Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political

From the N. Y. Mercantile Advertiser.
We are indebted to captain Prendergast,
of the ship Ann, for the following state-
ment:--

"The ship Sally, captain Scott, of Bos-
ton, was taken up by general Armstrong in
April last, to convey him and his family
home; and so certain was the general of
getting the Sally, that he entered into a
written agreement with Mr. S. V. S. Wil-
der at Paris for the ship. I saw a copy of
the agreement; the substance of which was
that the ship was to proceed from St. Se-
bastians, where she lay sequestered, to Bor-
deaux, there to take the gen. and suite on
board. Mr. Ridgeway, late American
consul at Antwerp, and his family, were
also to embark in the Sally. The captain
relied so firmly on the agreement, that he
kept all his crew on board; nor was it un-
til a few days previous to the Ann's sailing
that he knew his fate. All the sequestered
vessels, the Sally excepted, were sent from
St. Sebastians to Bayonne. She was left,
expecting daily a permission to go to Bor-
deaux; when an order was received for the
Sally to go to Bayonne. A few days after
her arrival there, the captain received a let-
ter from Mr. Wilder, informing him that
the general declined leaving France these
6 months; and that the agreement must
be considered as void.

"The order for preventing all foreign-
ers from leaving the country without spe-
cial permission from the minister of police
at Paris created much uneasiness amongst
the Americans. The reason for it, being
issued was reported to be in consequence
of fire having been set to the palace during
the late fetes, by which the lives of the im-
perial family were endangered, but this
story obtained little or no credit.

"William D. Patterson, Esq. the Ame-
rican consul at Nantes, received a note
from the French government, informing
him that he was no longer recognized in
that capacity."