Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1809-10-06
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ARGUS.
Extract Of letter fran respectable
Merchant IN PHILADELPHIA, TO his friend
IN the City Of Washington, dated Sep
fem6er 18Th, 1909.
"Ihave seenletters from Naples and Leg =
horn, by the Kite, dated the 10th OF Aug.
from well-informed men, stating that the
negotiation was broken off between Arm
strong and Hauterive, and that orders ha6
been received at Naples to buy up ali the
colonial produce in the place."
We understand, from good authority, that
All order has been issued from the War De-
partment of the United States, for General
Wade Hampton to- take the command of
the army, and that General Wilkinson is
to return TO Washington city. The paru.
cular cause or object OF this arrangement,
we have not understood. Rumor, as usual,
attributes it TO different reasons, some ia
vorable and some unfavorable 70 the repu-
tation ,of the commander in chief
The Boston Repertory some time since
remarked, that although the democratic
prints made a great noise concerning the
SEIZURE OF the Danish fleet, not one of the N
had pointed out the nature of the Crime with
which the English are charged in their bonn
bardment OF Copenhagen. The Repertory
has all the desire without the ability TO
screen the BRUSH ministry from the aDhor-
renee OF justly mcensed world. If il be
allowable to say any thing with respect to
the atrocity of the act IN question, after the
Bile protest of very respectable minority
OF the E"glish parliament, and more par.
nculariy after the able exposition OF the IA
8 ant Injustice of the transaction made in
us parliamentary Character by Lord Frs
tine, we might remark, that:
he attack on Copenhagen and the sell.
zWe OF the Danish ileet was an outrage on
the law OF nations, which requires decla-
ration of war before an attack
TWAS peculiarly periidious towards Den
mark, because she was at peace with En-
gland, and had no intimation OF a hostile in
teDtion in the latter until the British fleet
was in the sound
1t was introducing the doctrine of high.
way robbery into the maXims which have
long been held sacred among nations, by
sanctioninG the principle that neutEal
power may be justifabiy pIundered and her
citizens murdered In the uDsuspecting mo-
ments ot peace and confidence
1t was double act OF treachery, because
the expedition was extensively destined to
nSa's' VIC pWSucS, WHo'u lL aOanuoncO, ana
II attacked the Danes with whom England
was IN amity:
1t was an execrable act, because it broke
through tue salutary barriers established
against barbarism, and introduced bueca-
neering and barbarian principles into the
public law of Europe
And 1t was AN act which ought sensbly
to aflect the United States of America, the
only remaining neutral power, which might,
IN some weak point, become the victim of
this new British ministerial spirit and To-
gic.
These are brief HINTS, to refresh the
memory of the editor of the Repertory, who,
for further particulars, is referred 20 the
aforesaid exposition OF lord Erskine and his
feliow-peers a document which has been
puoi'sb,d in the American newspapers, and
IS worthy of republication at tbs moment