Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1808-03-08


aud can confidently say there is no, the least
foundation for this rumor Intelligence
I from New orleans is received down To the
! first week in February, when every thing
in that quarter was tranquil.
| (Ndt. Ltei
CASE OF JoRs SMf4H-r sday, March
Lathe day appointed for hearing his de-
fence on the resolution of expulsion. Mr.
Smith did not himself appear. His counsel
applied for further time, and stated that
Mr.. Smith was DESTROYS of obtaining testi-
mony from the Mississippi & Orleansterri-
tories, &c. The Senate took no other order
on this application than the reference to
a select committee of various dispositions
addressed to their Secretary.
/ 1t is reported that General D'Alvirhar,
of the French Army, has lately arrived in
this country, vested with "A very important
mission from his government to congress.
That officer, endowed with great talents,
and well known throughout Europe by his
, voyages through Greece, Egypt, and the
Levant, was brought up with the EDpSror
Napoleon, at the royal military school Du-
ring the last campaign of st. Domingo he
was It's adiutant general to Gen. lie Clerc,
and has often been employed in the Spanish
Colonies of the continent, sometimes vested
with the most difficult missions in which he
has never failed TO succeed--N. Y. hGfier.
GEN. D'ALIIMAR-Who is Gen. DIAL
vimar? or what is D'Alvimar to us ! Ii ne
conducts himself properly and as he knows
how, no doubt, being traveller, we hope
he will be treated by our countrymen with
that attention which is due to the gentleman
and distinguished foreigner. The federal
prints make as much of his being here, as
if he had brought the Legion of Honor with
hi!u !--Pu6lic .id0.
The following fact, we presume, viii dis
sipate the approximations entertained res
pecting the projects Of Bonaparte on Louisi-
ana, to be cxecu,ed through the agency of
"Madame MORGAN arrived at Bordeaux,
in the ship Eliza, from New York. She
was Immediately arrested by the Police and
confined to her hotel under Il guard, without
being permitted to write to or speak with
any OF Ter friends
Peu6ei, one ofthe ex-directors of the late
French government, died at Colmar, on the
Upper Rhine, on the 23d of Nov last.
POPULATION OF KENTUCKY.
According TO the commissioners returns
for the last year, Kentucky contains forty
nine thousand two hundred and twelve Stree
male inhabitants above the age oftwenty one
years"
Should the resolutions and bills before con-
gress become laws, the organized force OF
the u. States, Will consist of $4,000 men.
Wig.
An act to provide for the defence of the
Northern and Western frontiers of the state
/ of n. York, was passed by the Legislature
of that state on the 3th inst.-It authoriSes
the governor to cause TO be deposited at such
plecesin the country of GeneSee, as he shall
think fit, 500 stands of arms-at Canandai-
qua 1000 stands, at Onondaga 500, at Cham
pion, Jefferson county 500--at Rome 700
and at such places in The counties OF Essex
and Clinton as the governor shall think lit,
5O0stands and that the governor also cause
To be transported to the above places, such
quantities of ammunition and military stores
as in his opinion VIII be requisite in case OF
invasion The light pieces of field artille-
| ny aud equipments likewise to be distrIbu-
ted among the companies of artillery not al
ready provided, giving preference to those
nearest the frontiers.
From the Baltimore american.
| in the year 1850, declaration was pub
! lished 10y the empress o. Russia, addressed
to tue court OF London, Versailles and Ma
dtid. In this it was observed, "that her
| Imperial majesty had given such convincing
proofs Of the tlict regard she had for the
rights of neutrality, and the liberty of COM
merce IN general, that it might have been
| hoped her imperial conduct would have en-
titled her subjects TO the enjoyment of the
advantages belonging to neutral nations
! Experience had, however, proved the con
! trary: her subj akes had been moiested in
their navigation by the ships and privateers
! of the bellgerent powers" Her majesty,
/ therefore, declared, " that she found it ne.
| cessary to remove these vcXatons which
/ had been offered to the commerce OF Rus
! STA but before she came to any Serious
measures, she thought it just and equitable
to expose to the world, and particularly to
the belligcrent powers, the principles she
had adopted for her conduct, which were
as follow
"That neutral ships should enjoy free
navigation, even from port TO port, and ON
the coasts of the belligerent powers that
all effects belonging to the belIigerent pow
ers should be looked upon as Tree on board
such neutral ships, with an exception OF
places actually blockaded or bes eyed, and
/ with proviso that they do not carry TO the
/ encrnv warliEe stores and ammunition" and