Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-05-28
foreign intelligence,
BIZ f6e Msrenry arrivsd at Nssy-lork.
LONDON, April q.

Dly they haQ aieduy oDiditieu etseiA u'aA-
imum in regard 10 the effect of the treaty,
no doubt on the fubjstf having been enter
tanned at Paris. Indeed It isnot impoai-
bic thar they may be kept down in the
expectation thar the government will now
very foon fund the great quantity of float
ing debt which exits. The Tiers Confo-
lides are 81. On the preceding day they
were ST..
Lord Whitwor h is making every ne
cefary preparation for his fpeedy depar-
ture for france.
In the Moniteur the dc6nitive treaty
\. bears date 18th Germinal, asth March of
the Engliih calender; whereas til: Extra
ordinary Gazette announces ir TO have
been fgned on the 18th. The reaion is
faid 20 be, that the treaty, written origi-
snally in the French tongue, which for the
lait century has been coniidered, and in
iome fort recognized, as the Jole diploma
ticlanguage, was fgned late in the even
ing of Thurfaay the 2sth but Marquis
sCornwallis required thar tranlation into
Engliih ihould be made and written oppo-
sfte to the original French, in that copy
of the treaty that was to be tranfmitted to
his government, il was not until the 18th
that his fecretaries were enabled to ac-
complifh it, when it was fgned for mere
form in the preience of the Municipality
and Projects of the department.
Very magnificent inuf. boxes, inlaid
with diamonds, have been prepared as pre-.
tents to M. Otto and Citizen oieph Buo-
naparte, on Ihe ratification of the Def
snitive Peace.
April 8.
1t has been officially notified at Milan
that the Emperor has acquiefced in the
proceedings of the Confulta at Lyons
The French Miniaer Of Marine has writ
ten 70 the merchants at Bourdeaux, that
they may fafely embark in speculation
to St. Domingo.
Yeiterday morning Mr.. Abraham New
land informed the gentlemen of the Stock
Exchange he was authorized TO fate that
the fun wanted, by way of loan, for the
iervices of the current year, would be
twenty fix millions and anhalf, one mill
lion and an half of which is to be RATED
IN Ireland. A letter to that efesf, from
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, had been
received in the morning by the Cover
nprs ofthe bank. Incomequence of this
communication .confols rofc II per cent.
Mis- Bingham, daughter of Mr.. Bling
ham OF Philadelphia, many years men,
sber of the American Senate, was preient.
ed to the Queen at the laf drawing room
by Mrs. King, lady of the American
Mini&er.
April &.
Dispatches announcing the fgning of
the de6nitiye treaty, are Immediately to
be fent off, in fwift, falling veiieIs to all
our foreign ponefions, and the iquadrons
on their REFLECTIVE itations. Thote def
tined for the Mediterranean were on Fri
day morning received at Portfmouth and
the Maidaone frigate, appointed to take
them our, failed in few hours after
wards.
The fgning of1he treaty was not pro-
duefiye of fuch enthuiaitic 10y in Holland
as was expected. II was hoped by many
shat iome better terms might nave been.
obtained for the Batasian republic, and
that Tome aipulation would have been In
stroduced with relpett TO the Scheldt.
When the Eirif ConI,I raca;;,eJ II. g.,
reign ambaaadors on the Sth ult. who
came to congratulate timon the fignature
of the dehniave treaty, he-was drcGed in
the eoaume of Councillor of State, ands
not as ufual, in his General's uniform
The Gazette de France remarks that g he
choie that moment TO Grip himlelf of all
the attributes of a warrior
The Georgiana packet, lately arrived
from Ind,a &c nafa1 RI have hrnt0bt {orna