Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1808-05-31
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iuC sup biyaucS DdTkeTy arrived al
this port yesterday in % days from Liver.
pool. She left there on the 2ist OF April,
but brings London news TO The I4ih only,
which is seven days later Than our former
advices from England. The subjoined ar
ticles ave copied from a file OF papers 10
that date, and from Liverpool papers TO
the 18th, received at the office of the MER-
CAMILLE ADVERTISER.
We learn verbally from Captain Barker
THAI the ship Usage had not arrived IN En-
gland on the 18Th Of April. 1t was The
opinion of the people in Liverpool (bul we
are ignorant of any circumstances which
could give rise to such an opinion) that she
was detained in France under seizure.
II Vas believed that the British orders
In council OF November ilth, would spec
Oily be rescinded.
American produce was in great demand,
and daily on The rise, particularly cotton.
We observe it stated in one of the Lon.
den prints as from unQneslioDabie autho.
rity, that within the distri6l of one of the
Gioth-hals al Leeds in Yorkshire, de-
crease of 90 500 pieces of broadclo,h has
taken place in The woollen manufacture
ding The st of April.
LoNDoN,April Z.
The last accounts from Gibraltar repre-
sented Sir Sidney Smith taking in supplies
al that place, preparatory To his sailing for
the Brazls. The Levant, however, and not
the Braz Is, we now End is his destination
- Dispatches were sen! off last night from
| the Admiralty, addressed 10 him off the
DardaDelIes.
April IL
The Emperor Alexander, according 70
letters from Ciyi.a V ecchla, is on the eve
of furnishing fresh proof OF ms devotion
to France, and his departure from those
generous principles which we're not long
since considered inherent in mis- character.
To assist Bonaparle To- expel its unlortu-
nate king from Sicily, and put king Joseph
in possession of the Island, now appears
service not too low for the Au, Graf of ali
the Russians to undertake. The article
from which We deduce this inference is
conceived in the coarse and vulgar style
ofth old Jacobin School. The king of
Sicily IS passed as cypher, all the blame
- tiV"n uPOh tue YuecDs
The Princess Elizabeth packet, captain
Kidd, arrived al Falmouth on Thursday
evening, with mails from Malta, Messins
and Gibraltar She left Messlna on the
first of March, and Malta on The fifth,
! at which times no information bad been
received. at either of those places, of ANY
acton in the Mediteraneau.--Adm
Thornborough, Collingwood & Sirachsn,
had joined and were left at Palermo, The
packet arrived at Gibral ar on the l7ih,
aod found there the 1liustrious, - (refit.
tng,) and Antelope, so, with the trans.
ports which lately sailed from Falmouth,
with troops, under general Spencer, toge-
Their with several merchantmen. The
Townshend packet, from Falmouth, also
arrived at Gibraltar on the l7th, and pro.
ceeded on for Malta. On the 18th, the
! Mercury, OF %, and Primrose Of IS guns,
arrived with convoy from England. On
the goth, the Antelope sailed with q feet
ct transports, having troops on board for
$ cily.-Cap,ain K dd left Gibraltar on the
27ih, AID on the same day Joined the heel
updef Admiral Puryis, of Cadiz, CONSIST
ing OF sail or The line, one figate, and
a brig, all well. The enemy's squadron
81 Cad'z, amounted TO 10 sail Of the line,
aid thee frigstes. On the 3lst ullimo,
captain Kidd fell in with Vice Admiral
Sir Charles Cotton's squadron, off Lisbon
10 sail ofthe line and three slcops Of war
Neither at Gibraltar, nor in the fleets Of
Sadlz or Lisbon, bad any intelligence what,