Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-11-02

supply WOntd DC itsoi Wu ~ 80 49, fA'E
pose CT making upthe deficiency.
In a letter iiom Amsterdam, OF the 4tl',
i = stated that orders had been received
from Paris, fer the eouPnt nj OF HE Dutch
navy with all possible txprdltiop, aud that
admiral dc Winter bad, in corss quence,
proceeded TO Antwerp, &c supe,in'end and
accelerate the operations at chat port.
We understand that Intelligence las been
received, thar in const ounce OF The 'n,etpo-
sltiun Of the governments AID pecpte of
Eonte,;doe, ,hr aulhorities at butnos
Ayres had at last consented 70 atknowie dge
The Regency 81 Spain, SID had dispaehs
deputy to Cadiz, iurmally 10 annoLhee The
submission Of thar colony.
The following letter from Dover is inter.
es,ing:
Doyer, September 6.
am sorry to state that twenty sail OF
Napeleon's grand Acct have made their es-
cape cut OF Bologpe halbor, ard the re-
nainder are eqaipped ard quite ready for
sea, stated TO you on Sunday thai errat
firing had been heard ON the opposite coast ;
il p, Gee dc d from our ships, who were Try
ing 10 intercept ii, m, but by keeping so
close in with the shore. and being protected
.bv the range Of batteries On the hills, &c.
only one was destroyed by the Podargus
sloop Of war.
The orders which our ships have receiv-
ed not to leave their station, usless by spe-
eial order from captain Disby of the I he
ban, appointed commodore, makes it evil
dent that the whole fo,illa is expected to
slip Ca, should an opportunity suit.
The following sleeps OF war are. lying off
BoIogne, watching the enemy's motions
TIL ban, RolIa, Fly, Podarsus, Covdelia,
Cas,illian, Banaldo, and Rosaiio.''
TIE king OF Denmark, ii seems, is nigh
,iIy offended at The rejection Of his rrelen-
sions to be elected crown prince. Were
the real feeling CT Sweden, to influence
that choice, this prince would have stood
no chance Of SUCCESS. Instead of locking to
future increase of dominion, he will be
most fortunate II he is allowed TO retain what
he has.
The following Is the substance Of letter
received from Eeiigoland: "The French
have now an army Of sixty thousand men
in Pfussian Poland; and it is generally
thought, if the emperor Of Russia does not
awake from lis le,hargy, and make active
use of his time, that Donaparte will be a,
ST. Pr,eIsburch in less than SIX months. 1t
is not soPposed that the Dsnes will inter
pose any resistance OF opposition they
have for some time past been successful in
pr,vateering, and thst seems to be all they
at present think about"
When the French evacuated Cuenca,
general Locotte left letter apoIogizing for
the ouuages committed By his troops, which
he imputed to the abandonment of the place
by the inhabitants, and the assassination OF
two French prisoners concluded by
threat, that if on his mkt visit, the lnhablt-
ants ran away, he would raze the place
The answer of The Spanish general Basse-
cour concludes by the following laconlc as.
suraoce For every house which you burn
in Cuenca, shall cause to be put to death
one French officer, one SERGEANT, one corpo-
raj, and two soldiers, of the prisoners in
my power.
A letter from correspondent, dated
September 9Th, contains the following in
teresting information: I" Never, in the me-
morv of man, had we 50 fine harvest, no,
having had one hours rain since harvest be-
gan. The crops canno. be more abundant
Of all kinds, but the wheat in particular /;
so far from having wet harvest, we are
wishing for shower. as the turnips are
taking hurt for want of it."
September 2.
Some Of the foreign papers very plainly
hint that the monarchy of Sweden, as far
as respects the reigning family, is about to
expire in the present dynasty, and a new
stock of sovereignty is TO be furnished to
that unhappy country from the royal nurse
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