Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1807-04-24


Petersburg, and the city was illuminated !
at the departure Of the messenger"
The Gazette contains an order in coun- |
Gil, dated the 18th, placing Curacao, IN
point OF commercial relations, on a footing
with our other West-lndia Islands.
Yesterday we received Dutch and French
papers by the American snip Medford, ar
rived in the river from Rotterdam, which
have furnished Us with some articles ofim-
portance. Government at the same time
received dispatches from the continent by
the Dorset packet, arrived at Harwich.-
The latter are stated to announce another
action between the Russians and French,
In which the grand duke of Berg was kill
led. We have before us an extract of
letter received by merchant in the city
from his brother at Warsaw, mentioning
Niurats death, and that the body had been
received IN that city with great pomp, and
as we understand, buried there. We in
cline, however, to think from some alnsi-
on to the scene ofaction, that Murat, should
he have fallen, must have been killed in
the battle OF Eyelen, or in some affair I'M
mediately following it.
Letters were yesterday received II, town
from Dantzic, which on Thursday arrived
| az 1aii, bringing accounts from thence to
tue zo'h uit. OF great rejoiciDgs having Ia
ken place there, on occasion of tb, vic,o,
RES obtained by the Russians over the
FRENCH, IN Warmia, up TO the ilth. The
LETT and Centre of the Russians were then
posted on the lakes, and the right extend.
ed beyond the Ale.
( /, Inc rench corps under general lie febre
mas Deen defeated by body of Prussians
near Marienwerder.
Although the French have succeeded in
restoring i'll
ons appear to have broken ont i'm ya,ious
ether parts of Germany, which cannot fail
TO cmbarrass 3onaparte, either i'm expo-
sing his supplies from France to danger,
or In requiring for their protection great
er iorco than in his present circumstances
ne can afford for such service. Witteravia
and the banks o. the Main are in the hands
the insurgents; and in Weimar, Gotha,
Coourg, and most or the neighborine duch-
les, an extensive and organised system of
revolt prevails.
l. Inc Austrian army in Gal,icia compri-
SEES upwards OF one hundred thousand men,
and the frontiers OF Moravia and Bohemia
are crowded with troops who have cut off
All communication with Saxony, Silesa,
Stc.-Ihe export of provisions 70 the
French army in Poland has been discontl-
nued, and some Jewish merchants and o.
theirs, by whom it was carried on, have
been arrested and sent in chains for trial
lhis measure is stated to have been adopt.
ed on strong remonstrance from the Rus
sian minister.
The Austrians are collecting strong
corps on the Bavarian from iers, under the
orders of one of the archdukes.
All officers in the Austrian service on
leave of absence, sc. have received orders
to join'thelr respective corps.
On the departure of Bonapartc from
Warsaw, Baron Vincent announced to Tall
leyrand his intention to return to Vienna.
and was with difficulty induced to prolone
his stay In Poland for another forth gilt
The Baron's mission, independent of the
restoration OF Brannau, had for its object
to demand from Bonaparte an explanation
as to his intentions in regard to Poland, and
a revocation of the promises as held out to
the inhabitants of that country by Dom
ibrousky. Bonaparte has evaded, the dis
cusslon OF these points; and in one of his
interviews with Baron Vincent, ne warm
ly expressed impotence and offence atthe
Baron's importantly on the subject.
The Russians continue TO advance in
Turkey almost without opposition. tap
pears by letters from Panscoya of the 2Sth
OF January, that the advanced corps of the
Russian army had already penetrated into
Albania, and that the Mountaineers of Ras-
ella, Podrinn, &c. had joined him in i'm.
mense numbers. The islands of Curznolo,
Brassa and LISA, have fallen into the hands
OF the lmperialists, and Lessina, has been
invested. Bulgaria, Servia and Albania,
as we'll as Moldavia and Wallachia, are
now in the virtual occupation of the Russi-
ans. The Turks are not capable Of oppos.
ing any serious obstacles to the PROGRESS
OF the Russians ); their army is an undjsci.
plined insurgent mob, more dangerous TO
the generals appointed to conduct it, than
| to the enemy to whom it isto be confronted.
Gen. kellerman is arrived at HAMBURG.
where, 1t is said, he is to command.
Gen. Benningsen, who so ably command
ed the Russian armies in Prussia and Po-
land, was formerly in the British service.
April IL.
The ship George, captain TAYLOR, arri-
we'd at this port last evening in the remark
ably short passage of IS days from Green
ock, aad has put the editor of the Mercan-
tile Advertiser in possession of London ma
pers nine days later than had been recei.
we'd by the Liberty, and Greenock papers
to the Goth March.
! The late hour at which they came in
to our hands, and the pre-occupancy of our
paper by other articles, have compelled
us to confne our extracts almost exclusive
ly TO the bulletins of the French grand ar
1 4 & Il.