Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-09-06

I
defines to be the ,pirit Of the treaties.
Among the exseniye MATS Of Foreign ar
ticles received by yeiterday's mail, We
believe, none can insereH the CONNER
cias community more thar The follow
ing.
Lss9aa, xy %.
It is with pleaiure we are :enabled to
rate, that the long pending dilcoaion be-
tween our government and the United
States, respecting the claims otthe Ame-
rican citizens for captures by Britilh cruz
zers daring the la9 war, are now brought
very nearly to concludon. LAT Friday,
the hlif awards upon the inaalmenfs of.the
commiiioners, amount g TO about 400, 900
pounds became due & was pdnetaalp paid by
this government. Thctwhole will am
mount to I. oo,oool. The three commit
fioners, MeGrs. Gore, Pinckney & Turn
ball who have reiided in England for ieycn
years, merit the thanks of both countries,
for their patience and perseverance in the
examinations and adjuament Of claims
that nigh, have 70 greatly affected the
good understanding between them.
Dovey, july ~.
Arrived, from Calais the French pac-.
ket Lambert, with Mr.. Monroe, Ame-
rican ambai1ador.
Congress: Representation Of NORTH Care
liza complete.
Nathaniel Macon, Willis Aston, Tho.
mas Wynns, William Blackledge, Rich.
ard Stanford, James Holland, Nathaniel
Alexander, Joseph Winston, Marmaduke
Williams, William Kennedy, James Gil
lespie, Samuel D. Purviance.
Captain Stanley, of the schr. Thomas,
arrived at Beve.i-y, from Alicant, on
the 29th June, i'll lar. So. S, N. long.
IL, l.. fell in with the English Malta
feet, bound to England, conveyed by
four frigates was boarded by them and
treated politeiy--theY informed captaia S.
that the American frigates had taken
number of Tripolines.
The Agent for the Commissary Gene
raj of tie commercial relations of the
French republic, in tie states, has given
public notice, thar no French vessel can
be sold without a special authorization OF
the owners, or Of the agent OF the French
republic in the ports in which vessels are
offered for sale.
Doctor John Condit, late representa-
tive in the Congress of the United States
from the state of New Jersey, has been
appointed by the vice president of that
state senator in the next congress, in the
room of Mr.. Ogden, whose time expired
the 4th March last.
The Liverpool Saturdays Advertiser
of the 9th of July fays--" The brig
Deane, Capt. w. Drare, which arrived
on Thusfiay from kentucky, with car
60 oscotton, was built on the Allegha-
ny River in Pennfyivania, and came down
the river Ohio. into the Mifnlippi. hav-
ing paGsd the Ohio, and failed a difance
of nearly 5000 miles within the land.
She is the hrf yenel which ever came
to Europe from the weifern waters of the
United States.''
1t was once remarked by fome keen
obferver that laws were like cobwebs, in
which the fmall flies were caught, while
the large ones broke through. The laws
of certain lfates in the union as they are
administered rcf,mbic thofc filming nets
which are 70 managed as to catch the Sal
mon and let The Trouts through ]; they lay
far hold on the federaliits but let the an
ii sederaliits pats. Such are the benefits
&C JArrocrntsy, littiers{e /naux;oe