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de. 141. tin end g le a : gin ant( Red the er.c Cts. nd. rich for d tHI kbiLE bF THS ktiPIELL LETTER ID. The ANTUORSICAN I soi,tiPAß OP The lati of Holland might have been confideled as a fugitive inflame of French perfidy, if a multi tude of other independent communities had not been involved in i fimilar cataflrophe. But, without ex ploring every field - on which the government of France has left indelible traces of its cruelty, fubor dination, and exadiont, I call the public Mind of the Erica' Empire, to the caufelefs and unprovoked vio lation of the independence di Country, from which the Republic had nothing to fear, and by whofe neu trality, her expofed frontier was guarded under the facred fandion of public faith. Many of the coun tries which had relinquiflied the names and chit- Talkers, in fearful compliments to their fraternizing conquerors, might be pat cloned this indifcretior., be cult the generous flame of liberty had ceafed to glow within their bofoms, and abandoned to a long Deep of political inanition, they were incapable of feeling ' Chafe moral energies of patriotifm, by which nations are upheld and rendered refpedable. Beneath the mobldering minds of feudal vaffalage, amidft the mo ,sonsents of ancient glory, inviting thern.to a brighter cheriihing the lofty fentiment, that they were the &ft to enkindle the lamp of fcience, and to dif ibte the genial influence of literature over the weftern world, and treading the foil once confecrated to free. dom and to valour, the modern Italians may Rand unteproached for having intoxicated themfelves with the poifoned cup of Gallic fraternity, under the lofty but delufive hope of feting the days of ancient Rcme revived. If they have become the victims of French Cupidity and ambition, the difappointment of their etpedations mull be afcribed to their own degeneracy and want of patriotifm. But, far different mdtives led to the fulwerlion of the Helvetic confederacy. The people of Swifter land, whore unambitious independence, and fober freedom, nulled in the bofom of a rugged foil, and cultivated under the tufpices of piety and patriarchal Virtue, fcarcely afforded a temptation to avarice or ambition, were betrayed into that vortex of reaction, 1 , /hOlit baleful effefts I base defcribed in my fecond letter. It is Alonifhing what arts, what falfehoods, what deep trained machinations were purfued to ac tomplifh the ruin of t h is innocent people. Not fads- Bed with contaminating the wholefome blood of pub lic virtue, and unfettling their favourite national opi *lions, the French perfuaded them that their faithful magiarates were their betrayers, and the magiflrates that their fellow-citizens were traitors. Thus, in the lhidß of a general defpondency and want of coafi dence, the anxieties, diffentions, and antipathies of different parties, were made to bear upon each other in such a manner, as to produce that degree of inert nefs and overweening fecurity in Come, and of ire& (enable stealthy in other claffes of the community, by which the approa ''es of the invader were concealed from the whole, until he was in the actual poireiGon of the country: The fenfe of a common danger, and the afaults of an enemy, have been frequently ofeful to Cations, by uniting their members more firmly together, and by preventing the feceffions and Ritual reparations in which their civil difcord might otherwife have ter. allotted. The gates of Janus were often opened to remind the inhabitants of Rome of the duties they owed to their Connery. But the primitive manners, and uncorrupted fentiments of the Swift nation; had rendered froth expedients unneceffary ; they were toe innocent to require any incitements to patriotifm, but not fufficiently (killed in Machiavelian fraud to be fortified againft the arts of perfidy, and to forefee the encroachments of foreign ambition. They relied their fafety on the pleadings of reafon and of jultice, at the tribunal of ambition and of force. In the ex tremity of their condition, the laws of nations were tooted, and their finite was alfembled, in vain. They who compofe a legiflature, may deliberate on the males they receive from thecnmp or the court; but if the bearer, like the centtstion who brought the petition of 011avius to the Roman fenate, Phew hilt of his (word, they find that petitions Are become commands, and that they themfelves are become the rails, not the Territories of Ltvervign power. This was precifely the cafe of Swifferland. A prey to the infidiotts manoeuvres of a Mammon, and to the whining fycophancy of a Bayne, who, under the garb of friend flip and Solicitation, prepared the fuel of civil difcord throughout the Cantons :—this once glorious Republic, the cradle of great Statef men and Generals—renowned for its wifdom, prof perms by the ma simsof iu policy,illuiltietus by hats lour, and in which the footfleps of no enemy had beech trac:d for many age,, expired through its own divt fions. and bled beneath the unfparing (word of 'rut fians, reeking with the blood of conquered nations. It is unneceffary to dilate any further upon this fuhjed. In whatever direction we turn our eyes, where the earth has been accurfed with the exter minating plague of French vifitants, we find the fame dreadful accord of barbaric pride, and fubtle weer- Lon of principles. Terror refutes in one place, cor ruption in another. While Come individuals of a Rate, with felf-devoted apathy, have guarded with partial care thcir own interefts and neglected the pub. ' lic weal; while others have proved cold and unmov ed I—the rabid abettors of tram, ths pupils of chance, hare {hided the opiate infellgUi of indiffer ence into every patriot bream, and retiteled the pro grefs of civilization for centuries. Infitad of figur ing on the grand theatres of fortune and renown, in dependent Communities have been fueeeflirely re• duced to fervitude, until loft to liberty and virtue, they have degenerated into the vile ftipcndiaries of a tyrant, who, with treafon, rape, and mur&r at his heels, and with deeds of black impiety in his front, has provoked the long enduring patience of nations, and defied the power of Heaver. When I contra the fallen condition oCevery coun try of Europe, with the unalterable, nubborn, and unyielding fpirit ache Brittlh Empire, I feel that I am a Citizen of the only land which frensins with an immortal bloom of freedom and glory. Here are known neither the melancholy dreams of irrefolution, the lethargic defpondency, nor the dinraelion which harafs the European Continent. Security, repofe, hope, are not relied on the jujlice of the Corfican, nor on the faith of hit treaties. A nranger no former lands upon our fhores, than a different moral atmof phere finds its influence around him. If he had but jun returned from China, he would be lets furprifed than in palling from Hamburgh to Yarmouth. On the other fide of the water, a man fufpc/led of data to the Government of the Corfican tyrant, or perfecuted by his agents, is the objet of inquifitions and of infults. Here, the Konen man finds an afylum, and a country: here, is no neceflity for diffembling his opinions; no embaraffments, vexations, or pale terror among his auditors, if he fail in fentiments of refpeet when the name of BONAPAILT/ is pronounced. There is no need of any fludied difcretinn, or cir cumlocution to extra& fentiments, which freely iffue from every heart. Here, leffons of energy, ph ilofophy, and freedom are taught ; confpirators, and the gull. ty alone are condemned to wear the mafk, which every where elfe they pull off with the grin of info. lence, and the applaufe of cowards. How furprifing was it during the lan war, to the foreigners who landed on our fhores, to contemplate the molt terrible conflia in which an empire was ever expofed, produce a thoufand times fewer tints, trou bles, forrnw, and dread, than the charms of peace among thofe trembling competitors for Gallic con• cord and indulgence! The prefent and my fecond letter were written ex prefsly for that part of the people of Ireland. who, unhappily forgetful of their interens and confedera tion, propofe partnerfhip with a bankrupt in honour and fortune—with a country, which, notwithltand ing its extent of coaft, can hardly fend out a (loop that our eruizers do not feize. Into that people, ere Rebellion has handled every trace of loyalty, duty, and patriotifin, I would hind a few admonitory lef- Cons of experience. I would convince them, by the &tate:ample of betrayed nations, that they, beyond all other men, are deeply concerned in the fafety of Great Britain ; and that their wives, their offspring, their religion, parents, country, and laws, demand their (words—that they have to grapple with thofe who know not freedom, and defpife its liberal cares; a wretched crowd, forced from their homes ; a po pulace drunk with carnage, who, in peace are difarm ed by jealous tyranny, and in war, are the vidims of their tytaht. I would prove to Ireland, that, in the event of an unrefined invalion, her handcuffed Cons would be drafted into the legions of a Corfican ad venturer, to fight the battles of his ambition in every region of the world, and that the rewards of their co operation would be contumely, infult, and bondage. To that portion, therefore, of the United Empire, I (hall addrefs my next letter. 6111.0411C011. NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. MAILS THIS DI •1114. BUIL ,Y.-WIND AIM •lE. 1 0 Hsmb.r s o I ► Frcocts • • 0 0 A convoy is appointed to fail on the zoth of this month, from the Nore to the Baltic. A letter received in town yelterday from an Offi cer on board one of his Majefty's (hips lying off Ca diz, announces the capture of a very rich Spanitb Weft Indianian, on her paffage from South Ame rica. Shc bad t i,OOO ounces of gold on board, and was carried into Gibraltar. A French 74 which was in company with the prise, narrowly efcaped. Facuorrn, Ana. 4 —Sailed this day the PAIR. MS APULIA packet, Stooges, with the mails of the 3d intl. for New York and }Wait. The pafengers by her, are Major Tussicsa, Marrs. Jayne? and Bursa.—Late laft night failed the Paws of Waits packet, TODD, with the mails of the 9th loft. I;siteni. The paffengers by her were Mr. AL.:. AIWA Mafiosos, furgeoti Marrs. Non's?, Lou. au, bliCaoLas, and Junto,. Alfo the LORD CRAILIIII Srawcaa PaCkltj COATIDVIPOILTN, with the mails of the 3d inn. for Jamaica, Barbadoes, and Crooked !fiends. The pdkngers by her were Capt.' Cnz, of the army, Meffrs. Watson, Flt•Z Al, WA. teas, lastano, Staines, Jones, and Fisca.—Ar rived this day the jossrn cutter from Plymouth with Dotes, &caw. his Majelly's brig Gana at, oft 8 guns, which failed a few days kite on a cruise. A fleet of coafters under convoy of a !loop of war is now pang this port for the weR ward. No packet hating arrived fine my left, it is much to be feared that the Kano Gamma packet has fallen into Ike banded dm may. PLTUOUTiI, AUGUST day the Vat. F -I:oavz, Captain T. B. MARTIN, failed for the fleet IT Breit. Sailed on a cruise the SIRI us. of 36 guns, Captain Paowst (he is vietualled f,r four months. This forenoon o French prifours cre landed in Mill Bay. Three P. M.—There aie now nearly hull down. in the offing feveral large (hips ; it is hoped they may be part of the homeward bound Jamaica fleet, difperfed in a gait of wind.—By the Vawtaast.e, of 7+ guns, we learn, that the French fquadron in the Outer Road are daily maneuvering both (hips and men in handling and furling fails, exercifing great guns and fmall arms, &c. PORTSMOUTH, AIM 16.—Arrived the Amnia frigate from a cruifc, and Perfeverance (cartel) from France. SHEERNESS, Auc. 6.—His Majefty's gun-brig, ARCHER, under the command of that alive and me. ritorious Officer, Capt. SHERRIFF, is now lying at the Little Nore, waiting tide, to proceed to the Downs with a draft of men for the fquadron there, and with fome flat.bottomed boats to be ;eft with his Majefty's Ship Tem., whichl is lying on a floating battery in Margate Roads. The ARCHER was only docked on Tuefday laft, and yet is now again in a Rate to face the enemy, and give him a warm reception, Ihould he dare to approach the coail. LANCASTER, AUf.:IIST 13 Saturday laft, we had the pleafure of feting the firft prize brought into this port this war, viz. the coppered French thip polacre l'Harmoinie, PETER PAUL BnNtFACR late mailer, bindle!' 23q tons, laden with 307 bales of COMM. 20 bundles of buffaine hides, 985 cwt. Cam pe ,chy wood, bre. She failed from New Orleans for Met. ft iiies, on the 14th of June, and was captured n o the 25rh J sly, in tat. 35. to. lorg. 23. 16 by the P iiagon letter of marque, of this port, Captain H RT. hehingirg to IVlelrrs. RiALt Y and Doocoa.— bhe has vet , palfengers, four of whom arrived in her. They had nor heard of the wat.—The Paragon, on the 17th alt. in lat. 46. 82. long. :7. 30. fp Ike the Margaret letter or marque, of Liverpool, boui d to Africa, out 14 days, with a large French EaR India (hip in company, %%hid) the had captured fix days before, off Cape Finillei re. On the 23d, in lat. 28. a 6. long. 22. 4. fpoke the brig Elife, of Bremen, lag trim Cowes, out t t days, and bound to St. Thomas. FRYER, prize-mallet of l'Harmninie, on the 2d inßant, in lat. 45. 38. long. 15. 15. fpoke his Ma jcflv's ft igate la LOIRE; out three weeks, and bad taken nothing. LIVERPOOL,AVGUST is.—The Watt , KILPATRtCL, from Jamaica, is arrived at the Bt'nys : the Watt left 39 fail in company of the Goliah after the gale ; parted company in thick weather the fecond night afterwards.—The Laurel privateer, OLDHAM, of this port, is taken by la Didon frigate, and carried into France.—On Wednefday arrived here the Kelton, GLADSTONE, and Richard, PERRIN ; they failed with the fleet from Jamaica, the 17th June, under convoy of the GOLIAN, of 74 guns, and the Cacyrso (loop of war ; parted with the fleet on the 29th July, in a heavy gale, in long. 28. W. and lat. 41. 30. The fleet confined of 59 merchantmen, 14 of which were Or this port. Two days after parting company, Cap tain Petit* (poke the Ann, Captain Kutch of Lon don, difmalled, in tow of the Trelawney Planter, and faw the morning after the gale, 14 or t 5 fail with lots of malls, law the brig Jack Tar running before the wind with all fail fplit in pieces. FROM LLOYD's LIST. DIAL, Avo. 16.—Sailed the Jaloufc (loop of war on a aidze.-- Wind N. E. " OlAVaaarrb. Abe. t6—.4 2 aired by the Dorothy, from Hamburg!'; Twe Gcfnites, Martin, from Entbden; Scotland, and Peace, Hare, from Oawpol ; getfq, Snowden, from fbebee; Alfred, Bobtail, from Jamaica; George, Collins, from Cadiz Limas, Woollen, and Two Good Brothers, Vther, from Dantsie. Altana, —At Cow% At Dbolt, 110 lintle.ftent Philadelphia At Mild, Trelawrri,.—.; Am o n. —.; Jane, —; Hanover Planter, Pritebart sod nub. Smith, frets illinaka• At Liver* pool. Watt, KUpatrkk, from Jamaica; Maolay. Cale front New Odom; Comet, from °corgi, ; and Akmoder, King, from Virginia. At Clyde, Mary, Reid; Adm. ; sod lEkty, Now from Jamoks. At Neweaftle, Medway, Parker. from Virginia. At Dublin, Ranger. Barrows, from Virginia. At Kis fale, Ann. Stewart, from Newfoondhad. At Newry, Mary, Ntopfon. from Nally. OP Corb, 'flak Lawrie. from Jamaica. At Newfoundland, Merenry, Vakotine, frooLAYeast. At New York, Gipfey, Wright. from Laudon; and Fedor, Caldwell, Min 1 Clyde. At Amigos, Admiral Pakegkam,—.--, from Cork. NAVAL APPOINTMENTS. WILLIAM ELLIITSOII, Efq. is appointed to the rank of Commander, by au Order in Council. Llestemasts..Sttaatoa es, red to the MeO iti n; J. Da mirme, se the Pluto; sod .E. !slum, to the None& Mr. 1•111/11 GAB is suds Lieutenant, and appointed to the Kent. Lest. JOIN WOOD is Si=deti to the tepidity Service at men the Tower, in the of mat Toone. Captain Ms it ypoioad to tie command of the Sea Pencintes, from the Feria. to &R ink ; end Lkat. Mims*. and Lieut. Hods ti mid. anointed to the, tante Ratko. Captain PIMID is applimod to the Set Fendbhs, trots the ROD Ned is the badmen; Lida Fowls, to the Gude Auk . The Minerva, Dacorra, is arrived off Weymouth, from Oporto, bound to Peterlburgh ; the Captain reports, he had been boarded by eight different French privateers, one of whom plundered him of force wine and cordage. The Nonpareil privateer, of Loudon, fell in with la Blonde French privateer, in company with two large thips, on the sitth of July, in lat. 45.30. long. 14. 30. but having heard that the carried 31 nine pounders and 300 men, did not attack her. The Hollandia (Dutch Greadandrnan ), is taken by the Mary privateer, of Hafting:, and arrived at Shields. A vete! from Havannah is detained by the Thomas letter of marque, of Lancaficr, and arrived at Beer. haven. A letter from on board the Sams, of 74 guns, dated off Toulon, July 4, mentions that the blockade of that port is very aria, and that the enemy's fleet comas of test fail of the line, and tlvee larg frigates, all ready for fee. Lord Nassom's force blockading that port is nine fail of the line, including the Vic- TORY of I to guns, and three frigates. The crews of the Pittman end Sea/sown have bee paid two swaths wages la advance, at Plfatoodt. IRELAND. foll wving letter from Dublin (tater, that the organization of the Itt bar have been ennelueled on a new plan, mid that i: ha, fubilacil fur a cisnlidereble time 7he stlrcrtitin that in nt Change men hare ki.itat the United men lince thc thdon. fingolar. It null he the lower chills miiy, for the prin ciples of the United men and the Orange men (can to be quite incompatible, the one iedced being toe grievance of wis:ch the others complain. We daub., lik,wife, whether the Win:- gents be fo avcrfe to French aid. Duatim, Aucurr 12. " Various conjedures pre rail here as to the fyllem of the exilliag c.•nr; iracy, from which fo much is Rill apprehended. Among the beft.informed political circles it is flared to have commenced loon aster the (late prift nets had expofed the plans of the United Irilhmen, in t 79R. Ten of the molt tried and intelligent of the difa ff card formed a fociety, each of which, afterwards, formed a foci. ety of ten ; and each of thole tcn formed a fociety of a flmilar number, every mar choofing his accents ylices from among thofe charaders with which he was well acqiidin:ed ; felecling, f crturlc, for his own fecurity, there who had proved ?heir fidelity to the caufe during the former infurreCion. The fucccffirce appointment of focieties in this way, went on pro grellively until it was fu expanded as to embrace all the veteran infitrgents. Then every p. , fliSle activity was employed to make profelytes among the Orange. men. In this purfitit they were unforrotearely t o We ed-Jul, in confequence of the difgal excited by the manner in which the Union was accomplifhed ; by the circumfances under which it was propo'ed. The expedients reforted to on that occasion had notori oufly the effeft of damping the (oink and diminiflting the number of the loyalifk, whila it encouraged the hopes and inflamed the refolution of the difaffeeled. It was confidered by the one as a proof of ingrarii tide on the part of the Britifh Cabinet, while it was felt by the other as an additional irritation. During the ddeufflon of this meafure, therefore, the propagation of the new projeet was confiderably accelerated, and very many of the Orangemen are hid to have cos lefced with the ei-elevant United Irifhmen ; among whom it is even fuppofed that fume of them have taken a decided lead. This confpiracy is therefot underflood to comprehend a d.fcription of perfons, and to be founded rat fuch principles as to efrape the odium (however their objeets may be confidered in other refpeets) which attached to the former rebel lion, namely, that of being the contrivance of a mere religious feet. The unezpeeled and extraordinary union of the contending parties, who by their con. tells had fo long mangled and diaraeled Ireland, will ferve to they you that the evils which, previous to the Union, oppreffed perhaps but one party, are now feverely felt by all. There evils it is unnecefftry Sot me to defcribe; they are already very well kn0....n to the world and to Miniflers, and they are fuch as any Set of men difpofed to generofity or juftice would be anxious to remove. Severely, however, as they have operated, particularly Since the Union, I affure you the forenefs of the public feeling was confideribly aggravated by the difappointment of our expel*. tiosi, that Lord Motto would have been appointed to the Lord Lieutenancy of this Country. Had this our old, Relive, and able advocate been fent to govern us, his prefence would have afforded an ample and fatisfaitory guarantee that no injuflice would have been tolerated—that no feverity would have been even meditated. The expeetation of relief and int provement, which his appearance among us would excite, would have been fufficient to retrain the molt violent deftterado from contemplating the idea of rebellion; for the molt fanguine demagogue mull be aware that, if he even Should, it would be impoffible to perfuade any material portion of the People to fe. cond his Schemes. I will admit that the preterit Go vernment have not expofed themfelves to the charge of cruelty; but mere fufpenfion of hoftilities again& the People cannot produce content—the mere nega tive virtues of a Minifier cannot procure him popu. larity. " But to return to the defcription with which I Set out. It is Paid that the original fociety of ten con- Mutes the direftory of the inftsrgents—that from them ail orders iffue, and are communicated to their accomplices through the fame individuals by whom the organization was promoted. You will perceive from a confederation of this plan that It differs ma terially from that of the United Irithmen, as defined by O'Connor and Emmet before the Committees of the Irifh Parliament..-41nder the former (Otero there was a moll indifcriminate mixture of all the mem bers of the confpiracy, and it was frequently in the power of ene man to inform perhaps againft thou fends; under the preterit it is impoffible for one to give information againfl tiny eonfiderabie number of individuals, for he has no opportunity of knowing more than the foeiety from which he emanate], end that in which he is Rationed. Under thofe einem, fiances, it is difficult to procure information is any great extent. It is even fufpefted that as yet Govern ment knows nothing . very precife upon the fubjelt. " This of courfe =reales the alarm, and renders fufpkion more extenfive—fo extentive, indeed, as completely to interrupt the frailk intercourfe which prevtoully to the aid ult. exited between man and man. Formidable as this confpiracy may appear, it molt give Ton the molt Sincere pleafure to be in formed that tt holds out no encouragement to the ambitious views of BONAPAILTI on this country, to whom its members profefs the molt determined hoa tility. It was their hope to accomplith a feparation from England without any foreign aid ; and, though happily &appointed in this, the confpirarors who have been :maned, who venture to complain of the (offerings of their countrymen. and to Jullify their own conduit, flill Speak in terms of horror of the idea of liftening to the infidious profeffions of the Reach Government." DORIAN, Aut. 13.- , -Mr. CLARICE Of Palmerßown it now oat of danger from the wounds he received on the s3d nit. on Arran quay. A man of the name of Conyer, charged with re bellion, aggravated by the moll atrocious crimes, was employed amonek the workmen at the buildings which the LORD COUNCILLOR is now Mai% at 11[4.. Macud ; intimation thereof being given to his Lord fltip on Thurfday laD, he himfelt immediately hilted the man, and guarded by a number of his domeflics, brought him to Captain GIIIRILD'I guard at Drum atone. who forwarded him under an chore to Major Sill. Monday evening four companies of the Kilkenny regiment marched into Limerick Ervin Earns, to 111. Mill there until further orders. .. r ~, , • ~~~ 1.1