Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1809-10-27
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Che facts which have stated, relative
70 the commerce Carried OH III the doMni..
Gus OF Napoleon arc stated upon such au-
thority that have no scru2Ie i'll voucling
tor their truth. So minute, indeed, Is my
Information, that l could have named J,.n>s
and places and other particulars, IN coa-
ifmaion of very fact relative to this COM
,0erce, th4tI have stated in general terms.
fhat such commerce, 50 extensive so
D nehcial to the parties concerned in it,
forming SD complete chain OF connection
betwS en the several countries whose means
Napoleon must wish to unite and bring
| under MS control, SO fertile iii al the means
| oil restoring or creating vast naval pow.
CT that such commerce existed Know
that the people OF England could not have
supposed possible, and verify believe,
that your maJesty's servants were, iii this
respect, little better informed than the
nation at large ; for to believe otherwise,
| would be to suppose them guilty of he
nous offence against their master as well
as against his people. To believe that they
knew OF the existence OF a commerce Car
r,ed on in the doininions cf Napoleon, and
employing, perhaps, 100000 mariners to
! believe that they knew of the existence
oi such commerce while they were con
| gratuiauBg Us upon the auninilation OF the
| maritime power OF France, would be to
accuse then of hypocrisy unparalleled in
! he history oi human depravity.-Of this
knowledge, therefore, acquit them, and
shall be well sitisfi ID, if they now, tho
/ late, adopt measures to remove that dan.
ser, which, II their present system be
adhered to, can, as far as Can perceive,
never terminate but in the subjugation of
our country, and Of course IN the subver-
sion of your majesty's throne.
In my next, shall endeavor to shew
that the commerce OF Fraace may be de-
slloyed, and OF course that Vast means OF
Creating "a naval force, may be cut off.
fue real Causes OF the inethc,ency OF our
navy III this respect, will be found to lie
much deeper than is generally imagined,
and wnere L AN sure your majesty does
hot suspect because, supported as your
majesty would be by the unanimous voice
OF the people, you possess the power OF re-
moving tor ever the most ,nischisvous of
those Causes. The war upon, the couunent
may prove very embarrassing TO Napo-
| leon IL may produce his Ovtrthrow-bul
| lt may produce exactly contrary effects
~ III y not on.y relieve him iron all those
em0 ,rraSsments which he has hitherto ex /.
| per.enced, bus may end IN the complete
| over,hrow o. every thing that Calls Itself
our TREND. This aCcompl shed, as far as
| relates TO the east, how quickly viii the
| wings OF revenge, united with those OF am
oiuon, bear Hun 10 the south And, II he
once obtains possession o. the whole OF
the Coasts OF Portugal and SPAN, wha. il
we pefsevere III our present mode of war
fare, Is to prevent HIM from sitting uu,-
| ely down, and seeing US exhaust ours-if
wear Ourselt out, torment ourselves with
continual aiarmy while his COMMONS have
Only To support flotilla at Boulogne and
an army OF England, at an expence, Der.
ndpS not greater than that which we ars
put to tor the maintenance of cur Local
militia Wnere, tncn, should we look
Tor AN end of our danger? There never
more, while that stat. of things lasted
could be peace united with SAFETY. for
Eagand.
II thls paper should (whici, l greatly
doubt) reach the ear or your majesty,
nope that by this concluding paragraph
all prevail upon you 10 diStruss III So WIZ
iiatter you with the prospect OF seein.
the people OF France revolt against their
emperor, to do which there nas not an.
peared IN any shape the smallest incIina-
ton. Deseech your majesty to Consider
that all those persons in France and her
domlnions, VINO are now from 20 to ID
years OF age-that is to say, all that parI
OF the population WHICH, in time of dis.
turDauce, decided the fate Of government
have been reared up in principles wn.c6
mus make them hazard their lives a
thousand times over, rather than see their
cOu0ry return to the ancient order Of
Things and tnat supPosins principle and
prejudice to have no weight, still self-in.
terest, that all powerful stimulus. will
never suffer "A naLlon consisting, in yrsa-
part, Of those VINO are styled usurpers OF
the soil, topermit any thing whicn shall
expose them TO the chance however
small, of being ousted from their usurpatIoni
l trust, therefore, that your majesty VIII
DC mdaced to place no reliance upon any
such events and Of course, that you Wi
be the NOSE disposed to adopt such nea.
sures as shall tend 10 bring into fair opera
ton the naval power OF the country, aud
thereby to keep alive the hopes of your
people. Hitherto there has always been
some ground for hope, or the people have
at least imagined such ground. But If Aus.
tria should lall-~-and II, which would be
the almost certain consequence, the sou.
tnern peninsula should follow, where then
IT the means of suddenly forming navy
DC s;Iii suffered to exist in France, will be
ground OF hope! The gloom of despair
wIii pervade, and mast peryade the poiIti-