Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1809-11-17
R c H M o N d,
THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND
ARE DIVIDES FROM THEIR KINGS MIN.

THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND
ARE DIvIDEB FROM THEIR KINGS MIN.
IsrERs.
THERE is very little doubt that Eng.
land, (meaning the tcohte of Engllnd,) is
sincerely disposed to accom- m odate all diff.
, ferencss with the United States of Ameri.
Ca; and there is no obstacle whatever, eli.
| ther OF prejudice or of interest, to- preveAt
the American government from conserving
to terms which have for their basis the law
OF nations and mutual justice. The sub.
Jects OF the British crown have manifested
the most uneauivocai disposition for a friend.
~ understanding with US, whenever CLEAN
OF hope has broke in upon them and led to
the expectation of a restoration of harmony
; This fact is proved by the rejoiciugs and
Nominations with which the news of Mr.
Erskine's arrangement with secretary Smith
WAS received at Liverpool and Other con
siderable trading towns of Great Britain.
AID, It ought 70 be known, that the decIara
items of satisfaction which esca Sed from the
English merchants on that occasion, gave
more serious alarm to the British ministry
than even the conquests of Bonaparte. They
were alarmed, because the A nerican go.
vernment perceived, by those rejoicings and
ii!uminations, that Canning, and Castle.
reagh, and Percival, were DIT variance with
the feoh!e OF England !; that the latter did
not, with heart and with hand, approve and
support the measures which had been a..
dopted by the former against America (;
that they did not sanction that duplicity,
that knaverys that tame cheating. which
the jugglers were playing off in the shape
OF orders in council, of dispatches to their
ambassadors in the United States, of ap.
polntments of new minister's, aid in every
ether way that could be devised oy heads
long skilled in law-quibbles aad hearts IA.
miliarised to the breach of contracts. And
to codnteract the opinion that a schism
thus pre- walls between the people of Great
Britain and their Oppressors. that the suu..
Jects OF George the third detest his despi.
Cable ministers as much as we do, Canning
* Co. bought up the services of parcel
OF drunken sailors to insult the American
nag at Liverpool, thinking to improve the
hired act of "a set of vagabond and besotted
mariners upon the world tor the deliberate
violence OF tae commercial men OF the place
lhS thing, however, was seen through we
perfectly understood it in America : the
truth is not to be concealed by the hirelings
OF the kings Cabinet. Thousands of private
letters are received by every arrival in the
United States from England, deplorI0g the
continuance of differences between the two
countries. These sentiments do not come
troR the corrupted oiigarchy Of Londou,
from Canning and his psnsioned sisters, nor
from pArson Perclvats nor fro;a the naval
friends OF Such notorious scoundrels as
Whltby, and Humphreys, and Berkeley
but they come from men of true British sp,-
rit, who WISH to save their sinking country
! from perdition, and who know that it is
Impossible 10 save it if a rupture should
Ia ke place with the United States.
Ihe American opposition prl1ts have of
ten insulated, and sometimes asserted,
, that We ought To bear with Great Britain,
because she is struggling for existence. To
! this We snail reply IN plain terms-let the
fcofiLe of England choose rulers who will
promote equity and do what good faith re.
cures /; lee those rulers evince to US that
| they viii do what is right, and will adhere
| to It let them restore our impressed sea-
men, and desist from further inpressments
let them make compensation for property
piundered let them respect our indepen-
dence, aud honor our nag as they ought to
do, and then let them Call upon US in the
hour OF danger, and they will find that we
are neither niggardiy nor backward. All
this the feohle of England have the dspo-
sition to dove know they hAve-they
have said so a thousand times-they have
shewn 1t by their actions when the bayo; ct
was not at their breasts. The heohle OF
England know the Americans weli--they
know them to be brave, they know them to
be generous, and they know them to be
faithful to their engagements. With such
q nation, the yeomanry of the island are
( anxious 70 keep OH good terms-but their
present rulers, and the ruters of their king
! will not permit them. With the prevailing
! English ministry it seems almost impossible
to come upon any terms OF am.ty. Make
what arrangement you will with them, they
have some provision by which TO elude the
performances of it==s3ome point of etiquette
to avoid the fuldlment of the obligations OF
jushce=or some pretext for openly viola
ting the most solemn .compacts.
The treaty protected by Col. Monroe,
bad enough Ia itssif, was rendered entirely
nugatory Oy tue reservation tackled TO IL in
the shape Of = ryder==then We had Rose
sent over, who played prank or diploma,
cy by sticking for the point of honor, and
shufhed or 10 London after performing his
partzznext Erskine was made the tool oil
I perfidy and bee ,me the victim Of the Bri
fish ministry =.and, to cap the climax oil
ministerial turpitnde, an impudent bully,
OF the name OF Jackson, perfect incendia.
~ n diplomacy, very salamander Of the
1 diplomatic corps of England, turbulent
! ppatsq 4 ,Od -Rn Vehouoc NJ nolttical cOrrur,