Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-08-06

NepuoHcan on the 5th July Ei0Rr go
dollars per barrel, po;k zo, beans rs, rice
z dollars quintal.
We learn from Gnadaloupr, BY tie
fchooner Fairplay, that an action had late
ly taken place eff there between French
fchooncr Of : guns, and an Englifh PR
yateer Of two gons and Is men, in which
the captain of the former was Eilie.i
and 8 OF his men wounded the captain o.
The privafser was wounded and died foon.
atrsr the engagement: he had alto IA
men dangeroiiy hurt. The privatssr
was captured, and carried into Baa-iess.
Captain Haley, Of the rhooner Sally ia
IS days from Montfera,, informs US that
The day previous 10 his falling Britilh
Packet called the London, arrived these
from Barbados, with Information, thar
an expedition had gone againa Dsmarara.
Captain H. further informs, that on the
18th July, he fpoke the brig Janus, of
New York, from the coat of Patagonia,
Tor New London, OUT 70 days 10 ballaa,
having been blown off the coat in ie-
we're galeof wind, without cargo or lhip's
papers.
We learn from Cape Francois, by Capt.
Hayley Of the sloop Olive Branch, that
an engagement took place the 18th July
Oh the Plans between ore party Of Bri-
glands against the ott for the negroes,
it appears, are divided into two parties,
one in favour of the French, and the other
in oppcstion) the Issue of which was not
generally known and that a body of bril-
gands was in mAtion at a short distance
from the Cape, for the purpose, as was
said, Of going against Fort naupbin.
-Four British 71's and 2 frigates were be-
fore the Cape, and had captured several
Frsach vessels, but permitted Americans
to pass and repass without lnolestation.
Fhe Governments evpced disposition to
defend the place 10 the last extremity.
Provisions Of all kinds we're in great pFen-
ty; and American produce had fallen
considerably in consequence of the many
cargoes which had lately arrived.
Arrived brig Two Brothers, Chlds, C.
Francois schr. Fairplay, Whitehifl, Qua
ddloupe Sally, Haley, Moptserat; sioop
Olive Branch, Haley, G. Francois Co
net, Cromwell, Edenron, n. C.
Cleared, ship Iialcyon, Rosseter, Lon
don; Cheeseman, Greenfield, Amster
dam; Factor, Caldwell, Gfeenock; brig
Mary, Farmer, South Seas Albion, Wa
tiers, Carbonear Elizabeth, Antigua and
market schf. John, Stewart, Jamaica;
Three Brothers, Lawrence, Lisbon; sloop
Experiment, Doe, Barbados.
1rrfved since our last,
Schr. Fairplay, Whitehill, from Qua
dalouPe. Left there, brig Victory, Smith,
Of Beverly, to SAIL in a few days; schooner
John, WIsell, of Hudson, to sail in 2 or 8 !
days fer this port; and Nancy, of Bos-
ton, to sail sosn.
sehr. Sally, Iayley, from Montserat.
Left there, schrss Buck, Capt. Buck, to
sailin 5 days for eashersield Patriot,
Weatherley, to sail in Q days for Balti-
more American produce on the rise /;
flour 10 dols.
Sloop Olive Branch, Hayley, from
Cape FRANCOIS. Lett there, brig Lap
wing, to sail in a days for this pert; a
brig arrived there days before the Olive
Braaea sused, from n. Y. "a sehr. from
Phil .delpha and another from Noit1
Carolina, lad lust arrived several other
vessels left. names not recolleaed. July
9, spoke schr. Julia, from N. Y. for Wi.
mirgton. Markets on the decline, aour
10 dolls. great quantity OF provisions en-
hand.
PHILADELPHIA, August a.
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