Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1809-04-28
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FRIDAY, April %, 1909 !.

vi great britain lnty have all along
contcnded that she would never res.
cind her Orders of Council during the
existence of the French DEGREES, that
1t was her policy not to do it, and al
most nnjust in US to expect it. She has,
however, done so. And what renders
them truly ridiculous, is, that they ex-
clusively claim the credit to themselves.
What have they done to Justify this un-
Paralleled arrogance They have abu
sed the administration, and execrated
every measure as being calculated to
advance the views of France and to in
lure the prosperity of Great Britain.
This has been proved to be false bv the
most clear and irrefragible evidence.
They have endeavored to spread dis
trust and confusion among the people,
in which they have met with sufficient
success to induce Great Britain to SIZE
cuiate upon the hope -four ruin-to rem
Ger her more overbearing and infexi.
Die IN her system of re- coionizotion but
now that she hads this prospect illuso-
ry and likely to produce her own des-
TRACTION, she finds it necessary to re-
lax and pay some respect to US, we are
told by those very opponents that it is
the result Of their policy. To make
Great Britain admit what they have
said she ought never to do, and which
she herself confesses proceeds from that
very cause, (non intercourse) which
has been the peculiar object of their un-
RENTING execration.
Is there any person so lost in bigotry
or so blind with infatuation, as not to
see this inconsistency, and not to adj
NIT that the policy of our government
has either been above the ken of their
understanding, or that they were de-
termined to abuse and oppose it whe-
ther right or wrong 1t is immateri-
al to what cause the concessions of G..
Britain may be ascribed, we have at
least her oJun evidence to warrant us in
saying that they have proceeded from
the wise system pursued by our gov
ernment. We are well aware of the
trick to which the minority will resort
In order to extricate them from di-
lemma which threatens TO blast their
budding hopes" They viii ehdea-
yor to impose upon the people be-
lief that these propositions have been
offered to us before, by endeavoring to
force them into Monroe's treaty. AL.
tho his is evidently their design, we
must confess that we are totally at a
loss to conjecture the mode in which
they will conduct it. We feel conf
dent that it is beyond the reach of any
political magic, for it is certainly be-
yond the power of ingenuity, unless it
Is capable of proving a thing to exist
which has never existed. We shall
bestow some attention upon this SUBJ
ject In our next.
The Schooner Washington Of Nantucket,
CNdss.
ON Saturday last this vessel was seized
by the custom House officers on her way
from this port. The captain, whose name
is Samuel w. kendrick, has been arrested
by the Marshal of this district, and being
unable to give bail for his appearance at
the next court, has been committed to pri-
son. The informet was one of the crew,
whose name is Charles Waterman. The
following is very cursory sketch of his C.
violence, He stated that the vessel cleared
out from Nantucket for the port of Rich
mond, on the Goth of February. Her car
90 consisted of Flour, Tobacco, Pork, Beef,
Candles, sc. That her cargo was taken
in between the hours of 3 and IL O'Clock at
night, and Immediately set sail. That she
cleared out with 4 puncheons OF rum, which
afterwards proved to be water. Her direc-
ton was s. S. East. That gale of wind
arose which carried them to Bermudas. lie
wasthen askedif she was compelled by stress
of weather, to which he replied in the ne
gstive. Her passage from Nantucket to
Bermudas was days. He stated the par
ticuiar prices which the captain rece we'd
for his FIDur, Tobacco, sc. &c. and that
he himself saw three large bags of Dollars.
That in Bermudas he took in four punche-
ons of rum, which before had been filed
with water. That they were 10 days in
Bermudas, and about II in coming frora
thence to Hampton Roads, and about four
from the Roads t. Richmond. Entered on
the 9TH Of April. Il may be proper to re-
mark that the witness admitted that he had
a quarrel with the captain in Bermudas,
and that this was the motive which urged
him to the disclosure. The vessel now lies
dismant ed at Rockets, and the captain still
in confinement. We shall not pretend to
give any opinion upon the case until it is
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