Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-07-05

they themselves will be the cause Oh IL.
They know each others characters tho
Eroughiy; .hey therefore are the most able
and suitable to expose them. M. l..
NEW. YORK, July !.
Bordeaux papers to the zSsh OF May have
been received az this ofGce, from which We have
s,ranlassd the following articles:
PARIS, 80 Fioreal.
CompIains have been made TO his majefy OF
great fraud, having been committed by the agents
Of the forcRs. The emperor has in coaiequencc,
Given orders that very frie attention DC di
setted 10 this importont part OF the public pro-
perty. A commifiion having been appointed to
examine into this nefarious buGnels, foae Of the
agents Hed from juit,ce. Depiedalions 10 alarm
ing will Excite all the iolicitude of the projects
and conlervasors.
The following trait delerves to be related
.Au American attached to the late embsfy from
the United States, and ready to embark On hi'
return to the Federal city, paiGpg one day tho
the ftreets OF Nantz, oblerved crowd. En.
ouirinp the eaufe he VISA told that it was father
Of family whole movesbles had been fold 10 pay
his debts. He enquTed further 10 what lum his
debts amounsed-to 100 crow:s was the reply.
The generous American drew loo crowns from
his pocket, put them into the hands Of the bal.
liff, and difappeared without telling MS name or
receiving any thanks.
TsNSIcrN, May 10.
YeRerday We experienced dreadful torn.
The greater part of the vefie,s at anchor 10 the
mouth Of she river have loft, foms their mats,
fome their anchors, and others their rudden...
Th. morning were counted from IS TO SO large
fhips on fhore. The ftnation of rh,fe yefteis 10
the more critical that they cannot find here the
tenth par. Of the articles neceGary to repair
them.
The St. Chris.opher's Chronicle Of the
9TH June, received by the schr. Dolphin,
contains the following articles relative to
the alarming aspect of affairs in the British
islands.
The decided superiority of the enemy in
these seas /, has, in great measure cat off
our communication entirely with the ms
ther country.
This is too fatally evinced in the recent
capture of the second April packet, about
one hundred miles to the windward OF Bar
BADGES, after an hour and an half's obsti-
nate resistance, by French privateer schr.
of fourteen guns, aud ninety two men,
One ofthe passengers by che packet, Mr..
d. Owen, has arrived at Montserrat from
Guadaloupe and informs That the AL.
giers, admiral c. major, and Achilles, both
of seventy.four guns, part OF the expected
reinforcement, had arrived at that island,
landed about seven hundred men there, and
sailed from thence on Sunday evening"
He further adds that the ship Eliza from
London TO Barbados, laden with dry goods
one of London feet which sailed the 9Th
of April last, was captured by the above
squadron and carried into Guadaloupe.
By the same vessel which brought the
list of the combined fleet. advices were re-
ceived at St. Bartholomew, that iatelll-
gence had reached Martinique Of British
aeet of II sail of the line. and frigates,
having arrived at Barbados, under the
command OF sir Richard Blckerton. As
we have had some vessels from the British
islands. without any news Of the like aus
pcious nature having been received there,
we have too much reason TO doubt the au-
thenticity of the account.
Two squadrons from Ferrol and Car.
thagena consisting of about is more sail
of the line, are uomently expected by the
combined fleets at Martinique. We also
learn, that not meeting Missiesi's aeet
there, an express had been sent after him,
requiring his Immediate return.
Wednesday morning the government
schooner Richard, captain Tax, arrived
express from Monsserrat: Byher we learn
ed, that an alarm had been fired the pre-.
ceding afternoon, in consequence OF 81
sail having been seen to the eastward, and
7more TO the southwark of tina, island
the former supposed to be bound for An.