Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1804-03-28
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PHILADELPHIA, March 90.
LEYE8T FR0M EytOpR.

this p0ct on sunday, IN % dlre from Lon
don, newspapers tn the i9,h 'e5rusrg
have been received in thls city .cpntaiaing
news tiNr days latev than thai received By !
way oS Boston. These papers stale ,aat
no Interesting event had taken place IN
the interval, and we are yet TO conicc.ure
whether or when any are likely to occur.
The indispnS't;on IT he king of G.. Britain
appears To tove Engaged the principal Il,
teninn at jAe date OF the last advices -
ard Neh the state nf Europe and he =,
tuatlo9 o. England ~ particular are con
sidere0- ne soiicitudc, excited b. the Ill
ness oflh's nonarch, VIII not appear sur.
Pri,lpg: According to the public prints,
h. had IN One respects recovered his
hcal;h, but the captain of me Pigou in
Forms that on the i9th and 2Oih nt Fcbru
arv It was currently reported and renera
" believed chat the king hal "a ID. that the
p~iyy councii was IN session but lnl' for
pol cal reasons The cause ana objecl f
then deliberations were concealed and It
desire manifested 20 persuade that the
king vas not dead. Whether this event
has actually occurred Or not cannot be d-
cidvd It present, bnt arguing from pro
baDHiies we consider the report entitled
to beuuf-lhe age Of lhc monarch, the
knoNlege that he was aiilc( d with com
pEcatinn of diseases, that the ind, spoeirio1
we arc old he iabpured under Oh the Sth
Febru2cV, was unusually severe, all rcn
de- /, x r-meiv probable hat the report
Of his recovery va, dcccptious. When
the state OF parties, and the views Of par
ticular nen in England; are re6Scted up-
on. here will be found reasons tending to
impress belief hat the ministry, OF y,i-
w councillors, had determined % conceal
for . time tie knowledge Of the death oG
the king. The recent refusal of the mi
nis,ry 10 confer on the prince of Wales
any past of honor in the army, WAS but
one Of he evidences Of that enmity and
JeaioIsy with which ne has ever been view
ed; he is well known to have paid great
deler-ncc to Mr.. Fox and the wing inter-
est, an / to have conceded in opinion with
them - their opposition 10 a war, aud it
NAV be reasonably supposed that on his
accession TO the throne he would totally
change the face Of affairs. The duke &C
York Is the man, whom the opponents 20
the prince Of Wales desire to succeed TO
tn. throne, bur how they could accomplish
their obie;t under present circumstances
we cannot conceive: nothing but death
car now prevent the accession of the
prince, the object of the ministry there
fore may have been TO effect a compro
mise or 20 induce the prince to agree TO
terms" We confess we think the death
ofGeorge III T. hi hly probable, and fsuch
shall be found to be the case, we shall not
be surprised to hear of overtures Of peace
with France having been the consequence
81, I, ,rI,a e
and complete one too, we consider as
certain.
OF the French expedition the latest ru-
mOrs minated that it would not be under
taken before March, as the preparations
could Only then be completed. One would
i'm inc, from all that has heretofore been
sal ,f preparations that it was impossible
any thing could lave remained unfinished
in the middle Of Febru3rv. The fac( seems
otherwise, the building orvesscls Of every
description continued to be carrying on in
the ports Of France and its dependencies
with vigpur--troHps continued to be col
lectsd, and dispositions Of the naval force
10 be made. Bonaparte was to have left
Paris carly in February for a third visit TO
the coast.
We have seen nothing in the extraSts
from English papers relative to the pre-
diced rupture between Spain and Eng.
land.
The northern powers, particularly Rus
STA. were forming cordons of troops on
their frontiers--thc cause is MYSTERIOUS,
for we cannot believe the rumours Of the
English prints that any Of the continental
powers are disposed to Commence hostil-
tiles against France.
The German empire appears TO have
been considerably agitated in its internal
concerns, but the latefoccounts throw no
light on the causes which producsd the
agitation, nor are We informed whether it
continued. An a@ Of partial hostiities
had taken place between The German and
Turkish troops on the frontiers, which hsd
becu made the pretcxt for claim or the
empire Tor an additional force "to pre-
serve jlsterritory respected: future events
may explain these circumstances at pre-
SEM the Ottoman empire appears inse-