Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1815-10-21

Ork fought battle once. Calais, per-
haps, too. The demolition of the bason of
Cherbourg. There is no knowing where
we are to stop. You remember the pun
lshment that our pious king Richard |. in
fiicted on his rebel subjects in the garrisons
which opposed him after his return from
his crusade to the Holy Land That, as
being the most eflectual mode of prevent
ing the future propagation of rebels, may,
perhaps, appear to the borough -monger
writers as the mode to be adopted towards
the French people upon this occasion.
That there will be bloody vengeance Ia
ken now, there is no doubt. The rccollec-
ton OF the battles of Gemappe, Dunkirk,
Austerlitz, Marengo, Hulen, SVagram, Ey-
lau, Friedland, Moskwa, SmoIensko. the
Helder, the capture of Rome, Naples, Tu-
rim, Amsterdam, Madrid, Hanover, Mos
COW, Berlin twice, Vienna twice; in short.
the defeats, the humiliations. the shames s.
and the bodily fears of a quarter of a CEN
fury, and, above all, the exposures of the
priests, are now assembling all their force
to obtain vengeance. The convention of
the Helder, and the convention which gave
Maria Louisa to the arms of Napoleon,
are now to be avenged. The pope has to oct
vengeance for his humiliation and so they
have all. But, what are they to do p
They cannot kill the people of France. All
Europe, with more than million of men
in arms, and with fifty millions of English
money, will replace Louis on the throne
OF France. But, they cannot remain in
France; and, if they do not remain in
France, they cannot keep him upon that
throne. He is now, as last year, moving
along towards the capital under the pro-
lection of more than half million of SOL
diers, who have made war, and are making
war upon Frenchmen, fighting on their
own soil, and in its defence. AS long as
Frenchmen are kept down by the bayonet,
he will, OF course, remain there; but, how
long will that be ? He was on the throne
last year; but, he was not there 6 months
after the hostile armies ACQUITTED France.
To hearhim threaten the French, as he did
some time ago, with chastisement by for
eign armies, 100000 in number of men,
was natural enough but, to hear him now
talking of their sorrow at his departure, &
OF their Joy at his return, is calculated to
fill one with admiration at the impudence
OF his advisers. He knew well, that it was
under the bayonets Offoreigners only that
he dared advance that ne, or any of his ia
mily, dared show tkefr nose liz France 81
yet, even while he IS following close upon
the heels of those foreigners, he boasts OF
being tie objecto OF ihe love and admiration
of the French people No, no, Louis, YOU
are restored, as you were last year, by for
eign bayOnets and the question is vet to
be decided, whether those baycnets will be
able to keep you on the throne. You have
yet stormy time pass. The battle be-
tween light and liberty, on one side, and
darkness and despOtism, on the other; that
battle, which began in 1889, is still going
on. ltmay rage less fercely for time
but, it will not be put an end to unless by
the triumph of the former.
As to the conduct of Napoleon, upon the
last occasion, it was useless for him any
longer to attempt TO support his authority
as sovereign and, indeed, it would have
been well, if be had resigned Immediately
after his return from Elba. This was full
ly expected by many men in England: s.
1t appears from his last act that we have
heard of, namely, has abdicaton in IA
YOUR Of his son, that he was only restrained
Dy his foolish attachment to the Austrian
and her child After all his glorious
deeds after all his famous battles after
all his wise acts of legislation allhis mag
unanimous proceedings; all that he has done
in the cause of mankind /: after all this,
how painful is it TO see him vainIy banker
ing after the preserving of a crown TO his
family /! and, which adds to the mortifcati-
on, to a son which he had by the daughter
of a king; and of an Austrian too! It is
melancholy TO think of. If it had been the
son OF some bridesmaids daughter! But
to risk the freedom and happiness of that
gallant nation. who had twice carried him
victorious to Berlin and twice to Vienna 1;
to risk the freedom and happiness of this
brave people for the sake of grandson of
a king, and that king an Austrian king too,
is horrible to think of. If, upon his return
from Elba, he had honestly acknowledges
his great error namely, that of connecting
himself with the old royal family, and had
declared again for republic in name as
well as in substance, If he bad done this.
and called for the convention, no power in
Europe would have moved against France.
But, when men saw that the emperor was
still to remain; that they were again to
have an empress to maintain with all her
royal progeny and that they we're likely
70 descend in fee from father to son when
they saw this, they could not possibly feel
auv uortion nc flo a. 4 ,.or-,,i,I;e.,