Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1815-08-05
From Co55ett's Weekly Register Of Nay 81.
LETTER III.
TO LORD C.aSrLERE9Cn

On the hofe of success, in Tar against Fronce
lshtch hope Is {omisdoR tie discontents SAID 10
crist IA that country.
Mr. BoED-l learn through the TIMES newspa.
per, that these letters of mine addressed to YOU.
are regularly re- bhtbiShcd ia France. so that we
are in a fair way of descending to posterity to-
getlerj cons Iteration which cannot, Of course.
fail ~ encourage me in a Continuance of the cor
respytiaeace. The TIHEs recommends TO YOU
and your colleagues to put a stop, 6y the strong
haad?f poTosr, to writings like nine, in order 10
Prevent tAelr beng tIrlnstused into the French
language; and, ii does this in the same breath,
in which it calls upon tins burdened nation 10
make war upon France, because Gas it falsely as
serts) she has ty'dnt at the head fiber govern
ment. Such are the writer's who cali for war
against the French people: such, if YOU plunge
us into Wa, VIII he your friends and sitb6orters
have been told, that, amongst other means,
that have been made use Of to impede the crcu.
lation OF the Register, it has been forbidden 10
be taken in at .4rmy yifess- Rooms and IN JTsrI.
Rooms on board IF SHIP. Of War. ] have never
complained of this. But, my Lord, it is very
hard, If l am to be permitted 10 have readers
neither abroad nor at h9me And, what a cause
must that be, which thus wishes to silence by
the strong hand of power all its opponents
But the inject on which am now about to adj
dress your LordShP, is of a more serious nature
The Partlsans of war, always blind to the past,
appear 10 be very busiiy engaged, at thus time, N
cies OF d sappontment and modification. The
have, as IN The OF America, spoken with 50
much confidence of succe - with so much con.
tempt OF the adv ersary; ana with SO much Inso-
lence have they treated him and the whole French
nation, that, were they not VIGOROUSLY dead to
all sense of shame they must, in case Of failure,
commit upon themselves that act, which they
would rchfs ihersi from tiie hands ofa parsonage
who IS about upon their own level in point
OF occupation. They have now started new
game; they have now discovered new ground of
hope. They now tell us that France is in a state
o. cOmmotiOn, and almost OF rebellion, against
Napoleon; and, that when once the allied armies
begin to move INTO France, the whole nation viii
declare for the king.
Ny Lord, you know this to be false; but tits
TO more than merely the second chapter of the
deIusons pTactised with regard to America
Tie same writers told us, that the people of
4 ner ca were hostile to Mr.. Madison; that com
motions were actually in existence; that the
States were upon the eve of dividing; that the
President was about To be mpeached; and, that
we ought not to make peace, till he was depoSed
and fMlished. They now tell us of divisions and
c0mm0tions IN France. This is now the lure to
enI &c US INTO an APPRECIATION of war.
And, my Lord, 10 what do these connections
amoun That there are Disconnected persons Ir
France; that the BOaTbons have partisans amongst
eX-hobies and ex-priests, who had begun again to
scent the sweets Of feudal and ecclesiastical ty-
ranny, IS so natural, that II would be miraculous
indeed, If there were not troubles IN the interior
OF France. But to what do they amountl We
hear OF breaches Of the peace; we hear of polti-
cal squab5lng we hear OF angry and violent dis
putes but where, Since the sure der of the
Duke of Angoulerne, do we hear Of any thing
Ike powerful opposition 10 the present order OF
things3 We are told, by the rIsIEs newspaper,
thai, ~ one particular instance, cannon has been
brought 30 d.tsIid the 6nrracsS against the peo-
pie.
But, my Lord, the very same papers are com.
PEELED 10 coIiless, that some Of the egian troops
have been actually K He'd, and others wounded
in an effort to so over to the French tat at
Le &c, some of the Saxon (now Prtlssian) soldiers
have mutned, refused TO march, and have even
attempted acts of violence on the /" dear old Blu
cher" whose whiskers the nasty wretches IN
London, calling themselves Lad es," were beast
~ enough TO slobber Nay we are told, and
that, too, III proclamation under his own hand
that " he has escabed assassination" We read.
III proclamdtious of the KING o. Prussia, that To
speak in favor of Napoleon IS to be iyaiished 4y,I
che utmost severity. And yet, we are not to BE-
permitted TO doubt, dat all the nations on the
Continent are very hearty IN the cause against
France; while tile most insignificant riot in
France we areto look upon as tie certain sign Of
national hostility to the present government.
lf my Lord, the same criterion were applied
TO ourselves, what should we say We have seen
and, believe, we now see, more than one coun
~ IN Ireland proclaimed to be in state Of d stur
,ncei We srw, not long ago, counties in Eng
land IN similar state we have, WITHIN these few
years, seen a prime minister shot IN The House O
Commons, and we saw great numbers of troop
brought 10 London and stationed at no great dis
lance from the place of Mr.. Bellinghan's execu
tion. The newspapers informed Us, that, IN thu
disturbed counties IN England, the Judges wer,
guarded by troops Of the line. Mr. Bankes IS re
portedsin our newspapers to have SAID, not Ions
since, IN the House Of Commons, that the nfFta,7
were sometimes called IN to asst an collecting
the taxes IN your country, Ireland The news
papers have recently told us oftwo instances, a
Norwich and at Lynn, in England, where the Ger
man troops were employed to keep the peopl,
from committing viOlences. And now long, how
many weeks IS IL since troops Of the line wer,
brought to prevent our own house from beinl
demolished, as those of the Lord Chancellor anS
the Chief Judges had been Nay, were not troop
Of the line brought to defend the Parliamen
House aud It's members against the people an,
that, 100, only about nine weeks, or ten week
ago! Is there any thing gong on IN France equa
70 these occurrence5l And ct, does am on,
pretend, that that this government is, or ba
been, likely 20 be oyerthrOwn' II is SAID, from
the German papers, that fopoleon takes precau
tons aga.ns; assassination and, surely my lord
after al that has been promulgated, and even al
tempted, such precauGons cannot be though