“the Constitution arrived”

Date

2-28-1812

Newspaper

Raleigh Register

Newspaper Location

Raleigh, North Carolina

Serial Number

656

Abstract

Long article with embedded felt report for earthquakes in Europe. Verona, Italy experience and earthquake on December 18, 1811 and Marienburg, Saxony on December 12, 1811

Transcript

The Constitution Arrived. NORFOLK, Feb. 21. Arrived in the bay on Wednesday, the U. States' frigate Constitution, Capt. Hull, from Cherbourg, France, which place she left on the 9th Jan'y Dispatches by this ship for the Secretary of State, were landed on Wednesday, & immediately forwarded to Washington. We have been favoured with a file of Paris papers to the 5th Jan. in which we do not perceive any thing of importance. It was said and believed in France, that a rupture between that nation and Russia will shortly take place; but upon what grounds we do not perceive in the French papers.-We observe however that efficient steps had been taken to recruit the French armies.-The Conservative Senate, at the instance of the Emperor, passed a decree on the 20th of December, putting one hundred and twenty thousand men of the conscription of 1812, at the disposition of the minister of war, and measures were taken for their junction with the armies. The U.S. Brig Hornet arrived in France on the 30th of December, and sailed the next day for England. The 18th of Dec. a shock of an Earthquake was felt at Verona, which continued about 3 seconds. On the 12th December, two severe shocks were felt at Marienburg (Saxony).

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