Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1811-07-29
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We have been politely furnished with q file
HI the bordeaux IndicGtuer from the frs,
OF May to the fourteenth ofJune inclusive.
from which we make the following hnetv
sumnary---1ctaiso fwhatevermay 9ppc;,r
OF consequence will be given hereafter.
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The young King Of Rome was baptized in
tue beginning of Jane ut Paris, with all that
pomp and splcndor attendant on royalty ar
the expense OF the national industry. The
paper OF the I4th June occupies more than
three columns of detail of this tinsclied pa
gcantiy. The diet of Saxony terminated It's
sitiings On the 18th May, after a session of
IS weeks, at which it was agreed upon that
ali the citizens of the Kingdom of whatsoe-
yer profession, should pay their proportion
CT the public expenses OF the state, according
to The property they possessed.--An official
statement OF All action between the French
national brig .f6eiNe and the British brig of
war HiacrEy, which took place in the canal
CT Cc:'te, island Of Corsica, en- the goth of
MAY, from the captain Of the Abellc to the
Minister OF the marine, under the Paris head
OF June g. The Abeillc mounted 90 carron-
AIDES "a Founders, and proportionate num-
Der of men; the Alacrity mounted twenty
81 pound carronade ID an equal number
of men with the Fl n, and had Is men
killed and 20 woun, the Abcille killed
and IL wounded. The ction lasted from a.
bout 20 minutes 70 half an hour, when the
Englishman struck. The Alacrity was I'M
der the command of capt. Palmer, and the
Aociile, OF Adm. Cemackau, whose official
dispatch is dated May %, before Bastia.-
NJ. Latour Mauburg, the French charge d 'af-
fares ut Constantinople took possession in
the name of King Joseph of Spain, in the
month of April last, of the country seat
which had been bought for summer resi-
dence by the chcvaler de Coral, late envoy
OF his Catholic majesty cf that court A.
gainst this the English charge d'afa;res has
caused to be stuck up throughout that CAP
ital, his protest; but the best informed peo-
pie only laughed at it, and M. Latour-Mau-
burg after having made the necessary re-
pairs, calculates upon establishing himself
IN 1t during the summer.-A proclamation
was issued at Stockholm in May last, by the
King OF Swedento the inhabitants of Cortland,
testitying his satisfaction at their zeal manfes-
ted in the formation of corps of volunteers
designed for the defence of that island, in
which there was exhibited no hardness es
cept by few of the burghers of WHISKY, the
other inhabitants flew to arms with a zeal
worthy of their ancient military rcnown.
They are 5000 strong under the command
OF Barren Cederstrom. The new French am
bassador, Lauriston, was presented at court
at st. Petersburg on the 18th of May, when
his predecessor the duke Of Wanna (Caulin-
COURT had taken his leave previous to his
departure. Severe storms are mentioned as
having taken place in different parts ofFrance
= during the last of May and beginning of June,
.AyhiGh did considerable damage A grand
SEpglHh feet of merchantmen for the Baltic,
urhleTSconvoy of 5 ships of the line, frigates,
Sletlers of marque, briggs and cutters 60
mg-through the Belt, passed the battery of
Spnltsebjerg the Goth of May, and on the next
morning another of so, under convoy of 8
ships ofthe line and other armed vessels APP
peared off Cullendburg.
On the 9th May, the minister of state put
seals on all the stores at Limburg, duchy OF
Nassau, in which were cloths and other stufTs
and in the afternoon of the same day con-
tinucd rigid search for goods of English ma
nufacture. At Leipsc, the royal commissa-
~ pursues the greatest rigidity in search for
goods Of English manufacture or colonial
growth, which have arrived there with false
. certificates Of origin; all Of which when dis
covered, are confscated.
Accounts from Berlin Of MAY 81, state that
,-ahe fc1tregs of Pillau, is terrifying with the
greatest activity. The fabrication of sugar
syrup and vinegar, from beets, is about 10 be
Introduced into Siesia. A French courier
from St. Petersburg passed through Frankfort
On the 31st May. Bonaparte issued decree
from Caen on the 25th May, fixing the prices
of the bulletins Of the avs to subscribers, &c
An article dated Salamanca, May 13, states
that marshal MaTmont, the duke of Ragusa
tool; the command in chief of the army in Por-
tugal, on the 18th Mays, 900 Spanish troops
arrived at Verona on the 18th May, and re-
main there i'll garrison.
July d.
FROM SOUTH AMERICA.