Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1806-08-16

. would now govern the destinics OF Great
britain, 1t IL was not opposed and over
matched by other countervailing interests,
which have formed coalition for their
mutual benefits. These are the interests
o. the throne and of the money capitalists.
These parties by their union, give
strength and vigor 10 each other. The
crown insures ma lority in the House of
Commons by the means Of money which
IL borrows--The same ma lori,y play back
TO suit the humor of the king, and he pro.
moies those projects which are most sui
table 10 his partners in public fraud me
stock j966ers and money lenders.
Such are the means by which the Bril-
fish nation has been long governed. The
king, tho apparently limited in his power
and prerogatives, can do what he pleases
--an absolute monarch gives orders, but
the king OF England acts by bribed or into
rested majorities, by statutes. After
the minister has settled point, and has
arranged his forces, bill is brought for
ward. 1t is debated--The opponents
are allowed to exhaust all the powers Of
clog lence and argument. They are not
hurried. Every chance is allowedto make
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that the people OF the Empire are the
most free and happy in The world. But
1t is all defusion. The king and the
minister know their men. They can tel
10 an unit how many votes are engaged.
The bill passes. The minority acquire
great celebrity; and the eopIe, because
there has been great deal Of noise, vainly
think, that they are free people and
have free parliament. And thus il is
they so on from year tn year, from war to
war, and from proje6l to project while
every step plun6es them into new difficult
ties, from the temporary evils of which
they are extricated, by new loan, under
the sanction OF a packed majority.
his is the way in which the people of
England are deluded and governed. This
is the way in which they lose all the be-
nehtS of an honorable and exalted charac-
ter, and become the instruments and
dupes oil an ambition, al avariCe, and a
copidity, which are interviewer io all pub.
Tic considerations, and leave TO the nation
nothing but the echo OF what they have
been, the mere shades and phartoms Of
what they believe themselves to be.
ihe explanation which has been give n
is due 10 those 10 whom itrelates-in Jus
tIcc too, 10 the feelings aud sentiments of
The writer, it must be also understood
that all The remarks illustrated by the term
Great Britain and England, relate only to
thc governmental or ministerial party OF
that county. Ills by this party that the.
crown is enabled TO make subsidies--to
form coatitions-.-,o contrive plots to hire
f,
and to equip feels. If no such persons
had existed in England, France would
have been long ago restored 10 repose.
aod The rest flhe civilized world, to rea
and tranquility. Sensible of the wicked.
ness oil their pas, condu6t--.Hc rulers en-
oeaVor 10 persuade the nation and al! the
world, THAI nothing less than L continua.
ton OF The same pro le6ts, Can stop tho ca.
reer OF Bonaparte, and that he medita,es
The conquest and subjugalicn of Europe.
Il is in vain 10 reply that the limits of
France, Notwithstanding her victorious
arms hare overrun Germany and con-
qdered Italy, are immutably fixed. These
dislurbers of the worlds repose, know,
that they have been the enemies of ali
inaH KIND that every mans hand ought
'N''SN' sS"'''SN Ni9Nth ) NlIk sUGI de-
serve neither favor nor mercy and that
TO insure The repose Of France, and the
happiness of the world, II is necessary 81
'her that. they should abandon their des.
trucIive plans or be oveyMrozvn. The
advantageous situation I'll he Island, SEM
rated from all the world, the bravery of
the people, and The ptide Of national cha.
rScier, all have heretofore bubyed them
above the fears and terrors OF invasion 4;
but the whole course of Bonapar,e's ca.
teer' * particularly in the last war, shews
mat there is nothing too grea; for him to
atchieye' Hence it is, tha, the rulers and
'heIr adherents, raise the curtain of futu.
rity with fearful pfchension.
These things prove in the mos, salts
factory manner, that The fears and alarms
do not proceed from real opinion that
the emperor Of France, is DESTROYS TO ex.
ACT hard and oppressive conditions from
Crea, Bri'ain--but because The British
Cabinet and their coadjutors, have rem.
dered 50 much injury to France, that he
Cannot help feeling spirit of indignation
towards them. If the rulers Of England
well knew hat their condua deserved