Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-01-15

up Ny further amendments so as TO excIuas
the present members OF the Senate from tbo
increase of compensation during The terms
FIR which they are respectively elected.--l
The pay is fixed al dd!lars day, and !
dollaIs for every go miles.
Richmond Easuiirer.
PErLrr n. NICHOLAS, Esq. was on Satur-
day elected President ofthe Farmers Bank
ofFirginia, III the room Of Benjamin Hatch.
er, resigned. Ibid.
.New-York, Janunry9.
From the correspondent Of the Mercantile
Advertiser, dated New-orleans, Decen,-
Der ~.
Since my last, there has been no percep-
tible rise in the Mississippi, and business
continues completely at stand. There Is
much commercial embarrassment: money
cannot be had at less rae than 81 nor
cent month for the best paper in our
place. Cotton continues to arrive in small
parcels, but as it is a cash article, few sale.
are effected. The last sale was at o6I c,.
half cash and the remainder 60 DAYS. Bis
on New-York 7 a 10 per cent discount
Freight dull.
A letter Of the 18th, per the Emeliue
says, cotton continues to decIine-frst Qua.
lity 90 CTS. Only between 4 and 500 bales
yet came down: water It'll low. No IA.
bacco at market -four 10 dolls. exchange
on London 5 per cent dis: on New.York
7to8.
Portsmouth,, (N. H.) Jan. B.
Extract of letter from a gentleman a, Hsvre
10 gentleman in this town, dated
Havre, Oct. 6.
The dispute between our friend Mr..
Beasley, the American consul, and the ship
brokers here, though not finally decided
has taken so favorable turn, since you LEI,
this, as leaves no doubt of the result. In
consequence ofthe decision of the tribunal
that neither The chancellor nor secretary Of
the consulate had the right of entering or
clearing vessels, their signatures were re-
Jected at the custom-house, but on a repre-
sentation of the circumstances 10 the direc-
tor general of the customs at Paris, orders
were Immediately forwarded here. to re-
celve all declarations presented by loreig,
consuls, and their chancellors, on behalfo
the vessels of their re spective nations: but
this permission was confined to them only.
Similar orders were Likewise forwarded by
the director general of the contributions in.
dlrectes, whose deputy here, in the first in
stance, seized the spirits on board Of YES
sells, ami since then all the American YES
sells that have entered this port, only one
exception, have been entered by MIR. Beas
leg.
'' am persuaded this change will be as
w AZ ClttIeIlS dCQuaIUt-
ed with the conduct of the brokers'. as it is
important to the interest of all who may be
trading to Havre. The British consul has
followed the example of our consul, and is
now entering the vessels his nation. The
brokers have at length offered TO do the bu-
siness m as low terms as any one, and have
said that they mean no longer to oppose the
consul, but they are maintaining a suit
against rim, and have the ins ntiun of pre-
senting memorial to the chamber of depu-
ties at their next meeting.
"The regular traders here know what
value TO put on their now fair promises, and
will, no doubt, be cautious how they cont.
nue., by encouraging them, TO afford them
the means of prosecuting their suit against
Mr.. Beasley, in which, if successful, they
would be too ready to relspe into their for
mer exorbitant and iIlega! charges: it is
only the new corners that can be deceived