Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1808-05-13
BURLEsQUE AMENDMENTS.

ded the Senators into ihrce classes
so that one third shall be chosen an
nuallv: aud out of that class whose
time of service shall first expire-our
is to be taken. A
number of balls or beans1 equal to
that of the class, is to be thrown into
4 box and Shaken. The names of
the senators to be writtel one on each
ball, lone of which balls shall be colo
red, the others white" The Senator
who shall draw the colored ball, shall
be President (! !!!!!- CWhig.
The people of the United States will
be vastly obliged to Senator Hillhouse,
for relieving them of the trouble of
electing president.-His proposal
to choose President from among
Senators, by drawing beans from a box,
has been aptly termed Lottery
The black bean entities the bearer to
100000 dollars, in equal annual pay
ments. Hillhouse, having i ticket, ex
ofiicio, cares not how quick the draw
ing commences. democrat.
Although the election for The city and
county of New York has Terminated g,c-
riously for the republican cause. we fear
the result generally Throughout, the state
is against us. There certainly is some
thing "rot,en in the state of Denmark"
Local prejudices and personal in,erey, fire..
GoenIy overpower the force of sound prin-
ciples.-The man whose vote is guided
by the calculation Of gain, is unworthy
tae enjoyment of liberty. We could wish
10 know in what scale the inIilence Of The
late ambassador to France has been thrown,
as he has considerable weight in two or
three counties in the middle district, ow-
ing 10 his late landed estate. GARDENER
is reelected but we fear he air OF Wash
ington or Bladensburg will mol aglee with
his health at least he will b., cautious in
future how he snuffs it. The oifactory
nerve in some people has strong aver.
sion togunpoWder. The counties of K ich.
mond, Suffolk, Rock'and and Orange, have
adhered to the good cause Of republicans
ism; Rensselaer,, Ulster, Kings. Queens,
Westchester, and some say Montgomery,
have seeded from their former good pin.
c,ples Duchess has returned two repnb.
licans, two guilds and two feds for assem-.
bly,, and a fed for congress Greene, Del
aware and Albany, have been almost al
ways in the opposition. AZ ell events the
election III New York state, will point on.
the Ill effects resulting from dependence
placed on influential characters, or at least
so supposed, whose abandonment Of prin
cipe could turn the scale of an important
ell RxtIS
The British government by this time
knows the exact vai1e Of their corrcspon-
dence in the United States; it is not in
deed surprising that the government of
England should be deceived, when the a.
gents 1t employs have an interest in the
deceit.
Mr.. TTmothy Pickering, who almost
made home CT Mr.. Roses lodging at
Westinghouse in this city now, and he
appears TO be equally familiar and dome S..
ticated with the British consul, Phineas
Bond.
Had the British government soueht-in,
formation from such men as Mr.. Barring,
they might have saved their colonies and
their manufacturers from the ruin which
the deceptive accounts of their agents here,
have involved them In.
Mr. Hoce, by the course he pursued here
appears 10 have studied the federal flrinfs,
and taken their publications as the sense or
The nonsense of America; he confessed, be,
fore he left Washington, tina, lie departed
from this country with opinions Of il very
different from those he brought with him
from on board the SIa,ira.
The nations of Europe, when they read
the correspondence of The British minis.
ter, and compare il with the mild but man
ly--the vigorous but temperate--the cor.
rect, just and noble reply of MIR. Madison,
will Ind that the talents Of the new world
are not interior to the policy of its GOV.
eminent, and that both stand Oh a hjpI
eminence compared with the wretched di.
plomatists Of the unfortunate British ma
ton. -.dnrora.
The unjust persecution with which The
members ofthc Jewish religion have been
pursued by almost all The nations of he
world, is entirely abolished throueGou the
French dominions. Religious intolerance
has been exercised in all It's severity, and,
on their emancipation, The most heartfelt
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