Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-06-15
LoNDON. Ahril us.

TO attend the commisson in the upper house
il was in1imated shas his majesty would be
ready 20 receive. AT four o'clock, The reso-
iu.ioas respecting lord Melville, at Saint
james's palace From tb- earliness of the
hour and the shortn-ss of the notice, not
more than half dozen members were in
ia. dress.
The Cork Mercantile Chronicle, of Wed.
nesday the TON inst. consains the following
extraordinary article:
s We ire sorry to be informed that a
dispatch has arrived at the Castle of Dub.
lin on Monday evening, stating the capture
of transports with the 18th, 10Th, and 96th
regiments en- board, and part Of the icon-
voy. This news is understood TO have lefs
the w. Indies the 9th March"
We understand that the dispatches re-
ceivrdby the government on Monday, are
of such a nature as q Dear Us out COM
pletely in the opinions we have from
time TO time advanced on the proba.
! bility, or rather the certainty of Rus
sia giving us seffectual aid in the contest in
which we are engaged.
It appears by a letter from Plymouth,
that lord Cochrane, ofthe Pallas, has with
the consent of his crew, returned to the
captain Of the Spanish ship, la Fortuna, &
passenger who was on board, Ave thou
sand dollars escb, of their private property
taken on board that vessel, and which a.
mounted to sixty thousand dol3,s in specie
and merchandise. The case of the capt.
was peculiarly distressing, as he had lost
similar fortune in exactly the same man.
ner last war and having begun che world
again, has been ever since realising an in
dependence, which he was conveying home
TO settle for life. The merchants case was
equally hard, as he has passed the best part
of his life in the uuhosPisa6le climate of
Peru. s M
Extract of private letter from Hamburg,
April 2.
" The city of Lubec has offered the
French one hundred thousand mares banco
but on condition that they be allowed TO
deduct from that sum the interest of the
last loan, and receive security that no more
berequired of them, during the occupation
of Hanover by the French troops. is
said they were encouraged toinsist on their
demands by very favorable letter from
the king of Prussia and also BY a letter
from the Prnssian minister Hardenburg to
general Bernadotte, entreating him no lon.
ger TO modest aud obstruct the trade of the
city ofLubec. The French general howe
yer has refused TO accept the sum offered
Sand demands two hundred thousand mares
sbanco. The senate have assembled to de-
iberate on this demand, and has positively
refused 20 comply with it, in expectation
of being supported by the King of Pras-
STA.
/" We are assured here that the propo-
sails made TO Russia on the parsof France,
under the mediation of Prussia have. not
been accepted by the former court as. Rus
STA willlisten TO no propositions bat such as
are compatible with the general interests &
peace ofEnrope.
tits said the court of Naples has given
( that of France, new assurances with regard
TO its neutrality; that it has engaged no
longer to furnish provisions to the English
feet In the Mediterranean and has under
taken to maintain the French troops in the
Neapolitan states.
Ii is an undoubted and well known fact
that Bonaparte proposed TO surrender all the
Irish emigrants TO the English government
on condition they would act similar part
By the Bourbon family, and the French e.
migrants in England but etha. rhe offer
was rejected with indignation.
IS The Porte has announced to all the fo-
reign ministers, by circular note that the
new tariff Of customs for all nations trading
toTurkey, has been definitely regulated;
but the French government not having ex-
. planned itself on this subject, the Porte
transmitted to Paris the tariff, in which it
is distinctly expressed that the. French