Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1814-05-25
From TIE .Nali3naf Iafcllgencer.

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Having seen and presented to our read-
ers all the material intelligence from Eu.
rope, it may be worth while TO connect with
them some facts we have learnt from other
son'ces than the pNlshck prints, aud ss0te
our general Impress: % the pres'.hlsf clio
feet OH cur affairs ot those gi,.zntic struggles
which now convuse the European cont,
nent.
1t is said that the final rejection of the
Mediation in Russia by the British govern
ment was not made known to our ministers
at st. Petersburg before the middle Of Jana
uary last, and that Mr.. GALLATrN and
Mr.. BAYARD immediately afterwards took
their leave of the Imperial Court, and set
out on their return home, having previously
ordered the Neptune to some port East Of
the Baltic to receive them. In March they
were At Amsterdam, where MIR. Strong the
messenger. who sailed from Europe in the
FAIR American, met and delivered to them
the dispatches with which he had been char
ged by the department of State. commune
eating the overture of the British govern.
ment to treat at Gottenburg, it's accep.
lance, and the arrangement contemplated in
consequence, Mr.. Strong went on imme-
diately with dispatches to St. Petersburg to
Mr.. Adams communicating these events,
! instructing him to repair forthwith to the
appointed rendezvous, Mr.. Bayard intended
to leave Amsterdam for Gottenburg, in
time to meet Mr.. Adams there.
Mr.. Gallatin's disappointment being known
in London at this period the intelligence of
it would probably reach Holland before Mr..
Bayard left it, that it maybe fairly presum>
ed these gentlemen would proceed together
| to Gottenburg. Taking into view these cir
cumstances aud the time of the departure
| of MIR. Clay and Mr.. Russell from the Uni.
| ted States, on the Goth February or therea.
bouts, we conclude that they will meet, at
the appointed rendezvous, early in the pre-
| sent month.
| OF the measures adopted by the British
government to carry into effect the propo>
sed negotiation we are uniformed. 1t is
not known that commissioners have been
| appointed to meet those of the United States
! at Gottenburg, although, as the proposition
was made by the British government to
treat there, it might have been expected on
being officially informed that it was acceps
ted, that commissioners would have been
| appointed and sent to Gottenburg on the
part of Great Britain, to meet those of the
United States on their arrival, prepared to
enter without delay OF the negotiation enc
/ trusted to them.
On the long detention Of the American
Commissioners at ST. Petersburg, before the
positive rejection, by the BritiEh govern
ment, of the Russian Mediation, was made
known to them, we have to remark, that it
may be explained by the repugnance of the
British Ministry to reject decisively the
proilered Mediation of that ally, on whom
success against France principally depend~
ed /; and by the absence of the Emperor
from his metropolis, in the field against the
! Emperor of France, who had SO lately ia<
vaded and desolatcd many of his best pro-
vinces. In this delay we see nothing on the
part of of the Emperor of Russia. which ins
dicates change in the friendly policy which
| induced the offer of his mediation; while we
perceive in the late events in Europe, state
of things which afford him more ample means
to give effect to it. ~. Int.