Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1806-04-15
FROM The LONDON Moastxa CRRoHIeLE
OF FEBRUARY 10.
DlLAPIDATED RESOURCES & HOPES

The Courier Of Thursday last, wirh its usua,
ean5cr and truth. reraarks that the new ministry
" are beginning TO prepare the pubic not to be
surpri.ed IT they fad them unable TO govern the
county better than tina; excellent statesman who
IS now no r1o'e" They are aboring to Impress
! oeiist mat they have succeeded to /" dilapida.
red resources and hopes" &C.
WIS should no, have fhouyht il neees.zrv IN
take any nosice of this, more than ct the eternal
columns OF vapId Common place and dull Iialig.
NIFTY winch all the Courier night after night,
were 1t not that IL may he FIT TO remind The
country OF the situation IN which the new mi.
nstry succeed TO the direction cf aiFsirs.
We have said land with thai article tire new
ministry have no more TO do than with ,hc sour
siliiies OF the Courier, that the new ministry
sucCesd 20 - dHapidated resources and hope,"
And VIII ;he truth of tho assertion be Questioned
D, any man who has witnessed the eyen;e of the
iast tour m nthsi Do we say ,ha. the resources
OF me country are exjingpi,hcd. or It's hopes an
.nhhaed Do we say THAT fhe vi6oTy of Ira
i@Sp aioras no consolation o. that It's spjendor
y nor bright amidst the surrounding gloom
certainly not We neither despair of the coun.
"y's resources, nor of its courage but that man
must DC blind indeed. who does sot see tha, the
rssonreesof Great 2fitain. and its hopes, TOO
are by an i'll eoncssted, III supper ed
continental war, by the battle of AuserIitz. and
the pc ace of Presburgh
Only a lew days ago. the patriotic sir George
ttoae . no IN e long ofdeisl life, has made more
money IN the public service chan the DIXIE of
NewcastIe spent IN IL in a speech win CHI, for
.rue Pathos and dslieaSy, SURPASSED far all thar
history or poetry records of The speech of Anto.
ny ovet the dead corpse Of -sesar pronounced a
ianerai Grafton over the late MI Pitt in which
nc oepitss that (" excellent statesman" as sinking
the vicfi;n OF nations s, and excIaimins u,
tffCr n
country y The heavy af1itions which have be-
faiien Europe, and in Europe England, are re.
presented TO have broken his hear, and 70 have
Killed him as in field Of bafiIe
WhetheT This picture &c TOO much coloured or
not we do not enqsire We did not throw
blame on any one when we said thar the ne ~
ministry succeeded 10 dilapidated resources and
hopes. We meant TO describe state Of things
under which an " excellent statesman" sunk
with sorrow 10 the grave.
we shad have great reluctance 10 bring Mr..
PIT and his system into discussion upon personal
srounds' bar, for the sake Of Justice and Of
ruth, we must NOT suffer the living to be robbed
IN order 10 deck the monuments of the dead.
we SAID that the new ministry succeed 10
" dIApidated resources and hopes" because. af
ter The late events on the continent, no slan can
reasonably entertain the same expectations of
glory and ultimate SUCCESS in the war as If these
events mao NOT taken place. This must he obvis
Gus. though the utmost praise were due 10 Mr..
fnt His own friends agree ,hal the success Of
his continental measured id not Correspond viii,
the wisdom Of bis plans Be it so But surely,
II we cas transport ourselves back to last June
and July, before The continental war began, be
fore the battle Of auste,lIsz and the peace Of
Presburgh, it might have been said with cer-
tain deg'ee Of truth, that we mad re sources en-
tire, and hopes fresh aud vigorous II might
then have been said, that IN addition 70 the cou
rage, he zeal and en,erpdze o. Lord Nelson.
and all Que fleets, we had numerous and cons.
dent allies on the continent. We had, according