Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-06-14

promife to parliament was founded on s.
expectation Of the an(wers which would
be given to dispatches tent to Paris on rbe
| z4th Of April.
A London paper Of April 10Th, aates
that the preparations Of war were prof..
cuted with renewed activity but ,t.fe
were prefumed 10 be occaloued by the
confederation of the poiliole, rather than
the probable refult of the negotiation.
The French papers complain Of sone
improper Wits paid 70 their veGels on the
ocesn by Britih cruizers.
The Spanilh Miniaer has arrived il
Englaud.
Capt. Berry, Of the brig Ranger, from
Dublin, favored Us with the papers Of
that city to the sth Of May. A few
extracts from them follow:
Loudoa, Nay I.
Yeferday was productive Of nlmeror,
reports, all concurring as to the pfobabi.
lily of war, and the coniequence was a
further depreiiioa at the Stock Exchans-.
Confuls opened yeleriay morning at 64I:
on The arrival Of The French mail they fell
half per cent. but prel:ntly rofe to 64{:
they again declined to SCI; and abous
two O'Clock were done at Cal they,
however, clofsd at s.. The other Fund,
were iikewile fubjett TO rapid aattuations;
but their lofs in the days account did
not exceed one eighth per cent.
Ii was fated. with much confidence,
that the Chief Conful had Indignantly re.
jeded The ultimainm CT our Cabinet.
Oar Miaifess are faid to have required
that the French troops lhould be with.
drawn from Holland, and the Batavian
Republic rendered. independent of France,
as tie only conditions en- which they
wonld content TO forego the advantages
which the paGeGon Of Malta gave them
in the Medlterranean-bu but thele terms
conceded, thar hey would inaansly eva
cuatc the iland.
Win equal conf denee Il was sGened,
tina, the Dutch Minifer at Paris had Is.
prefcnseJ to The ,Corfular Cabinet, The
hottie appearance Of a Beitiih fquadfon
csci!ing off the Batsy;an coat, and re-
curing from France th- auxiliary force,
which by treaty each Power IS bound to
render 10 the other in the event Of actual
or threatened inyaiion.
A lift of feventeen additional filips OF
war, Of various force, was yeiterday exhi-
biicd at Lloyd's, laid to have been order.
ed in the courie Of the day for commiiion.
The troops quartered in the lie Of
Wight were yeaerday, according to re.
port, ordered TO embark on board The fri.
gates, and tranlporls lying there, and 10
fail Immediately for Malta.
n addition TO thefe, and many fs2lar
reports, the money market was further de.
prefed BY a ramour that the miniaer vii!
lholtly wan, a loan of fifteen millions, and
tha, on Friday next communication is
to be made to the public on This fubjett,
as well as refpctting the Lottery contratt.
The Emperor Alexander has made al.
furnaces TO The Hanfe Towns, that he VIII
protect their neutrality, in the event OF
war between England and Fraucs.
The propofal, that he laand OF Malta,
sfter he departure of the Englifh, lhail be
coupled only by Ruaian troops, has not
been accepted at St. Pstertbnrgh.
Our Iah accounts from Malta ltay'
letter from GibraItarl fate, that the lndg'
nation Of the Ma!tefe was 70 great on the
arrival there of the Comn!dloner from the
Grand Mater, that he ran fome six OF be-
log Torn to pieces by the populace, h,d ne
not taken lllel,er at the French Mniitels
houle. In few hours afterwards, bills
were privately auck up all over the town'
declaring that the inhabitants we're IeioV'
ed to put the Grand Matter 10 death loon
after his arrival. if he flnould prefune 70
land in the iiland and that tFcy were
determined never TO fufer any fofe'gnl