Daily National Intelligencer

Extract of a letter from Paris, dated 16th inst.:--The Medusa frigate, of the fate of whose crew an account was lately given in the Journal des Debats, was commanded by an emigrant officer, who had not seen any service for five and twenty years. Upon the second in command remonstrating with him on the danger to which he was exposing the vessel by the direction he was giving it, this old yet inexperienced commander, offended with the advice, put the officer under arrest. Hardly had he taken this step, when the frigate struck. You will observe that the surgeon who furnished the account of the event given in the Journal des Debats, and whose conduct in so doing was severely censured in the Moniteur, has been made to disavow his interesting, and but too accurate narrative. This latter circumstance in which the hand of power is so visible, has filled the public mind with indignation.