Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-05-19
LATE FOREIGN NEWS.
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LpspoS, March 2S.-

: LpspoN, March 2S.
We received lsst right French x dutch
papers to the 10Th and 18th OF this month
they are in general embarrassing. Russi'
has openly acknowledged all the evils en-
tailed on her BY hrrsubserYicncy to- France
and has proclaimed anational bankrlpte,
by an Ukase, which the NJ onteur asknow'
lodges 10 be remarkable.
The miniature. portrait OF Bonaparte
which h. sent to the princess Maria Louisa
is set in is solitaires, each of which is esti'
mated at SO, 600 forins. -. y $500
:: BY Heiigoland mail, arrivedsh;s morn
ing, we have received German letters. snd
papers TO the date sof March II. y. By these
it appears thar the specuiatioas on the con
tinent, afe strongly IN favor Of an alliance
offensive and defensive, between France
aud Austria, the object Of which is 70 com.
pei Turkey to enter into the general X ague
against this country, and shut our com.
merce out Of the ports OF the Levant. II Is
also stated, that Prussia has been called Up
on by France to be prepared to engage in a
war with any north~rn, power, in allu-
sion it is supposed 10 Russia. ~
49,. -. 1forrh a.
Price of Stocks this day at 1 O'Clock
per cent. cons. Tor money, -6s 15-2s,; acc.
6s IT. r.. ...... ~. ..-... .-.,.>.r Ess
American papers to the ao,h nl,, arrived
in town yesterday. ~ -'"... =.
The question On the comparative disad.
Marriages Of war with Great Britain and
France, has occasioSed mu:h discussion in
Congress, and indeed throughout The Unit.
ed States; and we are happy to 6nd a more
just disposition to appreciate the consr-
quenccs Of war with this country, than has
hitherto been displayed in America. b. gins
to b. prevalent. The resolutions of the 10.
cal legislature of Massachusetts, on the
dismissal CT Mr.. jackson, rrter to this sub
jrct, and cannot full we should hope, 70
make a due impression on every sober
minded man in the y. States. ,. ~ a.. .
Letters ret, i've d yesterday frorn,he coast
Of France state, that all the American pro.
perry seized in ,he several ports Of that
country TO the 9th instant had been sold, &
the proceeds paid into the Ere inch treasury.
The .nount 10 said to be considerable. -----.
Il is added that general Armstrong on re.
Gel, int notification to this effect from the
French min;s:er, sent back strong re.
mons,rance ON he subject, which was how
ever, expected 70 be attended with no good
effect, gonapate, we believe; mkt to our
selv, s, hairs tie Americans most cordially;
We only wonder that any person in the u.
s. can be so blinded by their Partially to
France, and BY their prsjudices seainst shis
country, as to see rha; if we should tall un.
Der the rswer Of France, America could
no, sexist Tor six months as an independent
state.
Mr.. Elliot who takes out the dispatches
from MIR. Pinckney, in the John Adams,
has lief, town, and that frigate will sail the
moment he arrives on>board. -.
On the subject of the adjustment Of diff.
ferences between this country and America,
we have little TO add to The communication
that every Thing is done as far as it can be
doue~on this side of the water. The pre-.
sent violence Of France, which we have a.
bove stated, we hope will have more pow.
erful effect in producing the ratification Of
the provisional arrangement concluded be-
tween Lord Wellesley and Mr.. Pinckney.
IT,. ..s-. AtrH2.
Three Gottenburg Mails arrived last
night. The French, under the pretence Of
ain attack upon Zealand and Bornholrn, me.
di.ated by US, are to occupy Holstein.. 1t
will I've found, no doubt, when they have
taken possession OF it, that they have occu.
pied it, not to preserve it for the Danes,
bu, to wrest it from them, and to keep it
themselves = ~, -
Sir Samuel Hood hss passed the Darda-
nrllss. and is now crGizing IN The Black
Sea The Russians of course dare not shew
themselves cat of port. l
The repudiated empress Jossphinc. in.
tends, that is, has been commended, 20 qui,
France, and rstirc TO Italy. -
/. The King of Prussia has Issued decree,
bx which, homthe first of April no vessel
from an European port shall De Admired