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NUMBER 43. —VQL. I.]
"WHEN YOU SHALL THESE
—M^^^ft^d^fr^—
[The following article was ;randti& from a Pato paper, for the
-, Aurora.]'
The merits of the piece, though under the difadvan
,tage ts a haft, trahjlation will Jpeak for itjelf:
a letter enclosing it so the Editor, attributes the
original tv thetelebratcd Sieves ; whoever may
be the author, he poftfes a. vast and admirable
mind; great kmowpedfr of hifary, and 'correct
'ideas of the British government.
REPLr to THE-RING of ENGLAND. ;
(George, thou art for war ! wefoall wage it !):
AFTER eight years of the most bloody
war, and at the very moment when the
drawn sword still threatens to sweep another
generation to the grave, a voice has been
heard to cry, " mafl a war which desolates
the four quarters of the globe, be eternal,"
'' are there no means of coming to a mutu
al understanding i" The voice of a king
has answered—No no, war ! war!
Thus we fee that certain ministers are
disposed to involve the Universe in destruc
tion—and though they live in the society
of mankind yet are working up eternal war
fare amongfl mankind!!! At the sweet
found of peace which echoes from every
heart, they shudder ; it is hardiv expreiled
when they exclaim, " His Majelt, has no
alternative but in a coalition with .other
powers to persevere in a just and defenfive
war." Geofge,when all kings bear witnef,
^gainft thee, Why durst thou utter these
Words?.
A war Which ha^ been undertaken againfl
a people who.were reforming their own
laws without attacking those of their neigh
bors, and which is ftili prgfecuted, though
the people have twice proposed to lay aude
their arms bending under the weight of lau
rels=" is this war just , is this defenfae ?"
The British ministers accuse us of having
begun it=but the treaty of Fiilnitz is yet I
on record—blit the orders given to the Am
bassador Chauvelin to quit London in three
days, are ftili dn record. But those ins
trigues by Which they fanned the flame of
difeord in all the cabinets of Europe are
still on record. But the peace made fix
years firice with the Kings of Prussia and
tyain is still on record.
They charge our, .government with ^ant
of liability. But three millions of citizens
Have established it by their free and individ
ual votes, fifteeri hundred perfans only have
refufed it their assent.
“ George, if thou fubmitteft thffelf to the
Jingle Jnffiage of the people of England, Scot
land, and Ireland, would the number as those
who would rejedl both you, the race of the
Guelphs, and your minders, be confined to fif
teen hundred."
Our government offers no security—but
what security dost thou offer us ?—the will
of the people having become null in-Lon
don, we have no guarantee but in thee, and
dolt thou not offer left than other men f who
can allure us that the cabinet may not change
by to-morrow from the present system, if 1
tingle change should take place in the min
istry ? Who can be a gurantee should the
Prince of Wales Succeed thee, whether re
moved by death or civil interdiction, from a
throne accustomed to thy absence.
Our government has no liability; is it
because the chief magistrate of the Republic
has his power bounded by our liberty ? Is
it because that accustomed by turns to rife
and destroy states, he owes his rank to the
people, and not the ridiculous prejudice of
hereditary power ? Perhaps George Guelph
deserves better than he to govern men !—
George Guelph ! ? What has he done to ob
tain glo^T? or WTiaT virtues F§ Tie dTlTih
guifhed ? Os what nation has he been the
legiffator ? Os what province has he been
the conqueror ? 0 Englishmen what fort of
a monarch, do you obey ?
Our government has no (lability! scarce
ly formed, yetthe opinion of its juflice con
stitutes its flrength ; the troops which tilled
this immense capital, accustomed to such
convulsions, My to combat England ; in La
Vendee the proportions of peace precede
these brave men, arid La Vendee is restored
to peace. But George, the ravings of yous
iriinifters fufficiently prove that our govern
ment has liability, iris even her lability and
%er power which terrify thee—Thou cauf
eft the firft consul to be insulted in thy par
liament ; thou searest not similar attacks;
what is said of thee abroad, applies only to
thy ininifters. Thou art fatisfied to wear the
crown, but thou doll not perceive that its
? DEEDS RELATE, SPEAK OF ±HEM AS T
ornaments are gained with the blood of the
p^le wh^curfe thee.
The ministers fay; that the French sys
tem, mitft be changed for the purpose of
civilized society !—Who has commissioned
those yous ministers to ffipulate for civilived
society ! What are the pretehtions of the
British cabinet to this honorable mission ?
Is it ite forcibly seizing on Leghorn, or its
having ttolen the Dutth fleet ? Is it its ha-,
bitual violation of the rights of Hations ditr
ing eight y^ars, openly when it finds itfelf
the strongest, and with infidiouS , cowdrtlice
when it finds itfelf the weakell r Is it be
cause, under the pretext of restoring tran
quility and security, it seizes on the spoils
of its allies as well as of its enemies ?—in
a word, is it become the ptote&ofr of the
people of Europe, because combined with
Turks and Ruffians, it opposes the pro
gr~fs of knowledge in the most delightful
part of the globe, and that it endeavors to
renew in the bosom of Europe, the barbar
ous age of Attila ! This cabinet which so
loudly boasts of its civilization, has rejoiced
at the death of the firll Consul : the bells of
he Tower of London have chimed this
proof of unheard of ferocity. It did not hef
fitate to form an alliance, on the coast of
Syria, with the Pacha 'Achmet, whom the
terrified people have fur-named Dghezer.
Worthy of such an alliance, the outrages
committed by its orders, have aftoniihed e
ven the favage* inhabitants of Turkey, and
published to the world the massacre of the
crew of La Modefte frigate, in the port of
.Genoa, the execution of the courageous
Wolf;Tone, and so many others in Ireland,
and the burning of forty Neapolitan velfels
in the heart of the Mediterranean.
Behold, George ! the pretentions which
'he Ministers give thee to speak in the name
of civilized nations.
Thy ministers boafl only of the form of
thy government; in allowing that they have
no righted prescribe one ro us, they allow
none to be good but their own. But in
what does its pre-eminent merit confiftr
jUnder that government civilization Is ban
ithed from England ; but; perhaps it might
be said, liberty is ftili preserved there 1 Li
berty dotes not exifl where the coWard triumphs
—Has not the Duke of York, on his return
from Holland, received the congratulations
of a debased Parliament ? It was thus that
Ctligula on his return from his famous ex
pedition to Er, land, received the Iclicita
rions of the Roman Senate.
N), George, such a civlized and loyal go
vernment as thine, isnot palatable to the
French : France will not have either a con
temptible chief or oppressive ministers; it is
her wilfo and not her power, which confers
(he right to govern her ,• (he deserves not a
civilization, which is thy words, means on
y a new revolution, and which would re
kindle the flames of civil war. She will ne
ver give you this security you require, and
which would only be the expreffiqn of her
weakness and exhausted condition.
After so long an experience, dare, your
ministers (till flatter themselves with being
able to impose a yoke on France, under
which, with difficulty they can retain Ire
land. Wretched contrivers of human ca
lamities—No doubt they could with that the
government of all other nations should un
dergo no changes but with their approbation
that the opinions of Europe should be as
immutable as those of China, and that their
great chart were like the Pillars of Hercules,
the bounds of all further difeovery.
Betefted artisans of the world's misfor
fortunes, when you transport the Tons of
freedom to Botany Bay, you do not transport
Thinter file principles of infiilar independ
ence, and yet you hope to annihilate the
freedom of the Great Nation .'---You calcu
late on fame and civil war— Behold ! La
Vendee in a (late of tranquillity, and call
your eyes (which behold abundance in our
country) around your own, and they will
/ discover those marks of famine which you
intend for us. It would be a just punish
ment for your crimes, if indeed of over
whelming an opprelfed people, you only had
smarted under this deflating scourge—you
speak of the horrors of the revolution—no
doubt the revolution has been too long car
ried on without those principles on which it
had been firft founded, but which to your
great mortification has now established it :—
no doubt it has been deformed by many hor
rid feenes ; but who can inform us of the
real cause, better than you, who have uni
formly held the clue to all confpiracyr Yem,
TUESDAY, JUNE 1% ^00..'
'H:Y Aftß ; NOTCHING EXTENUATE NOR SE
vA\o, in M^^lfeta^yss in the Indies, have
onioned th ^^■^^■hfence in all great po
litica! crinq^^^ty^qF
Famot^pm flfcbeeti brought to the
ground ! but wretches, it was you, who di
,eaedtp kxe ! Murders and conflagrations
have fort itimes been witnbfled in our af
frighted illiges ; It is you who lighted the
torch, amyou who tainted the dagger—
\nd at fffent to reflM, as you pretend,
H\oraW%d^Ood order, you ftili call to your
aid the butchers of Warsaw, and the blood
thirty furies of Naples.
Tie approach to Naples or the suburbs
of Warsaw is more easy than to the fared
foil offreedom. As you are for war, you
(hall bf gratified ; if torn by internal fac
tions, and blindly abandoned to their irreg.
ular movements, we have extended our ter
ritory, flail we allow it to be invaded now
that in f[te of your frightful diplomacy, La
Vandee ii a Mate of peace fhalll add to our
numerou battallions. Now, that you can
no longeidepend on discord, four bed aux
iliary ! ' es! You may give up all hopes ;
the fprinf of adion and re-adion is broken,
your blod-ftained hands will attempt in
vain to thore.it to its murdering eladici-
If yet there remain amongst tis any
thing revolutionary, it is. the indignation
with whiih your agents inspire us. The
sword of error is now no longer brandithed
in France but for those Who have f, long
brandish© it themselves.
No douft, yo;. have already at home the
fad conviction of this impotence, and for this
reason ih he extravagance of your rage, you
forget yeir bloody policy—it is no lon
ger the r public, it is France you dare
threaten. That France which under what
ever form pf government has been the object
of your everlasting hatred. In your impo
tent rage, yptf let fall the mask of those re
volutions which concealed the lading enmi
ty of the.people. And then the Cabinet
of St. James's is for war, because war
promotes all its infamous speculation. It
has made every pofiible calculation ;—-it
knows to a fraction what advantage it gains
by the defeat of some battallions no sooner
vomited on the continent, than defeated.——
Gold putchafed blood, it purchases disgrace ;
and whilst all Europe bent on its own de
ftruaion, tramples its hafvefts under the
feet ofhorfes^ and covers its plains with life
lefs bodies, the Englilh, on board their (hips,
escape the desolation they had occasioned,
heap up in their (lores, the treafurcs of the 2
hemifphrres.
France alone is able to check her fatal as
cendancy and bar the with of throwing the
whole continent into confufion, with a view
of collecting the Wrecks occasioned by the
tempest: France alone can lecure theliberty
of the seas and protect monopolized com
merce. Hence that hatred which belongs
to past ages, and not to the revolution. In
the time of monarchy, has not this hatred
been always interfering with our domestic
troubles.
(To be continued.)
[The foUroing paragraphs are recommended to
the peruJal cf the very enlightened conciliatory
and peacemaking preacher, who lately in all
chriflian mildnejs delivered a very humble dif
couiJe before a great afembly]
, lute
, NOVARA, FEB. ,•
We are Coffering here all the horrors of
the mod frightful misery, almost to the
height of desperation, there is no kind of
vexation that can be imagined, that we are
not obliged to endure from the Austrians—
Money has entirely disappeared, and the ne
cessaries of life are beyond all bounds, and
notwithstanding - out impoverished situation,
a further contribution of twenty millions,
has lately been imposed on us. Within a
few days pad, seven Austrian soldiers enter
ed during the night, the house of an indi
vidual of-Intra, by the name of Matteis, a
miller and dealer in grain ; they ordered a
good supper to be prepared, which was im
mediately served, and after regaling them
felvcs copiously, and drinking to incoxicat
tion, they forced him to deliver up his mo
ney, he presented them with 3000 livres,
equal to 400 crowns, which they took, ftili
they demanded more, and to fatisfy them,
he was obliged to give them a further sum
of 1000 livres, Which his two sons, then
present, the one of 18, and the other of 16
years of age, had saved of their industrious
earnings, and which they gave up, in hopes
that those execrable ruffians would be fatisfi-
[t DUL'. ^0 CTS. PER ANNUM. -
it DOWN OUGHT JN MALICE."
ed and go off,, but litre cruel viliian ,n c n
tent with robbing them of all the money
they possessed, barbiroufly assassinated, with
an axe, the father, mother and the two font.
The wretches, after Committing the horrid
a& fled loaded with plunder, and joined
th^r corps, nor was there any notice taken
of the tranfaaiuh ; such is the manner fa
which we ate treated, happily, however; we
are likely to bq rid of the &ateft part of
thj, infamous tiorrt% as the, are ordered to
march towards Genoa, where it appears
they mean to concentrate their forces.
Fr m the ffI^RORA.
MP,. BACHE,
Observing some time since a paragraph
tinder the Albany head, relative to the con
feffion of a physician who lately died in
Scotland, as corroborating authority, I give
vou the following, which I have from what
I esteem good authority.
It is well known that the British made
frequent parade of their prisoners through
New- York streets, which they hadtaken in
their plundering night excursions into toe
state of New-jersey, and very often in such
horrid exhibitions of cruelty as must har
row the feelings of the mod callous hearts.
Judge Cooper, an aged man, was drag
ged thro' the streets tied <0 the tail of a cart,
with the leg broke and the blood running
down it, and his negro with him, who help
ed to hold him up. He was put in the Qua
ker's new meeting-house amongst the other
American prisoners ; where he took the
small pox. A humane citizen before
whose house this prisoner was dragged, sent
Dr. W. Talman to give him aid. The
Dodor advised him to take nothing from
Britilh surgeons, and as far as he dared ven
ture to (peak to the other prisoners, he gave
the fame advice. The physician of the hos
pital gave Judge Cooper a powder, which
he said was to purge off the humours of the
small pox ; which powder Dr. Talman
took from him and itmixed with arsenic.
And it is said, that every prisoner who took
the medicine from the hospital physician di
ed immediately to the number of several /
hundreds; but those who followed Dr.
Taiwan's advice, lived.
From the Republican Watch-Tower.
Mr. Harper, in a long letter to his confti
tiients alks, “ What do these persons (mean
ing the republicans) expe& to gain for the
country by a change of administration r—
What can they hope to do, which is not al
ready done? Will they make peace with
France ? it is in a train of being made ; —
Will they reduce the army r it is reduced ;
Will they repeal the Alien and Sedition laws
about which they have raised so much cla
mour ? they expire of themselves next ses
sion, and the occasion of them having ceaf
no body thinks of renewing them. Will
they discharge the public debt ? provision is
already made for its difeharge," &c. &c.
But when have all these things been done
these evils been removed i Why just as foot,
as the public sentiment is about to consign
their authors to political oblivion. The
people are then aiked, whit gain is expect
ed to result to them, from a change in the
administration, when all their grievances
are either removed or to he removed ? The
answer is plain—The people will eled lmen
in whom they can place a confidence,a hope
that they will never involve this country in
the like evils. The army is reduced, it is
true ; but why was it not reduced when the
motion of Mr. Nicholas was before congress
Was not peace with France in a train of
operation then as well as now ? Yefy but
the election in New-York had not taken
place. But the alien and Seditionlaws will
expire next session of congress, and the oc
casion for them having ceased, no bod,
thinks of renewing them. Very true ; we
hope there will be no occasion tor renewing
them, because we exped to have an execu
tive that will not want to have his official
character entrenched behind the barriers of
the Sedition law.
But it is said, provision has already been
made for extinguishing the public debt.
This has probably been done by authori
zing the President to borrow money at 8 per
cen^ The public debt has beetfencreafing
notwithstanding all the provisions that have
been made for its redudion.