Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1816-05-22
BORDEAUX
From the National .4duocate.


n-Ihave read in your paper of the 9th inst
an account OF the infamous treatment and insults
offered TO the American consul and 10 the hero
&c col. Fenwick by what the author Of the let
Ter alluded to, very properly denominates a rile
foreign faction. Another American paper st;p.
ma'izes the town of Bordeaux by the name of an
English cit1 The author of the aurora does
100 much honor to that congregation of cheva.
hers d'indttssrie-of outcasts from all nations,
ana OF renegadoes and traitors to their own, who
compose the mercantile, royalist, and monerel
population of Bordeaux. A CITY is a colIect;on
OF cih1ens-and in free and independent coun.
try, Ike this, it furnishes the best index of both
power and patriotism. An English city No,
sur, the people of Bordeaux are not English. The
English may be hateful to those nations who are
ensiaved or tormented by the nefarious in.
nuence OF their government: the people OF
bordeaux are cowardly and despcabl wretches,
VINO trembe under the English rod, bow with
siav'sh courtesy TO their tyrants These people
are neither French nor English.
Every person, who has been at Bordeaux. or
VINO has ONLY read he directory OF that town.mus
nave been struck with the ferv French names tha,
compose the list of its merchants and trading
| inhabitants
The guillotne, in the time of Robespierre and
20 struck the heads of the principal merchants
| OF Bordeaux, and the rest were ruined. Tbev
1
from all nations is besides, since that time. Ma.
poieon havina taken iinto h head to be the com.
,or'er and protector of the royal migrants (who,
oy 'he bye, have been so very gratefully Bor.
deaux became the refuge and metropolis of
French fraitors-and, mark that the very man.
VINO was the principal in selling Bordeaux to
Wellington, was the son ola foreigner-,his
man was MAYOR Lynch, ruined member of the
| parliament of Bordeaux, once an abiect cuurter
had po1 Il
ed his fortune, and grant ed him a pension
OF 20 O00 frans-4OO0 dollars!
NOW, you see how the population of Bordeaux
came under the description of those men, pour
,rayed IN paper, written Is years ago, bv &C.
lebrated physician and philosopher of this of
TINS city lDr. M'Neven,) Writing on English
commercial monopoly and tyranny England
says Dr. MNeven) mistress of commercial
impulse, which she stops or acceIerates, as she
thinks, proper has made true subjects of all ego
usts and mercenaries in every country"' 1t is
under that description of people that the mer
camille inhabitants OF that town ought to placed
Let not, then, lately great, but now nntoru.
nate nation, be stigmatized for the conduct of
a part OF the inhabitants of Bordeaux, Mar
seiles, or OF Havre, which two cities have near
~ come within the description we have given of
Bordeaux.
shall soon treat at large, in a series of let
ters' which intend to publish, on the nature of
events winch have led to its present diseIaceful
and wretched condition, under the rnop,eniarv ro.
vernment OF the Bourbonian tools and auxil aries
OF England /; then, I will shew that there has
been always In France i1Vo nations Grinp ON the
same soiL and very seldom ntermxng by MARI,
age two distinct races fmen, one alruavs confe
derqis NTH despotism against the ibertv and no.
nor ffhesr country and that il was the indul- |
gsnce OF Napoleon Bonaparte toward thar class
n, strangers to every idea'of Patriotism. ma
Honaf pride or honor, and fond of nothing but the
personal vaniy, and the privileges of their rank
m word, that IT was the incessant treason of
hat too numerous cast that has momenfariL,
mn! cted upon France government imposed by
foreign arms,
Then, ehope, it will be seen, that any natl. |
on, distracted with the same HETEROGENEOUS DO |
and situated in the same cIrcumstal. |
ces, could not have avoided the same fate. Han. |
ny shall we be, five can contribute i'm retaining
the bosoms of American freemen, of all de. |
Scrlptions, sentiments Of sympathy for. the
mass OF the French people, who groan under St
dire and shameful an oppression, ard for the /
martyrs of The independence of their country
who have fled to this classic land of liberty
where they pant for the moment when their |
ccuntrymen, Jeff to Themselves, will be able TO |
brow Oft an ignom Nous yoke assert their ma |
'onal independence, and, cured oft5e mania oil
conqnestS, still preserve great and respectable
rank amongst free nations.
AMERICoLA