Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1815-07-19

sliNSA oh VIC ttune, Will DC reduced to
$4,000, badly enough disposed to carry ON war
which has not, all their officers loudly declare
any other object than TO p-escrve Belgium 10 Eny-
and Ne are in. fact assured thar disgust Nth
The zrar Is carried Sreut lengths in the Russian
army. From the general to the subaltern. they
speak loudly OF its injustice they shew its folly
IN comparing its advantages, which VIII be mo-.
thing to It's dangers which arc real. The gene
rails especially, demand why, after so many hard
Ships' so many glorious events, they should c,o
SIX hundred leagues from their country, from
sheir property so long abandoned, to search for
rat CUES, and success 1T least doubtful, 10 COM
promt The glory already acquired. and undertake
an expedition, whose mprudence ough, TO strike
every Hihe, at moment when there are between
france and Russia so many RIVAL powers with
whom so many subjects are vet in discussion.
Inc Russians begin to take 10 part in the poll,
cy OF Their master. Shall lie make war for. The.
interests of Don Q,,ixotte, that the emperor ex-
poses and sacrifices them. Shall we make war
rom hatred or Napoleon But is it allowab e
Tor soVe e,gns TO mterpose Their personal resent
ments between nations Aud when these resent
hents are unjust, nations which they involve do
not hesitate to Judge them severely Those of
the emperor Alexander are estimated at Peters
burg As at London, by all persons who recollect
what passed at Austerlltz, at Tilst, and Erf;,rt.
VINO then has forgotten, that al; err the battle of
aus'eriitz, the emperor Alexander might have
been prisoner that turned at Gading by mar
shat Davoust, he could not ret re from post on
so critical, but by ple1lging hrs word of honor to
re- enter Russia by regular stages, with his army,
ana .nterneddi no more in the affairs of Ger
many and that he, of whom he now declares
niinseh the impacable enemy, preferred the
hope OF making friend, to the glory of carving
nm to grace his triumph IN PARIS
Who then will have forgotten that at Tilsit, the
emperor Alexander had no longer an army !:
Lithuania was rising in arms behind hun. the
deputies of this province were already with Ma
poieon The emperor Alexander saw no re-
source but IN the generosity of the orqueror.--
he passed the Niemen, he came to dwell for 90
days IN the camp of Napoleon, not having any
other table than his, other guard than his
guard. Peace was made, and the emperor Alex
ander saw SO clearly he saved his states, by that
generous peace, that he sad on signing the rati.
hcatIon of the treaty &c TO day is Mc a,,niversa-
iy 81 ihe battle Of ullo5ca this dan eotalv sa1,es
the empire a year had hardly elapsed since
AleXander traversed the French army from the
V,stula to Erfurt, where he renamed month
entirely at the disposal of the emperor
II, after the war Recommended, Austria and
Prussia took part in it against Alexander, that
was done without an mostly on the side of Napo-
leon, who before and after his entry INTO Moscow,
proposed peace, and who, in that capital hazard
'ilS i'S'sOu, ANU FISK OF perISning IN
the flames, to extnguish the confagraton which
Rastopschn had kindled Where, then, eiquired
the Russians, are the motives, of the hatred of
Alexander and if that hatred has foundations
which We know not, where IS tn justice of ma
kng million ofmen fight to appease it we
have much to lose, and nothing to gam; the
frontiers Sweden are at the gates of St Peters
burg; ours at the gates Of Stockholm our Inn
It's have been entered in Moldavia, IN Persia Po-
ri inCk a..n
Prussia, and recreated an intermediate power
which shelters us from all fears on the side of
france. This is what they say in the Russian
army. lis what they necessarily repeat At Pc
tersburg. What is TO be hoped from q war
whose motives excite discomfort and awaken no
hope
The news from Austria is not much more sat
isfactory. This power demands new subsidies
too, not only for the $4,000 men whom she has
promised to send to the Rhine, garrisons inclu-
defi, but hes des the army which she IS to leave
IN Germany, on one SIDE to watch Bavari
winch she dlstrnsts; and on the other, the
hussian corps VIII oh we pay, and Alexander
Will leave n Poland Perhaps she viii demand
us too, for the 10000 men whom she now en-
ploys IN Italy, and who have already sutfere,
considerable losses, whe, her in the affairs with
the King of Naples, affairs which have been most
~ fatal to It, or by diseases losses which es-
~ one Oh Jllelf
army We Know the influence of that clmae OF
Austrian troops we know what it VIII effect III
me season we are about to enter, and we foresee
that It the count de Bellegarde reaches Naples
with ms army, which is hardly probable, he will
Drlng back only ITS broken wreck into Austria.
. In tne, Prussia, ruined by the prodIgious eE
forts she made in 1918 and 1814--wlll not she
100 DC Obliged to have some corps d'armee des-
'lned TO RESTRAIN Saxony, and to watch the corps
mat Russia will keep with our money in Poland
o Austria, N Bavaria and Bohemia. We ought TO
expect, fit is not done already, that Russia will
require OF us a SPECIAL SUBSIDY for her corps of
observation on the upper Elbe. Thus we pay
our allies that we may observe and menace each
otner, whilst we fight for them. We shall paw
ana hght, that the autocrat of all the Russas may
De the despot of POaiId that the emperor Of
austria may Cypress absolutely noble and charm
ing Italy that the king Of Prussia may seize
heritage the most cherished, the most respecta-
Die OF the primo es of Europe. Worthy employ
ment for the treasures and the free blood of the
English people.
Whist the coalition was traffickirg with us to
5uo'erve cause which the opnon of England
!, lisavows, what was Napoleon dong Landed IN
rance The lst of March, and arrived at PARIS the
SOth by the 1st OF April, an army of 100000
men were assembled IN Flanders Since, die
roads nave been covered with old sold ers, with
the same soldiers who eturned so lately from
captivity IN tn wilds of Russia and whom entbu
'iasJn now recalls TO their colors with national
guards, who no less enthusiastic than tie army
md reused by indignation at the declaration Of
me congress, fly to the frontiers ardent and ready