Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1811-06-13

his unhallowed projects against The peace
and freedom of the world, on her head be
the crime and the punishment CT so mon
strous policy. Not that it comes upon us
unexpectedly-she allied herself in sentiment
with Bonaparte when She viewed with in
difference his infamous invasion of SPAIN
Then what were the feelings of America
and in what characters will history record
the unnatural conduct of the only republ-
can people on earth, who claim an exclu-
sive privilege to hate and to denouncc every
act OF ruffan violence and every form of ar
bitrary power. 1t certainly will net kindle
glow OF emulation in the minds of the des-
cendants OF the present race, when they shall
be told that of that unparalleled crime an
oblique notice was once taken by the Amer
lean government that the people of Amer
lea seemed to rejoice at the triumph of the
invader; and frowned on the efforts of his
victims
o associate America with him in the
war against us, is the wish of Bonaparte not
because he thinks it will advance him one
step towards the subjugation of this country,
because it will feed his hatred and glut his
revenge against America. She will find that
he embraces but to stifle her. A war with
England may, indeed, soften his tone for a
time, but, as we haye seen eXemplified in the
case of Austria and Prussia, it would not
produce an oblivion of past disgusts, nor
contract his unreasonable ambition, nor ex-
tirpate his deeply rooted hostility to trade
and to popular institutions.
When an attempts to be made to plunge
America into the same abyss of ruin which
she had been assisting him to prepare for o.
theirs, she will, as in the instance of Prus-
STA be scornfully reproached and relentless
ly punished for her original neutrality for
the symptoms OF discomfort or Indignation
which she may have shewn under the yoke
of his own CALLING amity, for her very trea-
cherry to the cause she had abandoned in his
favor, and which she will be told, her fears
alone tempted to betray.
1t, after the warning voice of one of her
wisest men, Mr.. Walsh :! -if after all the
irrefragable arguments he has advanced, and
all the incontrovertible facts he had laid be-
fore her of the ruin of an alliance with
France-if, after all these, America rush in
to the arms of France, we can only say, that
the disasters, the :" Iliad of woes" that are
in store for her, ifthey be not viewed with
joy and triumph, will certainly not produce
In any British breast, one sentiment of COM
misseration."
The indications of war between France
and Russia become stronger-so strong that
we may expect it to take place within a We
ny short time, if the intelligence in tie Ger
man papers and letters betrue The former
deserves the most attention because being
under the control of France they would not
dare to say word encouraging the idea of
rupture, 1t they had not received instruc-
tons from the French government. The
press forms particular department of the
French administration. Every paper on the
continent is watched with the utmost solicit
tude. The French minister, in every town
where paper is published, has direct COM
mun!cation and control over it, and CONVEYS
MS hints, or issues his orders in the most i'm
perative manner.--The German papers,
which are arrived to the 18th, state under
the head Of Berlin, that the King of Prussia
has, tor political reasons, declined having an
interview with the Emperor Alexander-that
the organization Of the national guards pro-
ceeds with great activity to the regret of the
inhabitants, who consider at as IN indication
OF tranquility being interrupted. This can
only relate to a war with Russia, in which
Prussia, reluctantly Of course, will be COM
PEELED to take part with France, The pri-
vate letters are more positive and direct than
the public papers. Some assert that the en-
peror Alexander is determined to adopt a
system OF neutrality, feeling the continuance of
war with this country to be ruinous to his
subjects, and consequently to his finances
such determination will be considered by
BonaParte as sufficient ground for war
With all his professions of regard for the
rights of neutrals, he never suffers any DOW
er to be neutral. Who is not for me, is a
gainst me-" The lettersfrcm Koningsberg &
Mcneil say that Russia, seeing that war is in
evitable, has already formed an army of OBJ
servation in Poland, consisting of $4,000 men
has arrived on the Polish frontier,
and IN addition to the imperial guards, who
were to leave Petersburgh on the 10th,
drafts have been made from the troops in
Finland, where only small force is to be
ieft.--Courier