Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1816-04-17
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"A LiverpOOl Price Current Of the 18th
at February, states the price of Cotton as
follows: bowel Georgia, old, Is. Sd. l..
I'D. ! new Is ID. Il Is. sd. ! n. Orleans.
Is. I'D. Is. 3d.. Sea Island, %. I'D. to Is.
Cd.
Letters from Liverpool mention several
important failures in Glasgow.
London, FEB. 10.
Price of Stocks.-S per cent. &c g Co.
$ per cent. 90 7-s 9l-Omnium (money)
Is Ia 3-S pr.
Vienna, Jan. so.
Lieut.. Colonel Count Claim, who was
despatched on the 18th as courier from
Milan, arrived here on the 18th. 1t is said
he brings intelligence that the Emperor has
not accepted the propositions of the King
OF Bavaria. 1t is certain that Prince
Wrede, who had set out from Milan on an
important mission from his Court, having
proceeded only half way on his journey,
suddenly returned. and that on the arrival
OF a Courier here, Field Marahal Bianchi.
Duke of Casa LAURA, received orders tn
proceed Immediately to the army ON the
frontiers of Austria.
London, Feb. %.
The French papers to the 18th, which
have arrived this morning, contain only
the following articles of any Importance.
| Paris, Feb. IS.
We read what follows in one of the
most esteemed of the German Journals =
LavaIette did not go to England. He
proceeded from Brussels to the Rhine.
which he assembled as far as Mannheim. II
is believed that he stopped day i'm that
city. We learn that he afterwards pro-
ceeded to Stutgard, being furnished with a
foreign passport, countersigned by several
authorities. 1t is supposed he took the
road to Bavaria"
According to the German papers the
Austrians have occupied miitariIy the
Salisbury, with the exception of the town
of that name.
Sir Robert Wilson, Mr.. Bruce and Can
tain Hutchinson, have presented Memo
rial to the French Attorney General. CON
tanning the grounds of their appeal against
the Ordinance of the Chamber of Council,
dated Jan. 80, refusing them bail. The
greater part of the Memorial consists of le
gal argument, tending to show that persons
constituted prisoners under charge the
offence OF which they are accused, are. &C
cording to the French laws. entitled To he
admitted to bail. They express their asto
nlshment that provisional liberty should be
refused, before the presumption of crime
be dehnately fixed on them. 1t is obsery-
ed, that although the expressions of the Or
ldinance suggest the idea of corrupt;on mr.
connivance liz the goaler or turnkey of La
yalette, 1T does not venture openly to make
that charge against the prisoners. But if
1t did such charge is denied by their con-
science and rejected as calumny. They
declare that they know nothing of Lava
lette's escape, and had no concert with Ma
dame Lavalette, whom none of them had
ever seen.
3" 1t IS impossible (say the Memorialists)
that Madame Lavalette herself. the yirtu.
Gus and honorable author of the safety Of
her husband, should not know if the Goal-
ers were gained and corrupted, and that
they would shut their eyes ;-impossible.
quite impossible for any reasonable man to
conceive, that the goalers should be corrup-
ted by US in the Sieur Lavalette, without
Madame Lavalette being informed of it -
They express their satisfaction at Madame
Lavalette having obtained her liberty,
which they remark, is the strongest evil
dence that bail ought not to be refused TO
them.
In reply to part of the Ordinances
which alleges the acts and writings of the
accused to have presented the character Of
a conspiracy against the Government. the
MemOrlalists say, That the tribunals can
not Judge us by our thoughts, but by our
acts and that if Englishmen, momentarily
residing IN France, are obliged to conform
their exterior actions to the existing laws.
nothing ought to hinder them from THINKING
as freely on the banks of the Seine as on
the banks of the Thames. Thus. whatever
may have been our secret sentiments, our
conversations with our friends, or our con-
hdential correspondence with our fellow
countrymen, 1t is not such circumstances
upon which we ought to be Judged.
We ought not to be judged by the inten-
tons or thoughts which we are supposed TO
have, but by the nature and quality of the
facts imputed to u.s."
From London, liverpool, and Paris pnpers.
receired at the Office Of the Mercantile
advertiser.
London, FEB. IS.
The Paris papers Of Monday last arrived
this morning. Upwards of 40 tax gather.
ers have been removed in the department
OF the Aude /; and more than five hundred
and ftyPersons employed in the collection
OF the indirect taxes, as well in the central
administration as the departments, have
been recalled for having manifested opin-
ions unfavorable TO Government.
BY decree Of the Project of the Depart.
ment Of lille and YiIlaine, confirmed by tbs
Minister of the General Police, General
Mayor, and some other principal inhab
tants of Rcnnes. have been ordered I'm n,;t