Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1824-01-22
FROM ENGLAND.

FROM ENGLAND.
CHARLESTON, Jan. I4.-The ship Pre-
feet, Price, arrived last evening 10 80
DAYS from Liverpool. brings English pa.
pers TO the 9th December. Their contents
are uninportant
The Cotton market, we are sorry to
observe, has suffered a still further depres-
sion.
II is said IN The times that the Spanish
government has al length been drove to
the necessity OF adopting some measures
&. Tor the maintenance OF lis credlt IN foreign
countries. ibis necessity has been occa.
stoned by the completes iaiIule OF Gueb-
bard's loan. The POINT now under consl,
de~ration respecting The financial affairs OF
| Spain, isunderstOod 10 be, what cOnces.
SONS on the subject OF the Constitutional
Loans willInd1ce the capitalists OF Europe
. 10 make further advances OF money 10 the
restored government. This complicated
question is now the situation Of The affairs
OF Madrid.
There was a severe storm in the neigh.
borhood OF liverpool on the Sd inst. ~
which considerable damage was done,
both at sea and land. A young woman in
' Liverpool was killed in Der bed from the
falling of a stack OF chimnies. Several
vessels went ashore during the gale. Ibe
renaIns oil the crew OF an American yes.
sci, name unknown, which was upset at
sea, landed at Holyhead. The crew were
orig inai IS 10 number, 10 Of whom per-
isbed. one by one, with fatigue and hun
ger, having chung 10 The wreck mil their
strength was exhausted. The survivors
were Is days upon the wreck, eight oil
which they were without food.
II is stated that both the Musselmans
and the Greeks wish hat their contest was
at an end. Negropont; 8Gtia and Attica
do not iurI lsh the Turkish treasury with
} more than a million and a half piaslres, &
it costs tour millions annually TO keep them
in subsection.
A Madrid date Of Nov. 10, says that
Don Victor Ssez preserves the portsfenilk
OF Foreign Affairs.
LIVERPOOL, Dec. g..
Onthe subject ofthe designs Of pain,
in regard to the South American pro.
v~inces, a subject SO highly interesting
to every British merchant, and, indeed,
to every British subject, two circum-
stances of opposite import occur in the
weeks annals. The frat 10 tho speech
Of the Russian minister. on q formal
occssion, at the Court of Madrid, a pas.
sage OF which slIudss to the subject in
q manner, which 10 our judgment, is
very nnequiVocal, plainly IDtlmating q
knowledge that such a design was en-.
tsrtainet by the Court OF Madrid. and
that such a design would be most ia
vorably regarded by the Court Of st.
Petersbugb. The other eircums ance
is The assertion of h London Courier,
that the Court Of France has given to
our government assurances that they
had no design Of cooperation with
Spain in any such purpose.
IL, then, the last a matter from ~
thority? If so, is France Withdrawing
herself from the close league with the
councils Of Spain. which it was to be
expected would long subsist? Would
Spain undertake such an enterprise,
discountensnced at once by France and
England? Could she, without the aid of
France, command the means of such
an enterprise? Shall she look to Rus
ola to supply the place OF France to
her? Is Russia competent to such an
Office of friendship-or is Franse mere
ly lying to deceive England
A question, we think. naturally oc-
eurs. Must England necessarily be in.
volved in war it this scheme should be
prosecuted by Spain, supported by
whatever ally?
Doubtless, were it certain that the
ad, enture would ~succeed, and that thus
the continent of South America would
be shut almost entirely to our com.
merce, there were a good and sufficient
reason for war. This interest. ev.
in possession, much more as it appears
to be a we'll grounded hope, 10 too ill.,
portant to be sacrificed to the general
scheme Of peaceful policy, which is now
laid down by government as the wise
and safe policy ofthese Kingdoms. But
is there no pause to be made, on the
ground that possibly this attack upon
the South American States would not
succeed at all, but only exhaust fruit.
lessly the strength and Of the
powers a%dvsnturing it. Certain it 10,
that the benefits we expect from a South
American trade would be retarded by
tho existence of such q troubled state az
must be oecasioned by the attack from
Europe; bu, were this alone a sufficient
resson for warp We trust this would
become at least a question to those who
are SO we'll convinced, asa general
principle, of the necessity Of peace for
the best interests of England.
[Adpertissr.