Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-06-22

exDa Hilton, consisting o. about $500 men,
nader the command Of General Lar:iiza-
6al, had beeo ,mpcllei BY adverse Winds,
70 mt into Saa.i PERI. but that it woui>i
Dro,se,I on its destination as soon as the
weather became favorable. 4 general ex-
ysetat:sa prevailed at Cadiz. that Lord
Wellington, having driven AIassena ont Of
Portugal, would next direct his attention
to driving the eae:ay cut OF Andalus;a,
aal raising the siege OF that city.
II appears that in Arrason the sueiI-
las uaaeF Castanos, Luc;ada, anu iorlier,
arc on the alert. and successful in har-
RAISING tie various detaehments OF French
tr0ops tl,a. are scattered over the eoua-
try. :.
u is stated in letters from Cadiz. that
some very Important proceedings had l.'c-
II taken place IN the Coites. the rarticu-
lars ofw,licl were but inl.;.':.tct!y known.
as strangers were s,y2.Ided during the
discussion. The dispatches brought by
Captain C9..tDuln, u The navy. are SAID
to rel@te 10 these transactions.
Monday. at one o'clock. Mr.. Pirkney.
his lady and eight children, embarked at
Cowes on board the Essex American fri
gate. when she Immediately got under
weisa and proceeded 10 sea through the
Needles. About an hour previously TO
N..,. pinkney's embarking. the Essex
fired & guns Is q salute to him.
Eay9.
Two AEholt mails arrived yesterday
the latest a..y;cts which they bring from
Gottenburg are to the SOta ut. i yari-
ety of letters have likewise been received
BY them ffum al the ports OF the Baltic,
speaking generally OF the strong probabi-
l;ty o:., war between Russia and France
: hit ma; confirming, il, the way that might
have been expected. the prevalent rumors
OF Yesterday, that an engagement had
really taken place between the troops of
Prussia and these Of Bonaparte, on the
latter en6earosing to force their way into
Colbers. The account that has been Civ
Ell Of this real or supposed occurrence IS.
that the French required a passage thro'
Goldberg, in prussian pomerania. We
know BOnapartc's passage very well: be
requested :; passage through Spain, upon
the plea OF attacking Portugal, and then
seized all the places into which his forces
had. il simple reliance upon his faith,
been admitted. In the same manner. and
no doubt with the same honorable views,
a passage is said to have been demanded
through Goldberg /; upon what preteNt, or
nv what French officer, has not been
mentioned: but 1lugher was the general
of whom the demand was made Butcher
the mau who fought SO desperately at Lsa-
heck in the last prussian War, after the
battle OF Jena; and his reasons for re-
fus;ae 60 surrender y place eoniided to his
care, To theTrmed troODs OF another ma
tion in fall peace with his own sovereign,
are much more obvious. The French.
however, upon experiencing his refusal,are
reported to have attempted to force an ca
trance into Goldberg; in which attempt
taey are, upon the same authority, declar-
ed to have been repulsed, with the loss OF
a thousand men in Killed and wounded.
We have before iasiauated oar doubts
respecting the correctness OF tiis state
mcnt. Letters from Stockholm. Gotten
burg. and various other ports OF the Bal
tie, we have seen and they say nothing
which is calculated 10 confirm our belief
os the fact. Those from Stockholm, In
deed, megiiOn q rumOr somewhat to the
preceding effect IS in circulation at that
place BIT adds, that ii was not consider
ell as deservins os credit and this IS but
moderate eorroboratise evidence OF 50 i'm
p0.tant aa event.
Ii these letters. however, do net con-
firm the report OF an existing war between
Prussia and France, they n general speak
with great confidence OF an approaching
one between France and Russia; IN SOME
O; them it is even said To have been de-
c!ared but this. weapprehend. to be pre-
mature; yet the probability OF its imme-
d;ate occurrence IS confirmed by the ae-
counts from Stockholm, knnis5erS. and
Dantzie. i'i,c letters from Riga speak oil
IF a. NOR, distant We arc ourselves TAR