Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-06-10
aleraaurfa Daap GSoartlser.
MONDAY, JUNE 10.
FRENCH FLEET.

ASeu yCStcTGay from OF. bartholomew.
has politely furnished the editor with the
following important information That
the Ionlon squadron, consisting of nine
sail of the line, 6 frjgases, and two briggs,
had arrived at Fort Royal, Martinique
they had captured On their passage the
ssoop of war Cayenne, The English mer-
chant vessels loading at Montserrat had
orders tn provide for their " safety in
consequence Of the arrival of tne French
feet.
Captain Harding of the brig Greenwich,
IN is days from St. Thomas. arrived at
the Lazaretto, informs, that he left there
the prig Mary, to sail in eight days for
this port !; that the brig Hope, arrived the
day before he sailed and that the Five
Brothers, the schooner Betsey, Florence,
and ship Active, of this port, were to
sail thence for another market in 8
or 4 days brig Mercator, Freeman, Of
Portland, and Robert, Tuicros, of Balti.
mere, time OF sailing uncertain.
Gapfa!n Kennedy of the brig Eliza and
Sarah, arrived at the Lazarette. Left at
Porto Rico % days ago, the ship Clo-
thier, Dandelot, to sail in 6 DAYS for La
guira, schr. Thetis, Graisbury, to sail ia
seven days !; schooner Rhoda, Green, un-
certain; ship Joseph, Baird, of and for
Baltimore in 8days ship Lydia, Richards,
OF New York uncertain; the schooner
Duer, and schooner Belyidere, Of Charles
ton, uncertain.
On the I'd June, in lat. 36. 10, long.
70, captain Kennedy, was Spoke by a Spa.
nish privateer Of 8 guns, who had captured
an American ship, which he afterwards
spoke and found she belonged te Portland,
was 8 days from Alexandria, appeared to
be a new ship, was about $50 tons, had
a woman head and blue counter, bur could
not learn TIE vessel or captains name.
(Phh Gaz.)
When captain Edwards left Madeira, In
telligence had been received there of the
arrival of the Toulon feet at Cadiz.-
They slipped in under cover of the night
Notwithstanding the bl~ockading squadron
under Lord Nelson lay off the port at the
time. Several British ships of war were
daily making their appearance at Madeira /;
and hostilities, i. was expected, were On
the eve of breaking out between Portugal
and Great Britain.
(N. +. Mey. Adu.}
There IS a tide in the affairs Of men,
which taken at the f0od leads m to jor-
tune.
Present appearances seem to indicate
that the fleets of France, either by good
luck or good guiding, happened on this
prosperous tide and are actually careering
along to aggrandizement and glory. The
Toulon feet has fairly escaped for the pre-
sent, from the clutches of Nelson, and
having for med a junction with that Of Ca
dig, is prepared for paving a similar visit
to Ferrol and Brest. This powerful arma-
ment will be able to cope with much stron-
ger force than the channel feet, and setting
it at defiance would proceed to the West
Indies, and complete the depreciation OF
the Rochefort squadron or cover the Bou-
logne fotilla, while the long menaced in
vasion is put in execution or sail for ire
land and assist Paddy to shake of the fet-
tiers which sit so i'll upon him; or in enc
go where they please and do what they
please. Should that wild fellow, however,
the hero Of the Nile, happen to overtake
them before they have clearedt the last port
and appear before il with his friend Corn
wallis, the tide may perhaps turn, and
Brest be to the combined fleets what it has
long been to one of them, a secure asylum
from the enemy-a birth we wish them
with all our heart.
(M 7. Daily AdUfrtiser.)
MARRIED last evening, by the Rev.
Thomas Davis, Mr.. GEORGE HoKEs, to
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