Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1801-11-24
Signing Of thel Pye1Iminaries Of
Ieacc :
From lie GJ'sn c5ysu:clr.

Peace
| we nave now 70 announce Intelligence O
| inch great and joyful Importance, thai
we know NOT how 10 cAprcis ourieIves
In language adequate TO convey wha
we ieei, and y hat every man will tee
in every part o. the kingdom.
Courier.
Ffom ne Lo"d1' Afor@ins Pge cfOh'ober 2.
We Fave ne llediIre at laii 10 an-
nouncc TIA, tle pkELiNiiNAkIES OK
PEACE ARE SIGNED bEl'Yy ZEN
FRANCE AND BRITAIN contrary
70 the genera: expectation. We have al
ready ffafcd, that abnur tlve or fix weeks
ago, tie Engli.h cabinet, dc.irous Of
drawing the negotiation 70 a concuGon,
gave IN projct, as lis uigit.,arum, relolv-
Cd 10 make peace on thar BATS, or breal,
oil the treaty wiihm tic month OF Ser
TENDER, that II might be ready 10 Law
before the f2riia TleM, 1t It's meeting, a
report OF the efforts 20 fue an end to The
war. Eager hopes were enscrtained for
The effect OF this DEP, and the funds roic :;
put buonaparte met IL with coidncfs,
made new demands, and occaioncd de-
lays, which deitroyed the hopes OF thofe
who had been the moR fanguine. Mini.
tiers continued 70 prcfs him the form OK
Preliminary tresty was ient off earlv
i:is week TO Paris, with an anurance, tia,
nnicis IL was acceccd 10, the negociation
mutt cloie. OGe half of The capinet mi.
.niters had TO expectation OF Guccef; -
peace WAS defpaired of; and hence arofe
the many reports Of the negotiation being
broken, or on the pc;n, OF rupture.
The general expectation was, that OF
peace there was no chance.
All the newspapers Of yeGeraay morn
ing even thoie pretending to he in the con-
hdence OF minltcys, as we'll as thoie which
really are 10 having no hopes of peace,
from the language held few DAYS ago,
iipoke OF rupture Of. the NJ gociation as
inevitable.
Even the cabiret mi,fers, who ai!l en-
tertained Tome expectations OF fucceG, a.
greed week ago, that peace, or an at
tempt at lnvailon, matt take place before
Chrlttmas. Under theie circumstances,
when we heard on Wcdnefday and Iharf-
day, peace ipoken ofwita confidence as be
ing near at hand, we could nor believe in
10 happy an event. Tic anfwer Of the
trit conful received On Wednesday, howe
yer, to the a;tonithment of all, clcied with
the proPoials OF cur government A cabi-
net council was held, and express fent off
to his majcffy, Whole fanttion reformed
next afternoon. The flver box never u
led iince the peace with America was fen
ed, was fent TO Lord Chancellor at five
o'clock for the grea, zeal AMI his iigna-
ture, and, the content of all the other
cabinet miniitcF being obtained, at feven
O'Clock lord Hawkelbury and M. Otto
iiened the Preliminaries of peace in Down
ing Street and his lordnhip fen, off the
following letter to the lord mayor.
T'tbr 4gbf hen. Ike L7ya IMoz,r.
DoS0si-gFrss1, Oao&er i, atngbf.
Nix LORD,
l have the fa,isfzftion in informing
your lordthiP, that preliainarics of Peace
between GReat- Britain and France have
been figned this evening by myfle on the
part OF his Majefy, and "a. Os,o on The
part ofthe FrenchGovernmens. Irequea
your lordfhip will have she .goodneis to
make this intelligence Immediately public
in the city.
" / have the honor to be, sc.
lSignedl
+" HAWk TGBURY."
Mr.. Hunter, jan. the meGesger, who
carried the letter, reached the manhon-