Kentucky Gazette And General Advertiser

Extract of a letter From a Gentleman in Washington City, directed "To the Editor of the Republican Advocate, a newspaper printed at Frederick-Town, Maryland."

DEAR FRIEND,

You have, perhaps, been much disturbed with a report concerning a protest said to have been made by the Spanish Minister against the occupation of Louisiana by your government. Make yourself perfectly easy upon this score--Louisiana will be peaceably given up; at least the Spanish King's order for delivery to the French has for sometime been on this side of the Atlantic. Every thing is in readiness to enter upon the new territory-General Wilkinson (who has always been in favor of the purchase) will doubtless occupy it with his troops. You should not give currency to such idle rumors; they do but distract the public mind without producing any salutary effect-they aid the cause of faction only.