Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1815-05-27

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7e,npeat. Napoleon being as iey thcreht
dove, never to rise again. they urged you
II make vartiI YOU tad nut down Itla.cs
0G1o'iscf,, AVID I" delivered re -yorN OF ne
ccfSleaoe oJfikat ee,anh[e Of The success If
Democratic Re6eition' w Hefce zyith
alGdis91." was taeircry, XIII! XIII kegp
XII ing, Till he is put down This was their
tcessant cry. And, in a Shcrt time after
Napoleon was exiled to the Isle of E,ba
theseli'erary Cossacs publistlad a para
srapn, whicht they inserted Is the report OF
the debates in the House Of Commons, IS
me repors otihe speech OF sir jos. Yorkc,
then and now one of the lords IF the Ad-
mraltY, in the Following words: to wit
, Joseph Yo?kc Observed, that although
enc great enemy of this country. Bonapar,e,
h1d oeen deposed. there was another gen
t'eman whose DEPOSITION was only ne
cessary To our interest he meant Ne. PresS
iueut ~ adison; and with n view 20 that
dcrosiucn, a considerable naval force must
be Kept up. especially in the Atlantic Pat
as TO hrs honorable friends opinion respec>
tinS he reduction of the Nav, he wished
to be considered that number of ships
ping we're employed in conveying French
prisoners to France, and Bringing home our
own coHnirymen, So much for the occupa-
ton Of navy on the home station. But from
the Mediterranean, for instance, several
.hree deCkers were ordered home, and
ne could aver that no practical exertion
would be remitted to REFUGE the expence OF
our Naval Department"
With what shame with what sorrow,
would theye writer's, If they had not lost all
sense OF shame, and al feeling for thei.
country. now lool; back on their Conduct at
the 'ime TO which am referring Instead
OF feeling shanc for that condpct, they are
no" acting he same part over agNin they
are now r2vivins all their old calumuies a
Bainst the Emperor Napoleon they are II
bnSing the French army and the French
people; they are bcstowing on them APPEL.
intiors almost too infamous to be repeated ::
and they are calling upon you and your col
tsasues tn make a war Of extermu ton up,
on mat people, unless TREY will receive and
adopt the ruler and the government appoin.
TED out by England. These men called
Mr.. Madison TRAITOR and REBEL. !;
.,nd they are now calling Napoleon a TRAI-
AOlt and a REBEL. They called the A.
niericans slaves, villains, thieves ard Sese
appel!atons with many others, not except.
ing coTrarots, they are now bcsyowjng on the,
french people, They now see that you
aud your colleagues have found it nscessar
Z to make q treaty OF peace aud amity
WIN Mr., Madison, whom they called trai
and 4 rebel but, these mea arc of that
description OF fools to whom experience can.
nut each wisdom, & they are now reneatine
sh'ir CRY, no heQce yvifh .NaRokeon no
eSce tl me borocns are again on the
taEone Ct France war; with the French u iii
they adopt ruler in whom we have con.
idence
LAtteT this introduction, the writer, with
his usual acunen, sypostulates with Lord
asilereagh, ON the subject OF q rev French
war
But my Lord, loDg as this address to you
e.ready IS, there is ore view of this inapcn
ding danger, 70 which must yet beg leave
to call your serious attention.
its sad that s" war viii rs hitherto n
7our our stirling cud commercial interests
while our lazy secures as me soUlreig71iy Of
ne seas. And, afterwards, it is said, that
our " M ouiactu5cs viii prosper with the
continent OF Europe and America open"
Does not the very name of 7n1erica, cou
ped with that Of war in Europe, give rise
70 4 thousand thoughts in the mind of your
Lordship' DO you not see the rising navy
IN she mouths OF the Susquehannah and he
Hudson In short what Englishman can
look that way without alarm Ii is well
Shown' mat our commerce and shipping,
a"Fln6 the last war, were supported by the
TestrlctioEs, which orr navy enabled Us To
impose on the commerce and navigation of
ncatrals. and especially on those Of Ameri
ca II "a well known, that had we not
claimrd the sea as our own, aad exercised
our po"erth accordingly, our comnerce
and navigation must have dwin4led into
very small Compass, and those of America
woaid have been sweiled to an enormous
sze' Whlle France, open tothc shipping and
commercs OF America, would have cxperi
eaGed l'iSle injury from the powered our ma
Wen, then, Is It to be believed, when we
look at ,he progress and conclusion of the
american war, that VIC shaE again attempt
thcse restrictions On her CONNIE &c and ma.
Vlg1tion Tis is not 90 be believed and If
we were TO attempt them, is it to be he
heved' that We sh5Ild not instantly find A
mS'icd a farfyt2 me 7,ar aglinst as p
ne iate c'enf N France, wal excite in A
mefca' 10Y unbounded, and especially q.
mongst those against vhom the rnS, cjops
snelts ~ inc eii'ors OF oer neaspa2ers
we're lcvellcd. Wien they hear these men
ueSctibe "fpo|eon as a Haloy and = re6rk.'
tney VIII rccolicct that the very sane men
serb q the President, their constitutiopa
Chici MAGISTRATE, as traitor and a re5cR,'
ard that they called upon his fellow citi.
zens, who had freely chosen him, TO d ,Dnse
him and &i'i him. The Americans my nd,
are not 10 be made believe. that N1oo!e
p N.arf I.