Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1812-05-07
NEw-YoRK, May
--LATEST FROM EUROPE.


The fast sailing ship Hibernia, capt. Ora
ham, arrived at this port yesterday after
noon. in % days from Belfast She left there
on the 9TH of April, and brings London dates
to the 31st OF March; from which the fol-
lowing articles are copied Mere. .fdu.
LONDON, March so.
We have to announce the flowing Mini
sterial arrangements, which, we hear, were
finally settled this morning. Courier
Lord Sidmouth is to be President of the
Council, in the room of Earl Cambden. The
Earl of Buckinghamshire, President of the
Board of Controul, in the room of Lord Mel
vile. And Mr.. Vansittart TO be one of the
Lords of the Treasury
1t is stated, that when the blue ribband
was offered to the Earl Mora, that most
pressing message was sent to the Noble
Earl by the Prince Regent, not to ragard the
blue ribband as political honor, but as a
distinction of royal favor only; that it was
originally designed as a badge of honour
for the Sovereign's friends, quite distinct
from his Ministerial government; that it
was designed for the splendor of the Court,
not for the strength of the administration
and he earnestly expressed his wishes that
the Earl of Mora would wear it as his
friend, maintaining his distrust of Ministers
may, giving more than his usual regularity
OF attendance in Parliament to vote against
them, in order to demonstrate the motive
wits which he had accepted the distinction.
He desired also to assure him, that in his
OWE mind he had settled to confer on him
the FIRST that should fall; that if none had
become vacant, and he had succeeded TO the
crown, 1T was his intention to have covered
him with thai ribband which he had himself
xtrnV hat q k.,k L.. 4 y.
his Majesty had happily recovered, it was
his intention to have laid it at his Maiesty's
feet, but to have beseeched his Majesty to
bestow it on his friend, the Earl of NORA
totally unintiuenced by all political conside-
rations.
The Earl of MORA, with the most lively
sense of the Princes most gracious intenten-
tons, submitted to his Royal Highness that
it would be a most unseemly and a most un-
constitutional spectacle, to see his Court COM
posed OF persons wearing the highest insignia
of his favors, and at the same time opposing
the Ministers of his choice and feeling that,
in his conscience, he could not give his sup
port to those Ministers, nor 20 the system
upon which they acted, without being an ac-
ccssary to the ruin of his country, and an e.
nemy TO the Prince himself, he must decline
a distinction hat would embitter every fu-
ture moment Of his life.
The remains of the late Mr.. Horne Tooke,
we're yesterday taken to Church, borne by
six poor men, who received guinea each,
and from thence were conveyed to his gar
den for intermeDt. Sir Francis Burdett, Mr..
Bosyille. and Major Cartwright, attended
the funeral.--Mr Toolse had an annuity of
1901 and his two daughters are to have an
annuity Of 5O0l.
WINDSOR, March %.
Yesterday being the last day of the IN onth,
the Queens Council attended here to re-
ceive the report of his Majesty health from
the Physicians. There were present the
Archbishops of Canterbury, and York, the
Duke of Montrose, and the Earls Of Ayles-
ford and Winchelsea. It was stated, that
the King had been less agi.ated since the last
meeting Of her Majesty's Council, though in