Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-10-18
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have presented the General Government and
Secretary ofthe Navy, for the course pursued
relative to Com. Porter. This, to say the least,
is a strange if not an impudent procedure.
Dancing -Fenelon observed to priest
who was complaining to him Of the dances of
the peasants-"My friend, neither you nor my.
self need to dance-we can be happy in our
own way; but il dancing makes the poor peo-
pie happy who have so few sources of enjoy.
ment, why should they not dance"
Bills have been issued in Canada, purport-
ing to be ofthe Blackstone Bank in Urbnidge.
signeA,"John Capron, Prest." and "H Jaques,
Cash THE Blackstone Bank has not yet
gone into operation.
A Colombian prize, the Spanish Lugger.
Guardian Angel, laden with wine, brandy and
oil, captured off the coast of Spain by the PR
vateer Ell Vencedor, Capt. Brotherton, seven
hands on board, Green, master, has put into
Prince Ruports in distress.
Three ladies have appeared in the capital of
France, whoas fencers challenge the best pro-
fessors fthe art.
The Spanish sloop of war textiles has been
carried into Valparaiso by her crew and given
up to the Chilan government. She is the
vessel which separated from the Asia "a, with
the intention ofreturning to Spain; but it ap-
pears that the officers met with no better sue.
cess than those of the Asia.
1t appears that the largest steam YES
sci ever projected in Great Britain, now build
ing at Greenock, the contracts for which a.
mounted to EGG, 200, has been purchased by
the Atlantic team Navigation Company, at
an advance of e., $40 on the amount Of the
contracts.
The Presidents lady, with her neice, Miss
T.. Ada,ns) ana his private secretary. (ir. J.
ADAMS, Jr.) arrived at Quincy on Sunday eve,
| ming.
Canadian Indians The four Canadian
| chiefs who were lately on a visit to England
have arrived at Quebec. They are said to
speak in the highest terms of the kindness Of
the people, and the generous treatment they
net with from the government
MIR William Fuller, the celebrated pugilst,
we learn is in Philadelphia, giving lessons in
the noble art of SELs-DarEscE. He has, We
learn, large school, and gives general salts
faction, rot less from the urbanity of his de.
pertinent, than from his SIX i'll in the art he pro-
fesses to teach.
A British squadron, consisting ofthe Spatiat
"a, Adm. Sir Geo. Eyre, Wellesley, "a fri
gates Diamond and Blanch, and 9 sleeps and q
cutter-also 5 French frgates, and French
sloops of war, were at Rio Janeiro OF the 29th
of August.
A farmer of Appenbach, in Moavia, has in
vented a plough which makes four burrows u,
time. 1t is drawn by single horse. The
inventor has received gold medal from the
Academy Of Sciences a, Vienna.
A writer in the New York American state.
that he had visited the celebrated MCGEE from
ireland, and asserts from satisfactory measure
ment, "that he is not more than SIC feet ten OF
eispen inches high" He thinks it greet i'm
position that such small man should exhibit
himself as sho,c
A fire broke out in Providence on Tuesday
evening, and consumed number of buildings
among which was the stable occupied by the
Citizens Coach Company. The horses and
carriages were saved. Amount of damage
not sscertaned.
Yesterday morning in the Second.street
Market, there was exIibiteda baske ct of SStrG,v.
berries, part of second crop, pro',uccd in IN
open bed ma garden. tPhilqa paper.
Suppression ef French Jo,rndk. we find it
ment onei in our English papers, that the
Courier Francois and the Constitutional have
been suppressed by the government, the for.
mer for three months and the latterfor one, on
a charge Of having published articles favorable
10 professionalism. 1t is stated. however, that the
real cause of this severe measure is, that the
papers in question have commented too plain
" on the abuses of the clerical Office be the
Catholic priesthood. nv Y Daily .4dp.
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