Alexandria Daily Advertiser

PHILADELPHIA, August 12.

Latest from England.

By the fast sailing ship Hercules, capt. Bradford, arrived on Saturday evening from Liverpool, we have received files of London papers to the 27th June, and extracts from Lloyd's List to the 18th. The contents of our papers are by no means interesting. We however shall continue to extract from them such articles as appear in any manner illustrative of the present situation or future prospects of Europe. Our correspondent in London, under date of June 24th, furnishes us with the following brief summary of English politics:

"There is an unfortunate misunderstanding between the friends of Mr. Pitt and lord Sidmouth. Without being informed of the particulars of this misunderstanding, we have reason to think that the difference between them arises from two points: The friends of Mr. Pitt are for lenient proceedings against lord Melville, and with that intent have instructed the attorney-general to throw in questions and obstacles before the house, previous to his lordship's trial, or a criminal prosecution; while the friends of the opposite party were for impeachment and a speedy punishment. The friends of lord Sidmouth complain of the severity with which lord St. Vincent has been censured since he was first lord of the admiralty, only because he reformed many abuses, and prevented much waste connived at by the officers in all the king's yards at Plymouth, Portsmouth, &c. and worked a complete reform in them; and contend he was the best first lord of the admiralty the board ever had, and that since his time the naval department has been and is still badly managed. The friends of Mr. Pitt contend that the affairs of the country have been in a retrograde situation ever since the peace of Amiens in 1802; and that that weak and blameable treaty laid the foundation of all Bonaparte's designs for the subjugation of England. The friends of lord Sidmouth go on complaining (favored by circumstances lately) that neither the army or military force of the country is so numerous to meet the theatre of invasion, nor the number of ships at sea so formidable against the foe now, as during his administration. The debates of last night, which I shall send you herewith, will show how these charges are supported by comparison and calculation, and the real temper of the parties, and the conclusion; but Pitt is a match for them all. Sometimes it is reported this schism is such, that finding it difficult to act, Mr. Pitt will advise his majesty to dissolve the parliament, or else that he will try to get rid of lord Sidmouth and his party, and endeavor to form a coalition upon a large scale, which shall include the leading men in opposition: Mr. Fox, Grey, Sheridan.

Be these things terminated as they may, I am warranted in a supposition, by what I have read lately, taken from the French and German papers that Bonaparte, seeing he has mounted the ladder of his ambition to the topmost round at Milan, perceives that his dignities will be best secured and maintained by finding out some means whereby a general peace may be brought about; and what is there, after what we have seen, such a genius cannot accomplish? This object however will depend a good deal upon what success the English Ministry will meet with in their present conferences with the powers already mentioned. Bonaparte's hints already, through the organs of his ministers and writers at Paris, there are two ways in which a general peace may be effected, either by maintaining the treaty of Amiens, or by admitting the rights and privileges of certain powers not provided for or mentioned in that treaty. This expression, though it does not open the door to peace, is putting a hand on the latch."