Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1807-03-20

commanders of his majeSty's ships of war
and privateers shall be, and are hereby in
structed to warn every neutral vessel COM
ing from such port, and destined to ano-
Their such port, to discontinue her VOYAGE
and not to proceed to any such port and
any vessel after being so warned, or any
vessel coming from such port after a rea-
| sonablc time shall have been afforded for
! receiving Information of his maiesty's or
der, which shall be found proceeding to a.
mother such port, shall be captured and
brought in, and together with her cargo
shall be condemned, as Lawful prize And
his maiesty's principal secretary of state,
the lords commissioners of the admiralty,
and the high court ofadmralty and courts
OF vice admiralty, are to take the necessa-
ry measures herein as to them shall res
pectively appertain.
w. FAWKENER.
| January %.
| We are happy to have it in our power
to lay before our readers some most inn
portant and gratifying intelligence from
the continent. A gentleman arrived this
morning at the Foreign Office, from Po-
land he has brought letters for lord Ho-
wick from Mr.. Adair at Vienna and was
also able, from his own observation, to
communicate very important information.
The substance Of the intelligence which
he brings is, that the French army is in
most dcplorable condition the number
OF men carried off by the disease is esti-
| mated at not less than 40 600 1t does not
| appear that any decisive battle has been
fought, although there has been great
many skirmiSies, which has terminated
with various success but generally i'm fa-
vor of the Russians.
HOUSE OF COMMONS, Jan. Il.
| american Trade
General Gascoigne seeing the noble lord
| opposite (1pwick( in his pace, wished to
| put question to him on a subject of much
! Importance to the commercial world, and
involving in great extent the interests of
hrs constituents. A letter had been pub
ilshed lately, written by noble lord to a
| principal American merchant (Mr. San
SONY which letter required Some further
| explanation to remove an uncertainty that
had been created by it, as to the safety, of
resuming the expectation to America.
! which had been prohibited by the nop-im
portation act of that country. He wished
to know from the noble lord, whether that
| act has undergone any alteration 1t had
not come within the range of his Informal
ton that congress had been assembled so
as to make any legislative alteration with
respect TO the act and he was not aware
may have power to modify or suspend the
execution oft. In this uncertainty he adj
dressed himself to the noble lord for such
information as may make it generally
known III the trade could be resumed with
safety (; or II 1t was still attended with all
its recent hazard of confiscation, in order
that, II there was no risque, the benefit of
the trade should be enjoyed universally
and II there was no risque, that 10 indivi-
dual should want warning to avoid It. He
hoped that the treaty recently signed, into
the provisions of which be did mean toprv
would he the means of ESTABLISHING lasting
concord and amity between the two coun
tries.
Lord Howick was DESTROYS to give al,
possible publicity to every thing which it
was of importance to the commercial
world to make generally known He did
not know to what extent the honorab le
grntleman's idea of proper publicity NAV
go but the house must be aware, that II
was impossible to give the particular and
lcircumstantal informal on which the homo
rable gentleman desired in this case. The
communication made by him to the chair
man of the committee of American mer-
chants, was communication of the mere
tact OF the signing of the treaty Undoubt
eddy, if the treaty should be ratified, as
be, the non-importation act would be re-
pealed of course, and all proceedings under
it would be reversed. This was ali the in
formation he could give. He took this on
portunity of answering a question put bv
the learned gentleman (Mr PuTcivai) ON
former night which had escaped attention
in speech he had then made
The learned gentleman wished to know
whether there was in this treaty anv re-
serve to his majesty Of the right to cxer-
else n coDtroul, and to enforce restrictions
( corresponding to those which the imposition
ofwhich the enemy presumed 10 menace the
trade of his majesty's subjects with neutral
Eations. lie had now to state, that there
certainly was in this count5y a full reserv-
alton to his majesty Of the right to eyer
else restrictions equivalent to those which
neutral nations may submit to allow the O.
nemy to exercise by their means against
the commerce of his majesty's subjects.
LOWER ELBE, Jan. 1.
The report Of the French sustaining,
severe defeat from the Russians continues
to maintain itself The engagement took
place between the Vistula and Bug, and the
loss of the French is stated at near SO.oOo
men in xii ed and prisoners However this
may be, there can be no doubt that the
affairs Of the French in Poland are in a
very bad way nor is it supposed by any