Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-06-05

ENC1ANO.
Changes of some Importance in the English
Courts have recently taken place. Mr.. Baron
Williams has been removed from the Exche-
guer to the Kings Bench, and Baron Vaughan
to- the Court of Common Pleas. Their places
in the EXchequer are supplied by Judges James
Parke and Anderson.
The debate on the motion of Mr.. OConnen
for the Repeal of the Union was brought to a
close on the evening of the 29th OF April, by
decisive vote against it.
Immediately after the decision Mr.. Spring
Rice moved an Address to the King on the SUBJ
iect of the Repeal, which was agreed to by a
majority of 4S5-523 members voting in favor,
and only 80 against it.
On the 30th the Address was communicated
to the House of Lords, when Earl Grey moved
that it be concurred in. The motion, after two
impressive speeches from Lord Grey and Lord
Brougham was unanimously agreed to- and
the King appointed the first day of May for re-
ceiving it.
The British ship Campus ia was under or
ders at Davenport, TO take L, 600 stand OF arms
TO Corunna
Captain Ross is likely to receive the extra re-
enumeration for his services which he demand
ed but no precedent could be found for SINH
lar appropriation to his brother, Commander
Ross
The ship Eliza, (of $50 tons,l Capt. Crouch,
left London on the 26th, for New York, with
chiefly of farmers with their families from SUI
folk and Norfolk, well supplied with money for
purchasing and tilling land in America.
The Strathfeldsay, chartered by the Emigra-
ton Committee was to sail from Gravesend on
the 1st, with tqeo hundred and ninety yOung ar0-
men, of good character, for Hobartstown, New
South Wales.
Lord Londonderry stated in the House he
should put some questions to Earl Grey respect
ing the state Of Portugal.
Specie-From the 10th to the 18th April in
elusive, there were exported from London TO
Hamburg, 81 OF. gold; silver to do. $40; to
New York 1920.
The sum of 100000 in silver had been ship
ped by one capitalist to Calais in one week, and
great quantities to other parts of the continent.
SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.
Madrid papers to the 23d of April, including
an Extraordinary Supplement of the Gazette
of that date, had been received in London. The
, intelligence in the latter is highly important.
Don Carlos has been very actively pursued by
the Spanish troops in Portugal. On their ar
rival on the 18th, before Almeida. the Pretend
er, who had taken refuge in that fortress, fed,
and on the 18th the place declared for Donna
Maria The following are the contents OF the
supplement:
Dispatches receired at the WGr-o6fce
''In the neighboring Kingdom of Portugal
events are developing themselves with rapidlty.
The Spanish troops having presented them
selves on the 18th before Almeida, whence the
Pretender fed, in order to avoid the being
blockaded therein, that fortress declared for
Donna Maria da Gloria early on the morning
of the 18th, as the following dispatches from the
Governor of Ciudad Rodrigo, dated the 18th,
will show:
"Most Excellent Senior: have the honor to
inform your Excellency, that advices which |
have received from different points of the Por-
tuguese border Communicate to me the fact that
the Town of Almeida declared for the Queen
Donna Maria da Gloria at O'Clock yesterday
morning; that the flag of legitimacy now floats
on the walls of that city; and that the governor
abandoned his post at that hour. along with the
few troops that adhered to him.
Enclosed are the proofs of the taking of the
city of Almeida by the Portuguese troops of
Donna Maria da Gloria, which have the no.
nor of addressing to your Excellency, to use
as you think proper, informing your EXcellen-
cy at the same time, that yesterday afternoon
we heard reports of cannon from Almeida,
which We supposed to have been the salute in
celebration of this happy event.
"NoTE.-The proofs above mentioned are
the dispatches forwarded to the Governor of
Cuidad Rodrigo, respecting the aforesaid event.
by the authorities of Almeida, Fuentes de Ono
TO, and Aldea del Obspo.
&c In fact, the Royal flag of the Queen Donna
Maria da Gloria has been flying over the walls
of Almeida since O'Clock yesterday morning,
by accounts which have just received (12 o.
clock) from the boundary, transmitted by a
person in my confidence.
The examiner Of passports at Barba de
Puerco has informed me that La Bausa vii
lage within my jurisdiction and other places,
are full of women, children and old men, Por-
tuguese, who have come to seek an asylum,
loaded with whatever property and effects they
have been able to carry with them.
The f0llOwino daSnatch from Gonaral Pc
dill relates to the flight of the Pretender of
whom the troops of the Queen Donna Maria
da Gloria are in pursuit:
"sMost Excellent Senhor The accounts |
have this day received respecting the direction
of the Pretenders flight confirm the statements
contained in the dispatches yesterday COM
municated to your EXcellency, without adding
any additional particulars.
The vanguard will stop tonight in Castle
Branco, whittier it proceeded for the purpose OF
thanking the fugtives, of taking some wagons
loaded with their effects, and of showing to the
Portuguese and the people of Estremadura as
lar as the Tagus that we are constantly pre-
pared 10 proceed TO every Ouarter which the