Alexandria Daily Advertiser

Extract of a letter from London, received per the Packet.

Money is scarce, and is hoarded up in consequence of the peculiar danger of the times. Public affairs on the continent, I am inclined to hope, and to think, look more favorable; the success of France appears to have received at least a severe check, but our own internal squabbles are sources of great anxiety, leaving abundantly too much resort for apprehensions of what may be the consequence. As a nation or as an individual, I have reason to think no serious inconvenience has arisen or is likely to arise in this country, from the recent hostile prohibition of Bonaparte. The produce of every country finds its way to this market. Remittances, orders, consignments, still come, perhaps as abundant as ever, tho' not so direct. In short, we only appear to want unanimity, providence and energy, in the conduct of state affairs, to place us in an enviable situation compared with the rest of Europe (perhaps with the rest of the world.) As it is, I am positively ashamed to send you our periodical prints, which are filled with untruths and misrepresentations by both parties; dirty, rascally, mean squabbles of great men, who ought to know better than quarrel for unstable honor and dirty pelf. Murders, rapes, robberies, cheating of every description, contentions for places, and recitals of every thing vile, despicable and degrading to human nature, yet such things are, and we continue to be highly favored as a nation.

The Paris Argus of the 23d April, in announcing the receipt of information of the rejection of the British treaty by the American administration, observes that this act is an evidence that the Americans are becoming more and more jealous of their maritime independence. It proceeds thus: The French Imperial Decree which orders the confiscation of all English merchandise found in ports occupied by the French armies, had excited apprehensions that some American property might be involved in it, but the explanation since given have fully satisfied the merchants of the U. States. All news coming from the continent of Europe, is greedily caught up there. From this eagerness it may be seen that the nations apparently the greatest strangers to this war, have a real interest in the success of the cause of the French, and the Americans above all have already to congratulate themselves that the greatness of the efforts which the English government is obliged to make against France, obliges it to relax from the tyranny which it exercised over their trade.