Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1807-03-13
COMMUNICATI0N.


III is amusing TO see with what facility
the London writers can fabricate articles
and paragraphs, calculated 70 delude the
nation little longer. Every reader of the
public prints must remember, how steadi-
ly and rapidly these deluding fabrications
have succeeded every important event
The concentration of the Austrians and
Russians after the battle of Ulm-the i'm
possibility of Napoleon's retreat-the in
vincihic heroism and gigantic strength Of
the Russians .-thcSc 7Vere tie themes
ofthe dG3 Atlength, the battle of Aus
terltz was announced and even this was
published as a Russian triumph, nctwith-
standing cannon aid baggage were all lost.
At length the King Of Prussia takes the
field! ! He and his pQpin-iay officers had
determined in council, to cut through the
French army, and take forty thousand pri-
soners. In a few DAYS, there was no Prus-
sian army-the whole country was subducd.
and the King had fed to the extreme his
dominions. Even then the Russians, who
had been spared, pardoncd and permitted
to so home from Austerlitz, were, by the
English writer's, summoned to the field of
death. These Russians, by this time, had
so much ripened their military skill, and
confirmed their courage, that to inert, 10
FSht, and TO Conquer, was considered but
rs ono act.
Having played upon these strings until
they would bear no more, the prolific ina
gnations of these interchangeable writer's,
have promulgated other prospects: and
what are they First the French army
are so afflicted with disease, and obstfuct-
ed by bad roads and inclcment weather,
that they cannot ovcrtake the ftritiUe Rus
slams ! those invincible, death-dealing Rus
nd As-t,I d..
cure themselves from pursuit and defeat,
lay waste their own country, destroy bridges
and roads, habitations and provisions, carry
oil the inhabitants, and thus compel their
victorious pursuers 20 wait and delay the
pursuit until they can repair the roads and
bridges. and obtain provisions from other
quarters
Are not these delightful scenes Is not
this havoc and dcsolation inflicted bv Rus
| sian baTbarism upon their own people, suf-
6cientto shew what would have been, and
what would yet be. the fate Of France, if
victory should attend Russian measures.
With these and similar facts before them,
the London writer's have manifested the
most audacious and impious hardihood by
/ invoking and pretending to rely upon the
aid and cooperation Of the SUPREME BE-
| ING and they persuade multltudes 20 be-
| iltNes lnit these scenes OF DHiDdGISn ana
/ ferociousness arc preferable to the gene
raj extension and protection of arts, sci
ence, commerce and rational government.
T..
! A passenger in the Ann-Ianc, arrived at
| Philadelphia from Bordeaux, informs that
BOnaparte was about assembling an army
Of 1000 600 men-6OO,OOO of whom he
meant to leave in his rear, while he march.
ed at the head Of 100000 to Russia, to set
tie his accounts with the Emperor Alex.
ander.
FZTRAoRD1NARY.-A sheep belonging
to Mr.. Joseph Baker, Of Packersfeld, wa,
d, missing Immediately after the driving snow
Of the 81 Of Dec. last-and ON tho ID inst
she was discovered in the snow, which hat
melted around her, and taken ont alive
She must have been buried all this time
$50 days. and existed without any othc
subsistence than the melting snow, and th'
turf on which she lay ~ Hamhshire FaI
DtED-Tn Washington CITY, on the Al
. INST. ABR NIAM BALDWIN, Esq n Sc