Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political

It has been stated to us, that the schooner L'Epine, with her cargo, has been delivered up to the claimants by order of the district attorney, by and with the advice and consent of the collector. This appears extraordinary, as she, of all the Napoleon fleet of privateers that has entered our waters, is marked with the strongest proofs of guilt: Among her papers were found orders from her owner or owners to sham distress as soon as he should have made successful captures, and under that pretext to enter the river Mississippi and, further, the strong proofs of her having plundered the ship Orion.

It certainly would be improper to publish or say any thing to bias the public in a case pending before a court. This can be said with propriety, that if those vessels, who, in defiance of our neutrality and our laws enter our waters, are not libelled and fairly tried, that we pay a poor compliment indeed to the orders of the President of the U. S. and to the officers of the navy, whose sworn duty it is to execute the orders, and whose vigilance do honor to their profession. If we are to be made the mock and sport of foreign nations, let a prize-court for Napoleon, and another for John Bull (who at present does not trouble us) be opened in our city, where prizes can be regularly condemned, and sales can be made much to the advantage of our revenue, and in favor of our worthy brethren in distress. This it is presumable would give great, very great satisfaction to many men, whose modesty forbids them to even suggest so salutary a plan.

[N. Orleans paper, May 10.]