Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1803-11-04

,hs Northern Division were fortunate enough 70
effect junction in the plain of Mou San. The
loss of the enemy was Theoretically great, the
killed amounting 10 5000.
On the 9th, they again gave battle the ma,
rirc force were added to the army of the North,
and advanced to the southwark gradually nnti'
the 9Th of the moon, when complete junction
of ala the armies was effected, TO the number OF
two hundred thousand men! The enemy appear
ed to cover an extent Of six miles at the foot OF
the mountains. Their commander in Lihet
Shien Phoo; tbe@general Of the Rebel Marine
force which had been previously bnms by the
King, named Theu Do; the general Dou Due
kou, and their respective attendants, decamped
IN The night of the 9Th or 18th 1t the Cd moon
and retired TO the mountains OF Laos.
Thus matters remain, sccording TO the lates.
intelligence received at bombay bur certain
advices have been transmitted TO Cnina stating
dable rebellion, which has existed with more Or
less conseq uence for these forty years, ard at the
same time to give dne energy TO his government,
had set out on the 9Th of the moon, with an
army of $1,000, to Tonkin, 10 be publlekly
crowned.
Same day arrived the ship Orion, captain ar
mold, in Sc days from Rochelle in rance! By
her we have French papers to the 22d Sept.
which are considerably taken up with appoint
men;s to the different divisions and regulate ms
of the army of England Amorg them we find
the appointment of gen. Andreossl as Chief etat
mai.r of ths camp assembled at ST. Cmars.
Gen. Berthsr, minister of war, is appointed
major gen. of the army of England. and Mr..
Dgan is appointed unster Of war pro tex.
They also mention that the English trigates,
have frequently fired on the towns, particularly
Dieppe, St. 1-alory, Boulogrc. and along the
French coast; and that HAles E9endi, the Am
bassador of the Ottoman Porte, TO the French
Court was arrived at Strasbufg, on his way TO
Paris.
Captain Arnold mentions that the preparations
for the invasion of England were still gong on
with the utmost vigour, that it was computed
they had already three thousand boats compleat-
ed, that while they were amusing the British with
their small boats, the ship yards were all employ
ed in something of larger cast, that in Sepeem-
OCIy dA NoCuCli9S rICuCb Hdu iduuSuSo wv
ships of 100 guns each, and a third was nearly
ready for launching. That all the vessels of e
very kind, except The fishing boats, were prevent
ed going to sea by order of the FIRST Consul
with, it is supposed, intention of OBTAINING the
seanen for the us of the proposed invasion.
Cspt. A. further mentions, that there was an
army of $4,000 men at Bayonne, which it was
said, hourly expected orders to march into Portu-
gal that it was we'll ascertained there had been
considerable disagreement between the First
Consul and the Court of Spain, but at the time
of sailing, it was said to Re nearly, if not quite
compromised between them.
The brig Jacob, of Norfolk, captain LASH
wood, who come from Bourdeax TO Rochelle,
where he took in cargo Of Wine for New York
in going out of Rochelle harbour, about the Eth
OF September last, was run on shore by the Pllot,
when her srarboard side soon broke III. The
vessel is lost, bur the people and cargo saved.