Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-06-12

| mericans States from the French having
iet!lement in LouiGanna. Undoubtedly
every acceMon TO the French power II
that part ofthe world, and every thing
that threatened the independence of the
! United States was ground Of fefioas ap-
prehenfon but was il only from Louls
iana that France could make the attack,
if fhe had fuch power and was 10 dis-
poied? Did the hon. Gentleman pre-
tend TO fay that if a large military force
was fent TO Guinea, itnay nos from thence
lie made to act with altogether as much
effect Did he mean to fay that the at
tempt might not be made from St. Do
mingo, if that iasnd was brought under
proper lnhjsetion, and made the depot Of
an armameQt intended for thar purpole !; If
finally, the countries .hemfelves was not
difpoled to afert their own independence,
and Great Britain was inclined TO look
Timely on 1t was therefore, not from
LouiGana alone that the power Of France
was to be dreaded, but from many other
quarters equailv.''
AT the date of our laa accounts from
Paris, a new code of public infruttion has
been agreed to by the tribunate, and was
under dilcpllon by the Legislative Body.
The revolutionary names which many OF
the public hofpita's were diiinguifhed, and
which tended to delfroy thoie recollettions
that encourage Benevolence by doing ho-
nor 10 the benefatfor, are to be abolilhcd,
and the original names refored.
The French funds were So. s.. on the
I'd May Price Of of Stocks in London at
one O'Clock on the 18th of May, -Confols
7644. Omnium 81. Fine Flour ass. 10
SOS. per TACK.
The United S,ates fr;gate Adams for
the Mediterranean, and the Britilh Packet
Duke of Kent for Falmouth, failed from
this port yeaerday.
On Thurfday arrived at Salem the fchr.
Atlantic, capt. James Odell, le days
from The HAVANA. He informs that fince
the great fire at the Village (Which IS eff
mated ID have defroyed upwards Of 5000
houies) daily attempts have been made 10
fer fire to the Regulas and Alibacore, towns
in the neighbourhood of the Havana but
owing to the exertions of many American
coopers who refide in thofe places, the fires
had been extinguihed without much da-
mage. 1t was fuppofed that thefe fires
were kindled, in order to induce the ad-
milton of the Americans with -four, as the
Inhabitants werei in great want ofthe COM
mon products of their foil, owing to con-
tinued drought CT nine months but it had
no ete6t, and the government rigidly ad-
hered to their EXECUTION. Flour was at
so dollars the barrel. Capt. O. left ar
the Havana about 40 fail of Americans !;
none belonging ito the northward of Cape
Cod.
A letter receiyedsat Newburyporf, from
Martinique, dated May s, fays-" The
Preach are to take pode0ion Of this iaand
the 27th May"
| Extraf ofa lstfer ffrgsr q eitiSen q tbe q.
States in France, to bis friend in Phi
ladeltbia, dated Bordeaux, 3If Marcb,
1902.
It's long dnce ! lhould have writ
ten to you, but have been waiting an an
fwer to my letter to General La Fayette,
/ to whom, foon after my arrival here,
forwarded the pamphlets, which you en-
trutted to my care. 1t is more than pro.
babe they were intercepted by the 60
vernment, Whole drfpotic fway tyrannlzcs
over every veRis of liberty On my ar
rival at Paris, in January lat, Iexpeded
to have found that unfortunate man; but
it feems after that he had obtained permit
| Gon to return to his native land, the re-
| ception he met with was cold beyond de-