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the ANTT•CORSJCAN; or, WAR of LIBERTY'. TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED EMPIRE. LETTER XIII. Shall BRITONS, by their own JOINT WISDOM Mil Beneath one ROYAL NRAD, whnfc vital power Conoofts, enlivens, and exerts the waorr, In finer arts, and public works, 'tall they To Gallia yield ? yield to a land that bends, . Depreft, and broke, beneath the will of 0 Kt ? Of one who, Should th'unkingly thirit of gold. Or tyrant p.iffions, or ambition, prompt, Calls Lneuft-armies o'er the blafted land: Drains from its thirfty Winds the fprings of wealth, His own immediate rcfervoir to fill To the lone &fart Patriot•merit frowns ? Thornton 's Liberty, part s. Leer, Sce January' 1, 13(54. The moll memorable year in the hint:try of the Smith empire has palled away; and though it has fbortened the fpan of human exiftence, it has not witneffed the leafl abridgment of our national gran- deur, power, and glory. On the contrary, it has left us in the full enjoyment of that elevated ferenity which is the attribute of a happy Coincidence of pub. lie wifdoentand public virtue ; the charaderiflic of a people influenced by religious hopes 'Emitted by moral principles, and connected by the firmed links of focial harmony. If there be any gratification in the indulgence of comparifoas, it mutt be admitted, that our moral condition is not only fingular, but enviable. The reit of Europe, ingulphed in the abyfs of delpondency, 4pd led by a orange fpecies of political dementation, purfue their deirinut way through the dark labyrinth of uncertainty rwhile the few year dawns with frelbening luftre upon THE ISLAND, bringing with it, inflead of decrepitude and forrovr, a renovation of national youth, fluthed With the bloom of health, and exulting in the vigour and power of patriotifin. Dtvtas Ploviptirce hems to have marked the Ardent as an epoch wherein he explains to depreffed communities, that even in this world fuffering virtue h not without its reward. By an awful difpenfation of his fuperintending power, he has fummoned the tempter from their bleak abodes, and commanded thets to rage upon the deep. Nature has been bum bled. Our affrighted enemies have not dared to move a cable; much more to front thole forms which klafhed deftruftion around them ; for they confide In Tortune, not in HEAVEN. All this while, the fury of the warring elements has been qualified in the eyes of the unfheltered Britifh Mariner, and his foul fortified againß difmay t he has been endued with ability to encounter, and perfeverance to formount their tempefluous violence. Our fleets have main tained their Rations, and the firemen of the devoted cenrinels of their country have floated on the whirl winds, from the Mouth of the Elbe to the Straits of Gibraltar. The Britifh Empire wat never blared with a more prcpitious illuftration of the oroteaive mercy of HEAVEN, nor the French with a more to lemn denunciation of its wrath. In this terribly rear, but bloodlefs exertion, our Navy has won the laurel that remained to confummate its renown to the end of time. It is impoilible to reflelt upon this fublime trant aftien without an intuitive perception that our caufe is acceptable in the fight of that HIGH BRING, whore juflice finally overtakes guilt in its career, and recorn. Fences piety and virtue. Thofe howling (forms, •vhich proved the courage of our feamen, tattered in the anniverfary of that joyful feflical, which the gra titude of the Chriflian world had confecrated in pious commemoration of the reign of peace and Im mortality, proclaimed by the SAVIOUR of Mankind —an xra which has been invariably obferved by the reople of this 'Rand, with holy romp and decorous feilivity. The dole ofa yea:, during which tie me• :.t.cing meteor of ;ocarina 'brought every kindred virtue into allion, and kept the minds of all in fur. renfr, has alio been marked with farc•itrahle figns-- 3t is a peri-rl wh e rein falter or every degree arp naturally d;ipnfed to make up their accounts, reli gious, moral, and political ; t., review pan, and term th ,- ;r re:l,l:l6ons in refpcii to the fitttsre. To Then of this call. the ...writs of the tail year relent 4 :cnut::erable fub;eftr. on whit n the honell pride of ecrifeious virtue may dwell with rapture. We have ob!ained more 71nry, and what is rift lets valuable, more fublantial fectoity, from this unexampled conaan:y of cur fleets, than by the tptiremetit ofa fplendid naval vitiory. l'roin our infancy, we have been familintited with a foceeflion of naval mum, over the aims rf i ranee, but a viEtury over nature it di, is a phenomenon before ooknown in our annals. A viJory on the ocean would not hava affuaged a:tr•gether 0.4 e 7.lemmy per nor broken the fpell of continental abate ment. For, the hour cf vigorous exertion has rid-ap peared with the ptinciples of fell prefervation, in which it originated. Oppreffed connuiev would, doubtlefs, have rejoiced in the calamity of France, but it would have beets cooldered a• a common oc currence, as a thing of cootie, whenever a Britifh fro:adroit come in contail with an encmv. It would not have moved the timid, urn confirmed the refulvcs of the daring. The pettuarion would Rill have been . that tur n were hi.i.:crois. icafons in which Co: kill and intro fatty of Br,dlh fca:.ic.ltsculd have Leen unavailing. But now, tLat tugge.li,ns of ignorance and .ear Late rem red by a pra(.ical I e*-44(..:.1:tati0n of tlizir ; Futri-e, (cc:maled at . . . • • the tpettaele, will learn to place a. higher value mi l our national power, and ceafe to entertain apprehen. lions from that wild fweep of the elements, which was to prove fo favourable to the defpot of France, and fo inaufpieintts to the caufe of Britain. Fair weather or foul, may be a matter of dare with the' ' Corfican, but can le to) longer a quellion of adetaaisze. From whatever poi'. lie launches the viaims of his ferocious ambition, whether on a calm unruffled fea, or amidfl the bellowing roar of winds and waves, he wiU find the unweati:d Eons of the Ifland empire, continuing their patient watch upon their favourite element. eager to execute what remains re ifie rime to• wards the completion of that grand cataftrophe. which the civilized world already anticipate with joy,.and which he has to prove in all the bitternefs of confufion, and difgrace.--4uch ire the firft fruits of that generous league, formed by an united people. in defence of the religion. laws, foCial infli• tutiuns, and independence of their country. Ilu Juttitiam emir:maven ertomphi;. Prealtem docecre Dawn! none feculadifesat lock:pin= 011111 @Alibi, tinumve was& We have thus overleaped the bounds of t enfolallon, and may proudly tea our future fafety on the anchor of public concord. The obtrufive gloom that over• cad our politkal horizon is difpelled, and I congra tulate ray countrymen, that the New Yea& opens with the molt brilliant aurora that ever dawned upon the hopes and efforts of a brave and virtuous people. _ . . The molt tranfient retrofpeft, the progreffive im provement of our affairs, fince thtantumnal equinox' will.elucidate this Ta urn. During the triumphant blockade of our blood-thinly foes, along a coat of above TWO THOUSAND MILES in extent, we have been afforded an opportunity of recovvng from thole emotions which the novelty of our cireumftances ne ceffarily excited, and of making a more minute and, circumfpeetive introfpeftion into thole immente and I varied refources which Paoli's:inner has placed within our power. At the fame time that we have been al; lowed fufficient leiture to feel our sum ftrength, we have been enabled to eftirnate difpaffionately the force and charades-, the objets and means of thole rapa cious bolts of modern Philiaises, who, after having ranfacked the property, and put in requifition the lives of the inhabitants of other countries, prefume to boaft they shall overran, with impunity, this land of promife, and wren from [mush its covenant and its birth-right. We have learnt to defpife their me naces, and to defy their power. Force and drat have been given to the moll exalted meafures that ever honoured the Councils, or provided for the fafety of a people. That enormous armed population, anr. mated by the moil generous loyalty and public fpi- Tit, which, at the voice of their endangered country,' were refponfive to its call, and mutually emulous which Ihould rufb in the fir e torrent upon the inva der, have been quietly indueed to order, familiarized with difcipline, digelled into cOmpaet elements of attion, yet fo combined, that the operations of the whole (hall be =dui:led and vigour What was fix months ago reviled by the faftious dif putant, as a vaR nnuieldy machine, without any prit cir le of motion ; sehat the viperous tongue of baffled malignity termed in dcrifion, " a depofitory of pa nic," has ilttained as cow" a nate of organization and of military fcience. as the objet of its inaitution, the nature of its fer Vice, and the aecefries of Ike country can pith!" require. While the VOLUMTEaks have per formed garrifon duty, the troops of the line have withdrawn into winter quarters ; hone the courage and dikipline of the one have been tried and improv ed, and the health and drengds of the other recruit. ed. In the capital, as in the province; the VOLUN. Tilts have been ezercifed, brigaded, and accuflomed to aft in large In.dies, under the immediate infpeftion and command aexper ienced Generals; and nothing is wanting but the pretence of the enemy, to con vince the retail dealers in obloquy, infult, and dd. paragetnent, that BI itifh valour and difeiplinc, whe• they in the iinifotrn of a (oldies, or the habit of a Vo. lunteer, whether accoutred in red, blue, or green. are alike competent to repel the aggrefor, to maintain the independence of the empire, and to gather from the field of battle, thole unfading laurels, which are the eternal rewards conferred on prowefs, exerted in a noble caufe. in add,Orn to :here cireninflance::, are hare gained a r.” - ra: afiLranrc r t the liability of our national inde -1 endcnce. For, if gteatnefs be found in public fe entity, that empire mull be great indeed, which, employing only a portion of its refources, without reiorting to extortions, or opprelive meafures, with out invading the rights of others, and without the noire and bale of indecilion, knows how to confrrnt danger with a placid countenance, 'diens w ith :corn in the garrulous delirium of its foes, and awaits their arrival with majeltie eimpofure. A battle is but an acciJent in wag ; it may be loft or won, and the rb• jci in difpnte remain to be adjolled by deeper floods of carnage. tut, when a people have aTumed that commardiog pollute, which . tentless fatuity une quivocal ; when, the :mans and certainty of finecfs. thav crr.itain ;hair enemy to decline or el foitpcne the cr;,:liel, then hare they arrived at the funimit of true gra attncfs—a: that pore:lion of power, to whials legitimate ambition may froit4a- afpire, bat v.z.:ch is feldom tcalizzd. Sue. a nati the image k. (111.01.11 , ..0 ticejicfs 3t . A i; iAng fca..d on A dartu from the bow of an anet: •!.var UK a - Ant, we T.:it .L. acbllJ by . • I devotion to the country, and by fo manyvirtues,' and crofa over to the naufeous camps of the Galilean, what an horrible medley of paifions we (ball find tor taring the breath of his vagabond retainers? The myriads of Xerxes never feat as they do. In one place, the difmal forebodings of innocence corn mingled with guilt, of fcll defpair with unappeafable fury, cf indifference with boiling revenge; in ano ther, avarice, rapine, facrilete, diffention, and mur der, brooding over all the:ir meditated miff:hie", and repining at the protradlion of the opportunity of bloating themfelves with unheard of crimes. Through out the tented field, difcord, want, and difeafe, take their hourly round., muttering empty curies in the (halm of the blacken fiends of hell, invoking their ruffian leader to give (cope to the ezercife of their atrocious imaginations, and warning him that he is the idol of their creation. Such are the turbulent patEons!nurtured in the bofom of inflated vanity and difappointed ambition. All the baneful (teas of idle nefs,fufpence,and inallivity,have already in vetted thole armies hitherto in perpetual motion agaiuft Ties PRO. laaTY of the world, civil; zed and barbarous,who hare been enured to melt in blandintment over the qui. Tering and defencelefs reptiles they meant to devour, and who have always Reiven to circumvent by fraud thofe whom they could not fittadue by open violence. If the experience of the tall ten years does not belie their character, there legions, which have proved in t:Mak where none were found to rO/1 their incurfions, will become wearied of inattionl they will either crumble away by defertion and the plague of camps, or exafptrated at their mifapplied confidence, they will turn upon their vaponring chief, and extinguith his name and dynally in blood. This is the real nate of that herd of cattle, which the ihepherd of France calls French Republicans ; 1 this is that eirrfi of raison, the army after army, corn pored of volautary warriors, liorniag soak ardour, who have been driven handcuffed, over the high roads of the great nation by gnu Aliases with find bayonets, in order to 'emancipate Ireland, aid to coupler the tree fares, induftry, and population of Great Britain I Need I add to this fplendid enumeration of; ardent heroes, thole lemmas and seine: tribes of Belgici, Batavian, Swifs, German, and Italian eancEssies, Eirt word by a confcrrption , that baffles all political cal culation, that anathema tizes by one ftroke of the pen, all the vital principles and facial alfeeions of life, that authorizes the blood hounds of a military police to hunt them down, and drag *A like beafts of prey, from the threfhold of parentsl or conjugal love, to (well the lifts of this magnificent proceffion to a difgraceful and an untimely grave ? Is :biz alto the image of GIL AAAAA St ? Will atilt tnitn proftitute the name by affociating it with wretches who dare not refute their lives to the will of one ty rant—of one who never did a had *Elkin bat by blowier, nor a good one but by nrifierie--of one who has courted Athelfrn, legitimated crimes, fantlified perjury, introduced the dark pratlices of hypocrify into the public tranfattions of men, who triumphs in the impunity of his crimes, and dedicates them with hardened effrontery to the demon of his own impious creation and worfhip ?—The world has not yet undirgone fo frightful.a metamorphofis, as to have loft its %coed faculty of difcrimination. The viletl nate whet crawls upon tht earth, or tugs the oar of a Tunifian galley, if not bereft of reafon, knows which of the two nations is entitled to afrome the name of greatnefs, and how to qualify the genius of the other. It the outftretched arm of an avenging Deity had not blinded them to their own deftration as a perpetual example to fuecceding generations, the abandoned naves of the ufurpiag Republic might atfo difcriminate. But their fouls are barred againit I 1 common feelings ; are open only to thofe of the re volution ; their eyes look through a different optical medium, their minds conceive and produce, and their horrid hearts beat differently from thofe of other men. If any fall or wander in this wild career, they are innantly replaced by new candidates, whole r-pid fuccetlfion caufes the fire of an eternal youth to reign over their tren.i. islous revolution. Amidlt all their fatage denunciations fulminated againft this !gland I amicift all the philofopbical berifh uttered from their National Inftitute and pol- luted tribunes ; Ind in defiance of their blafphemcus manifefloes, are have been reflrved to mock and fallify their preter.fions. Thi ec days after they had proclaimed in the language rd b o mb e ft i m pi et y to their apoftatized fatellitet, that " the u•isulr and el orawes bad le:a avocets' so the grill of the Frearh Re tau, ;" they received the ecolotat: intelligence, tLa. after the difcomfiture of their lquadron by Lord !lota, one third of it, acre on their any, to grace the triumph of the victors in the harbours of Bri;a:n. But, the mortification of this difafter made no alter ration in the flippant tone of their &brim): ;argon. They conrinued to blutter, and confprred to be de feated. On the 14111 day of September, t-;?, they di!: charged from their ufual ordnance of impolluse, a ih:et of cartridge wrapt in fasoke, called a meiTage to the Legit? ttive Body, cur:spored with ingennity, to en tertain the automatons of France, and delight all the knaves and crednlous fools in Europe. After decant ing according to their manner, upon the thunder and lightning of the Republic, th is fanciful piece °folk:1t?l epic poetry announced that the-f /raj, v irh the kit u•;n: rid? my accompArkieJ by a yhlo fop:sical gtoupe of laws, claaclad Iro3ll the National Inf Mute. had Carpi:kid Alexandria. evermetllLowac Egypt.and taken polfernon of Cairo. But there was a* v s that marked the progrefs of their defolatingronts I The ocean," (raid they. that is, in 'vulgar profs. the Mediterranean fea,) "exulted in carrying their tram* ant nay, ; this ivertrtrodiy was referred/or the Pirivadk Republic." Tirefe droll expeellions bed not the limits of the department of the Seina.ana,tiot official account was brought to England. that fry/ thirtyfut days before they ha d been publiased, fear their triumphant nail: had been bdrnt and funk. and that the refidue of this arm prodigy, with the exception of two rads only, which fortuaately duped, had confeffed the marchlefs gallantry of the Erbil!' arms. and contributed to (well die catalogue of chafe naval trophies which they had invariably won during the whole courfe of tha war. This was unqueflionab!T a new podgy, referred for the French Repubhc to witnefs and deplore—for it confirmed and ratified the caufe of jullice, and evinced the awful preffnce and interference of GOD. One-would have fuppored that inch fignal and re peated inflances of acts-Lied imporinre and humi:ia tion, would have lowered the tone of arrogance, and removed, at length, the bandage of deluilon front their eyes. But thefe fatal revetres ferved only to inflate their guilty fouls, 2nd precipitate their fell.— The fame Hero of Italy is now at the head of another Army of England, contrivini for the intrepid Cole wa cis the complement of all our naval glories, by the deffruftion of the laR remains of the navy of France, which done, it may be rationally concluded, that thefe tranfports of hydropfiobia will fubfide. Prompt ed by the love of Anarchy, from whore chaotic womb this bloody-minded incendiary fprung, and enflamed with the Caen revolutionary genius which impelled him to cheat, rob, poifon, and butcher the defencelcfs inhabitants of unoffending Rates, he has lived jot long enough to fee hinsfclf the objea of univerfal execration, and to have prepared involuntarily the final chaitirement of his criminal abettors. Adopting the infofeet thiprodies of his predeceffors, whore example he &ems emulous of furpaifing, he Coleus* declared to the , world, that, fingly, Great Britain could not contend with France. We gave the lie to this afreveration, by-making war upon flim without the cooperation, or the profpea of a fingle ally.— He 'rowed his intention of delivering over our country to fire and (word, and of reducing it to the condition of a conquered province. He has not kept his word. You& determined patriotiftn has arrefied his fanguinary purpofe. He has dircovered at. length the fecret a our tran q uillity, while the reit of Eu rope tremble at the mention of his name. He is aware that his laconic boffoonery is defpifed, and his etteminating furies eonfidered as lets dangerous than Vs frauds, by a people, every man of whom is a party in the nauor.al Interefts, and whofe government is at the head of this trahrcendently glorious confer aeration of talents, efforts, and patriotic's,. The meafure of his iniquities is now filled. Pao. tuner t will at length overtake the rancorous ma lice, the infatiable cupidity, the unparalleled crimes o f thi s abandoned villain. The brim of retributive vengeance is faft approac:iing. D:44re jejiriam me- G•LCI•C01. ty Genera Centrist o's will. which was proved yetterday, his younger brother. a Clergyman at Sa to), becomes entitled to ail the fortune. excepting a legacy to the late Mrs. QIUNTIIILD'S relations. We heard a rumour on Wednefday of fome nnderflanding having taken piece between Colonel TieNVer and Come of his troops, in the Borough. bin we did not think it proper to Late. loth a est cumflance upon flight foundation. We have now afeermined the fait, and can acquaint our Readers with the particulars upon the moll nnqueilionable authority :—Captain 1 nose 'soh and Lieu:. Bataan had given up their committals from fume private motives, which concerned thetrifelves only. Colonel Taw' ay. and his friend Mr. Accoca, as principal Officers of the Corps, named two other Gentlemen to GU up the vacancies, and their name. were to be tranfmitted to the War Office in regular form.— Mr. Boacess. a Lieutenant in another company, was nominated ro the rank of Captain. vice Twisty -14)14, reigned and Mr. :tare, a fie: and Lieutenant. was pram ate, in the fame *antler be a FOR Lieu. tenant, vice B . religned. Other promotions. however. were Rill necelfary for perfons to ill the fitilation; which thofe gentlemen bad formerly held. company in cionfequenee proceeded to the ele.flion of a Second Lieutenant, in the room of Mr. Tuusirson. *lan had been promoted by the nomination of the Chief Officers ; Mr. Ross. a fee. jeant, was unanimoufly agreed upon to he a fit °b ird fir their choice. The company fent the name of that Gentleman to the Commanant s declaring th it he had been duly elated. The Commandant infitled on his right to nominate, and the company was equally tenacious of whet they Pit-poled to be their right of clettion : adding. that the Corps had exerciled that right at their found.ition. and that they thought there was an cad to their being called Ws lonteers, ii they gave tip every tl. ing, Omagh being Icyal men, they would limeader a great deal at tile prelim cries,. The Command., or finding them fn re. Ireton - , ordered them to pile their arm, an,i &Nand,. which they did immediately son the trot. ooporitc the Nt..r t. 1, in Hot fcmoriget-bw, in the B irongh.— Sertral ether Gentlemen have fent 111 their refigna. ila•ing the introdnnion c. 11.141 . pratiliee sobs a deviation from the principles on which the Corps ,ca, formc..l. The Commandant. Iti-iwsver. will not acciirpt of fuch offer of refiry.ation, hut MO, upon t:lc-r continuing m•.mLe 4 , 1 the Carps and forme, t Ay, :,1 any t•rtute .11 in, 1.,:c t: `.l . • 0111, f.' Car t .. r:InA i•t•civi T 47 Chat nak..ll f,!tize to a•11:4 i, .II c vr Cu: CL y c.ist circa 44 thou.' cti,rir. in