Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-04-02

III q lew udyS.
Spanish bonds have been done this
morning at twenty-five; but they are now
"a l-s to 3-s. No person is able to as
sign satisfactory reason for this i'm
provement, but it may be attributed to
the effect of opinion.
A letter from Lisbon, of the 25th of
Jan. says-"We do not yet observe any
thing to indicate that an English divi-
sion will come to keep garrison here,
though it is generally reported. This
capital is very tranquil, as we'll as the
rest of the kingdom; but commercial
affairs are completely at stand"
Hamburg, Feb. s-The Senate has
appointed committee of three Mem
bers Senators Jemisch, Abendroth,
and Benicke, to receive and distribute
the contributions for the relief of the
sufferers by the late foundations on the
18th Feb. The accounts in the Ham
burg papers from all the neighboring
country are of the most affecting ma
ture, and the damage sustained is a
counterpart to that caused in North
Holland. Not only are the dikes bro
ken through in great many places, but
the waves in numerous instances rose
over them, having reached height ne
yer before known. In the Duchy of
Bremen, many houses were entirely
washed away, and a great many per-
sons persisted. The dikes Of the Stor,
which runs by Glu,kstadt, are broken
in above so places. At Gluckstadt, a
Greenland whaler and two barges were
forced through the dixie, and carried a
way two houses on the harbor; thirty
persons are said to have persisted there.
The accounts from the Hanoverian
side of the Elbe are equal melancholy.
Besides the actual immense damage,
the food has deposited in many dis
tricts such vast quantities of sand, that
it is feared that the fields will not re-
cover their former fertility for many
years.
The accounts from Emblem are
dreadful beyond all expression. Even
on the 9Th several streets had no com.
munication with the other parts Of the
town. A letter from Steinhousersiel,
on the river Jahbef says that the water
rose in an hour and half from 81 to
lO4 in the evening, ii feet above the
usual high water mark. 1t flowed o.
yer the dykes in every part. The flood
is said to have exceeded, by four feet,
that of the year l7l7, the highest on
record, and according to which all the
dikes and other works were calculated.
From Bells Life in London, Feb. 20.]
Letter from Paris, Feb. IS, 1925.
AT length the Holy Alliance has come to
definite resolution on the subject of the indie
pendence of South America Being unable to
find field of battle on which to combat Eng
land, it has determined on excluding herfrom
the Continent, and closing up to her every &C
every day move serious, and it is not known
where the disorder may stop, the Holy A Iii
ance has determined on attacking the evil In
its source, and Remembering Spain, leaving,
to King Ferdinand petty appearance of
kingdom, in the midst Of his ancient Monarchy.
In consequence, il has been notified to Eng
land, that not having been able to prevene her
from confscating to her own advantage the
rich Spanish possessions beyond sea, which
form the fairest portion, the Holy Alliance, OIL
its part, avails itself of its continental force,
to take possession of Spain, and Portugal
In execution of this design, France acquires
all that part Of Spain which is situated on this
side of -, and Russia takes Majorca, MI
norca, and Ivioa, of which she has been desi-
rous since 1874, to have footing in the Medi-
terranean. Three hundred thousand French.
Germans and Russians will put the last hand
to this plan in the spring which approaches,
and the doctrines of the Holy Alliance will
reign without mixture from one end of the
continent of Europe to the other:
All our Utopian Politicians, who are igno-
rant of the state of things, do not fail to ex-
claim every where, that England will not suf-
fer this dismemberment that she will revolu-
tionize Portugal, Spain, France, and Italy, to
put herself at the head of the grand struggle
Of civilization against barbarism, and that she
will command in Europe, as she already CON-
mands in America. Undoubtedly, this con.
duct would be analogous to the great and vast
interests of England, well comprehended.-
Undoubtedly the Opposition has not failed for
ten years to surround this question with all the
hght winch now SHINES around IL Cnoouot-
edly this same Opposition has forced the Co
vernment to bestir itself in the affair Of the
recognition of South America, though Mr.
Canning alone reaps all the glory, which is, no
doubt, not little, from the stupid hatred
borne to him by all the Cabinets Of the Cont
nent. But it is equally we'll known at Peters
burgh, Vienna, and Paris, that the English
OIgarchy is still more afraid of Democratic
doctrines than the Holy Alliance ITSELF 1t is
on this intimate knowledge that the Cabinets
found their security, and they do not neglect,
in their turn, creating difficulties for England
in her own interior.
1t is known here, beyond doubt, that the
Jesuits keep up very active correspondence
with Ireland. The ignorance and fanatcism
of the Clergy of that country are powerful
lever, in the handling of which our political
.4bbes promise themselves great things. They
desire, with all their heart, that England should
adopt measures of rigor with respect to Ire
land, in order to have pretext for pushing to
rebellion this superstitous and brave people,
who have always been, at all periods in their
history, ready to defend with arms in their
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