Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1805-07-20

v.ce Sa6rlei kaiston, republican,, who has
resigned.
The British King has approved of the
appointment of William Lyman, Esq. to
be Consul for the United States of Ame-
RIGA, IN the port of London.
z The French, frigate La CIorie, of ~
guns, from Guadalupe, on secret expc-
d'l'on with number of troops and one ge.
neral ON board was spoken on the 34th
May. (Bal. .daae. j
Admiral Collingwood's squadron Of q
sail of the line, had sailed from England,
at the last dates, to reinforce lord Nelson,
IN The West Indies. (Boss. Pah.J
BY the brig Hero, from st. Yaeo de Gu
oa' we learn that the Negroes in the neigh
borhood ofthat city had revolted and com.
mitted great excuses. One gentleman
whose plantation was burned and the over
seer murdered came passenger in the YES
sci. We have not learned to what ex-
tent the instruction had reached, but il is
supposed to be considerable.-M Y. han.
he To- oil value of commodities import-
ed last year into St. Petersburg (Russia)
have been found To amount 10 az, 1886 900
tuoles' Ofthis sum, $50, 900 rubles were
paid for drugs; 100000 Tor wine $40, 900
for coffee.
Extract Of q letter from Bristol, 10 r N.
henan in Baltimore, dated DIay ash,
1905.
sod England seems at present to be
IN perIlous situation, but trust through
Gods help, she will still weather the storm
that threatens her very existence. 4 he
combined French and Spanish Reefs are
at sea, and We know not whittier they ave
bound. or what disaster has already be !.
fallen US; all is conjecture and uncertain-
". They have lately raked us in the
West and probably by this time PLAYING
the same game in the East Indies such
| are the miseries of war--O }oriunati mini
an, stia ri bona norinf, .dnericam
May their free born sons under the
aupces Of the iiIus,rious Jefferson. hong
cherish the blessing of peace with which
they are SO highly favored.
DR.. Coke, has al, last taken to him
self wife. Mss Smith of Bradford. with
a fortune Of twenty or thirty thousand
pounds"
The facts which have led 10 the opinion
which regards The old continent that con.
tinual changes were made in the surface
OF The globe, by the retiring of the waters
iIave been observed on the continent we
inhabii. Kenzie speaking Of he Peace
river, and the land between IL aud the
Lake OF the Hills as far as FIX river, oh
serves that II was formed by the quantity
OF earth aud mud, wbicil - carried down
by the streams OF these two great rivers.
And asto the lakes oil tIiat country, he OBJ
serves, they are now So shallow from the
Causes just mentioned, thar there is every
reason to expect, that iaa few years they
will have exchanged their cha, acirr and
have become extensive forests, Many
circumstances combine to justly an OPT
mon OF the changes when The Caspian
has undergone. An ingenious writer has
brought together evidence from The sue
cessive maps of that inland and salt sea,
whichi is now in dispute between the RIOS
SLAMS aud Persians. BY map taken from
the face Of the country, and compared
with the map Of Piolomy, and then exa-
mined by the chart Of AbuIreda, and that
Of Vruverden by order OF Peter the great,
as corrected by Danville. and then with
the chart of Pallas, little doub; can arise OF
this fact within the reach Of true history.
Pallas, that able observer of nature, OBJ.
serves, 1.-the shells which are scattered
over this country and which are the same
that are found inlbe bottom of the Caspi-
an, and which we never find inthe rivers
the salt remains in the soil, the salt ponds
scattered over these countries, the extent
OF llat country IN these deserts, are incon
lestible proofs that they must necessarily
have been covered formerly with the wa
tiers Of tho Caspian" AEdl is to be pre-
stunned that this sea slill diminishes daily
No other cause can perhaps be assigned
than the gradual diminutton Of ali seas
without exception, and which the sepasa
( ton OF lake Arsi OF one SIDE, and If he
Euxine on the other side oil the Gasp an.
may BE- deemed an example. Buschins
Informs lhat from the united testimony "a
naturaIists, Che cou4iry around Astracan Is
SD iraprrgnaied with sea water. that sal