Virginia Argus

Proposals have been issued by John Norwell, of Baltimore, for publishing in that city a semi-weekly republican Gazette, entitled The Guardian.' The following is a brief extract from the prospectus.

"Rocked in the cradle of freedom-and an ardent disciple of that unconquerable spirit of liberty, which animated our forefathers to encounter every hardship-and to brave every danger, in search of an asylum from the combined persecutions of civil, political and religious despotism, the creed of the editor, from the alpha to the omega, imposes upon him the peremptory behest to resist every attempt to prostrate the proudest attribute of man. A republican from reason and from choice, he detests any other than a republican form of government as an odious deed, wrested from a subjugated people to hold them in servile bondage. Educated in the school of Jefferson & Madison, he has imbibed the highest reverence for the rights of individual states and an utter aversion to the doctrines that political sect, who have always sought to limit the powers of the federal government only by the capricious will and discretion of federal rulers. His text book is the constitution itself, restricted as it is by the amendments, and as ably and unanswerably expounded in a celebrated state paper from the pen of Mr. Madison which gave the fatal blow to the federal administration"