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The iIivILCURSICA v ; vr, !VAR of LlBEicrr. CO TIIE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED EMPIRZ. LET t Elt Vf. -Dolt thou pretend to feel reproach ? Art thou not of a &meld/ race of people, Hardced in arts of cruelty and blood; Perfidious all ? Yes, have you not proean'd The faith of nations, broke the holy tie That hinds the families of earth together ; That gives even foes to meet with generous truft, And ruches war foeurity ? The rapidity with which the French have aecom, plilhed the ruin of fo many Rates, mull not be laid exclulively to the account of the corruptive quality of their principles, but alfo to many other auxiliary caufes, among which the compulfive fervices of the conquered people have been wonderfully efficacious. I have already (hewn that the furrender of Pawns and Pao i► the inevitable eonfequence of this modern fchems of feudal domination ; it is the hu miliating ati of homage and fealty, by which fob verted communities confers their flume and vaffalage. Twelve years ago, the projeftor of fuch a plan would have been defpifed, as a moon•Rruck maniac; and eloquent writers, fired with the enthuliatin of onvst sh.o,ies, would not have been wanting to demenftrate the utter impoffibility of converting by force the fubjeas of foreign countries into military machines of France. In faet, all the fucceffes of the French have been owing to the errors of the different governments of Europe, whore lupine infatuation has emboldened the flagitious policy of the fucceffive rulers of the Republic, and finally enabled them to confolidate a fyllem of oppreffion, of inch extent and magnitude, that it Itretches to the utmoß boundaries of the earth. That powerful lever by which man kind might have bten railed and moved to a fpiritcd affertion of independence, has fallen from their hands through the influence of terrors, from which the ti midity of a Laplander would have difdeined to have Ihrunk. It is now, alas ! too late for thole powers to re-trate their Reps. Neither the principles nor the arms of France can now be combated by that regu hted mode of oppofition, which formerly diftin guithed the quarrels of civilized focieties ; they mutt be refitted with a vigour hitherto unknown ; all the powers of genius and fortitude mull be colleaed and brought to bear on that fanguinary nation ; and in drawing their (words, men mull as as if they were pulhed to the LIR extremity of thought and exiftence. If, therefore, the fenfe of impending deftruaion Mould awaken any people to a final effort, they mutt Wreak France with the weapons of France ; not, in• deed, by imitating her loathfome vices and crimes, but by making their refillance treatial& National. and by oppofing the whole mars of. their population. againft the party-coloured flares of the Corfican.— The genius of the handl, mutt be oppofed for the genius of the wicked; the prudence and perfuafion of good men, to•the craft and feduaion of the vile; patient and inßesible fortitude, to licentious and brutal force. If fentinients like there Ihould infpire the councils of kings and people with courage to at. tempt, and refolution to perfevere in a contelt fo worthy of human kind, there can be no doubt that every nation will be delivered from the yoke of Gal. lie bondage. Until this than have happened, no real benefit can flow from their co-operation. We are naturally difpnfed to take (import from thole who are menaced with the fame dangers as ourfelves, but this is a delufive expeaation, the argument of 'ro ams& fears, and an evidence of confeions weaknefs. It is too much for the innocent to flatter themfelves, that at the name of justice whole legions will fpring from the earth to avenge its infulted caufe. The days of there Cedmean armies are pall. Men mull Mt their fafety on swansat.vas aloes; if they look abroad for proteaion, inftead of recurring to their own refources, they will fall the generous viaims of too-favourable an opinion of their fellow-creatures.-- Every Rate does not polrefs equal means of offence or defence; hence, fume voluntarily truckle to the ty. rant's power ; others arive to protraft their fate by temporary expedients!and the arts of negotiation; the reit confult their fafety by humiliating conditions of alliance; thus preferring a thort-lived exiftence, at the eapence of honour and independence.: Without ranfacking the parages of binary in order to adduce any proofs of the principle that srt.r.risrantssaca is the hell and only fertility of every free people. cart a look of fympatliy on Sv.ifferland,, impregnable by nature, and polreffing alone two hundred thoufand valiant men, trained to arms, and to whom the love of independence was a predominant paffion, pro. Rested at the feet of a Corfican free.bonter, not for want of courage. talent, or efficient means of de fence, but for want of mutual confidence, and in the empty hope that its Rria obfervance of the rules of lattice, moderation, and neutrality. would induce erery people of Europe to make its caufe their own. The time for difcriminatinn is now come; the Bri. tills nation mull be made fenfible of its danger, that its esertinns may be commenfurate to the emergency. The other Rates of Europe, petrified and immovea. Isle at the name of France, teem to await their fen. tepee in humble expeaaiion. We mull not, there fore. place any dependence on a general European confederacy; but inj may relt allured that it is not in the nature of gs for them to view with indif f,:rence the progrcf. of the Corfiean, or to read with out horror his infiikut and diaaturial edits. It has been already Waved that the sate n? certainty in which all property was placed by the French revolution, paved the way for the introduc tion of that cold-blooded praftice of contributions of pedons, by which whole provinces have been drained of their inhabitants. The =curled work began in France itfelf, whole/4pr expelled every idea of per. fonal fecurity when they demolifhed the fireguards of private property. The overthrow of the one, led to the appropriation of the other; and when France had been turned into a den of thieves, and Paris had become the retail market of all thole who had Bolen goods by wholefale ; when nothing was left within the confines of the Republic for legiflative fraud, or military peculation, the innocent witneffes of there atrocities were (cited, chained together by dozens, and like (beep doomed to (laughter, were driven to the frontiers, to lay contributions upon, and to give new governments to unwilling countries. Robbery and piracy thus became as neceliary to the rulers of France, as carnage to beafts of prey. It was natural that thofc thieving vagabonds, who had embarked in the military profeffion with the malfacre and plunder of their own countrymen. fhould cherifh no fellow feeling for the people of emirs Rates.— The compunftions vifitings of nature could not led their influence on the Rranger, when no fentitnents of pity were entertained for the fellow citizen. One would have fuppofed that their lull of plunder would have been appeared by the poffeflion of the faireft provinces of Europe. But the implacable hatred which the Conklin bears to the whole human race, is not to be conciliated by wretchednefs, filence, fubmiffion, or tears. It is his with to trample down all nations, and to impovetifh them to filch a degree, that the commonalty (hall have no other means of livelihood, but by joining his armies, and plundering in community with them. Thus reduced to the lowelt point of degradation, they are compelled to accept the offals of their tyrant's munificence, and to put up orifons to Heaven for the fuccefs of his arms. It io thus the miferable contribute to extend the mi Eery, and the enflaved to extend the flavery of others ; it is thus every man becomes a French foldier and a . thief, every French General a Crimp, and the Cor fican, from a murderer and a cheat, is exalted to the rank of ConfnL Guilty every day of his life of petty larcenies, for which, in England, he would be whip ped at the can's tail ; of fwindling tranfattions, for which he would be placed in the pillory, and of deep tranfgrefLons againfl GOD and man, for which, if he had ten thoufand lives, he would Puffer ten thoufand deaths ; this detonable model of mud and dirt au thorises the publication of an addrefs from one of hi: hilltops, whole proßituted lips pronounced that the AUTHOR or act. GOODNESS ceded from his labours, when he created this enemy of himfelf, and of man, his favourite creature ! When I reflex on the companion of the French armies, the materials heretofore difeordant, but now reduced into one condenfed mats ready for explofion ; when I fee the youth °revery conquered Bate embodied under the aandard of this infernal ruffian, matricu lated into his corporation of villains, 'and prepared at the &II fignal to Surf upon countries yet unpro phaned by his unhallowed touch ; when I contem. plate this dreadful array of men and ntifchief. I can not refrain from fituddering at the dreadful coca &optic which feems lowering over the civilized world. Bat while I view with mingled pity and indignation the fallen Bate of the moil belligerent powers of Eu rope, my foul glows with the fervour of religious veneration. when I turn from this unfrn!tful and dif gulling fcene, to the contemplation of this country, the chofen land, and laft retreat of freedom, where public virtue !boots forth a luxuriance of branches, blooming in the fall vigour of youth, ftrength, and beauty. In forming the contrail between the men of vigorous minds on this fide the water, with that poor hood-winked wretches who compere the popu lation of the other, the genius of freedom difdains to linger on the ground of comparifon, but, mounted on the wings of prophetic infpiration, it fees in the exertions of the Britith Empire, an emancipated world, and glory defeending from Heaven. illumi nating with its rays the name of Englithmen through everlalling generations. Methinks I fee the human race rolling down the tide of ages, and paffing, in quick Inceeffion, to the goal of mortality : their meagre looks are marked with anxiety and caret no beam of hope enlivens their hollow eyes; their limbs are Rained with the fordidnefs of want, and in the mitift, a revel rout, throw their harpy hands on every fide, feize the fubftance of nations, yet drunk with their blood. tread down the weak like Bobble under their honks' hoofs, and anfwer with mockery the lamentations of the oppreffed. For their benefit the demon of mat (acre is glutted with the ranfom of men, whom they have harneffed :o the yoke of fervitude. To inveigle the innocent into the hands of mercenary murderers, every fpecies of fraud is let on foot; to delude the unftifpicious peafant from his fire-fide. and from the boron) of his wife and children, his avarice i s roof e d, his weaknefres are watched, his nakednefs is cfpied, his moments of relaxation are way-laid; if, in the narrow path of his daily ditties. he thould chance to fwerve one flop to the right or to the left, he falls into the man-traps of Ibis abominable craft, and is , med to increafe the number of thnfe unfottunate beings, whofe fools ere flaarpeaed to that ferocity of %%tett:hatters, is which to butcher a fellow-ereattue, or to tall by his band, ire alibi inhtmortoot not, tricked into the fanguinary fetvice of the deltroyers of his country's peace, or hunted down like a wild beaß, he is dragged by ruffians in the broad face of day, and in the fight of his countrymen, to fill up the ranks of rapacious murderers. Italians, Pied montefe, Swift, Batavians, Belgians, Germans, are con (trained to follow the gory banner of an ambitious adventurer, and to bleed for the fake of ellablifbing his univerfal defpotifm. One cannot avoid turning pale at the idea, that in thole very regions, whole ancient Governments could with difficulty find re cruits for their armies, the French have adually railed battalions wherewith to defolate the earth. It will be difficult to make poflerity believe, that the fame men who fought fo bravely for their country at Laupen, Newenegg, and Fraubrunnen, Mould after wards proflitute their valour to gratify the ambition of their conquerors. With only four hundred un. difciplined dragoons, and fix thoufand four hundred militia-men, the Swifs, on the difaßrous sth of March, 5798, difpnted the independence of their country againft eighteen thoufand difciplined Frenchmen+ two thoufand of whom were cavalry, and fupported by flying artillery, a refinement in the art of war then unknown to the peafants of Swifferland. With this inferiority of number, difcipline, and experience, they rallied five times fucceflively, and by the havoc which they mired in the ranks of the enemy, left a grand and awful teftimony of what might have been effected by union and patriotifm, combined with courage. Will it be believed, that in lefs than twelve months, Eta n- TSIN THOUSAND of this people, under the name of auxiliaries, matched in concert with the French army to fhed their blood on the frontiers of their country, againft thole who came to tame it to its ancient laws; liberties, and independence ? I t order to fecure there recruits, called in derifion Voirmaietee by the French Generals, the villages were affaulterl during the night, and the wretched youth of Switzerland , were torn from the arms of their parents and relatives, in whole honks they had fecreted themfelves. A new penal code was introduced. Every man who refitted to give up his perfon to Mas,swa, the man butcher, and to fight for the continuance of French robbery and defpotifm, was carried before a Court Martial, liable to be inflantly fhot. The tribunals and military laws of France were ellabliffied, and their exercife fignalized by repeated executions. A number of patriotic young men having refuted to join the French army, were put to death. There reiterated examples left no other alternative to the male inhabitants, but to ferve as the executioners of their countrymen, or to expire under the bullets of *Coffins. Such have been the fruit, of French aggreMon wherever it has proved viaotious. If we examine their fubfequent conduit during the &II raptures of fuecefs, under what they call a regular-Government, we (hall find that if the revolution be completed, the fpirit with which it was introduced and concluded, Rill breathes its peftilential influence. Violence and fraud are every where its charaderiftics ; perfons and property are re-echoed from the (bores of the Medi terranean, to the banks of the Elbe. The crimes with which the French have tallied their unprovoked invafion of the Eleaorate of Hanover, admit neither of apology nor extenuation, inatmoch as they were perpetrated on a people who forreteeler•vf without re- JAI:, and who espitailetted without having Ira their Irma with the foe. An important moral my be learnt from this event. It was now evident, that they who do net refit Gallic invafion, mat expea as bad, if not worfe treatment, than thofe who that the aauating prin ciple of the French army is the fame under the Con fular tyrant BONA/AITM, as under the jacobin Ge neral BONAPARTS in Italy and Egypt. If the finger of Pacivrosace ever pointed manifeftly to one great calamity more than to another, as an example to be avoided ; if the warning voice of Hamm ever (tun maned a people yet unconquered, to perifh on the field of battle, rather than endure the malverfations of a conqueror, the lot of Hanover is furely intended as a beacon of our tile and inftruaion. Mat have we to expea from the clemency or moderation of a perfidious tyrant, who, on the breaking out of hofti lities with this country, falls on an innocent people, hiving no concern in the quarrel between the two nations, repofing with confidence on the faith of ' treaties, delivers them over to raps. pillage, malfacre, and all the vindiaive pafflons of war, roire.!v ifteeenife lie, ore fried!" to vs ! It is among the many ferret ways with which an over-ruling Panvtot>.cs punifbes guilty nations, that the evil fpirit of mifchiet fhould recoil upon itfelf, and work its own deflruhion. By this premature violation of public faith, by this early difplay of rapine and violence at the commencement of war, the United Empire has taken the alarm, and its whole population have become unan'mons in de fence of their altars, their families, their honour, their lib e rties, and their laws, According to the rules of retributive policy, we might have retorted the blow by falling Go Spain, the dctencelefs ally of France. But in a war of principle, jii it ice is always uppermoll in the minds of honell men. And advantages, acquired by the commigion of wrongs, are rejelled with difdain by the generous and the brave. Such a policy, indeed, denotes for. beArAnce, but it is a Ilipulation in behalf t•f national honour, and the triumph of public j•i(Uce. 08lc,11CV14 LONDON. WEDNIMDAY. SEPTEMEIM. r 4. *MCP. OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT OHS ort.arm 3 Pie Celt Corr°ls 5 1 /11 —Old 3 Per Can- S 7 ii• Otuniorn, 704 dff. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. 3 Pere. Cent. 34k 33iir I Irnp. Ann. 91 9-16 3 per Cent. Navy 87 it Conf for Am 54153: 34 omnium 714 dif. . On Monday we mentioned the re capture of a I.t. luable Eaft.lndiaman, and at the fame time Rated our opinion, that It would probably turn not to he the LORD Nst.row ; and the accounts which we com municated to the Public, yefterday, proved that rre had been right in our conjedure. We ire now enabled to Rate fnme other interefling particulars : The Loan NeLsott was captured by the &Ilona French privateer on the t4th of Augnft !aft, off [ Cape Clear, within fight of land. The Bellona WAS pierced for 36 guns, and had 28, with 260 men. The engagement commenced very warmly at the diflance of about a cable length, the Loan Naison being previoufly cleared for adion.—The enemy. made the firfi attempt to board on the flarboard quarter, but in this they did not fueceed. They then ran up on the Loan.Ntr.son's !larboard bow. grappled and boarded on the forecafile. The enemy were gallantly oppofed by the people on deck, the pafrengers bravely contributing their al:finance, but they runsed on in fuch numbers that they over• powered thofe on deck. Almon every perfon t► o tioned there was either killed or wounded. The tops ' lower yards, &c. of the Bellona, were. filled with met .firing down on the Lord Nelfon's deck. The altion lafted an hour and fiftela minutes. The privateer, bad eleven killed, among whom was the Second Cap. tain, and a 8 wounded. Three days after the Loan Ns Lsois was taken, RA Englith brig privateer, of 14 four pognders, fell in with and attacked her four different times, until gee was fo much difabled, as to be obliged to finer off for her own fafety. It was during this alion that Mr. S►OTTISWOOD, brother to the Captain of the Loan Nation, was killed, by a thnt from the priva teer. He had been many years refident in the Eaft Indies, and had made a ►ery handfome fortune...— The Officers of the Loan Nat son (peak In the higheft terms of the gallant manner in which the attack was begun and continued by the brig privateer, 'and in. menu that they have not an opportunity of difcover. ing where and to whom the belongs, that a peeper teflimony might bc paid to the merit of the °Seers and crew. Soon after the above-mentioned privateer had quit. Led the Loan Natoli, an Englin; man of war Ism in fight. Tp bee Lis prise from the chance of being taken, the Captain of the Bellow gave ehace.ta k the hangs fail, and fo managed as to call off her, atten tion from the Indianan until lie was quite out of fight ; but the never again rejoined the prize, whirls. however, would have got Cafe into Coruna*, had not the TOll/111T, SPAITIATII, and the Cotossas been cruising off that port. The Sea 'Gott. had that been in chace of her 19 hours. The thip that firft came up with the Loan Nzt.sns was his Majelly's (hip the Quasars, to whom Ills (truck, without firing a gun. When the Loan Nation was taken by the French, the Firit Lieutenant of the &Rosa was put on beard. as prize meter, who, in the feveral attacks, defenctal her mot gallantly, and behaved to the paffengeks and other prifoners, in the mot handfome manner. The paffengers on board the Lord Nelfon were— Lieutenant Cokeel Peter Murray. Mrs. hionen—Weliam Hut. Efq. Mrs. Hart; Mrs. H. S. "'bombe' s Mlle Lloyd ; Jan itasdedge, £(q. Jams Home, If+ Wellaw frodfrond, Eft brother to Captals apottifwood,Comooder of tbe Lord Megan I Utah: mot IL C. °endow ; Lleutemeet C. P. Pafelood. ChU.. drat—Miff R. M. Tun am. MA Madam We* Mlft Am Bale, Mire E. M. Taylor. Mao Hewlett' lodeek t Mohr We. Ilaro Spottifirood, Molter Rabat Spottewoed, Maw C. P. P. dam& The following is a carrell Lift of the chief haled and wounded-- CILLED. Unmans= Colonel Paria M Mr. W. SPOtTIOWND, (the Captain's brats). Mr.daarra, Fourth Meer. woomoam. Jowl, Misuser ,Efq.l pasingen. Caplan Svcrrristroom. Mr. Ramis sae, Firft 011 leer. Mr. Masson, &toad ditto. Mr. Howson. Puffer. ?Jr DUNLOP, 2 Mldlhlrmsem. Mr. W With 2,3 of the Orew, sod Charter Party Pareogis. MIT ON se•a/ TN, MU Mr. RAIIIIL•011, PIA O. Mr. Masser, Second ditto. Mr. P , Filth thus. Mr. Casio, Mr. F Midaipimem. Mr. Coe And Liewensat GLIPIIIIADI,Paiharen Captain SPOTTI/WOnD could not be removed on account of his wounds. .t . Colonel MOIMAY was killed by a Blot from th, SSA GULL, during the chace The Bellona is the fame vetel that lately captured the Colland's Grove EalL Indiansan, and is Paid to he the very (hip that annoyed us fo much in the Bar of Bengal laft war. Since the commencement of her naval depredations, the is kippered to have committed more ferioug oggreflinns againa the commerce of this eneurry than three-froorths of all the privateers lately lent from France; having captured an incredible