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flipi bank. bf.g. reio el .rte pr — aidt st.ibli e. ,' Wc l d4 ,~~ TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITEb EMPIRE. ~. and it fup. AMC I nor e of. ping ther. erday moan l two r the Wa Citeet ! Cos. l 4 of w.. 1 id) at LETTER IT. I concluded my former letter with the reflation that. in the prefent flate of the world, " greater clan. gers never prefented more multiplied iefources to courage and to genius." Before I proceed,, it will be proper to illuftrate the truth of this propolltion. One of the moll formidable and fuccefsful inftru. =cots of French aggrellion, whether confidned in its influence over their arms, or in blunting the means of tefillance adopted by their enemies, has been, the corruption of the minds of every people whom they intended to fubdue. The rulers of France have al ways acted upon this principle, and it mull be con felted, they judged wifely in placing more reliance on this engine of deflruftion, than on the number and ibravery of their devoted legions. For, it is felf-evi dent, that when the Ibbjed ceafes to confide in his government, or looks to its protettive power only with a lethargic apathy, the moral and phyfical Arength of a country is thereby weakened, and con fequendy, the greater encouragetnent is afforded to the view of ambitious foreigners. There is not, there never was a government, which better under. Bands the art of difqualifying a country for defence, than the government of France ; and the dexterity with Which they cask all the barriers againa lava fion to 'fall before than, has no example in the in. Wats of bud= iniquity. The author of all wicked nefs cOhimeneed his malignant opts ations againft mankind by dailies the virtue of the weak; but the modern fauns, more expert in the career of fraud, Falai& not only upon the neat, but upon dn./Iraqi Ipaisad in the curdle of their mifchievous ingenuity, ' tts the fallen ( pipit himfelf in thdr ardour to vi is dse morals of their fellow creatures. if a people be unhappily divided in opinioir, they fide with dim fadion, whether great or (mall., whok Views emboldened by the entbufiafm of oppofition, hens moll likely to difpofe them to embal It in def. Rerate change.. To duty they proasife the enjoy meat of authority, and to all the reit, the full pirf. teflon of liberty and property. The mats of every eionskianity, being compofed in general of the mat:,o sky of the people, who are food af tranquillity, and itawilliog to dive in politittel agitations, it followa, abut the %elutes man always, be in favour of that party which has the nsidus tune to be trader th- Fs Maas of France. Ambition, avarice, and refenunatt, thus hued 4 the profpalt of vitlory, all love of coon try nod Oldie (pint are catinguillsed in the foul, and %radon opens the gates of the capital to a perfidious ally. What has followed loch mifguided councils; What bays been the is.wards of loch a downward yogurt= in traitorous &Mirky, may be read in every page of the hillary of the French revolution. The thipenfers of organized evil, have made a por tion of every people fubfervient to their hostile views, and an as the guides and pioneers of thole armies, fint to ranfack and devaftate unoffending commis• skies, and when the uuhailowed Itandard of the tre mendous republic has been firmly planted in the cen tre of their country, then, and not till then, the inftru menu of their perfidious deigns, difmi(led with ig nominy, or repaid with infulting reproaches, ate abandoned to all the honors of an accufing conlei cote, while a (warm of Pro-confuls, Comnsiffaries, Agents, Brokers, Jews, 'and Pedlars, who always march in the train of a French army, fupply their places, and are let loofe upon the inhabitants to fuck what remains of their blood the compaffionste rapa city of the Generals and foldiery may have (pared. But the Cervices of the anti-patriotic party are eon& dered as incomplete, until they have Wed the con cluding (tens of this tragic farce. Thejvas f friends of France, who have thus introduced boedes of arm ed banditti into the hofosn of their country, and who behold in every quarter to which they tars their eyes, the framed fpeetade of the vielatias of their wives and daughters, and the (pod of their polieffiens, by a brutal foldiery. are made to ling hymns of jubilee in the rnidll of ruins, to dance is chains over the confe quinces of their crimes, and with their pens dipped in blood, to compote addrelres of thanks, which down in the mire on beaded knees, they are made to folick the conquering gerund to tranfmit to his =diem who bloated with avarice, look in fadislity, and wallowing is the filth of their crimes, are regaling thetafelves with the tars of fubjogated nations. This is the inyliery of French conquells—thefe. the fares workings by which their 'idiocies have been prepared at their bands, and dohs the triumphs of French fraternity, but not of French prove& On the mammy, their chain weapon are, corruption and fraud, their triumphs over inniscence and marl- 1 otitis. If any circomflance can add to the horror of thefe fans, it le the idea of the add blooded fatisfac don, with which the Corfican freebooter inhales the incenfe offered op to him by the manacled [offerers, who, with (words pointed at their throats, are com pelled to implore the favour of HU'S' on their de bow. It is thus the French armies go forth to acquire glory. The midnight forcay of the imagination is conjured up to appaU the wef•difpofed. a boos is held out to tempt the wicked, and all Europe, fedue ed from the ezercife of its realm', has been aaually f.ightessed into inbmiirioo, by phantoms of its own 'breaking Ibis Ipell. 1711thilinph which saWieny Corfi,:an has promifed to himfclf and his WM, if realized, would prove the triumph of ravage bars*a tiros over the civilized world. No pains, no exer tions, no facrifices will be efieemed too great to ac complifh this abominable end, which, if fuceefsful, would leave this fair ifland a depopulated wafle, and enable your bittereß enemy, like the infatiate wolf, to Purvey with exulting pleafure, the defolation which his rapacious ferocity (hall have carried. • In England, the fyflem of re-aeion by which the French have obtained poll - et:Grin of fo many countries, does not teem to be thoroughly underflood. Re moved by nature from the theatre on which theft tragedies have been performed, many perfons are in duced to afcribe to valourous feats of arms, what has been only the offspring of low cunning, and impu- dent contrivance. If it were practicable for an Eng. liftman, who doubts this truth, to vifit any one fpot which has been tenanted by a French army, I am perfuaded, that in let's than three hours, he would fly to his native land, fhoulder his muflcet. and ani• mate his countrymen to follow his example. Indig nation and offended virtue would itifle all argument ; and on being afked by his neighbours to defcribe what he had Peen, be would prime his gun and anfwer, a There is not a moment to loft, do as I do." Thole, however, whit have been rpedators of chef. fetus, will do well to reprefent them to their coun trymen ; fence, the expofure of the carafes which led to the fubverfion of other (fates, will furnilh the means °reverting a fimilar calamity from our own ; for cape rience is the molt convincing argument in times nf pe ril. The lyftenz of re adion may be thusdefined ;it ;Jibe art of alighin: the anxieties, gentiontg and antipathies ofdoff eat pinks is a/ate, to hear goon each other, in fah a man was to podia a ekree of inertriefi and overweening An ti* inform. sod of treafonails thick, in other clisfiv of the comatwity. dy subteb the approackm of an invader may be ementealedfran She whole, gaud ige is in algal pollen of tie Camay. Thus, at the time of the invafion of Hot laud by the French troops. that nation was divided into two parties, the one dillinguiflied by the name of adherents to the Hoofe of Orange, the other. by that of Patriots. who defired the fiipprenion of the office of Stadtholder, and the renoration of the an dent form of government. It is not a little remark ante; that the former was compofed of Tome perfons of great confideraiion, together with nearly all the lower Orders of the community. The latter was formed wholly of Tome dirconrented and ambitious' perfons ot note, together with a great majority of burghers or refpe&able tradefinen of the towns. Out of there (prong a third party. nurtured by the Fretmh revolution, and abetted by the agents of France, Few in number, ma of them bankrupt in fame and for tune, but well known for their jacobin zeal and ac tivity. There were conductors who colleded the e'ementary fire and thunder or the fuperior fulmina tors of profeription, and difeharged it on the loweß of the onproteded. In a ()tort time after the entry of the French troops, the latter neared in the esercife of public authority. The Trench then conceived it time to receive tome marks of gratitude from the Dutch fir their einalcipation. Accordingly, refcript after refcript was ifued, infcribed at the top with the reducing winds, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, but throughout every other line, loans, contributions, requiritione, or profcriptions. Remontiranee was vain. Infiead of the revival of their ancient fyfiem of go vernment. and the days of their Barnevelts and De Wilts, the people of Holland found themfelves ab (Gybed in the revolutionary whirlpool; and in the place of figuring in the univerfe as a bright Aar in the firmament of nations. beheld their once inde pendent country, revolving as a fattellite round that fiery orb, which bad either (torched or confumed the refi of Europe. When the miferies of their country forr.od the reprefentatives of the Dutch nation to pe tition againft the unceafing vexations of their daSorrert, 'the French general, in imitation of old Cardinal de Gaitoviu.s, pointed to his embattled legions, ready drawn up to give efficacy to his orders, and with this fignifitant reply, left them to their own refiedions. Nothing can be more fallacious than the hope of , extorting a fentiment of contpaffion, much more of lalfmee, from as army of licentious robbers. It is like tha waploid traveller, pleading the aide of mercy Werra hungry tyger. Mon Quaid prewar oppreffion by arms sod vigorous refinance. while there refonrees are in their power, and not tech to appeafe it when they have furrendered the means of defending them felves. Outrage and derifion are the inevitable lot of thole who voluntarily relioquilh acknowledged fcrrereignty. fot• a degrading fubjedion and infigni. &anat. Nor will vi&orious barbarians be found to fYmpathize with thole whom they confider as too def picable to be pitied. The example of this fordid and degenerated peo ple affords an inaruelve lefon to TOON MT COONTIT. MIK; not that you are to be fulpeded of fuch cul pable isdifference towards the interefts of your coun try, or of fuel bare pufilanimity as difgraces the conduit of the Bauvians, but to infpirit your patri otifm, and to give additional energy to your virtuous exertions. One cannot relied upon the fate of Hol land without pain. Inßead of being as clofely united in the great caufe•of liberty as the bundle of arrows which formed their arms, and was their tract cm hlem—lnflead of difplaying the fame unconquerable jealousy of a foreign yoke, u their forefathers bad Tim's! the dominion 'ache tea, and it, p eo p le from the power of Spain, behold them the viaitns (f French perfidy and their own delufion 1 An amphibious world, uniting the bulwarks of art to the advantages of nature, impregnable from their local fituation, abounding with refources for defence, furrendered their independence without (hiking a blow, and 101 l in . one fatal hour that precious liberty, which had colt their progenitors whole ages of firuggles, and oceans of blood to aecluire— And.calrety beat, to iervitode conform, Dull as their bites that dumber in the Roan. Resent! how uolike their Belgic Area of old! Rough, poor, content, ungovernably bold; War io each breaft, and freedom on each brow ; How much ant he the funs of Britain lOW OALGACVS. LOYAL NORTH BRITONS. • • ~ Yellen:lay evening, at feven o'clock, a moil nume rous and refpeßable meeting of this Volunteer Alto clarion took place at the Crown anti Anchor Tavern, purfnant to advertirement. The advertifement (teed that James Malntolk, Efq. of Lincoln's Inn, was to be in the Chair. _ _ The putout - es of the meeting were, to confider of the propriety of an Addrefs from the Corps to His Maissrv, and to receive and decide upon certain re commendations from the Committee, relative to the nominations of (Meets, and to feveral other matter► of necelfary arrangement. About twenty minutes after (even o'clock Mr. M.lntofh, attended by feveral Gentlemen, entered the room, and was placed in the Chair, amida the plau dits of the Meeting. Mr. M.lirrosa then rote, and (poke nearly in the following terms: Gentlemen—The firß duty I have to difcharge, is that of returning you my thanks for the honour you have done me in putting me in the chair. The tools try in which I reticle has ever been peculiarly dear to me, and nothing would give me more heartfelt fads fadion, than to - fight her - battles in the ranks of a regi. ment of Scotchmen. 'mull now call your attention to the °Nee of our meeting, which is to frame an addrefs to his Majefty, esprefilve of our loyalty and attachment at the prefent crifis. I mull at the fame time Rate to you, that doubts have been entertained, by feveral refpedable Gentlemen, whether we, as a military body, (and certainly we are in that capacity) can affume any deliberative quality whatever. Un doubtedly the principle of the Conßitution, a prin• ciple founded on the &idea propriety, in my op . inirn, does interdia us from lo doing, and it is even in my mind not a little problematical, whether we ought even to difcufs the fubjea. Our loyalty will not be lets ardent, it will not be lets known or lets zealous, (hould we abllain from fo doing. My opinion is, that we ought not to agree to any addrefs at prefent.— Gentlemen, I feel that I cannot fit down without making a very few obfervations on the occafion of bur meeting at this eventful moment. I am about to leave Great Britain in the fervice of my country, perhaps within a very Rion time. and probably never to return; 1 may therefore be allowed the liberty of making a few remarks, which, as they come from a man about to quit the great theatre of ambition, and one who, wherever he goes. will, always chetifh the highelt refpet for the country, may not prove alto gether unacceptable.—(4vearfu) Delufion I efteem as the molt contemptible of all the arts of wicked nefs : I (hall therefore not conceal or diffemble my fentiments on the conteß in which we are engaged. The means of deftrueion now colleted againll this kingdom, are the greateft that ever were put in mo Lion for' the annihilation of a civilized Rate. They are of the moll comprehenfive kind, detifed by the moll confummate (kill, conceived by the Utlnoß Rretch of military craft. for the overturning of the only country between the defpot of France and rniverfal empire. (Lead Appleufir). But (halt I be told that thefe pre parations are to intimidate you GOD forbid. Thole who would fay to, or allow themfelves to be carried away by filch impreffions, arc in their hearts cowards and flares! Men of cowardly and daftardly hearts deferve nothing better than to be compelled to (ohmic to tyranny. But in addrefling you, who are rational beings and free men, I am fare that a difplay of dan ger will route your courag e; and that what you fee this happy ifland menaced by ferocious ratans. you will cling to your arms, refolved to fecure the fafety of the country, or perifh in the glorious caufe of her defence. This, however is not the tone in which I wills to addrefs you. I do not with to make allafion to any man. but I mart ray, there are certain def. criptions ofpeople, who are fo effeminate, thoughtlefs, and giddy. as to entertain no idea of the danger.— That I know is not your cafe-you have weighed the fubjed well. There are men who tell us to rely on the adivity of our navy, to rely on the interference of foreign Powers, and to wiped an infurreetion of the people of France againft the Government. I mod tell you, Gentlemen, that Asell efforts as there are no thing more than miferable attempts to lull you into a falfe and dangerous heathy: Ton may as well ima gine that a heavy body will not finks light am twine. as that fuch expreffions are calculated for any other purpofe. What! (ball it be (aid that soo,oon frog men. with arms in their hands. (hall not defend thetn (elves ? If we are men of the u doubted blood of our ancellors,. we (ball not only with to fee our enemies foot to foot, but we ought to be branded with flame and infamy V we do not pinta, theml-(Lead hew sm)—With regard to politics, I &Main them : we have nothing to de with them. We haws often fought France fingla.hasided. Paovinancs has committed CO our hands the llDOD•eigle of the county; let us look abroad that others may be our Mends; bat. for our individual fafety. let us rely on none but smithy& Gentlemen, it is not fit to conceal from you. that this great depofit, our own fafety,' is identified with the liberties of the civilized world. That great mad fa eyed troll which has been repofed in Britons, is the molt precious and invaluable repofed in men fines the creation of the world. Gentlemen. recoiled that if we go to meet the enemy, our matte ova be —N tea tura vietorious, ur return no more I"—(Lsadiaaaas). That glorious fpii it of unanimity and zeal by which I perceive you are aenated, is the charades iitic mask of men who Isme the liberty of rise human race. Corn mmi objets do not cache admit stills. Thi. unanimity. great and powerful as it is and mud prove, is nut a on• It s impolfiblefroln —T 'the nature of theronleil that any other exhibition than unanimity could be (hewn. If there was it could be produced by no honed motive or pretext. If, Gentlemen, there is any mail who does not think our Glvetoithent democratical enough, 1,. .....a ---• •'^iv acknowledge that bmapai to i 4 no "orl and I trust w e friend to denpolac. Alba ts.- : . (hall forbid that our Contlitution firoesld. bp cais2,:e 4 s Every man ,who d.es not agree in this prinaphonaidi who will not fight in defence of our Conaitullons a• coward. He man be deterred by a totaling fettle of ' danger, or by what is worre, an unnatural and impious fpitit. I am very forty to fay that Bonaparte has tome partifans. Tilde are the murderers of hold Kilwarden ; they have fet on foot a rebellion, and affatfinated an innocent unoffcnding charatter in pd. vale life, and in public an illufli toits.,Magitts ate and upright Judge. They have thus given us a rumple of the fort of rule we may e :pat Ilsould this ennntrr come tinder the dominion of France. Their. and fuch malefatiors as their, are the only abet tots be has. Ireland has feveral times_ been r Anal from dtbstc. ' tion by this country. An in lance tdok place in the c reign of Queen Elizabeth, who proteded Eng' Ind. Ireland, and Europe from the 'way of Phili,, II .If f Spain ; and after the Rotolo:ion, (pm great delis , ter, William iii. minded isis prottbio.s to the ii :er country. Twice. therefore, has t%is country broug:tt the people of Ireland hack to theii tiny, and w mutt 1 1 do it again, in older to relate them trine a f leer% yoke, which a few confplrators are piepaii It fur . them. Gentlemen, I have iiitle mot: t" add; in. deed 1 ought to apologife fur having detained you fo long.. I hope none of you have taken up arms but with the determination of devoting your lives to the cattle. ( :.oudi vale:m.B4ow obey. yai Pin all Perim.) I believe you, Gentlemen, I fee you have come for. ward to offs your lives on the altars of your country. If any man feels lukewarm or indirpofed, I trust he I will be told that he is unworthy of carrying arms in our facred caufe, and of the crown of martydom we thall deferve. Our duty will impore painful factifices on us, bat every • man mull look to a glorious death as art objtel of defire, controlled with a degraded exiflence under a fcreign defpot. I am addiefEng men whole ancellors never were fubdued ; I trutt that Scotchmen, Englishmen, and Irithrnen, will unite in preferring that union which was fo emi nently maintained on the plains of Egypt and Sy ria, where every natim was repreflnted by a hero —Abercomby, Hutchinfon, and Sir Sidney Smith— an union thus confurntnated we are all, I troll, ready to ratify by our valour and feat wit). our blood.— Countrymen, I feel that I am auth.)rifed by your hearts to make this foletnn pledge. I (wear by the immortal fpirit of Bruce and of Wallace—l (wear by the glorious memory of all the heroes who have fallen for the caufe and honour of Britain—l (wear by the Gnu of Jußice and Liberty him fell, whole holy name I cannot be thought to profane byempinying et on 19 facred an occation. that you, my countrymen, would rather Peek liberty in the grave thab endure a wretched erift once with the hideous fpeaacle of foreign tyranny erected in a country which Liberty has fo long chnfen as her favourite abode. [This fentiment vu followed by peals of applaufe.) After a paufe, Mr. M'lntofh rote, and remarking on the talents of his countryinen, in whom fo many fignal inßances had occurred of the union of poetical genius with patriotic valour, obfervecr that he was happy to inform the company. that Mr. Campbell was about to recite a few Stanzas which he had prepared for the occafion, and which would afford an addi tional proof of the happy union he had alluded to. Mn Cssevaszt. author of the “Pleafttres of Hok," { and other admired poems, then' rote and addrefed the chair nearly as follows. I Sir, Although the Ilsort and unimportant flanzaa which you have done me the honour of mentioning have no peculiar allufiop to North Britain, or to a North Britills Affociation. yet I am emboldened to bring them forward, by the great and animating eau& which has called us together. Sir, as this is the fir& time I have had the honour of appearing in this meeting of my countrymen, I cannot help ezprell ing my feelings of fatisfaation—l cannot help de claring, what a proud and honourable and impor tant era it forms to the life of an individual, when he enrols himfelf, even as an andißinguinted member in the ranks of this mightf nation, which is now gathering for a combat wort eventful and fuldims I dun human hißory hath ever defcribed, or human imagination hub conceiired. To be one of the innumerable thoufands who are crowding to this mot holy warfare is an honour and a privilege. I Weft C:oo, therefore, that I ezilt this moment to my no. tire country, to have the pinion of witneEng a , fpedacle the moll noble ever exhibited in human of , fairs--a nation of armed Freemen, undivided by fon tion, pnenervated by pmfperity, with energies con centrated, renewed, rekindled by their common danger ; affembling to fight under the banners &in dependence for themfelyes and for the univerfe.--. Who would exchange fuch a fpotack for all the bitt iogs of a timorous mail Our fends. oar party pall. lioarare for ever y am to be buried us rho graves of oar Mr : • Oar Weep well bre fade Mottos Mk AM oar esah la relerded am bleb g To regal bade aria Odle Meer dm Ilfe. Or. a nine. dila TIM Mr. fdu trams. ad Om& tbe right WM, AM 'Mar ft mend In Tem Me mon kat "110beimwebell herein bid tem Mk , _MI degrees lie Elbe brree. ▪ Ilerateme mad es tor lawilltdatredell. 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