Alexandria Daily Advertiser

A letter from Fort Stoddert, of April 14, says, "The Spaniards at Mobile have assumed a degree of insolence altogether intolerable. In open opposition to the assurances which we last fall received from general Howard of Pensacola of the free passage of our vessels and effects by Mobile, they put our people to the trouble, risk and expense of unloading every article of their cargoes, and made them pay a toll of 12 per cent. thereon. The schooner Victory, of New York left this port a few days ago, with a cargo of cotton, for New Orleans, the duties on which at Mobile amounted to 1,140 dollars. The sloop Castor, laden with stores for the troops at this place, and goods for the Choctaw factory has been detained since the middle of last month, under the pretext that some of his papers are wanting to enable them to lay the duties."