Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-11-03

ouiry thew wish ministers to refuse inves-
tiration. They would lay down the doc.
trine, that those who appoint an ofhcer to
any situation, are bound to protect and
screen him in il, whatever be his conduct
The snare for ministers is clumsily laid
they are not likely to fall into It.
A Goaenburgh mail arrived this morn
;np. The intelligence brought by it is OF as
little importance as that brought by the
mails for some time. We no longer feel
that interest IN Swedish affairs which we
! did before the gallant monarch was deposed
because he disdained to crouch at the feetot
Bonaparte and the emperor Alexander.
The Gazette {of last night contains the
dispatches from gen. Stuart, relative to his
operations against Ischia and Procida, and
from gen. Carmichael relative to the sur
render of the city of St. Domingo. Gen.
Stuart says, his object was /" to make such
a movement as, although it should produce
no issue of achievement, to ourselves, might
still operate diversion in favor of our Aus
trian allies, under the heavy pressure OF re-
verse with which we had learned at the Pc
Rod, they were bravely bat nnequaily strug-
Cling"
The consequence Of this movement was,
that considerable body of troops which
had been recently detached from Naples as
reinforcement to the army IN Upper Italy,
as we'll as almost the whole OF the troops
which had been sent into the Roman states
to aid the late usurpation Of the Papal do
minions, were preeipitately recalled on oar
first appearance on the coast Such was the
issue of 6 the indiscretinns,' as it has been
called i" Of the late desultory invasion OF the
Neapolitan court" which however could
s. by no means be conceived to attach to sir
John Stuart" as We were assured III pa
per of yesterday; which assurance so sra-
s04abhy made. was as eiectualy confirmed
by the Gazette that appeared in the course
of the evening. in which the first sentence
that meets the eye is declaration on the
part of sir John Stuart, that the project
s had been formed by himself and ,ear-ad-
miral Martini
Sir John Stuart's dispatches do not evince
any intention of abandoning either lschia
and Procida, which the last French papers
asserted we had evacuated. An attempt
against the Castle Of Scylla failed in the first
lnstance-but the enemy afterwards did the
business for us-they blew up the works of
Scylla, repaid us with interest for some
stores they had previously taken from us,
leaving us not only those stores, but an i'm
mense quantity of ordnance and stores OF
their own, which had been placed in depot,
preparatory to an intended invasion of Sici.
". The following is an extract OF letter
from an officer at Messina, to his friend,
dated July 10, 1909 :--s' Since wrote you
last have had few shot and shells flying
about my ears; l allude 10 the siegs OF
Scyla, in Cahbria, from which we were
obliged TO retreat, after dismounting all the
guns of the castle BY the FIRE from our bat
teries; we had only 1000 men, and the
French brought down 5000 infantry and
500 cavalry they pursued US to our boats,
and oar rear guard kept upa skirmish with
their advance we left our cannon, stores,
&c. behind us, but the French retrea,ing,
we went over second time, and broaght
away our own stores, together with theirs,
to the amount of 10000. On the morning
we opened the batteries, ! was appointed
with SO men to supply them with smmuni-
ton, SO that was in the thick Of it, With
out so much as receiving a scratch, al
though I had some shells burst very near
me"
No firing or rejoicings havingbeea heard
upon the French coast. we doubt tire report
received fremH olland, of peace having actu.
ally been signed between France and Aus
tria.
Several letters from Corunna of the Oath
ult. notice the activity of the preparations
making at Ferol to remove thenaval force