "helow" at New York, wa
not, as expected, apacket from Liver
pool, we are therefore without much
looked for news from the old world
The New York Commercial ..ddUer-
tiSer received this morning has the an
nexed paragraph
"A letter has been received in town
via Stonington, dated Oh board the
packet ship William Thompson, e2d
February. Tat and lopgi'uoe not men
tioned,) which says--''Thus far We
have had pleasant and quick run"
We presume there must he some
mistake as to date in this paragraph
The Uzlhiam Thompson did not sail
from Liverpool I'LL the 18th of Fcbru-
airy, and any vessel speaking her in
six days after, must il is To be snppo-
sed, have been also from europe and
would have brought intelligence Of as
late date Us the William Thor nson,
but of which nothing il said. - She
may perhaps have been spokento near
sur coast on the 22d of March
The Philadelphia Gazette. Of Non
day, communicates the iol'owing--
--latest from Esvope,--Captain
Tenhner of,he ship Rising Gun, arri-
we'd at this port from ~. Utcs, states.
that the day before he sailed {k'ebrua.
nv l4th,) a report was received at st.
Uhes from Lisbon. that FRANCE
Rad DECLARED VAR A.
GAINSTSPAlN AND PcRTU-
GAL
SIN January and the beginning of
February, much damage vas done by
heavy gales ffum the south s8d west.
The n,nnhee OF vessels lost on sae coast
Of Portugal, is computed al orc hatn-
bred Seven were lest in sight of st.
Ubes. Aaong these was 40 Amcri-.
can schooner bonnd rom Boston to
Gibraltar the crew OF Il is yesrcl and
part of the cargo we're saved"
The dcclarasca Of wse sll.ded to.
in the foregoing, a.ludes Elost likely
TO the Speech ofthe ling Of france,
an account Of whica right reach St.
Ubcs about the date ncns aned
The Patriot of las. evening gives
the following as report, and IS sncls
only is it we believe, TO lie received.
Capt. fadsworth, who arrived
here yesterday from l9crtiniq4c, and
left there tie 2G.a Feb, states, thaa on
the och fast sailing small French
frigate arrived thase from Bordeanx,
in the very short passage G IA days,
and brought Intelligence thai there
was to be TO WAR, and that all
hostile movements had ceased i'm
France. Capt w. fays he learnt no
particulars, bot that by the arrival Of
the frigate the Merchants Oh Martinique
were m2k,ng calculations SIS Though
war actually existed, bat on hearing
this news al cas ss.-ci; snd thai they
relaxed into a ps-ci6c poiicy ?
Admitting tlis eertasn1y re.'g short
passage Of fourteen d.cgs" 10 b. cor
rect, and that thn :. fls1 sailing small
French f95gates le(E pordeaux on she
l2tli of Tebssary she nishs thus tnr-
nish Paris news Of about eleven days
later in oate than that communicated
by the LIST Iii erpooI packet 10 New.
York and whist could have occurred
in the short space Of e'evea days, to
induce TIE FreEch government 50 sud-
denly to change its to3e AID reverse
its policy Such q chang. coald Only
il may we'll be presumed, result from
explanation md negotiation with Spain
CT England, or the Holy Alliance,
which would consume several weeks,
perhaps months, and not few days.
Even admitting tliad the King, the hour
he breathed war in his speech, had
sent off expresses 20 the frontiers of
Spain TO stop all further preparations
for war, his good people" Of Bordeaux
could scarcely have learned, on 12d,
of February, by Inc return of the ecu
riers, 'ihat all hostile movements had
ceased in France" When we join
this to the "uegy short passage of four
teen days. we are rather inclined 10
doubt the authenticity oftte eposl from
Martinique +. 1t borders on the ab-.
Surd
COLOMBIAN REPUBLIC. .
Cnracoa papers to the ed ult recei-,
we'd at Philadelphia, give the following
account Of the operations of the Col.
ombian troops:
The Colombian camp is formed In
the savanna of Santa Lucie. near Porto
cabaVo A nlace orarfillerv has heer