Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1812-09-21

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so long as the army are not actually drop
ping down with hunger, they prefer attend
ing to what more nearly concerns them, viz.
| the division of the loaves and fishes. gam
bling, whoring, and drinking, with other
similar amusements, so that as yet the en-
barge has not been felt, but if continued a :
bout twelve months longer, which it ought
TO oe--war or peace-it will set all matters
right oil the Peninsula. The people of A.
merica must be infatuated indeed, if their,
eyes are now not opened to the real charac-
ter and views of Englishmen, as regards A
merica, and they must now perceive the
weapon that can be welded with effect a.
gainst this country. In America YOU have
been accustomed to look too much to change.
OF men In the government of England, for a
Change OF measures towards American com
mercc. For about a dozen years you have
been waiting for the prince of Wales to come
into power, who was to do every thing for
you. We'll the prince of Wales came into
power, and Charles Fox was i'm power six
years ago, and what did either of them do
for you? Certainly Fox was at the head of
the party who proiessed themselves to be the
friends OF America, and his friendship was
finely exemplIied by the institution of his pa
per blockade on the 10th of May, 1906, de-
claring the whole European continent, from
the Eide to Brcst, in state of blockade.
which was in truth the foundation and COR
ner stone OF all the French DEGREES and or
ders in council, by which America has been
plundered and troiden under foot. Now
your present great friend is lord Granville.
who negotiated Jays treaty, and who in con-
Junction with the oldqueen, humbugred that
weak and vain man into an agreement which
violated an existing treaty with France, and
Sa1r afisat..
Carrying gram, aour, and other provisions To
a necessitous nation, to whom America pre-
tended to be friendly--but the Injustice
and mgratitade of the u. 5. in ratifyine that
scandaious treaty has not been forgotten b,
France, and that nation must see Won ac,u-
ally at war with England, before she will
with all your Hail Columbia's and brar
SlnSs, believe you to be any other than the
allies and Colonists of &, Britain. o,. neroir
you to nave any commerce on the Continent
OF Europe. Then, again, Viz Broueriian is
another great friend of America. and Ger.
calmly he has been the principal means OF
procuring the nominal repeal of the order,
IN council, by bringing 20 the bar of the hoase
III Commons, living evidence of the distress
oil the manufacturers, which would melt the
heart OF even your shaUerS IN America bu,
tnen, do you know that all this friendship OF
W. SfNiS, 10 tOT luCSc Starving
tacturers, and ior himself, and not an ounce
| ofitfor AmerIcanss Mr. Broui.a.,, want. 20
turn our the present men IA power, and to go
| IN himself, and makes his friendship Tor A
merica and the starving manufacturers the
stepping ladder. Bat hear what he saws him
self on the subject" He would not s1rren-
der the right OF Great Britain to institute pa
per oloc&adcs, he would always MAINTAIN II
butbecausea man had right TO walk through
his neighbor's grounds was he 10 be eternal
ly exercising that right-was he to be walk
ing ali day & all night through those grounds.
lest his right should be disputed" No-Mr
Brougham would not rob and plumber Afoe
RIGA when he found she would not su5mi; To
it, and by the measure she had adopted a
gainsI England inretalitnion, could destroyhe,
| government. But Mr.. Brougham would ne
verthelcss maintain the right of England tc
do so at time perfectly convenient to her.
! seit-then America has Il wonderful num-
Der OF friends among those starving manu-
tacturers from whom she has been taking
| goods, and their friendship amounts exactly
TO this-that like Bonaparte's love for the
Americans-they both love their moaey. anC
there it ends"