Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1813-11-04
News MANGLED.

Whether IL is that the adviceS are mutt
lated through that miserable trick Of weak
minds, which seeks to mitigate chagTin, by
endeavoring to conceal or disguise the Ma.
ture OF events which are past, and thereby
to derive consolation from the momentary
concea!ment the advices just received from
Europe, exhibit. in the form they reach us
from Boston, the most gross jumbling of pal
pable ignorance and mutilation we yecollect
to have witnessed, even from the wooden
headed oracles Of that T., gion of notions.
1t must occur to any reasonable and can
did man, that whatever may be the actual
turn Of events, which had their full effect in
Europe in August last, they could not Re
changed nor affected by any concealment or
classification at this distance of lime and
place. There Is a pitlful kind of littlenesS,
peculiar quality of meanness, in the at
tempt to discolor or conceal what has ire
vocab!y taken place, autlwhich must sooner
or later be known III It's real shape and char
acter.
The accounts from Boston, when TIE Bri-
tiSh obtain any successes, are not merely
bazoncd forth in detail with an exulting mi
nuteness and inflated panegyrcs GIL the ge-
nins OF the British, Spanish. Portuguese, and
even the Cossack and Putaw atmi generals
but many amusing commentaries are fur
nshed by their great orator---things that
make grave men laugh, and compel gaety
itself to become 81 ave--We have lately read
some OF tins trash in pamphlets and news
papers, which, if they were worth the ink
OF rldlcule, might furnish mirth for a FORT
night. We shall devote few minutes TO
EXHIBIT single article which we find in a
Boston news paper.
Alter recitng in 4 way calculated to de
feat every eXpec tatOn of news or certainty
on It's tenor and effect, the English writer
whether OF Boston or London, we are left
TO gueSs) proceeds to inform his thinking
readers, that the viCeroy of ltaiy, had pass
ed the Italian ronfier ! and irlest and was
at -dldeSS6u'S ON the Dist; after this nota-
bic piece OF information, for information il
Is OF most extraordinary kind-he adds
we hear nothing OF the Austrian move
ments III that quarter"-this will however.
cease TO be surprising, when it is known tina
-1ideS@bHFS has no other existence than in
the very Creative fancy of the WI ter; who
nevertheless very gravely proceeds TO tell
US 1t is somewhere near the duchy of earns
ola /. Not Content however with moving
prince Eugene by Triest (and ne might as
well have moved him at once to brest or
Boston) he discovers an absurdity in Mi
ian article which he says states that the vi
ceroy IS marching upon SaXony by Laybach /;
because, says this grave writer, lie must be
marching upon Carniola-neverp ercelving
that Irlest was at least fifty miles more out
OF the road towards Germany than Lay
bach, and that Laybach was the capital OF
that very Carniola.
Folly and ignorance, such as this eXhi-
bits, is Illuminating, and we hope and trust
that, extreme as is the depravity OF poti-
cans OF the Boston stamp, ihat the gross
stupidity Oelongs rather to the objects of
their idolatry than to themselves; and that
such gross ignorance will have had its source
IN the London newspapers. .iuroya.