Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1826-01-12


FROM EURoPE.--An arrival at
Charlie stgn in fotty DAYS from liverpool.
brought London papers to the evening
of the issn and Liverpool OF the 18th
November, from which we select the
following extracts -
Severe gales Of wind were experion-
eed in the British Channel. and Coasts
adjacent from the sth to the nth Nov.
In which several vessels were wrecked.
Tie bills OF Mortality in London are
stated 10 have been unusually large
during the month Of October, and par
ticulalJy during the week ending on the
Sd Nov. There died during the five
weeks ending at tue above period. OF
the four principal diseases with which
the city is most generally aaected--by
fever, los; by inflammation o05; by
measles lac; and By casual small pox
i6I
Ire celebrated painter, Sir THoNAs
LawRKSca, is al present a, Paris, enga-
ged ln painting lhe portrait of his Ma
Jesly Charles n.
Accounts from Calcutta 10 the 7sd-
III June, aud from Bombay to the 9th
July, state that the British army in ar
racan, under the command Of General
Morrson, was suffering very severely
from Sickness. Que regiment is stated
to have been reduced from 1900 strong
to $50.
FRANCE-ffArTiEN LOAN.
The journal des Debates of Monday
makes some statements respecting the
lat. ne gociation OF the iisytian loan,
which il believes the Commissioners
aad Contractors TO dsapproye If I'M
true. II states that the public buildings
were, FROM the beginning, intended to
be mere nullity ina, the Commissions
ers had previously entered into an a
greement with the present Contractors
10 give them the contract at as con-
tinues above the highest public bidding;
that treaty was negotiated between
these parties OF that object through The
medium Of broker, ON the 90 b ofOc-
tober; that the Commissioners fixed
their minimum at the extravagant rate OF
90, that they might always be above the
highest public oder. and thus enabled to
fulfil he s,ipulations OF their private
conventions; that the intended bidders
heard of this mannuvre, and had resol-
we'd to defeat il by staying away; that
they were only induced al lsstto assend
and present their sealed leaders, on the
positive assurance that the priyatf trea-
ty had been cancelled IN favor OF frank
conduct and fair desling. and that hav-
Ing come forward fairly aud honcrably,
they were finally defeated BY the faith
less stratagem which they had at tirst
denounced, and which they were after
wards assured had been abandoned.
iFron. tie Journal de Paris.
PARIS, Nov. 7.
1--WE learn from Ccfunua, says tho
FsuiH de Haprs, that dreadful hufri-
cane had done great damage on the
coast of Galicia. A vessel on board Of
which the French Consul at Corhnna
had embarked, has totally psrished.
TURKEY AND GREECE.->pa-
ris paper says According 70 our corr
responsiveness from Germany to-day, the
last letters from Constantinople say.
that nj. binziacy, the Russian Charge
d'AHaires. had great trouble to calm
the agitation Of the Refs Effendi sni the
members OF the Divar, wheushey learnt.
by dispatches from the Hospodar at
Jessy that the Emperor Alexander was
going to visit all the coast OF the Black
Sea, and afterwards to review the Rus
sian army Of the South, rs well as the
division in Bessarabis, under General
Sabinieh."
FRAsxroaf, Nov. s.-The Gazette of
Athens, which we have received 10 the
9th Sept. gives under the head Of Napo-
| Ii, nth August, the following dsscrip-
| ton, which is strsge enough, ofths man
ner in which the Greeks got possessiols
Of the fort Of Grasosa (6arabusa,) in
| the isle OF CANDIDA
captain MARcELLsn has arrived
This evening from Gravosa, and brings
the happy news that our people haze
made themselves masters. Of that fort ia
| the following manner On their arr
val they found three Turks asleep out
of the fort. These bang taken PRISON.
ers were Obliged to conduct the Greeks
| to the teatin which the Governor wa.
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