Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1808-09-06

exertlon and nave been successful In propor-
ton. Every arrival from India OF late. has
brought US intelligence Of very heavy losses
fromcapture. The ~enterprizing disposition
of capt. Surcouf is both known and felt In
the East Indies.
Government are in possessionof accounts
from India to the latter end of January,
which we learn with concern, nounc that
a British detachment lately experienced a
severe check from a body Of natives, under
the command of Achmut Khan, brother of
Doondea. Achmut, it appears, after plum
dering several villages, and carving off the
inhabitants, took refuge in a fort in. foot,
from which a detachment of British and ma
tive troops was sent to expel him. Our peo-
pie advanced under an opinion that he had
not any artillery, when he opened aadestruc1
tive fire upon them from 8 field pieces, and
compelled them to retire with considerable
loss. The fort, however, was completely
invested at the-date Of the last dispatch, and
was expected hourlyto surrender.
July 10.
Sir Richard Strachan is In the DONEGAL,
with several ships, off Touloh, watching the
motions Of the French feet.
Captain Carleton, speaking of the tempe
rance OF the Spaniards, says, there may
be a political reason assigned for their absti-
hence, which Is this, that if any man upon
any occasion should be brought in as an evil
denCs against you, if you can prove that he
zvas euer 9ruak, it will invalidate his whole
testimony
Recent events Of some kind Or other I'm
deed thu public can ascertain some of them
have caused a considerable change in pro-
ject1d military movements. 1t is now I'M
derstood that a & and expedition, OF which
the earl OF Chatham is to have the command,
is resolved on, which will embrace troops
which were destined for other services
The earl is to have with him two lieutenant
generals, sir j. Moore and sir Arthur Wei
lesley. His army will be in all 10000 men.
His royal highness the duke of York was
and is extr smely DESTROYS to have the chief
command and there are not wanting great
authorities for the runor that he is yet de-
termined 80 carry his desire into execution.
The place and object of the expedition are
probably changed. 1t may be no longer ne
cessary for any part of it to go to Portugal
-an e~ifectual diversion may be made else
where, and the very uncertainty OF the point
Of attack is Itself a diversion.
GoTTENBURe, June 10.
By advices received from Malmo, this
morning, we learn thatthe convoy bound to
the Baltic, Consisting Of about seventy sail
put to sea last Thursday morning Goth lnst.)
the wind having been very favorable Tor
them, but it becoming afterwards calm, the
Danish gun boats caine from Draco and cap
tured 20 Of them, FIVE of which they burnt !;
30 sail oiSWed sh gun beats, which were Out
at the time, and within a few hundred yards
of the enemy, and might have rendered the
greatest assistance, did not think proper to
interfere, but returned to port without hiring
a shot. And English gun brig, said to be
the Turbulent, was engaged tor sevenhours,
but at length was obliged to submit to SUI
perior force and of the % that were cap
tursd fourteen were Swedes.
The letters from Rotterdam state, that
the two last posts from France had not bro I
any letters from either Portugal Or Spain
a circumstance from which it was reasonably
inferred that the patriots in both those Gun
tries have succeeded in cutting off al CON-
munication with France. The accounts
from Bordeaux inform Us that the Spanish
patriots had stopped a large quantity OF cot
ION that was conveying to France and burnt
il to ashes. From Charante, &ognlac, and
other places it is stated, that a forced levy
of all the young men capable OF bearing
arms had taken place, who, with the whole
of the troops in that part of France, had
been marched off to the frontiers OF Spain.