Virginia Argus

RICHMOND ARGUS

RICHMOND

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1810.

The brief introduction which we
gave in our last Argus to the corres-
pondence between Mr. Pinkney and
Lord Wellesley, was such as we tho't
that correspondence required. We
are not, however, entirely destitute
of hope that England will return to a
true sense of justice by meeting the
repeal of the French decrees in a plain
and open manner, without any refer-
ence at all to Bonaparte's municipal re-
gulations, with which we have nothing
to do, and cannot at all interfere any
more than we can with the municipal
regulations of the English. It is of
importance that the American public
should well understand the question;
for, in the event of the British raising
objections, there will be no want of at-
tempts to mislead the minds of the
people by confusing the subject. We
shall therefore, take occasion now and
then to recur to the points which are
likely to be in issue between Great
Britain and ourselves, just remarking
at the present moment, that as one na-
tion has no right to interfere with the
municipal or domestic regulations of
another nation, so the English have
no right to require from us as a preli-
minary or postliminary that we should
compel France to permit the importa-
tion of British manufactures into the
ports of the continent of Europe.

The British have got themselves
into a ridiculous hobble. The Junta
at Cadiz has, it seems, declared the
"insurgents" of Caraccas in a state
of blockade: and the British are bound
to enforce it! At the same time,
the people of Caraccas have just
granted to the English certain privi-
leges of trade, for which Great Britain
has agreed to protect the commerce
of Caraccas! O! the consistency of
the British policy. How will the par-
tisans of England defend this double-
fisted dealing? What becomes of
"Spanish Patriotism" supported by
British heroism now? - O Britain! thy
name must become infamous among
the nations.

Lord Talavera (viscount Welling-
ton) could not see what was going on
at Almeida on account of the atmos-
phere. Good! And Almeida sur-
rendered because a "bomb-proof"
powder-magazine was blown up.-
Better still! The English ministry
think they can bubble the world with
such gross publications. If his lord-
ship had advanced to the relief of Al-
meida, we suspect marshal Massena
would have purified the atmosphere
for him, or at least have cleared his
eye-sight.