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7' ANTLCuRSICA.v ; or, WAR of LißEArr, TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNrrEn Emrtar. LETTER V. Perfidious Tr nce ! Be this the TIOnII point Of my wh, le life and pal Lon of ply foul, To bumble thee, proud Gallop ! Among the numberlefs rchenies of oppreffion which !he genius of modern France has collated in its alga of tyranny, there is one that has been little noticed, but which, in my opinion, is the molt formi dable of them all, and completes the rum of tho le moral evils with which its different governments have tormented mankind. I mean the enrolment of the inhabitants of the conquered provinces amongfl the ranks of the French army. The moll enlightened advocates for the law of nations, and confequently. the moil intrepid enemies of France. Teem either to have overlooked this monfirous engine of depopula tion, or to have been nr•.confcious of the alarming extent of he operations, Habituated for ages to be hold the wild pafflons of the conqueror rufpended in favour of that univerfal law, which was heretofore praftifed by the common content of nations ; and compelled to encounter, at one time, a multitude of enormities, which menaced with diffolution the tem ple of focial order, it is not to be wondered at, if roan of the dark refources of French perfidy fhould have eluded the vigilance of fiatefmen, and the im mediate obfervation of politicians. It becomes, therefore, my duty, to hold up the bloody mirror of France to the view of the people of this United Em pire, that their patriot zeal, incenfed at the indignities which the Corlican affalfin propofes to commit upon them, may be infpired with a greater degree of ardour to maintain their independence, and challife his guilty ambition. Revolution of property being the favourite point of the aitildord rquarrators of the earth, our minds have been confounded with the diverfifted pretexts, Protean sautes, falfe allegations, and dexterous ver fatiNty, fabricated by thefe hypocritical cutpurfes, for the take of fwindling mankind. Their ingenuity has been fo well rewarded, that they are juilly entit lodlito the boomer of baring brought the art of 'bier brig to perfoltiou. Compared with BOMAPALTS, or soy of his favourite Generals, and foldiers, Pack in the Beggar's Opera, is but a Tyro. The latter puL fered by accident and by fteelth, but the former rob by rule, sod by /agifietive decrees. They have fo improved upon the an, that they not only make the people they rob accefaries to their crimes, but they have exalted knavery itfelf from the obfcure haunt to the academic porch, and from, the dung hill to the curule chair. The profeMon of a high wayman mutt be creditable is fuch a country of h eeded rogues, who, inflead of being rewarded with halters as they deferve, are decorated with filken falba, and called members of the National laftitute. How has the light of reafon transformed the human chi:alter, and turned topfy-turvy all moral diking doss ! The youth of France are cleaved to recei►e the elements of wifdom and virtue from this band of Omni& thieves, and pilfering rhetoricians I The old falltioned fyflem of ethics is now difcard ed, as a category of follies, fuited only to fqueamith old women, and eonfeientious religionifts ; while the new code, lettered on the back Liberty, Equality, Property, and blazoned dish the emblematical fron apiece of fortune blinded, (impious type of the new theology of chance) holding in one hand a pair of kale:, to weigh the fpoils of nations, and in the other a hatchet and rods, to execute vengeance on the con tumacious, announces amldll the roar of cannon the moral duties which French republicans are called upon by their democratic philofophers to fulfil. Ac. cording to this breviary of fin and iniquity, the _ _ _ nature of moral anions has been defined with a Legieal presifinn wholly unrivalled. We have not only the definition of the thing, but what has ex- bawled in wain the refearches of the deepell me tiph)ficians, the definition of the name, as well as t!ac t' initi , n of things without a name. This is precildy the pivot of ssictednefs on which the revolution turns. It owes its difenery, not to the ancient Academy of Se;ences, or to the Doftors of the Sorbonne, but to the Hierophants affembled at Pari. under the name of Nitional Isillitnte, in wbnis difivisling homilies of anarchical libettinins, emits vs %lilted with she WISPS of grand , and Pod with the name of evil. Enmpo and Africa have bitter goofs foe remembering be dngssas of Mares, FeeLesraano, R NODS a sa. sad Mesta of that* fettnaine4 political economics, ohnfulatiambd front the tribune of P.M- Idemomitue the decree of univerfal conlikasion, under the pretest that the trotted 4 things, and the ideas of 'things Ihould be changed. Ilowsrsava, Moses, SLITNOLLIT. all members of this kerwd confrater nity, have preached (word in.hand, thefe Stier in Italy, Switzerland, Egypt, and wherever the Trench ilandard has waved in triumph. In then, no Trench army has ever marched forward without a body of therefrom. in its train. Thus, wino we formerly believed to be woes, they tell us is a mil. take, beeauk in the modern vocabulary, the fapient Doilors of the great nation have declared it• to be right. Hence, the attack of neutral Rates is a pro. Tifton for French !tensity ; the plundering of allies, a boon for proteaion granted ; the Cale of church property, and the &melees of a fovereign, is the re moval of prejuokta religious and political i contri butions, exatlions, loans, gratuities, pecuniary re demplious, extorted from the conquered, are evi. dences of emancipation ; bribes are proofs of a paci• is diipofttion; theft of all kinds, is a difplay of the gout of the great nation ; a lie, is a ilroke of policy ; a cheat, is a dexterous negotiator; a fwindler, is a true Frenchman ; murder, is a confular term for the extirpation of rebels; and rebels, are all thole mem. hers of the different (late. of the world, who take up arms to defend their religion, property, laws, and country, from the grafp of a Corlican cu t.throadl Were I to cite examples illuilrative of this text, I could write whole volumes. But there is another fpecies of •illainy, in which thefe Anthropophagi are anklet—it is in the art of thieving men; of kidnapping the perfon, after hay. ing wised on his country and property. Every French General is a recruiting ferjeant for his tyrant. and the ranks which have been (wept away by the (word of legitimate refinance, are !applied with the citi zens of each fubverted Rate. When I revert to the hifiory of Man in every age of the world, when I turn over the volumes which contain the catalogue of his misfortunes, I Am at a lots in what manner to account for this tranfeendant inilance of French atrocity. The flights!! invelli gation will convince us in a moment. that it Rands without a parallel in the records of human villainy. The genius of 'conquering tribes bas occafionally led them to incorporate the whole of the people whom they had fubdued ; but never. until the epoch of rt. generated France, has an inftance been found of men hand-cuffed. and drafted into the legions of their mercilefs conquerors, in order to filed the blood of their fellow citizens, and to fight on the ruins of their Dem country the battles of its defpoilers. The vie-, tories of Mahomet and his fuccefors were the fruits of a courageous enthufiafm, and of a bolder and 1 1 more generous policy. Their empire was over the minds of men ; they preached and fought to make converts ; where convietion failed, they exterminated ; but they never dreamt of (welling the tide of con. quell, by the help of auxiliaries, who refuted to ac knowledge the Prophet of Mecca. The Muffulmans always incorporated other nations with their own, as foon as they had embraced Ifianifin, which done, all diainaions ceafed, and they went forth a people of religious warriors, to acquire dominion, and to ex tend their faith. The irruptions of the Mogul Tartars under Chen ghiz-Khan, in the thirteenth, and under Tamerlane, io the fourteenth century, were executed by one peo- ple, whore objea was rapine. It is true, the martial policy of Rome encouraged the enrolment of the in habitants of the conquered provinces, and fent than to a diftant frontier, remote from their native land. But while they fought in the Roman armies againit acknowledged barbarians, they (hared in all the rights of Roman citizens. Thus, the youth of Bri tain ferved regularly as auxiliaries of the Romans, but they gained by the event. For, wherever Rome extended her conquefts, the communicated her know. ledge and magnificence, eflablithed her tribunals, and differed the refinements of focal life. When the Roman Eagles were uplifted, Arts, Literature, and Civiliaatioa fiourifhed around them. But, every thing has retrograded with the eonquefts of France. Wherever fhe has planted her fiandard, Civilization' has gone back a century; and the morals of the peo ple have become vitiated. bilked of fprcading widely Science, Letters, and Urbanity, the has rob bed and (tripped nations of the only means which they poffefTed of maintaining them. Wherever the footllep of a Roman was ken, monuments of im. provement reared their heads; wherever the bloody' track of a Frenchman is viable, every 'elite of he. manity difappears. The fplcndid advantages which Rome conferred on the conquered world, compen. fated, in come degree, for the violence of conqueff; and foftened the lots of independence ; but there mo. dern viElors take delight only in ruins and &relation; and difpenfe no other benefit but unconditional ()every. Above two hundred thoufand men have been forced away from their native .countries, and facrificed to the ambition of France. Intermingled with the French confciipts, and fcattered over the vall .urrace of the Republic, they have been grade alit drilled into habits of intemperance and immora lity, until they are almoft equal in profligacy to the French themfelves. Their military career epees with the comenitfion of parricide; with cutting the threatsl of their own countrymen ; then are they deemed fit auxiliaries of France ; Italians are fent to hold Be-' tatiantin chains Belgians are marched over the "Alps to hold Italians in chains ; and the heroes of Swifferland arc fotced. acre& the Atlantic to teach revolted flavei, the Wimp of liberty, equafity, and fraternity. I If we reflex on the abandoned life and cond'ia of French foldfers,-and upon the contagious influence of their example over men, who, ddpoiled of pro. perty at home, are induced to look foe its poffelLon frpm abroad, we cannot be furprifed at every con quered people being thus made infirunsental in ex tending the further enigmas of France, and the mi. levies of other nations. Their fituation is the image of a man, borne doles by a torrent, and out of .bis depth, who, finding refinance hopelefs, flrives to keep hinifelf afloat, under the idea of reaching at length tome filial of 'Way, on which he may find a riling place. Unlefs the Powers of Europe unite o refill with vigour this military (Om, they will fall foe celEvely the 'Mims of that ntif-lbspen CoLoftus, which afpires topearide the world, and wield the (word of tcrror over affrighted nations, Attila made a conti nual traSc of the fears of the Romans. The Cor ficau has derived equal advantages from the timidity of the Continental Powers. At the mention of five hundred thonfand Frenchanea, every Ambairador is dumb. Let us not deceive ourfelves. We have not to i ( cal with man whofe tote refourees are in their fibres , d their intrepidity. Whatever means can be fur-, bed by intelligent, naive, and enterprizing fpirith tutored in the flormy fchool of revolution, and mt.- tiled in the moll difficult labours of war and peace, are now colleted under the tent of the Corfican.-- Whatever can be effetted by the refinements of po. licy, by the arts of divifion, flattery, and corruption; whatever can be accompliffied by the craft and tub tlety of the devil, to give force to the power of arms, BONATILITS knows how to employ. A new kale is about to open upon mankind, and eve mall be the principal aeors. Impelled by a juft caufe, and for tified by thole magnanimous fentimeats which enno ble human nature, when jullice is on its fide, the gift of prophecy is unnecefary to reveal the undoubted true of fuch a (cent. Our beloved country enifi be viaorious, and lITIINAL NUIPININI WILL SITTLI ON ITS lIIIAD. 04LONOWS. LONDON. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER t. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONF O'CLOCK s 3 per OM. Casfels silift—Old sp a Com 4.• Ouniss, s 7 diE PRIC2 OP STOCKS YESTERDAY. Sim C. CssE jrif Inbcquer BIM as. dr. pas s per Com Ssf Omaium if dic India Stock 165 ENO& Tickets 10. to.. ImP• S Per 'Com S 4 SSI CooL for Asc. sj 54** Imp. Asa ss-tddis The King has been pleated to eau& it to be bgni• fled by the Right Hon. Lord Hawassavav, his Ma jelly's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Af fairs, to the Kniners of Neutral Powers reficling at this Court. that his Majelly has thought proper, for the Defence of his Dominions, and the protedion of his Subjeas, to take the mull iffeanal meatures foc i the blockade of the entrance of the Port of Havre de Grace, and the other ports of the Seine ; and that from this time all the 'matures antliorifed by the law of nations, and the retpellive Treaties between ltis, Hajelly and the different aeutral Powers. will be adopted and executed with retpee to all veil* which may attempt to violate the raid blockade.-"Gentas. Oar letters from Dublin inform us, that on &tor day laa another prifoner was found guilty of having been a party in the late infurreßion: Mmes, the old.elothefman, was ezeeuted the fame day is Tho. mu-itrut. Other putieulart will be found under the proper bead. Cola WORST, MAIR-Lllll4 SIFT. 7.—There If little or no alteration in the prices of any Article fmce the currency mentioned in this Paper on Monday left. The ATTQZNIT Gsaaui, we illleteriblildf has ven it as hii opinion, oa confultatiori; that the lall gives All paled for the General Defence of the Country exempts (rota the Army of Referve and the Millie", all Volunteer Corps accepted by his Mayesrr, and which in cafe of invafion are ready to march to any part of Great Britain.—The fpirit of volunteering has, it is Paid, interfered with the Army of Referee and Militia, and this is now generally confidered as the reafon why Government wiihei to rellrain the former within narrow bounds. It may be tru:, that the regular recruiting of the army may be retarded for a little time II a nobler ardour that now animates the people—But if the cairn. try can thus bring a larger foie into the field, we are every way gainers. The Volunteers coil the Government leis expence, and it will not firmly be alerted they are animated by lets worthy motives than the regular army. There Corps ate betides an excellent nurferz fir the army, and would not fail. in a much fborter time than Government may be aware of, to turn out a great number offoldiers. We coed name a Corps of Volunteers, amounting to onlyl so men, vihich during the war fent who men fucceEvely into the regulars and militia , who were always re• placed. One part of a plan which is now underftood to be &gelling foe tie Miter arrangement of the Volunteer corpiis, that loch Volanteen as may hereafter be ac cepted, are not to claim an exemption from being drawn for the Militia, Stc. Another arrangement will be, that Volunteers 1n future will be expelled to End their own arms; and that they are alto to be formed into regiments or brigades, and to be occa fienAlly reviewed or infpefted by experienced officers, who will be appointed to prefide over certain diftrifts. In (port, the plan, it is Anted, will be calculated to give them podia efficiency, nomad the exigencies of the State require it ; to reader them in all refpefts competent to the defence of their country ; to metho dik and regulate that generous ardour with which sky art inspired; to glee them confidence in their own exertions, and to make them fell as foldiers. A Letter from a Gentleman, dated King(lon. Ja. maica, dated 3d July, to a Merchant in Liver poL fays, " The intended inforreaion of the Negroes has been dikovered very fortunately in its ara linge; and as the examples made of dick implicated are Adkins, my mind is quite at cafe as to any thing ft. rims coking. As a Magiarate I have had an oppor. tunity of knowing the truth. on that account and the dread of your being unnecefarily alarmed, I think it of fafEcient confequence to mention it to yon. " I have this moment embarked t t of that taken up, on board of a Spanik vete'. boned for Toba feo in,the Bay of Maisie° ; utak, with the two hams ed, and the one they poikaed, and from whom a dikovery of the coaplracy was obtained. are all that are laid, hold of. and, I hope, ate the fa* that were concerned W it.". NALITIGX. INTELLIGENCE. PLYWOUTS, SE►T. 3.—Came in the Ran?er re venue cutter from Cork, and brought in with her the fnauggling lugger Return, from Guernfey, laden with 130 calks of (pmts, which the captured off the Lizard ; the Hercules, of and from Dantaiek, Capt. A mDRISON, laden with naval Roves for the dockyard; and the Friends, Capt. Le Gaos, from Guernfey, with wine, for this port.—Sailed the DIULOOMp of 74 guns, to join the fleet off Breit. The Acerra, 0; 40 guns, and the FISOMUI t of 38 guns, came from Hamoaze this morning, and anchored in the Sound. Sailed the Colzoras, 9f 4 vas, to the Weliward, Paid to be gone with difpatches for Malta. - PoarsiLoym, Sm. 6.—.-I.afi night arrived the TERROR bomb, Capt. Halersoc, with feint= from the Downs. She failed again this morning for the fame place. The Ravocurioxante, of 44 guns, Capt. Loca, has made the fignal for a convoy to the (out!, ward and wellward. The Excezcson of 74 guns, Capt. Sormcaoi, is ordered to vidual for forego ler vice, fuppofed for the Mediterranean. She will pre. vioufly relieve the Mac II rice r, Capt. Pons, at Sr. Helen's, which is to come to Spithead to be paid wages. Sailed the *slava cutter, Lieut. TAIL Dor, on a cruize. DIAL, Sarr. 6.—Arrived the Traveller, MID. intros, and Peggy, COVULDAILI, from Qgebee - and PEOASUS frigate. with a convoy from — Pone mouth—Wind E. S. E. ELSIN Ult, Avc. so.—The Convoy mentioned in our laa to be in fight proved to be the Cites frigate, with between 4o and so fail from the Note, and ailed again yekerday afternoon. PROM LLOYD's LIST. OItAYMND, Stn.. 6... Pared by the Policy, Clark, from tk. Saab Sc..; h Dunkirke (a prise). from Martinique • and Wad.. they, Way, from Legkore.—Sallul the Orion, Evans. for Dublin= Mary, Coe; Commute, Male ; Jafon, Addifon ; Ploughman , T • Jobe Ord; and the Mentor, fur Peter. burgh; W i ght, F ord, for ; Minerva, Smith, and Fame, Anderfon, for Lubcoe; Jonge Cornelius, for Tonningcn ; Soccers, Cobb; Juno, itabinfoo; and the Wriwart, foe Emblem Aeatvco—in the Downs, Eagle, Plokerms and Neptune. Dad Iron, from Whit. A; Clyde, Martha, Hodgfon, front /Zuebee. At Cork, Harming, Haydon, from Denude. At Cuem. Icy, Maria Carolina, .---, from the Mediterranean. At Ma. Odra, &Imola, Leary, from London. At St. Croix, Duke of Broom, Beale, from Africa. The Goodrich, Mean, from Chorfelton to L'verpoothas been taken by the Breads, retaken by the Vigilant privateer of Goan. ley, and carekd Into that Mad Ammon host Boordeaux, of the z 3th Anima, /tato, dod the Aksando; of 403 tone, from Jamilca. Is taken. - - - - - - - - On Saturday lall the Eait India (hip blare Womb of Exeter, Captain jour Locks, jun. front Maboyaa. , arrived at Madman for the purple of difolursing her valuable cargo of fpica ice. Emma of a letter from C!alab o to ae salami merchaot in London, dated the god ult.— !, I take the opportunity of a neutral veal lamb( this port of fending you a few anon& He aches channel of communteation pretests half Tim vials from Dover are not permitted to enter the harbour. When they arrive of a boat goes out tomes rims. and I underftand the fame precaution is ufed on your fide the water. The tench after Engliat reins& des at the Cuftomitoofe here is very Relit. Tbo veal by which I fend this, though cleared out repo larly from Embden, is compelled to take back a bell of goods foppotal sit be of &Ida asamfahreatte India articles, fuck as !User, pepper, r„ at- are admitted. The former is very rearm throughout all France, and the price of it is atm daily. I Musk to fend you tome Newfpapers, bat the veal fails a few hoots too loon. A very fine order is given at the Cu itom-houte, to prohibit any being feet on boast neutrals or cartels. The reafon of this prohibition we do not quite comprehend, as aU their material contents will reach Too orally. or in letters. I am not 'aware that any thing very important has lately tranfpired through this channel. The objea of the concealment I false to be more future than prem. I by about a moods or fix weeks. However' thie may be, bur preparations continue undienissiaed, and (to which I attach more importance) the fame, or k. created pains, ore taken to keep up sad aro* the fpirit of the nation lipi! England. • The news of the late intonation in Ireland has been airoduoufir circulated through the country. There is not a drum boy of NW regiment here (the ssd battalion cool& in g of about tOOO men), but knows every particular of that event as well as the Loan Ltsuestramr at Ireland. Very few but the fuperior ()Seen have any idea of the fitoadons of England and Iceland. nod hence a popularity is excited by the circurnaances aE that event, towards the invafion in general. Your volunteers and he, .0 as* are treated of in cower. ratios by the atilitsry whit a ftudied contempt : they openly talk of going over to eureite and drill them fume time in °Sober, a period that I have foam rotten to think not idly fixed upon. We ourfelves are in no very great fate of forwardnets. As I men. tinned, our pin ion confifts of about .tOOO meL— The number of boats building (for none m quits complete) may be about yet t they are tomethisto os the model of fiihing.boats, with a deck, and Sol es all calculated to convey artillery. There are, bow. ever, many more buil", up the country on a find. leer eondrueion. and the whole number aligned for our port is too. Some people fay it cannot contain more than ago. Of there not more than 70 or So can leave the harbour in one tide. _ _ u Your cruisers daily come within the reach of our batterks, who are now fo cotnplaifant as not to are at them except they approach in the night, whoa the order is, to are at every thing that can be ken. Ow Mermen are much harralkd, and frequendr taken, or driven on bore. What will ha the end of all this Goo knows. Attempt the invalion, and foe• ceed, at lean to fame extent, the FIRST Combos. muQ, or he will not be Four Casson long. Pin haps the deftroetion of a dock yard or two, the rack- ing of l i ondon, or the fall of Ireland, might finial, the public expreation ; but nothing !bort would— the Casfidar Throne of France mni be (might for on Brink ground. You will readily believe that we. made's*/ body. Dot of the military prufeiG•et, who may be fappnfed to &mailable the people of France, are mach againli this war, which has w•thieig French for its objea. Bat what tan we dot By the bye, the people have iallinAively fallen back into a decent obfervance of the Sabbath. jpro—.W II dwy dip duvet This is a &Wee I mall sat die# and dun' her, have to per nodigagios." ~, I in ai to Mn, Un Sef cfri. Ic• 1 . • ci tytK .11:01 hate Sue i