The Sun.
London, England, 1803-07-05 00:00:00

•$'l.lR TIFF • SUN.

AN t.I3I),RESS TO "NM COUNTRY.
Tits prospect of (longer, to which the Nation is
now c,ilied upon tit is most appalling. The
s ierifires rect,sary to be made in nrder .to ine::'l that
danger, art gigantic. But no sacrifices, no taxes,
conttibutions, will avail, if the spirit of the •
Nat;7in sleeps. The haughty Legions of BONA-
emyre caenot he repelled by parliamentary grants,
and votes of augmentation. It becomes the charac.
ter of Britons to be prepared to meet with,a steady
An yielding fortitude, the threats and the efforts of
hint who, having crushed ever)? other opposing Na.
tion, now directs his Overwhelming power at these
:Islands; as the only obstacle to the attainment of his
deepty.rooted desire of universal domination. And
shall it be heteafter recorded on the poge of His.
tory, that the British Nation, so long the envy and
admiration of the Wolld, and which has as yet sue.
cesstully withstood the attempts of every Enemy,
tunk at lust, almost unresisting, under a Tyrant's,
anti Foreign tyrant's, outstretched arm ? Forbid
it, British Glory ! forbid it, British Patriotb,m
---,admit let surrounding Nations be witnesses of
ondegenerated heroism; rather let the world
and pos,erity have one instance mote of our Inagua-
nitroty to admire.
We must not expeft that fortune, or a tame ac-
quiescence in tote ads of our superiors, can be a suf.
heitrit shield against our Enemy : • we must indi.
vidually exert ourselves, and exert ourselves sire.
measly and unceasingly. We may look back with
gratitude to the interference of a benign Providence,
which has once already miraculously saved us from
a foreign y oke, in the glorious reign of Elizabeth ;
and we may place sonic reliance and some hope Oh
the assistance of the same Providence, if by our own
exertions we merit it ; but it is only by deserving
that we can hope to obtain favour from that
source. Providence is far indeed removed from for.
• tune. The latter is proverbially blind, hut the
former possesses a most discriminating eye, and
Aisle, ses its protection with the most impartial
justice. lie must indeed be ignorant of the
toty of his Country, who is unacquainted with the
magnitude of the exertions of .this Nation, to op.
pose the mem,rable Armada, and yet those exer.
dims would probably have been of little avail,
without the intervention of a superior power. We
have now an Enemy of at least equal force to en-
counter, and we possess rO;OOfCCI4 infirlitay
riot- to those which we enjoyed in the sixteenth
century, and our 'resistance, at the present crisis,
ought to be proportioned to the superiority of those
resources. But our resistance, however terrific in
appearance, will be but feeble in Oat, unless the
whole spirit of dm Country be brought to the
contest.

do not think so ill of any of my Feliow.:cnun.
trymen„is to suppose, that *hittever be their po.
litical opinions, they ,would be tame spettatOrs of
the overthrow of their Country, much less that they
would join her' Foreign Oppressors.. In the mo.
merit ut Invasion, I should doubtless see the parti.
sans of every opinion united in her defence. But
(if the proverb may be excused) prevention is better'
than cure. It may, patrhapss be then too latc-rI
say prilupt, because I can only think it a possibi.
lity—i( the 'Tyrant invades, he mot, he ittill
But we cannot be too speedy, or tao powerful, in
our system of defence ; and the jarring of personal
interest, and the interference of private opinion,
should now, if they ever should (I thirty they al.
,urtys should) give way to the public necessities of
the State.

This is a• period which affords an opportunity,
nay more, which demands the display of every pa.
triotic virtue. And will the ',men, who venerate
the nine e of those ancestors, whose blood was so
abunttooly and so frequently shed for the mainte.
nance ut both their internal arid external independ-
ence, wily they, !lay, let slip:Rich a moment No,
My Countrymen, ye will not, I am sure. Look
boldly at the, rasped, Consider with what grate.
ful admiration, what enthusiastic reverence, we all
rellett on the atchievements of our ancestors. Turn
bursts to your minds the history of •your Country*.
Read the actions of Howard, of Russell, of Byng,
:if SydneY, of Marlborough. Think of the cele-
y f the many tithe, Throes who Shine in our
great their fame I How worthy of
• too I Ile is no Briton, whose breast does not
at the ifq!oreiiion who does not eagerly
a penetration in such 'glory. Soon shall it
t knowt, wh, deservest) participate in it. We
yet strength sufficient to bid defiance' to the
Liii,i'ente. Let not the love of the -empty name of
.1):,c;! tempt tot to concede more than is consistent
with our honour. We have now entered into a
struggle unpvi Mewed in history and it becomes
vs to ;:o thr,,tigh with it, with the charaeler.
is; ie lii it of 'Britons, who have ever proved them.
sA'IN haughty champions of Freedom. The day
itt:o at tt.iittt. Let us then be prepared to meet
tas d:oig,:r. • Tbz ltistoriaa's pen, n.vbhh shall re.
c'r,l the evcnts of the times, 'will testact down to poi•
tcr;tj, on pages 'which *will never perish, the 'taints
nod the anions of that 101,4 'were the Friends of
theft t'ountv ; attd the totigke. of btfa'et,y zvill pub.
fish Iv riser" corner of the toot*, those.Traitore who
44,-red not the to of their, Country is the hour of
er.

A person at Rochester, has obtained A Patent for
welhod -01 more etredual4 securing the Beams of
or.their sides, by whiCh the vessel will be
I.trengthened, and it great saving of time and ex.
cnce ellt:Cled, particularly in the lodging knees,
r.v...tbirt6 of, which the. ptestnt plan proposes to
e, • When the lit:amends become rt 4 ten (the part
ui t.e Ship which first decays), the repair is to be
by h•tving long check.vicces of tirtiber bolted
• fastened w such bems us are decayed only at
cols : then'the pieces can be m,,rticed•by them
ib:ed tiorciugh the ship's side, tints faCilitlitinz
ce+ tArs iof oid hios, and saving inigligibus
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