Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1814-07-23

someumes necessary, in order 70 restore
neaith and to save life. And, though the
orevity OF his Royal Highness's answs, pre-.
Guided him from introducing this fact, iii
engage that he perceived it as clearly q.
the reader can perceive it, and that it forms
no unimportant place in the serious cogita-
lions OF his ministers. could wish much
TO have from some able peu Of the sociaI or
der school, clear defisiton of the phrase,
military despotism,'' from which, az we
arc told France has recently been deli.
vered.--by military despotism have al.
Ways understood to be meant state of
tmngs. IN which the ruling party relies upon
soldiers tor keeping the people in order and
making them obey. Il is no matter. accur-
omg to my notion Of the thing, who. OF what
sort OF name or title is given to the ruling
party. 1t IL the substance that have Oh
ways had in view. people kept in aste
',nd cnreocIIed TO obedience by 4 I-:F...,..il
torEe' constantly present among them.
nave always regarded as people living UNI
der military despotism This must, from
ms Royal Highness's observation. have
been the case in France, and i do most ain,
cereiy hope that it will no longer be so.--
but the reader should be cautioned against
believing. that military despotism cannot
exist without the ruler being a great soldi-
er and conqueror for, tie most sneaking
coward, the meanest reptile in existence,
might, by the means of an army judciously
employed and we'll paid for the purpose, sub
due IN time thevery souls & senses of a nation.
Nor, would it seem, is the existence of laws
and the regular administration of Justice, in
compatible with military despotism for, as we
have seen, Napoleon establishel laws, and such
good laws too, that the people have contracted
win their new sovereign for the preservation
OF those very Jaws aye, for the maintenance
OF that very code, which the military despo,
framed, promulgated, and put into full and en-.
tire execution. Therefore, we learn that there
may be regular courts ofjustice, and all the o.
ther Things OF a like nature going on and that
real military despotism may, in fact, be the
sort OF government under which the degraded
people live. There is one part of the address,
IN which 1t was impossible for his Royal ii gh-
| ness to agree in sentiment with the CITY ofI.on-
don. | allude to that passage, where The Lori
Mayor K Is, fellow addressers observe. that tn.
french people have formed " plan of Govern
ment on the model of our own excellent Copsti
tuition. This was great mistake. at least, i,
we are, rs the Wings call it, to look at tn.
practice of the Constitution. No two thing.
can be more DIFFERENT than the French
CONSTITUTION and ours, in its present practice :.
a proposition which l think nyself abIe m
prove to the satisfaction of every one who will
read, a''d which L shall endeavor to do in tn,
| next tee lister. Mind, esder, am not sav;n
or goNig TO say, which of the two is the HE'S I.
or winch the WORST. 1 will net even sIfer
| an opinion upoa this point. This is above my
! night snail leave my readers to Judge, and
| to say, whether what we have preserved is as
| good, or better, than what the French neonie
nave gained, but pledge myselfto shew. thai
Tue two things bear not the lcasl re semblance Z,
| each other Upon the subject of correction OF
| ABUSES IN our own Government, it is hardly ne.
cessary tor His Royal Highness to saw any
thing, seeing that he must have been satisfied
mat the addressers could not doubt of his rea.
| dinsss to concur in any measure having that i'm
portrait object in view, now that peace vii,
have completely removed the great obstacle To
! tue undertaking, 1t always having been allep
| ed that time OF war was not the proper time
we shall now, without all doubt, have the
wings amongst tine most forward for a reform
ofthe Parliament, their aid having been with
| neid TOT years past, upon the ground that the
time was too stormy 10 set about repairing the
iab.ic of the Constitution We shai, all bova
the leisure now to contribute our best efforts
IN TINS great Undertaking, freed rom the iargon
ABOUT JacooInism and NapoIeCn's partizans.-
AFTER this storm We have much to repair. We
nave great many laws to look at, which were
caheo dorth srowedly by the French reyoIu-
t'on: These Will, should suppose, not be
held to be necessary in future Tor. if tbev he
we nave triumpled over the revolutionary ,,r;n,
! ciPies. The Pecuniary COST of the war ia an
other thing. That subject will demand who.
Register to itself. In about three weeks Jobs
Bull will be settled down into his regular h.
DTS, and may be induced to look his affairs in
the lace, and they shall then be laid before him
win a. much perspcuity as am master of
IL seems, at hrst sight, surprising that this AID.
dress OF the City should have sssed and some
rave even expressed their wonder that the A
ristocrats did not muster all their forces and
| oppose so Jacobinical a piece But the
truth rs, that already has a great change taken
place IN the feelings Of men as TO pol,t,cs.-
| lney have now no fear as they had before
That bugbear. with which artful knayes used
TO frIghten honest men out of their love of the
liberties OF their country, docs not exist anv
longer. They used to think and to saw. thai
the itetormers we're certainly right that abu-
ses ought to be corrected that sinecures of
thirty or forty thousand year ought not to ex.
Isl but, they said, at the same time, if we
| give OUR support to these reformers and berin
reformation, that formidable enemy. Mann.
| leon, may step in and eat us all up. This was
their persuasion They have now lost their
rear, and are returning to their Senses rho'
| they cannot be expected to be Jealous in the
cause oil freedom, they will no longer be enc
mes to 1t. These people do not feed on war.
nor have they titles to lose. They would like
very wei TO see a reduction of taxes. n cessa
ton OF loans, and system of economy tia,
would tend to make the funds more secure =
ihese they know that they Cannot have with.
out reform OF abuses in the representation.
,hey "ouiq, therefore, wish il I, and, though
.ney may not be forward in endeavoring to
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