Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

NEW-YORK, October 31.

Extract of a letter from Madrid, dated August 30.

"An affair very interesting to monarchy has this day fixed the attention of the Spaniards. At the moment we were flattering ourselves with the success of the negociation with the Regency of Algiers, we learn that all the hopes of a peace with the Algerine pirates are vanished. It is true, we never thought our Monarch would subscribe to the humiliating conditions of peace, which most of the foreign gazettes mentioned, and which first arose from a single letter written from Algiers by some designing person; but we know the King offered great sacrifices to induce the Regency to an accommodation, all which have been without the desired effect: and it is well known that that nation, which is a natural enemy to all her competitors for commerce, has worked so effectually underhand, as to render the mediation of France of no effect. The Dey had carried his presumption so far as to stipulate, 'That the peace to be concluded on, shall be observed only in open sea, but that the hostilities shall continue on both sides on the coasts of the two empires.' In consequence of a refusal to an accommodation so extraordinary, and suggested with a design to render the negotiation abortive, the Algerine corsairs have already seized on one of our vessels. His Majesty has caused to be inserted in the Court Gazette, the orders which he has thought proper to give, in consequence of breaking off the conference, and of his free attack of the pirates."