Virginia Argus

BALTIMORE, July 3.

ROSE, ERSKINE,--JACKSON, ECLIPSED BY FOSTER.

We hear from a source deemed perfectly authentic that much insolence was displayed by Mr. Foster in his last interview with Mr. Monroe. [We believe on Thursday last.] Being pressed to explain himself in relation to the interference of the United States to procure such a revocation of French edicts, &c. as should restore commerce to its former state Mr. Foster declared that we must assist in obtaining permission to carry British goods, &c. to France and other nations on the continent! Being told that such a demand was unreasonable, beyond our power to enforce and our right to ask, and would not be acceded to; Mr. F. expressed the intentions of his government in warm and menacing terms: said that if America persisted in her present attitude and claims, Britain would immediately dispatch such a marine force to our coast, as would annihilate not only our foreign but our coasting trade.-- Thus menacing war, instead of promising justice.

We conceive there is no impropriety in publishing the foregoing as it reached us in no confidential shape, without injunction. If incorrect; it will doubtless be set right: but, if true, we trust congress may be convened at an earlier day than the 4th of Nov. We long since thought that England would impel us to hostilities, sooner or later; and her increased outrages and repeated insults confirm the opinion. To us may be reserved the glory of levelling the tyranny we were the first to shake.

Whig.