Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1812-05-07
FOR EIGN.
New YORK, April 80.
CONTINUATION OF FOREIGN NEWS
Reeeived at Boston by the shin Milo, Cam
Clover, % days from Du6iu.

Rccefvcd at Boston by the shin Milo, Cant.
Clover, % days from Du6hu.
DUBLIN, March 80.
We have still no news from Portugal, tho
mail has arrived from Lisbon. 1t is said
in letter from Plymouth, that the French
indicate design of attacking Tariffa once
more. Such, we arc told, was the opinion
at Gibraltar, when the Entrepenant touched
at this fortress. This we should not by any
means think unlikely.
Regarding the news of the North, we have
nothing more recent than what the reader
collected from Napoleon's State documents.
There is one circumstance, however, which
we deem it worthy to notice. Ii is said that
at Napoleon's Levee, which is described as
highly magnificent, the Ambassadors from
all nations were present, except the Russian
Plenipotentary. A strong fact, and worthy
serious reflection.
Letters from Paris of the 18th, mention
that Bonaparte still remained in the capital
but his departure was shortly expected.
LORD Melville is officially announced First
Lord of the Admiralty.
The hottest press that has taken place for
some years in Dublin was on the river on
Thursday night; and number of fine able
bodied seamen were procured for the SER
vice.
1t is again said Bonaparte has LETT Paris !;
appointing a Regency, and sending the EN-
press and his son to Vienna
BY the dispatches Of Ballasteros, it ap-
pears he has repulscd at Pradol de Rev, a
division of the enemy
Some additional letters have been receiv-
ed from Corunna. to the date of the 18th in
slant; from these we learn that a considera-
BILE quantity of arms have been delivered to
the Chieftains of the fortress in Gallicia and
its neighborhood, and that the activity of the
English, in this important particular, had
given great satisfaction to the provincial go
vernment
Shipwrecks along the coast of England,
have been unusually numerous during the
late storm.
A rumor was circulated in London, on the
29th March, that Cadiz had been Captured
by the French. The news is said to have
come from Paris, but no traces of probabili-
ty or sources through which it was received
could be found.
Colonel Horsford, of the 18th Regt is ap-
pointed Brigadier-G General, and to the COM
mand of the troops in Bermuda.
The Prince Regent of Portugal has given
the Grand Order of the Cross to Gems Hill,
Graham and Spencer.
A convoy is appointed to sail from Leith
Roads for Wingo Sound at the end of this
month, (April)
LONDON, March 16.
A scarcity of grain, particularly in the
southern provinces of France, is announced
IA recent letters from the opposite coast
mat such is the fact, there seems no ration
al cause OF doubt, and it is probable that the
war in the peninsula is Justly ascribed as the
m 40 of
OF the French ports to the importation Of
corn has already raised the price of that ar
ticle in Holland considerably, and the effect
will, perhaps, be felt throughout Europe.
by vessel which arrived on Saturday in
the river from France, under one of the new
forms OF licences, letters have been received,
which Confirm the previous rlmor of the
prevalence of an extreme scarcity of wheat
and other kinds of grain in the southern de-
partment. The dearth is ascribed to the
partial failure of the last harvest, and the
continual drain of their supplies for the use
of the army in Spain. Orders are said to
have reached Holland from that quarter
within the last few days, for purchases of
corn and other articles, to such an extent as
to have occasioned rise in the prices of As
per cent. One letter adds, that the French
government has suspended, for time, the
duty upon the importation of corn from To-
reign countries.
The discount on bank notes, inaIreland, is
now about three shillings and ninepence half.
penny per guinea: the exchange on London
has lately risen from seven and three quar-
tiers to eight and a quarter, and eight and
haifpe cent.
Extract Of a letter from Dublin, dated
March IL.
ATTEMPTS have been industriously made
to persuade the people that the necessaries
OF life will experience an immediate and
large increase of price, on account of the
great expectation of grain and potatoes
These attempts have had some effect at
Leixlip, Maynooth, Edenderry, and along
the line of the Royal and Grand Canals.
The yeomanry there are under arms. /
hear that the rioters haze carded to death
one of those who was buying up provisions
for expectation. They have cut the canal
in two places with view TO intercept pro-
visions from the capitol"
On Thursday night an American shin
from Dieppe landed seven Englishmen at
the back of the Isle of Wight, who had es-
capped out of prison, in France, and an Anne
rican messenger, with dispatches from Mr..
Barlow at Paris, for Mr. Russell, the Anne
rican charge d'affairs in London. The ship
brought Paris papers, but none of later
date than the 1st inst
Jerome Bonaparte, the king Of Westpha-
LA, It's rumored, is to have a command.
The Alexandra frigate which arrived in
beith Roads on Monday se'nnight, is under
orders to be ready at an hours notice. TO
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