Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-05-07
INFOR NATION


can, dated sd April.
! have only time to inform you,
that | have iuh heard CT new impohtion
Of 10 per cent, additional duties hich
are about to be laid by this government
on dry goods, other than thofe OF the
manufacture OF France, which makes the
duties on dry goods 20 FER cent. ard en-
exports the fame
Capt. Prince, of the brig Philanthropil,
arrived at Marblehead on 1uefday the
zSth inf. in 80 days from Liibon, M
forms, thar on the 18th March, Colonel
HUMPHREYS and family arrived there
from Madrid, and Wa. to take pafage III
the fhip Perseverance ioI New \ oIk. On
tie 18th March arrived at Llibon, citizen
Gen. LANES, Minlter Plenipotentiaty to
the Court OF Portugal. A French cor
yet'e, lying oppofite the town was drea-
ed and taluteu upon he occation.
On Monday the General Society of the
Cncnqen met at the CapiIoi when the
following officers weIs choien tor the three
enfulng years.
MAJOR Gen. Alexander Hamilton, Pre-
Gdent General.
Major Gen. c. c. Pinckney, Vice
Prefioenl General.
Major William Jackion, Secretary
General.
Bell, Ailiitant Secretary
General.
Brigadier General VIM. M'Pherfon
Treaiurer- General.
According to the contribution the next
meeting OF the tociety will be held on the
hra Monday Of May, 1905. And the
iociety hay undetermined that it be held at
PhiadeIF hia,
The American democratic papers have,
with no imail degree OF exulslion, extract
ed from The London Morning Chronicle,
fome commendatory obiervations on the
MeDags OF the Proficient OF the United
States. The only iubject tor eulogy which
the editors of this Eng'ifh paper could
find in the Preiident's MeGage, was his
recommendation to a5olj@ The duty an ibe
naglbortatioa Of ,nf1lpa1e,i. But how
will the notes of thete London editors be
changed, when they find that of all the
recommendations OF our Philosophical Pre-
iident, this only has been refuied the con-
currence ofthe very pafriotie and <aAsbten-
ed majority in the two branches OF our ma
tional Legislature [Com. Ad.
The Aurora of Saturday, informs us
!" BY expreG," that the committee OF In
veRigasion, as it is called, have made
another report, in which iomething 1--WE
are not told what is faid about the jour
ney of Mr.. Tracy to the northwestern
frontiers upon buhnels Of the government.
The Aurora fays,
g 1t is now found that MIR. Tracy not
only was paid for his military lmPector-
ihip, but that he gave in bill in his own
hand writing, and obtained payment for
his own travelling expentes to Connecticut,
but the expenfes OF a ieryant alto. Its
difficult TO fay what congreis will do on
this iabjett, know not With what propri-
ETY. man who has sthus conducted him
ielfcan l,e iufered to retain feat 10 the
leg Failure. Mr.. Bayard on being in
formed Of the facts, acknowledged thar
Tracy ought to have expelled laf fei.
fon.''
This 1af aaertion is unquefionably
without the leait foundation in truth. Il
belongs to that clafs Of afertions Tor which
the editor of the Aurora,has been pre-emi |
nently diRinguiihed, ever Gnce be has !
been in our country, and which in the En- |
giifh language, is denoted by an exPrefive
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