Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-08-29

spsei - the enemy dare to risk one.
f s,. expedition is certainly in contempla'
ooaf from the coasts of the Adriatic. Mu'
ton ~. a large force. There is also an army
raj n1' Iown 70 the Venetian coast. Egypt
draw Zen mentioned as the destination Of
tne c"ts letters from Cadiz of the 18th
~, in desponting state of O'Donnel's
sps .,, IN Catalonia, stating, on the authority
atm Letter from Ali,ant of the 28th OF May,
o. O'Donnel had been defeated by gen.
e sn"l his army scattered. and that ne
oa ~. his escape with the greatest difficulty.
lrSo are later dispatches from gen. Suchet
i ~ vpre communicated on the 50th ult.
,rh;ch makes no mention OF any suet,
decisive defeat.
a r,ssel is arrived at Guernsey, from a
., the coats ofFrance. She made her
p 90 On Monday last, having abourhalf a
81 srp of whea. on board. She was. fired
, umS from tie port, but was at too great a
%stsnce 10 be iojured or brought to, aud
e Consequently proceeded on her voyage.
Ertratk Of a letter tfrom Celsric0, IN Portu-
gal, tae is.
ct still remain at head quarters L am
ofon;o;onthae his lordship will not move or
commence. operations Immediately. The
Er.,,b to the number of 5000, have cross
ID he Aguila, and are investing Ciudad
Rodrigo Our advanced corps, uader gen.
Crawt3rd. is about three leagues in front of
Mo,p;aa, which town, with almost every
r;r.gs in the peighsorhood, as PenheI,
cnaIa, &c. are occupied by the British
Oar situation is certainly a very str,-,g one,
and expect, but it is only conjecture, that
,ba Frsnch will not meet us without great
slprriority of force, and OF course GER
t,;nfv Of success. Should that prove the
case. our retreat will be to Lisbon and PEI
niche. where our engineers are now throw
inc up lines TO guard against all evils, and
dspots of provisions are forming"
The following extract OF letter from
Paris. dated the 10th ultimo, received via
Dieppe, has appeared in morning paper
&" Reports have been in circulation here,
that the non,intercourse act IN Am&rlca has
baea repealed; that measure vii! conse-
qaently induce Ronaparte to declare war
m the usual form against America, tor ms
depreciation against American commerce
has existed now these three years.-His
treating the American seamen as prisoners
of war is certainly tansamount 10 deciara-
ton of war. HIS conduct to the American
legation was equally outrageous. 1t is well
known that when Eonaparte was at Bay.
onue in 1908, an American Hag OF truce ar
rived az Havre with dispatches for q ne-
raj Armstrong and Mr.. Pnkney. The
dispatches were forcibly taken from the
messenger, lieut.. Nourse, and were tor
warded to Bayonne, whvre they We're hrst
broke open and inspected by his imperial
majesty as also a bag of commercial let
teTs. Mr.. O'Mcaly, an American, was
scnrby the American minister to BAyonne,
toclaim the dispatches, which were deli
vsred to hin--but the bag of letters, NJ.
ChampRgny told him, were sent to the MI
Mister OF police. On application there, some
few were deliyered-the remainder were
suppressed, as they were supposed to con-
tam some political remarks"
The fact stated respecting the storrase
OF the letters, and the demand of the festi-
tuition of them by Mr.. O'Sieaiy, may be
perfectly correct. But the object of that
esntleman's mission to Bayonne was of in
h0ltely greater Importance. Upon the idea
which then prevailed at Paris, of Joseph
bonaparte bsing beyond doubt or question
quietly established on the throne of spain he
was empowered to propose an arrangement
between the court OF Madrid and the u.
s'aies, upon point particularly interesting
% all Americans-bu. having had the adj
eress to discover, in his first interview with
W. de Cevallos, then acting as, secretary OF
i0relgn affairs to Joseph, that things were
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