Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1816-07-31
From .Niiss's Weellg Register.
FOREIGN ketrospect.

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British and .7geri,es. The io,insr already
feel ashamed OF u,eir treaty with the latter,
whereby their piracies were sGnefiored III the pur-
chase OF the slaves. What would we think Of
man that shorld attempt to take cred.t To himself
for dealing with horse thief, and paying him
for the Stolen cattle 7 What better encourage
ment could the thief desire This is the way in
which an homes, man should lock at the Infamous
transaction.
TIE laboring poor ofEngland have been starved
quit Of 6ooo0i (306 5000 to purchase house
for the princess Charlotte and her man.
The Austrian marine is to be encrcased to ten
frigates, twenty briggs and fifty gun boats.
Sir Samuel Rnmiiy Speaking of the base per.
secutions and murders of the protestsnts in
France) stated in parliament-,hat in March,
wretch who was known TO have murdered (onr-
teen trotestants, was honorably acquitted; and
the next day, he and others Game into court as
evidences against proteslants, five of whom were
sentenced TO be marked with hot irons, piiloried,
and imprisoned for life, or for many years--and
all that was aledged against them .sas that they
sang 1iue PEmperenr."
The report that HeHingfon was deprived of
the command of the Russian contingent, &c. in
France, probably had its rise from the circum-
sta zee that the Dutch, assisted by the Russians,
had corauelled him TO withdraw ell his garrisons
out of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
.f,nerican Stocks, at London, -dcy 3d. per
cts. SO 10.
The cropa in France are said to be very abuh.
dant.
On the4th of May, the harbor of Cronsfdst
Russia, was still firmly blocked with ice.
Nj great dining party in Westminster, 400
in number, among whom was Burdett and seve-
raj other members of parliament, &c. the fellow
ing toast was drank
"The only remedy for our grievances-a radi.
cal reto.-a in the commons house Entertainment"
Tune, Kick the Rogues out"
Major Cartwright stated that the petition from
Edinburgh in favor of Parliamentary reform had
been signed by 1000 persons.
E.ngidnd.-The French papers are more free
20 speak Of the state of England than Of France
The Quotidienne, detailing the disorders and III.
Sings in Norfolk, in Suffolk and Cambridgeshre.
makes the following remark -" Those wlu con
siiered an army of $4,000 too great and even
dangerous for England in time OF peace, may
AZ present perceive the force is not actually SUI
ticient to maintain its internal tranquility"
Ii is stated that the Portuguese ambassador AT
Rome had absolutely refused every proposition
for the re-establishnient of the JeS7dts.
Northumberland, whose inhabitants have
paid heavy taxes to render other natiods misera.
bic, now feels misery herself. Her pau2ers have
trebled since the French revolution and the
poor taxes in England snd Wales now amount to
thirty tIro millions Of dollars year.
Improvement. A London paper says" The
tribunal of the Holy Office, at Rome, after ihyok-
lng the illumination of the Holy Ghost, has an.
nulled the proceedings commenced by the in
quisitor of'isyenTa against Solomon Moses VII
Yi2ni, who, afi err embracing the Roman Commu.
uion, had reiapsed to Judaism. His holiness, in
The decree issued upon this occasion, thus ex-
presses himself
"The divine law is now like q . law Of man /;
it carries with it mildness and persuasion Per-
:ccution, exile, prisons, are the means employed
by false prophets aud false teachers Let US
pity the man who is deprived of light, and who
even wishes 10 lie deprived of it for the cause
ofhis blindness may serve TO promote the grand
designs ofProvidence, sc
His holiness has ordered that no future pro-
ccedings of the kind shall be attended with loss
Of !ifc or limb to the culprt.
FRANCE.
Co;,dlennclto be shof.--GeneFal Gruyer
Binder risl-Marshai Grouclg, for contuma.
Disd-Marshal .spgereau, ola droPsy in the
chest, as reported.
Arrests. = ubsis, one oFthe chiefs of the fc.
6era,ion of Burguntly son ofBoissy d Anglas;
count dc Thiars.
1raasbortaHsHs.--A taylor named Guraud,
fol having made tricolored cockade and hoist.
ing il on atree.
great search has been made at Paris for CO.
Iors, eagles, escutcheons, aud all sorts of em.
bleHS mat lnlbuL FtIDlHg tDe 4 IShCn VI Napole-
on If the BouFbons are 10 rule--inay they, by
good conduct, eradicate his memory from the
htarfs Of the people.
The Israeiites at Paris were about 70 FIX up
the bust Of Louis in the place Of their sitting
Great arc The preparations in France for the
rnsrriage Of the duke OF Berri, and many Of the
senseless people appear TO rejoice at it. The
funeral Of a prince may well be subject ofmer-
riment
French Seeks, jifay 2s.-'-5pG cents, SO francs
s centitDes.