Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1815-04-12

cious Infringement OF the laws Of nexfralitv, By
seizing the America schooner Dorothea. which
had run ashore on the Isle OF Cuba, pressing a
spanish negro fisacrutan and by threats com
pe''tng him to pilot detachment of his men to
the spot whittier the American crew had re-
treated, firing on them and taking four of them
prisoners. r.-' g
| 50. The British admiralty, as appears bv .
letter fson captain OGisrne of Salem, dated
Nov, I, 1914 keeping prisoners in the dusgeons
oil Dartmoor, by order of the English govern
ment tsso hoasa,t.i vae Hundred .lAae,iccn sea
men, who in time of the most profound peace
had been forcibly and feioniously f,dnapeea
out OF american merchant ships, compelled ia
serve on board their men of war, and to con
quer, for Great britain, the empire of tie sea
lthe maintenance of which prisoners they will
attemptto charge the United States in har d
| cash ~. -
So The late barbarous treatment of our brave
out unfortunate seamen in the prisons of Hal.
itax, by which the deaths of hundreds of them
We're produced.
81. The prohibition of the American COM.
missary OF prisoners at Halifax, from living
within ten miles of Halifax, and forbiddne him
rom visiting the prisoners, for whose care he
was sent thither; while British commisssries
were seen in all our seaports, and fea,fed by
| their frierds. = =
50. The concealment of American prisoners
from our commissary At Halifax, and several
hundred being sent to England by the British
naval commanders in an Illicit manner, wi,hou,
any return or account of them being given to
| our cornmssary. sftw-'o
SO. Stealing negroes, and sending them IN
Halifax, and sending back old negroes whom
'hey could not sell, AZ prisoners, exchanged in
equivalent for brave British tars-
Let no man say, that these are the efIusions
OF mind, IN which enmity has ranked To ha
tred: They are facts, notorious, i,con,royer,i
Bile facts, which have taken from the newsna.
pers pubiish she'd in this town by the most zeaons
abettors OF British strocities IAN " facts MEYER
lie, said old Parsons on the bench.
! IL N my circumscribed sphere I find no diff
Guilty IN collecting such mass Of foul deeds
committed within one year, every nne of which
- sufficient 20 brand any nation with eycr,ast.
ing infamy, what tale would he not be able 10
,eii, who could minutely rsnsack their annals.
look from the fountain head into the gulph Of
corruption, and follow their ships over the
ocean OF which they have arrogated to them
selves the empire.
Human nature shoulders at the recital of these
enormities, and we can only divest ourselves
OF the painful sensations thcyexcite, by turnin,r
our eyes to the American flag, which unspotted
and unpolluted, has been carried into the most
sacred recess OF the temple of fame, by honor.
courage, humanity, and patriotism. -
me memorable year OF 1914, has added To
The long list of our nsyai heroes. P,ytery a
warrington, Blakeiey.a Reid, BsrLe, an Or
6on'ie0ur, and above All, the bright name of i.
naGcdonongh, who defeated and captured pr;.
tish Meet IN battle, IN comparison of WHICH
as our rude enemy said, Nelson's maryel,ous
contest at Trafalgar was only hea-bite And
scarcely had he torn tho flag out of the hands nj
an ins''ent fee. than he bestowed on their dead
the same religious attention with which he hon.
ored ms own men, and hasten to set at liberty
'he wounded prisoners, that they might nat for
moment he deprived of the soothing assist,
'nce OF Their friends and companions, so very
unlike admiral Cnchrane, who did not LOSE n mo-.
nnrnt IN sending his prisoners from the Missis,
s'ppi to pc rish in the pestileatal climate of ia.
msica and 1rinidaG
WEI, might Burke saw. in speaking of the
s'"'e ON EUROPE, that &c the age Of chiyalrv was
80 certainty - gone for England, but
here only can we now see the true knipb.s
without tear and spithout -epronck But what
snail we think of the miserable wretcbes WIN
are foremost in the defence of the perpetrators
OF tne above enumerated crimes, &c; the ne.
rusai OF which makes the blood run cold /? Who
spend SIX hours every day on their knees 10 a.
uo,e mat idoi OF Iniquity, who proclaim it pub
io'y 70 oe NE pillar OF our salvation, and who
brand with the name of jacobiu every man, who
does not JOIN in their sacriIegious worship; who
not only wish to deprive us oil our hard. earned
lane, but even of our political existence, by en-.
ueaVoring under the insidious cry of commerce
and religion. to bring us under the SWAY of those
swlndiers and forgers, liars and periurera.
thieves and kidnaPpers. ncendiaries and church
robbers, teions and outlaws, murderers snd nj
rates, sodomites and blasphemers. 1t is time
10 tear the mask from their hypocFitical faces,
10 distance them from our councils, and to com.
pei them to retreat to that ignomin ious obscur.
MY from which they have only emerged by the
West artifices and the most diabolical macbi.
nations.
A YANKEE SAILOR.