Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1811-10-03

ing contrast between the purjured Usurper
OF France, lcprous with guilt, furTeda and coat
ed with continent great and small murders,
and her own spotiess WAsHINGToN-and
what must not AMERICA have felt.
But one Country, like CITY on the breast
of high mountain, still looked down upon the
stupcndous ii,undation which had overw helm
ed the rest of civilized Enropc, safe, though
not secure Here was the sole refuge for
the tugtives from the fury of the deluge:
here the sole aid to those tliatvet struggled.
From the same heights blew the strong wind
whica shouidered the food, held it back,
Ike wall of waters, threatening vet sus-
pended Hence, and only hence, seemed to
| come the divine mandate, and no farther,
Yes! Britain had remained entire when all
else of Europe had been dismembereI: she
had risen and strengthened, when all others
had sunk abject and unresisting. With an
expenditure of blood and treasure, with
fecundity OF resource and obstinacy of effort,
which the present age witnesses, and pos
terity VIII contemplate with such wondcv, as
almost tinges Certainty with feeling OF un-
belief. Great Britain has supported her az
ony ct glcry, made herself mistress of the
| seas, and intcrcept;ng the iron rod with her
trident, has saved from the usurper not on
ly the ocean but every land and nation to
which the ocean is the only practicable road.
And this Great Britain has been enabled to
do, because she is free, governed by equal
laws and Comparatively at least) moral, re-
| ligious and obedient to the living instincts OF
honor and vrtuous shame
| What then must not America have felt at
| this spec.ac!ci For Britain is her mother
country, tho dear land OF her forefathers,
Audit the same language, the same books,
the same laws, the same ancestry and (with
exception or one single generation) the same
| history can constitute country: if that dear
and lofty word mean aught beside the clod
under our feet; the Britons still remain the
countrymcn Of Americans Will she not
then have said to herself had the councils of
wisdom been heard, instead of a violent and
premature disiunction, /, like an elder child
should have been gradually released from pa
rental authority, unalienated from parental
affection. America would have been Great
Britain with fullelbow room! But shall the
wrongs OF few years, and the heat and fol-
/ iy OF few ministers, be allowed to break a
sunder for ever the strongest bonds that bind
men to men in mere especial brotherhood
Shall transitory in'..ries, or rather tran
sient injurious intention, which has left no
trace behind, be allowed to expunge the graf
itude tor blessings that never can perish, and
inch every free American inherits by birth
= But why speak of the past benefits The
countries are stu interlinked by more and
stronger chains okmutual benefit, than ever
in fxlneNages PROMISED to perpetuate the
alliai'Se b&ween twp independent nations, &
ITO plad TOUT of TN reach of human folly.
Me- -embently is A 9erica advantageous to
reat Rin, and Great Britain scarcely
less tha cesSarxRo America, if the grad
ual foymation ofsDlearned class and of a nat
ural gS1Ey, if the growth OF arts and scien-
ces, II the0saasion of n taste for the human
izmg comforts of life, if a stimulous for agri-
culture, If commerce and commercial cities
that alone can supply the stimuous, if union,
II safety, if national independence be rightly
placed among the necessities of young and
tree country. 1t is British capital, which
directly or indirectly sets half the industry
OF America in moIion; it is the British fleets
that give it protection and security. Truly
might America say OF the mother country,
her warts our peace, her expenditure is our
accumulation, her grandeur and opuience
the best nurse OF our prosperity, and her ma
val sovereignty the sole pledge of our nation
al independence. Even now, and for years
past, how has England enjoyed her wealth
and power! In an almost boundless expen-
diture OF both for the support Of generous
nation, in fighting her own BATTLES and at the
same time those of freedom and common hui
NANNY, iOi anu Will TIC TatrlOtS OF the re-
ninsula, the history of whose wrongs and suf-
terlngs comprises more guilt, baseness and
horror, than were ever before crowded into
the same compass of time, and whose heroic
efforts, though commenced and carried on
the heaviest obstacles, with the few
est means, and with no other hopes than
were found in the name of Great Britain adj
ded to those drawn from the spirit and sane
tity of their own unconquerable hearts, have
achieved more and still promises more for
che common cause of nations, than all the
campaigns, and all the disciplined armies
ofthe whole continent for twenty years. Well
then may America rejoice, if it were only
that the honors of liberty, which had been
withered and blasted by her first imitator.
the republic OF France, have been retrieved
by regcnerated Spain.-Courier.
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NEw-YoRK, Sept. o7.
A schooner from and belonging to Boston,
has been taken on the Grand Banks by A