Alexandria Gazette

THE MEDITERRANEAN SQUADRON.—Letters have been received in the city, dated on board the Ohio, 25th December last, when that vessel was within one day's sail of Gibraltar. They state that an assistant of the fleet Surgeon, Dr. Van Wyck, fell on the deck in a fit of appoplexy, the morning after leaving this port. and that at the time of writing, he had only so far recovered as to be able to articulate the monosyllable, No.— We have been requested to give publicity to the unfortunate occurrence, for the information of Dr. Van Wyck's father who it is feared, may not have received the letter written to him concerning it. from on board the Ohio. The cause of it, is added may be in part ascribed to the orlop deck arrangement, for the Doctor slept in the orlop. near the pump wells, and the air there was excessively bad. The lieutenant of the watch had one night fallen on the deck. and badly fractured his leg.

The letters in question, give a horrid account of what they term their "prisonship," and say it grows worse and worse.—New York Courier.