Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1801-09-01

land ia.,e6 from tiaVfe on tEs l5ta @!
IaIy, bar as ihe lay OFF and on ieveral
weeks previous TO her departure, 10 Pa
pers were received on board 70 late as re
baby c,herw;!e would have been. Nh2 :
the editors have received, they are irdet,
ed for to the polteneis of captain Izard,
one of The paaengers, but as they are only
10 the r4,h MeIiidor July q they a..
derived tie p,eaiure of detailing any :s.::ag
worthy the curioiity and an'iciPaiiocs ot
! their readers In tatt, the papers CT "a
| ris appear nearly as barren as in 'i;He
Of the mott profound peace, and are 81
! newfels as thoG: Of America. a fen,
tranGation;, however, are made, rot, Cor
trsnlation's fake, than the Importance OF
the articles.
Ry verbal information, obtained from
intelligent gentlemen, it appears, that
general peace was en- the taps az Paris.
and iarguine expectations were entertained
hat the grand event, Or its precurioE, a
general truce, would be proclaimed on the
18th Of July, the political birthday CT
France. This expectation, however, with
due Difference to the more accurate ard
local knowledge of our informant, we con-
ceive, fhould not be too fanguinely induls-
ed here. as it appears to be built by per
ions there tile,i Of the havoc Of war on TOO
fender and tYeculative foundation, and
borders more on polibility than probabi~
lity.
No Official news had heen received 2.
Paris of the fate of Egypt-nor was any
thing certain known Of the fquadron Under
Gantheaume. Some uneahnels, i: appears
by the French papers, had prevailed At
Paris the end June, upon rumour that liz
I. B. Warran had fallen in with and cap
tured the greater part of them.
The deainy of Portugal, we learn BY
the fame authority, is hnally lealed-,hc
French having taken her European pofsf-
fons under tkriy trvtefion, and the Britiih
having fent out fquadron to take the
Brazils under theirs.
The convention between this country
and France, curious as it may feem, was
not ratified when the Mary Wand failed, tho
matters were faid 10 be in f,ir way. Pro-
baby it was, with the treaties Tor e1f'fa-
tits) of other Petty powers taking nap In
the confular cabinet, till the grand re'a'-
vauu day of the 9TH. which was to give
besee 10 tbe 4uoyld. Re this AS II may,
Mr.. DAYTON remained at Paris, waiting
the final event or concluding, probably,
that as a general peace was once more a.
bout to fpread its benignant reign over
the world, by remaining on the ipot he
could anfwer as we'll for envoy extra
ordinary" 1.-THE character which is given
him at Paris as citizen Chancellor Ii
vingaon. Tom Paine, his intended fellow
padenger, remained ALTO enjoying PArfav
bka/u,es, conceivi:g poaibly, that if MIR.
Dawfon ihoud be made plenipo, he had
as fair claim as Mr.. Sumpter, to he aJic-
e,etay.
Arrived, fchr. Caroline, capt. Benton
from Bordeaux.
Left there fhip Six Brothers, Of Bottom,
and brig Three Brothers, King, Of Balti-
more, to fail next day for n. Orleans.
July zeth, in lat. al, IS, long. g, S
fpoke the fhip Sihers, cap:. Cbar6ln'oo,
10 days from Charleiton, bound to Cowe',
all well.
Augua s, in lat, SO, 80, long. So, S,
fpoke the brig Betty, capt. Williams, .
days from Baltimore, bound to Hamburg
On the 10Th, in lat. 81, 81, long. 7a,3o,,
lpoke the hip Adelaide, capt. Num- OF
Baltimore, oct one day.
The fhip Mercury, capt. Waters, left
the Capes yeterday.
The fhip on ground, which proved to
be the Smallwood, got of ialt night.
The Sally, from Liverpool, Is IN The r.
yer.
T,uuAetsus fur the F<Gs~al C4zfsr, ,f,'n
Parjs ta5ers 10 ~ MsH.dly, Jfay Z.