Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1808-07-15


CT the dispositions of the English on.
vernlnent, we need very lit lie information.
tor OF their hostile intentions, our govern
meat is well aware whether the@e is =
ny new evid ence OF their purposes TO an
tempt the stupid project of separation Of
the unioni and forming a. government in
the eastern states, in alliance or union lin
the IRISH sty!e) with England we cannot
say ; but our government has for some
time been IN possession of such information
--indeedlord Holland, in the British house
OF lords, lately scoHed at the present .ad.
mlnistration Tor countenancing a plan SO
monstrously prepos;erous. Lord Hawkes.
bury indeed affected to,denv such an INTENT.
on ; but any one who recollects their conduct
to Denmark, or their conduct i'm setting on
foot the joint expedition of Miranda and
Burr, will know what value to give de.
ciaration ofthe elder son of Jenkinson.
By what we have been able 10 learn
from verbal report of England, the state
O. that country must be very critical in the
present year. The government, however.
has proposed some rigorous measures to
strengthen their hands, and TO be ready
by coercioo of popular rsings, 10 car
ry their system of war policy to the ex-
tresnc.
The French do not this year make any
ADMINISTRATIONS OF remarkable kind on
the coast OF the British channel and
less approximations appeared to be enter.
ta'ned OF an invasion in England than
heretofore; bat there j. an enemy in The
coanfry. more formidable than the French
that is, the dangerous appearance of
7canf, before which stone walls fall sooner
than ~ bombardment.
The impression, as to the British or
ders IN council was, among the Americans
IN London, that there was some undcysfan
ding ON the subject here thai in. order to
regain the ascendancy 10 faction deyo.
ted TO the government. of England in A
me- lea, the orders Of council should be
rigidiy enforced until the election NJ a fire
s'dent Of tie United Slates--fFom The pres
SUITE OF the embargo it vas calculated hat
the people of America would becom
discontinued and choose executive officers
who would avow hostility to the embar.
80, and that in this case they should be
sureof an alliance, offensive aud defensive,
against France.
Against The folly cf such presump ions
II IS IN vain to argue al this dis,auce.--
The agents OF England are paid for de
ceiying that blinded government into the
belief, and it is only when hey find that
their creduiIty on this occasion as a. fs-
'al as when they placed reliance on the
same description of persons from 1903
to i7so--Ihat they Will discover their
folly
There can be no doubt that The inf,
nous conduct Of Pickering. aud the pref
ses acting 10 hostility 10 he gaveFnrnen.
OF The United SIa;es, must have a zen.
dency tn enCreasc the confidence uf she
BRUSH ministers in he seductive ard dc
cepiye reports of;heir Official eTnissaues,
AID there can be ve,y litile doub hat at
er Nle,srs. Er kIpe and Mansfield, {who
are now on a tour in The eastern states
make their report 10 the British ministers,
that from the society into which they en,er,
the refiresensa,icns which they will receive
from the infectious company VIII ch alone
hey VIII seek, that their report will be
as strongly III favor of the deceit as that
If admira! Cain, after his return to En-
gland from Boston two years ago. This
Coffin is an American himself, aud on his
return to England, openly asserted Thar
the eastern states were ready for an ALL
aDce or union wish the British govern
ment, and no doubt there may be found
three or four hdndred persons Of Ina. viie
character such characters will address
themselves TO the British agents now in
the eastern stales--and their basepess
will be reported 10 England as the sense
Of Hn,erica !!
The courts of admiralty OF England,
which ere generally the interpreters Of
the court poIicy, have recently condemn.
ed so many American vessels, that the
disposition of the government may be
precisely inferred from thence.
We notice ,his point, however, only to
refer from the circumstance TO another
part oflhe British policy; when the Bit.
Ish government stand in need Of vessel,
for special purpose, to go 10 the con-
tinent, they c0ntrIye TO oh ain vessels con-
demned or frustrated, in their admiral y
courts those vessels lave their original
papears all exact and correct, and with
the : papers they send fofsard their en-
tefprIze, captains suited to their views
are found, cargoes are easily iaid 10 and
With supercargoes properly instructed,
they proceed.
This traffic is now so notorious, that
it has not been aItem aied TO be contro-
verted--if ~ indeed rsduced In a -g.f.~,,