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0 Of It Of pm. 3 be ibr a ~n 1611 7is.67TI4IISICANj,eI, IV AR of LIBERTT. 1 1 0 THIS or THE trzarm EMPIRE. LETTER IX: She l Hire the SitILIT ETZ That never dates on a guarded world. Fro (ought, fo nett d. .18led-tbe Public Good, Thu illtlfpfirttti, without we ally, ihe sw v a her inward, qudl'd her circling foes. 14-ntellilets in all the fin* of her days ; • Wirl entsildence unbounded, fearlefs love late, her fervent people waited gay, Cheerful demanded the long threaten'd Fleet, nd dabt'd the pride of Spain around their Ille. Slur maid the Brfdlh thunder here to rage. Thalm • Pf°^ . • Libarlt, Part 4. line 9sl, &c. .. Now mber 9, sto,r. from the age of WILLIAM the Norman, utitirthe prefent hour , Great Britain may be defcribed with ?Jou truth and propriety as a Virgin Tfland ; often Attempted indeed, by the fedative arts of corruption, and more fiegneatly aliened by open force, but never Overcome by the artifices of the one, or the violence it the other. The cooquelk, or according to the aria meaning of that feudal term, the arquipion of the CrOwn of England, was by no means the inevit able confequenee of the battle of Haftings ; for, as Sir Marra aw Hata has indifpotably proved. the vieory obtained on that memorable occafion, was over the perfen orilsaota, himfelf a valiant ufurper. and not Wier the liberties or people of England. That Aft %Is the general opinion in thole days, whatever may liar, been the fubfequent datrine of the Nor than fendills, is evident, from the ftipulations entered i 'n between the parties, fame of which fubfik io this ur, soul from the public aols at the commencement wiLLimes reign. k th But, whether this inference be kik or not, is a fub jetlmore fitted for the ainufement of antiquaries, than for ear confidetition at the prefent important trips. It is enakigh for us to know that we are alike defcend id frems iftelilidl sod Salon ancekors, and that to ibis thisaillanee we mak impute all the good we itojoti lad all the eat we have avoided ;—the glo tidal eatialindou are inherit,. and the valour we have 1 lever &tan in maintaining and defending it. both the period, therefore, which I have fixed up. at as the ground work of my argument, I am jafti. led in affirming that we have remained an uneon quefbi istopiks for no me will call the landing of tlii Nuphis, afterwards Lewis VIII. an invafion, whoa it was ctinfidered that be was nulled to Eng. htid by the Barons of the Realm in oppofition to the ireakellAhr soft wicked. and th e molt defpicable Prince that sulittnt alp= a Throne. The death of King Jou a put ad erA to his: lefty hopes, and to the refent went otthanation. Nor tan sly of the sivistrro of the exiled family, In the toUrfe b( the laf century, be ac tooattieliavarsons s foe their iidbiteents were men of ~.earturahnirs Attaches' td limit native foil by softy entlearlag ties, though fatally for themfelvee PrisPoftersoas, incompatible with thk •lairs. the ' invileges, and theirilltes of a free bOrq people. Ilence, for more than &veil centuries, not withliandiag thole interim! eturrulliosse, in whieli our fordatheri fought adivertotiono. till the field of battle, the fcaf folic and fosse theatres of deadening murders, had 'left alive Ott,ape fide iso than capable of Oppoling or job* to the otbEt• our country has never been once ponsted by att i tude foodlep of a foreign *Mien Inglapenditelt of the extreme dangers of Cash ati inttefprize, the don-etiftente of the evil man be &tared is a pre-eminent degree, to the docoin• Tann fpirit of patriotllhs.which has ever difplayed nfelf among all orders of the tommunitt. In all the wars which have raged between Eritain and France, the latter has, never dared to conga with us on our own firms, the glory of our national Independence. The idolent ides was never elfsiellained until the birth of that hateful ntoaller. who in the fp2ce of ten years has fpread death and devanation over the finen parts of Europe, and cajoled, bullied, terrified, and hum ' bled thy. remainder. But, if this triumphant eonfideration magnify our national charadter in the alienation of the world ; if ir be calculated to embolden our courage, to fortify our virtnes,and to impel neaps& ter the lad man,' rasher thaw haw him eontlerited remind en be pos phined by any obtrufive footnep a let the Tyrant of the Continent and his infolent ruffians renea, that in the cenrfe of the time alluded to, France has not only been repeatedly and fuceefsfully invaded by the armies of Great St itain, but the has been twits CON PI. TOL T "Olekterlelo SY LIOOL All O. A LONll,Thich then, unall; fled by the valour of the Sots and Ira. dilcomfited her armies in the Irtsfom , inf their country, planted its banner on the walla of their capital. and compelled bee to receive Its villorions dilation. it will never be erased front ilurbright records of our hinory, that in one inflame of there glorious atchieveatests, a lit tle-army of thirty. fis &rafting native Eaglifh eo tA)untered and swept from the field of battle. a (warm -.font hundred mod thirty-three thoufand Frenchmen; • d in the other. an handful of twelve thenfand Eat i yeomen, the pride and glory of our ilk, though emaciated with &Cede, dernolinted an army of fist, o .lo2fand fighting men of France, and fo completely made their Sovereign Mailer of that kingdom, that on his death, his Coo, a minor, marline months old, ' , it proclaimed King at Paris, which even fem De puties to London, to take the oath or allegiance to 'his isfant. • I vie the *vie Lard lsilsebrakt. ViCtorits like there, which at this diflant pet kid, are forgottenneithe . risithe defceuelants of the conquerors, nor the conquered, will outlive the ravages of time. They are engraved, in flaming and indelible charac ters, nn the imperilhable pedeltal of fame, and as long as the two nations &all retain their holtile prnpenfi • ties, will point the road to glory to the one, and terve as an awful memento to the other. "Frenchmen were at leas as brave then, as they are fuppofed to be now ; they were aCtuated by nobler motives, by a better morality, and a generous im-, pulfe. invailon," lays VOLTAIRE, " ferred to unite all parties againa the Englifh !" It is true, the kfr deftruCtive ufe of fire arms was then unknown, at leaft not employed by either of the combatants ; their jail* uments of dellruCtion were however the fame. Since the more modern improvements (as they are called doubtlefs with a reference to their economy of human life), io the aft of war, our brave countrymen have not degenerated from their astelentA reputation. In the aggregate of all our conflieti with the French, we have almolt invariably been compel led to fight and beat them with inferior numbers. Without enumerating the brilliant line of out•tri umphs over them, I (hall content myfelf with refer- ring you to the events which have fallen under our oblervation during the late war, particularly at its folann dole, in which the cool, deliberate valour of our countrymen, prevailed over the delperate and fu perior numbers of the choiceß veteran troops of France, poffeffing all the advantages of local fortifi cations, habituated to the intAlubrinus climate of Egypt, and exercifed in that experience, which strifes from having made the previous conqueß of the' province. Shall it be raid, or does the impious dillurber of the peace of mankind imagine, that what our fathers accomplifhed with fuch difparity of forces in a fo reign land, cannot be atchieved by their progeny with equal numbers on their own Owns t Does the braggart Cerfican forget fo loon, that the fame "na tion of fhoopkeepers," whore few reprefentatives drove him (cowling from the feeble malls of Acre, are now, to a man, in arms, impatient like their an. ceflors for the execution of the promifed threat* t Or rather, if the late accounts be true, of the pathetic pantomime recently exhibited at the Thuilleries. does net the anxious Tyrant confers his trembling fears of thole generous bands which earnefily await [ Lis arrival ? Does ant this ferio-comie farce of Corli. can contrivance, betray the difmal forebodings both of the Tyrant and his penfioned varlets ; of the for mer, left the iffue of the coital& fhoold prove to man kind that 4' daseurfi ef /Aft bangs Over him; and of the latter, left under the proteition of Paola:Dane l e we should w Uri scuts with key uwleg inclipsosior, the threats which they have prjoieed to vent againft our independence. and even our exifteace as a nation." t Away then with ens, fuggaliun that does set propel us to viaory ! away with every movement that takes counfel from apprtheufion, or looks for the fupport of &kith honour and independeon from any other quarter than from Britons awn& 1 We trifle with the mainly of dar national chimaera when we beckon to other MIMS to be prefent &Ca battle, the very nature of which exams that the only cambia. tams fhould be Britons add Fraiddnen. Let them on the contrary, regardlefs as they are of the mine that is ready to be (prong beneath them. look on as paffive fpeaaton, and behold the grand and final let Con about to be given to the mott odious defpot that ever feourged the earth ; and let the generous clans ple, by its leth, confirm the refolves of the brave, give IL:batty to the wavering, and ultimately crown with fume(' the awakened efforts of the opprefed. In behalf of the religion, laws, conikittnion, anfitili ed honour, and harmonious concord of the Newel Empire. the native Menders alone fitould try their firen i ;th with their inhuman foes : which done, the tempeft of war will (*cede from our coatis, S and its wild (weep will rage agaiaß the bailed invaders.— If then, the governments of Europe should at length fluke off their lethargic (lumber, we (hall congratu late them on. their mirth* and their prudence ; if not. we !hall have proved that we can wage a war of glory without them. Not is this policy without its precede*. Although thiatmentty has never been invaded in the long in terval of yea limn. yet, it has experienced an at tempt of the kind, WO* at once pat to the tell the power and couragt of the pimple, and exemplified what may be effected by an unified eddies againa the moll numerous and formidable menthe, I allude to the era of the Spanifls Armada. It was a time that bore a wrong fimilarity to the pretest anoment. in , its moll prominent futures; and it doss sot require lany deep iefietlion to (Unmet. the dada of differenft between them. • At-that epoch, the vaR empire of Paws 11. re founded with the noife of armaments, and all his MI. flitter', Generals. and Admirals. were employed in forwarding the defign of invafion. It was a time which, according to CUMIN, might neva again pretest itfelf. of acquiring. by one bold effort, that afcendency in Europe, to which the greatoefs and prosperity of the Spaniards feemed fo fully to entitle them. No doubt, indeed. was entenained, that fedi immenfe preparations. ocadalliad by alters of ma- • a airks rays &et Aar grew wawa led Wee taken it Olt ot tile Spaill Amok tbe away win espedle4 vi4a us common alacrity. f. vw. the Tyrairea Prodiumilsa, arid 14M. pos 6. slob 1/14. aft P Yodel Oriel Oohs% desoi th dn. comirsonfkill, would finally be fuscefsful ; sod the Spaniards, ollentatiuus of their power, and eievAtcd with vain hopes, had already denominated their navy the Invincible Armada. Mr. lis:Nt6, with his accul tomed penetration, obferves on the magnitude of the danger, that men of refleaiou entertained the mon &final apprehenfions, when they coolidered the force of the veteran troops of Spain, commanded by es pezienced officers, under the Duke of Ps. • a, the moll confummate General of the age; and compar ed this formidable armament with the military power, which England, not enervated by peace, but long difufed to war, c^itld rnußer akonik it. AU Europe kept tikeir eyes fixed on the cniidlia and for tune of our 1. efathers, and beheld with anxiety, mixed with admiration, the intrepid countenance with which they encountered that dreadful tempeß which was every moment approas:liing them. Every 'rank of men, burying all party dittinetions, prepared theenfelves, with order, as go ~ 7 as vigour, to refill the violence of the invaders. The Englith were remind ed of all the barbarities exercifed againll the Pao teftants, which were afcribed to the Councils of that higotted and imperious Nation.—Tlie bloody maffacres in the Indies, the unrelenting tNeciition• in the Low Countries, the horrid cruelties and iniquities of the Inquifition, were fet before' men's eyes; no 'mature was left tinempleed, to animate the people to a vigorous defence of their religion, their Laws, sad their liberties. Our people were faithful to their ancient renown ; and when the Armada, firetching the dißance of (even miles from the extremity of one divifion. to that of the other, approached within fight of the Eland, one gallant little fleet under Lord Errenc HAM, quitted its port to give them battle, beholding this formida ble apparatus of deflrullion without difmay. The rhetorical hillorians of thofe times defcribe the ocean as groaning under the btu-then of the Armada ; yet was it defeated and difperfed, and had it net been flit - the want of ammunition, it would have been ut terly deßroyed by our fquadron. However, not one half of their navy returned to Spain ; and the lea men as well as foldiers, who remained, were lb over come with hardship. and fatigue, and fo difpirited by their dircomfiture, that they fined all Spain with ac counts of the defperaie valour of the Engliffi, and of the ternpefluous vii.lcace of that ocean which fur rounds them. Such was the miter - able and difhononrable conclu fion of an enterprize, whia,il had been preparing for three years. which had exhanfted the revenue and force of Spain, and which had long fired Europe with anxiety or expeetation. But this was n( t all : the war was hurled back upon the gloomy tyrant, nor was it terminated until the pride of his guilty ambition had undergone the leveret and moil mor tifying humiliations. It is impoffible to take a retrofpedive view of there exploits of our illaftrious progenitors, without feel ing an impaffioned defire to tread in their Reps.— Their dangers were affuredly greater than any of thofe by which we are at this day menaced. The empire of PHILIP 11. which bad been railed to an un rivalled pitch of greatnefs by the wifdom of his fa ther, the Emperor CHAILas V. infinitely lurpaffed the, prefers tower of Franke. Mailer of the trea fures of 'America, and of the commerce of the EaR Indies, which he enjoyed ezclufively, of the Nether lands, containing a hardy and warlike race of men, of Italy, of the two Sicilies, of Portugal, and either. commanding or influencing every portion of the Continent, except France, then rent by internal esiivalGons, he teemed capable of crags ing tinder Ms extended wings, any pertr of the earth, which dared to difpute his wip.—The • Luke of Zagland at that period did sot amount to four snakes of fouls t the van refnurces which the now derives from her commercial fpirit, and well regulated fyllens of Colonization, were not in exigence, er at moil -but feeble plants beginning to take root. Is abort. the could fcarcely be Paid to have poleffed any Colonies. She had no (landing army, no dirciplined troops, and the Earl of Lucie- Tit who commanded the tenantry and trained bands, calkd.out upon the occafion, was wholly inexperi enced in military slain, and did not even pad*s the ci ewe of any of oar premix non-commiffinned offi cers:" Our Country Good thus alone, depending Gordy on the native energies and valour of the pen. ple• and the cosfammate wifdons of the public coon. fele, venerated indeed by the Proteftant Intent! of Europe, but without mildly among its members capable of alleviating the burthen of her generous ftruggle. On the other hand, litfides the cireornitances irloicla have already recapitulated in favour of the itinti l e power of Pamir, the kingdom of Spain it• kit was in a very different condition from the Rate to which it is now reduced. The defpotifm of the throne, and the terrors of the impifition, had not then chained down their minds and bodies with the keen of Revery. They remembered that they had been a free, sad they felt that they were a great peo- ple : the CAW= honour, bravery, and hardihood, 'Rill 'arrived the compoanded defpntifm which was encircling their country. The Spanilh infantry was tinqueßionably the be in the world, and bad been familiarized with all the discipline of war, under figb Generals as Atm*, Pescasa,Lasmov, and Jones de Ms LUC., names that will ever be famous in mill. Tar, annals. Asa se crown she whole, the form \~ that were felefled to accomplifli our ruin, were the flower of ntre veteran connector s, le: 2 1 on by At.rr. Altera FARNISE. Nita dT gams: one of the mall accontplifhA Generals that evir lived, and in vim parifon with o hole military genius, Porteraltrt is bat a drill rot po. al. There; sly courrrarmen, were the dangers which our brave anceflors fettrlefsly met, and bravely averted. If the mutter roll of the Cosfican were ca• i pable of appalling our hearts, their thades world Geo from the peaceful grave, to untie our cowardice and degeneracy. But let them Veep in peace. The men of the nineteenth are not unworthy of the heroes of the 'lucent!' century; and if departed fpirits whet in their day of tribulation, orpofad tyranny with matchlefs fortitude, be permitted to look d ;Awn upon this mortal fcene of contention, to weigh the caafes ...Stich have imf tiled their offsprieg to take up arms, and to Coasemplatetl,e noble enthuliatio that pervades j their fools; Cutely, the foblime fpeciacle will gladden their more exalted hate df h..ing, and draw forth their bletlings on our virtues and one patriotirm. You are now in polleflion of ail the circtimllances of our forefathlts firoggles, and may esfily judge how far they are analogous to our own. If we carnet forpafs their glory, let its at !call drive to equal it; let us face our prefent troubles With the fete con• (fancy and unfbaken compaure with which they . met 11 their dangers, and under the Provident* of Gots, r i there can be no apprehenfion but the event will be ae propitious and honourable to tra,ai in the lea .d time! of old it proved to THEM. I cannot better clofe this 'mei; than by reminding you of their fentiments, as pertnnaiiy d e liv er ed by . their beloved fpvereign to her Cr:Mites in the Camp of E. Tilbury : 4 , Let tyrants fear: I have fo behaved myfelf, tea;, under Goo, I have placed my chiefeft fir ength !:13 t fafeguard in the loyal hearts and good will of cv ibbjeAs. And, therefore, I am tome atimegit ycu at this time, not as for my recreation or (port, but ' being refolved in the midft and heat of the batde to . 1 live or die amongft you all ; to lay down, for Int GOD, and for my kingdom, and for my people, mf honour and my blood, eves is tbe dsf. I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman, but ! have the heart of a king, and of a king of England too; and think foul (corn, that Parma or Spain, or any Prince of Europe, lroald dart to imbeds tie larders gin, rraim: : to which, rather than any &honour Thad grow by me, I suaflf will tale wto eras I I myfelf will be your General, Judge, and Rewarder of every one of your virtues in the field. I know already by your forwardnefs, that you hare deferred rewards and crowns ; and we do atTure you; on the word of Prince, they (hall be duly paid you. In the ilea* time, my Lieutenant-General Dull be in my Rada not doubting, by your obedience to my General, b' your concord ht the camp, and your trilobi in the field, we (hall mostly have it raisons vscroar over thole enemiei of my Goo, ef my kinitelom, and of my people." tiassiecest . . DUBIJ tS. . . • Yeller(lay; Mr. j: Eniaal e 4 l , ipag brought up to town by Cipt: Evari gad .& party of the Carrickmacras YairitaruT. Died at the fitinfma-hoiife. his Monday *brae& the Lady Mayorefs, Mrs Lltrytoil. The let dap of her life was uniform with the red ; it was fpwit ha the etereiGt of °lsaias abwity and virtue; nte at• tended the charity ferment at St. htichaies church e the paid feveral friendly *irate, forme of them to Lee fon•areet, her former reildence ; the dined and paired the evening is apparent health and fpirits. With fon* refpeftable friends : She retired to reit. but *Ai Ma tined never to life again. Yellerday Morning, Mr. Eno extritir left town to enable& an immediate cOmmunicarion be Tel graphe between the coal and Dublin. We ar e hot info/Med of the pate of the coal to which he has been ordered+ He is accompanied by Captain Beavioar, of the Navy, who dillinguillsed hittifeW during the tall wars by a matt gallant aetion, in which be received nn left than eighteen balls in his body, dnd who isuiv %gun. teen his Cervices till duty calls him to his pr o p er c i e .. meet. Government, front thi moment it Was them tainted that is praaicabie plan of internal correrposde owe by Telegraphs could be econiseded with the his tended clads of fignal puts round the kingdolle bee given every poffible facility to its actomplidasent On Friday Mr. Jolliet sat.. &Cowered base . blunderbufes, pL:ots. and inulters, conteiled is • fewer, under the high road, near Itsitheoffey, county Kildare I add on his teturd to Dublin that evening, he apprehended. at his bolsi. In Certis-fireans. Charles M•Daniel. inn-keeper, who la charged With bating been extremely &diet on the s3d illy MI. On Friday laft the following Brigade order% in confequence nt the Review on the preceding day. were commonicated to the Corps through Major General Duties - - - 11 .7 111 1 1 4ast,tewe.tO. et* Major Clew/ bents bat indeed Ihe tbihiwltrd eeetweelles dee Gest elm Ceeentattder of ate Fete, espial" to the Owps a Teem/wry Glebe City of DOUR the rselseattee be Ude eters. its had le feeble the appearance sad perfeesesnee tif le imeneensee wed refpeetsble i body of them la the PIA. iew &ranee: to the (vent of dot, dare by the Yeeseattry le dila city g and hewing been a wltneft of the eseaner le whittler* tat Is pm. formed, I wee num* gritted to 11-1. that thew sion n e er the liNL hay correlpeeded with their eiereastio mid owl seder. sod prronwimet is the laberiest reTyjcts which puiWW a wn . Saw render et west, Importance to the Gawky d eter etre, WOW. Frees .the whole of my obicreatine it spleen is that the tree prism:apt ei the Teefteery teititedee end betel sp by tlit• Corps ; sett haw the rem WWI Is mesh feted by fi =by reifies offish and fiedepeathet denehe. Whet babies of Err had been &reeled es refutes Oa tip se ra" due s appesisose great. bet if drasseAseem teen fees moiety donor I, /that a esetklaarnee or a reeeerat d thelle ewe. t i me end eWea s the tine loyal %I'd Patriot ph ~tleh~etr tame the left dig'', we ester thceperfeverenee is the MIPINK • the dieseliwandlier Made teteeadn Latentalib li I