Virginia Argus

From Cape May April 26. The blockading squadron lets nothing pass, they can lay hold of; and the Admiral says. that if we perish in going off, and giving information to vessels, he will call us to a severe account. It has been a practice for many years at this place, to hoist a flag on some of the houses, on the appearance of a vessel in the offing, but this the British have undertaken to forbid, and the commodore threatens he will destroy every house that suffers a flag to be hoisted on it.—If we had 4 gun boats in the Cape May channel I think we could keep it clear of the British tenders and barges, (as the larger vessels cannot get in. to it.) save our small craft and prevent the intercourse between the inhabitants and the enemy's ships, which is becoming almost continual, and is very disagreeable, and perhaps dangerous, to a part of the inhabitants —There is not a doubt that if we do not get assistance from government or some other quarter, the Cape will become a rendezvous for the British.