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univerfal empire:
Since, therefore, jot have none of eh' ofe inward
decays which are fo vifible in fome declining
'eminent. ; finee nature hill is Prong within us,
able to exert itfelf, and work its own cure ; fince
the people never were fo well difpofed to affie
the views of their legiflators; it is to be hoped that °dr
country, full of domeftic unanimity, and foreign re-
putation, may yet refcue mankind front the gloomy
thraldom with which they are menaced, redeem the
honour, and revive the finking fpirits of Europe, and
aCume that condition by which the has hitherto been
qualified to defeat the councils, and oppofe the flrength
of France. It mutt neverthelefs be acknowledged;
that there advantages can never be expetted,as long as
the continental Powers, (who always confider the
public mind of Britain as the barometer of fueconr
op defpair) perceive in this country, innead of a ratio-
nal and manly fupport of government, initead of a
communion of thought and aelion, nothing but ca-
pricionfnefs in legiflators, rancour in the courfe of
public inquiries,difiraaion in the n.anagement of pub.
lic affairs, and divifion in the fentiments of the people.
The left hope of Europe tells on the firm, inflexible,
and united minds of the Britifb people, unequivocally
etpre Ted.

It behoves us, therefore, duly to appreciate our
tuition, and to maintain the prefent contek not only
with force, but with dignity. In combating fraud and
tyranny, let us compel our enemies to feel, and our
friend! to acknowledge, that we not only retain the
name, but the fpirit of Britons. The liberty for the
fake of which we have taken up arms, is the Conftitu-
tion of our ancellors, which we cherith, not as a fpe-
culative bauble, but as a pratical good; and we may
contra& with honeft pride our happinefs under it with
the fawning treachery of thofe by whom the name
of Liberty has been ufed as a mark for the moll grind-
ing oppreffion; whole praife is profanation, and whole
external homage is contealed blafphemy. Our prin-
ciples are drawn, and our ufages adopted, from the
great charter of univerfal reafon, of which the Genius
of Freedom is the facred interpreter ; they are
therefore unextinguithable. The Temple of Britiffi
Liberty, reared by the hands, and cemented by the
blood of of r anceftors, is at once venerable for age,
and refpedlable for utility. It is a Itrufture which
we can claim as an inheritance from our forefathers,
who claimed it themfelves from the political Pa-
triarchs in the old time before them. But we know,
and we feel likewife, that it has yet a broader bare, a
deeper foundation, and a more remote antiquity. It
is coeval with time are% deftined as the palladium
of there United Mandy and dropped by the hand
of WISDOM from the firmament of Htavaa.
Can the unhallowed voice of the Corfican's venal
Senate, which daily chaunts the funeral dirge over
fosse departed right of thirty millions of men, make
loch an appeal to the honour and juftice of mankind ?
What are the pompous titles of 46 Great Nation, Em-
peror and King," to a people beggared by the law-
lefs violence of repeated depredations, and deflitute
of every wife and wholefbme provifion againft the
Oppreffm's wrong ? The fecurity they afford to ufur-
patiob is of a fugitive nature ; but the Stability of
the Britifts Conftitution is guarded by the vigilance,
ar.d fullaised by the love of the people, We are not,
therefore, to be intimidated from one porpore by the
diurnal chorus of drunken Helots, whole foie motives
to anion are blood and rapine. The dupes of every
ignoble paffion, and of every lucky fool or enterpria
iug knave, it is no wonder, that the French fhould with
to fee their own fertility extend itfelf over the whole
of human fociert. They cringe and fawn upon a
tyrant, becaufe they would be tyrants themfelves ;
they would blot the name of FRIINAN out of the
book of life, becaufe they defire to enclave others.—
Thofe unfeeling wretches are perpetually declaiming
in praife of the exemption from the guillotine which
they enjoy in their chains, and more enraged than
fatiated at their own atrocities, they hearken to no
fuggeftions of the foul, but give an implicit faith and
obedience to the perjuries, the will, and the violence
of their ruler. To their frivolous minds, nonfenfe
polies for demonftration. The molt criminal means
are faatified by the attainment of the ends treaties
are not binding where they interfere With a momen-
tary intereft : the ancient laws and cuftoms of States
have no authority againft their matter's will : impu-
dent forgeries are received as authentic drrcuments
and the affirmations of their government as proofs.—
All this, they call government ; but it is better known
in this country by the name of !taros-route.
This is the government, and thefe the people with
whom we have to contend. What profpeds we may
derive from the co-operation of the Tell of Europe,
I (hall endeavour to lay open in my future letters.
The (tate of the continental powers, though extremely
equivocal and dangerous, is not yet hopelefs. Admo-
nailed by experience, and encouraged by our exam-
ple, their reafon may be, at length, convinced, and
their exertions revived. Then, under the protalion
of that Balsa, who maintains the world by his power,
who governs it by his wildcats, and upholds it by his
providence, we may fairly compute, that the frag-
ments of the civilized world, will be collated and re-
placed on their antient foundations, and that legiti-
mate authority will be reftored, and the European
confederacy of nations refume its ancient equipoife.
At prefent, as I am about to demonftrate, Europe
is in a State of anarchy, lode, infinitely worfe, and

Mote 'joining; that daring tbofe tattgathaft and
tempelluous moments when it was airailed by a tut.
bulent deinocracy 3 and if, in the eourfe of the fober
invefligation which I propore to give to the fubjee,
it fhould appear, that I thould imfrefs upon the
People of this Empire the anal neceftity of mating
unexampled exertions; let It always be underllood,
that it is not a vigour sunitti the Law, but a viewer at
the Law, which it it my objet to inculcate.

wALsisbutit.

We learn by the 1a( advice' from India, that the
Marqnis WaLL¢sLIT intended to proceed on his tour
to the Upper Provinces early in the fpring ; if fo, his
Lordlliip, it is fuppofed, will be at Delhi much about
the time that the Marquis COR mweLLI3 will arrite at
Bengal.

The MarquisWlLLentv, we underhand, is build.
ing a palace at Banackapore, almoft Upon as grand
a reale as the palace of Bengal, which is to be con-
lidered as the country refidence of his Lordthip and
future Governor-Generals.

PUOILISM.—The fate of Dutch Sam, in his rni-
matte with the little Wandfworth butchyri has bola'.

len another of the pugiliflic corps. A battle was
fought on Sunday at Paddington, when O'Donnel,
who was one of the fpeaators, had a quarrel with an
untaught plaiflerer of his own weight, and they fet
to. In the courfe of a few minutes the head of
O'Donnel had flopped to many of the -plaifterer's
blows, that like Sam, Lis friends conveyed him away
to avoid the ftigma of his being decently milled.—
They fay he vat out of conefition.
Saturday afternoon twenty-fnar female cowries
were removed in two waggons from Newgate to be
put on board the William Pitt, bound to Botany
Bay. Their behaviour was highly indecorous ; and
they tore the tilt of the waggon kindly intended to
conceal their fhame, and rent the air with the moft
fcandalons exprefllons. They were accompanied by
........d.• Perfed, convicted tome time ago of obtaining
money from the Earl of Ct.mtvitoott, under pretence
of its being for the relief of a dithered female.

With the outward bound Eaft India fleet, which
were under orders to fail yefterday, are going out
two large veils for Botany Bay. One, named the
Laurel, is fitted for male conviEts, and has a detach-
ment of the Bth Royal Veteran Battalion on board.
The other is the William Pitt, and is fitted for the
accommodation of female conviels, and free fettlers.
We are lorry to be informed, by our Correfpon-
dent, that a fatal accident had like to hate happened
to our young favourite, Matter SAUNDERS, en Sa-
turday morning, whilft amufing himfelf in a boat off
PI
*thead I it unfortunately upfet, and bad he not
been a molt excellent swimmer, mull have perifhed.
On Monday, previous to the Brißol Cavalry fet-
ring out from the York Hotel, with the late General
MAGIAN'S funeral, the Trumpeter's boric reared on
his hind legs, and falling backwards, was killed on
the fpot. The rider providentially efcaped unhurt.
On Friday lal, as Mifs Carter, fecond daughter
of Mr. Carter, Banker, of Portfmouth, was bathing,
the was feized with an apopleaic fit, and drowned
before afliftance could be procured.
A melancholy accident happened on Saturday af-
ternoon : William Barnes, butcher, of Stanwix, went
to bathe in the river Eden, near the Sorceries, where
he amufed himfelf for a confiderable time by fwim-
ming. He was at Taft obferved to fall upon his back,
in the water, and never rote more. Several perfons,
on being apprifed of the accident, immediately went
into the water with the hopes of recovering the body ;
two of whom dived from oppofite (bores, and meet-
ing together in the middle of the water, and each
fuppoling he had got the drowned man, they feized
each other, and role to the furface of.the water, fall
locked in each other's arms, to the diverfion of the
furrounding fpatators, who, notwithflanding the
awfulnefs of the occafion, could not forbear laughing
heartily at their gretrhue appearance. The body was
found on Sunday morning. What is remarkable,
the deceafed has had two brothers, who were alfo
both drowned.

The highwayman who robbed tome of Lord Os-
soar's fervent: Lift week. on Luton Downs, in Bed-
fordihire, has been apprehended, and committed to
Hertford gaol. After having plundered the butler
and hcufekeeper, as we have before mentioned, he
fell in with a pig-jobber, and robbed him of money
and a watch, jolt after which an acquaintance of
the pig jobber's came up, and they agreed to purfue
him, which they did, and, in the (porting phrafe,
4' turned him" feveral times. At length he reached
a wood, and took into it, but found his purfuers
gaining fo fat upon him, that he had no chance of
efeaping with his horfe ; he therefore difmounted,
abandoned him, and fled into the thicket part of ihe '
wood. The pig-jobber heated the tierce; they gave the
alarm of his being concealed there, to a Gentleman
of the name of Brand, who immediately called out
his company of Sharp.fhooters, which he commands,
and furrounded the wood (it not being of very great
extent) all night. The next morning, a party of
about twelve went into the wood, found and fecured

him. He is a genteel-looking young man, of about
twenty-five years of age ; and it appears from his
book of orders, which was found in his faddle-bags,
together with half a dozen watches, and the property
he had when taken, that he rides for Come honk in
London. He had no arms but a pato!, which was
not loaded.
The beauty of the Circadian women has been the
furprife and admiration of all travellers, and they
have been particulary praifed for the elegant fymme-
try and pearly whitenefa of their teeth. For preferv-
ing them in this beautiful and healthy flair, their
country furniffies a peculiar vegetable produelion.
little known in any other quarter of the world, which
they are in the habit of conflantly ufing. It is this
produBion which the Proprietor was fo fortunate to
*mire, that forms the hafts of Btrri.ta's Rettora-
five Tooth Powder. To this Article it owes its fu-
perior excellence and efficacy, over every other of
the kind, in imparting a fweetnefs to the breath, giv-
ing a delicate coral rednefs to the gums, and remov-
in4 from the teeth, without injury, all foulnefi and
dilcolouration, that tarnithes the enamel. This va-
luable preparation is fold at Mr. BUT Lies, No. 4,
Cheapfide, corner of Paternotter-row ; and may be
had of moll bookallera and perfumers. Mowry coon.
try town, in bows, at as. 9d. each.,