Norfolk Gazette And Publick Ledger

From the Savannah Museum.

COMMUNICATION

By the late arrivals from France it is scarcely possible to form a correct opinion of what is passing there--by the arrival of the Grampus, at New-York, it is said that Bonaparte has been successful in many engagements, and extracts from French papers give this idea some cause for belief. When, however, we reflect that the efforts of the government in that country will naturally be drawn to quiet the minds of the inhabitants, and to confirm them in the belief that the allied armies can make no impression on the present governing power, it must be recollected that it is a resort to which they will necessarily have recourse. Again, when we look at the accounts brought by the Midas, capt. Thompson, arrived here, (which left Bordeaux several days later than the Grampus) when the accounts received by her state that Lord Wellington's army had entered Bordeaux without opposition or rather by invitation; what inference is to be drawn from it either that the south of France are opposed to the influence of Bonaparte and that the middle provinces are attached to him, which he has been enabled to give never

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Cheers to the allies: or the reports taken from the French papers are designed for the purpose of urging the French people to resist their leaders. It has been already ascertained in so vast a never hail to engagement but what his is a d victory--it was so in Egypt; it was so in Russia--and last--it was so in Germany; from all of which places he was obliged to retreat with a discomfited army. I say the lie. It is not to be wondered at if he claims a victory where an absolute defeat has taken place; I have therefore to request, that your readers suspend their opinions on this subject until a farther elucidation of circumstances is at hand, which cannot be many days.

It may be necessary here to remark, that in all the Paris accounts which have been published, not one word has been said of the congress assembled at Chatillon, where the Duke of Vicenza (Caulaincourt) was one of its members--a question naturally arises how is this silence to be accounted for? It cannot be that the communication was cut off, as British envoys were passing through Paris from thence to Calais: but that nothing favorable could be communicated from that body to meet the ears of the French nation or to inspire them with the hope that any thing would be decided there to countenance a belief that Bonaparte and the present rulers of France would be supported by them.--[Editor.

NEWS FROM FRANCE.

The capt. of the American schooner Midas has arrived at Savannah from Bordeaux, from which place she brings accounts as late as the 15th of April by private letters received in this city, some from France, and some from Savannah, giving the verbal statements of the captain and passengers. We learn that Lord Wellington's army was about three leagues from Bordeaux when the Midas sailed, that the municipal officers had left the city, and the inhabitants had sent a deputation to his lordship, who assured them that if not opposed no injury should be done to private property. He probably entered Bordeaux on the 14th March.

Accounts from Paris as late as the 9th, had been received at Bordeaux. Bonaparte had been almost constantly engaged with the allies between Troyes and Rheims--prospects at Paris very gloomy. It was reported there, (perhaps for the purpose of rousing the nation from their indifference at the progress of the allies) that Alexander had declared Paris should share the fate of Moscow.--Balt. Fed. Gaz.