Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1811-07-22


MONDAY, JuLr %. 1911.
FOR THE ARGUS.
II PARODY on tgvo lines Of OvtD, chhfed
10 jAaEs MADISON,
President Of The United States
Jay 1871.
Jamque opus ezegi, quod nee Jovis ira, nee
ignis,
Nee fcrrum, nee edax poterit abolere vetus-
Above the feeble wrath of scribbers vile,
Their open malice, or nsi.ous guile
Ills Ftme is fS'd on Turnes solid base,
Winch iofcncc Cannot shake, nor art de-
face,
Nor even slow-cnrroins tsg,e erase
We invite the attention the citizenl
of this Statc, To the prospectus in this ea,
paper, or a new literary periodical work q
be published in Baltimore. by AIr. H. NILS,
late proprietor and editor of the Evening
Post Slch publication as the NyEZxLY
REsIsTKa promises to be, has bcen long
much wanted in our country: and the known
talents and industry of It's editor, muss secure
tSt a vciy extensive patronage. lie has oar
<mcH hearty wishes tor success III his new
IL - iength ascertaine;l, to the convicti-
V &eaEtht: most sceptical, and through the me
dunn OF British prints too, whose authority in
Such case maybe readily admitted not on
iy that the Berlin and Milan DEGREES are re-
scinded rs TO us, bet d.at their rescisson takes
date on the ID November lass, the day on
which our proclamation was Issued. 1t is
thus reduced 70 certainty that france has
complied with the letter CT our law Of May,
1910 Forinti:naJing this fact, scarcely three
emil ala, Il
by the federal prints, and not very gently re-
buked by some OF our Republican brethren.
Of the former we ask no iavors; Of the lat
ter all we ask is, that they win in future &c
guarded in their reprobation, and do US
the justice to believe that we do not often
sport opinions on slight foundation, or substi-
tutc Tor facts the result OF vague conjecture. 1T
isto be hoped that the return to a sense OF JUS
tee, indicated by this step of the French go
vernment, is but preclude to a restoration
OF, or intlemniication for. all the property so
vexaticusly sequestered in France previously
to the ID November last, and Particularly un-
der the justly obnoxious Rambouillet decree.
MAJ. Int.
If British authority may be relied on, their
orders in council alone now exclude us from
an extensive and lucrative trade TO France.
If she be not calous TO the voice of interest
as to that of justice, Great Britain cannot he
state promptly to follow the example setby
n s
JUsTIcE-and no n,ore.-ln an article CO.
pied into several papers, from the Baltimore
Wing, it is asserted that the American gogr
eminent was about shipping one million Of
dollars in specie, to France. We are autho-
rised to State that the assertion, although gil
ven on democratic authority, is not strictly
correct-that no more than S 100000 is to be
sent, to pay the interest on the debt due to
private individuals in Holland, commonly
called the Dutch debt--that the government
has entlcavored to negotiate the, payment of
IT N bills OF exchange, which has failed on
account of the interruption of commerce be-
tween England and Holland, and on account
OF the sequestration of all American proper
ty IN Holland, which left no funds at the dis
posal of the merchants. The present re-
mittance is, therefore, of necessity, made in
sPecie.-Freeman's Journal.
BRITISH RGERY.--AIr. PEI. TIER,
famous renegade Frenchmau, conductor of
Journal in London, is admitted in the Lon
don papers TO be the author CT late speech
purporting to have been delivered by Bona
parte Such are the French :" state papers
which sparkle in the columns of credulous A
~ merican cditorse--Balt. Wing.
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