Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1815-04-01


| ings ct money and of personal services had
poured IN from all ranks and degrees. He
wou q see the several trades sending forth
their members alternately. He would see
| the merchant. the mechanic, the shop keep
er, the lawyer. the student, the school,
F, boy. the labourer. all uniting to 20 and
work with their own haads, in the erection
| OF ordinations, the making of fascines, the
dragging ut Cannon, aud the doing of every
| 9ther HI tending enable their govern,
.aent to re is IS; While the farmers were
rifaiirg ach otter in offers of their horses
q oil acc mniodations and provisions for the
persons 81 npoyed. In August there were
i've t,ous nd men, all volu tee S. employed
daily In preparations for defence The di =
vers meeting and resolutions cannut here
! ne gwen account of in detail-but it is i'm.
possible to look at these papers, without be-
ing convinced that the spirit of resistance is
| universal and that the idea of the pec1lo
OF America being g disposed to put them
selves under our frofection,' is extremely
erroneous
he spectacle is, too, very interesting, in
another view of the matter. l. shews, i'm
ne most lively coors, what men are of
themselves, and without commanders, able
ana willing to do in defence of their couu.
ny The same spectacle is exhibited at
uey from all descriptions of men /; more
than twenty thousand men, horse and foot.
Always ready o march and meet the enemy
-iorsihcations erecting on the Delaware
piequets established down the side of that
river, and videttcs stationed all the way a.
long the coaat to the Chesapeake. cannot
'oroear Inserting part of publication by
me committee of defence of New York, of
me SON August, in ttese words:
Ihe committee acknowledge the recent
Ut l2 Wagon loads of fascines, averaging
$ bundles each load, presented by the
township OF Jamaica and brought to fort
.5reen by Its citlzens, headed by the Rev.
var. ocnoonmaker. TIE principal of the
ac'aemy at Jamaica, Mr. Egenbrot and his
puEii, lied In cutting the fascines.''
ms l. a she cf'nen OF what was going on.
Does this snew' strong disboSition 10
fuf themselves under or PROTECTION pr
Inc following general orders, published at
rhiiadeiphia, will shew how things we're,
at the same time, going on there -
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 80.
Fourth Military District,
IL. Quarters. Phils leii. ha, Aug z7. 1914
GENERAL ORDERS
Captain Ross, with thirty men of his troop
o. cavalry, are called into service, to act as
videttes, between this city, the Delaware.
and the Chesapeake. The signal for alarm
vii be SIX guns. fred in quick succession
at Fort " ifflr, 1T the navy ward. and Of
the arsenal, .,na by the dru ms of the civ
nd iioerlies beating 20 arms.'-And inn
nedlately thereupon, all the militia will
pefade equipped completely for the field,
-" upon Chestnut street. extending south
"ardly on Broad street. The officers of the
Typographical depai tment, and CORPS of en-
lin RS yIyIiI
mex % general Jonathan Williams. who IS
pleased to undertake the superintendent
of the cree ion of works in and near this ri.
ty Tor It's defsnce
By order of Gen Bloomfield.
WIN. DUANE, Adj. Gen.
The select and Common councils. on Sa.
turday evening last, appropriated 300 COO
dollars. and the Northern Liberties and
Southwark lOC, 900 dollars each, to be pia-
ced at the disposal of the committee of de-
fence"
This was no contemplate sum for one
city. 1t was 100000. of our money This
William Duane, whom we here see an ad.
jntant general, was the proprietor of a news
paper, when lived in Philadelphia. He
mad been the saTSe in the East In lies, where.
as he ated, his Office HAD been DESTROYED,
ais types flung into the street, himself lode-
ed IN the guard house, and afterwards sent
out of the country. He carried hrs resent.
inents along with him to America, where
for about twenty years, by diut of talent and
courage, he has possessed very considera
BILE influence on the rublic Find /, while
in America, was mis- great opponent. We
sad bitter tliugs of each ct ,er, and some
things, which on both sides Se e false. In
the bitterness of parry rage. ne accused me
of being in the fay Of the British minister,
and / accused him II b,i1g a runaaav and
traitor. Watcher he has ever done me the
ju-. C acknowledge tia his accusations
were u just, know not but have done
him tia, justice long ago AID lest, what
then SAID may have been forgotten, will
now repeat i'll had, in Philadelphia, a
friend, and l nope still, have, named ri h.
ard rth, an EDghshman. settled there
for May year most worthy, honest,
kid and rue man-aud distingui he'd, a.
bOve all the men | ever knew by his devo
ion TO England. This beloved friend OF
mne was IN England in 1906 and having
some business in ireland, he went to Clo71
met, the birth place OF Mr. Duane, in the
tu'l expectation, and perhaps, 10 the hope
oi finding proof OF the truth Of these aecu.
sations OF ours against this distinguished en-
envy OF the Eoghh government.
But my tread North, though the most pre-
JUDGED, perhaps Of all Mr. Danes enc.
nics, had more honesty and homer than
prejudice } and lie told me, that NOS onl,