Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1806-10-22

, and distributed CT board the ships, which
are now ali ready to set sail: Gen. Grey
VIII embark on beard the Samson, OF sixty
four guns, and Lord Pagct III the Rcpuise,
OF seventy -four.
| The transport vessels laden with troops,
set sail Yesterday fer Deal.
| Ave. Yesterday at o'clock, a Ca
binet Council was held ut Mr.. Fox S ofiice.
The health Of this minister continues TO
mend, and he is now completely out OF dam
ser.
! Yesterday morning al Lord Caledon's
suite and equipage together with 10 horses,
were embarked at Gr;ivesend on board the
Mermaid frigatc, which Immediately set
sail for the Downs, whence she viii pro
coed for the Cape CT Good Hope. His
GorCship viii embark at Portsmouth ON the
! 15t Sept. as will also his Secretary and the
rest of his suite.
| The transport vessels with trocDs on
board which had set sail from the Downs,
| have just arrived at Portsmouth, where
| they had been joined by the Captain, Can
| ges, end Kings Fisher, with a fleet for the
| Mediterranean.
AUG. 2l.-Ycstei'dsy was discount day
at the Stock EXchapgc for Omnium, and
the variations for thnt stock were so great.
| the irtrigucS and lies so various, and in
short the spccuations OF every kind SO con-
siderable, that It realty was an important
| day. Tnc rumors unfav0rablc for peace,
which were spread by means of this agita-
ton, prevailed, and stocks experienced a
considerable fall However, rDon examin-
ing the fact, we find that it was only n pa
mic, and that the principal cause OF the fall,
| was the discount Of Cmnum
/ MIR. Fox gains fresh strength every dav
| lie was so well yesterday rs TO be able 20
walk in his garden and TO have afterwards
4 conference with the Marquis of Douglass,
| previous to the departure of that Ambas-
| satlcr Cor Petcrsburgh, to whom his rcyal
hiGhness the Prince CT Wales also paid I
visit before he set OF. The same day MIR.
Fox saw several Of his friends, and he is so
well that the Physicians think he will lie a.
hie 20 90 to his country scat before the be-
ginning ofnext week.
Dr. Erskine, appointed Minister Pleni-
pctcnhary 1t the Congress Of the United
states, set Of on THURSDAY last for his des-
unation. The same day Eir. Rraham quit
TED London on a mission to the Court of
Lisbon.
a letter from portsmcuth, Of the 10Th
August, states IS follows:
"The transports which sailed frar, Mar
appeared
oil this port yesterday evening, alous five
O'Clock: they wee al assembled near the
Isle CT Wight this morning at two o'clock,
when the Gauges, the Captain ard the
iAiEglshcT, which were waiting. for them.
t"ok them under convoy for Plymouth not
enc or them had cast anchor, and the rest
o. me convoy are repairing TO Spithead wild,
the Fury, the Devastation and tie Fxr,Ic.
slon.-it is said here, aTacnc the oeicers O!
those rcginHnts, that the 10th, 14;h and
18th are going to Portugal to defend tina;
k'ngdom, and That il this project should
miscarry or ppearimpracticab,e, they viii
repair to South America. Some lirht YES
sells arrived this morning from the Downs
to take these tTc0ps On board, Gen. sir
1"gn Dairymplc gees to Gibraltar, On
board the Captain. Gen. Wynyard and
brigadier-Seneral Stewart, with their staff,
sail Tor sicily Gil board transports.
Count Woronzoff, the late Russian Am.
oassador, and suite, left Wimpole-street on
Saturday for Yarmouth, to take shirn,,o
for Embden, on his way 70 Russia he was
accompanied to Yarmouth by his sncresso,
Count Strogonof, who is expected to return
ON Thursday next
AUG. 22.-'rhe Adniralty has published
two letters OF capt. John Stiles, commando,
~ the Adamant. The first is dated from
raise Bay, at the Cape of Coed Hope the
26th May, and addressed to the Governo,
;'ir H. Popham.-By it he informs that he
mas arrived at the anchoring ground with
the store ships Alexander and ROYAL Char.
iotte, and has brought with him the Spanish
ship Maestro Sonora dclos Dolores othe,.
wise called in Reparadora, of so guns and
5l3 men, commanded by Stanislas Gem.
handing officer Of the Spanish navy. Thi,
vessel which had sailed a month before
from Monteviedo in the river de Ia Plata,
was taken OH the 9th of MAY, in 80 dec. n
MN. South lat. and IS deg. 90 min. VesI
longitude. She is a very fine vessel and !.
copper bot;omud.
PARIS, August. II.
The stock-jobbing speculations have con.
sidera5ly lowered the pablo funds ct on.
den. But the friends Of Peace Go not the
lees preserve the hope Of shortly seeing i,
re-esteblished. The negotiations continue
md the night before last another Fnolisl,
Ccnrior arrived with dispatches. The
treaty ofFeacc may be very difficult to cor.
c'uee, but when the English ministers cast
their eyes towards tie Continent. they rnust
certainly see that thcy have no more diver.
Sons 70 hope for from that quarter. and
that consequently the war hencefortb OF
iers them no chancc Of favorable events.
|hllat IT has incalculable dangers for Eng