The National Intelligencer And Washington Advertiser

Boston, May 5.
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By the packet, capt. Trott, from Liverpool, we have our files of London papers, continued to the 23d March. It appears, from them, that dispatches had been received from France, by a flag of truce, on which a cabinet council was immediately held. They were understood to have come from M. Talleyrand, addressed to Mr. Fox. There was also a dispatch brought over in the same flag of truce, to Baron Jacobi, the Prussian minister. Both these dispatches were enclosed in a letter from the commander of Boulogne to lord Keith, requesting his lordship to forward them immediately. These particulars are stated in our papers of the latest dates; at which time nothing further had transpired on the subject.

The Expose of the state of the French empire, had been received in England. It is an elaborate work, and embraces a wide and extensive field of political speculation. The terms upon which England may obtain peace, are, when fully considered, nothing less than an equality of maritime strength; France, at the same time, to retain every acquisition she has made on the Continent of Europe. While this language is held out to England, the Expose enumerates Holland as one of the federative parts of the "Grand Empire," not merely as an allied power with France, but as incorporated with that kingdom. The intention too, of revolutionizing the Turkish provinces is openly avowed. After these pacific declarations, the Expose goes on to state the improvements making in the French ports;--it observes:

"If you cast your eyes on our ports, you will see that exertions are making on both seas, to render them more accessible, more commodious, and more secure. Basins are digging at Antwerp; sluices and canals are forming at Antwerp, Dieppe, Ostend, Dunkirk, and Havre. At Honfleur, Bordeaux, Nice, Flushing, Belleisle, Ajaccio, and Bastia, quays are constructed, and jetties or moles lengthened or rebuilt. All these different kinds of works are carrying on at Rochelle. The cleansing of the ports of Coté and Marseilles is continued, and that of Oleron is enlarging. The ports of Dielette and Cherbourg are prepared in such a manner as to be capable of receiving a great number of vessels and gun boats, which will alarm the inhabitants of the English islands of Jersey and Guernsey, as those at Boulogne menace Dover and London. The soundings taken at Brest have afforded satisfactory results; the Rhone will have a port. Engineers have examined what improvements it is possible to make in that of Genoa. Six millions eight hundred and fifty thousand francs have been expended on the military ports. This sum has been principally applied in the excavations, the jetties of the mole, the construction of the outer port and basin, and the foundation of the new port, Buonaparte, which, destined to complete this beautiful maritime creation, and worthy of his name, will be, on the channel, the terror of England; at Boulogne, the basin and the sluice, the completion of the works which constitute the whole of the port, and the construction of the establishments by which it is surrounded; at Ambleteuse, the works necessary for deepening the port, the elevation of the jetty, which protects it from the sand driven against it by the west winds, the line walls, and the buildings; at Brest, the formation of an artificial island, the excavation in the rock, the hospitals, the magazines, the arsenal, the barracks, and the completion of the batteries: at Antwerp, the continuation of the rapid works which are to form the arsenal of our marine on the North Sea, the erection of quays and work shops: in the road of Rochefort, the jetties on which fort Bayard is to be erected, and the operations of every kind required by this difficult construction."

We shall endeavor in our next, to give a more particular account of this extraordinary state paper.

We feel the utmost pleasure (says a respectable London paper) in being enabled, by the best authority, to assure our readers, that the illustrious statesmen, whom we have now at the helm, have taken the most effectual steps to adjust all differences with America: & that the earl of Selkirk, is going out ambassador to the United States, for the purpose of establishing perfect harmony between the two countries, on the solid basis of mutual interest, sound policy and renovated friendship!

Letters from London assure us, that the most friendly intercourse subsists between the American minister in England, and the government of that country: and that no doubts were entertained of an immediate adjustment of our differences, on such fair and equitable principles, as would bind the two nations in still stronger bonds of amity and friendship.