Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1806-10-18

lpT lnSISlcESs
| Resoiued i.1aninousiy, that committee
lie appointed to confer With any commit
tees that arc or may be appointed by our
democratic brethren, On the measures ne
ccssary to be adopted to procure the assent
OF Mr.. jefferson to serve another period,
and to explain - him the causes o. our en-
barrassments and the means by which they
are to be redresscd.
ResoiUed. that Dr. Leib, Frederick VOL
bert, John Kess,cr. John Goodman and Will
liam Binder, be the committee for the pur-
poses expressed in tho foregoing resolution
Resof0ed, that DIR. Leib, John Kesslcr,
George Wagner. John Goodman, Jun. and
George w. Morgan, be committee of su-
perintendancc.
October 10.
BY the Gold Hunter, arrived at New
York, we have received London papers to
Sunday the 18th Aug. From the Star of
the 10th, we make the following extracts:
Our Correspondents furnishes US with the
Price Of .dmsricdr Stocks at London .r,l-
Sast16.
per cents. 81.
8percents. los a 1O4.
Old per cent. which began
paying JAM /, 1896, 95 a 90
with dividend from lst Juy.
Bank shares paving an ann. d.
vidcnd Of psr share i1S 119
with dividend from 1st July.
Louisiana 6 per cert. los
with DIVIDEND from 1st JULY.
The Gold-Hnnter, sailed OIL the 17tth,
and had paper OF that date; but beng:
boarded on the Banks Of New icundiand, by
two British trigatcs from Greenland, capt
Vcse gave it to one Of the commanders az
his earnest solicitation. Il Contained. now
ever. we are informed, no additional intel
iigence on the subject OF the pending neg
Citations; and it was the general cxpcctat:-
on in London that they would be broken cf
without terminating in peace.
The report Of the Commissioners a~noint-
ed - investigate The charges against The
Princess Of Wales has bcen made to the
King, IN, is not published 1t hers date
on tie I4th Iuiy, an was delivered on the
1lth oil August to the iliustrious leclv Nv
one Of the lord ChunceNor'S fofp,en q
mark of disrespcct which is tr ated with
becoming severity by ssmc OF the Lcndon
editors. The report, We underst no, Is !,
complete excu;patun from the charge Of
having borne spurious child, and notices
only Some trfiing leviuies which were deem
cd unbecoming her exalted stu, ton.
Mr.. Halliday, passenger in the Cold
Hunter, is the bearer OF dispatches from
Mr.. Monroe to the American government.
Captain Ashby, arrived at baltimore,
touched at Falmouth on the Goth of Aug
and had papers to the 18th inclusive. bur
gave them TO the British squadron off the
CaPcs. We learn verbally, however, that
not The least hopes were entertained of peace
when he left FIlmouth. The people in gen-
eral did not seem to wish peace on the
proposed terms.
LONDON, Aug. I6--bfr. Fox continues to
gam strenth. Yesterday he was attended by
DR.. Pitcairn, who tho retired from genera,
practice, has been called to occasional con-
situations by the Physicians, who have dai-
ly attended the Secretary, since his disoi-
der discovered those symptoms which are
now giving way to their united skill and
experience.
The Fun-ls declined still further yester-
day Omniun LEFT Of At ) Sd, being three
quarters per cent. below the lNstprice OF the
preceding day. Ithasbeer rep rted that lord
Lauderdale was treated with some slight by
Taleyrand, and that the conference which
he requested was evaded. under the pre-
text Of important business. We do not be-
neve this though il must be confessed, the
delay in the arrival Of dispatches from his
Lordship gives some sanction 70 these m
mcurs. Lord Lauderdalc arrived a, Pa
RS ON the 5th instant, and yet it was not
until the morning Of the 10Th that Rasijico
lett that capital with the first dispatches
from his Lordship. In the course of days
there was certainly ample time for repeat
ed conferences and the ncn-arrival of
messenger would seem to imply, either
that the English Negociator had not succeed
ed IN procuring an early interview with
the French Minister, or that their con-
versatinns, if they had any, led to nothing
satisfactory or conclusive. Much we sup
Dose, must have been determined in the
hrst or second conference, and il was to be
expected that, agreeably 10 established u
s2ge' the substance Of what occurred at
these interviews would have been transmit
tea t. Government as speedily as possible
Nirious causes, however, might have occa-
stoned departure from the usual practice
Lord Laudcrds'e might have been invested
with eH cnsive and discretionary powers,
and III that case it would have been unne-
cessary for him to DC referring every mo-
mcnt tn the Government he Represented.
II was the necessity Of continually resor-
ting to the first source fcT instructions upon
every trivial point, which formed ono of
the chief objections of former French Co
yernmcnt TO continue the negotiations at
Isle and Paris.
some intermediate communication, VIC
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