Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1816-09-11

! and four hon bs.--Total 25 sail. The ships
will rendezvous at Gibraltar. A company
Of royal ssppers and miners, under MaioI
Gossett and Capt Reid, embarked ON Fr;
day on board the Queen Charlotte and Min
den,
| Tie Poor Haynakers.- this subject
we would call the attention of Landholders
and Parish Vestrics. 1t is impossible to
conceive the distress in which these poor
people Ga minority OF them itinerant stran-
gnrs) have been reduced by the late inces-
SAINT rains. At Burnet, on Tuesday, a
gentleman happening to 60 iuto the mar
ket- place found about 40 poor people lite
! rally starving, he ordered them to be sup
| piled with hall aquartern loaf each, and to
come back, next morning for ai,othcr. On
Friday the, number that applied for relief
was $50, when they got the same bounty.
TN Saturday morning those (ai strangers)
lwho applied were .776, who each received
one third Of q quartern loaf--and from the
Parish. the Vestry having been reused to at
tend to the business. a quarter of a pound
Of cheese each.---Go t,ou and no tkenise !:
for in your own neighbourhood there is
similar distress.
| In further Confederation ofwhat has been
stated relative to the difficulty OF raising
men for the Navy, we learn, that in the
course Of last week, 10 young seamen from
Scotland left their ship, in, the river,
and emigrated to America.
FRENCH PAPERS.
| PARIS, July II.
| The Ambassadors and Foreign Ministers
yesterday paid their court to the King and
Royal Family. Before mass the lsS. re-
ceived at his Cabinet, In public audiences
Mr.. Gallatin, Minister Plenipotentiary
from the United States of America, who
presented his credentials. Sir Sidney Smith
was also introduced.
| The Grand Wears of the diocese of Pa
have ordered public prayers, for Ohours,
with the exposition of the Holy Sacrament,
to ask of God more favourable season for
the products of the land.
The Minister of Finances has ordered
that in future the ordinary custom duties
shall be paid every four months instead OF
two, and those Of sugar destined to be re-
fned, every six months IN place of four.
|the discount of half per cent. granted to
receivers OF duties, under any pretence:
not to be renewed.
I The Duchess de Frioul, widow of Gen.
Buroc, passed though Stutgard, on the 9th
inst, tor Vienna. The Duchess d'Istra
was i'll that capital some time since. The
ljournies of these ladies is to make their
Iciaims for their dowries on their husbands
/ Italian possessions. These claims are OF
a similar nature to those made by several
French Generals at the Congress of Vienna
4 Seven robbers condemned to work at the
galiies and to solitary imprisonment, were
lexposed this morning in the pillory.
4 One of them was branded with the let
I lets Il. n. All of them behaved with mucl
) depravity.
i They write from Mannheim, July 81
l..For the last eight days the environs of oul
city has been inundated. The. Rhine anc
the Neckar have sweIlsd nine feet sis
inches above their usual height The great
lest elevation never exceeding, before. from
10 to IL feet. The inundation has destroy
ed the hopes of the fine harvest. The los,
! in hay. corn. tobacco, and other product:
is incaiculahie.
The Seine rose yesterday near 4 foot
: 1t was not in The capital, but at the Var
lseilless, that the Marshal de camp Berruy
: er died in the Bosom ofhis family.
. 1t is said that the son of Regnault de st
Jean d'AngeIy has landed at Havre.
e Five per cent. Consols, SO l-1O: Banl
Actions 1852 I-2.