Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1812-06-11

INVASION that 1t IS now susta. ing.
have commenced writing since the arrival
of the mail. It is i0st cloStna I beg YOU to
| accept my best respects and behve me most SIN
ccrely your friend. 80 ~
SAMUEL GooDE HOPKINS.
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CORRESPONDENTS:
{ Laid before Congress on Monday 1Ss June
lCoNcIspDED.
Extract efa letter from Mr.. Russell TO the
Secrutary Of State, dated
LONDON, January IA, 1872.
have the honor to aCknow ledge the
receipt of your two letters of the 9th of No
| vember last.
g 1t would have afforded me the highest
| satisfaction to have been able to commune
cate to you, by the return of the Hornet, the
| revocation of the orders in council: hitner-
to, however, there has been exhibited here
no disposition to repeal them"
Cohy ef a letter. from Nh Russell to Mc
Secretary Of STATE, dated
LONDON, January ID, 1912.
SIR lament that 1t is not in my power
to announce to you, by the return of MIR.
Iayloe, the adoption of a system here co.
wards the United States more Just and rea-
sonable than that of which we nov com
plain. No intimation has been given to me
dcrs in council l have not hitherto made
any representation in regard to these orders
and If they are to be persisted in, as Mr.
| Foster declares, not only until the Berlin
| and Milan DEGREES be entirely abrogated,
but until we compel the French government
| to admit us in France with the manufac.
lures and produce of Great Britain and her
| colonies, it must be useless 10 say anv thing
| upon the subject. The revolving extrava-
| gance of these pretensions is too manifest to
f, be subject of argument, and the very at
tempt to reason them down would admit
that they are not too absurd for REPUTATION.
I Should MIR. Barlow furnish me with any
| new evidence OF the discontinuance of the
French edicts, so far as they were in dero-
| cation of our rights, j shall present it to this
government, and once more (however unne
| cessary IL may appear) afford it an oppor-
| tunty of revoking its orders, which can no
| longer be pretended to rest on our acquies
cence in DEGREES of its enemy, from the I'M
righteous operation of which we are speci-
ally exempted.
have, &c.
(Signed) IONA. RUSSELL.
AR. RUSSELL 10 Mr.. MoNRoE.
LONDON, January %, 1912.
| SIR-Yesterday i understood the case of
! the Female, one of the vessels captured UNI
| der the orders in council, came TO trial be-
| fore Sir William Scott. He rejected mo-
| tion for time to produce evidence OF the re-
vocation of the Berlin and Milan DEGREES in
| rek1tion TO the United States, and suggested
! that there would DC a question of law, if
such revocation, when shewn, would be con-
| sidered by the British government as suffi-
Gent 20 require the repeal OF the orders in
! council. At any rate, that he was bound to
| consider these orders to be in force until
their repeal should be notified to him by
this government. The Female was con-
] demned.
| / nave the honor, &c. &c.
| (Signed) IONA. RUSSELL.
| Hon. James Monroe, sc.
Extract efa letter from A1r. Russell to the
| Secretary Of State, dated
| LONDON, January 25, 1912.
| ''Since had the honor to address you on
the I4th instant, by the Hornet, have re-
! ceived no communication either from Wash
! ngton or Paris.
| " The Hornet did not leave Cowes until
| the 18th, owing, presume, to the indisposi-
| ton of the captain, whom / understand to
! have been very ill. l dismissed Mr.. Tayloe
here ON the 18th"
Ertract ofa letter from Mr.. Russell 10
Mr.. Monroe, dated
LONDON, February 8, 1912.
"Since / had the honor to address you, on
the 25th ultinio, have received your com
munications of the Goth December, through
the good offices of Mr.. Foster.
While lament the necessity, as most
sincerely do, of the course indicated by the
proceedings Of Congress; yet tits gratifying
to learn that it will be pIrsued with vigoT
and unanimity. l am persuaded that thi,
| government has presumed much ON our
weakness and divisions, and that it Continue:
TO believe that we have not energy and unior
! enough to make efficient war.
g have this moment learnt that the
Hornet has returned from Cherbourg I,
Cowes, and understand BY a letter iron
the consul there, that there is a Mr. Porter
ON board with dispatches from Mr.. Barlow
for this legation; but he has not yet made HI
appearance here. am Obliged to close thi
letter without waiting TOR HIM, as I under
sand the next post may not arrive at Lii
verpOol in season for the Orbit"
| Z. ofiy Of letter from M-. RusseHfo IN,
Secretary If State, dated
LONDON, 9th February, 1912.
SIR--lh nave the honor 20 ,ransmI. q 80
enclosed . copy oi letter, datsd 18th VT