Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1801-11-02
By Keferday's Mail.
LONDON, September &.

Loh>AoA>9 SNPtS"OCi
Yeferday flag of truce arrived aldo
yer, with cifpatc.es from the French 60
vernment for M. Otto.
We received by the fame conveyance
Paris, Journals to the lift infant, which
bring no other intelligence than that the
Tiers Cou/ehaes fell one and ain half the
day preceding.
The activity and regularity Of couriers
and dispatches have certainly redoubled
fnce that late remembrance OF MIR. Mer
ry upon the aate Of the negotiations; and
the public opinion feems itrongly to have
adopted tie hints which have been fuggeit
ed, upon the necelity Of bringing them to
concluiion. The late events in Egypt,
and the Baltic, to the inue of which by a
tacit convention the relative fate of both
countries was referred, has removed the
presence of any longer delay and ovation.
What effect they may have produced up
on the mind of the Chief Conful, we have
no means of afcertaining; but whether we
confider the approaching period Of the al
iem5!ing OF parliament or the decreaGng
length of the days, we cannot entertain
any other opinion than the government is
determined to procure, without delay, the
counter project of the 1huilleries, or in
terrupt an Improbable intercourie, which
may foon be attended with great inconvc-
niencc and danger. [7Imes.1
Egypt mutt be fully in our poiieflion by
this time, and we know of no important
fervice on which the Englifh fleet has a
Proipeet of being engaged in thofe feas. In
deed we have reaion TO believe that when
Alexandria furrenders, comfortable part
of our naval force will, be drawn from the
Mediterranean to the Cadiz Raticn. Al,
Gibraltar and Minorca, perhaps, troops
may embark, and an expedition fail again.t
fone part OF the continent of South Anne.
rica. Lord Keith, il is true, is expected
home; but he will not leave the Medirer-
ranean till the great fervice is at an end,
and then it is not likely that Lord Mel
ion will fucceed him. We believe on the
contrary, that Lord Mellon will continue
IN his preient command during the winter,
as his tervices are much more likely to be
wanted when the datk weather fets in than
at this time. His lordlhip having folicit-
ed his Preient ifation, will not throw it up
10 haltlly. While he is between England
and France, the public feel the darger of
invaiion is greatly diminifhed and mi
n'iters will be fenlible that in no part can
they place him, where he will be Of more
ME 10 the country.
[Morv. PEP, Axg. 27.]
Every perfon cries out againft the dils.
tory proceedings of the negociators vet,
after all, what is the location for anv
hurry! The war is at prefcnt, but war
OF Nau 6ahles, and it will probably foon
ink to that clafs which The Prince of
Condo denomina,ed guer,et de pats de
cbambrt.
From the defenhve preparations on the
other ide Of the water, it now aprears ,b,,
the dread of invaiion has bkszon ovey.
The late fon of J. 2. Warren, who
was Killed in Egypt, was NOT only a brave
but an amiable and afeetionate youno.
man. He had feveral times been fent o 20
fervice, and, whenever he failed on aov
expedition, he fent a blank letter to his
mother, allowing her to conceive feelinos
which ne could NOT defcribe.
The prefent Miniiters affect oreat -,
doar, and an earnea dcdre of throwing
ye'! over all difinteion of parties. This
itp'Fit u rot, however, carried into anv &C