Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1815-11-04


national debt, would amount TO 6,775,000i. and
that the income was 6,790,o00k. 1t was evident
| therefore the income beng superior, by 10000
10 the expenses, there not the least necessity
10 levy any new taxes. The national debts now
1000 millions its Interest alone exceeds IS mil.
hens, other expenses his year are above 90 mill
ols I. = 1.-THE wealth of England be rated by the
amount raised upon the people in taxes, she must
be most fiourlshing country
Sssam Boct.-Thls most convenient, useful
and elegant vessel continues 20 attract universal
attention, and we are satisfied will amply repay
the spirited proprietors. The number of passen-
geS continue to increase daily and the hours of
departure from, and arrival at Cove are partcu-
larry convenient for those persons who reside
there and at Passage, and during the summer
passengers can get their breakfast and every kind
OF reireshment on board in as elegant and com.
modious cabin as was ever seen.
IN short no description OF ours can point
out the manner in which this boat has been
hpHhed, aud every thing SO we'll conducted on
board. we have heard Of IN intention to build,
packet, on similar construction, and several
Thousand pounds have been already agreed to be
subscribed by some persons OF this city to carry
! it into effect CoTh 6ooe,.
.Neyociafion " pro'nissory Notes IL, E,lgiond-
by clause in am act passed OH the It'll of July
last, the operations of which are to commence OF,
tue 3lst OF this month, (Aug,ist) pron,issory
| notes, made oa Of Gieat Blsta:n, are not only
not valid, but there is penalty provided for aiv
person paying them or negotiating them. Wa
give the clause for the benefit of our mercantile
readefs Act. 55th of the king chap. 1874, sec
And be it further enacted, that from and af-
yer 'his act pronissory notes, for the payment Of
money to the bearer on demand, made out of
Great Britain, or purporting TO be made by or on
DenaH OF any person or persoas resident out
OF treat Britain, shall not be negotiable or be ne
gociated, or circulated, or paid N Great Britain,
whether the same shall be made PAYABLE IN Great
brstaln ornot, unless the same shall have paid
sueh duty, and be stamped in such manner rs the
Ia" requires, OF promlssory notes OF the Ike te-
nor and value made al Great Britain; and if any
person or persons shall circulate, or negotiate or
oher IN payment, or shall receive or take IN paw
rnent any such promIssory note, or shall demand
or receive payment OF the Whole or any part of
ths money mentioned in such promssory note,
| from or on account ofthe drawer in Great Bril-
tam, the same not being duly stamped or if
any person orPersons IN Great Britain shall paw,
| OF cause ODE pad, the sum or sums of money
expressed IN any such note, not beng duly stamp
cd as aforesaid, or any part thereof or in pursII-
| aice OF any nomination or appointment for that
purpose, therein contained, the person so Offend
lie shan Tor every such promssory note forfeit the
sum OF twenty pounds. PROVIDED always, that this
pisuse shall not extend to promissory notes made
| and payable only in Breiand'
Wool and ntfdctu,'es. immense and in
creaslng stock OF foreign wool, has rendered the
demand tor some time back extremely limited
ehe manufacturers supplying themselves only
rom week to week. The late extensive purcha.
ses OF cloth for the American markets. has had a
very beneficial effect, but the prices ofwool have
not improved owing to the anxiety of importers,
ana the eagerness of the spectators of 1914, to
efee- immediate sales 5,,yy, sabe,.
Papers and letters received from Paris to the
@Ith instant, state, that much alarm is felt in
,he capital tor the state ofthe south. The Ven
deans, the remnants of the army of the Lore, the
iInerant partIzans, and some of the clergy, are
SAID To have made common cause with the pro-
iessed adherents ofBonaparte, and the extent of
me conspiracy Is not ascertained although il is
known to be very considerable Private com
munlcaton mentions that associations are form
thG N the departments, whose watch word is
!" .s0tfe Pefrfe," whose object is, by making
war upon the foreign troops, to compel them to
quit the country. The individuals are bound TO
each other by an oath these associations are said
10 receive counIenance from some of the mem
bers Ign IN the administration OF the government
1T IS, say these accounts, to prevent the corse
quences cfthls rising indignant and hostile spirit.
liiat me frontier and maritime places about
to be occupied.
The English funds are looking down; the un.
favorable news from India has had no nconside
rable operation. In addition to the NeDau war
rupture with the Mahratta country is appre,
hended
Private letters from America mention. that
s,ch of the maritime states has engaged 10 6,dloi
'ttP Of tie line in the yea,, without, 1t is added,
,axing the people
Gen. Clarke, duke of Feltre formerly minister
OF war to Bonaparte, and sBee employed by the
king, has withdrawn from public business, and
retired to his estates.
LIBERTY OF TIE PRESS ON THE CoNTI.
NENT.
In former paper, we inserted the article fov
the publication (which the French paper. called
the indsbende1t, was suppressed 1t was an ex.
cuse OF The conduct ofgeneral I.abedoyere. who
was to be tried for having joined Bonaparte at
Grenoble We this day insert an article of an CD
posite kind, FIR the publication of which the
Ga=eHe de France was stopped one tlay. This
IS an attack on the Bonapartists Neither Of these
articles is, ntrInscaily, Of much interest, but
they serve TO slew the treatment the French
press receives from the government In tms
point of view they are important matter for the
historian,
The following article, copied from a German
paper, called the Hhe'Ish Mercury, goes farther
IN us censure Of the allies towards France than
the reader IS probably prepared to EXPECT from
any continental paper. The opinions here broscl,.
ed must be very generally diliised on the CONT
ncnt, or else We think the editor of a rewspaper.
published on the borders Of The French fr,,niier
would scarcely venture thus openly to state
them.