Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-05-16
PHILADELPHIA, My ia


r. the noliteness of Capt. Gray, OF the ship
cambridge, arrived at this port on oatur-
day afternoon. in So days from LONDON, inc
EDITOR of the Freeman's Journal IS indebted
Cor the London Morning Pest and the Cou-
r;er. to the Sd April, inclusive. Extracts
follow.
LONDON, March %.
The thanks of both houses OF parliament
were last night unanimously voted to the gai-
liant General CIR A,am and the officers and SOL
d;e,s under his command, fer one OF the mest
hr;ll;,nt services ever performed even ny 2
British force. r., 80
The Turkish envoy to our court dieu yes
terdav morning, at his residence IN oPpe'
Berkeley-street.
.ftrR l.
We are still, without any official accounts
from Lord Wellington, the Wind remaining
so inexor.bly to the eastward.
There are rumors, however, OF oatue
having been fought, and letter IS sala 70
ha We been received, stating, that vesse! hao
arrived off the Lands End, which lett LISBON
o,.the 18th. with the news of Massena having
bee, completely defeated. All these r,i-
nours ard the great probability tnat o".,ie
wouIsl be fought, increase our anxiety lor inc
desp .,cies to a most painful degree:
When Sir Joseph forke lett l''sooh, Lora
Wellington was six leagues beyond Saita-
rem. The French, when they rSerestco' .oo'.
every woman in that town with theih ,hcy
had exercised great cruelty towards the For-
tueuese. in order to mike them confess where
some provisions had been concealed, when
had been intcrc. pted iii its way to the French
armv. Our army were in good health and
sDir;,s, Every kind Of provision was very
plentiful and number Of American vessels
were living in the Tagus, with tuil carsoes
Of grain. sc. without being able to dispose OF
it, owing to the great quantity on hano.
TIE following is an ertraet Of IeIe, from
nm o84cer on bsard Of one Of his Ma1ssfy's
shifts at Cudi dated March sth.
"Our army has had an acton With the
French. General Graham has suffered great
", by the Spaniards not coming up, IN conse-
ouence Of which we have lost 1900 in killed
and wounded, but the French have suffered
much more; we have taken four generals,
and several other officers; two OF the gene
rails are since dead of their wounds. A iiag
of truce came in from the French, with three
officers, requesting leave to see the generals
taken prisoners, which was granted them.
They said they would sooner have lost lo,OOo
mell, than SO many OF their oest oiliCcrs. W.
cut III, most OF the French staff several &C.
nerals ard officers have been killed, whom
we did not get out of the held /; and the Pr
soners confess that they never were before 81
completely beaten, nor did they expect Eng
iishmen were so brave as TO attack n army OF
such superior numbers. We expect soon to
raise the siege of Cadiz; the Spanish army
is zone out under General Blake, to attack
them. Our ships tomorrow are TO attack
Forts N ..poleon and Catalina, which are strong
" fortified. We find it hard service, row.
ing guard constantly, within grape range of
their batteries, both day aud night"
The public will see with the greatest plea
sure by thc following paragraph, which we
copy from morning paper, that the Prince
Regent has paid the most marked and hatter-
inc attention to Gen. Graham; and we must
remind the public that the Regent would have
had the power Of gratifying his own Wishes
as well as the wishes OF the people, by raising
the gallant genera! to the Pcerage, had not
the restriction of not granting Peerages tor
eminent services been imposed upon him by !
the opposition, against the strenuous wishes |;
and recommendation Of his majesty's minis |
tiers.
{" His royal highness, the Prince Regent,
has written a letter with his own hand TO Gen.
Graham, expressing to him in the most Rat.
tering terms the lively sense Of his galIantry |
with which his heart was filled and also ex-
pressing his regret that the restrictions
which the two houses had laid upon the re-
gency, prevented bin for time from confer .
ing on the general and his officers such
mark. of his appreciation as might prove his
gratitude, and in which the Prince says he is :
sure that he would also speak the gratitude of
the nation at large. If it should be the will
of Divine Providence to re-est-biish his ma
iesty's health, the Prince Regent says that he
is sure it would be the first act of his majesty
to distinguish the eminent and glorious SER
vice of the general and his gallant army by
some signal mark of his favor; and if it shall
devolve on him to discharge this pleasant du-
ty. in the name and on behalf Of his majesty, it
L. 60 b;r,, tha happiecf mart IF he f,,nc.