Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1807-02-24
CIk,MAU. TALLEYRAND.
LATEST FRoNI ENGLAND.
SIgTiC

The ship Kingston, captain Leslie, ar
rived at this port yesterday in short pas
sage from London, and captain l. has obli-
gcd the Editor of the Mercantile Adver-
tiser with regular file of London Papers
and Lloyd's Lists to the SOth of December.
Our intelligence from the European Com
tinent is not so late as we had previously
received; and these papers contain TO po-
litical information of consequence after the
following articles are extracted.
The king Of England was indisposed, and
Parliament was opened by Message On
the 22d OF December all the documents re-
lative to the Negotiations lately broken off
between Great Britain and France were
laid before the two Houses. They are Of
cXctreme length, and would occupy &c or
SO columns.
An order of Council had passed permit
ting commercial intercourse with the 90
vernment Of Hayti in every kind of traffic
excepting that of negroes.
We have received Amsterdam PAPERS To
the 25th OF December by the ship Month
cello, captain Kcarny.
No advice from the continent has been
received since our last. An English gen.
tlcman is arrived town, who lately travel
led through Poland. He reports ;hatat the
time he passed through Warsaw an army
Of 10000 men was co!ectedin the vicinity
of that city He was detained for twelve
hours and was sent to headquarters to be
examined. He states, that the Russian ar
my we're very indifferenty provided with
artillery, relative 60 which, however, they
expressed no concern, having determined
to rely entirely on the effect of the bayo-
net.
December %.
A Dublin Paper of the 22d, received
this morning, gives the following account of
those di5turbers fthe peace, called Thresh-
eTs.
"a large party Of Thrcshcrs, in the coun-
ty OF Longford, assembled, to go othe pea
SAINT, whom, by fair or foul means, they
make a proselytc to their cause an oath
is administered, that he will obey the COM
mands of captain Thresher; he is then, as
IL to try his obedience, commanded to ioin
their party for the next three nights, which
are employed in initiating others and, as
they always take to enlist a sufficient num-
Der, they arc able to discharge their limit
ell Service Men, according to these agree
mcuts, when their rights Of probationary
outrage are fulfilled, without any diminuti-
of their numbers actually employed.
" They have invariably avoided every
house where resistance was to be expec-
ted. A gentleman who lives near Granard,
gave them notice thathe was prepared for
them, but they did not accept the challenge
A ncighbor Of his received a message, that
as his wife was pregnant, they would not
give him a call until after her accouch-
mcnt
"The few persons ola better description,
whom they have compelled TO take these
oaths, they have notordered to Join in their
nocturnal expeditions, perhaps from n dread
that they might see two much of their opc-
rations, and there are a few houses in the
country, that they could visit with safety,
that have escaped them. Whether it be
that extreme poverty will not afford them
all shirts, or from the love Of a change, they
now begin to dress themselves ont IN straw.
Monday se'nnight a Meeting of the
Magistrates ofthe county and city Of Lime