Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1815-05-06

DUBLIN Dec 9
SUICIDE OF LORD FRENCH.
1t gives US extreme concern TO have to an
nounce tina, this Nobleman shot himself a.
bout half past two this day, in the chamber
of one of his sons in Trinity Collegel There
vas no person present. Mr.. French ha wing
been out upon some business, and the ser>
want who waited on his lordship being sent
down stairs, TO allow his loYdship, as he him.
self expressed it, ito arrange some papers
without interruption" 1t was with n Dis
tol that this fatal act was committeeman,
it would seem, that the unhappy nobleman
did not survive second after the shot was
fired. The ball passed directly through his
head. Lord French. has for some months
spent the greater part of his time i'm his
sons room in college. He was observed Sc
vcral times yesterday by some of the stu.
dents, and displayed nothing particular in
his manner or appearance, with the eslcep.
tion ola general detection and melancholy,
which has characterised him since his late
nisfortunes, His lordship was to have been
examined yesterday at the Royal Exchange,
respecting the barking establishments with
which he had been connected. and which
had, as the public knows, stopped payment
land it was whilst he was expected to at
tend for this purpose, that he committed
'hN " aIN uC cNEUl CVGaVSu We
ry great sensation in the town those who
knew lord French were more generally
shocked at the terrible transaction, but il
was generally felt With considerable sensi>
bility. January u,
a lew evenings ago, so early as O'Clock,
gang ct journeymen taylors had the au-
dac''y t. attack the house o: Mr.. M'Do.
nough woGlen draper, in Sackville street,
with view to demolish it la THEATRE
The offence Mr. M'Donough had committed
against those gentlemen was, that he had
given employment to some OF the trade who
had not Oeen admitted members of the Sc.
lect brotherhood Mr. MD. was obliged.
in The defence OF his house, to discharge a
b'underbuSs amongst those ruffians, which
wounded enc of them so desperately, that
he was immediately commanded by his com.
panioas, and being seized by the police, he
wa sent to MERGERS hospital, from whence,
when his wounds will permit, he will be
committed to Newgate.
LONDONDERRY, Jan. "a.
We perceive with great concern, that the
system of burning and destroying property
has of late become common in our neigh.
borbood "A number of houses, the proper
W of Counsellor Macklin, were lately burnt
at Ruskey, near Raphoe, because the forms
er occupants conceived themselves aggriev.
ed by being dispossessed of them and on
the LIST instant house on the lands of
RoUghan, in the estate of Alexander Boyd
Esq, was burned down, and number of
trees destroyed, by some person as yet IN.
known, but for whose discovery, liberal
reward has been offered The perpetra.
tors Of such diabolical acts are not aware
that the damage must be made good by the
parish, in endeavorng to injure an individu.
al they are heaping additional taxes ON their
nnoffending neighbOrs.
BELFAST, Dec. so
We have taken from the last packets the
substance of the foreign intelligence most in.
teresting to the public at the present mo-.
Ment Perhaps nothing has appeared so well
calculated to moderate the claims of Eng~
land against America, as the formidable
demeanor she has lately assumed She
speaks and acts on greater scale it is not
one or two ships, but fleets, which she is
putting forth; it is not the fortuitous offer.
ings of few volunteer corps, but an arzny
OF 100000 men raised on the Napoleon sys.
ten ; and hat very system which we would
have supposed republicans would hold in
the greatest abhorrence. What .orce can
England with all her navy, send ont to cope
with such an army as America is raising ?
We, therefore, should suppose, that nation
al pride will surrende to national reason
and that Peace may be embraced when
War must be rDDous.
Mr. CnTraH We are informed by the
Sentinel of Wednesday, that Mr.. Curran is
about to present his counirymen with view
OF Irish Catholic Politics, ha8t and IRE
sent. We are greatly rejoiced that such
subject should De discussed by so able
pen, and we are still more happy in the re-
Fiction, that our great countrymen appears
so much alive to the necessity of removing
those impressions which an unhappy effusis
on of political irritation has made upon the
minds of Irishmen
From Paris faher Of March 25th, re-
eefUed by the Editors Of the Mercantile
advertiser, By the 8chr. Sine 4gua Non,
Caf,tuin Pond
Messenger Office,
half f1dst zen az night.
We stop the press to give few of the
most interesting extracts from the English
Journals Of the ooh, which have this in
stsnr arrived. LoHpcH, March 20.
Declaration of His MoJe8fy The Emheror
tine French TO The French, and harticw.
Lariy TO me Parisians.
After an abdication, the circumstances
Of which you are acquainted with after a
Treaty, all the articles of which have been
violated after having seen my retreat pen.
eCFated by numerous assassins, ell sent by
the Bourbons after having seen the French
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