Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1813-05-27

! ,Si,b *Hn'y uesrous OF peace
~ oYDoS, April 3.
| OVERTURES FOR PEACE.
1T appears, from some conversai1n thar
'ooh place IN both Hou4es of parliament last
h'sht' 'hat some overtures for peace love
recently been made from F ance, in answer
10 "nich 1t was mtimated, on the part of
our government, that the Prince Recent
was ready to treat on the basis tn which r.
was already known thar this country adber.
ed. The principal point in this basis. is the
evacuation OF the Peninsula by tie French
certainly no person can now think of max
ing peace without that condition, whatever
me- we believe not many, may have tho'e
on tina, point before The recept procIarnn.
ton of Louis XVIII was alluded to. The
| British GovernW ent disc aims beng q partv
to that proclamatio6& Whatever our wishes
may be, it is not bs supposed that we
could beso mad asatot make the claims and
the hopes of the Notwithstanding most ten.
aerV Tor that unfortunate and iIastrious
race--a bar to the restoration of oeaoe.
- .7HsITRa Authorization Baron Wcssem-
Der, tie Austrian Ambs ssa dor to this conn.
try, arrived IN town 90 q rly as Menday last.
attended by Count Palfcy and Baron Bal
neid, having landed a. Alcb0rough. Il is
expected that he viii deliver his credentials
to the Prince Regent at the Levee tO-mur,
rows Inc nature of lis mission is not yet
officially known but it Is not doubted that he
is to CONE offer tho me diation OF his lna,tec.
tor general peace IL is stated on the faith
nt private advlces from the continent, thar
bonaparte has prcffereti to Austria, the re-,
storation OF her maritime possessions OF the
Adriatic, aud even the Venetian States, as
band to bind his father IN law to steady
n HEfe atk.s- al 4
april S.
FREE TRADE TO THE CONTINENT.
On Saturday some of the Merchants iarrs.
ly Interested in the Baltic trade waired ON
the Russian Ambassador, and wers by nIm
Informed, that all for2ign ships. French ex-
cePted, would be ind sc Intimately omitted
into the harbors Of those seas which were
III the possession oftne Russian troops.
Expedition 10 The North of Ge,many.---An
expedition % the north OF Germany is, we are
assured, positively determined on. The Duke
Of Cumberland, it is said, will have the COM
maud His Royal Highnsss willb sccomp.ni,
cd by Baron St Gu ntIn, of the 10Th Huzzars &
by COL Hlklett, o. the German legion. All tbs
accounts from Hamburger. Bremen, &c concur
m stating, that there IS universal and ard Mt
impulse the German people 10 take Vengeance
Tor the long and cruel oppression of the Freneh
- -
oi the reduction OF 4ionaparte'S power within
reasonable b.unds.
Yesterday The following bulletin YVES shown
at St. James, p~lsce,
"Wagdsor Casfle, AtrRa
3" His Majesty has bafn almost unilornl u1-
der :ligh degree DISAGREEMENT ce he last
Monthly Report
Signed by tie FIVE PhySicians.l
Swedish AkliaHee-I. has b. eo lumared - "
~ these last TWO days, u high political c T,
cleo, that Sweden ~ now 80 he Won To oOr views
by the cessIon OF tue irapor ant ,ncb sugar Of
GuAdaepe This -ePor IS g-ncr. IL be lev i
Rfil French papers ave neen recei Il
toahe lst instant fhay fIrR'sh no, mlitary
Intelligence OF importance, but their contenLs
AZ rOt altogether dest luts OF ntarCss-Thors
is no part, perhaps o. " hat they do Gun am,
mole interesting than The to,si omiss on q all
mention o Prussia. This Is som p OOf Of the
importance attached by Bunapar c 70 the dcloe.
ton OF that power.
The French papers contain tie address
Of the Legislative Body TO Ronapsrte, < his
reply. The latteris an intei as ing d Sument,
History, says he. ''whicn Judges Oh ma,
tions as il Judges of men will remark VITA
what calmness, what simplicit 1, andpromps-.
itude, great losses have been repaited; one
may judge Of what efforts tie French OLD
be capable it the question wss to de,eaa
their Territory, or the indo9en -ense e my
crown.
But the passage which most psr'icui IL
engages our attention is that which e .ops
to report we mentioned some tins ago,
that there was an intention e asss'i' Swe-
den ia obtaining Norway from DslmIrk.-,
On the subject Bonaparte says-car DEPART
ments of the Elbe aud the Weser, In cOn,-
pensation for Norway. In consequence OF
.his project, they have formed plots in those
countries, Denmark rejected those insidious
proposals, the intent Of which was to de-
prive her of her p ov.nces, and draw her,
IN exchange, into au eternal war with us.
| will quickly place myself at the head Of
my oops. and confound the fallAcous pyor
misses Of our enemies. In negotiation the IN
ttgrity of the empire neither has nor shall be
called in ques,icn."
The Moniteur has made some notes on
passages in an English paper in the usual
| style Upon the subje OF suppo,ed IN
ldemnity profcrCd to Denmark, al the mouth