Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1824-04-22
FOREIGN
GREAT BRITAIN.

edin some OF the other papers, that it
was the intention of ministers to fit out
another expedition to Algiers under
the command ofLord Exmouth. From
this it may be inferred that the Dey had
complied with the terms proposed by
the British government Great outra-
ges continued to be committed inIreland.
In Limerick and Westmeath serious in
surrections were known to. exist. Men
armed with muskets, beIted, and suppli-
ed with cartouch boxes, attacked the
house Of an unofendng farmer at the
latter place, and wounded several oil the
inmates.-There had been another con-
tention at Limerick at the funeral of
Roman Chatholic in Protestant bury
ing ground; but ultimately the service
was permitted to be performed by a
Roman Catholic Clergyman. At a NEE
ting of the Catholic Association held in
Dublin on the Goth Feb. the following
extraordinary language is said in the
London Courier to have been used by
Mr.. O'Connel: Gle (Mr. O'C.) would
ask, had not the Duke OF York publicly
avowed himself their enemyl Had he
not voted against them, s made speech
es against thems Was he not, short
time ago, at the head of the Orangemen
ofEngland' To be SIRE, some friend
about him had lately advised him to shew
a little more policy, and he was to pre-
side at meeting of the society Of ct
Patrick; but the people of ireland were
not to be deluded by such shallow arti-
fees. The Duke of York was heir to
the greatest empire in the world; he had
before him all the enjovments which
man could desire; but he ought to re-
member that one Duke Of York lost ire
land by endcavo,wing to force the con-
sciences ofthe English nation, and ano-
thsr Duke Of York might los. it by at
tsnpting to force their conscisncss 1t
became them to speak as freemen, and
to tell the heir apparent, that, one Duke
of York, by his bigotry, lost the throne
of England, and that another Duke of
York might experience the same fate"
In the House of Lords on the asd of
February, the Marquis of Lansdow
moved for an account of the exports
from the United Kingdom to North and
South America, from 1863 to 1918.
The Hon. Michael de Courcy, ADM
raj of the Blue, died on the a2d Feb.
He commanded the squadron which was
employed in the embarkation Of Sir
John Moore's army at Corunna.
SPAIN.
tits confirmed that the Algerines had
declared war against Spain, which had
occasioned much alarm along the Span
ISL line of coasts on the Mediterranean
preparations were, in consequence,
making In various places to prevent the
corsairs from landing to surprise the
villages and carry their inhabitants into
slavery. The Alserine squadron, con-
sisting of five vessels of war, had
put to sea and had captured eight
Spanish vessels The cause of these
hostilities appears to. have been the
poverty of Ferdinand, which had rem
dered him unable to pay the tribute for
merly agreed to by the monarch of
Spain. In addition to the squadron al
ready afloat and cruising in the straits of
Gibralter, it was understood that two
other frigates of a large class, were fted
out by the Algerines to cruise against
the Spanish commerce. A telegraph
despatch, was received at Paris ,announ-
cling that the Convention for regulating
the military occupation of Spain by
France, was signed on the 9th February.
"A letter dated Madrid the 18th of that
smonth, says that the treaty was for
three years, and that contracts for
the supply of the Army of Oocupa-
ton, one year, had been entered into
with several Spaniards.
II is again said that the decree of am
-nesty was certainly signed, and that
the government merely delayed the pub
lication of it till French troops had been
stationed in some towns where it was
feared it might excite certain troubles.
A letter from Madrid of the 18th speaks
of much dissatisfaction appearing
there in consequence of the delay Of
the act of amnesty, which had led some
of the royalties to declare that a wider
scope ought to be given it than was at
first contemplated by the government
Several cannons had received orders to
return to there cadonries, s. the famous
Trappist had also been commanded to
leave Madrid. Spain IS stated to have
lost by independence other South A
merican colonies, 1 ) millions Of subjects
$4,000 SuAare leagues of teritorv aud