Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1824-05-06
FOREIGN NEWS.
GREAT BRITAIN.

by Algerine cruisers. The following
letter was posted at Lloyd's yesterday:
Extract OF a letter dated Messina, Feb. ls.
"The Picton, from Malta, in "a hours,
arrived here on the morning ofthe 18th.
The master reports that the Algsrines
bad taSeH 90 sail of vessels off and a.
bout Sardinia; orders had been issued
BY the Admiral at Malta, Sir II. r.
Neale, that no British vessels should quit
the port without convoy. 49,
He had fixed the first for the eastward
the 18th inst and for the westward the
2oth. 1t is said there is strong Algerine
squadron in the Archipelago, somewhere
off Gambia.
Mr.. Canning intends to bring bill In.
to Parliament to declare the Slave Trade
carried on by the British subjects on the
High Seas, to be Piracy.
1t is remarkable circumstance, that
ten admirals have died every year during
the last ten years.
The Essex convict ship, going from
Plymouth to Dublin, under the orders of
MIR. Raven, assistant master attendant,
and party of ordinary men, captured
smuggler from Flushing, valued at
100000. The smuggAr mounted 10
guns and 80 men, while the Essex had
not single gun on board, or an ounce
OF powder; but her formidable appear
ance and suddenly coming upon them,
frightened the smugglers. - =
! A boy named George Aspull, only 8
vears of age, has displayed SO remarka-
BILE talent for music, that he has been
introduced to his Majesty, and had the
honor of displaying his precocious pow
ers before a splendid court. !, The child,
it is predicted, may become an English
Mozart He already plays any piece at
sight-has an extraordinary musical
memory, and composes, extemporarily,
with taste.
| On Tuesday week, number Of per-
sons attended at the parish church OF
Lancaster, to witness the novel sight Of
a female doing penance. The individu-
al was Hannah Clough, prisoner con-
fined in the gaol for debt, from the Ec-
| clesiastica1 Court of Chester In conse-
| qusnce of this recantation she is set at
liberty; otherwise she would have been
confined for life. ,.5.. /.
One day last week poor itinera nj
lunatic woman, near Swanden, in Kent
threw herself into well, near so fee,
deep, at the bottom of which was about
five feet of water; she no sooner found
her situation wet, watery and painful,
than she began to cry out for help. A
ladder being put down. she assembled il
of her own accord, to the establishment
of those who witnessed the occurrence,
without having received the least injury.
What makes this singular accident the
more extraordinary is, that she has re-
gained the entire use of her mental fa-
culties.
Number of Brewers in England and
Scotland, l990--Quantlty Of Strong
Beer brewed 4,265,s7I barrels, Small
Beer brewed in Great Britain ,a9o,27s
barrels. The quantity of Beer brewed
in Britain X is said would float all the
British vessels of war now in conlmis-
sion. E 49,, Il,
Arthur Burns, an Irish laborer, has
been left million of dollars by an I'M
Gle, Ia merchant who died in Calcutta.
James Murray, fishing in the Clyde,
caught very large Goldfish, weighing II /
lbs. OF. in the gut Of which he found q
gold watch, bearing the inscription, on
paper in the case Of it, @Hugh Davies,
of Wrexham;" there was chain and
seal attached to the watch.
The thieves in London are said to
nave had the audacity to assume cos
tune. j
A government messenger, having de-
spatches in charge, arrived at Ports,
mouth on Tuesday morning, and imme-
diately embarked in the Chameleon, 10
guns, Capt. Lambert, and sailed, it's
said for South america. ~ ~
The silk mandatory of Messrs. Hen
ry Barlow s Co. at Macclesfeld is burnt
down.
IRELAND.
Disturbances were beginning to. wear
a serious aspect in the county of Lime
rick, ireland. Mr. Reed, barrister, had
been killed, and several houses robbed
of arms.
The, aggregate meeting of the Irish
Catholics was held at Dublin, Sir Tho
mas Esmonde, Bart. in the chair, when
resolutions were unanimously agreed
to, condemnatory OF the injustice of the
nanal rode as n affacfed fhe Catholic