Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1808-12-12
the consul, directed the procuring Of Joseph
Bonapartr to be acknowledged in the Span
ish colonies.
LONDON, Oct0ber24.
PACIFIC @OVERTURES.

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PACIFIC sOVERTURES.
a Russian and French messenger arrived
from. France on Friday morning, and re-
TUNED on. Sunday.
Nothing certain has yet transpired either
with respect to the dispatches to or the re-
ply returned by our government. We have
heard that the former are very short--that
lIthey consist of two letters dated from Er-
Itfurth, and addressed by M. de Champagny,
/ the French ministerstor foreign affairs, and
I'M. de Romanzow, the Russian minister, to
| his excellency George Canning, esq.-that
the rwoletters are in substance the same,
( stating that his MAJESTY the emperor
of ali the Russias, and his majesty
the emperor, of the French, being equal
Nv animated with a desire to put an
end to the oalanaites of war, he (the minis-
ter for foreign affairs has it in command
from his majesty to request his excellency
to communicate to his Britannia majesty
that desire, and if his Britannia majesty be
Influenced by similar desire, to propose
| that plepipotentiaries shall be immediately
named, to proceed toa plae that may be
fixed upon to open a negotiation with the
p1enipotentiaries of his Imperial majesty fer
the conclusion of maritime peace.
| live be correct, the answer that will be
! returned by his nlajesty's ministers 10 such
| a communication is OBVIOUS. HE cpl
| thet applied by the enemy to the kind OF
peace, which they are DESTROYS OF negociat-
ing, shews us at once thar they do not adj
| nit our interference in the affairs OF the
continent. His majesty's ministers we
should conjecture would reply to III. de
Chsinpagny, and III. de Romanzow, that
| lis Brisanllic majesty was animated by the
desire which he had always expressed, and
| which was known to all Europe, to put IN
e1.sII to the caIainisies Of war; whenever he
/ could do so consistently with the security
! ofhis don,inions, the honor OF his crown
and the, good faith he owed to his allies
! that he ives ready to enter into a negociati-
ON in concert with those allies, and that he
would immediately communicate the over
! ture that had been made to him, to his ma
iestv the king Of Sweden, to the Prince Re
sent OF Portugal and the Central and Su-
preme Iuntain Spain governing in the name
O. his Catholic majesty Ferdinand VII.
Oshcr persons have INDUCED very differ
ert coniectures. They imagine, We think
contrary to all probability, that Eonaparte
and his vassal emperor, have at once rushed
|, in medals res-that they have proposed a
basis in lirnine; and that they have began
bg mentioning terms. Some suppose, that
ba the overture to our government; we are
told we haveno isht TO assist the Spaniards;
that it is mere family quarrel, with which
we, rs Islanders, have nothing to do
This he would hardly Do in the first instance
III will fopnd,we dareSsay, that the overture
whi4A has been made Us, is Ola loose and
general nature, and does not touch upon
terms OF basis.
The arrival of the messengers had some
effect upon the flnds-but it, produced dis
Gust Instead OF pleasure in the pablic mind.
every body viewed the overture as an insi-
dious attempt to detach Us from the Spanish
and Portuguese patriots--there was not a
man who did not say, s. is Bonaparte ready
as a preliminary TO negocialion,to Withdraw
his troops from Spain, and release Ferdi-
nand the 7th-ifhe is not, let us have no
negooiation-let US hear of no peace-let
us send back his messengers and overtures
with elisdain and defiance.
Its probable that we shall have another
flag of truce over in a few days, with the an
swerto the reply ofour minister's.
October IS.
French troops under Marshall Ney, mo-
wed from Vittoria, Sept. 81, and took pos
session Of Iiboa-the Spaniards retreatlpg.
Its said the French attempted to retreat
from Biiboa, Sept. so, bat found their re-
treat cut OF.
There are frequent desertions from the