Alexandria Gazette & Daily Advertiser

From the Salem Register, Oct. 4.

The celebrated BARGE of CLEOPATRA has returned to our port. She has displayed in Europe the first example of a visit to European ports, in a vessel which had no other object than a view of the commercial cities which Europe contains. The visit is in the style of our American researches. We can find many of our countrymen who have been at every part of our Continent, and who have not chosen to encounter the inconvenience of travelling by land. In great cities they have seen the progress of each state, each province and each territory. And if they have not receded from her works; from the most engrossed society to all the feeble aids of distant settlements, they have seen from the first records of commerce, how much the arts of life, the intercourse of life, and luxury of life, have contributed to bless the condition of man. It is this view which the commercial man delights to take. He can circumnavigate the globe to find what will bless commerce and give it protection, with more pleasure than take an excursion of a few hours where each thing is separate. The whole is read in the place where commerce collects all that is good for man.

The following comprises a list of the places Capt. Crowninshield visited during cruise, and much interesting Marine Intelligence arrived at this port (Salem) on the 3d instant, the beautiful brig "CLEOPATRA'S BARGE," Benj. Crowninshield, master, and George Crowninshield, passenger, having visited the following places, viz.:-Flores, Fayal, St. Michaels and Madeira, in the North Atlantic Ocean; thence to Tangier, Gibraltar, Algeciras, Malaga, Carthagena, Port Mahon, in the island of Minorca; Barcelona, Marseilles, Toulon, Genoa, Leghorn. (from thence to Florence by land, thro Port Ria, Port Longone, in the island of Elba,) Porto-Ferrajo Elba, and Civita Vecchia; thence to Rome by land.-On leaving Civita Vecchia for America, passed through the Straits of Bonifacio, between Corsica and Sardinia.

The Cleopatra's Barge, had a passage of 11 days from Civita Vecchia, to Gibraltar, and 27 from Gibraltar, having for 10 days last past, experienced head winds and calms.