Alexandria Daily Advertiser

PHILADELPHIA, September 18.

Let Mr. Jefferson and his cabinet peruse the following communication, on the part of the British government, in answer to a letter from the Merchants, which complained of depredations on their Commerce, by the enemy's privateers cruising off the coast of America, and if there is a single spark of American feeling among the group, let them blush for their tame endurance of the insults and injuries that have been heaped upon the American Seamen and Merchants:

lords of the admiralty,

"A letter having been written to the lords commissioners of this admiralty complaining of the depredations committed on the British commerce by the enemy's privateers cruising off the coast of America, the following answer was yesterday returned to the merchants, by the secretary to the admiralty:

"Having laid before my lords commissioners of this admiralty your letter of the 22d instant, respecting the danger to which the British commerce is exposed on the coasts of South Carolina and Georgia, from the great number of French and Spanish privateers, cruising there,

I am commanded by their lordships to signify their direction to admiral sir Andrew Mitchell, and directed him to take the necessary measures for the protection of the trade on that coast.

"I am gentlemen, your very humble servant,

W. MARSDEN."

Dated, 31st July, 1805.