Alexandria Daily Advertiser

BY THIS DAY's MAIL
NEW YORK, March 28.

Interesting Foreign News.

By the fast sailing ship Oliver Ellsworth, which arrived at this port on Saturday evening from Liverpool, the Editor of the Mercantile Advertiser has completed his files of London papers to the 22d February, inclusive. Liverpool papers to the 24th, & Lloyd's Lists and Prices Current to the 19th.

The papers are principally occupied with the debates in the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain on the late orders of council against neutral commerce; the expedition to Copenhagen; the proposed mediation of Austria between England and France; the negociation with Portugal; the expedition to the Dardanelles; and the improper use which his majesty has made of the Droits of Admiralty, by granting the sum of 20,000l. sterling to several of his profligate children, at a time when the pressure of the public burthens became almost intolerable to the great mass of the nation.

For the late orders of council the ministry have had recourse to a bill of indemnity. In the house of peers, when the subject of these orders was under consideration, Lord Erskine, the late Chancellor, observed that they must lead to the most calamitous consequences. America, it was generally acknowledged, was the main source of British commercial prosperity, and these measures would inevitably dry it up, and compel the people of the United States to turn their thoughts to a navy and manufactures, contrary to the advice of the great and good Washington, and thereby permanently their attention on what would ultimately ruin England.

A motion in the same House for an address to his majesty praying for official information touching execution of the French decree of blockade previous to the 11th Nov. the ministry were left in a minority of 9.

A bill was before parliament at our last dates, for "more effectually carrying into execution certain orders in council made for the protection of the trade and navigation of G. Britain, and granting duties of customs on certain goods exported from G. Britain;" and a meeting had been called, by twenty two of the most respectable houses in Liverpool to petition parliament against its passing into a law until the objectionable parts of it should be expunged or modified. Among other articles of taxation, the bill proposes an export duty of 2s. 6d. sterling per bushel on Salt which is considered as a staple branch of the export trade of Liverpool. This port, it is computed, carries on three-fourths of the trade between the U. S. and G. Britain; and some idea of its importance may be collected from the fact that the annual export of British manufactures to the U. States, exceeds ten millions sterling, & the demand constantly and rapidly increasing in the port of Liverpool alone. during the year 1807, entered 489 American vessels, averaging 252 tons, and paying a tonnage duty of 30,900l. in addition to which, the amount paid in dock duties, port charges, and disbursement among the tradesmen of Liverpool is estimated at 149,500l. exclusive of any charge or expense on the cargoes.