Alexandria Gazette & Daily Advertiser

Halifax, July 27.

Of the eight American vessels detected fishing on the coast of Nova Scotia, and sent into this port for adjudication, five were liberated on Friday last; but with the full understanding, that the indulgence would not again be granted to them; a certificate to that effect was endorsed upon their registers, and the skippers requested to make it as public as possible, for the information of the citizens of the U. States, engaged in the fisheries. The remaining three, discovered fishing in harbors to the eastward of Halifax are now libelled, and will very shortly be brought to a trial in the court of Vice Admiralty, where, we have no doubt, they will be condemned.

The lenity thus shown, by rear admiral sir David Milne, to the vessels which he has liberated, must convince the government of the United States, of the strong desire he feels to preserve the harmony which at present happily subsists between Great Britain and the United States; and we sincerely hope will so operate as to deter for the future American vessels from committing similar trespasses. At the same time his majesty's subjects in his north American dominions must be satisfied, that it is the rear admiral's determination to guard from every infringement and violation, those rights to the fisheries which exclusively belong to them.

Mr. Sabatier, chairman of the committee of trade, has given public notice, in order to prevent ill consequences from the belief of unfounded reports, that the orders from England are:-

"That American vessels hovering upon the coast will be directed to depart, and not return, and that those of them which are found in harbors will be brought to trial."

[ Ibid.