Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1806-10-04
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gainst each other in endless hostility and
; impacable war.
. The copious illustrations which have
been already published concerning Great
Britain, the wide and rIeconcilable differ
ence between the ruiiag and the ruled in
that country, has been deliberately explain-
ec. so that the writer might content him.
sell with a bare reference to those unans-
wered co,urans-but testimony of great
weight has made its appearance. The
testimony alluded TO is derived from the
celebrated Wiiiiar1 Cobbett. He has
lately published similar opinions under
! The noses of the Br,sish ruers---aRd warns
the nation in language bold, energetic and
Ineligible Of their impending dangers.
AS it will not be convenient or even pos
sihle for ell who may read this article 10
see the publication OF Goblet, an arpro-
PIRATE extract will be now taken, and is
! referred TO.
Ronapar;e models every thing a, his
pleasure, and has nothing to DO but mo-
del, Into whs, new shapes he may mo-
del the German Empire may be matter
OF much interest, but after the late events
cannot be of much importance. Germa:
ny csnno. become more his own than il
is already"
1t is we'll known at Paris iha. our mi.
nis,ers are al their wits ends !or ,he means
oil raising the necessary supplies. Ii is
very we'll known there. that Z paper mo-
ney impossible 10 be redeemed by specie
peryades our country, and j, is equally
well llno.n thatin such state Of things,
tTiaing cause of alarm may prove fatal
to us. Therefore it may picve absurd to
hope that during this state of things the
enemy will ever be inclined to such-a
peace as wilt give US Tranquility"
sin short, there appears to me. (NIR-
liam C'o66et) TO be three things, one Of
which ttUsr take place--nameiy. uncon-
ditional submission 10 the enemy; taxes
collected 4, the po;at Of the bayonet, or a
great and speedy reduction in the alton.
al expenses
These extracts ore. scficient to shew
that the warnings which have been pub.
shed by this writer were well snpperied.
The persons who will be cost likely to
deny their truth, ere the same whoa few
years ago considered William Goblet as
political Messiah. Since he has pub.
iisbed paper in London. il has been hish-
iY-celebraied for the talents aud indepen-
dence which are exhibited in It's coluinnse
These things are Dotnecc sary TO cunvince
the mind OF The writer that his own optni..
ons are well founded, because the publi-
cations Concerning the situation and e.,
vents, Which relate to the continent of I,Is
rope are 20 open for his examination as
they are for Mr.. Goblet.
But as the writer has been Influenced.
by very sincere desire 10 afford Infor-
nation, upon which the public might be
able to act, he has deemed Il necessary 4,
make the quotations from that celebrated
paper. And altbo' il is stated hat one Of
those things must be done to secure the
indepeHdency oethe Island, yet the writer
o! tbs does not adopt these alterations as
the only cypedients by which the down
falf OF Great Britain may be prevented.
No, far from it. The collection of taxes
at the point of,he bayonet, would OF once
destroy the pillars Of the British coDstitu-
ton. Money could not, if at alt, more
then once or twice be Obtained in that
manner, unless the bayoDets OF the soldi-
ers, might Ike the philosophers stone,
Convert whatever they might touch into
gold. Men may be forced into navies or
armies, or into the fields, or suffer death,
or be imprisoned by the power oil The by -
net. bu, sharpeped steel will not possess
q ialismsuic power by which gold can be
either created or extracted.
Nor ~ill the rulers save themselves bY
any system of economy which the exigen-
cies of affairs will allow then to intro.
dgce, because while they ate dealing in a.
riihmeiic and demonstrating that GER
tain course of things in ten years will res
tore them 10 prosperity. their powerful
foe will build ships aud man them, and
thGs deprive the Islanders, by the supeti,
orily Of his resources, Of the ONLY atIyau.
iage upon which they make their calcu.
latious,
The situation Of Grea, Britain appears
lhen TO be alarming. Something Of Great
importance is necessary to save tben
trom external conquest or interval Ae~o,1-
tion--and Mr. Cobtelt has recommended
nolhing but economy; this is equivaIept
10 saying that their prospects orc hopeless
THAT they have been weighed aod are
found wanting-~and that they may pre-
pare 70 receive he fnal mandate of the