Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-02-11
alsranDrla Daflp Gazette.
SdTURDaY, FEBRUARY Ii.
DONATIONS.

DONATIONS. &
The Committee appointed by Council,
acknowledge the reception Of three quarters
OF beef one and halt barrels fish; one
bag corn meal two Wagon loads wood !;
and one barrel -four, for the use Of the poor.
JoHN Cox, Esq. has been appointed BY
the President of the United States, Brigade
. Major and Inspector of the Militia Of the
District OF Columbia.
Ships, G5!onies, and Commerce. 1T has
long Been the ambition Of Frace to become
8 great naval rs well as great military ma
ton. 1t was peculiarly the policy Of Righ-
lieu toinersase the naval power Of France.
Coibsrs wished TO increase the commerce of
his country, but the measures which he
took for that purpose were ill-judged in the
extreme, and the merchants asked him to
letfhem a1oase. 1t is notorious that Bona
parte is almost as anxions9for C ships, colo
MES, and commerce. as for continental do
D1inion. He is jealous and envious of Old
England, and IS VAN enough to hope one
day 70 possess her navy and her trade. In
the late EXPOSE OF the state Of the Empire,
which, from its immense length, is not pub
lished at large in any Of the newspapers, he
boasts that il India, prizes to the value of
is millions (of francs undoubtedly have
been the result of the cruizes of his fr;gates.
CHE English acknowledge that the French
cru5zers have been very success siul in the
,nI;aa Seas He says that his privateers
in ali parts of the world, and above all in the
seas of India and Gnada!oupe, have proved
themselves formidable to the enemy. tits
stated that ten ships of the line are fitted for
sea at AnMerp; that twelve ships of the
line andas many trigates, have been launch
ed within the year that twenty five more,
and as many frigates. are on the stocks;
that his ports are preserved in perfect order,
and the creation Of that Of Cherbourg far
advanced: that Spezzia is about to become
a second Eolon /; chat the Bologne hotila
is still in 9 stale Of complete equipment
and thal the union OF almost all the coasts of
the Mediterranean to France, secures to his
arssnats andhis ships abundant supplies of
provisions, storss and men.
3 To lhls cpitome we subjoia the following
extract.
Fremas's Journal
I" Marine.--Though during the present
campaign, the government has limited It's
maritime operations, still a squadron armed
at Touion as if by enohantrnent, aud con
ducted WITH skill, has been able to defeat,
By able manevres, the combinations Of the
enemy, by conveying to Corfu two years
supplies OF men, artillery, provisions and
ammunition. After having thus rendered
useless the expedition with which that bar
rier OF The Eciriatic was threatened, the hect
Of s,ltniral Gantheaume returned safe thro'
the difficulties of boisserous navigation,
and all the dangers OF continued tempests.
The colonies have in Ike manner been sue
cessfpliy supplied with provisions, by squaa-
rons oil iIigates an1; corvettes, which, while
they fulhlleti shat important object, had, like
the squadron that went to Corfu, the advan-
tase Of making prizes Of great number OF
the enemys ships"
From tbs Providence Gazftte.
THE pULPAMENTUM.