Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-03-10

will require great supplies of provision"
A letter from Aulborg, (Denmark) dated
Oct. so, (reeeived at New York; says -
Il" The prize courts in this country general
" make foreigners pay the Privaseers for
bringing them in, OBTAINING them and spoil
ing their voyage. AT most they never give
the claimants more than $50 dollars tor the
longest detention and Of all the unfair pro-
seedlings have ever seen, nothing in my
opinion comes up to those p'actised here.
They keep the captain confined, while they
tamper with the crew and every spseies of
bribery and corruption is made use ofby
the privateersmen to get the crew to swear
to something false, to try to invalidate the
neutrality of the vessel /; and they have de-
sroyed the brig Washing,cn's register.
"American vessels captured and bro't in
here-brig Washington, Story, OF Salem'
waiting appeal brig Mary-Ann, Martini
of Providence, do. brig -, Hodge, OF
Ncwburvport, do. /; schr. David Gels'on'
Booth, of Ncw.York, do. ship Mary, Hal,
Of Newburypor,, sailed BY buying himself
clear. Ship Heuy, Shaw, Of P ,ersburg-
cleared by paying 5000 rix dollars"
Extract Of a letter. jIom a gens'sma" BE-
longing to Boston, "s~ os Nasa' a4ssa
Nov. -.
wrote YOU by captain Jov, Of the brig
HARMONY, who sailed Nov. -, with convoy
a. lar az Gibraltar.
~ vessel arrived here this day in 40
dsys from America, and sailed again up
,he Archipelago.
"The. ship Halcyon, of Boston, and brig
Amphi,ritr, Of Philadelphia, were lett at
F,ums IS days since. BY the three masted
.chr. Transit, of Philadelphia. The ship
and BRIG were 10 sail for this place in three
dns, The Transit will take letters to IA.
diz tina FIRST wind. The ships ava ana
Weymouth, and brig Almira OF Boston
and the Betsey, Snerd, Of Philadelphia, are
daily expected from Smyrna with convny'
The lava will 90 to B ston; the b. Isey,
S. to Philad -lphia; III. other two TO Eng
land. &c Caroline Ann, D!ngley. OF Dos.
tom. arrived Yesterday from Liverpool, and
sailed 70 day for SMYRNA in company with
the ship Argo, Fl i'd, tn.i brig lndrrtnd ;
.ucs, Rogers, OF Sai'm. Inc ship bTam'n,;
Singleton, OF PhiIad, Ipha, was taken, hound
hence to Palermo, on thy. 9th instant, by a
French priyateer the captain and crew LETT
on board, retOok her, and arrived at Faier-
mo ON the 10th. At that date there were,
lately arrived from America, the brig FAIRY,
Nichols, of Newbu;yport, and schr. Eliza
beth, Woodbury., Of Beverly, beside eon't'
scbr. Commerce, of NV York, &c.
"The ship Apollo, OF Baltimore, con,
aemned here for not having certificate OF
origin, IN her passage from Tunls to Ma
ples, ha. been sold for $500 pounds s'erl.
An the Austrian vessels here have been
sequsstered, since the peace between Aus
tria and France, they amount to nearly loo'
aad consist chiefly of fine ships and or'ss
of ESQ TO 500 sons. This conduct IS con-
demusd, as the English vessels in the Aus,
trian por, of Fiume, were not only suffered
but advised to depart.
IL think do not err in asserting there
are 1000 vessels in this port. A large pro-
portion are Greeks. They are hurry'DS
away for rupture is apprshenasd between
Turkey and England, when the former
ahall have mad. peace with the Russians
and an armis.ice is said already to be c.
sablished. = .