Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1812-09-17

i concluded TO let lis proceed !; informed lis
that the American cruisers had been on the
! Banks of Newfoundland destroying all the
fishing vessels On the 9TH, off Nantucke t
| Shoals, we had another gale from ENE and
shipped heavy sea. 9Th, about o'clock, A
J M. discovered three sail, distant about twelve
miles at 8, was boarded by the British frigate
| SHANNON, who put on board Of us thirty
! SIX Captains and scamen belonging to different
merchant ships lie had captured had sent sc
| onaboard another vessel. About half past 9
we again made sail for our port of destination
and were again chased on the 10th, by ano
tier trigate, as we were standing in for tile
Lighthouse on Cape Henry, and at half past
| S p NJ. was boarded from the BELVIDERE
/! tmgate, who put on board number Of Ameri.
can captains and seamen, from the prizes they
bad taken also some passengers from schr
! Friendship, from Charleston to New-Yorl
loaded with cotton, which they were taking
! out of her, with an intention of giving up the
vessel to the captain, who is owner. At P
NJ. we again made sail, but the pilot having
concluded we were detained, did not come to
us, and we did not get in till next morning
The English squadron have captured NUM-
Der Of valuable ships from Spain, Portugal &
the Mediterranean; some of them with great
quantity of specie on board We have been
treated With the greatest .pollteness by all the
seven ships of war that oveIhauled US tire
officers in many Instances expressed hope
that an ACCOMMODATION would socn take place
between the two countries at the same time
they expressed desire of falling in with
Commodore Rodgers, particularly the officevs
of the Belvidere, who said they were very
much surprzed they were not brought TO &C
ton by the Commodore at the time they wete
chased by the American squadron, as several
of the American fY:ssates outsailed the Beii, :
dere. Sailed fron Liverpool 10 CO. with the,
ships Mary, B4bbidge, for N York Ocean,
Adam Argo, Peterson, of Boston, for Alex
andria; briggs Mariner, Woodman, Portsn'h
n H Romulus, Grover, Boston. Left ships
Merlimack, Cooke, Baltimore, loading At
ianuc, Holland. Philadelphia; Lady GELATIN,
Snhs; N:York IL 10 days; Tbos. Gibbons,
ROCKWELL SaysnHab, ms; Romp, Rinker,
Phiad Newburyl}es' Goodrich, City Point, 4
days; Abigail, Johnson, Norfolk Swiltsure,
Harding, Boston George Washington, Bart
lett, Baltimore, 5th; Sterling, Baker, New
York Clio, White, Boston Timolecn,
Cross, N. York Edward Bardin, Porter, do.
Mohawk, Wbitycr, do. Roxana, Blake, Bos-
ton; Europa, Lilly, do Northern Liberties,
Rose, N.York in TWO days; Ossan. Rollins,
Phiad Recovery, Barnes, do; William.
Ingee, do Fanny, Palmer, N.York; George
Washington, Gardner, Newport; Ann. Enc
~ Charleston Charles, Hall, New-York !;
Merchant, Noyes, do; Wellington, Clarke,
Philad. Orient, Spencer, from Cadiz, dis
charging, ballast; Oliver Ellsworth, Wood
man, City. Point Frederick, King, N.Yerk;
Cleopatra, Brey, Of Philad.; briggs Hoikar,
Kemble, MYorlS Jane, SVlds, n Caroline
John. Davidson, Savannah, Franklin, Dnyai,
do; America, Lloyd, Boston; Georgia, Of n
York, lust arrived from Gibraltar. Sailedfr
Liverpool between the 9Th and Soth July
ships Mary & Susan, Wilson, n York; Jane,
Thomas, Philad. Georgiana Chamberlain,
Norfolk, 3oth July Eliza Barker, Barker,
Baltimore, do Middesox, Pollard, Boston,
do cambridge, Gray, Philad'a 18th July i
Ceres, Weber, Boston, 3Oth July /; Cornelia,
Smith, n York, oath brig Aimlra, Delano,
Boston. PASSENGERS in the Minerva.
E. Thomas, If. Geo. Crosdale, | E. Edmond
son, l. Tgsop, Mr.. & Mrs. FlrgIsson, & Miss
Cater Mr.. w. E. Cardwel], also passen-
ger in the Minerva, on hcaring at sea of the
disturbed state of his city, went on board the
Shannon, in order to get to Haiilax.--On
the 5th inst. we boarded the ship David Greer
of Boston, SO days ftom Corunna-had oo
board Spanish handbill containing an Off
c1al account of a GREAT VICTORY gained
over the French under Gen. Marment, by
Lord Wellington. Lord w rctrcated seve-
raj days as a rusr de guerfe, until he bad drawn
the French to a position near Salamanca,
where he could engage them to advantage
The French lost between 10 and $4,000 men
in killed, wounded aid prisoners-amongst
the latter, is General Bonnet, who is also
wounded. When the accounts came away, |
Lord Wellington was in full pursuit of the |
fupitivcs. The French lost all their artillery, |