Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-08-10

which sometimes escape CdPto'e' s'o
failing in with our fleets, they imagine that
they have become grca. naval power. Il
would have been better to have walted TIL
all those blows, with which they threaten
ed us, had been struck; but as perhaps
they thought it Just possible that the boast
err might beat, hey were resolved NOT 10
lose the only opportunity which migh be
afforded them of holding d lofty and trl-
umphaut tone. They tell us, :" that we
knew not OF the departure of the Roche
fort squadron till it had taken Dominica,
not of the departure of the Toulon TIL It
had passed the Straits and that we shall
: hear no more Of it for some months the
departure Of second Rochefort squadron
has not even been spoken of, and theIe
are several large frigates which are to 90
great mischief upon coasts which we tninS
are little known to their sailors. we
quote these expressions not for the purpose
of paying attention. to the menaces they
contain, but of hazarding a conjecture
upon the destination Of the expeditions.
When they say thar we shall hear no more
Of the Toulon squadron for some months,
do they mean from the time it passed the
Straits, or from C present period! II
they mean the former, upwards OF two
months have already elapsed, aad II 1t
be i. one 10 the West Indies we shall hear
! of iIs operations or arrival ia all probability
by the end Of this month. But the phrase
seems applicable to more distant voyage
than the West Indies. Some time ago We
supposed it very probable that the combln-
ed fleets would separate in certain lati.
,ude. and that the French would proceed
to the E asst Indies, and the Spaniards to
the West. The Intelligence we commu-
nicated yesterday seems to favor that sup.
POSITION. A Spanish squadron, of four
sail of the line, was spoken in lat. 8, n.
long. 40, steering S. w. course on the
9th and 9th ult. Undoubtedly this was
the Spanish squadron from Cadiz, which
it seems probable separated from the French
Immediately after leaving Cadis; for on
the 9th April, they came out; on the 10Th
the French were ont Of sight, but on the
18th and 18th, the Spanish squadron OF S
sail of the line, were seen beating to the
westward, having perhaps, lost sight OF the
French in the night of the 10th. We are
still, therefore, OF opinion, that the lou
lon squadronis gone 10 the East indles-ln-
deed the French talk of the blows they will
strike in both the Indies. The injury they
are 20 do on those coasts which We thought
were unknown to them, are said to be the
coast of Canada, Hudson's Bay, and New
foundland. Perhaps the second Rotchtort
squadrsn are gone thither. But our rea-
ders of course will not tail to see that the
French, in the articles we have extracted,
mix UP, designed Of course much that is
absurd, great deal ofinsolence and me-
naces. We trust that we shall furnish them
with few facts in return, and that we shall
have to rePnbllsh their notes with same ga
lua5le comments By Lard MELON.
2. 1t is with reluctance that we sbandon
the idea of producing confederacy Of con-
tinensal powers against France, but the
hopes of any powerful co.ope.atisn on the
part of Russia, grow fainter and fainter E.
very day, We might have disbelleved the
articles from Petersburg in the Moniteur:
but the fact of Russian negociator being
on the poins Of proceeding to Paris canno,
be doubted. That the object Of his mission
is to notify an ullimasum agreed to- by
Russia and Great Britain conformity VIC 60
NOT believe. We do no, believe it becaure
we know that the approximation between
Russia and France has been produced by
the king Of Prussia, who would not have
interfered had he suspected that Russia
had an intention Of notifying through an
ambassador, fer wnoa he had procured
passports, that unless certain conditions
were acceedsd to, the courts of Petersburg,
London, and Stockholm, would MAKE com
mon cause against France. That the sen.
timents of Russia have experienced a
change within three months is not TO be