Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-05-28
Hagae, Ab,I /.

Mr.. Litton, the Enghlh enyoy feceiy-
ID ystterday two courlrrs, one from Lon
don (who, alter delivering his ditpagehes,
ier cut for Arniterdaml & the other from
Berlin with difpa,ches, which are iaid 10
be very favorable 10 The hopes Of peace.
Mr.. Liffon trantnitted ZEN this morning
10 bis courr, by venel ient off for thar
purpole. However, the news received
from Amferdam, and the movement a.
nong the troops, hayeexcited great alarm
among the merchants. Inlurance is above
the peace rate; and the funds, which.
were already dropping, have received fur
tller fall. Inaddition 70 this, the Englifh
fquadgon, which is cruiilng at the mouth
Of the river Meufe, has been reinforced by
two vefels 70 that it now conhlts oftwo
hips Of the line and three frigates.
Official intelligence Of the furrender of
the Cape of Good Hope was received in
London on the aad April.
The hip John Morgan, Howard
Ton board of which Mr.. King, our Am
baiTsdor at the Court of St. ames's has
taken his pailage) was to fail for this port
10 ) days after the Iris.
Since my arrival in this city / have
ieen publilhed anonymous extracts from
two letters, iaid TO be from officers Of the
United States frigate the John Adams
and the New York, which convey after
tions deeply injurious to my reputation,
calculated to excite public miitruf, and 70
exhibit me 10 the world IN character
which | am confcious of not having in
tentionally mefited. But thoie afertions
are erroneous in matter Of fact, and Till
more 70 10 contribution charging me
with Responsibility for injuifice and out
rage which ought TO fix on an unrighte-
Gus Barbary tyrant,and under which |
myfelf have heve been principal lufeyer.
/ requea the public will iulpend oPini-
on until candid inyefigaiion may be had
on the fubjett, and a fair EXPEDITION of
facts may enable them TO correa frtt i'm
pref1ions. In the mean time, let it not
be deemed arrogant, when adert that
if the honor and the intereit of the u. S.
have not been fuitahly fuppor,ed on the
Barbary coat, the event mutt be traced
to caufes beyond the influence ofry agen-
cy there thar intead of aiming to de-
fraud my country, / have embarked eve
ry thing dear to me in her ierylce and
that, ifmeafures which | have embraced,
in which have preierved, and which have
received the appreciation of every intelli-
gent American citizen acquainted there
with, had been efe6tually Imported by
the force employed for that purpols, the
United States would mott pIobably, ere
this pepiod, have obtained an honorable
peace with Tripoli, and left favourable
impreflions of Our energy on the other
regencies. To the jufice Of this OFFER
walton every commander IN the navy who
has ferved on that coat, will bear teiti-
mony.
It is hoped, and believed, the objea
aimed at by thole meaiures is not yer loft.
WILLIAM EATON.
Wa6ngtoa My "a.
Is The printers who have publifhed
the extracts above alluded TO will have
the courteiy to publiih this note.
Extraa Of a letter from Paris, March IS.
Whatever may be faid to the con-
trary, Government does not want much
truf to the inhabitants of La Vendee or
the Weitern Departments orders have
been fent TO the different Protects, not TO
permit any other bur the Public Fuutfion-
aries or psrchaiers Of national property,
TO have arms in their houfes ali other
pelions are to deliver them up IN
der penalties. Since the Kings Mefage
was known, many Con(cripts from thele
and other Chouan Departments, have de-