Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1811-10-31
From Pahers sccoiyeG AT he Office, Of the
PubAck Ledger, by the ship NiaSai, Cap
tain Dapis, Jroa, Pi1Sfoi.
LoNpoN. September 2.

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LONDON, Septcmhcr2.
Figueiras, worthy of better fate. has fall
len again into the hands Of the enemy. The
horrors of famine effected what their arms
could not. The garrison had exhausted not
only their provisions. but had eaten up all
their horses and every animal in the place,
however loathsome. They then attempted
to cut their way for the failure OF their gallant
enterprise. Eight days before, all Abide
Camp OF the Governor had made his way
out OF the Garrison and communicated to the
enemy the dreadful state of the troops, and
the desperate effort which it was their inten-
ton to make. OF course the enemy were
prepared to receive them, and after SAN
culinary conflict against superior numbers,
they were driven back to the fortress. Some
effort seems, from the French account,
whence we collect these particulars, to have
been made by n Spanish detachment to fa-
vor the evacuation of the place, but it failed,
and the garrison surrendered at last upon
the condition that their lives should be spar
ed. MACDONALD, who commanded the
blockading army, states, that the traitors are
in chains, meaning those who had surrender
ed it to the lawful owners. Would We could
say that the original traitors, those who, by
| the basest treachery, first obtained possessi-
| on OF this and other Spanish foruesses, were
experiencing the same punishment! May
it be delayed only TO be the more signal
Martinez, the Governor of the fortress,
has been made to write letter to the unta
OF Catalonia, in which, after stating the ne
cessity which had obliged him to give up the
place, ne adds that the garrison has been
| treated by the French with the generosity
that characteristics that nation. Catalonia has
felt that generosity with vengeance.
The Moniteurs to the 29th ult. which we
received yesterday, contain no other intelli-
gence from Spain but that relative to Fieu-
eiras. The other Paris papers furnish us
with vapouring account of the feats of the
loulon fleet, i'll maneuvring in sight of ours.
| we wish they would try one other manoeu-
vre-the man9uvre of an action with us.
The Official Paper of the American 60
vernment has prepared the public mind for
expecting an unfayorable termination of Mr.
FOSTERS mission. But the President has
| flxed the meeting of Congress at n period
sufficiently distant to consult both the 90
vernments oil Great Britain and France du-
ring the interval. There Is no likelihood,
however, that our government will depart
>'-> Va '0'HhA l'AhiSil1iSS On NUlCn VII
FOSTER was sent out TO negotiate. The
blockade OF May, 1906, is no longer, even in
the confession of the American government,
an obstacle to the adjustment OF the differ
ences between us.-But the Orders in Conn
| Gil And what does Mr.. Foster require
Not that delusive pretended repeal of the
Berlin and Milin restrictions, which Bona
parte has directed: but real actual repeal.
He has required, say the American govern
ment, ga repeal of those DEGREES in far
greater extent than the United States have
required, or can require, as violating any of
their neutral rights" He certainly has, be-
cause 1t appears to us that the American CO.
yernment have thought repeal in words,
and not in fact, sufficient And it does hap
pen little singularly, that at the very time
they are declaring the French DEGREES to be
repealed, they furnish, in the very same ar
ticle in which they announce some of the
leading traits of Fosters Negotiation, the
strongest evidence against their own decal-
rations. We quote their words; "In gene
raj IL may be inferred, from the official and
other information, that the Berlin and Milan
DEGREES as they violate our neutral rights,
are not in operation, and that some reLarafi-
onS are taking place in the commercial inter-
course with France, though by no means, as
yet, IN the ertent desired" If the Berlin
ana Milan DEGREES be repealed, the inter-
course with France would be completely re-
established But here, though the Ame-
rican government affect to say they are re-
Pealed, we find no free unrestrained in
tercourse with France. Restrictions CONT
nue., and though there have of late been
some relaxations, yet they are by no means
to the extent desired Now, can we re-
quire no better evidence than this to shew
that the French DEGREES arc only repealed in
form and not in fact? But the American
government tell us that vessels arrived in
French ports posterior to the 1st day of No
vcmber, have been permitted to land the
cargoes, and take cargoes in return.-Be il
so-but has not this permission been clogged
with condition that they must take return
cargoes of such and such contents of French
produce. Is this real repeal of the restric.
tons and decrecs' We put the case as a
gainst u.s.
Suppose an order Of the British Council
had been passed last August for putting un-
der arrest all American vessels that should
arrive after the I'd of November last and
that by another order they were restored,
and permitted 70 Land their cargoes, proyi-
ded they would take the most unsaieable