Virginia Argus

BALTIMORE, JUNE 8.

FROM THE BOSTON PATRIOT.

FRANCE.

Brother GALES lately issued from the National Intelligencer, something in the shape of an editorial injunction on us to suspend our suspicions of a want of good faith in Napoleon—or at least to keep them to ourselves; and indirectly intimated, that the indirection of some of the republican papers on this subject, might show a want of good faith on our part. and incur the displeasure of the same Napoleon. By what mental machinery faith is propped up against the weight of accumulating facts—and the rational conviction growing out of those facts knocked down at Washington, is at once beyond our comprehension and our proper share of curiosity.

That the tyrant of France does not cease to violate our neutral rights. and with them the sacred obligation of his own promise—is too well established by facts that speak louder than words, to be disputed by any but those who are under the most obvious and obdurate influence of—the moon.

The policy of throwing out of sight the real merit of our claim to indemnity for the past. and security for the future. founded as it is on the eternal principles of justice—and. grounding or rather foundering on this claim upon a triangular negociation, in which we shall be sure to find ourselves at the sharp corner—upon a contract to be kept by us for faith's sake, & broken or abandoned at pleasure by the adverse party. This policy and its success, we leave to those, if such there are at head quarters, who have the power of performing political miracles.

Much we fear, that while we are prescribing for the desperate maladies of the belligerents, we are, like quack doctors, dealing out the same medicine to patients whose diseases require very different application.

Standing as we apparently do in our present relations with France, its Emperor must conclude that we are willing to sacrifice some portion of national honor for the restoration of such part of the property he wrongfully holds as he may graciously be pleased to return—that in proportion to what he retains will be his claim to our gratitude; and that while he holds us thus by the nose of our submissive avarice he may regulate at pleasure—

OUR RELATIONS WITH ENGLAND.

Situated as we now are, our interest appears to us to demand a prohibition of importation, from England as a salutary municipal regulation, even if we had no cause of complaint against that power. But our non-importation law stands at present as we view it on a rotten basis—the imaginary good faith of the French Emperor; and as England will view it—on our acquiescence in his perfidy. We wish for better appearances and more substantial realities.

Let Napoleon be convinced, that not a particle of national honor will be sacrificed to save the millions of our pillaged property which he holds. And if our non-importation act is to be used as a rod for England, which she richly merits—to make it effectual, let it be put into its proper pickle—WAR.