Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1812-05-11
BATAVIA. N. Y. Anril 81

BATAVIA, N. Y. April IS.
On Monday last the militia of this
county assembled in their respective beats
pursuant to general orders, for the purpose
of raising their quota of the 1000 men thai
have been ordered to garrison our northern
| and western frontiers.
Ii is with pride and pleasure we state that
every company has volunteered their SER
vices, and thar no drafts were resorted to in
obtaining the number requisite to march at
moments warming
| loo much praise and credit cannot be
| given to the company of MATRoss, raised
in this village under the command of capt
ELicott On Monday they volunteered. and
having received intelligence that the British
were arming the Indians, and that some
shots had been fired from the Canada side
| OF the Niagara river over to the American
| shore, they furnished themselves with ne
cessary equipments from the Arsenal, and
! marched Immediately for the protection of
| the frontiers on Niagara river.
We hope sincerely that our neighbors the
British will not only see the cruelty, but the
imPolicy of arming the Indians with view
to our annoyance, which may be attended
with more disastrous consequence on their
| side than their government may at present
! foresee. -
The great, the good, the learned, the free
dom-loving JOHN HORNE TOOKE is no
more and tn their everlasting infamy be it
recorded, the tories of the United States are
base enough to attempt to blacken his me-
mory. That all our readers may properly
appreciate the conduct of those men, their
motives ought to be made known. Tories
have hated MrssTooke since the wear rs.
for the following cause. So soon as the news
/ nj thP hattie of / -, 4
don, Mr.. Tooke called a meeting of the
friends to the cause of America, at which
he presided, and at which resolution was
1opted and a subscription entered into, for
the relief of the widows and children of
his majesty's subjects who have been basely
murdered by the kings troops at Lexington,
North America, April 10, 1775" For this
Mr.. Tooke was tried, convicted and inpri-
soned as a ibelleT of chs maiesty's govern
ment," and for this, "his maiesty's govern
ment," and the lovers of him and his govern
mcnt, have hated Mr.. Tooke while living.
and would load his memory with oblouuy.
Would not such men express equal hatred
and execration of general Washington if they
dare? Most assuredly they would.
Dem. Press
From the Gazette ofhhe United States, II
IirU 80.
" 1t appears by an extract from 4 London
paper, that the celebrated philologist, John
Horne Tooke has paid the great debt of ma
ture. The life of this singular character
has been as strangely diversified as any in
dividuals now living. At one time we beheld
him exploring the deepest recesses of sci
ence, with an ardor that would lead us to
believe he had devoted his life to study and
retirement-at another he minples i'm ati rho
tumult of party contention with the fanati-
cism of a zealot. Whether literature or DO
litics was his object, it was his constant stu
dy to overthrow established systems. He
was satisfied with nothing He first devoted
himself to the desk; then to the bar then
to philology; then to politics, and carried
uproar and confusion wherever he went"
IRISH SENTIMENTS.
Extracts from Late Irish periodical J,u5Aeati-
on.
We insert the two following documents
relative to country whose honor and independ-