Virginia Argus

FURTHER INTELLIGENCE.

Capt. Foster left Cronstadt, the 13th, and Copenhagen, the 30th Sept. Previous to his departure from the former place, he learnt that no part of the treaty which had been signed at Paris by M. D'Oubril, was agreeable to the views of the Emperor Alexander, or in conformity to his instructions; and that such was the indignation of the Russian Court against this minister, for having violated the faith which he owed to his sovereign, that an order of banishment had immediately followed his return to St. Petersburg. and M. D'Oubril, was no longer to be found among the living, unless on his way to the deserts of Siberia;—That the greatest activity prevailed, in levying and embodying troops; that immense camps had been formed; that large bodies were marching towards the frontiers; and that nothing else was talked of but war against France,—a measure which appeared to be popular among all classes; that the Prince Constant, brother to the Emperor, was spoken of as being highly in favour of the war; and had offered the utmost assistance which he could to the cause.

Capt. Foster further advises, that the day before he left Copenhagen, accounts were received at that place, per mail, that every hope of peace had finally vanished, and that hostilities had actually commenced between Prussia and France; that Lord Lauderdale had demanded his passports, and was on the point of quitting Paris, three several times during the negotiation, without having effected the object of his Embassy; but that from circumstances which were not known to the public, though not affecting the serious business of the Negotiation, he still remained at Paris, at the date of the last accounts from that city.

On the subject generally of a renewed continental war capt. Foster was desired to report, by his merchant at Copenhagen, that the safest calculations might be made on the certainty of its commencement, and a strong probability of its long continuance.