Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1805-05-25

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=" As'emoJ Jacob Kinney, 5o7
Andrew Anderson, $40
Robert Doake $50
Charles Hogshead, So
NEWS (it is verbally is received by the
suP fwo-Friends, from Belfast, that the
nrest heet was OUT, in CHASE of the
British Channel fieet!!! Captain Latham
Drought no newspapers.-N. Y. Caz.
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The ship Two Friends left Belfast on
the 18th Of Aprih Our flies of papers by
hsr extend only to the 9Th of that month,
and we Go not learn that she has broueht
any later. The captain informs us that
the Brest fleet of twenty-five sail were out,
and that they were in pursuit of the Bri.
fish Charmed fleet, which consisted of only
nineteen.-Mer. Adv.
Interesting 10 the citizens Of the U. States.
The Government Of Great Britain, as a
measure of dire necessity for carrying on
the war,. obiige the shippers of all goods
10 the United States to pay an erforf du-
fy OF 8 per cent. which is charged in the
Invoices, and finally paid by the citizens
consumers of their goods) in the United
States. The amount of British erhorts
10 dnarrfco, on an average of ten years, is
25,ooo,ooo annually, which at per cent.
produces revenue Of 100000 dollars
annually, paid to Great Britain by the con-
sumers Of their goods in America. Query.
How many useful manufactures would
this sum encourage in our own country !;
and how many able bodied men might be
secured, by the appropriation of one mil
lion OF dollars annually to The encourages
meut OF the mechanic arts l--.4uroro. :
On the 25th March, the British house
o.,commons went into committee on the
commercial treaty with America, and "a
greed to a resolution to permit America
10 trade with that country in neutral bot
toms under certain restrictions. The
house being resumed, the report was re-
ceiyed, and bill ordered.
INothing further or more explicit on
this subject is contained in our late Lon
don papers.1- Nv Y. Morn. Chro,.
EN;ot's Letters are republishipg in all
the federal papers--and they are Just
worthy of these vehicles. More glar-
ing falseboods, and gross misrepresentati-
Dns, we have seldom seen, to which a man,
having any toierablc share OF reputation,
put his name. We quote one example
out of multitude He says, In for
ming the Constitution, immense " sacrifices
of weight and power were made by " the
small states, and none at ably 6 the large
a.. "a
sacrifice at all on the part of the large
states that gave to the small ones equal
weight and I" power" in the Senate with
the larger--that in that most important
branch of the government, gave IHassa-
ch,tsefss, whose population is nearly ha)fa
million, no more " weight and power"
than Rhode Isiand whose population isnot
one sixth as great and Virginia, whose
white population amounts to more than
half a million, no greater influence than
OeiQscare, With little more than one 10th
as large population ? What sacrifice
OF equal magnitude, can Mr.. Elliot shew
on the part OF the small states !--Verily
il seemeth TO Us, friend Elliot, that much
vanity hath put thee beside myself; for
we cannot think that any man Of common
understanding. in his sober senses, would
hazard this, and sundry others, of thy as
seriions.- Trenton True american.
MIR. Mungo Park, the gentleman who
has attained to high degree OF celebrity
for his travels into the interior of Africa,
sailed from Portsmouth, Eng. the begin
niog OF March last, in the Eugenia, capt.
Webb, on another journey Of discovery to
that qusrtcrofthe globe. The Object Of this
voyage is 10 establish, il possible, CONNER
eial connections with some Of the princi.
pal African towns and G.. Britain. His
course win be towards the southern parts
Of the continent.
by gentleman from the lower part oil
Kentucky, intelligence has been received,
that war council, consisting Of about 500
Indians, has lately been held at the mouth
Of the Wabash river. This convection
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