Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-07-25

boats; whose very mamie carries with It the
idea Of ridicule, we are left open to every in
vader who may choose to modest us. We
may now excite the pity of our neighbors,
but cannot command their respect.
Il lis true that navy is an expensive estab-
ishment, and could it be dispensed with, in
part or entirely, it would tighten the nation OF
a great burthen. Were there no navies in the
world, it would be as useless for us to have
one as for q man to 60 armed who had no enc
miles,. But as long as our mercantile interests
come in contact with that OF other nations !;
and as long as they are well prepared, not only
to defend themselves, but to do injury, should
occasion offer, it is the height of folly in US
thus to weaken ourselves to save expense,
and, like tho miser, let the horse be stolen to
avoid the expense of buying a lock for the
stable door. NEPTUNE.
JOSEPH SAUL, Esq. is elected Cashier
of the Orleans Bank.
WAsHINGToN-CITY, July %.
Gen. Wade Hampton left this city on
Sunday for the southwark.
Gen. Wilkinson is yet in the city.
We have been politely furnished with a
file of the Bordeaux indicator, from
the 1st of May to the 14th Of June in
elusive, from which we make the follow
ing hasty summary-Details of what
ever may appear of consequence will be
given hereafter.
The young king of Rome was baptised
in the beginning Of June at Paris. with
all that pomp and splendor attendant on
royalty at the expence of the national in
dustry. The paper of the 14th June oc-
cupies more than three columns of detail
Of this tinselled pageantry. The diet OF
Saxony Terminated its sittings on the 18th
of May, after session Of IS weeks, at
which it was agreed upon that all the
citizens of the kingdom, of whatsoever
profession, should pay their proportion Of
the public expences Of the state, accord.
ing to the property they possessed. An
officialsstatement Of an action between the
French national brig .abeiNe and the Bril-
fish brig Of war .alucrity, which took
place in the canal Of eorte; island of Cor
siea, on the goth of May, from the cap
tain of the Abeille to the minister of the
marine.- under the Paris head of June 8.
The Aheille mounted 90 calronades 2i
Founders, and proportionate number of
men the Alacrity mounted twenty 80
pound carenades, and an equal number of
men with the Frenchman, and had 5 men
killed and 90 wounded; the Abeille Kill
led and IL wounded. The action lasted
about from 90 minutes to half an hour,
when the Englishman struck. The Ala
Gritty was under the command Of Captain
Palmer, and the AbeiIle, of Arm. De-
maekau, whose official despatch is dated
May e6, before Bastia. nj. Latour Mau-
bourg. the French charge d'affaires at
Constantinople, took possession in the
name Of king Joseph of Spain, in the
month of April last, of the country seat
which had been bought for a summer re-
sidence by the Chevalier de Corral, late
envoy Of his Catholic majesty at that
court. Against this the English charge
d'affaires has caused to be stuck up thro'
that capital. his protest; but the best in
formed people only laughed at it, and M.
Latour Mauborg, after having made the
necessary repairs, calculates upon estab-
fishing himself in it during the summer.
A proclamation was issued at Stockholm
in May last. by the king of Sweden, to the
inhabitants of Gothland, testifying his
satisfaction at their zeal manifested in the
formation Of corps Of volunteers designed
for the defence Of that island, in which
there was exhibited no hardness except
by few of the burshers of Wisely, the o.
ther inhabitants flew to arms with zeal
worthy OF their ancient military renown.