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BNB POLITICAL MAP OP Ofßens LETTER 1. Al. tandem Romanis In belle virtutem, quails In pace lafelvkaus adeEc creditis Noßris 111 i diffentionibus ae difearthis clash VIII] hoitiont in gloriant exereitos fui Tenant : quests eonttae tam-. el dirctuffimis ruffians, ut (atomise m tenant, ita adverts diffott.nt. Tteit. In Vita Age. e. 32. SIR-It would have been an unthankful add fruit -1:1; u ndertaking, during the late heats and itruggles of party, to have expofed before the eyes of the na tion the prefent political map of Europe, and to have e -atralied it with the Rate of Europe twelve years We have been wrangling at borne as if we had nothing to do abroad ; and thofe facred ma ments which ought to have been appropriated exclu lively to the purfuit of the general interes of our country, have been unhappily waled in mutual ac es: baron and recrimination. All this while the ene.. soy hat been making gigantic (rides towards us ; be has concerted his meaftnea ih filence, executed them with promptitude, and, exulting in the at chievements of his midnight burglary, be has pro claimed from his iron throne of Italy, that he will give new laws to Europe, repeal the Maritime code of Great Britain, which has become venerable through the long confent of mankind ; and finally, cattle his flag to wave in triumph in every part of the ocean. There hoes are not without the- Mean ing : they thew a fleadfaft determination to commit injury, and a fpitit of antipathy that no ordinary faccelres will allay. While we have been playing a political game of nine pins at home, he has been able, furtively 1 admit, to give tome appearance of plank fruity to his pretenfions. But, though eve may bid defiance to thee menace( of the enraged hoarier, yet the circumfiance of their receiving currency in any partof EurOpeatturi be inju ,trs to cur tante. I am anxious, therefore,torecaland Ex thepublic attention upon its proprobjet, yds rowel AND AMBITION OF FRANCS, and the confequent DAN GER AND WEAKNESS OF Tl4l RBST OF Emmet. It feems repugnant to all natural fenfe, that when we are threatened from abroad, our minds fhould rbt be united at home. Exterraci Timor magnum Contort/is 1-inculum. Yet we have all lived to witnefs and to de plore repeated inflances of countries, upon whom no foreign force could have made any impreffion, which have been ruined by their intefline diviflims. If then it ever imported a people to look to their own prefer vation, we ought to do it at this junCture ; when an Empire is forming, which, if permitted to take root and be efiablifhed, will four be an overmatch for all the reD of Europe ; when Spain is wholly under the ;Arlene. of our moD Inveterate enemy, when the ports of Italy are in hand, that would totally ez• chide us friim all ourLevantand Mediterranean trade : when the barrier of Flanders, that theatre upon which our noble anceftors filed In much blood s and acquir ed fuch high renown, has been (wept awky, and the United Provinces are reduced to vaffillage under a EC - minus form of government whore expences they are unable to bear ; when the Imperial Houle, which was formerly a counter.poife to• France, has been op• Felled and tricked out of its rights, by the corns's- Con of Come of its members and the timidity of others, and laflly, when the project of univerfal empire, if fuccefsful, mull end in univerfal flavery, and in one opinion concerning government, freedom, and reli o • _ By the rules of good policy and rearon, there painful thoughts should bring us to be of a bettcr temper one towards another, and to unite for the prefervation of our own, and the liberties of all turope. Upon there conliderations, if I can be the means of promoting that unanimity, which can alone enable us to oppofe fuccefsfully the power 1 of France ; if I can, in any manner, be initrumental in perfoading a brave and warlike people to carry that fire abroad which confumes them here at home; if what I fhall offer can any way contribute to make us at lean fufpend our mutual ftrifes and refentments, until we are free from the fear of foreign dangers ; I fhall think my time ufefully and happily employed. The day for the dilcharge of this office, is not un feaconablz. The minds of men are not fo exafperated as they ivere a few months ago. We have now bad a little time to cool in ; and it is not improbable but all parties may fee they have made fume falfe Reps, and that having been wrought up by their mutual heats and provocations, they have done things, which were to be jullified neither by the rules of policy, nor of prudence. If, during the opportunity of the pre fent rummer, our Ilatefmen, removed from the fcene of domeilic broils, would explore the refources of the own country, and take an enlarged obfervation cf the power and deligns of the enemy ; they would return to Parliament, with minds better qualified to fulfil their duties than what they brought with them at the commencement of the lag Seffion. They would find that we have a rich foil, and a fufficient navy that learning, arts and manufaftures fiourifh among us; that we have an innate valour which is dreadful to our enemies; that we have wealth where with to defend ourfelves, with enough to fpare for the Alliance of our friends ; that we enjoy a Conili tilion calculated to make a nation great and happy; 64: we are analogs for our religion, without the fpi perrecution ; that our davitions have not yet N.tJe us contemptible abroad; and that it is evident, -• alone have hitherto interrupted thole defigns witch *rasa !mitt mimed fdr tbt tßatiiitotrat ofi univerfal empire: Since, therefore, jot have none of eh' ofe inward decays which are fo vifible in fome declining 'eminent. ; finee nature hill is Prong within us, able to exert itfelf, and work its own cure ; fince the people never were fo well difpofed to affie the views of their legiflators; it is to be hoped that °dr country, full of domeftic unanimity, and foreign re putation, may yet refcue mankind front the gloomy thraldom with which they are menaced, redeem the honour, and revive the finking fpirits of Europe, and aCume that condition by which the has hitherto been qualified to defeat the councils, and oppofe the flrength of France. It mutt neverthelefs be acknowledged; that there advantages can never be expetted,as long as the continental Powers, (who always confider the public mind of Britain as the barometer of fueconr op defpair) perceive in this country, innead of a ratio nal and manly fupport of government, initead of a communion of thought and aelion, nothing but ca pricionfnefs in legiflators, rancour in the courfe of public inquiries,difiraaion in the n.anagement of pub. lic affairs, and divifion in the fentiments of the people. The left hope of Europe tells on the firm, inflexible, and united minds of the Britifb people, unequivocally etpre Ted. It behoves us, therefore, duly to appreciate our tuition, and to maintain the prefent contek not only with force, but with dignity. In combating fraud and tyranny, let us compel our enemies to feel, and our friend! to acknowledge, that we not only retain the name, but the fpirit of Britons. The liberty for the fake of which we have taken up arms, is the Conftitu tion of our ancellors, which we cherith, not as a fpe culative bauble, but as a pratical good; and we may contra& with honeft pride our happinefs under it with the fawning treachery of thofe by whom the name of Liberty has been ufed as a mark for the moll grind ing oppreffion; whole praife is profanation, and whole external homage is contealed blafphemy. Our prin ciples are drawn, and our ufages adopted, from the great charter of univerfal reafon, of which the Genius of Freedom is the facred interpreter ; they are therefore unextinguithable. The Temple of Britiffi Liberty, reared by the hands, and cemented by the blood of of r anceftors, is at once venerable for age, and refpedlable for utility. It is a Itrufture which we can claim as an inheritance from our forefathers, who claimed it themfelves from the political Pa triarchs in the old time before them. But we know, and we feel likewife, that it has yet a broader bare, a deeper foundation, and a more remote antiquity. It is coeval with time are% deftined as the palladium of there United Mandy and dropped by the hand of WISDOM from the firmament of Htava a. Can the unhallowed voice of the Corfican's venal Senate, which daily chaunts the funeral dirge over fosse departed right of thirty millions of men, make loch an appeal to the honour and juftice of mankind ? What are the pompous titles of 46 Great Nation, Em peror and King," to a people beggared by the law lefs violence of repeated depredations, and deflitute of every wife and wholefbme provifion againft the Oppreffm's wrong ? The fecurity they afford to ufur patiob is of a fugitive nature ; but the Stability of the Britifts Conftitution is guarded by the vigilance, ar.d fullaised by the love of the people, We are not, therefore, to be intimidated from one porpore by the diurnal chorus of drunken Helots, whole foie motives to anion are blood and rapine. The dupes of every ignoble paffion, and of every lucky fool or enterpria iug knave, it is no wonder, that the French fhould with to fee their own fertility extend itfelf over the whole of human fociert. They cringe and fawn upon a tyrant, becaufe they would be tyrants themfelves ; they would blot the name of FRIINAN out of the book of life, becaufe they defire to enclave others.— Thofe unfeeling wretches are perpetually declaiming in praife of the exemption from the guillotine which they enjoy in their chains, and more enraged than fatiated at their own atrocities, they hearken to no fuggeftions of the foul, but give an implicit faith and obedience to the perjuries, the will, and the violence of their ruler. To their frivolous minds, nonfenfe polies for demonftration. The molt criminal means are faatified by the attainment of the ends treaties are not binding where they interfere With a momen tary intereft : the ancient laws and cuftoms of States have no authority againft their matter's will : impu dent forgeries are received as authentic drrcuments and the affirmations of their government as proofs.— All this, they call government ; but it is better known in this country by the name of !taros-route. This is the government, and thefe the people with whom we have to contend. What profpeds we may derive from the co-operation of the Tell of Europe, I (hall endeavour to lay open in my future letters. The (tate of the continental powers, though extremely equivocal and dangerous, is not yet hopelefs. Admo nailed by experience, and encouraged by our exam ple, their reafon may be, at length, convinced, and their exertions revived. Then, under the protalion of that Balsa, who maintains the world by his power, who governs it by his wildcats, and upholds it by his providence, we may fairly compute, that the frag ments of the civilized world, will be collated and re placed on their antient foundations, and that legiti mate authority will be reftored, and the European confederacy of nations refume its ancient equipoife. At prefent, as I am about to demonftrate, Europe is in a State of anarchy, lode, infinitely worfe, and Mote 'joining; that daring tbofe tattgathaft and tempelluous moments when it was airailed by a tut. bulent deinocracy 3 and if, in the eourfe of the fober invefligation which I propore to give to the fubjee, it fhould appear, that I thould imfrefs upon the People of this Empire the anal neceftity of mating unexampled exertions; let It always be underllood, that it is not a vigour sunitti the Law, but a viewer at the Law, which it it my objet to inculcate. wALsisbutit. We learn by the 1a( advice' from India, that the Marqnis WaLL¢sLIT intended to proceed on his tour to the Upper Provinces early in the fpring ; if fo, his Lordlliip, it is fuppofed, will be at Delhi much about the time that the Marquis COR mweLLI3 will arrite at Bengal. The MarquisWlLLentv, we underhand, is build. ing a palace at Banackapore, almoft Upon as grand a reale as the palace of Bengal, which is to be con lidered as the country refidence of his Lordthip and future Governor-Generals. PUOILISM.—The fate of Dutch Sam, in his rni matte with the little Wandfworth butchyri has bola'. len another of the pugiliflic corps. A battle was fought on Sunday at Paddington, when O'Donnel, who was one of the fpeaators, had a quarrel with an untaught plaiflerer of his own weight, and they fet to. In the courfe of a few minutes the head of O'Donnel had flopped to many of the -plaifterer's blows, that like Sam, Lis friends conveyed him away to avoid the ftigma of his being decently milled.— They fay he vat out of conefition. Saturday afternoon twenty-fnar female cowries were removed in two waggons from Newgate to be put on board the William Pitt, bound to Botany Bay. Their behaviour was highly indecorous ; and they tore the tilt of the waggon kindly intended to conceal their fhame, and rent the air with the moft fcandalons exprefllons. They were accompanied by ........d.• Perfed, convicted tome time ago of obtaining money from the Earl of Ct.mtvitoott, under pretence of its being for the relief of a dithered female. With the outward bound Eaft India fleet, which were under orders to fail yefterday, are going out two large veils for Botany Bay. One, named the Laurel, is fitted for male conviEts, and has a detach ment of the Bth Royal Veteran Battalion on board. The other is the William Pitt, and is fitted for the accommodation of female conviels, and free fettlers. We are lorry to be informed, by our Correfpon dent, that a fatal accident had like to hate happened to our young favourite, Matter SAUNDERS, en Sa turday morning, whilft amufing himfelf in a boat off PI *thead I it unfortunately upfet, and bad he not been a molt excellent swimmer, mull have perifhed. On Monday, previous to the Brißol Cavalry fet ring out from the York Hotel, with the late General MAGIAN'S funeral, the Trumpeter's boric reared on his hind legs, and falling backwards, was killed on the fpot. The rider providentially efcaped unhurt. On Friday lal, as Mifs Carter, fecond daughter of Mr. Carter, Banker, of Portfmouth, was bathing, the was feized with an apopleaic fit, and drowned before afliftance could be procured. A melancholy accident happened on Saturday af ternoon : William Barnes, butcher, of Stanwix, went to bathe in the river Eden, near the Sorceries, where he amufed himfelf for a confiderable time by fwim ming. He was at Taft obferved to fall upon his back, in the water, and never rote more. Several perfons, on being apprifed of the accident, immediately went into the water with the hopes of recovering the body ; two of whom dived from oppofite (bores, and meet ing together in the middle of the water, and each fuppoling he had got the drowned man, they feized each other, and role to the furface of.the water, fall locked in each other's arms, to the diverfion of the furrounding fpatators, who, notwithflanding the awfulnefs of the occafion, could not forbear laughing heartily at their gretrhue appearance. The body was found on Sunday morning. What is remarkable, the deceafed has had two brothers, who were alfo both drowned. The highwayman who robbed tome of Lord Os soar's fervent: Lift week. on Luton Downs, in Bed fordihire, has been apprehended, and committed to Hertford gaol. After having plundered the butler and hcufekeeper, as we have before mentioned, he fell in with a pig-jobber, and robbed him of money and a watch, jolt after which an acquaintance of the pig jobber's came up, and they agreed to purfue him, which they did, and, in the (porting phrafe, 4' turned him" feveral times. At length he reached a wood, and took into it, but found his purfuers gaining fo fat upon him, that he had no chance of efeaping with his horfe ; he therefore difmounted, abandoned him, and fled into the thicket part of ihe ' wood. The pig-jobber heated the tierce; they gave the alarm of his being concealed there, to a Gentleman of the name of Brand, who immediately called out his company of Sharp.fhooters, which he commands, and furrounded the wood (it not being of very great extent) all night. The next morning, a party of about twelve went into the wood, found and fecured him. He is a genteel-looking young man, of about twenty-five years of age ; and it appears from his book of orders, which was found in his faddle-bags, together with half a dozen watches, and the property he had when taken, that he rides for Come honk in London. He had no arms but a pato!, which was not loaded. The beauty of the Circadian women has been the furprife and admiration of all travellers, and they have been particulary praifed for the elegant fymme try and pearly whitenefa of their teeth. For preferv ing them in this beautiful and healthy flair, their country furniffies a peculiar vegetable produelion. little known in any other quarter of the world, which they are in the habit of conflantly ufing. It is this produBion which the Proprietor was fo fortunate to *mire, that forms the hafts of Btrri.ta's Rettora five Tooth Powder. To this Article it owes its fu perior excellence and efficacy, over every other of the kind, in imparting a fweetnefs to the breath, giv ing a delicate coral rednefs to the gums, and remov in4 from the teeth, without injury, all foulnefi and dilcolouration, that tarnithes the enamel. This va luable preparation is fold at Mr. BUT Lies, No. 4, Cheapfide, corner of Paternotter-row ; and may be had of moll bookallera and perfumers. Mowry coon. try town, in bows, at as. 9d. each., OLD Lour. irelierd.r twctity•nihe Kircher. Were tried, fil'eett of whom were convieted of feit.nies, j. Barratts abbe:ming tl. 111,.the property or Lis "niter, W. Neva d I Grey , Wa, Carr y. fat Reuling a piece of Mart& freeze. the property of J. Bird. W. C. Watfon, for ftealint a raw, a rale, &e. thepreyeftyd E. Norain.—T. Underhill, for &Ming 31. the property a B. Brim. Jane Rill, for Reeling one quart ind one pint pot, the proper? Of W. Kenn. Pag J e an. - Ilaw d Cqt—ao.tt, for Reeling a quantity of kad, tie Property of F. W. Gardner, her Reding a Giver watch, the Property of H. Ad- Catherine Dirhf)n, for Reeling n kiln, the prrperty Of W. Harding. C. Pathan, for Reeling two gowns, and other whin, the pro. pity of Mary Docktnanton. Sarah Collins, for pdttiog off, to R.. Coleman, fr acret pleat of kounterfeit coin; and William Collet, David Retain, and Chr7opker Lander, who were indiEled,the two former for Realing two fad. dies, a chaife bridle, two fnaffle bridles, and a mar tingale, from the Rable of Mr. White, a farmer, at Welfion, being his property, and the latter for ptir. chafing the time, knowing the fame to be Rolen. Henry Shurty, fervant to Mr. White, Rated, that early on the morning of the 3ta of May, he found his Mailer's (table door iad been broken open during the night, by puthin back the bolt, and on entering mitred - the above articles, and inllead of a hat which had been left there the preceding evening, by Mar. (ham, another fervant of White's, found one bel,,,vg. ing to 'the prifoner Collet, and which be had teen him wear the day before. That this hat belonged to the prifoner was farrier corroborated by its being bloody on the fide, eat ref. ponding with a fore ear that Collet was known to have at the time. On the day following, the 31(1, Shinty found the two prifoners, Collet and Flewin, at the Buffaloes Head, New Road, and on attempt ing to fecure them, Flewin ran away, while Cnllet ftruggled hard to geet loofe, and drawing a knife from his coat pocket made feveral tubs at witners, which luckily did him no farther injury than perfor ating his coat in feveral places. Golfe was then wearing Marrham's hat, which he had taken frum the liable. On the information of Collet, the witnefs went on the t 7th of June to the lodgings of Lander, at the corner of Compton-Rreet, St. Giles% up two pair of (lairs, where, among a variety of other faddiery wares., he found the bridles in queftion, but not the faddlesohough there were upwards of twenty in the room. The w•itnefs on this took Lander to Marl borouph•Rreet, where be was examined, but without obtaining any fatistaCtory information rerpeding the (addles, and was defired to appear next day. On their way from the office the prifoner informed the witnefs that he had now recollthed of felling a couple of faddles Inch is he had defcribed to one Williams, a faddler, corner of Rathbone place. They went there accordingly, accompanied by the officer in whole cuttody Lander was, and found that Williams had fold the faddles to a gentleman's fervent, in whore cuftody they were found. This evidence was con firmed by correfponding teftimony. Mr. Williams Rated that he had bought the faddlee of the prifoner for 31. 51. and fold them for Collet's father appeared to he heard in evi dence, but, on account of his relation to the prifo ner, was judged incompetent. One man appeared in favour of his charafter,which he raid he had never heard impeached before. A number of refpe.table tradefmen appeared ha favour of Lnnder's eharalier, and reprifented him as an hnnell, indußrious man, whom they had known feverally from ro to 18 years. One of the Jury expreffed a with to know what Lander had paid for the bridles, faddles, Bcc. when it appeared from the re-examination of Shurty that Lander had told him 251. while Collet had declared that he had not got more than ss. Lander, at the bar, repeated his having given 251. but Rated the faddles to have been incomplete, and that be had given them new Rirrups and Rirrup ftraps before felling them. This circumfiance was farther confirmed by Williams. The Ricoaolt, in Cumming up the evidence, ob ferved that nothing feemed to bear againft Dewitt, except the circurndance of his running away, which might not, perhaps, be unnatural on the leisure of his companion.—Collet and lender were returned— Guilty ; and Flewin—Not Guilty. William Howe, an old man, above (event y, was con aided of dealing a pig, valve two guineas, the pro perty of Mr. Giles. farmer, at Bow Fair Fields. The fad being clearly proved, the old man could only, in a trembling voice, defend himfelf by denying the theft. He had no friend on earth, he Paid, and hop ed the Judge would be his friend. The Judge from the Bench (the R[CORDIR) faid, he believed he had been his friend before now, and was afraid that no thing would reform him ; obferving to the Jury the difficulty of treating Inch an cld practitioner in guilt. It appeared that he had been difmiffed, tome time ago, from the Houfe of Con eftion. William White, for (leafing too wt. of lead, which had been affixed to a dwelling-houfe, the property of Francis Page. It appeared that the Profecutor, havin miffed the lead off his (simmer houfe on the 9th of June left, at fix o'clock in the evening, and feeing the track of a man's foot newly made, ordered his fervent: to trace it; this was accordingly done, and the prifoner was difcovered with his wife fitting in a neighbouring wood with the flolen lead in a lack juft by him. The Pt ifoner denied that the fack belonged to him; but the circumftances being fo Aron& againft him, the Jury found him—Guilty. W. Crielleevell, for robbing his wafter, Mr. Jere dine, pewterer, in Poland-ftreet, of property to a confiderable amount. Mr. j. had fufficient reafon to fufped he had been robbed by the prifoner, and Li , . vett, an officer of police, was fent with a warrant to fearch his apartments. He there found a great number of articles, which were (worn to by the pro. fecutor. It was the prifoner's intention to have com menced bufinefs in a (tort time, and he had folicited the favours of many of his maftet's codomers. Fourteen were acquitted, among whom :ail John Smith, for healing an umbrella. In defence the prifoner faid he had fallen into a fit in the Meet, and When he recovered he was poffeffed of the um. brella. It appeared, however, that he was a lunatic who bad elcaped from Edmonton Poot Honk, thee be was ordered to be conveyed. MEM