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The ANTI-CORSICAN/, w WAR V LLRER7t. TO TM PEOPLE OF THE UNITED EMPIRE. Y#r. - To kill with ! Oh! for a eurfe Pierre. Dauer% sloggers are Inds better. Ventre P Anguft a, Ito + In proportion as the folemn hour approaches, which h to determine the Tuition of power between vs and yen devoted brood of modern Gauls, we Ihould ex clude from our minds every felfith confideration, and elevate ourfelves to the magnitude of the conteft, and the glorious goodnefs of our cattle. Deeply impref fed with a knit of our common danger", and filled *itb every fentiment that is great and lovely in the charaifter Of a brave and virtttons people, we (hall Inset our gothic(' invaders, with that noble fpirit of heroifm, which is the natural offspring of juftice and innocence. Infpired by that Hunt Batitb whole name we have never blafphemed, and whole wor !hip we have not converted into a pretext for poli tical opp}efllon, we fhall derive ftrength from the power of freedom, and o►tain vietory from the force of virtue. Never in the annals of mankind, has a more glo rious profpee opened upon the patient foititnsle of a kayal and united empire. Every circumflance that ban tranfpired, augments Our well-Founded hopes of final fuccefs--nothiog has yet intervened to cad a blight upon their ludre. We know stir dangers, and the fate of the vanquilhed is before our eyes. Before the revolutionary war of France, the urbanity of po filled nations had extended its influence even to the praaice of war; and that barbarous art, Infused by its humane fpirit, reared to be fo deftrueive. Secure, in every event, of perfonal liberty. the refifiance of the conquered was left obtlinate, and the triumph of the vieor lets creel. But thofe healing days of con folation in the mida of public calamities, hate paired away; and mercilefs wretches railed froth the filth of a corrupted fociety, 'and nurtured by murder, ra pine, and defolatiou, are now Peen, clothed in impe tial purple, and (!rutting upon the agitated theatre of human affairs, as if they were born to be the lords of human kind. Aping the dignified intcreourfe among the seat, as monkies imitate the manners of Wok, they unfortunately potefs all the mifchierons propenfities natural to that brutifli tribe of animals.* Under the name and Bloke of imperial Tway, the Cur. Scan imperial bacon thinks and aBs in the fpirit of a drunken canibitl. His councillors and dependants are no better than furbelowed jeers, collard to mock, inipofe upon, and torment mankind, in the &ape of fenators and Ratermen. The armies have imbibed their principles from fuch malleri; and their sonde& mull in every refpee correfpond with their principles. On that fide of the channel, every thing finis tb confpire spina the bappinefs of Man—on this, whatever exalt* his nature, is habitually prac tiled. From fuch chieftains, and fuch legions, the whole civilized world may well turn afide. The contemplation of their &wafter, is of itfelf enough to petrify the foul with horror. From them, the centred of our manners has nothing to taped on the ground of mercy; againd them, therefore, we muft point the exterminating (word of judice. Be fore Alexander became *Macedonia's madman," he bad avenged the infulted liberties of Greece, and made himfelf mailer of the world, by a fuccetlion of fplen did viaories, accompanied by the moll beneficent nas of humanity. The cardinal virtues followed in the train of villory, and the fhouts of conqued were fucceeded by the Tongs of peace. Subverted nations in extolling the praifes of the visor, acknowledged, at the fame time, his clemency ; even-handed juflice difpenfed her enlightened edies upon the conqueror s and the conquered ; and the people of Afia, under the domination of a dranger. retained their ancient cuftoms, and forgot their country in the charms of uninterrupted tranquillity. During the darknefs of the mind in refpea to divine things, the sdolatrous adulation of the Pagan world to the perfon of Alex ander, may be accounted for. He who, in fo fhort a (pace of time had defcribed filth a galaxy of brilliant erploitr, who had wept becatn't the world was not large enough to contain the view s of his ambition, might have been tempted to pafs an impeflure on the minds of the credulous Afiatics and Egyptians; and though the pupil of Aritlotle, it is not impolLble that he might have really believed himfelt the fon of Jupiter Ammon. But in the ninteeoth century of the Cbtihan era ; after fo many ages of led have beamed upon the world, we cannot afcribe to any other caufe but the curie of Hsa•rn, that horrible idolatry, by which the modern French have • it is inaporable not to (mile over ac fAreic.l yrnreCion of the Corlican'n wife Jofephine into Clia, die By fume millakc her cortege did not enter the city by th. 77ekrtikell route, fo that the Prefe.ft, Mayor, and Municipaiii, , :int rly lord the Whop, who had gone out a league in the mud. to tee !Ice chafte eyes, loft the opportunity of whifpering (nit thing. to the Ay,. 1:);.. However, they contrived to wade hack, and Ilnalty reached the Hotri of jacdbi, allotted for the relitlence of the Mock Emi r/era After many apologies, regrets that Ow had taken the wrong road, and much cooing and billing, which are listed in the Mari ear to have beat performed by all the Vlore, cfprclally the Impc vial wife, with • mach grate, dignity, and franplicity," be deplo red the fad accident, and very courteoagy " acted to go back, and enter the town by thee:peeled Mite, it it would prove agree- able to the citizen," la this Imperial royalty / What are the reach reduced to. that land of covalkn and polite gentkmea, thus to fee royalty I. wretched/7 mimicked or rather unordered, sod to put up with loch coatemptabk bolooncry. transfigered the fierceft radian that ever fconrged the earth, into " a MetEah appointed by Omnipo tence. to emancipate mankind." _ _ Although I have watched with a fcrutinizing eye, all the motions of this Imperial Ape, lam utterly at a lots how to reconcile his actions with any thing human that lived before him. We have feen that Alexander became Macedonia's madman," not until he had made himfelf fovereign of the civilized world; and that the allonifhing height to which he had attained, might naturally have turned his bead. But this non-defcript adventurer of Cornea plays the madman before his work is half concluded. Alex ander had nothing left to perform, the Corfican has every thing to do. He has yet to diflodge the world itfelf from its firong foundations ; for who does not perceive that, in fubduing us, my countrymen, he inflantly becomes meter of mankind ? He is as fen fible of this, as we are, and therefore it is, that he robs, cheats, bullies, and fwindles harmlefs commu nities, with whom he had no caufe of quarrel, in or der to collect fufficient means (of which his own ter ritoriesare de Ritute) to ranfack and devaftate the only lend that is the objea of his dread, and confequently of his hatred. Be vigilant, therefore, Rand to your arms, and anticipate his inexorable fury, by ladle ing on him and his armed followers, a finifhiny,, an exterminating blow. The people of the United Empire are not timorous and docile Afiaties, whom a compact legion of vete rans can drive before them as &cep to the daughter. It is true, that he has endeavoured to inculcate this perfuefion among his blood-thirty myrmidons, and they do actually believe, that when they land upon our thorn, the battalions of 6, fhopkeepers," as they call us, which line them, will exhibit no other mo tions, but frgle and mannikin. If indeed, this rem fentation were jolt; if we be fo degenerated from the charaaer and renown of our forefathers, it were bet ter at once to ground our arms, and fubmit with hu mility and contrition to the mercy of the fecret afraf fin. It were better to fall upon our knees, and implore the pardon of an earthquake, than by looking at its horrors with a manly countenance, tlrive to divert its 'leas. But the afperfion is a foul calumny. We will teach his willing Caves, that we are a people of warriors; refolutely bent on victory, or death, rather than forfeit one atom of that noble legacy of freedom and equal laws, which our brave anceitors bequeath ed to us. Behold before your eyes the mutilated or defaced countries of Europe, fubjugated by the arms of the tyrant, or paralyfed by his frauds! ALMIGIITY GOD has hitherto laid bpen to our fences( this horrible pic ture of human diftrefs, and has wrought for our good in flaming charaflers, the direful eonfequences of temporizing policy, of difunion, of defpondency, and of fubmiffion. Violence mull be refilled by violence, and every blow received from the barbarous invader muff be returned tenfold ; for the Corfican wages war in the fpirit of fiercenefs and devaftation. He and his ferocious hordes come avowedly to deftroy the mind, as well as the body of Britain; to carry off the moll valuable diets of its inhabitants; to drag along multitudes of captives in chains; to wale all before them with fire and (word, and then to return in triumph to their native dens of fenfuality, and re gale themfelves with the tears and forrows of the Ifland-empire. Chains and flavery have proved the certain lot of the vanquifhed Continent—lmagina tion (lands aghaft, at the atrocities that are in fore for ranquilled Britain. Our battles, therefore, mull be fought with that obftinacy and deadly valour, which the horror of fuch a fate is calculated to in fpire. The ftruggle is not only for our country, but , for our lives. The love of Liberty is as infeparable from our na ture as the life-blood that flows from the heart. It is that imperifhable (park in the bofom of a Briton, which accident may (mother, but which eternity cannot extinguitb. ReedsNal, therefore, the genius of the enemies with whom you have to fight. They are the fame people of murderers over whofe fleets and armies you have repeatedly triumphed. A firuggle for Liberty no longer offers an apology for their crimes. To freedom they have no pretentious, for the whole of France is divided between tyrant► and (lave'. It is in vain to look for , one folitary vir tue among men whole confciences have ceafed to ad monith, who have faces that cannot blufh, and hearts that cannot feel. If there be any feature in particu lar, which exhibits the authority of the Corfican as a more marked objet of deteflation, it is not that the blood of man is continually flowing, but that the moral elements which compofe his nature are dif folved. He has poifoned the very fountains of juf bee and focial order; his detetled duplicity fervcs only to excite his paffion for fraud. Ruin and hap pincfs are feldom difpenfed by the fame hand, nor is it likely any change of fyllem will be adopted by the wretch, who openly bids defiance to all the received laws and opinions of mankind. A tame fubmiffion to ufurped power has been the ?malady of the French; while the tea of mankind, from their difperfed fituations, their indolence, or in attention, and the oppofition of their palfions, feem indifpofed to combine in refilling it with vigour.— The tom of drhotifis were fyoua garde etre Apt ! Under its torpid touch, the patriotifna of the Continent has &rook, like the fenfitive plant, into a narrow com pels. It is confined to gaze on the tyrant's progrefs, and to lido, with trembling acquickence, to the oracles which he promulgates, in thunder and light. ning, from Pandemonium. Unexampled crimes are fanetified, and thofe who a few years sr, were cla morous for peraing in the lan ditch of their coun try, are making atonement for having been betrayed into any appearance of virtue, by a quick return to their natural character. Every province of Europe is peopled with French (pies, informers, and afar's, and every Court that gives admitfion to an Ambaf. fador from the Corfican, receives into its bofem a State Inquifitor, and a privileged Incendiary. To us, therefore, is referred, and by us alone, muff be atchieved the final deliverance of Europe.— Amin the miferies of a falling world, we have dif played uncommon firmnefs, fecored great blcifings, and preferred mighty interval!. The hour approaches when all thefe will be either prottrated to the ground, or fixed for ever on immoveable foundations. Let the crafty tyrant perfuade his regimented varlets that their pretence alone is futficient to difperfe our patriot legions I—his fallacious afferent= will prove their ruin ; confounded by the vigour and magnitude of our refinance, they and their poficrity will tremble at the name of Britain. Let him urge their rapacious fouls with the lure of booty I—they will find that what has been acquired by bonen induftry will be maintained by danntlefs valour. Lct him mutter his legions, and recapitulate the rolls of his thoufands and tens of thoufands I—they will difcover too late that they are our victims. It is now in our power to give a terrible leffon to tyrants and to 'tyranny ; and by our zeal, courage, patriotifm, and regulated enthufiafm, to eclipfe the fame of the mon celebrated free Bates of antiquity, and even to furpaf the deeds of our renowned forefathers. The moment is at hand, when the fpirit and fentiments which once ani• mated all the departed heroes of the earth, should be concentrated in every Britint foul. Of the iffue none can doubt. We have yet one laurel to earn, at the fight of which Glory itfelf will bluth with exulta tion over the days of Marathon, Salamis, and Platy. ou.oacus. liurAL FAMILT. Werstovra, Avo. au.—The pure air of this place has already bad a vifible cleft on the health of our beloved Sovereign, and there is not the lean doubt but that a few weeks will reflore him to perfea firength. His fpirits are exceifively good, and be endears hinsfelf to every clefs of his fubjeas, by the graitefl affability and condefcenfion, convening with ale farmer on agricultural affairs; with the folder en the duties of his important Elation ; and with the tailor on the bristled preparations of the enemy, and the pedal reliance he has on the kill and bravery of his navy. On the latter he bellows the bigheft com mendations on all oceafions. When going on board yetterday, hearing an attendant caution a failor to be careful in conveying a mufical inftrument from the barge to the yacht, be inftantly turned round and faid--" Oh 1 there is no occafion for that caution; every thing is Cafe in the hands of a Britifh feamatO , His recolleftion of perfons and dillant eircumftances is as lirong as ever; and his converfation, which is far more lively than ever. dilutes (miles on all around ; while on graver fubjeas he fads not of giv ing ample proofs of a very general knowledge. In point of altivity, he certainly has no equal; his hours of repofe are very few, and the remaining ones are completely occupied, either in bufinefs or recreation; fo that he cannot ever be Paid to have an idle moment. Take, for example, Monday laft ; his Majelly role about fix o'clock ; bathed in a temperate bath, was on horfeback before fevers ; rode feveral miles to meet the Staffordfhire militia, law them encamp; and, re turning, infpeCted minutely the camp of the Somerfet regiment ; returned to breakfaft, and at ten went out, to lea, where he prepared the difpatches of the day. reads, &c. came on thore at fix o'clock, dreffed; and edited the Theatre at fevers. There are about 4000 troops here, and the fleet confins of the Casimir and Loims frigates. a twenty gun-chip, three Royal yachts, and feveral hoops and cutters ; a force more than equal to meet any attempt which the Corfican Ufurper could fend, fhould he, envying the happi nefs of a Monarch, who lives in the hearts of all his people, dare to interrupt the content which is here felt by all, and edible in every face. Aucurr 30.—.Yellerday afternoon, about five o'clock, the Royal family landed from their cruize, they were as ufual received with a royal falute and repeated huzzas from the populace. Several of the attendants were lea-lick during their voyage. His Majelly infpefted the piquet guard on his return. The Royal Family, after taking tea, honoured the Theatre with their pretence, which was, as ufual crowded. The performances were " The l'oor Gen. tleman," and " Railing the Wind." DnAor 011apod and Diddler by Mr. SANDFORD. His Nlajelly appear ed extremely amufed with the charader of Diddler, it was the Mt time of his feeing it ailed. The at tendants upon the Royal Family were the Earl of Uzasuoce, Lord how., Generals GARTN, CAF.T WRIGHT and FITZROY. Ladies IcciiESTIR, M. WIN YARD and J. Tay saw a. The Royal Family were IC ceived by all ranks of people with the limner! tokens of loyalty. This morning his Majelly was, as ulna], nn hmkback by (even o'clock, and did net return till pall nine. In a 'bort time after his return, he gave an audience to Lord HAWICESBURT. About ten o'clock the Royal Family embarked on board the Royal Yacht,fur their morning cruize. Lord Haw a as- MIRY :rci.inpanied his Majefly on board, and the meffenger who arrived here this morning with dif patches from Minillers, followed the Royal Family on board. Sir Rossar WILSON had the honour of ac companying the Royal Family on board the yacht. Yeßerday, on the Royal Yacht appearing in fight on return from their cruife, a party hired a boat to go off t• meet them, and to have the honour of me ' eompanying them, but being Seib-water tailors, and not knowing bow to manage the boat, the heaved on one fide, and feveral of them were thrown overboard, but by timely afiiilance they were got out without re ceiving any other inj,s y than a good ducking. r LE XDIN CAMP, otViZfirl go. • • • A General Court Martial ban be dubs here f r revert! days', and is now adjourned to Oho 3d et &P pbi t iiir tember, to await the arrival of evidence, Os WA of Lieutenant Bram, of the Royal W Regiment, on three charges preferred a li i aml:l " Ins commanding officer. The two fire, for w 4 unbecoming an officer and a gentleman; the third: for having fent a challenge to an officer of the fume Corps. Prefident Colonel Woo°, of the fed Mid defe Another General Court Martial ban AI for the ha two days, at the Orderly Room, Colander Barracks. for the trial of Alexander Monro, private ftddior of the 4sd regiment, on a very felines charge of bang ilruck his Officer. Prefident, Major-Geaaral Lord CHAILLIS FITZROY. General Sir Jahn CRAIG has returned from his Military tour, and bat been nn• the Heath all the morning. attended by the other General Ofhcere• in' fpeaing the fevered Brihades while ,the y pradifod a new fyfiem of firing. or rather an old sestitod re vived. which was in ufe during the Americas oar. and which, notwithflanding the boadod improveiesst I in military taaics, it is thought expedient to re-adopt. II am lorry to add that a fptrit of doodle( has mai. fetled itfelf here no lefs than three lowiag hen fought during the left week, but, formalised,' with out any tragical confequences. Every Caber is Camp has been furnilbed with Baty rounds of ban cartridge, which be wears conftantly in his pooch and mwsine, ready to march at a poomee so rice. The hero& in this neigh promi*na abundant crop, and as many (oldie's moo betipmed are allowed to &SR the farmers is gating it ie. MARGATE. AUG. v. t This place continues as frill as over. We bad a asatquerade at Bettifoa's as the elith, whirls was fa* quested by nil the falitiosebies of the piste. Away the comps" we noticed Capt. &nosily eir Hesies Maim Major Avatar, Mr. gum tllassaa.the. There were u p wards of sso stogie Wedoefday evades was Seeder the bewail Ciaa set the libraries, wises he leads his appease.. te SlOck, in the Merriam V Aviirr a great sow fir ihsonebles were pretest. Mrs. Jews, we ant emir to fay, does net half GB the haves Ow played la is Belk', *own as Wedaefday IWO, 46 peoples vet hope! will hare e bur atemAnot the seat ikee the pleye. The feppand roes of the amosieefsaf the Theatre is. tha t sirs: plays the rather' that that WC. Delman played kit wee. This we think rather i libeeel ; be whether it ba p = choice. or that of the Waycr o ss. mem fay. The bathing here goes as hirionalagly. ) BRIGHTON, AUG. 30. 1 This morning the 6rt divifitm of the it s me marched beam for EA Bourse . Th e der follows to-morrow. It is incredible what a beam lion of love-fick damklswera drawn sprit the wads. to take a long farewell of their is Sellser Leddies.• However, the beans and &freaks@ than mdensted by one arm of martial admirere, will *idly apes their citadels y to another, as the Gloacollor Regiment is on ha way, and will march is bat tommasem sod Saturday. Brighton is at prelim unofsolly fell of camps, ; and the pekoes of his Royal Newfs has Ms els viotu influence on the vivackiee if the place. A pc:image of confidmebla wick mid imps* ante, from Pampas. tat La [ninths Mead ef Irm► ado, in the WA Indies, was landed hero mee eights ago from a Well. Indianan, which came to amber alr this port, and has taken refidence at the ?milks% where, however, he is detained as a Rate Firmer, and will, it is thought, be very fpeedily to 41, ?1tt trial ; and as it is for fame ask very ' ills its nature, preparations are already making its US* cation. This perfooap is, perhaps, the moR ova* and miles & inky hank ever landed in Eaglaod, ineafuresfros fat sow incises from a* to tail, airsefat scarfs the belly, sad weighs sewt. and 4olbs. This piarerturtle. whichmoald readily obtain the freedom of any Corporation in was was feat ia hut as a prefect to his Royal H'E JDUBLIN. AUGUST al. Committed to Clonmel gaol, on Thorfday lafi, by EDMUND Powaa, Efq. Maki Keefe, charged with having in arms, at the head oh lawkh gang, in the month of March, illoo, adminilered an illegal oath to T. Fitzgerald. porter to 301.014011 WILTSO/1 4 Fdga at Summerville, binding Fitzgerald. on pain °Edge*, to quit his houfe within five days. A dragoon returning with a difpatch from Den g to Clonmel on Saturday fenaight. ' was fired at and wounded in the arm by a ruhan who &- charged a mulket at him. The dragoon, notwfth- Rand inn the hot which he received, returned the vil lain's fire, and continued his way, until ezhaniled by lots of blood, he flopped at a cabin, where be was received and lbettered, while enmesh was feat forward to Clonmel, for a party of dragoons, who brought him in on a can. Cavan Affixes ended on Tharfday...—jasees was tried in the Crown Court, before the Hon. Juana Fox, for felonioufly confpiring with certain perfose unknown, to take away the life of Gamuts Meow, Efq.—The indiament not bcing fupported. the pri loner was of courfe acquitted. Thurfday three perfons of the name of Seari, father and two font, inhabitants of Skibhereeo. were tried at Cork before Judge Dar, charged with eon fpiring to murder two gentlemen of the names of O'Daiscor., Magillrates in that part of the musty. The Jury brought in a verditl of Guilty ; and the Learned Judge immediately paired lenience of death upon thole unfortunate men, in a manner to foleina and affetting as to draw tears from a number of the fpeastors. Lieut. MARTIN, commanding the Aar fehonser, which was la. el y kized fir fmuggliog. on Wednefday and Thutlday was tried by a Court Martial on board the GLADIATOR. at Portfmouth, before Rear-Admiral ' Sr Isaac Coma, Bart. Prelident, and fenteaced to be difmiffed his Mijefly's (civic; and incapable of holding any fituativn to future under his biajcfly is his its capacity.