Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-08-12
NEW. YORK, Auguf g.
LATEST FROM LONDON.

By the hip Ann, Colt, from Hull, We hare
received London papers eigteen days
later than by any former arrival
There being nothing very importan. IN
them, We fhall give their contents 10 a
fumnary way.
COMMERCIAL.
A merchant in this city having received
Liverpool Price Current to the Iath OF
| June, via Portland, has favored US with a
loan of it. 1t appears that brown fugar
was rs to 80, good IS, fine -, white
o.; coffee, ordinary 74s, midiilng 9z,
good loz, fine IoS; Cotton, Bourbon,
IS Cd to IS, Surrinam ass, New Orleans
ISL, Georgia ISL, Sea Mani IS, fac Isl.
The demand for Sea Illan cotton is hIllis
and on the rife. Mahogany, Cuoa rs6,
Hill pahiota rs, Honduras 'lsS, prik and
but little in market. Hides in demind.
Rum very dull. Flour, fuperdac 38s to
4os per Dbl. Rye -four 20. RICE 81 10
35s. Oak bark 3os. Turpcnsine Iss.
Pitch los. RoGn res. Tar iSs. Ca
rolina Indigo SIS. White Oak Slaves 81.
Fine James river Tobacco in deman1.
Grain rather on the decline. Prime faves
much wanted.
Stocks, atLondon, 8 per cent Confols
73!, 4 per cent. So, OaiSiaan / diicount,
New per cents lo4I.s.
Flour, average price from the 1T Of June
s6s lod. but it wasTa,her on the decline.
InGsrmany there was prolpeft of an
abundant harvelf, and corn began to fall
in price. Poiih wheat fold at Dantzic,
May IL, for $50 to $50, and red 1870 to
$40, and rye $50 to $50 forms. Peas
are ALTO lower; but thele two laf articles
were expected to rife. France being in
want, and the price in Holland having
llen. Great q lanti,ies have been bought
for France.
The Batavian Council CT State have
ordered the conf(cation Of all EAT India
Goods imported into Holland by Iperfons
not authorized by the law which eaablih-
es the right of the Dlsch EAT India Com
pany.
The Dutch have alto renewed the law
prohibiting the importation OF foreign Tea,
and have relcinde1 all the prohibitions on
EngIifh goods.
The Bstavian republic have permitted
the Importation of Englifh goods into their
ports, on their> paying the fame duty as
before the war.
The Gazette contains an order Of Coun-
Gil, for continuing the permiilion for the
importation of proviGons duty free, into
Grea, Britain, till the It of June, 1907.
1t is mentioned on good authority,
thar the French have prohibited the i'm.
portation and expectation of Tobacco, to
and from Antwerp, under penalty of fei-
zure.
A London paper Of the 18th Jays
" The official letters from Gen. LIE Clerc
at St. Domingo, contain fomc expreaions,
relative to the Americans, much harlher
than we could expect to fee pubiihed in
France. When t he complaints OF Amcsi-
can. for the fixtures of their cargoes are
mentioned, it is added, that they mould
not "fpeak of the paR - and it is then
directly Rated, that " the agents Of the,
American government were about Tout
faint, and did not lngs:e to him good in.
tentions."
POLITICAL.
At the cloie of the lifts of Paris on the
ouefion whether BonaParte fhould be G.
leeted conful for life, no more than $4,000
names were inherited, and amongf them,
three citizens had the courage to write a
leoible uou-one very cautious hero, wrote
between two columns, " In good truth,
do not know any thing abOut it, yes and
no.
The. reports of the confpiracy againa
Bonapsrte. of the death of Berthier, and of
the difafeetiou and enmi.y among the
French generals, are officially contradict
| ed.
MonGerh Conynebert Monthret, depu.
ted by the Firit conlul to negotiate COM
merciil treaty with England, has had his
sra interview with Lord Hawkelbwy,
the refuls of which, it was faid, had pro-
we'd highly satisfactory.
The Moniteur announces the appoint
men, Of general AndeIfon ambaGador to
C-,I a,d M Otto, MinifeI 70 the