Virginia Argus

INTERESTING.

The subjoined interesting extract of a letter copied from the last Boston Patriot, is no doubt from the pen of the honorable John Quincy Adams, Our minister at St. Petersburg. It justly rebukes the factious conduct of the disaffected governors and oppositionists in general. It moreover gives but faint hopes of peace.

An extract of a letter from a distinguished American in the North of Europe to his friend in this city dated July or August

"I lament the weakness which our internal divisions spread over the nation: but I trust that our cause will ultimately prove successful and the day will come when no Legislature or Governor in the United States will enquire How many victims to the most degrading, as well as the most oppressive foreign thraldom must be abandoned to the Tyrant of the Ocean before their country shall assert her rights of Independence, and perform her duty by protecting them by sea."

When speaking of the faction that has ruled without controul several years in Boston, he says "The British government has shewn a disposition to tamper with this spirit of disaffection to the Union, and to deal more mercifully with the States which sympathize most with them. But I doubt whether this forbearance will be of long duration. The bitterness of their malice against the Yankees will prove too powerful for their insidious policy; their hatred will get the better of their cunning."

Respecting peace he says,

"I have had for some weeks a strong hope that a negotiation for a general peace in Europe was about to take place; and that it would contribute to make our particular peace more easily attainable; but the course of events has altogether disappointed this hope; an armistice of nearly three months in the North of Europe, instead of leading to peace, is only a prelude to a blaze of war more universal over the face of Europe than ever. At this moment the storm is on the eve of bursting, and where its ravages will end is known only to Him who stills the raging of the sea, and calms the tumults of the people. In all the calamities of the times, I dwell with confidence on this conclusion, that what He wills is for the best; and that whatever may be defective in the retributive justice of this world's events, will be duly compensated in another."