Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political

The Caroline frigate, Capt. Christ. Cole, which brought the despatches from Batavia, made a quick voyage home. She was only 94 days under sail, seven of which she was in a calm, and seven in a gale of contrary wind. Excepting the Medusa, Sir John Gore, which came home in 84 days from Bengal (averaging 160 miles) perhaps it is the shortest passage ever made. It is mortifying to hear, that our gallant army and navy will not obtain that reward in prize money, which their zeal and bravery induce us to wish they would, through the splenetic rage of General Jansens, who directed the setting on fire of all the principal specie stores. They were burning for four days before they fell into our possession by the storming of Cornelis. He likewise ordered the sugar store houses to be laid open, in the hope that the rains would descend and destroy them. In this, however, he was disappointed, and these were the principal stores, with some granaries, which Sir Samuel Auchmuty says the army has been fortunate in preserving.