Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1806-08-27
ExTRAcT OF A LETTER DATED
A" Ccn!ennert, Bank of Missouri,
2Ofh .Juiu. 1906.

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2ofh Juiy, 1906.
write to you from this place, where
have been spending few days at the
governors quarters who is preparing here
ior his descent of the river to Matches, or
perhaps lower. The situation of this en-.
| campment is indeed the most magnificent
ever saw. Situated near the con!iuX of
the Missouri and Mississippi, it has a
commanding view ofboth rivers, and APP.
pears to have been intended by nature as
the settle Of the town, which shall not on.
ly be the emporium Of the commerce of
both, but shall have power to check and
! keep In awe the various tribes, who wan
i der on the banks of either. The prospect
| from the hill which in the rear imm cCii-
| a;ely hangs over the encampment, takes
| in distance of nearly 80 miles up the
two rivers, which appear beautifully inter
| spersed with Isles and varied by all The
ehecl oflight and shadc.-This prospect,
altho' not entirely complete, from the
want Of cutting some vlstas thro' some
very heavy timber which is Immediately
under the hill, strikes the spectator so
! sensibly, that when Mr.. Burr first saw it,
he exclaimed, that cit was the greatest
prospect, in crftectafion, he had ever seen"
From the bottom III the hill gushes
spring "a thing rare IN this country OF
the largest dimensions and finest water
(no doubt proceeding from the M'ssourI
! in The whole country and from The spring
the above tract takes its name, being cal
| led La belle Fonsaine, or the beautiful
| fountain. The cantonment has assumed
the form Of q handsome village, and the
troops enjoy every comfort which can a
rise from a most healthy situation good
quarters, and the richest and most extern
slse garden in the United States. The
parallel of the vegetation Of this garden I
have never seen; the corn and beans are
in general Is feet high, some much high
CT; heads of cabbages weighing from 10
to i2pounds already, aud rot,ing through
Uegetafion. / believe that / shall sp.. ID
the greatest part of the summer here, as
it H. the garden of the country"
Captain Lezris, late of the Leander. Zone OF
Miranda's vessels) has arrived at New 1ork
from Grenada. who gives very unfavor ,ble
account of the prospects of Miranda's expedite
on-fIe left him at Trinidad, from whence he
| mas since sailed.
From the London prints it appears tina;
some suspicious OF irreguIarity, 10 her so.
ciai intercourse, had fallen upon the krin,
cess Of Holes---and il had been made the
topic of formal enquiries and erami7a.i.
ons.-.zRr ora.
We have not heard any enquiry con.
corning the social intercourse OF the aiore.
said lady's husband--who has lived for
thirty years past in notorious intercourse
with the wives of other men men, Mrs
Robinson, Mrs. STORAGE, Sc.--t5.
The utilization reported in tie English
iprints, with which the prince Of Wales
has been reputed to be troubled on the fare.
heads we'll known to be a family disease
IN The Hanover family from the days OIL
The princess Sophia Of glorious memory
down 20 the days ofthe princess Of Wales
grandmother OF the prince to certainty
ID.
The affair ofthe princess of Wales, APP,
pears to US as an aet of provIdential retri-
bu,ive justice, for altho' it is very proba,
BILE the unfortunate woman is guliless oil
inlideIi,y to The prince Of Wales, she Ger.
talnly was well aware, that the prince had
a wife already living, who is called indeed
Mrs. Ht7herbert, and who if they do not
consider religion as a.Taree (Which unhap.
PLY IS the practice Of too many who pro
Tess relIgion)--it must be acknowledged,
that before the Almighty presence, the la
dy called Mrs. Rtzheroert is the wife oil
that prince indeed it is notorious, that
| he maintains intercourse with his first
) wife sill and very probably the com.
plants of IDtideliiy, are no more than pre-.
iudes to a divorce from the German mn.
cess, and veiy possibly, thu passage o.
some law, by which Mrs. KIzher6ert may
become queeD--for The days Of George
the Ill, cannot now be long in the land
and as the king can do no wrong in Eng
land, he may return TO his first love and
the German princess may like Catherine
. Of Arrogan or Anne OF Cleyes, go 10 .
inaig1ery--or 10 Meekieuburg. Id.