Alexandria Daily Advertiser

BALTIMORE, Feb. 10.

Arrived ship Commerce, captain J. A. Adams, 35 days from St. Ubes. Mr. Adams brings dispatches to government from Mr. Bowdoin, our minister at Madrid, which were put on board about the 30th December. The report at Lisbon and St. Ubes, was that a recent engagement had taken place along the shore French line, which continued with little intermission for eight days, when a French reinforcement to Bonaparte's army decided the fate of the day by giving him a complete victory. Forty thousand Russians laid down their arms and were sent home on parole, and twenty thousand which attempted to force their retreat, were cut to pieces. An armistice was the immediate consequence. Such says Mr. Adams was the report at Lisbon on the last of Dec. After the events which have occurred, there is nothing to render this action improbable, except the broken state of the Russian and Austrian armies. But as their situation may not have been altogether so desperate as represented in the Bulletins, as they may have been reinforced by the whole of the Russian auxiliaries under Michelson, who were on their march towards the seat of war, and as Bonaparte had previously wished a general engagement which had been declined, it is not unlikely that he was indulged by his opponents after they had concentrated all their forces, staking all their hopes on one last and desperate effort. No printed or written advices of a political nature, except the dispatches to government, have been received by the above arrival Federal Gazette.