Alexandria Daily Advertiser

Foreign News Continued,

FROM LONDON PAPERS

Received at the Office of the Norfolk Ledger

HANBURGH, Oct. 28.

To day the post set off from hence for Copenhagen, being the first time for two months past.

October 31.

The Dutch mail which arrived yesterday, was found full of letters from England, they were opened and burned. They were filled with lamentations upon the stagnation of trade upon the interruption and difficulty of correspondence, upon the constant fall in the price of colonial produce, and upon the sad afflicting prospect for the future. These letters mention, that there is now no other means of communication with the continent but by the way of Gottenburg and Holland.

The schemes which the English merchants take for corresponding with the continent are difficult to be believed. The greatest part of the letters are not signed, dated Vienna, others only inclose accounts current. These devices which they have recourse to evidently shew to what a sad condition the country is reduced. Whether they write their letters in English, German or French, or whether they date their letters from Vienna, Stockholm, or any other place, it may be directly seen upon running them over that they came from England. There is but one opinion here, which is, that England cannot continue in its present situation, and that if the measures which have been taken in Holland and upon the Weser are executed, the reign of the infamous men who have sworn eternal war, will not be of long duration. Their hideous policy will hold them out to the world like men covered with the leprosy, who are thrust out of society with horror; for, excepting these oligarchs, the English people are of the same opinion with the rest of Europe, that it is necessary there should be a maritime law common to all. With the rest of Europe they have the sentiment of what is right, and they reject the idea of injustice and of what is arbitrary.

Holland, since the new measures which she has taken, will no longer correspond with England. The English trade must find the whole continent shut, and those enemies of all nations must be excluded from the common right--Woe be to the town which yielding to the egotism of the moment should betray the common cause!-- There are people who only know how to complain: they ought to know how to suffer with courage; to take every means of hurting the common enemy, and to oblige him to acknowledge the principle which directs all the nations of the continent. If Holland had taken these measures since the blockade perhaps England would have already made peace. Moniteur.