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to boast of from their privateers who have made such inroads on < Hsr commerce , as to occasion very great complaints on the supposed neglect of the Admiralty to defend it . At a great meeting of the merchants of Liverpool , the question was discussed with no small
degree of asperity on the conduct of the Admiralty ; and after a long debate , it was determined , not to send a memorial , as is Usual on these occasions , to the Lords of the Admiralty , bat to petition the Prince Regent himself to take the matter into con .
si deration . The petition has been presented , and referred to the First Lord of tjie Treasury . We have noticed the return of France to its ancient superstition , but England is displaying in its papers such an instance of fanaticism , as will incline foreigners to believe that our revolt from popery has only produced an exehange from one species of folly to another . A woman of the name of Southcott has long been giving to the public a variety of
fancies , under the name of pro . pheeies ; and her last reverie is , that , though between sixty and seventy years of age , she is to have a childwho is to be the
, great Head of Christians and Jews . This story , like that of the Cock-lane Ghost , produces a great many inquiries after her f
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FOREIGN . Pvrstzntion in the South of < Europe . . » ¦ * Persecution seetns to be reviving itv / the Sooth of Europe under * the * auspices of th < S P ope and the King
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and she has followers who believe in it . The event id to take place in two ot ' three' months ; and the heads of the Jewish and Protestant churches have been in *
vited to witness the birth -of this extraordinary child . TKe <* 6 m * raents of various parties upon this subject shew frequently the degree of impression that trite religion has made upon their mind . Some are for the interference of the
civil magistrates ; whilst others , more wisely , leave it to tirhe , to place this miraculous birth in the list of the numerous prophecies of this unhappy woman , which have failed . l&ept . Qk , 1814 .
Dispatches were yesterday received by government from Major-General -Ross and Vice Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane , announcing the capture of Washington , the capital of the United
States , after the complete defeat of the American troops stationed to defend it , and the destruction of the public builcU ings and stores , and of Commodore Barney ' s Flotilla . At Washington , the Capitol , including the Senate House and ih Mouse of Repi esentatiyes > the Arsenal , the Dock Yard , the Treasury , the War-Office ^ the Presidents Palace * the Rope-Walk ^
the Great Bridge across the , Poiowmacjt , & ? c . 4 &c * tt&pc ** either * blown lipft or rc ~ duced to ctshesS * Rear Admiral Cock-Imrn ' js dispatch states , that " not a vestige of public property escaped destruction ^ We call die Cossacks harldrians $ yet they , coming frt > m the smoking ruins of Moscow to the capture of Paris ^ re * ligiously abstained from plunder an < J wanton destruction ! Editor . ]
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of Sardinia . Measures are ^ aid to have been taken df late by th « Holy Office at Rome * $ &lb # e the JcfWs , which haV ^ Catued tnany wealthy families of that nation to retire to Legfcarn . In Pte&awrt
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578 Intelligence *^ &er * ectiHx ) n ii £ the South of Europe .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1814, page 578, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2444/page/54/
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