Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-05-16
Msraanrta apnsrtiger.
MONDAY, May 10.
Fran tie !" Journal du Commerce, |" Bar
Geaax PAPER March IT.

$4,000 dollars from Spain, and very con-
iiderable prelen,s from Denmark, icnt for
citizen Thainville, CornmiGary General
of the Fsench Republic, and told him,
thar all nations tent him money, ard that
the Fiff Conhl has neglected, and had
fent nothing. II at France formerly fent
him preients. Citizen Thainville then
reminded him of the article in the letter
10 the FirR Coniul, by General Hullen,
in which the Dey renowned all claims to
prefents. This reply threw the Dey into
violent PATTON, with fevere threatening.
Uocn the arrival OF this news at Paris, the
Mlinifser of Marine fitted out two frigates
for Algiers, under the command OF citizen
Sourdoa, with orders to take on board
tie Commiaary General and his family,
and 20 inform the Dey that if he once de-
clared war, be mutt remember, that he
could not tell where it would end. Upon
the arrival of the frigates, the people
crowded the palace of the Dey, to repre-
tent TO him the evils which threatened
them. The Dey ient for Thainville and
demanded the intention in Tending the
irigates. He told the Dey the orders
from France. Do you win to have war
with me ! Said the Dcy. No, replied the
CommiGayy, BIZ: the Fira Coniul is too
powerful to be your tributary. After
iome difpute, the Dey added, He fhall
pay nothing: ] win to be at pesce with
him. Write to him that / recall my de-
mand. So the affair ended. The Com
military was conducted from the palace Ct
the Dey and amidf the acclamations of
the multitude which exprefled the arong.
eft dcGre to be at peace with France.
The Commiiary returned to his pof and
the f'igat,s to Toulon.
The fame paper tells US Of the fplendid
reception of the French AmbaGador at
Conaantinople on the 10TH of February.
The Danes have iDilituted an enquiry
into the fuGerings of their colonias at ST.
Croix and ST. Thomas's by the ponellion
which the Englih had of thoie Hands.
= The EngIiih have coniented to pay
zSo,oool terling for damages iuaained,
which will be in part for their loGes appro-
pria,ed by the Daniih government.
This days Eaaern mail, with out add
ing any thing 20 our aock of European
intelligence, invalidates the rumcr which
we yeRerday received from New Port.
it appears, that the captain OF the Packet
lifit was the packet intead of informing
that zOay qoas declared, merely faid that
/" liz eajs Of rvay, Great Britain would
have 10 Gail of the hne in commi1ion."
But this very guarded ard qualified ex-
prefion was tortured, as has been obferv-
ed, into an explicit declaration of war
1t will appear from the foreign advices
in this days Gazette, thar even down to
the tirff of April, there had been no abate-
ment in England of rhe hottie indications.
And in France too, late in March, the
preparations were equally formidable and
threatening. Bonaparte is vereing all his
forces to tie coat of France. This cir
cumRance defgnates the nature of the war
which the Firlt Coniul expects. As on
the part of England the warfare will ne.
cedariIy be maritime, 70 Bonaparte ap-
pears deteimineded TO concentre his ener.
gies 70 as either to fufain froggle on
the elirnenr, or by menacing invafon,
TO reitriH the Britiih feet to their own
flores. 1t is indeed moR probable, in
cafe Of war that invaGon, an idea long and
ambitiouiy cberiihed in France, VIII be
attempted. Many of the irt characters
in the Birth councils, predict the event,
and exult in the expectation of England
having to decide on her oevn tfy,;toy, the
awful queeion of her own independence or
fubjugat.on.
The article from the Cape of Good
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