Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1810-10-19
i1trgtnta Argus.
60 K 1 c "A " y N ID,
FRIDAY. ocroBKR 10. 1910.
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publication of Mr.. Merry's letter to
Mr.. Madison on the subject of block.
AIDES. The English themselves appear
|" not to consider any blockade as ex-
I" isting, unless in respect TO particular
|" ports which may. be actually invest.
" ed - But the federal prints Insist on
the legitimacy of PAPER BLocKADEs IN
extenso! Thus, it appears, the federal
prints will not give the administration
such good terms as the British admit.
1t seems, according to Mr.. Merry,
that mere declaration of blockade,
without an actual Investment of barticu-
lar ports by a competent force, is
|" GRIEVANCE" and that when it was
:" cOnrpFfhN ofby the United States"
the gri9vanSe was "redressed." But
the torks Will not give in they are
for proclamation blockades.
II is singulsr, considering the hosti-
llity of the federal prints to Mr.. Jeffer-
sons defensive proclamations, and the
iridicule they have endeavored to cast
on them, that they should defend the
force and effect Of offensive proclamati-
ons. The thing is accounted for, by
the circumstance of the one being A.
merican and the other British. SO it
| is with the gun-boats. English gun.
boats can effect any thing but Ameri-
can gun-boats can do nothing. With
federal prints, the AmyicaniSm of a
thing is sure to spoil it.
The British have carried the paper
system far enough in all conscience /;
but the federal prints want to carry it
further-,hey want to blockade ports
withNpaws1: But we apprehend that
thisfdacfHpe will not pass current; and
if il rs attempted to be forced into cir
culation, it will soon be deprecated.
Ii cannot be forced upon the world Ell
Their by British 6aiiion or British bull
dogs.
The English government, as will be
seen by late proclamation, lin relation
to duties from Caracas, are playing
their old game of fast and loose. They
are pretending to act in unison with
the Supreme Junta at Cadiz and are
IN fact acting against it by supporting
,ioftfsS6nbreme Junta at Caracas. the
latteriproceeding upon a principle TO-
TALLY rspugnant TO the ideas of the pa
triotic party in Old Spain and ar a
momeuR, too, when the official agents
of the Old Spanish Junta are exelaim-
ling and proclaiming against the pro-
lgress of what they deem an insurgency
IN Venezuela! rhisduplicity gains for
the British merchants an advantage of
about twenty. five per cent reduction of
duties on imports and exports. But
can it last? We think not. How can
that endure. which is founded in treach-
ery! The Spaniards will soon awaken
from their dreams and shake off the
monopolizing, commercial leech and,
at Mevents, the American federalists,
| (wemean the honest pare of them,)
will DC able to discern of what perf1y
Gre4tERritain is capable.
| &* -A
| TReecase Of Livingston vs., Jefferson will
ret cone on, at the next Federal court
| November II u may come on, at the
next May term. 1t is said that Mr.. j.
has prepared Sketch OF his Defence for
THE use of his Counsel CMessrs. Hay, Writ
and farewell j in which he not only
touches on, but exhausts every point in the
cause-and which is brilliant monument
of his acuteness, his legal erudition and
his extensive researches. Eng.
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a case ofimprsssmeut from a vessel
lately arrived at this port, is mention
ed4t6 US as peculiarly hard. A mar
| ana Wife, with two children, were pas
sekiter Is TO this country. The man wa.
ltaKEn on board the ship Of war, ant
the woman left with her children tc
seek her bread, friendless and hear
broken, in a strange land. 1t was cru
, el thos TO part man and wife: it is q
lpisce of inhumanity often con plaiued
Of by members of the British parlia.
ment 10 illustrating the savage treat.
nent OF blacks and horrors of slavery.
Perhaps, though it is supposed tha
white people, especially natives of Ire.
land, are not possessed of SO fine leel.
ings and social affections as blacks
But the press gang should have taken
the wife and children along with the
husband. II is wrong TO take from