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London, England, 1806-12-02 00:00:00

to ,he allegation of rely being 4' an hired informer.",.
From what source you derived this ME:tilting piece of,
intelligence you- have given me :opportunity of
ascertaining, nor do I feel now solicitous concern-
ing it, because the Public are. sufficiently acquainted
with your' principles to estimate the degree of reli-
ance'which ought to be placed upon any public,: opi-
-1
nion which comes from you. Most happy do 1.
feel, that I do not stand a solitary instance of your
vulgar abuse. When my Sovereign has not been
spared, I am proud to receive a poisoned arrow.
levelled at the heart. Oae of the :most
.ho-
nourable [nen-. living, IN:Ir. Bow tts, the eloquent,
advocate of the cause of religion, virtue, and public
order, has likewise been assi:iled by your noisy and
faCtious clamour. But, notwithstanding the per,
sonal gratification, which f experience from being
thus associated, it right that I should call upon
you, to prove where, When, and how, at any. tithe of
my life, I have become either an hired informer, or,
an informer of any description ? If, Sir, I had.
chosen 'to have become -a person:of such a charac-
ter, there are documents in my . possession which
would have hanged some of your followers years
ago. But there is no man living, excepting your-
self, or the literary Pruin who sounds your eulogies
every week, who' can with truth alledge such an
accusation against me. I owe nothing to the-',Go-
vernment-4 receive nothing from the Government
—I am wholly .unconnected with the Government
--wand, moreover, I never will be connected With
the Government. In. Making this declaration,. how-
ever, I would riot be understood to mean, that the
Government shall be insulted by me in . the Manner
you have thought it patriotic to treat them. Al-
though I cannot approve 'of their measures, they
shall have my cordialosiipport, humble as it. is, in
the hour of danger. - I will never make the cala-
mities of the world an argument. for justifying the
.disruption of social order. .
It now remains for you, or any of your partizans,
to prove-me "an hired informer ;" it remains for
you to prove, that I have ever direCtly or indire&ly
communicated-to the Government, or to any perr4m
likely-to convey it to rbe•GOvernment, one word of
information relative to thoSe circumstances of the
earlier part of my, life, and to those connexions, to
which you have obviously alinded. It remains for
you to.prove; that I have ever been hired at any
• time, or by any -Government 'or-persons. Until you
shall have contradiCted this challenge, you must be
considered, in the opinion of every honourable mind,
as a. CONVICTED CNIAMINIATOR.
This letter' closes our personal difference. To-
morrow, I shall address you. as a public character;
on the mischievous,effeas which are likely to:ensue
from the continuance of your present projeCts. It
may then appear that the charaBer even of " an
hired informer" will become necessary and' re-
speetable. From your candour I expeet nothing ;
but, as I hate proscription, and judge of others by
my own feelings, I think that much may yet be ex-
peeled from. you, when further experience shall +ave.
chastened the vanities of youth, and brought you
into a sober habit of thinking. ' It is withthis view
I shall address you. for the second dud last time ;
and if my reasonings .be irrefragable, the sooner you
reform, or sink into oblivion, the better•it will be
for yourself and your country.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient humble servant,
kJ-, YqRKE.
.South Lambeth, Sunday night;

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soLam uurs DlCtik& I,ALSUM AUDZAT

LONDON,

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1806.

A report was this morning circulated, that an En-
gz..gement bad taken place between the Fleet under
the command, of Lord Cot.LINGwooD and the Spa-
nish Fleet from Ca4i4, in which the latter were
completely defeated. it • would give us the most
sincere pleasure to'be able to confirm, this agree-
able intelligence, but. •i • accounts of any Ac-
tion having taken place had reached the Admiralty
when this Paper was put to Press.

. .
,A. rumour was yesterday very generally circulated
in the City, that it was the intention of Government
to sequestrate all the property in our. Fund:: belong-
ing to the 'subjeas of thOse Cot tries which are oc-
cupied by the French Armies, and also to give or'ders
to our Naval Commanders to seize all property be-
longing to, the subje&s of those Countries, alttinagh
found on board Neutral Ships. Whatever may be
the. future determination of 'Government upon this
subje&, we can venture,to state, that at present the
report is destitute of foundation. There can be no doubt
that if the British Government were disposed to fol-
low the example of BONAPARTE, they- have ample
means in their hands of indeMnifying such British
Subjects as have been deprived of their property.by
. .
French iniut;c•e and rapacity. The foreign property
in our Funds greatly exceeds the amount of any con-
fiscations which the French have made, or can make.,
It has been estimated, perhaps a little too highly; at
not less, than one hunclecl millionsi of which much
the greater part belongs to the Subjects of those
Countries now absolutely under 'the dominion ' of
France, oroccupied by her armies. The necessity mu.
'be great', however, that would indnce Government
to, have recourse to so strong a measure; but in• the
present unexampled state of the world, and after the
iterated prnofs which our Enemy has given vv. of WS
4 vltter contempt of all those laws and principlev by l