Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-10-24

a,lator;n-ss aud want Of energy. it's stat.
ed that the army is to BIZ employed ON 2
1 fresh expedition and shat the orders were
transmitted on the 4th from the admiralty
to. Zealand, on the subject.
The accounts from Spain, by this arrival
are not SO late as those.we have received di'
rect from. Cadiz and Lisbon. ButWe base
received the official letters Of gen. Welles-
lev, .ot his retreat from Taleyera, the report
of whichwe before communicated. al me
British worinded, excepting 1000, were leis
to the French. This letter is da.ed at Dc
latosa, the 9th Aug. =
Extract Of a letter to. the editer Ct the Mef--
eauti4e ADVERTISER, dated Boston, October
1S, moan.
.sTbis snorring arrived hsrethr shipPac-
ket. Field, from Liverpool, from Mil>nce
she sailed on the 9th of September.
.sThe British expedition has abandoned
its design upan Antwerp and the French
fleet in the Scheldt. tbs reasons given for
this abandonment are. the great ioree wfaieh
the French, and Dutch had collected IN OPP
p.,sition, the inundations, and the sickness
of the troops, of whom 5000 are SAID to BE-
on the sick list. Many Of the troops had
returned to England, Including all the ca
valry, none Of which had been landed at al
in Zealand. A garrison was lett at Flush
ing. and there were runners OF an attempt
to be made Gu Helvcets!u}s aad William
.;adt. and of snoshrr destination to part
of the expedition. The failure OF the pre-
iect On tie Sche!at exalted much dis-ont
in England; solae blaming the ministry,
others the commander iii chictf. and court
martial was ,alkrd Of with all that free dom
Of Il marx and ingec,l7e which distinguishes
tie English press.
* Ii is reported that the prelimharies Of
peace between France and Austria are a
greed on and that plenipoten'.s!.i>s we're
20 meet at Oideubnrg, in Morayla OIL the
18Th of August, 10 settle m d. flaitive an
ticles. CLampasny and Russian eE.soy
he'd already gone thithrr.
Sir ArthurWelies;ey' official despatch.
is TO the ssh of Aug, had been pub!ls ed
He reflects but drl,casely on .Cuesta. Ihe
French accounts ct occurrences II Spain 10
August orlen give very horid reports Ct
then successes TO nat time, which mas be
very tauch exaggerated. The trea~h Oh
the I'm Aug. ,ook the fort oi Montjc'e, ap-
pertaining 20 shr c.ty' OF Corona, Ii was not
surrendered 5y the brave Spaniards untlI
the effects O! nc siege had rendered the
place urtrnabe. Tue garrison retreatrd
II safety TO the city. lhe French say Ge-
roma musG surrender in a few days.
g Neqlrs!s arr said to be nov freely adj
raitesd mo the ports Of Denmark and Swe~
dgn Danish privateers are 10 cruise in
the Nurvh 5.a. The eatr; OF American
vessels INTO Russian por,s Ia iii emoa.r.s-
sed bat tncir departure with ca'goes is
facilitated.
"Ihcre are rumors under the head Of
Tnrin, August Q, tnat all American vessels
al Naples, Cisita Vecchia aud Leg horn are
S: questrated, bar ehe news 10y ,h= Kite, at
Baltimore, invaIidates this. 4 is added
thar no more Americans, even direct from
home, with colonial produce Will d. admit
ted into Leghorn.
Nothing new about American alta irs.
''The packet left at Liverpool the ship
Arm, Reynolds, OF New York, TO sail S IT.
Is; Manhattan, Barnard, OF New. York,
for Gottenburg, 1o:h; Watson, Neil, of
Portsmouth, for New York, uncertain -
Henrietta, NicoIis, do. Fox, Parker, Nor
witch, do. Bayard, Wood, Newport, 10Th.
Sailed in company, John Adams, Nickess,
for Baltimore Perseverance,, Goss, -:
Nabbv, Smith Wilmington; Almira, Whip
pie, Savannah. Spoke, Sept. 2oth, lat so,
20, long. 90, brig Samuel, 8 days from Ii
verpool, for Baltimore. Oct. 3, lat. 46,
LONG. 50, ship Bristol Trader, of Baltimore,
40 DAYS from Bristol for New York"