Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1813-05-13

| performing a faithful tour Of duty in tie SER
vice OF their country, at Norfolk, capt. l..
| Faylor's Company of Richmond Rii,emen.
They were met & escorted into Gown by all
their military brethern OF the city, and Il
number Of their fellow citizens.
Atlcngth our standard has waved in tri
umph over Il subjugated cnemy's town.
York, the capital vi Upper C,lnaila, has
fallen beneath our af.ns Ii has, hoyNver,
cost us pretty dear. Pike, the brave. the
enterprizing Pike, has been blown up, with
| 200 Of his comradec. So says the account.
We hope, in this respect, there may have
| been some mistake. We have, it seems, ia
| ken humber OF prisoners-among them
| are said tn be mary Indians. Will the
| British exchange them. According TO the
| rulcs Of war their lives are forfeited. AS the
| English profit of their va!or, they oight
! to edeem them from their perilous SITUATE
! on. lhe indians are their allies. But it
| would be quite i'll the British spirit if, after
having, like the Devil with sinners, made
use of them 10 murder the Americans, they
| were to abandon them to their fate.
| Since we expressed our opinions on some
| Of the late articles ofintel!igence from Eng
| land, we have seen accounts of the occupa-
| ton of Berlin, Humburgh, and Cuxhaven,
! somewhat more in detail. We find, as we
| supposed, that the Russians have pushed a
| few light troopsforward, and that the French
had retired without fighting. Cuxhaven was
taken possession of by a few British soldiers
from Hcligoland. The Lontoners are fat
| tering themselves with regaining Hanover,
| the old patrimony of King George.-From
all that We can discern, Austria, Bavaria,
| and Saxony, stand firm to France. And what
| seems little singular, the Szvedes have not
| yet taken any decisive step ofhostility against
3 napartc. In one article which we have
seen, Castlereagh is said actually to have
| resigned. Perhaps lie found that Canning,
his Old enemy, was Coming into the cabinet,
and thence prognosticated his own downfall,
| il he did not retreat. Retreating is as good
in politician as General If Mr.. Ran
dolph had retreated from public life eight
years ago. he would have saved himself
| Bat, there is another point which may have
had some influence in efecting the reSigna-
] ton of lord Castlereagh. We were told, not
long since, that full cabinet council was
! held TO consult on the case of the Princess of
4 Wales. Now we are given 10 understand
| that that princess is restored TO the public
and private rights of her station. May not
| this restoration have been the result of the
cabinet consultation May not Castlereagll
| have been in the minority on the important
| question concerning the Princess of Wales?
/ Il he was, il may have been the cnuse of his
secession from administration. But--this is
all conjecture; and we beg that it may pass
| for jus. as much as it is worth.
| French newspapers received at Newport,
| Rhode Island, represent the war with Rus
| STA us Becoming popular in France. We be-
! lieve it, Tor an obvious reason. The French
| are military people and their disasters in
i Russia have tended to call In question their
military skill. Thatisa tender chord W tn a
Frcnchman and Bonaparte hasmade it vi
| brate to some purpose. His policy OF draw
| ing veterans from Spain and replacing them
by conscripts, will make his army of thenorth
effective the moment it takes the field
Among all the causes of British naval in
feriority when coming in contact with the
| Americans, there is one which must be ope
ratiye, but which John BULBS .anity will not
let him think of 1t is probable that Great
| Britain has heretofore had 10000 Of our sea-
men in her service. Now, these, or whatso-
ever number there may be, would fight "a
gainst any nation on earth but their own, G.
ven On board an English man of war; and
this will in some degree account for British
success with the ships of other Countries
But those seamen will not fight, or, at least,
if they do, it would be feebly, against their
native soil Hence, the English fall an easi-
en- prey to us.
The recent electinns in New-York evince
the growing popularity of the war fer our
Rights. The western district, which has
been most the scene Of military movements,
has come out gloriously in the republican
cause. 1t is le,-that is. NOT &c
truorainary. but worthy of rcmark--the
farther you go from the seaboard. and the
habts Of the British partizans, the more
Overwhelming the republican impurities
Baltimore, and one or two other places, do,
indeed, afford an exception to this observa-
ton but IN general it is true and particu
larly so in New England.
It may be supposed that the leader OF the
incendiary gang wko burnt Havre-de-graCe
| vas specially chosen for the purpose
Cock burn was only exemplfying hiss name
when lie was setting houses and barns on
ere.
/ We are much gratfed at the conduct Ct
the Editor OF the Dem. Press, in publishing
he names OF individuals who attempt to
| iiscountenance patriotism, and impair the
| vIgor of the public force. such men ought
a. least to be k7io7vu if they cannot be pun
ished. We wish the practice of Mr.. Binns
to become universal.
Some dastardly men, it seems, have run
of from Baltimore with their goods and
chattels. After fattening, in peace, upon the