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The ANT!-CORSICAN; or, WAR of LIBARTT. TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED EMPIRE. LETTER XIV. Let every man to whom Goo bath given the fpirit of wifdom and courage, Se perfuaded by his honour, his fafety, his own good, and his Country's, and Indeed the duty he owes to his genera tiOn, and to mankind, to endeavour, by all rational means, to free the world of this pen. • 11.111.1110 )10 ?alumna briefly difeourfcd, p. 70. kotsary 9, 180 4• We have Peen, in a former Letter, that the tyrant has placed himfelf in a iituation, from which he can neither advance nor recede with fafety ; and that we have nothing but fervent wifires to taped from thole nations, whole fate is more immediately conneaed with our own. The *relent conceit, therefore, be ing reduced to the molt fimple elements, we mutt confider it as Brialy national, and reconcile ourfelves to jarlivere in it with the fame fortitude and unani mity with which it began. If there be any relaxation of vigour, or if we Coffer the firft emotions of indignant honour to fublide into the languor of indifference, our hypocritical antago silt, with whom war is firatagem, and peace perfidy, will infallibly profit by our ineonfifiency, in order to execute his ravage proje6s, and deliver us over to thofe.excruciating tortures, 6* hourly conceived and hourly born" in his fulphurous imagination. Who hears with patience of a city fortified by nature and mt. and provided with a loyal garrifon, volso;torily difmantling the one, and dilbanding the other, be eaufe the bellegers have withdrawn from their lines of contramilation. and are no longer in light ? Will anyone commiferate the inhabitants who thus ea " pole their city to be carried by florin, or taken by furprife ? Certainly not. Yet this will be our condi tion. whenever that fatal hour (hall arrive, in which the public enemy. difcnvering J2C warlike population of this empire (lumbering upon the thield of national defence, than fpring upon us unawares. An un guarded (murky is worfe than no fecurity at all ; for it gives employment to the fertile genius of hof- file Ilriffice, invite► the fpoiler, and tharpens the edge ampule. &fides, there is every reafon to conclude. that the probability of fuch an event is the only re maining bops left to the treacherous policy of the Corkin ; for he has hitherto accomplifhed all his flagitious purpores lets by the exertion of force, than by that lucky craft, that inn afistie fort:awe, which _hie own Evangelill • extols as the perfeCtion of kna. with tairdont. To fame it may appear extraordinary, and to others perhaps obtrufive, that I fhould advert with out intennitgon, to a fitbjea on which all orders of men are agreed. But it is the circumftance of this nniverfal confent, which urges me to repeat and to imprefs on your minds, the neeeffity of an uniform, re geed, and Redlall continuation of that noble fpi rit which you manifelled at the outlet of this war. For, it is the nature of men to folace themfelves at the abreact of impending evils, and by an eafy tran &ion, to believe at length that they never trifled.— How often have the brava! and belt appointed ar mies fufkained irremediable defeats, from thole fud dun &tanks 'pipit which they had made no falutary provifion 1 How often have the bell concerted plans • defenfive policy proved abortive, and nations been transferred under the yoke of foreign oppreffion, from the overweening confidence of their centinels, who apprehending no danger at hand, and half exhaulled with inceffant watch, have incautioufly Bidden from their ports, to indulge in the temptations of a fallaci oos fecurity I Impatience is. the bane of nations as well as of armies. Far be it from the defign of this addreft to expof tulate with my countrymen upon an indifference, or to impute to them the fault of a culpable lahlitode, of which, thanks to H I they have not betrayed the Melia fymptoms. But, as my humble labours are drawing to a dole, I have thought it might not be unworthy of their attention, to unfold to their view the . eaufes of thole difaßrout cataßroplies which have ruined fo many free Rates, and to apprize them of the pofGbility of their recut rence, ()mold they be unfortunately induced to imitate the foibles of other men. Nor can there be any imp:optic y in fuggefling the warns of experience. when it is contidered„ that the degree of danger ss! :ch threat ened us, has dimiziithed, and, tieing to the greatnefs of our public virtue, continues to diminills da:ly : If, notwirlillanding our vigils (tom day to day, when datknef. ihronds the canopy of Hear se, them be no fufpenfion of our pate iut cares; if with Ira or (pear. and Zr awes wakeful eye. ftrid watch is kept ss—s—that •n this happy place N• or. lung Approach w coat in, we (hall ultimately obtain a blnodlefs vieiory over oar eocenies--the world will be convinced that the pirojea of invation is a wild chimera generated in the brain of a diltempered mind ; and our poflcrity, ex ulting in the patrimony of focial independence, which oor dints Sall have bequeathed to them, will corn aiserr.onste iritlu liiial piety thnfe flubborn virtues, and that unflurken conliancy, wh:ch enabled us to fix the &eines rf nor beloved country, beyond the reach of ambiti•.o nr cupidity. 4.1 lure e or (sand. Such will be the rewards ni nor unwearied :tel. There is a nsiztisre of beauty and fublimity in the idea of patient innocence proteEting itfelf by the ex. • Ntslnsist 11 prise/ c ertions of its own virtues ; and we may reit aflured, that if innocence cannot sleep, repofe and tranquillity are denied to guilt. For Curtly no re/Jelling mind will appropriate thefe terms to thole horrible fceiles of perturbation Exhibited in the camps of the Corfi s can. Every movement there is in hoßility with human happinefs. Famine, (word, and fire, crouch for em ployment. That ravenous brood of devoted Helots, Cruet as death, and hungry as the grave! Burning for blood! bony, and &aunt and grim! whom the chief undertaker of France teems to have Rationed on its coatis for the expel purpofe of wit. neaing daily the deilruetion or flight of Come detach ment or other of that Lilliputian Armada, which was to tranfport them acres the modern Hellefpont, are wrought to fuch a pitch of phrenzy, that it is equally dangerous to his authority to reßrain, or to give (cope to their furious paaions. In their Adana. rian facrifices, they fitive to exceed in favagery the orgies of intoxicated Cannibals. Not one fcintillation of humanity (parkin in their atrocious foals. Proud of their tounbcrs, and rerun in foul. The confident and over-lofty French Do the low•rated Englith play at dke. But with all their infernal calculations of the HIM they intend to (pill, the impurities to commit, and the riches to appropriate, they are doomed to endure the punifhinent of Tantalus. The fair garde. of Eden Rands for ever before their aching eyes ; but a narrow Channel excludes them from tailing of its fruits, and on its confines, the braisdilbed Sword of Goa before them Maw. Hence, Terror and Fear, Difcord, Clamour, and Anger, keep every tent in fleeplefs agitation, while all the furies of hell, kennelled in the mind of their ruffian tyrant, bark and howl with ominous tokens of futurity. In vain he (trivet to buoy up their finking (pinks, with the bunk of embarkations and difembarkations; with fouling them in the fea, and teaching them to fwim by examples taken from the art of drowning; in vain be exhibits his important little perfonage in a hail fleiff, cruising in Boulogne Road. Thee ac ceffes of a moon-(truck maniac do not conquer Eng. land. Of what fignification are thole movintroas ex curfions from Paris to Boulogne, and from Boulogne to Paris ? They do not reduce our ant jer emu. nor do they break the Bank. Is it to avoid or to defeat the eonfpiracies brewing in his capital, or his army, or both, that the Mailer of the Great Nation has been transformed into a fwift flying courier? or is it for the fake of colleting cockle.thells upon the lea. beach, and of tranfporting them to the tali.: Senate, as trophies of the fubjugation of Britain, that Imperial Cdr waders like a vagrant from the city to the camp, and from the camp to the city ? Doubtlefs fuch precious rarities will be eonfigned to the Cabinet of Natural Hiaory in the garden of plants, and the fop: of the National lollitute will differtate elaborately on their value, as they have already commented on the motheaten tapeflry of Normandy. All there follies may tickle the loqua cious vanity of the voluptuous Parifian ; but they bring no booty to the armed myrmidons encamped upon the coaft; they form no part of the proffered reward of all their villainies ; their dull and fhort. righted optics do not perceive the fpoils of London hi them ; or rather, do not thefe extravagances de note thi utter confulion of a troubled mind, cowed by fear, and abaflted with the mortification of difap. pointment ? They are, in raft, uneepaivocal teßimo nies of irrefolution and defpair—intermittent pains of humbled ambition. The tyrant is in the precife fituation of a man who, without having moved a limb in the water during the whole courfe of his life, boas, in the pretence of a large aftembly, that he can fwim acrofs a river. They put him to the proof —he (trips, advances to the bank, and eyes the flood. but heCtates; the fpeaators jeer him as a bragga docio ;—he runs back, under the pretence of fpring ;rag into the flream, yet confcious of his inabi lity,. when he teaches the bank, he patties again and again. They infill ; pride and neceffity urge hint to take the fatal leap, and be plunges at length to rife no more. One roiF,ht laardm in Ancient Piftol or Captain nuth fuch f.ant,:ionatie as is inexcufable in a ntiiitary Ufurper. The (bread, ambitious Cana:- wit.' never committed Lit fortune to the call of a die. He never allowed Isis faturnine genius to indulge in a pro's& which his power could no.. execute. He Mel. Cured his fehemes according to his ability to perform, and crnfequently bis fucceffes always correfponded with the accuracy and grandeur of his conceptions. But this wretched thing from Corfica, this Cromwell in miniature (if at be pot a degradation of the talents of that disaffirms hypocrite, to affociate his name with that of a defpicable imp of fraud and malice) forms his determinations to execute, before he has digeled or contrived the runs of execution. Olt ! empty Boaller abandoned pupil of Chancel is it to this your towering vanity has funk at lift ? are theie the darlolaid plots by which you have duped a credulous people into the belief of your invincible genius? Is it thus you propote to tear the molt an cient Crown remaining in Europe from the brow of the Inheritor of Aoist Ws throne and virtues ? Han to ordinate r *en Pt. ) . Fore. wbcts ry<rl3.!orfr Fast &all rir.l 0 fidak ettan , t, and ( I a .6 jw!cc the In than, tiough inci. trawl y beat on t enterprise. be dare not, Le will not pollute nut I:tct, , long a you continue to difcharge With corbel and un abated G&Lzy tLc (acted trod v.:,:cb tbc co of Jut: tice lu:coal:Jed to ;cut care, 1: , ): the b.:1n7.3 AGO happiziefs of mankind. Let it be for ever engraven yonr hurts, that p iffive fortitude is the moft pre- dons midi& brighteß property of true courage ; and that if there be a quality in which above all others we carpals the French, it is in this. Bravery is the clia rtfleriftic of France ; Courage of the Britifh Empire. It has pleated the Auritoa of all Good, that our cifpnfitions Ihould tile to the level of our emergen ces ; when unanimity has been molt required, that there ffiould be an happy content between the Go vernment and the people, and that this family eon raft timid fpring from the confidence of a high Blinded nation in the wifdom, integrity, and honour of thole enti ufled with the crncluft of their affairs.— As long as this domeflie union prevails, ■s long as we preferve an unconquerable ardour,and a dauntlefs intrepidity in difficulty, and even in difafter, together with an inftinSive jealnufy of France, now become a principle of moral obligation, we (hall effeaually overturn that political hypothefis, founded chiefly on the fats of the Roman empire, that States, which hare reached their utmoft height, like the human body, mull neceffarily tend to decay, and either ex perience a total diffolution, or become fo infignificant as to excite neither envy nor jealonfy. Having now fufficiently animadverted on the din. gers of inadvertence, I (hall next proceed to caution you againfi that idle fpeculation which fo many else nth. refpating continental diverfions. The recent difpute between Aultria and Bavaria, on a point of etiquette, has revived in the inflammatory heads of a certain order of political wights, all the State Inven tions of the lilt war. If we were to give implicit faith to what they advance, this difpute is a contriv. Ace of the Corfican, in order to fet the Continent on fire, and give employment to his realer' banditti.— That mull be, indeed, die height of political refine ment, which can impel this perfidious hypocrite, to bring upon himfelf new enemies, in addition to the one who is already more than a match for him.— With all his monitions wickednefs. his wily intrigues, his condua has not yet warranted the belief that lie is quite fe great e feel as theft writers would perfuade the world. He is a dexterous rogue, endeavouring to elude the hand of juftice. Men of this Ramp are not apt to fling thanfelves, knowingly, into the way of other injured beings. His milkondua and iniqui tie► will, however, molt probably, effea what his po licy never intended. It is time that all thefe foole ries, by which the good nature of the nation has been too often abided, thould be, at length,exploded. For they only tend to provoke the ridicule of the enemy► to give mankind an unfavourable opinion of our judgment, and to breed maggots in the brains of men of overfanguine tempera. Let us not fuffer ourfelves to be cozened by theft fliadowy appearances, but rather let Europe and the tyrant know and feel. that our power is fo confolia dated, we are alloys the wort of allies; and that though it be acknowledged, their co-operation would be highly beneficial to thesofelves and ufeful to us, it can, neverthelefs, be difpenfed with. A contrary doc- trine would ferve the Corfican better than his five hundred thoufand armed Janiffiaries; it would enable bins to reprefent mankind, that he did set fit, when he proclaimed from the Coofular tripod, that Great Britain could not, finer, contend with France; that it would be impelitie, if not ruinous, in any Power to form an alliance with a people who had not the ability to defend themfelves ; and that it would be wildcats to cultivate the favour of a riling, inhead of a falling, empire. How often mutt I re peat that all the (needles of his infamous lit,: have been purchafed more by fraud than by force. The world mull be ccnvinced, that we are not only egad to the office of coping with yon mongrel Republic, but alfo thong enough to [pare a portion of our power for the protection of thole who leek it. From Ma. drid to Peterflaurgh, the doarine of chances hill con haute; the tole Rudy of public lawyers, and hotel men recreate themfelves with fending their compli ments to each other in official notes of condolence.— It is impoffible to Rate with certainty when Inch di. plomatic gambol, will ceafe ; it is not unlikely they will continue until the French artillery, thundering in their can, admonifh the political gametiers that is time to leave off play. They may then imitate the manly example of this Bland, and each prefer a bill of independence in the Confular Chancery, fupported by iron balls-and &ells. In tender confederation whereof, filch irrellaible weal cannot fail to have Come Oa upon the obdurate brut of the French Nfinien ; and will be found more conducive to ge- neral fafety, than all the petitions and counter-peti tions, the protodls, doplicates,projdc and eardror#tr, dilatory. and 'hailing pleas. which are incetaintly hopping, like fo many cricket•balls, from one end of Europe to the other. To the melodious eloquence of cannon and nsentirs, they mull all appeal at lan, if they will' to Beep for a Agle itizbe upon the pillow of fecurity. Away then with this faultertng voice of patriotifm. The colleßed forces of Europe are incompetent to Cave Great Britain. if Great Britain be incompetent to fAve herfelf. Have we Co Coon forgotten the ex perience of the late war ? Scattered over the face of the Continent are to he tern a nornbet of Princcs before their altars. v ith their eyes bedewed with teals, and their hand, uplifted to illave N. (+teeing the Pi aridcace of Gnu upon their unhappy fuhjees, receiving chaflifctneat from batbarons infidels t-- vthers llscra of their humnrs, and baniftstd from th• feats of their anceaors, repine at their own Credulity, and join in the unavailing fighs of the few faithful companions . of their misfortunes, at the calamities which their wavering councils have brought upon their refpative countries. More revolting to the fight, and lets to be pitied, is the lowly condition of thole !alginate fovereigns, who, upheld by the fidelity of warlike armies, experienced Generals, and the af fcaion of their fubjeas, look on with infupetable apathy at there perilhing fragments of the glory of Europe, and of the buggies of their predeceffors, during one hundred year► of bloody war and politi cal contention—who, inftead of refilling with becom ing fortitude, confederate together to truckle to the vile} incendiaries that ever dcfolated the earth, and, inflead of daring to reawsflrate againft, tamely fub snit to their villainous dilapidation., and cveik become a party in them. Piecemeal they win this acre aril. that that ; Glean cm. mid gather up the the whole eltate. But the category of their humiliations does not end here. There is a rivalfhip of bafenefs amongft them. and each hives to °civic his neighbour is the facrifice of honour, principle, and independence. When in. futi l e's! With language, which the !owe!, drunkard in the (beets would be afbarned to ufe. they reply with model diffidence and becoming fertility. Not fa tisficd with this, they Puffer themfelves to be ftripped. and their backs to be torn with ftripes, in return for which, amidft the fullen murmurs and refentusent of their people, they humbly return thanks, and with the pious refignation of flagellated anchorites, im. plore the bleffings of H aaaaa on the mercilefs hands that infliBed their cballifemento. But when have prayers and tears been known to refeue oppreffed na tions out of bondage 1 Devotion is at all times corn. mendable ; but devotion aaa esioa go better toge ther ; for a tyrant is not the kind of devil to be eta cited by farting and prayer. Inftead, therefore, of a league of princes, let us fee throughout the enflaved Continent a league compofed of sm.y isefividmal who has any thing to We, who has a country to preferve, a family to fupport, a fortune or induftry to proted ; who paella a roof under which be fleeps in peace, and whence at the firft note of the French trumpet, he will be either driven, or configned to the fangs of relent/els fury and defpair. The civilised world is now divided into tees AAA! famairses (as was juftly obferved-to a Bad& orator by the Confular ruffian, at whole feet the former was proftrating all the honours of his fenatorial life) the one, coafifting of men of property, or of induftrions damns, arida* to become loch ; the other, of a con federacy of tri-ftkared thieves and murderers, com manded by a Corficao firebrand, himfelf the pat of mankind, and • difgraee even to thieves and murder. ers. Between the fanner, there fhould be a comma. nity of intereas and (scarce' for their mutual prefer. ration. This is the only combination which promifes permanent finals, which as • courageous people we fhould encourage, and as he e' men, recognise. Until fuch a political phenomenon thall have difplay ed itfelf openly and unequivocally, dotards may dream of its apparition, but vs mull confide folely in our own athletic ftrength . and native vigour. • Frenalig MAU lire. Aunts pod Patio. But after all, what is there fo novel and terrific in our relative panion, that like a drowning man, we fhottld catch at every flraw that floats upon the tor rent ? Five years have not yet elapfyd, Once mankind beheld with admiration this free Rate, where the force of monarchial authority is ftabordinate to an ellablithed cenaitution, involved in a deadly war with the fame implacable foe, temainfalk on the field of battle, after having made afloniShing exer tions in behalf of allies by whom it was afterwards deferted, compelled to fupport the burthen of an im menfe debt, and the necetfity of annual fuhfidies, weighty beyond all example, expofcd to perfiJi.tus machinations under the guile of freedom, afrailed by fedutlion in its fleets and armies, at the time it nourifhed in its interior a clandeftine confederAcv of domellic traihns, organised into a regular militia, and forming at once, a fell, a government, and an army, in permanent confriracy, abetted by the fo reign enemy, by popular opinion, and the dangers of the country—yet, this Bate remained invulnerable ; it continued to fight with honour and increafed fue cefs ; it negotiated on the footing of equality, and finally made a peace without derogation. With there prodigious evidences of power before our eyes, does it behove the Mallory of this Empire to invoke the aid of foreign countries ? Is there not a material difference between a entirety and a raj; d good' The Speech from the throne, at the opening of the lemon of Parliament, is worth mote to this country than three hundred thourAnd of fuch arnica auxiliaries. as I have defcribed. Such forlorn r err, Danis of civilized Europe cannot now range them riders upon the wings of the people of this Empire. and are not yet qualified to mirth under the Laketon. of a patriot King, in fupport of the honour and inde pendence of mankind. Let them follow. if they pleare, in the rear of our vial' sous foot (kph and (bare in the iplvintages to be g2uned from our • See their truly elates, tiro& precious suadds of di fWmatic buffuoaa7 Gat frees diferrnt Cwatt at the t ,rd-eat is yawn to the t•ratiet rommenicatita of the birth el r hat Trutt Crash of Frame, 0-at la le ( s ok of laced wad edukory. whew ,- heekgy.ttoescla wiweitieJ I w a ha, of haw*, , the h. wast pre-..wowt:ee d limp errWhed In the row dread? of hqubnc, se the gra , •tho., of I Deplbrw, of :Li &Wear- t !• 'IA