Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1809-11-17

ltreachery is tue order of the .dav in Lon.
don whilst robbery and treason agaies
the laws of nations rs openly avowed and
strenuously allotted by the government Of
Great Britain. the people of the two coun.
tries cannot be united in the bonds of good
fellowship.
Erfract of letter from an old Yirginian
Scho lately Hassed fesv days at Hush.
/ msfon Cry, da'ed November 1874, 1909.
/" You will perceive by the National In !.
ltelligencer that the honorable Francis
lanes Jackson has been hut % the bar Of
dtffomdcy, stricken rom me record of &C
credited Ministers, and stands blighted
monument of British pertinacity and A.
merican decision. l was always convinc ed
that President Madison had the true digni.
ty and energy of character necessary for
the ruler Ut a free people. Upon the sur
face our executive magistrate is gentle,
affabie, and forbearing he examines, com :
pares, and reflects /; and always perceives,
with peculiar sagacity, the strong and the
weak points OF subject: He is not a
man that is fond of form and fashion no
one delights less in the frpperies and fur
bellows OF politics no individual is less tena-
cious of the trihing etiquette of state affairs
ne looks, only to essentials /; if he finds a
person sincere, it is enouga-he overlooks
thousand irregularities as to mode !: But,
touch the honor of the nation .,=only wound
the least interests of the country, and un-
der whatever shape the wrong Hoe r ap.
proaches he Will meet in Madison unai.
terabie hrmness. We have come to the
fotnf- The British ministry have tried the
experiment OF how much we zvon d bear
lhey had already made SLAVES OF Ave thou.
SAND OF our free born seamen-they had
murdered our citizens, and dishonored our
flag -plundered our property, forged our
ofhciai seaApapers, fa;sified our minister in
London. and illuminated our government
under the very nose of former presidents
there remained only one more thing to do
It was to give our chief magistrate offici-
ally and formally, the LIE direct. The
miscrecant who has offered this barefaced
insult to the nation, is the black hearted
agent OF Copenhagen memory fit in
strument tor any dark treachery, VIII en-
his corrupted masters, the English min.
istry, may command him to perform 1t
is not Certain whether Jackson will leave
the United States before he receives the
particular or lers of his government to that
effect. Some imagine he will depart im..
neutrality-suspicious. conjecture that he will
remain, 6iscredited as he is, as a spy and
corruPtor OF the American press till the
SPIih6 III Tic year. we HdVe lOC Il SOIL.
tary article of Information on the subject
but what you see in the governmental pa.
per=-but 1t is generally supposed that
Jackson came with no other view to this
country than to provoke by belying the
government. Ii is thought by many that
the president had well ascertaIned that this
sturdy negociator had nothing new to of.
fer, and had no Instructions to agree to a.
NY honorable or just terms whatever.
However we shall know all about it. You
may be fearless for Madison and his coun-
sellers. Depend on it they stand on SUD-
stantial and defensble ground. For my
self, can say he is statesman after my
own heart. Discreet, amiable, and endu
ed with the spirit of unyielsling fortitude !
IN the hour of peril, he will merit and
meet the applause OF every sensible, good,
and candid man in the nation. He is the
SHdUsterin Modo and the forIter in re,
which is so much admir- ed yet so seldom |
seen. Nobody laments the shame of Jack
son but crony or two which the late mn
lister had among the tories in office-and |
even they will shun him in the day time, |
however they may sneak to his house by |
starlight or in the dark. 1t is really Gu.
rious TO observe what court the small to-
ry gentry pay to every British minister
veing with each other, poor souls ! for
4 -
MES are regularly assigned over by sche !
dule, presume, from every retiring min
lister to his succcessorJ together with the
pigs, poultry cheese. parings, and articles
OF particular convenience. All the worl d
knows zvhar British minister would visit
in little upstart tory families for * yet the
creatures think it fure Personal reshect to
be noticed with a call from his Britannia
majes Us envoy
g Gen. Turreau has not been here late
ly think he does not treat our president
with sufficient respect. He sent hither not
long since capering West India heii,4mai-
ire, who cut a few silly flourishes, hopa
ped about like sparrow, and went off at
a tangent. This he calleda sample of the
diplomatic art, a Ia FrapcoiSe. He was an
object of ridicule for the whole city. And
now we have here another of the generals
secretaries, who carries appearances with
more mummery and with stupid gravity.
He is youth of IsnE-fias,e, and looks
| for all the world like child stuffed
with sugar cakes just from the nursery.
| 1 assure you, sir, that ! am not at all
satisfied with the intolerable fine airs
which his imperial aud royal maes.
ty's ambassador puts on. Here, at Wash
\ ington, is the place where he ought to be
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