Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1808-10-14

a friend TINS morning put into my hands
Cobbett's Political Reg ster for July ID of
the present year. / have only time to copy
the following short extracts-if they do not
make few converts 70 the measures of our
administration, shall be much disappoint-
ed. There is remarkable similarity be-
tween the language of Goblet, and that of
the New England federal prints.
ATTRACTS.
"The people in Vermont carry on a trade,
across Lake Champlain, with Canada They
have set the embargo law at defiance /; they
still carry on the trade, and carry it On they
will in spite of ten thousand proclamations
from Thomas Jefferson In the western
states, it is said, that the government gum
boats have been burnt, and the militia bea-
ten. All this, the reader will recollect, ]
said would be the case. said it TIL was
afraid my readers would, be wearied with
the repetition but Mr. Alexander Barring
and his set dwelt so strongly upon the dan
gers of prohibit ton of trade on the part of
America, that ! was obliged to repeat it.
elbow often have said that. the federal
government could not exist year under the
effect of prohibition of trade with England
and her territories the trade is, in fact,
no7V carried on. II was stated in congress
just before it adjourned, that g hundred
thousand barrels of -four bad been smuggled
from the single port of Baltimore. What
has been done then, from Philadelphia, N.
York and Boston In fact, the law is near.
" dead letter, and l said it would be so
1t must be so, or The government must fall
told the Americans a thousand times, that
if ever they should be foolish enough TO .ry
their strength against England, their weak.
ness would be exposed to the world. They
would not believe me. They would insist
that they were a great nation; that Eng
land was dependent upon them; that they
could staTve England, and now we see the
result of the attempt
"The way that the American states will
get out of their embarrassment, with res
pect to us, will, should think, be this
Mr.. Thos. Jefferson and his party will be
ousted, and then the new president will dis.
claim all their hostile acts. Should this be
the case we shall go On tremendously for
the future; and, / thiok, that the Ameri-
cans Especially If n Napoleon succeed in
Spain) will not be long before they Join us
against france. That this may be the case,
/ he -rtiy wish but, i am sure. il never
will be, If sOe make the first mosement to-
wards it."
October 10.
The St. Michaels arrived at Baltimore
on Saturday last, from Torrent, which she
left the Dist of August, bringing Dispatch
es both from Mr.. Plukney and Gen. Arm
strong.
The contents will doubtless be made
known to congress-, which is soon to meet,
with any further communications which NAV
be previously received. In the mean time
there is reason to believe that no final deci-
sion had been expressed by either of the
belligerent governments, on the appeal
made by the president to the justice aud
policy of resembling their illegal edicts, I'M
der the authority vested in him by the act
of congress, to suspend in whole or in part
the embargo laws. Notwithstanding the
manifest interest and sound policy which
plead with France, 20 concur in the equita-
BILE views of the United States, her infatu..
ated attachment TO the particular system
she has adopted against her enemy, discou-
RACES reliance, at least on her setting the
example Of changing IL. 1t is understood,
that appearances we're at first favorable to
the expectation that the British government
would yield TO the unobjectionable arrange
ment contemplated by the president of a re.
vocation of the orders of council as they re-
gard the United S ates, and of the Embar-
go as il regards Great Britain; and that
there was moreover disposition indicated
to resume the affair of the Chesapeake, ,
with view to some effective step towards
its accommodation, particularly the resto-
ration of the seamen still detained in capti-
witty, to which it was admitted there could
be no reasonable objection. At later date,
the apparent disposition TO concur in the
contemplated arrangement had undergone
a change. Difficulties were started as I'M
expected as they we're irrelative and inau
spcious. Whether further explanation and
reflection would lead to the result due to the
fair and friendly views of the United States