Alexandria Gazette & Daily Advertiser

FROM LONDON PAPERS,
Received at the office of the New-York Advertiser.
London, June 21.
It is now quite certain that the Spanish expedition, which has been so many months under preparation at Cadiz, will not, at any rate, sail until the beginning of September next. The Commissioners appointed by Ferdinand VII. to undertake the management of it, have sent instructions to the agents in London to contract for 5,000 carbines, which are intended for the use of the cavalry, to be shipped on board the armament, and it is supposed that the Government at Madrid have determined to increase the number of horse regiments, and have in consequence ordered this additional quantity of arms, which are to be of the very best description. The Commissioners, owing to the postponement of departure of the expedition, do not require they should reach Cadiz before the end of August. We understand that the Spanish Government has received an official account from the Vice Roy of Lima, in which he states, that he was in daily expectation of an attack from the squadron under Lord Cochrane, but that there was a sufficient force at Lima to prevent that city from being molested by the invaders, should they make a landing at Callao. It is said that it was in consequence of the receipt of this communication that the San Telmo, Alexander and Prueba, ships of war, were despatched to the coast of Peru, without any reinforcements on board being intended only to protect the Royalist vessels in those seas. [Courier.