Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1815-10-25

had not the Duke of CAMBRIDGE. with I.udah,,
| activity, baiiied this part of their design Let
these writer's, therefore, say no more about dsin-
! 'ereStedness as to this matter. Besides, are we
not, py The means of our Royal Family, related to
| Prussia, Brunswick, and the rest; and do these
scurvy writer's not think that we ought TO feel
| ior them Lord Grenville once said, that Hano
ger Ought to be as dear to us as HamDshire
And yet roe are quite diaatercsted! NE haze
undergone no humiiiations, though Hanover was
conquered evcn 1oish0us 6sttie, and though Ma
| PoIeon ruled it for many years
The change Of tone in our newspapers. and in
deed, IN the mass of thep people, is well worthy
Oh remark; Before the war began, .N;lbolesn was
tha sole OBJECT abuse or at least he and the
G,tGy. Now all France is abused. Heis now out
tine question: and yet wehear ofnothnr but ex-
eAnortations 10 cripple dismember & ruin France
II IS non the French People, who, we were told
wereail' or AZ least, great majority of them. for
the legitimate king, goes the can't of the dn
Il was solely against NAPOLEON that we made war
olt Hos9 we are to put it out of the power of the
French to do Us harm, .fjr q century Even the
poor KING does not escape the malice of these
writers -----They accuse him of seeming to
think that the union Of this people will make
him stronger against the allies Poor man! His
situation IS less envisble than when he was at
Gneht, Boosting o. the numbers and valor of those
/ aflles. Monsieur Chateaubriand himself will
| soon become an object of abuse here, unless he
hastens to write an ode, or some Of his trash, in
praise OF Old Butcher, the honest Old Marshall
tae harbnger OF the Bourbons. The Royalists,
II thcy have any feeling but that of feadlike NAL
zee ieft ttheir souls are not quite absorbed in
'rA'gmty against the people who freed them
selves from their era sp, must feel ashamed at be-
my NUMBERED amongst those who are now tread
ing Their country under foot But, as to dis
ihemDeTment, as to pictures and statues as to e.
very thing else that can be named that French
no II not u IL
! ancient Gu, ieudal and ecclesiastical tyranny
ne army IS, according to these writers, to
De disnanded Better cut their throats at once
,or, what is the use of dsbandug that which can
ne, the next day, called together There is no.
thing short ofactualiy killing one half of the peo-
Pc OF France thatwill answer the purpose that
these malignant men have in view and that can
| not be done. The Germans must go home again
! some time or another, and the fine country where
they now are, must and will prosper They can
NOT eat all the things in France. They will have
according to our newspaper accounts, pretty
good examining, but they cannot eat all up
| iney cannot eat the ground and the fine sun
! shme They wall go back with reluctance, but
| go they must.
Aud, my Lord, what is to be done then p
What will the Pitt system then have accomplish
! ed 1t VIII have put Napoleon in state to be
| nsuitet by our writers of newspapers and Their
| like. But he was not known when the Pitt svs
| TEN OF war began, and not for years afterwards.
| 1t will have restored the Rou,,6ons. 1t Will in
! deed, have carried back some men of that name
but it will have restored no part of the Bourboa
government 1t will nothave put the feuClal lords
! IN possession OF their courts and their Dover nor
will it have restored the Monks and priests 70
their power and their tythes. If, in the wear
1898 Pitt, IN one of his fasly, sonorous speech
es had said % Let us so hastily into the war
tor at the end of twenty two wears by expendinp,
six hundred millions raised within the wear. and
by loading the nation with forty or fifty millions
q year forever after, we shall certainly succeed
IN restoring the house of Bourbon % IfPitt had.
at that time, said this how the honorable House
would have stared at him And, vet, even this
has not get been done With half n million of
fore gn troops in France, the Bourbons are not
restored. Not half of Frsnce yet acknowledge
their sway and when all France shall acknow-
ledge their ~, that sway will not in fact, be
the s1vay Of the BOtarGOns The truth Is. that we
have in the course Of This long war, lost sight of
ITS origin We now rejoice at result, which
AT the outset we should have deplored We now
feel HAPPY to have lest all but ON. Tues We
have been of late years, so terrified that we have
thcught nothing ofour property. IfPnt had said,
must have tenth OF your incomes through the
war and even 2tter the peace I must have a
Corn bill to enable the farmers 10 paw their tax.
e must load you and your children forever
WIN ioIr or hve times the taxes you now pay
4 mus iia'NJ w way VI lHClutll, q war with A.
merica, wnch will create a fleet and mantIfac-
lures IN that country l must see that republic
with ten millions OF people, and with most cd.
liant and no very small navy: all this must be be-
fore l accomplish my restoration of the Bourbons
- Pitt had SAID this would ne have rot many
votes for the war How gladly would we be lust
where We Were in 1885, and see France what
she then was There are very few men indeed
who would not wish this. But the wish is vain.
The injury We can with all our subsidized armies
lnhict upon the French people, will be of short
duration those which we have inflicted on our.
selves viii last for ages, or will moro speedily
terminate after some speedy conyulslon. tbs
wasp can give great torment, for while, to
much larger and more powerful animals than it.
Seifi but, BY tie very act, It loses its power TO
sting forever after, and gives itself. wound which
hnslly causes its own death.
Our news writers and their stupid pupils talk
OF nothing but the dsfsats and limitations, which
hey would make the world believe the French
nation have experienced and are now experience
ing But, let them show one single instance m
winch the French have been defeated by a1v one
nation, OF oy any f7go nations let them shew one
nation ~ all Europe, whose armies have not up
ON che or more occasions been defeated BY tie
fFeach LET Them name one single sovereign ON
tbs continent who has not been compelled TO
bow 70 The French let them shew one nation
VINO las made 50 gallant a defence against It's
invaders & then they may hope TO pursuade the
world that France las been defeated and humbled
~ fJUr men each nearly as strung FaideI