Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-01-29

days, o. discount Spanish. dpllnrs,3 a :,
per cept premium. IChurlesf"n Times.
Extract Of letter received in Charleston
hy tn schooner Eutora, dated Havana
January II.
"Rice is selling at 9 dollars, and is con.
siered to be on the decline: -four sold on
the 9th at 500 rs, but there has been seve.
raj arrivals since with that article; butter
10 cents, and scarce; coffee, 23 26 cents:
sugar, Muscoyado, 81 {: molasses, IO9alI
bits. Exchange on the L. S 9! per cent
prem 90 days. The schooner Carpenter.
Stinton. and sloop Thames, AlieL, have ar.
rived here from Charleston
The people of Sweden liatter themselves
with the hope OF having very advantageous
commercial relations established between
them and Egypt. A beautiful coppered
vessel has been lately launched from ,be
stocks in the harhor OF Carlscrona. purb,.
sed for the Bastaw Of Egypt 1t will take
on board complete freight for Alexandra
consisting Of cannon, bullets, and unwrougbt
iron.
Scarcely mail reaches our city which
does not furnish us with the melancholy .
chievements Of ahorde of heterogeneous in
cehdiaries and bandilti, composed of out
laws and vagabonds from the four quarters
of the globe, who ntest the common high
way of nations, in privateers known TO be
fitted out in different ports Of the United
States, and cruizing under the Artigas and
o'her flags. TO the virtuous and upright
mind, ever prone to look on the perpetrs.
ton of robbery and murder with chllinr
kind of horror, il is matter OF surprise and
establishment that the government has not
taken prompt and decisive means in giving
death blow to the infamous system of pi-
racv and buccancering among those lawless
freebooters. Too long has the ocean
swamed with such pests--too long been
the theatre of their gloomy exploits-it is
time something was done TO sweep them
from it. We have frisates and smaller
vessels of war, which if authorised, would
speedily bring those recreants to cOndign
punishment. Justice, the ilagrant wrongs
and injuries inflicted on the honest par, OF
the mercantile community, imperiously de-
mand the interposition cfthe government.
Had such outrages, such abommsble ex-
cesses been committed by an A!gerine,
French, English, or vessel of any other
nation, whose character would entitle her
" to home and country" the tocsin
would have been sounded IRON Main to
Mississippi-lhe spirit Of revenge TO APP
pease our violated rights would have been
born on the uinds TO the ex tremitic, of the
continent--the same feeling which perva-
ded every American bosom, when the Leo
parl attacked the ill-tated Chesapeake
would have been experienced with enthusi.
asIn and tervor again.
There is a degree Of benumbing torpor
or insensibility and supineness on the part
Of those whose duty il is to watch over
and protect the lives and property of our
countrymcn, whic', we have in vain en-.
deavoured TO account for. Why the Ari-
gas pirates are suffered TO murder and COM
NIT every species OF vilainous depreciation
Unfortunately, is matter OF establishment.
lie is no better and should be considered
IN 10 other light than bandit. Many pri-
vateers Sailing under that flag, have COM
missions the fact can he proren) which
were manufactured and printed in Balt!-
more, as were the commissions Of the re-
nowned Commodore Auy. To permit
this system to be longer carried on is
disgrace to the nation, and UNIV orthy the
liberation Of free people, the fabric Of
whose independence was reared in peril
and cemented with blood
We trust that congress will Immediately
take the subject into consideration, and as
" disapprobation of conduct is the orderoi
the day." it they do nothing efficient to-
wards putting down the freebool.rs OF the
seas, they will at least express their "disap'
probation" Of piracy. [Bah. Fed. Req.