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THE GAZETTE.
By EDGAR SNOWDEN.
Tekms.
Daily paper - $3 per annum.
Country paper 5 per annum.
The ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE for the coun
try is printed on Tuesday, Thursday, and
Saturday.
All advertisements appear in both papers, and
are inserted at the usual rates.
PARTICULARS OF THE RIOT ON THE
WASHINGTON RAIL ROAD.
Correspon lence of the Baltimore Patriot.
♦ Elk-Ridge, June J 8, 1834.
A furious insurrection broke out on Sunday
last among the Irish laborers on the line of the
Washington Rail road, between the points cor
responding to about the twelfth and twentieth
mile stones from Baltimore, which continued
until Tuesday afternoon, when it was entirely
quelled, or at least suppressed for the present,
by the active exertions of Gen. C. S. Ridgely,
acting under the sanction of the civil authority,
with a company of about fifty men from the
Savage Factory, and a few others of the neigh
borhood, who, with alacrity and promptitude
volunteered their services, under the immediate
command of Mr. Capron, of the former place,
well armed with musket and ball—with Col.
Geo. Cooke, as aid to the General—and the
whole accompanied with two magistrates of the
county. As no resistance was made, no vio
lence w7as necessary, and of course none was
used on the part of the State, except in the ar
rest of a number of the rioters, who were mo
ving along the line of the road armed, or car
rying bludgeons, wTith evident hostile design.—
Three or four of the rioters are known to have
been killed, and several badly hurt, in the differ
ent affrays among themselves. T welve or fifteen
shantees have been burnt or otherwise destroy
ed in the commotion, with the greater part of
heir contents—leaving a number of women
<ind children houseless and destitute. No other
persons are known to have received injury ei
ther in their persons or property on this occa
sion.—Gen. Ridgely was not informed of what
.vas going on upon the road till some time in
die forenoon of Monday, when he proceeded
.;o the chief point of the commotion, as soon us
ne could be furnished with the requisite civil au
thority.—The writer of this accompanied, or
rather found the General at the threatened
ooint of attack, and witnessed his exertions by
command and entreaty to preserve the peece
I—with the frr^t band he succeeded, but a more
| -crious set soon came up with whom neither
• command or entreaty had the least effect. He
| mmediately retired with the civil authoricy to
1 Ihe Savage Factory, procured the force before
mentioned, and followed the rioters—parties of
whom were soon discovered to be proceeding
iowu the line evidently for the purpose of uS
iailing their opponents—as many of these were
arrested as could be overtaken. The troops
-lien proceeded towards the lower section, op
>osite to Waterloo, and at dusk, after a fatigue
:ng march of S miles in a hot and sultry even
‘ng, the General directed them to Waterloo, to
secure the prisoners and take up quarters for
.he night.
Early next day he proceeded to the 8th see
ion, the head quarters of the Corkonians, and
received the peaceable submission of all the
-party there. Stationing a guard of 17 men, he
returned with the rest of hi? force, on the Ji.no
jf the road, back to the other disturbed see
ions, received in like manner the peaceable
submission of two or three hundred of the r;o
:crs, and thence marched on to the section at
.♦bout the 20th mile stone, where he found the
Rail Road Company’s Agent had organized
iis people for defence—while stationary near
Ihis mint, information was brought that distur
bances had been renewed at the principle point
Just before passed—a countermarch was there
fore ordered, but on arriving back this informa
tion proved to be false. The people here, how
ever, were found to be in a state of alarm and
commotion, apprehending or pretending to ap
prehend an attack from the Corkonians. To
pacify their apprehensions, and as a measure
of necessary precaution, Gen. R. suggested to
the fatigued volunteers, who had scarcely any
• est the night before, and who had been march
ng backward and forward all this day in the
ain, that he wanted a guard to remain hero
nil the expected force from Baltimore shouiu
.rrive. This was promptly met by Mr. Canroa
lirnself and twenty of his men, the whole un
ler command of Col Cooke—being all that
. were necessary, the actual disturbances all a
long the line being entirely suppressed. The
Baltimore troops under Maj. Finley arrived
' vi U4ivi i
- The unnatural and deadly feud appears not
*o have had its origin in either of the ordinary
cources of animosity among those people, Pol
tics and Religion, but mererely in the circum
stance of their coming from different parts of
uhe same Island! The North against the South
—the Corkonians on one side, and those from
.lie North, Fardowns as they are called on the
jther—and both, I am informed, are Roman !
Catholics. Such an infuriate and brutal fee
ding as was displayed by both parties of these
Infatuated men it had never fallen to my lot
-O witness before—and yet I'have had the op
portunity to know that there are some very de
cent and respectable men among both sides,
who, with all that are peaceably inclined, are
created as foes, if they do not join their respec
wlve parties—and peace for any length of time
cannot be expected among them, if the Ring
leaders on each side be not arrested and made
examples of. Indeed it may be very donbtful
whether any thing can prevent a renewal of
disturbances while the hostile factions remain
on the same line. It may be worth while for
the Rail Road Company to endeavor to effect
an exchange of least numerous of the parties
here with an equal number of the contrary par
ty on the Cana), whereby both works and all
parties may be benefited, by having all of one
side on each work.
MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.
Extract of a letter to the Editors of the Phila
delphia Commercial Herald, dated
Louisville, (Ky.) June 12.
A shocking occurrence took place here last
week. A Mr. C. married Miss Buckner last
week, a beautiful and interesting woman, of one
ol our most respectable families. On that eve
ning Mrs Buckner (the mother of the bride)
quantity 0f custard made, and sent
to the houses of her married children. On Sun
day 5^11* .^os ?r (jjer daughter) was taken ill,
and died in a few hours. While the company
was assembling for her funeral, a dauahter of
her’s became suddenly ill, and the funeral was
postponed, that both might be buried together.
Before this took place, Mrs. Buckner died; and
one after the other, eight have died, and nine
more are dangerously ill.
Poison having been suspected, the servants
are all in prison, but there is no evidence, ex
ternal or internal, to prove the charge. The
contents of the stomach show no appearance
of poison. The symptoms in all resemble those
of Asiatic Cholera—yet no one else in town has
been attacked, and not one of that devoted fa
mily who avoided the custard. All who ate of
it have died or are ill. The physicians and
magistrates are all in alarm and bustle, and no
two people seem to agree in opinion as to the
true cause of this melancholy visitation.
LAND FRAUDS.
In the Senate on Friday, Mr. POINDEXTER,
from the Committee on Public Lands, which had
been directed, by a resolution of the Senate, to
inquire into certain frauds said to have been
committed in the sales of the Public Lands,
made a report thereon, in part, accompanied
with sundry documents.
Mr. POINDEXTER said he now laid before
the Senate all the evidence the Committee had
been able to collect during the present session.
Immediately on the Senaters instituting the in
quiry, the Committee had caused commissions
to issue, for the purpose of collecting testimony,
directed to individuals in Mississippi, which did
not reach them until two months after they were
sent from here. The Clerk ot the Committee
was willing to make affidavit that he, on the
first of April last, directed and put into the post
office here, five letters to individuals in Missis
sippi, and here was an answer to one oi them,
dated at Clinton, June the first.
\Tr P here rend the letter, bv which it on*
peared that tho gentleman did not receive the
letter directed to him until the day previous to
the date of his answer. Hu mentioned these i
facts, Mr. P. said, for the purpose of explaining
why the Committee were unable to report in
full. One of tne depositions.taken by the Com
mittee was from a Mr. Emanuel flowe, a gen
tleman ofiutegrity and respectability, and whose
character was vouched foi by the Hon. James
Barbour, of Virginia, and his brother, the lion.
Judge Barbour. He wished this deposition to
bo read, in order tlu t the Senate might have j
some idea of the kind of frauds that has been |
practised on the public at their land sales. I
The deposition of Mr. Rowe was then read.
Mr.FORSYTII said that the deposition which
had been read exhibited some extraordinary J
fa* cs. He had no objection to printing the atfi
davit. and thought that the Treasury Depart
ment ought to be pm in possession of the facts,
\ in order that it might take some notice of them.
Mr. PORTRU would be very unwilling that
j the deposition should be printed without his ha
ving made a single remark. He did not intend
to impugn tne general correctness of the affida
vit, but with respv*ef to one individual who was
mentioned. Mr. Ellis, he was a person of great
respectability and Iionor. He (Mr. i\) should
think that that gentleman hud done nothing
more than put money into the hands of an indi
vidual to buy lands. Mr. NHL was not a man
who would act in such a manner m- to deprive
any man of ur. equal chance nf purchasing
Mr. POINDEXTER said tuck die honorable
Senator from Louisiana would observe llmt
there was not r. word said in the affidavit against
Mr. Ellis. Ii only represented him as the agent
of the Louisiana Company. The commission:
which he (Mr. I'.) had forwarded to Mississippi
.had been detained two months, instead of arriv
ing there in twelve days. He thought that some
thing should be done by Government to nut r.r>
‘ end to there frauds.: and he csnsTlerod itm :>ug- j
I gestioii of the gentleman from Georgia perfcc‘L ,
[ correct—if war- right tinu tho tacts : Hook, ne
i laid before the Department, rc as to give ?t a;. |
{opportunity of making' an inquiry cn rite *uik-1
I jc-ct.
| Mr. POUTER heiiewd that tne sales ot the!
j public land:; offered the strongest temptudcr.j la <
commit frauds. iJe was glad to hear that there j
was nothing said in the affidavit impugning 'he j
character of Mr. Eliir.
Mr. ICING • *xpressed hL opinion that kg/as
utterly impossible to prevent speculators frr.i 1 j
purchasing the lands. The Government in d I
passed laws, and every thing had been done 1
thaf was thought calculated to pat a stop R rpr- •
eulahevs, but all without effect, if it conk! l;c
ascertained that the Government officers had i
parbeipateJ in these frauds, then Rev ought ia-1
stantly to be dismissed. 1
Mr. FORSYTH had some doubt as to the
I propriety of printing the documents, inasmuch
! as they wore of an tx yjr!c character, lie
j thought they ought uni to bo published without
' first giving the persenc charged an opoo. milky j
i of being heard.
Mi. BLACK i:ad no oojecuou i.o the printing; ]
bat hothougfit that the deponent must haw been
in some degree, deceived. Ho hnev: seme of
the perso.’io named, and believed theta to be
highly respectable. If there was any such com- j
bination, and such rroul itiun made oa the set-1
tiers, he knew nothing of it. He made some ex- J
planatiotio, to ward off suspicion of wrong from i
the officers of the Government, otatiag that there
was a scheme to buy lands under fictitious names,
and that it was to defeat this scheme that an im
mediate uepcsite was demanded. He (Mr. B.)
had been consulted by the Register, nnu a cl vis ;
ed this course. >
Mr. POINDEXTER asked hL colleague if lie
recollected any thing about an address tc the
company.
Mr. BLACK replied in tue negative. Tic was
not present.
Mr. POINDEXTER said that the Committee
had received the highest testimonies of the cha- .
racter of the deponent.
Mr. FORSYTH suggestcu, that, ta, individu
als not connected with the 'Government, and
said to be respectable, were implicated in the
transaction^, it might be prudent to withhold the
printing*
Mr. CLAY* hoped the printing would be or
dered. No one, who looked at fhe suo'eci,
could doubt that there had been great and
shameful frauds. He thought the document
ought to be printed, oo that every member of
the Senate might be in possession of a ^opy.
He did not despair of the practicability of p?*e
venting combinations in the purchase of lands.
Gentlemen ought not to give up the subject. ITe
saw no reason, in what had been said, that the
documents ought not to be printed at present,
lest injury might be done to some individuals;
but he thought that the public good ought to be
a paramount consideration with gentlemen.
He trusted that something would be done to
put an end to these frauds, and that the gentle <
man from Georgia would lend his assistance to
effect that object. <
A further convesrsation between Mr. POIN- i
DEXTER and Mr. BLACK resulted in an ad- i
mission from the'latter, that the case stated by i
the deponent, in which the Register .end Re- .
\ ‘
ceiver were involved, did not appear fo be that i
in which he had been consulted.
The printing was then ordered. 1
Mr POINDEXTER then offered the follow
ing resolution, which lies on the table until to- i
m°Resohed, That the Chairman of the Commit
tee on Public Lands be authorized, during the
recess of Congress, to proceed in the investiga
tion of the alleged frauds in the sales of the
public lands, commenced during the present
session, by issuing commissions, to take deposi
tions in relation to such frauds, and the con
duct of the officers appointed to superintend
said sales by law, directed to such persons in
the several land districts as he may select for
the purpose. And, also, that he be authorized
to extend said investigation into the conduct of
the commissioners or agents appointed by the
President to locate the Indian reservations un
der the treaties with the Creeks, Choctaws and
Chickasaws, and the frauds, if any, which may
have been committed in the purchase or sale
of said reservations, and the testimony so tak
en shall be reported to the next session of Con
gress. _,
MAJ. DOWNING’S CORRESPONDENCE.
Senate Chamber, (
Washington, 14th June, 1P34. $
To my old friend Mr. Dwight of the New York
Daily Advertiser.
Ever since I got usck here irom i\ew i ora
where I went to duces tecum some of them Pet
banks, as I teh;d you in my last letter, I have
got more than 50 letters from different folks, all
wantin to know when I was coining out with
my “report.” But you see it aint my way to
blab right out to all creation all the informa
tion I git. especially when it is plagy tough work
to ‘-it it—you know I toll’d you win n I was in
New York, that you musn’t be sharp set on
hourin any thing from me about the examina
tion of the pet banks until I hud toll’d the
Senate all I know’d, and lot them take it up
first, as I am in their service now. When I
got back here I found the hull Senate busy with
the post office accounts. And their haint been
no room yet for me to wedge in ray “ Report”—
and donfc see that there will be room yet ior a
good spell—for as soon as the Senate got threw
the Post Oliice consarns, some on em turn’d
rite to and are going to look at the Land office,
and the Indian affairs, and the Contracts—and
the Custum house business.
There is ugly work yet to git threw, and if
the people only know’d ar much as l do, what
a plagy tuff time some of the Senators have in
trackin out this business, they’d think it warn’t
an amazin easy office to be in—its bad enuf to
track a fox ever a clean open field when the
dogs are all well train’d—but to lollow him
threw all manner of doubles and twistins, and
briers, and marshes, sometimes over rivers and
creeks, and then agin crossin swamps and
1 stubble, and a parceffof dogs belongin to other
| folks yelpin and barkin on wrong tracks, just to
mislead the true noses, then I tell yon it is pla
oy hard work. But we have got some rale good
[eatiers now, and they have got their noses on
the right track, and tlio1 they may be puzzled a
spell, they’ll go on till the old fox is driv rite in
to ins last hole; and if there is a brush left to
| him they’ll have it.
' see the folks are a good deal struck up about
i the i’est Office business, it warnt nothin new to
I tc me, ar.d I suppose to you liother; for in iny
| letter io ion of loth January last, you'll see
! them accounts of the Post Office made me split
! up more than three and a half cords of hicko
ry or.o night, just fryiu to straiten ’em for the
Ginevah The worst on’t is, the Senate can’t
fin a cut tiie hull matter; they can ony find what
“ The Government” can’t hide, but there is a
good deni ye: to be scratch’d up. I don’t like
to guess rboiff it; for that aint my natur; but as
fi.y an J cm. culklute, you’ll sec afore long that
libs Pcs: Office business aint nothin worth
tiiinki/. c:, when you come to see what a plagy
hole “glory mid refornf’ has made in sonic other
office/.
„ foil'd you wo oi three tunes aiore, m some
of my left in,, tue notion I got in my head why
.be Ghvam war so keen, in gittin hold of the
deposit out of Squire Biddle’s Bank and siftin
’em ror.ua among a good many Banks, You
:;eo “ file Govern mem” has been doiu a good
deal iit ilit; wry of G!oiy and reform, and a
good many folks found thal was the easiest road
to travel on; but the worst on’t was, Congress
couldn’t make no appropriation to pay for Glo
!'}. and Squire Bidule kept hi.-; accounts so snug
“ The Gojernv.i :nt’’ couldn’t git a dollar out of
kir Bar.k without file people’s knowin on’t; and
sc the cny wry to git at the chink, was to set
folks io vork first yclpin like all natur agin
“the ..;o;isier,” and when they thought the peo
ple would agree to it, slap-dash! “ The Govern
,..v,g” went light at the Bank, and took the
rjony out on’t, and put it first in the pet Banks,
and then begun to hustle and shuffle it about
from oneecnd of the country to the other; and
\ onlklate by this time a pritty considerable
share on’t has gone to “ Glory,” and the rest
ori’t has gone along with some of the other lost
rights of the ?tate°-, that Mr. Van Buren used
to tell about a spell ago.
I lieai a good deal said here, blit I don’t know
sartin yet, myself, tliai there is rale trouble
among some lolks about “ The Government;”
and “The Government” itself, aint over and
above quiet. There is ony one way to git the
General and his folks out or the scrape they
have got in, and that is, for Congress to pass a
law l ight off, sayin, “ That no man shall be al
lowed to figui up, or examine into any account ;
made out by “ The Government.” but take it all
for jaw and gospel, so long as the Gineral puts
bis name on one eend on’t, and Amos Kindle
puts hio’n on tether; and if any man in or out,
of Congress should dare to snook into such ac
counts, the Gineral should be a1 low’d to try him
under the 2d section.!
If tile Senate had ben like totlier houoC this
session I etc roly believe some rich a Jaw would
a ben past, and ev’ry thing now about “The
Government” Wuuid a ben as Wrait as a teem
pole, instead of oein all turn’d upade do-;n, a .d
as crooked as a rain’s norm
In your last letter fo me you v an* to know
how thing! are workia in the Cabinet, and how |
things are gain to woik. Well that’s pretty hard
tAlin—and 1 don’t beiieve any mortal can ted <
yet: i'will begin to work one way or tother pret- (
ty soon now; hut which v. ay, or what way, is *
hard to s~y, tho’ I have my notion about it. It i
was pretty much so once when I wa. a boy. I
went out huckloberryin, and not being very par- i
Licular, I suppose I eat a little too many on ’em t
md afore I got home I was arcmzin sick. I could £
just reach home, and that was all.
My poor old mother was desperately fright
en’d, and she went right out and scrap’d some
Elder bark to make tea on’t, and I took a good j
Irink as hot as I could swallow it; but this only
Hade things worse. 1 roll’d over one way, and -
die tumbled me back t’other way, mid to rights
fie sent for Doctor Pardons, and in he ccmes, i
,nd "ays he, Misj Downing, what on e«rth’s the ^
natter, says he? and so she teli'd him all she
mow’d about tli<* ttuckleberrys, and the Elder
)ark t02l
Well, says he, Miss Downing, there is nothin
n all creation so good as elder bark tea, says
lie; but stop says he, Miss Downing, how did
you scrape that are bark? for you know, says
he, if you scrape it from the root upwards, then
the tea makes a good vomit as ever was; but if
you scraped it t’other way, then, says he, its all
wisa worsa; and with that my poor good old
mother drop’d the tea pot right out of her hand.
Well, says she, Doctor, then I see jest how it is,
and why my dear boy is sufferin so shockin,
for, says she, I scraped that are bark both ways.
Well, then, Miss Downing, says the Doctor,
“ all 1 can say about it is, there is no tellin right
off what will be the eend on’t;” and that’s pret
ty much all that can be said about the Cabinet
troubles at present.
From your friend,
J. DOWNING,
Major Downingville Militia, 2d Brigade.
DRAWS TO-MORROW
Washington City Lottery, Class No. *2 for 1831,
Will be drawn at the City Hall, in the City of
Washington, on Tuesday, June 24
3 PRIZES OF $8,000 each!
Tickets .$5 00; halves 2 50; quarters 1 25
To be had in a variety of numbers of
J. W. VIOLETT,
Lottery and Exchange Broker,
Near the corner of K ing and Fayette Streets, J
Alexandria, D. C.
Dnwin" Virginia Monongalia Lottery. No. 5:
7 2° 10 13 17 40 52 62 61 70 57 18
DRAWS TO-MORROW _
Washington City Lottery, Class No. 2 fur 1831,
Will be drawn at the City Hall, in the City of
Washington, on Tuesday, June 24
3 PRIZES OF $8,000 each!
Tickets $5 00; halves 2 50; quarters 1 25
Fold, in great variety of lucky numbers, by
JOS. M. CLARKE*
(Sign of the Flag of Scarlet and Gold.) King st.
Alexandria, D. C.
Drawing Virginia Monongalia Lottery, No. 5:
7 29 40 IS 17 46 52 02 61 70 57 18
Combination 13 52 60, a Prize of $150,
was sold at CL AI\KE’L, m the Virginia Monon
galia Lottery No. 5, Saturday, June 21.__
DRAWS TO_MORRO\v
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Will be drawn at the Ci'y Hall, in Hit City of
Washington, on Tuesday, June 21
3 PRIZES OF $8,000 each!
'Pickets $5 00; halves 2 50; quarters 1 25
To be had in a variety of numbeis of
J. CORSE,
Lottery i}* Exchange Eruker, Alexandria.
Drawn Nos. in the Literature Lottery of the
State of Delaware. Class No. 25:
28 23 57 16 70 46 19 22 1! 71 35 13
Drawn Nos. in the Va. State Lottery, for the be
nefit of the Monongalia Academy, Class 5:
7 29 40 13 17 46 52 62 61 70 57 18
draws TO-MORRG\v
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To be drawn at the City Hall at Washington,
on Tuesday, June 24
3 PRIZES OF $9,000 each! .
Tickets .$5 00; halves 2 50; quarters 1 25
On sale in great variety by
JAS. RIORDAW.
Uncurrent Notes and Foreign Gold pur
chased.
Drawing Delaware Literature Lottery, No. 2o:
28 23 57 16 70 46 19 22 11 71 35 13
Ditio, Virginia, Monongalia, Class No. 5:
7 29 40 13 17 46 52 62 61 70 57 IS
No. 13 17 18, Virginia Lottery, Class No. ;
5, $150, sold on Saturday, at R IQRPAN’s office.
To the Ladies and Gentlemen of Alexandria.
HORATIO DAY,
Ladies' and Gentlemen's Loot and Shoe Maker,
HAVING abandoned the idea cf leaving the
place of his nativity as long as the goon
people will permit him to stay among them, begs
leave to inform them that he is prepared to fur
nish them with every article in his line of iuisi
ness, as neat and as durable, and on as good
terms, as any establishment in the Distrcf.
All orders for Ladies’, Gentlemen’s, anu Chil
dren’s BOOTS and SHOES, thankfully receiv
ed and promptly attended to.
N. B. Two BOYS wanted, between iho ages
of 14 and 10, to learn the above business. Boys
from tiie country would be preferred,
june 20—d3t&w3w
BOOTS, SHOES, PALM LEAF HATS, occ.
JH. WHITE has just received, per sloop
. Statira and other arrivals, a very season
able addition to his stock of BOOTS oc SHOES,
which enables him to offer almost every article
A his line at the very In vest prices for cash,
mong them are—
Men’s fine Pegged Summ t Eoots
Do Pumps, various qualities, (som> very
cheap)
Women’s Seal, Lasting & Kid Slippers, do
Do Leather Jefl'ersons Slippers, do
Misses’ Children’s Shoos, various qualities
Fine Palm Leaf Hats, broad rims, (an ex
cellent article)
Coarse do do do
A lot of HAIR TRUNKS, cheap
Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Boots and
Shoes, of all kinds, made to order, of the best
materials and workmanship. june 19
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this arrival the editors of the Commercial 1'
vertiser have received numerous files oi \\
don papers to the 23d of May, and LiverneJ
the 24th, botli inclusive.
The first item of intelligence tha at; -
our attention, and before the tidings of tin'* fZ
had reached us by rumor, was the death of-*C
last surviving General of the glo-.ious a1(TJV :1
the American Revolution—the immorhi "t °
FAYETTE! The accounts of his in<W
tion reaching us from time to time bi seve ■
weeks past, together with his great r.,gfe. \\
deed prepared us for this event. Stil’ :
carry sadness to every American hear
From GalignanVs Messenger of <,
DEATH OF GENERAL xFAYF rT ;
With unfeigned regret we annour,j.j« .
lancholy event, which took place at « qituiiZ
five o’clock this morning. The improve i
which was perceptible in the symtoms ori 1 '
tal malady yesterday evening, and whic.iin- ■;
ed his friends with a hope that his valuublZj
might yet be spared to then; continued aiu'
about two o’clock this morning, who-, a cii u)
took place in his breathing, which tnroZ<
the approach of dissolution.
A blister was about to be applied x me :t>
but he faintly expressed his disse.x, end 7li v
were his last words. The n.;erabl: Get o
was born on tiio -st cf Member, uo't\ ;;t
consequently wanted lit.ie rno. x "iha.ii di, >
months to complete 11:; age of .x/onty-.x.'x;
The wondrous ocens-c i bed1 ifTw fr: !
and the Old, i:; which liie nr.mec' ;^afay».*
was prominently distinguished, arc among <1,
most remp.ivxble v ie cr.nc.lr^jjf .manki.i.;
and we ma; zcft\ a - * (withoi entering i.\
abstract opinion: :i political : oc.-iiiesf
history aoes Xi ;r» ; A her reixTc los: ?.-.;
name which nr s passed h w ug’- •ho caarcai.ii
ordeal of public cpioi./., ,ve ix exx?
I and nioG tempestuous f ;vx ..c x x,x
unsulliec than hid .viio^e cm » ',:l ;; "•/> - ••
day cailco upoi to deolo.w 1
Tha.v.bz.. o’ ir ,a;
At half pr.st '\/«i . . 5*Lc . J} ...•
President too.’: me Juai •
After r.f. Cay::ETio.: 1'*':
oal of the preceding
The Presi.)e:*t vos~ \r: 1. . -:■
said, “ r have the a Tbiicr :f r*°. ct-.i T',
the Chamber the decease : .,V, ce.-trihC* r
neral Lafayette. -e : iet r.;. ? :
o’clock. I snail ncf*
names of the Ivlembe:s ,\.c ;;r,v’ .(lcuc
funeral, but I have no oerb. d * : rxi k-.v
her of his colleagues *vhl o.ioi io’ : : c>,
accompany his remairs. ' Tr. ''••eci'-e** Ir*
drew the names ol ihe deori^dr
M. Francois LneF.ssn cs . * :c r j
the President be mvilei k.: ”»\i. ':u?'
I illustrious Generai’j family r: v ;csi-'e iu
profound grief felt by ,ha The tr.oe * .’c * • « c
loss his colleagues , nd i * *'* •?
experienced.
The motion, cfcorrs_, \ * .
The Sitting was Ihe* s ';Te m?'
P0iV*vJ Ta- .
The intelligence Ten. hi. .; •<
kingdom is of cc.rkerabT nimo:
all sides, the Usurper is uisecir'Pe' V,;
fell into the hands of »onac i :•> v:V *;c:,c :•
the 8th of May, oy evieumici.; fne .
Terceira was immediately aft? * Tf a? joi- c-c- i:
the Spanish army under Ten. rccli, .vnwe.
ing about 3,000 man. Tur eg h; im.uy cf li .
combined fb~C3s ir.to Toknbia ;ici \v;e •:
ceived wkh ihe greyest deg re; ef eebu.sira i
bv Mie inhabit? r.ts. I eye ate: Tne ? and f
vas for Donna x.ia i ii., \**tf aisuiay ;d
lors and decora,ed arches, re.akec- hr v/eicer)
ness of the event. r\ m he wnih or
gal it apperrr tha. n; xoigjeli:;.: hr c? Tic’’
themselves in considerable bedier. cui h: r.l! ii
stances where hiey 1 c gi re 1 :* J: !'.? n:v
bee' defeated
-v . T •*
* ,/1j
Advices fro*:'i tin Hague m e «kvv
in London to the '1st of Ma/, '.zirzl ■;
Governor of Dutch Tndb. C.tr ros’n i,."
rived ak Tjxel : c..e brnd'^c r< ri: .y
from Batrvia. it appears mu /ho--* 'i - ic<»!
upo.i himself *he oPicc o/ T'?.e c/, dr* a-*'*
ben of the High Council o-' m zor
plin.enting him cr his trri/.?,, ?s!-..h t: *nr
his pleasure wv.ei kir should roscrei? .c
before him the s at:- i tut zclon'ZJ ?
aiA.nswer mere charaeitrisiicell. :xj;
of Ihe system after whim he night oe vor-i
cd to act, than any icri~, friends roMu •
closed, telling tnem hlc huemion vcc. h 't
them to that trouble being so .Vlly acre:. : :-,
ii.formation that he did not van. any •»
and, at the same time, go firmly nrolvoi
the line of conduct he jn.eiuiou x pii *:j‘
he had no occasion at aii for iheiriu!”. r.
His return from hi* post was ' sunjeta
much speculation in the Iharh ccpual.
The King’s messenger, lioogen, ar ‘ireti a»
Hague with despatches from Baron vcrsioi-.
which were said to contain tho summaryJ^*-1
lutions of the Ministers assembled in ^ 1,11,1 !
upon the greater part of the questions s:jn.ni!
ted to their discussion. The ’R ussian i^nn-'
Ancillon, was already upon hit return to ar e 1
he arrived at llatisbon on the 10 tk of Aja), ■;*
continued his route on the following day
the rest, the intelligence from Germany
more assuring as to the state of Pu^ fr ,„:jf
and it.would seem explosions are tin”<■ *
sundry parts of the confederation.
BELGIUM. .
The death of the infant Prince Vertx ■ ^
apparent of the throne of Leopola, y0<);j
at Brussels, on the 16th of May. in
such occasions, the Court was to »° ltl h voun«i
ing for a month. The obsequiesl oMne j f.
Prince, were fixed Cor Saturday, u“ J>rmcllt „|
In making preparations toi Duke
the royal infant, the sepulchral \ni“ , n(j nU
of Brabant was opened. Several ton ^aiit ;
merous epitapsof the ancient Bukos ‘ 0f I
were found, one in particular, of tnc this
1380, in a perfect state of preservation- r(j
tomb was deposited an enormous sil\c on
with the arms of Brabant chased up°i » j
another tomb is a gold vase with the a . j.P
Austria, containing the heart of the Ar ^
Ernest, who died Governor General oi^
iherlands, at the end of the 16th centuiy- oJ
The grief of Leopold and his Queen,
course spoken of as being very profound. •.
ar, indeed, the King seems destined by »’ y
lence to bold a barren sceptre—having v 1
•eaved of the heirs of two thrones