Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political

NORFOLK May 20. We do not remember to have seen our place so much agitated, since the memorable affair of the Chesapeake, as it has been for the last two days.---We shall not trouble our readers with the various reports which were brought by different vessels, but they all agreed that a heavy cannonading was heard about 30 miles east of the Capes on Thursday night last. From some circumstances, it was believed to have been occasioned by an attack of the frigate President upon a British frigate or vessel of war, in consequence of the impressment of a seaman, as mentioned in an article which we copy from the New-York Evening Post, and in which the circumstance is noticed in appropriate terms, and perfectly consonant with our feelings. That there was some firing off the Capes we cannot doubt; but as for the cause we are now satisfied that it has been mistaken, and will turn out (as we are sure the wits will say) only "Norfolk News."