Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1814-05-07
j OF November. 1871. the Rus
Q strong. attacked Praga, iae
n,reau

rer severe conflict OF eight hours,
EAssahce ON the part Of the Poles csas-t
but the massacre Of the sanguinary SUI |
vatrow continued for two hours longer and |
he pillage lasted till noon on the following
lay. Five thousand Poles were computed
o have been slain in the assault; the re-
nainder were either imprisoned or dispets-
ed The citizens were compelled to lay
down their arms; and their houses were
pluudered by the merciless Russians, who. at
ter the battle had ceased, nearly ten hours,
about nine O'Clock at night set FIRE to the
town, and again 6ega,, TO massacre the irhg-
bifanfs. Nine thousand hersons. utarmed
men. defenceiess 1vomen. and harDiiess is
fanfs, fierished either in fhc flames or BY the
sSyord, and nearly the 4rlioie effhc suburb
sDas reduced to ashes.. In the whole of this
siege it is computed that not less than $4,000
Poles lost their lives"
Ismail was taken by Suwarrow, by storm,
Dec. %, 1890, after a gallant defence. The
whole garrison, stated at thirty thousand
meu, and indeed all the inhabitants, were =.
bandoned to the fury of the brutal soldiery,
and the whole were massacred in cold
blood.
:. Such are thy Gods, o Israel!'' Such the
Idols that perverted heads and weak minds
have raised up to reform mankind, and res
cue society from, barbarian Ri
Suppose-some Frenchman were vile C..
nough to offer the body OF hi. daughter, with
large dowry, as a reward to Gny one that
would assassinafc the Prince Regent of Eng
land, and that at a public tanle in Baltimore,
the mayor of the city presiding, the health
OF that young lady should be given by him
as toast, with wish that she might soon
have a husband on the condition specified !:
andthat that toast should be received with
/" rapturous applause" by the company
What would those who have held Cos,
sack" festivals in the United States say and
think Of the mayor aud people of Baltimoref
This question has before been asked in the
Tegis,er, but is repeated for the special use
eft the concerned, and pray them to attend
TOT it. Patof. the Russian Cossack. offered
his daughter to an assassin of Napoleon
the young lady's" speedy marriage was
toasted by the Prhvost and Scotch Cossacks
at Edinturg-and he. old Platoff, who Of
fered this bribe for dssassiuatio1, has been
enthusiastically toasted by the Cossacks of
the u. States, in their late festivals.
Suppose that Tecumsen had offered his
darling daughter, with a thousand human
scalps for her dowry, to any one that would
steal into Mr.. Madison's cha amber and toma-
hawk him in his sleep-and body of CHRIS
fian people should toast the early nuptiais
OF thar lady, would we believe them to be
+" 6ntzrarks ofreligion %
As the great political parties of the Uni
ted States affect to view the successes of
France or of England lie. the allies] in re-
verse lights. as leading TO the peace & pros
perity of this republic as one party bv
splendid professions and speeches and ora
tioDs (n;neteen newspaper columns long) x
luxurious feasts, have ocle brated the freezing
to death Of tens of thousands of Frenchmen
in Russia, if the other party were, in like
manner, to rejoice at the Burning to death
of eighty Russians in France, caught in the
act of confagrating the dive lngs of the
peaccabte inhabitants, what should We say
60 i, Yet the latter might be done with At
least as much propriey US the former.
Suppose some norrid Winnebagoe, a We
teran in the wNrk of death were to proceed
to Paris, and there, in his propc. costume,
with The dreadfuI fomohagck in his belt that
had been sunken into the SOULS OF ffeeaA
mericaps, were paraded round the city seat
ed by the may or---lhat he were feasted n
the great hotel, and rec lived with huzzas
wherever he went-and that the ladies as
we'll as the gentlemen, should admire the
savage, and particularly ms ect his roma
hasvk--what would We say ct the ciyiizati.
on OF the good people of Paris?-Y =. gei.tle
reader. thus. was a Cossack reueiJ I'd, ca
ressed ana treated in Lopdon, armed with
spear with which lie said he had pat fifteen
Fr rchmen 20 death
Tits article has extended to great length.
and yet mech more might be probably said
on the subject. / i'll only add God help
the world, when rtigion order and lay are
to be supportedb, Russians Yet, there are
many traits { character in the Russian PEG
pc that admir- ana esteem Alexande
the best man thai weats crown IN Eu-
rop - But, bad is thr blsf.
have kenp a, ly. lhave no enmity 70
Rus la or love for Franco. wish then.
both to be and reu ain, great, powerful and
praspero Gus empires yet do ] RI joice most
b rt'ly ha, the British scheme for the par.
tit n Of france has failed, and that the in
v.dsrs h We pa d the forfeit of their crimes.
To my countrym n, VIII, haze France so un.
me- cifuily or love England 81 heartily, as to
have forgotten their moral and American
cha acter IN the celebrations they held of
I ermature death Of tens of thousand, Of
Ere nchneD, and in applauiing the Cossacks
Recommend calm and dispas sionate Pc
rusal of this article, that they may be bies
sed N knowing MemSefvfS.
wou"I kind hsaven The gifsie gle us,
To See ourselves sso'hers sec us"
NoTE.-In 1854. the empress Of Russia
Transmitted :" the cocrt of Warsaw an act Of
Remuneration, signed with her own hard, and
seaied with the seal OF the empire in which
she declares, that she did by no means ar
rogate to herself, her hsiys or successors or
70 her empire, any right or claim to The dis
tricts or territories which are actually IN
M " Cr- cut,f 81, q.