Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1801-09-02
LONDON, lily II.


contain more inpoItant tinte!ligence than
the Faris paper, have afforded US to- lone
tine.
EGYP't.
The French government have at length
received dilpatches troh Egypt. l he
Lodi arrived at Nice On. The a6,h ul,.
fro1, Alexandria, which Gac LETT on the
I9th of May. She brought no details of
the events that occurred iincc the landing
Of theEng!ilh, becauic general Menou had
ient avi/os with theie details fosre GAYS
before the Lodi failed, 1t is therefore
conjectuged tina, they had been taken in
their pailagc.
On The 10Th May, the day on which the
Lodi left Alexandria, Cairo and Aiexan-
dria were Gill IN the hands of the French.
The Eng had CUT the bank of the
lake OF Medic, and turned the waters in.
to the lake Maicotis by this means
they lad inunoated SD leagues of the
ceuntry round Alexandria, which has
comfortably Rreng ,hencd their roition Of
Abonhr, ana renaefeo The French tortiti-
cation5o Alexandria inpregnabie. Ge-
neral Wenou, who was in rerion iii that
cry, was abundantig provided with mil.
AIRY flores and pIovifons for ieveral wears,
! ILLNESS. OF BOqNAPARTE.
L The Chief Coniul has lately been ex.
tremelyl sM .eted with the rheumatiir,
which Ifnderea the application OF bliiters
on The &eaft and arm. necetlary. The
Moniteut iays that he has derived much
beaeht from them, though they prevent
ed him from aiiiGing at the laa grand pa
rade, or giving the uiual audience to the
ambaaad&s. We can hardly fupsofe that
his iilnefs is of a dangerous nature, for
Madame lBounapane left Paris on the
9TH, withher daughter, TO drink the wa
tiers OF Plonbieres. The Chief Conful's
iirf ply Gchn has expreGed his belief that
he will be able TO be prcf.nr at the fete
of the 18th of July.
We know not whether it be TO the in.
difpoiition Of Buonaparte, or to another
cauie, that weare ,osarribate the fall of
the French funds above three Der cenr.
from 464 TO 43. It is probable that it
has been produced by the Chief CenfA's
i!ineiS, which occaioned uneaiineis at Pa
ris.
GERMAN INDEMNITIES.
The plan of the UNDERWRITERS has at
length been drawnup by Count Cobenr-
Eel and Joieph Bounapsrte, and APPROX
ed ct both by the courtof Vienna and the
French government.
GANTHEAUME's4 SQUADRON
A letter finn Mieiina of the 9th of
May gives fone detais relative to Gan
iqusdron, which paied the
straits OF Nlefana on the asth. It con-
fited of four iai of the line, two friaates.
and two tranfpdrts, and is going to Brin-
dill, on the Neipolitan coat, to be rein
forced BY 8 Neapoii'an frigates, which
nave been given up to.France. 1t is al
20 laid 1t is to be Joined by four fail of the
me and four trigares, which are ontheir
pahage from Franco. The whole anna
nent will then proceed to the Leyant
he number of troops on board. will. r.
s added, amount to 1000 men.
DUTCH FLEET.
All the letters frora Holland soree in
eating, that the Batayian feet command
q oy admiral de Winter, has received Or
lers TO fail at the fri fgns.. 1t is ex-
.eetsa IN coniequence, lthat the two divi-
ions ftted out at the Iexei and in the
sieals VIII not delay to eGett their ;uneti-
10 the Engilih fquadron under admiral
'ick'on being too weak 70 prevent thar
operation, whenever the Dc.ch nail r.
Hague, that the departure Of Gen 49,
eau for Paris has for is ob;et, 80 80 go
neafures with the French ycysro ~ eo,''e's
his poiot. '+''st' ."