Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1816-09-24

Uu q SdHu uduh III INC -nutS@3 tStui NOu
to Tunis on the lst of Julyin an Ottoman
polacre. accompanied 10y a superior Off
Ger of the captain Pacha. The naval
force of the pirates is now reduced to a
single Brig
BosroN, Sept. ID.
The Lsndoh Gazette announces the
of the Earl Of Dalhousie to
be LIT. Governor OF Nova Scotia.
An article under the date Of Civita
Vecchia expresses an opinion that the A..
merican squadron will NOT be contented
with an useless promenade of the Medi-
terranean, and an article dated Ancona,
July 27, states that the Americans did
not seem inclined to wait for Losd Ex-
mouth, but to commerce war withouthim.
1t is added, s. We can readily conceive
the adventurous spirit of the Americans,
and the riyary which may induce them to
strike the first blow on this occasion {:
their success would be more annoying to
sac English than to the Moors them
selves"
British stocks had fallen Aug. Is, with
|out any obvious cause, three per cents
to 65 IL.
These papers contain Paris dates TO-
|Aug. 10: MADAME Moreau had been adj
mitted to an audience of the king. An
ordinance has been published, dated Aug.
IL, eyempting from import duties all kinds
|of grain and sea biscuit brought into
france. The Eurydice frigate, which
brought out MIR. Hyde de Melville to this
'ceuntry, had arrived at Brest.
The king of Sweden continued danger
|ouslyiII. The Sublime Porte has offered
its mediation between the Regencies aud
the European powers. Three Tunisian
Rebel Corsairs Lave been captured by the
Turkish feet, and one by a British fri
gate.
Extract of letter from a Midshipman
on board the U. 5. snip Washington,
dated Naples, 18th July, 1916.
/" We arrived at Glib altar after pas
sage Of twenty two DAYS. Our ship sails
well, is in complete order, and was much
aa pired by the English, Dutch, and Spa.
Enish navy officers.
:, The Dutch have squadron lying at
Gibraltar, and several more ships are ex-
pected to join them, when they intend
making an attack on Algiers in connee'
ion with the English fleet.
" The Dutch character does not stand
very high, as they pass SO much OF their
time in port but it was reported, how
ever, that one of their frigates had taken
an Algerine. after desperate hattie, in
which the former lost 100 killed and
wounded.
" Gibraltar is a complete garrison
There are nearly eight thousand soldiers
stationed there, the finest lacking fel-
flows ! ever beheld The streets are fiji
lied with people of all nations, among them
i saw some Aigerines, most frightful look
ling objects. From morn till night there
lis continual buzz, it seems like a
fair.
81 visited the different batteries of
that extraordinary fortress. About FIVE
hundred feet nearly perpendicular we
entered gallery, No. tits battery cut
lout Of solid rock, ten feet wide, and eight
feet high, and extends nearly three quar-.
tiers Of mile in length, no light entering
except through the port holes, which
gives it a gloomy appearance. No one
without seeing it, can form any idea OF
such an HercuIean labor. There are Sc.
veral other galleries, also some remarka.
lble caves, no end to one of which has
yet been discovered. The top of the rock
is seventeen hundred and eighty feet high
Ifrop, ,yhioh M ran coo q GREAT defiance