Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1810-09-28
THE LATE NEWS.

Columns might be filed with com
ments on the late news from Europe.
saws the Boston Pat lot. The various
items continue, as they transpire, to
present more distinctly to ourview the
developement and the effect of those
two great systems Of policy-of naval
tyranny on the ocean, and military ty.
ranny on the continent--which in their
mutual collisions, employ the ener-
giles, absorb the resources, and war
upon the morals, of christendom.
While we attend to the detail of
this gigantic conflict, it is our duty to
keep IN constant view the principles on
which this universal warfare against
the rights of man is prosecuted-to
look to Its consequences upon the CT.
vilized world, and particularly to our
selves.
The time has certainly arrived in
which not only our statesmen, but our
merchants, making their calculations in
their own way, must look a.head in
order to shape their course, either for
national honor or private interest.
AIhc iron sided continental svstem.
lanpounced in the Decree of Milan.
ENTHUSIASTICALLY be carried into ef-
iect by the strong hand of its author:
whose sword was never backward to
execute the tyrannic deeds-promised
by his pen, unless the conqueror of
Europe, as some fondly dream, is
doomed like Alexander, to be conquer
ed by woman--and his vast projects
OF aggrandizement TO be smothered in
the cradle by that female co-partner.
who unquestionably ere this feels as
deep an interest as himself in their
completion. Our only hope of any al.
leviation of this system rests on the
word OF Napoleon, who avows its yio-
lation of every principle of public law,
and promises recognition of the prin-
cl2les ofjustice, WHEN those evils are
removed which he processes 10 coun-
teract.
those evils are that spirit of COM
msrcsal monopoly and pirate outrage
upon neutral rights, (by Mr.. Jackson
cahed "naval supremacy" which he
says must be streouously asserted)
wAich has beengrowin iormore than
two centuries past-which assumed a
body and form in the time of Crom-
well, and which for more than fifty
years past has advanced with regular
progressive strides till i, has trodden
down every principle of public and of
british law In her courts OF admiralty
and in her foreign relations.
his great system ofnational policy.
now exc plified in the kings procla-
marion for taking our persons, and his
other Orders of Council for regulating
our commerce and taxing our proper
ty, has now become the confessed
standing nuisance of the world--ius-
tined, even by its most partial advo-
Gates by no better plea than that of the
necessities of nation boasting great
or resources than any other on earth.
these pictures are not hattering--they
are faithfully drawn. 1t is a public
duty to keep them constantly in view.
-AA1<O drops efjustice.--I am glad to
sc afew drops of justice in the show
efoi degradation that is falling in ca.
iarscts on our foreign commerce.
The New York Evening Post has
the following:
$50 determined was the Emperor
to lay hands on every thing American,
that he had sequestered vessels which
had been sailing under his own licence.
The schooner Three Apprentices.
capt. Irvine, of New York; the shin
-, capt. Coffin, of Nantucket, and
the choober -, capt. Clark, which
had been trading under British and