Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1806-10-18
FROM THE AURORA.
PHNYT,Z

PILNTIX
GAVE AN EMPEROR TO EUROPE.
Every candid man will confess, that this
is the tact-and if there are There are
men whose infatuation, folly, or corrupti-
on, lead them to maintain or believe dis-
fcrent opinion this be their monition--all
they say or pretend to think will not al
ter the fact-thcy may deceive themselves,
but they cannot impose upon Discerning men,
upon history, nor upon posterity. But the
most important consideration for selfsh-
ness is--that what they say, or wish others
to think, cannot avert what is understood
by destiny-that is, the necessary effects
of certain circumstances. That the Ame-
rlcan public may be possessed of thought
and fact-food for useful reflection, let us
go back to well known epocha--and ask,
what has heen done that was attempted
What has been gained that was sought
What has not been changed that was at
tempted to &c preserved entire? 1t was
proposed to check the current of the hui
man mind-to debase human being Look
at the result--IIven the Jewish nation ex-
posed to persecution and the intolerance
Of benevolent religion, are about to par
ticipatc of the common rights of humane
ty.
But what of the Indemnity for the tcat
Il -
England heaven born minister-meiancho-
ly in1cmnities-thc irresistible force Of
facts, has dissipated the .f0gs, and pene-
trated the hardened heads and hearts Of
federal politicians. Lord Laudcrdale, who
was sent to Paris by the cabinet ofSt James
to Sne, g to beg as 'twcre," for peace, has
been kept Knocking and bo7oiag and scrat-
ing four days in the anti-charnber Of that
Ialieyrand, who zUas refused to be seen by
that Identical lord Grcnville in 1898, who is
first lord Of the treasury in 1905.
Behold the indemnity for the past and Sc
curity for the future.
What has become of the promised saliva
ton of Europe?
Where arc the pilots who wcathered the
storm Their days were hoicyon--now In
deed it is the STERN.
What of the high stalking assertion of
the British monarch ct the opening Of the
last session of parliament, that " he would
" not treat 7pithout Russia 30 that g Bril-
" tain would still maintain an influence
" on the continent of Europc?"
Russia made her peace in sack cloth
and ashcs-and the boast of never rein
quishing Hanover is now considered but as
the raving OF maniac monarch Alas
the British papers now inform us that Rus
STA has formed an alliance oFen3ivr and d.
JeHSfUe, with France, and to revive the
principles of that armed neutrality, which
the hopeful heir Of Quincy negotiated away
as an eternal stigma on American vir-
tue
The great, the magnanimous Alexander
who was lately eXtolled by the British as
drmI-god, will soon, like his. father Pau,
be branded with the epithet OF barbarian
or savage-and, if we are not much mis-
taken, the zvdrtkrobe OF the British cabinet
will be ransacked for some " foisoned
bozvi," fer some {" 8tiietto," or some Subo6'
will be found in the regal retinue, furnish
ed with another bow string. Such may be
his fate, for withdrawing from the all dec
tructiDe, the deadly, the damnable, contagi-
on Of the cabinet Of st. James.
Many DAYS have not passed since we
made bold to say, that Bonaparte would
not make peace without establishing the
freedom Of the seas for the whole world
the British papers lust received, have, as
on many occasions only corToborated or
anticipations.
We will row start another jdea-eVerv
nation in Eurofe 7ciU become furry too
naDigation act, which will subject England
to the same restrictions, duties, and imposts
which she imposes in her ports, on other ma
lions may more--thc United States of Anne
RIGA will be called upon to declare for the
liberty Of the seas, ebandoncd by the Bril-
fish treaty and their re-assertion, as esta-
bishe1 by DR.. Franklin.
Do our merchants recollect the petitions
with which they covered the tables of
congress- last year? Do they recollect
that the continued complaints Of the pira-
cies Of Great Britain, are founded on the
rights of neutral bottoms, making neutral
property Do they recollect the daily COM
plants Of the arbitrary system of blockade
tyrannically asserted by the British govern
ment Do they recollect or can they feign
to forget the condemnation Of the vessels
in those deHs Of Eiracy the admiralty courts
of Haffar, Providence and Loadon?
Will they rccollect all this, when called
on by combined Europe, to become parties
in maintaining the very principle which no
body Of men, more feeliugly than themselves
have constantly advocated
We know well what will be their. princi-
pies then, and what will be the tone Of