Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-01-01
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6~t1H0 q q 1et|fI /foM an -a1ef7C0H Ge"'
/ tfnan in Gibraltar (4obs bad been
queitisg there fix erreks far eoavy nj
The Strait TO rsteaa6k mrreartale
6est ia Ne4v-T:,k, da.ed nd O7o6er.
s It is to be wiihed che iquadron CON-
ing out from the United States, ma, have
different orders from that now here, TO
give hne protection TO the trade. With:
the exception of one convey by the EGex,
the trigates have done nothing. A Ga.
gle one was .uGcient for the blockade ess
flipoli; and, The others would have been
much better employed in aaording regular
conveys for the trade, which has been
waiting months in pore sor that purpole,
and who in vain applied &c, them for pro-
lection. I would not be underaood TO
attach any blame to commodore Dals-he
has always appeared TO ihew an anxiety
TO be more ierviceable and therefore
only prevented by following peremptory
orders.
+" The hip New York Packet, with
flores for the lquadron, has been captured
and carried isto Alseziras; and it ha. no,
been without much trouble ard delay that
Che has been given up, on condition ofda.
charging her cargo there. 1t may be con-
iidered fortunate Circumstance that fhe
was given up at all, having on board lome
feur on private account, defined for Glib
raisaf. Ifthis WAS admitted TO have been
thipped with view to fave the United
States little expence, it may be called a
very i'll Judged economy and it not only
fubjeded the veael and cargo to conden-
nation, but implicated the government in
the charge of authorizing a breach of the
blockade. Whether we coni;der the H.
mited fervice of the fquadron here or the
protraeted arrival Of the fore lhip, we
may be juaihed in laying, tAat the CO.
vernment has neither fl,ewn the ability
nor the diligence which ought to have
characterized it, and had not the com
mandant here opened the kings flores to
Commodore Dale, his crew would have
been without bread and meat. The ihip
has now laid three weeks ii,y waiting for
fore nip which ihoald have arrived two
months ago.
Within hors time paR, nearly zooolbs
of gun-powder have been feized by the
hrewards of Bottom, for being found in Fl.
tuatiens not allowed by law.
Smooth runs the crater zvbeye The brock
;sdee3ea." SHAKESPEARE.
IF mankind would profit by precepr or
example, they might become wife and vir-
tuous, and probably happy: But precepts
are diiregarded, and examples are forgotten,
in conlequence Of which man remains igno-
rant, tho vain-vicious, tho deceittul--
miferable, tho AFFORDED in volup.ueus
pleafures.
Every one is ready to admit that DEEP
7caters run (mootb, and that a @0lYsqv
brook is ever known by its re4r,ns, by its
agitation, and by the f,otb which ufually
appears on its furface. Notwithstanding
this, many are liable to miitake the b.wl.
ing ola ooneeited pedant, for deep wifdom
1.-The wild rawlings of a ad-bralned de.
ciaimer, for energetic oratory, and the
frothy chatering OF a coxeomb, for plain
common ienfe.
have known village lawyer, in de-
Tending cauie Of not more than fifty cents
confequence, pour forth iuch torrent of
latin phrafes and hard words, as to con-
found the jury, aitonifh the judge, and
convince the fpeeators that he was man
of v9e laeu knowledge, when at the fame
time had he been properly jaundsd, he
would have proved nothing but @ale4y
brook.
/ have known, too, a phyGcian, who,
from his conRant NE of technical terms
and learned language, had obtained the
chasatter Of a very &iJxi doRor. He was
ouce called to attempt the refu!ei,ation Of
drowned man, on approaching the corpie,
he commenced fuch an harangue, that the
crowd food mute with aiionilAment. At
length fi,npie fellow declared. with fome