Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1809-10-31
Prince of Nevfcha,el has BEN nominated
Prince OF Wasrsm. Roya .dmsterdan,

Prince OF Wagram. Roya .daisterdan,
Gazette o. .4ugust so.
;. Aug. 22.-=I1er Majesty the Empress
Continues in private since her return from
the baths of Malmaison, and 1t is believed
that she will not make her appearance
before the arrival of the Emperor, WHO
according TO the last adv.ces from Vienna,
is not expected to be long delay d. In
fact, we learn that the House of austria,
after many tergversations aud much re-
pusnance, seems at length to acquiesce in
all the conditions on which the EMPEROR
Napo con consents to grant peace. The.
LAST obstacles tn peace being this removed
the Pieripotent' aries reciprocaliy appointed
to conclude the treaty, have repaired 70
/ Atenburgh, and not to Rsab, as was first
/ said, where they viii open their conferen-
ces. The Official Journal announces this
event IN the following terms So" NJ. dc
Champagsy, Min ster for Foreign Relati-
ons, has SET out from Vienna for Alien
bnrgn, IN Hungary, where he will arrive
en- the 18th in the evening". On the 18th,
the Segociatons for peace viii be opened.
The Emperor OF Austria has appointed
Connt Metternlch Count Nugent for his
Plenipotenriaries."
The General of Division Verdier, having
siege OF Corona, has addressed the follow
ing dispatches, dated St. Maslir, Aug. IL. to
, the Minister OF War; Count de Huneburg:
81 have the honor to ssndycur excslien.
cy reports of the operations of the siege of
Corona, from the 9Th inst. to tins day; from
which your Exceii'y m,y judge OF the patti
ence and vaior displayed oy the troops
which has Majesty was pleased to put under
my command:
The fortress Mont. Joui fell into our
hands at six this evening. This important
conquest OF position difficult to attack, &
against an obstinate enemy. whose blindness
is SO iamentable, gives US almost Complete
assurance, that eight or nine days more
win sufilce IN order to slbdhe the REMAIN.
ing part OF the town, as the outside is sur.
rounded only by weak wall, which NAV
be destroyed W Oh great facility Within a
snort time Corona shall be subrtued.
The fort Mont-Jouj, formerly one of
the strongest and best situated forts i'm Eu-
rope, is now nothing but heap Of runs:
and IT was not till alter we had been obi
ged to go to the covered way, taken by
storm the half-moon on the side on which
we made the attack, and made several brea.
cnes, that the enemy resolved to abandon
That side, and retire into the town, ON
which SIDE 1t was not in our power to cut
oil mis- retreat.
:" Your excellency will bear in mind that
TINS is the hrst time, within IS years in the
course OF the war, SO dangerous and labor
Gus an enterprise has been undertaken.
What rendered this more difficult was.
that We were obliged to rase our works Of
art; and that the entertainments were TO be
made m the presence of an emhittercd adj.
versary. Generals Samson and Tawel com
handed the engineers and artillery, and
conducted their operations with zeal, fore.
sight. and courage
" We have found in Mont Jou:i Ie pie
ces CT Cannon, which are for the greater
part uDservIce able, and some ammunition.
the remains eff their artillery had been
carried away after having been rendered
useless by cur fire."
LONDON, Sep: 1.
The Ministerial papers state, that the
SICK and wounded Of our army, which fell
into the hands OF the French, at Talavera.
did not exceed 1500.--Would tina, not one
had shared that fate We can howeyer
vouch upon undou5,ed authority. that the
amount OF the sick and wounded az TsIa
vera, On the day after the battle, was NOT !
less than 1000 and we have heard and |
fear, that OF these none but the slightly af. |
fected made their escape!
We are informed that no more licences
will be granted to import from, or EXPORT |
to, the coast of Holland and Fraace. Re
peated applications supported by urgent !
re noDstrances, have been made, 70 obtain
such licences, particularly for the impor,a-
ton of grain but we understand that they
have been, and will continue 10 be, at pre-
sent, wholly Intellectual.
Sept. 3--Yesterday we received, via Hell
igolandi the Hamburger Correspondentens to
the 24th nlt. and Paris Papers to the 18th.
he former state that a report prevailed
at We ma on the eth, that the armistice |
betwe, n Austria and France had been
prolonged tor % dsys--5ut there are, in i
The same Journals, accounts of three davs
later d tie from Vienna, and from O,mutz Il
TO the 18TH, which are wholly silent ON the
subject.
The circumstance Of the conquered
parts OF G1iIicia, having, been coupled in
me name OF Napoleon, and the substitution
d the French eagles for those of Austria
apPS4rs as we anticipated, to have given
'fslce to the Russians, who 10 those dis.
ris's occupied by their arms, maintain
he Austrian eagles, in opposition TO the /,
'rdsrs OF Bonaparte, as declared in the ,
'r CARNATIONS of the Polish Generals Pa !
ia;owsky and kamenski, and il is even !