Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1808-05-13

zen. Moneys division, 1898 init.
3,3SOCav.
Total Il, 289 inf.
10, 1O4 Cav.
The division of Marshal Money!
Will amount to $4,000 men, including
the reserve under the command Of
General Mouton, at ST. Juan Pie de
Puerto.
st. Obes, which was garrisoned by
5000 Spanish troops, has been occupi-
ed by French Corps and the Span
iards ordered into the interior of Eis-
tremadura.
Bonaparte has lately fitted up hi,
library in the English taste, and ra-
Their plain than otherwise ; it is decor
ated with marble busts of celebrated
characters, amongst which arc those of
Mr. Fox and Lord Nelson.
i he revenue of France at present
amount to between so and 40 m Millions
sterling, and the subjects paw, in the
aggregate, about SO per cent. The
taxes are chiefly levied on windows,
individuals, door-ways, sign-boards.
furniture, and working patents, with
out which no one is permitted to man.
nfacture IN any way; the Custom
house duties, which used to contribute
greatly to the national supplies, are
now greatly deficient of their accus-
toned produce. Theannual consump-
ton of food In Paris is stated at ESQ,
$4,000 francs, or about Io,776,oooL
and one-sixth part of the population
OF that capital are classed as paupcrs.
BonaParte has adopted a very extern
sive plan for the Improvement of Par
is :---amongst other subjects, AL the
streets between the Carousel and the
Louvre are to be pulled down, and
another gallery corresponding with
the gallery of the Louvre, to be built
with AN open arcade, leaving In the
front of the Thuilleries parade sufIi.
| GENTLY large to exercise an army of
100, GOO men. Another new BRIDGE
is building over the Seine, from the
middle of the champ de ETars, and
several new fountains are erecting,
and the new national Monument in
the cemetry ofthe Magdalens, and the
trlumPhal arch in the garden of the
Thuilleries, commemorative of the
victories of Napoleon, are prossecu.
ting with activity. The other nation
al works going forward are column
$50 feet high, in the Place Vendome,
to the French arms, with an ayel.ue
to the Boulevards a martial temple
on the Boulevaris St Honore, TO con-
tain the statues of the different Gen.
erals who have distinguished them
selves; on plates of gold, the names
of all the officers and men who fell in
battle are to be displayed: and on
| plates Of silver, the names of all the
officers and men who fell in battle are
to be displayed; and on plates OF sill
yer, the names of those who survived
those conflicts a temple to victory at
the barriere of the Camps Elysees, oil
immense magnitude, a new facade to
the Legislative palace in the pantheon
OF 81. Geneyieve the quay of Desaix
which is to be faced with a piazza
and the column of Rostock.
The captain of the French privateel
schooner La Conhance informs us that
Guadalupe is blockaded by British
squadron, and has about six month,
provisions. Point Pctre has a garri
son Of about 1000 men, and has beer
put into a complete state of defence.
The Conhance carries six pound
ers, one IS and AZ men and is the
same Privateer that captured the Bri
fish packet Duke of Montrose.
Captain Barry, who arrived at this pori
on Sunday from Madeira, which island he
left on the 9th of March, informs US he
read IN the French papers at Madeira
that the Emperor Napoleon had created
TALLEYRAED King Of Portugal.