Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1807-04-24

| taxes. Sensible people will give bucket
or two OF water to a dry pump, that they
may afterwards get from it ali they have
occasion for. Her ministry were de6c;ent
in that little point of common sense and
so they spent 100 millions of her MONEY!
and after all, lost what they commended for.'
VOLUME IN A PARAGRAPH.
BY their works you shall knos them -
Ii Is OF much. importance 70 know the character
OF the country from which. we draw SO much
ut our principles OF laIp and government we
are called cons, antly to admire the English con
stitutoH. which told is the mos, DC, Ect of
al theories. What should we say of the theory
OF grist mill thar instead of grinding grain.
knock on, the brains of The miller should we
say the theory is abe most peffeet of all ,beo-
ries should we not prefer a theory that would
grind well People are surprised that the adrniA
rers OF he English government are eager for
wars history accounts for i, let u, 90 only
half as tar back as our common kavv the ,Sy,,.rL
century, and during the long reign of Henry III.
from l3lo 20 1872. we see Eng and torn by wars.
Tor IN reign of SO years there were scarcely
SIX OF peace In the reign of Ed. 1. III, III.
from l274 to 1S77, period of 103 y, ars, there
were not ten years of peace During the fife
tst n century IL was no better. The war be-
ween TWO great houses of robbers which should
hold the sceptre of plunder--he ubite and red
roses--which lasted from 1852 o 1485 that is
,nH'y three Yeas in al thai cen ury and IL in
from those periods we bring down cur common
,aw. there were scarcely zen years CT peace in a
ioO! Take II three centuries lower down-In
he daSasGn age. it has BEEN called. of Eng.
'ano' mat rs The reign OF queen Anne, they were
! at war from 1902 70 l7I3 anu then they renal
, ned at peace ony FIVE ears for George went
1O,war in l7iS and continued for his per sona oh
J Jects TO i72l the longest of.pe4ce known
nett re tha5 period occurred at This time IL was
Tor he extraordinary length Of Is years tina, is
| 90 lIo9, whsn anoher war vas begun which
continued nine years and ended in i748 with
| the peace CT AK la Chapelle but after eight
years broke out again H. 1856 and con, nue.. e.
ven years that is TO 1865 thi, was broken a.
gam IN i1fo, and conun4 ed 10 1888 this lasted
| only ten years. ter II " as renewed in 1895 and
has continued ever since
Must that not b. most blessed governments
IN theory, in which such has ben the practice
some one should count up the number of iipes
expended.
! the orphans and widows left destitute
| The expenses are tolerably well known.
lhe quantity OF misery produced is not with
| IN the faculty OF language, nor Of pic ured dea,
criptionI nor even OF the most exquisite sensi.
0hity OF nerve TO conceive any adequate idea of.
Dean Tucker. that 6. ca, stickler against Ame-
| tican liberty, acknowledges, that - the wars of
= ZOO years past, by the confession of all par.
" ties. really ended he advantage Of none,
g. but to the dettin:ent of all"
Why should we not follow British Practice
Is not The t6eO'y the NEST stupeudous face that
human cul'ibiiity was ever dused, an .cled. and
satirized BY .4uyOya
D1ED- At Mr.. GiiIey Lewis's, in Cumber and
COUNTY on Monday the 18Th int Mr.. WAL
TER IRVINE. M>r>hans, New Canon he
has lett wife and Two helpless children to &c L.
plcre their loss.
-, On Tuesday night last, Decor JAMES
CoNNlE, a naive OF Scotland, and for upwards
d tort! years past, respectable practitioner of
Physc in This place.
- Much interesting matter is omitted