Norfolk Gazette And Publick Ledger

Confirmation of the News of Peace with Tripoli.

Yesterday arrived in Hampton Roads the United States' Frigate President, Commodore Barron, Captain James Barron, in 38 days from Gibraltar. By this ship we are relieved from all anxiety upon this interesting subject, for not only does she bring the certain accounts of peace being concluded, and the release of our unfortunate countrymen, but she has brought Captain Bainbridge, his officers and part of his crew, a number of whom are now in town. We offer them our felicitations upon this happy occasion, and sincerely hope that the pleasures they will meet in their native country, and in the embraces of their friends, will compensate in a measure their past sufferings. We are sorry to understand Commodore Barron has returned in very bad health.

The particulars which we have collected are corroborative of what has been already published--General Eaton deserves great credit; to his enterprise and courage we are principally indebted for the attainment of these important objects. We understand that General Eaton reached Derne about the last of April, when he instantly attacked the Bashaw's army, and defeated it with little loss, himself being wounded in the right arm so as to render it useless. The few Americans who were in the action, displayed a courage that confounded the Turks; they were appointed to lead the attack, which service they performed in a manner that did honour to their country.

We understand that at the time General Eaton attacked the army by land, that Captain Hull in the Argus, Captain Dent in the Nautilus, and Lieutenant Evans of the Hornet bomb ketch, attacked the batteries by sea.

General Eaton's army was, we understand, composed of 1500 men, and that of the Bashaw's of 5000. This intrepid little band had marched 800 miles across the Sandy Deserts, through a hostile country, and had several partial actions before the decisive one at Derne. General Eaton was wounded when in the act of cutting down a Seik of the Bashaw's army.

The result of this action appears to have been an immediate proposal from the Bashaw for peace; Col. Lear went immediately to Tripoli and a treaty of peace was signed on the 3d of June, and our countrymen released the next day. The terms we cannot learn fully, but we understand that as far as we had Tripolitans they were exchanged man for man, for the balance of Americans remaining we are to pay 60,000 dollars. Some provision, but what we cannot understand is made for the Ex-Bashaw; his wife and family who were detained as hostages, are to be liberated. As the official accounts are gone on to Washington we must suspend our curiosity as to the other articles for the present.

The President left Syracuse the 7th July: The following was the distribution of the American squadron at that time. The Frigates Constitution, Constellation, and Essex, with the Brigs Syren and Vixen, and Bombketch Hornet, were at Syracuse; the Argus had sailed for Egypt, and the Nautilus for Messina. The frigate John Adams and two gun boats anchored the day the President sailed. General Eaton sailed for the United States in a merchant vessel. The Ex-Bashaw was at Syracuse when the President sailed.--The President on her passage to Gibraltar got near the Spanish Coast, was taken for a British Frigate, and fired upon from the Batteries.

It may be grateful to the friends of the officers, who have been in captivity, to know where they now are, we therefore have procured the following account of them.

Returned in the President.
William Bainbridge, Captain.
Jacob Jones, 2nd Lieutenant.
Keith Spence, Purser.
Benjamin F. Read, Lieutenant, promoted,
James Gibbon,
do.
do.
Daniel T. Patterson,
do.
do.
do.
William Osborne, Lieutenant Marines.
James Biddle, Midshipman.
Robert Gamble,
do.
William Cutbush,
do.
Wallace Wormley, do.
James Renshaw,
do.
Nicholas Harwood, Surgeon's Mate.
Jonathan Cowdry,
do.
William Anderson, Captain's Clerk.
George Hodge, Boatswain.
Joseph Douglas, Sailmaker.
Richard Stevenson, Gunner.

Remained in the Mediterranean.
Lieut. David Porter.
Theodore Hunt.
Benjamin Smith.
Bernard Henry, Master.
Doctor John Ridgely remains as Charge de Affairs for the U. S. at Tripoli.
Simon Smith, Midshipman and
William Godby, Carpenter.