Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1814-05-07
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, covered with what they could prncur.
ney zvere a heof!e zsho al came f,on, ceD4-
IJorfa6le homes, and fhe S'reatest farf cjrfAen,
fe,iShed seven thousand only were alive
few days ago! Other cefoni,s had mn 6c1-
| Ter Jdfe. owing TO the bnd mana. cement of
those who were commissioned 70 provide .or
them, and not the climate
ne villain king OF Prussia, by forcing
the So!anders to receive al aduiterated coiu.
which he had made for the purpose, gained
| ~ the lowest calculation, seven millions CT
| collars oy the manGuvre.-" Ha,ing, (says
Sutnsie) stripped the coun ry of money and
provisions, his next attempt was TO thin it
stiii more of Observation-Disclosures To people his
own dominicns at the expense Of Poland
mad been his great aim: for this purpose he
devised new contribution every town and
village was obliged to furnish Ger tain nun.
GER OF n;arri?geabie girls; the parents to
give, as a po.tiaD, ;.feafher bed, four r,il-
lows, Cow, two hoSs, aud three ducaSs ia
goid.--Some were btuud hand aud toot. and
carried off as criminals. His exactions
from the abbeys, converts, cathedrals, and
MOVIES, were SO heavy, and exceeded at last
'heir abilities so much. that the priests IA
bandoned their churches, and tie mobiles
their lands. These exacions continued with
unabated rigpr, from the year 177I to the
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and possession taken Of the provinces usurp.
| ed. From these proceedings it would APP.
pear that his Prussian majesty knew of no
rights but his own no pretensions but those
of the house OF brandenburg; no other rule.
| OF justice but hisowh pride and ambition"
Russians were even more severe on tha
roles than the Prussians terror preceded
| and horror followed their movements.-Aus-
tria behaved the best; yet she must be re-
garded as a frincihotn the whole inioui,y.1
These are the Russians and their governs
! ment. The Cossacks are even yet worse:
| their business is robbery-ther trade de-
structon. Nothing is sacred, nothing is in.
vlolable. that is within their power. With
more freedom than the Russians, they are
more blood thirsty and cruel. Platoff, a
great man among them, offered his daugh.
| ter, with a large dowry, TO emu one that
| would assassinate (nliud, the word, is. AS,
/ SASSINATE) Benaparte- There is nothing
| TO surprise US in these notions of Patcff's:
| but that he should be applautled for them at
a public feast at Edinburg, the capital of
the enlightened Kingdom of Scotland
lwhere the people are so religious thar shey
| say grace by the honr, and will hardly brew
beer on Saturday lest it should work On the
Sabbath) merely shews us there, are Co.'S
sacks 0! all countries; we, In the United
| OttlcS, nave ~ IU.l STOCK OF them.
TO thesebIief outlines OF tho Character oe
The Russian nation, we add the following
| testimonies Of the people of France TO ese
tablish the pretensions of this people TO the
reformation efsoeiefy, ard the re esfabH, ~
meat Of order and law hey are from the
raris papers, and Chiefly extracted from
ofhcial representation"
Parties OF Austrians and Cossacks reacb.
ed Foutainbieau. The great business oe
the former was to check the barbarisms az
the latter yet they pluHdered eeery thing
Many OF these Iartars that were killed NV
The peasants were found 10 have eight or ten
watches.
The municipal Council of Sezame saw
we mad the misfortune to be invaded by
TWO thousand Cossacks-no more safety for
citizens, no more respect for womenErob>
berry, rapes, horrid treatments. was the or.
der of day.
The deputation from the CITY of Nopen.
represent, that the excuses there "a were
not the work OF few stragglers," the gems
erais themselves personally plundered-
they talked much of giving up Paris TO bill
iagc, and OF sending the women to peonle
the Russian desarrs.
The depntation from Provins, after stating
the exaclons made, say" the, assassina.
ted peaceabie inhabitants ;quartered NAV.
or ; put child in the fire to obtain from ;ts
unhappy mother what they wanted !: to sa
tisfy their brutal passion, they violated in
MANY places, girls and married women. one
OF wEom was go years old, one who was
pregnant, aud who was broughtt to bed some
moments alter. They even entered horse.
BACK aud armed mo the hospital, where
they robbed and manglet all they fonnd--
they spread every where death and destrnc..
tlonH They exulted in the hone of the ,,Jo-
rions mischief they would do at Paris!
Inc reputation from Chateau Thierrv
say. we come, Orr hearts overwhelmed
with grief, to deposit in your bosom a faint
sketch OK the excuses committed in orr nm
fortunate city during the short stay of onr
oaroarous enemies--then follows a long de-
tan OF horrors like the preceding,
Inc CosSack general Sacken, "beioe
wounded, was brought into house. he tbers
received tue most assiduous attentions-
some days afterwards this house was n;I,ao.
co. ine owner went to implore the rrotec.
uon oil the general, but he refused it with
sternness, and bis only reply was this-7o
IHfRge,to bnrn, 10 violate is The lasy ofDtQ1"
IL IS needless TO continue the harrpwio,
aetail--such, with The burning of houses, &c.
were the terrible inCidsnts That every where
occurred. But the peasantry, driven to des-
Parauon ny their signal atrocities, exacted
signal vengeance. They cla.e and Dur.
sued them III ali directions, like mad. dogs.
and shot them down whenever opoortun,tc,
ohered. In the village If Yegne, 1t is said,
shey Threw eighty OF them, aivs, into the