Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-09-18


thcsSpanih lhips Of the line were miding Cap.
tain Allen fates, that there was certainly an en-
gsgement, bat the particulars of it had not
tranfpired the account oft being contradictory.
That an ,engagcmea, had taken place is more
than probable, and which 10 confirmed by the
report Of the captain of the hip Eugeaia, above
| mentioned, who fpoke one of the Englfh fri
gates that was in the engagement.
[B96oa faper.l
French American Bills. Many of our read
ers, fays Bottom paper, are nterefed to learn
the progrcls made in Paris, in if1uing the bills
drawn on the Uoised States tres(ury for the a.
wards for French ipoiiations Of American proper
ty. The whole fun appropriated to the claims,
by the convention with France is not 70 exceed
Twenty Millions of Francs The par o., a franc
| is is cents end three fourtbs.l Of this fum, az
the laft dates, bills to the amoLp1 OF about eight
millions Of francs had been drawn and fwo
millions more were ready. The fetiauc would
meet ione imall delay from the abfence of the
French raacr of finance, in Italy, with tie
emperor. Thefe bills are yarieuly drawn
Tome at fight, others at 50, 80, 60, and 90
days. Many of them ,havs been received here
dated in Nay and Taae lat.
A letter to the Editors of the Baltimore
Federal Gazette, contains the following
information:
MIR. Bowdoin, our ambassador to
Spain arrived in England the 3oth July.
Two important state papers are given
az length inthe English papers. One is a
note from the Russian minister Novozilzoff
who had received his passports to proceed
to Milan to negotiate general peace. -
This note contains declaration on the
part of the Russian minister, thai The re-
cent acts of aggrandizement Of RcnaPaTGe,
IN assuming the dominion Of Italy, &c
forecloses all the objects of his mission.
he therefore returns his passports and
declines proceeding in ;he bjects of
his mission. The other paper is reply
of the French government, These papers
satisfactorily evince a disposition on The
part of Russia to oppose the domineeriag
ambition OF France"
An interesting case,-rhe following is
copy OF letter from Mr.. S. Williams, to
the late owner Of the Essex of Sale m dated
LONDON fuue % 1905.
S1R--.-T am sorry to inform YOU that
on all airing of The case of the Essex this
day, the lords Of appeal affirmed the sen
,tence of condemnation pronounced by the
vice admiralty court. The court was not
satisfied that it was not your intention, at
the commencement of the VOYAGE to send
the vesselsto HAVANA with Spanish pro.
duce."
9'hescase of the Essex was as follows:
She had taken in cargo at Barcelona, 3
or years. since, under orders to proceed
from thence to Calcutta; but owing to the
impossbility of procuring there he specie
necessary for the ful6lmene of the object,
the master vensured toreturn TO America.
and the cargo was Landed in Salem bat il
was afterwards under the idea of its being
complts Ely neutsalized, re-shipped, and the
vessel sailed with it for Havana. On this
Cd voyage, the Essex was taken and sent
into \. Providence where vessel and cargo
were condemned.
The decree however was Professionally
reversed in England, requiring in tho mean
time the owner to produce proofs that the
cargo was not originally intended for the
Havanna. Documents were therefore fo,-
warded, supposed fully TO establish this
proof; and among them the letters of the
captain, stating his difficulties, arsh the ne
cessity of going counter to his tders ~
returning to America, instead of proceed
ing 10 Calcutta. Notwithstanding dis, we
see the lords of appeals have aft med the
sentence Of condemnation irshe V. 4.
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