Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1819-10-19

| We understand that letters are NJ town
from Cadiz, which give advice that the
British transports, chartered for the pur-
pose OF joining the grand expedition, have
all been discharged! Can this De owing
to their being no longer wanted, or is II
because British seamen cannot now be
trusted 10 the projected undertaking
Time will shew. But if we mistake not,
The grand expedition will be broken up
piece.meal, in the same manner in which
| il has been formed, aud add a considera-
bic sum to the national debt. The hire OF
SO large ships, which for nearly eight
months have been doing little else than
bask in the sun in the harbor Of CadiZ,
constitutes 90 small item in the general ex-
penditure.
PANS, Sept. 3.
The Memorial Bearnais, a Journal Of
Bases Pyrenees, gives the following in
telligence Sc A Spanish Secretary OF
Legation has passed through Bayonne, on
his way 10 Bordeaux. where lie will en-
bark for the United States. He is the
bearer of the refusal oil Ferdinand VII
TO accede to the cession Of the Fioridas."
The goth inst. al two in the morning, a
luminous meteor. 10 the shape of a globe
of fire, was observed at Chambery; its
course was from ;. f. to n. W.; it shed
light almost equal TO that Of day.
From the London Statesman, Sept T.
Probable War between Spain and the
United States. There appears TO be a
gradual, and what we deem highly proba-
BILE, approach to war between the above
two powers. Should the Misunderstanding
come to an absolute rupture, il is next TO
certain that without the Intervention OF
other powers it could not last long. 40
old, decrepid, woril-out and vicious gov
ernment, attenuated by luxury and idle
ress, could stand up for a moment only
against young, vigorous. a temperate
state, which seems 10 want nothing to make
it flourish universally, but a sufficient
quantity of the precious metals as cir
cuiating medium, to quadrate with its sur
prisingly rapid increase Of trade and com
merce; ard that we predict they will DOT
be Icng without, if they come to blows
with Old Spain; for, as such warfare
canno, but be highly promising to the
South American Patriots, they will not
fail to assist and second the views Of their
neighbours and allies in every way posi-
Bile. The sharing the produce Of the mines
Of Merico and Peru, will give TO the New
and United States of America all that ra-
tional men in state of polished society
can wish for. Oar readers must have
learnt that the Hornet sloop Of war had
waited more than mouth at Cadiz, almost
expressly mot having half a cargo) for
the purpose Of carrying back the raiifica-
ton of the Treaty ceding the Floridas to
the United States. The sloop returned
without it, aud arrived at New York the
Both Of July. 1t is now almost a certain
ty that the Beloved Ferdinand has set his
face against the Treaty; he must there
fore expect some very extraordinary couD-
tenance from one or more of the Courts OF
Europe, or his Majesty and his whole
Council will be suspected not merely Of
fanaticism, but of downright insanity. The
Floridas are already in the hands OF the
Americans! What force. and what time,
with any force, will the dispossessipg them
of their prize take!