Virginia Argus

Baltimore, March 19.

LATEST FROM ENGLAND.

The ship Essex, Wingate, arrived last evening, in 50 days from Liverpool, from which she sailed on the 25th Jan. The latest paper we have seen is the London Morning Chronicle, of Jan. 18. It is chiefly occupied by the Parliamentary debates. The Prince of Wales was regent, but had as yet performed no official act. A vessel belonging to Lieut. gov. Gray, of Massachusetts, it was said, bound direct from America for Morlaix, had been carried into Morlaix by a French privateer.

Three ships had arrived in England from the French coast, by one of which a letter had been received which stated that Bonaparte had said to his Foreign Minister, that America should take part on one side or the other in the European dispute, and that he was indifferent whether she sided with France or England [Stuff !---] Business has experienced a great stagnation at Liverpool.

The Morning Chronicle argues, that the rumoured note of Marquis Wellesley to Mr. Pinkney, was of an unfavourable nature, from the circumstance of Mr. Pinkney's intention to return in the Essex frigate.

Dispatches from Mr. Pinkney of a late date were brought by the Essex.

Fr In the London Morning Chronicle of Jan. 17. Mr. Forbes formally contradicts the report of having said any thing about the French decrees.

A Requisition has been signed and sent to the high Bailiff of Westminster, to call a meeting for the purpose of petitioning Parliament against the restrictions in the resolutions for appointing a Regency.

On the subject of the rumored note of Marquis Wellesley to Mr Pinkney, regarding the repeal of the orders in Council, the Morning Chronicle observes :

' We fear that some equivocal answer to this effect has been given, instead of declaring at once their intentions on the orders in Council, with a positive reservation of all the other topics that had been coupled with the main question. This would have brought both parties into that state of good humour and intercourse which would have been favorable to the settlement of other points. We say, we fear, that the answer is not satisfactory, or we learn that the Essex frigate is to be held in readiness to take Mr. Pinkney and suit to America. His instructions as to the period of his quitting this country were discretionary, and depended on the nature of the answer he should receive. It is from this circumstance that we are inclined to believe the rumor, that the above is the substance of the official note which, after so much delay, has been delivered by the Noble Marquis.'