Star.
London, England, 1804-01-13 00:00:00

TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED EMPIRE.

LETTER XIII.
Shall BRITONS, by their own JOINT WISDOM Mil
Beneath one ROYAL NRAD, whnfc vital power
Conoofts, enlivens, and exerts the waorr,
In finer arts, and public works, 'tall they
To Gallia yield ? yield to a land that bends, .
Depreft, and broke, beneath the will of 0 Kt ?
Of one who, Should th'unkingly thirit of gold.
Or tyrant p.iffions, or ambition, prompt,
Calls Lneuft-armies o'er the blafted land:
Drains from its thirfty Winds the fprings of wealth,
His own immediate rcfervoir to fill
To the lone &fart Patriot•merit frowns ?
Thornton 's Liberty, part s. Leer, Sce

January' 1, 13(54.

The moll memorable year in the hint:try of the
Smith empire has palled away; and though it has
fbortened the fpan of human exiftence, it has not
witneffed the leafl abridgment of our national gran-
deur, power, and glory. On the contrary, it has
left us in the full enjoyment of that elevated ferenity
which is the attribute of a happy Coincidence of pub.
lie wifdoentand public virtue ; the charaderiflic of a
people influenced by religious hopes 'Emitted by
moral principles, and connected by the firmed links
of focial harmony. If there be any gratification in
the indulgence of comparifoas, it mutt be admitted,
that our moral condition is not only fingular, but
enviable. The reit of Europe, ingulphed in the
abyfs of delpondency, 4pd led by a orange fpecies
of political dementation, purfue their deirinut way
through the dark labyrinth of uncertainty rwhile the
few year dawns with frelbening luftre upon THE
ISLAND, bringing with it, inflead of decrepitude
and forrovr, a renovation of national youth, fluthed
With the bloom of health, and exulting in the vigour
and power of patriotifin.

Dtvtas Ploviptirce hems to have marked the
Ardent as an epoch wherein he explains to depreffed
communities, that even in this world fuffering virtue
h not without its reward. By an awful difpenfation
of his fuperintending power, he has fummoned the
tempter from their bleak abodes, and commanded
thets to rage upon the deep. Nature has been bum-
bled. Our affrighted enemies have not dared to move
a cable; much more to front thole forms which
klafhed deftruftion around them ; for they confide In
Tortune, not in HEAVEN. All this while, the fury
of the warring elements has been qualified in the
eyes of the unfheltered Britifh Mariner, and his foul
fortified againß difmay t he has been endued with
ability to encounter, and perfeverance to formount
their tempefluous violence. Our fleets have main-
tained their Rations, and the firemen of the devoted
cenrinels of their country have floated on the whirl-
winds, from the Mouth of the Elbe to the Straits of
Gibraltar. The Britifh Empire wat never blared
with a more prcpitious illuftration of the oroteaive
mercy of HEAVEN, nor the French with a more to-
lemn denunciation of its wrath. In this terribly
rear, but bloodlefs exertion, our Navy has won the
laurel that remained to confummate its renown
to the end of time.

It is impoilible to reflelt upon this fublime trant
aftien without an intuitive perception that our caufe
is acceptable in the fight of that HIGH BRING, whore
juflice finally overtakes guilt in its career, and recorn.
Fences piety and virtue. Thofe howling (forms,
•vhich proved the courage of our feamen, tattered in
the anniverfary of that joyful feflical, which the gra-
titude of the Chriflian world had confecrated in
pious commemoration of the reign of peace and Im-
mortality, proclaimed by the SAVIOUR of Mankind
—an xra which has been invariably obferved by the
reople of this 'Rand, with holy romp and decorous
feilivity. The dole ofa yea:, during which tie me•
:.t.cing meteor of ;ocarina 'brought every kindred
virtue into allion, and kept the minds of all in fur.
renfr, has alio been marked with farc•itrahle figns--
3t is a peri-rl wherein falter or every degree arp
naturally d;ipnfed to make up their accounts, reli-
gious, moral, and political ; t., review pan, and
term th,-;r re:l,l:l6ons in refpcii to the fitttsre. To
Then of this call. the ...writs of the tail year relent
4:cnut::erable fub;eftr. on whit n the honell pride of
ecrifeious virtue may dwell with rapture.
We have ob!ained more 71nry, and what is rift
lets valuable, more fublantial fectoity, from this
unexampled conaan:y of cur fleets, than by the
tptiremetit ofa fplendid naval vitiory. l'roin our
infancy, we have been familintited with a foceeflion
of naval mum, over the aims rf i ranee, but a
viEtury over nature it di, is a phenomenon before
ooknown in our annals. A viJory on the ocean
would not hava affuaged a:tr•gether 0.4 e 7.lemmy per-
nor broken the fpell of continental abate-
ment. For, the hour cf vigorous exertion has rid-ap-
peared with the ptinciples of fell prefervation, in
which it originated. Oppreffed connuiev would,
doubtlefs, have rejoiced in the calamity of France,
but it would have beets cooldered a• a common oc-
currence, as a thing of cootie, whenever a Britifh
fro:adroit come in contail with an encmv. It would
not have moved the timid, urn confirmed the refulvcs
of the daring. The pettuarion would Rill have been .
that turn were hi.i.:crois. icafons in which
Co: kill and intro fatty of Br,dlh fca:.ic.ltsculd have
Leen unavailing. But now, tLat tugge.li,ns of
ignorance and .ear Late rem red by a pra(.ical I
e*-44(..:.1:tati0n of tlizir ; Futri-e, (cc:maled at

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the tpettaele, will learn to place a. higher value mil
our national power, and ceafe to entertain apprehen.
lions from that wild fweep of the elements, which
was to prove fo favourable to the defpot of France,
and fo inaufpieintts to the caufe of Britain. Fair
weather or foul, may be a matter of dare with the''
Corfican, but can le to) longer a quellion of adetaaisze.
From whatever poi'. lie launches the viaims of his
ferocious ambition, whether on a calm unruffled fea,
or amidfl the bellowing roar of winds and waves, he
wiU find the unweati:d Eons of the Ifland empire,
continuing their patient watch upon their favourite
element. eager to execute what remains re ifie rime to•
wards the completion of that grand cataftrophe.
which the civilized world already anticipate with
joy,.and which he has to prove in all the bitternefs of
confufion, and difgrace.--4uch ire the firft
fruits of that generous league, formed by an united
people. in defence of the religion. laws, foCial infli•
tutiuns, and independence of their country.

Ilu Juttitiam emir:maven ertomphi;.
Prealtem docecre Dawn! none feculadifesat

lock:pin= 011111 @Alibi, tinumve was&

We have thus overleaped the bounds of t enfolallon,
and may proudly tea our future fafety on the anchor
of public concord. The obtrufive gloom that over•
cad our politkal horizon is difpelled, and I congra-
tulate ray countrymen, that the New Yea& opens
with the molt brilliant aurora that ever dawned upon
the hopes and efforts of a brave and virtuous people.

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The molt tranfient retrofpeft, the progreffive im-
provement of our affairs, fince thtantumnal equinox'
will.elucidate this Ta urn. During the triumphant
blockade of our blood-thinly foes, along a coat of
above TWO THOUSAND MILES in extent, we have been
afforded an opportunity of recovvng from thole
emotions which the novelty of our cireumftances
ne-
ceffarily excited, and of making a more minute and,
circumfpeetive introfpeftion into thole immente and I
varied refources which Paoli's:inner has placed within
our power. At the fame time that we have been al;
lowed fufficient leiture to feel our sum ftrength, we
have been enabled to eftirnate difpaffionately the force
and charades-, the objets and means of thole rapa-
cious bolts of modern Philiaises, who, after having
ranfacked the property, and put in requifition the
lives of the inhabitants of other countries, prefume
to boaft they shall overran, with impunity, this land
of promife, and wren from [mush its covenant and
its birth-right. We have learnt to defpife their me-
naces, and to defy their power. Force and drat
have been given to the moll exalted meafures that
ever honoured the Councils, or provided for the fafety
of a people. That enormous armed population, anr.
mated by the moil generous loyalty and public fpi-
Tit, which, at the voice of their endangered country,'
were refponfive to its call, and mutually emulous
which Ihould rufb in the fire torrent upon the inva-
der, have been quietly indueed to order, familiarized
with difcipline, digelled into cOmpaet elements of
attion, yet fo combined, that the operations of the
whole (hall be =dui:led and vigour
What was fix months ago reviled by the faftious
dif-
putant, as a vaR nnuieldy machine, without any prit-
cir le of motion ; sehat the viperous tongue of baffled
malignity termed in dcrifion, " a depofitory of pa-
nic," has ilttained as cow" a nate of organization
and of military fcience. as the objet of its inaitution,
the nature of its fer Vice, and the aecefries of Ike country
can pith!" require. While the VOLUMTEaks have per-
formed garrifon duty, the troops of the line have
withdrawn into winter quarters ; hone the courage
and dikipline of the one have been tried and improv-
ed, and the health and drengds of the other recruit.
ed. In the capital, as in the province; the VOLUN.
Tilts have been ezercifed, brigaded, and accuflomed
to aft in large In.dies, under the immediate infpeftion
and command aexperienced Generals; and nothing
is wanting but the pretence of the enemy, to con-
vince the retail dealers in obloquy, infult, and dd.
paragetnent, that BI itifh valour and difeiplinc, whe•
they in the iinifotrn of a (oldies, or the habit of a Vo.
lunteer, whether accoutred in red, blue, or green. are
alike competent to repel the aggrefor, to maintain
the independence of the empire, and to gather from
the field of battle, thole unfading laurels, which are
the eternal rewards conferred on prowefs, exerted in
a noble caufe.

in add,Orn to :here cireninflance::, are hare gained
a r.”-ra: afiLranrc r t the liability of our national inde-
-1 endcnce. For, if gteatnefs be found in public fe-
entity, that empire mull be great indeed, which,
employing only a portion of its refources, without
reiorting to extortions, or opprelive meafures, with-
out invading the rights of others, and without the
noire and bale of indecilion, knows how to confrrnt
danger with a placid countenance, 'diens w ith :corn
in the garrulous delirium of its foes, and awaits their
arrival with majeltie eimpofure. A battle is but an
acciJent in wag ; it may be loft or won, and the rb•
jci in difpnte remain to be adjolled by deeper floods
of carnage. tut, when a people have aTumed that
commardiog pollute, which. tentless fatuity une-
quivocal ; when, the :mans and certainty of
finecfs. thav crr.itain ;hair enemy to decline or el
foitpcne the cr;,:liel, then hare they arrived at the
funimit of true gra attncfs—a: that pore:lion of power,
to whials legitimate ambition may froit4a- afpire, bat
v.z.:ch is feldom tcalizzd. Sue. a nati the image

k. (111.01.11,..0 ticejicfs

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I devotion to the country, and by fo manyvirtues,'
and crofa over to the naufeous camps of the Galilean,
what an horrible medley of paifions we (ball find tor-
taring the breath of his vagabond retainers? The
myriads of Xerxes never feat as they do. In one
place, the difmal forebodings of innocence corn
mingled with guilt, of fcll defpair with unappeafable
fury, cf indifference with boiling revenge; in ano-
ther, avarice, rapine, facrilete, diffention, and mur-
der, brooding over all the:ir meditated miff:hie", and
repining at the protradlion of the opportunity of
bloating themfelves with unheard of crimes. Through-
out the tented field, difcord, want, and difeafe, take
their hourly round., muttering empty curies in the
(halm of the blacken fiends of hell, invoking their
ruffian leader to give (cope to the ezercife of their
atrocious imaginations, and warning him that he is
the idol of their creation. Such are the turbulent
patEons!nurtured in the bofom of inflated vanity and
difappointed ambition. All the baneful (teas of idle-
nefs,fufpence,and inallivity,have already in vetted thole
armies hitherto in perpetual motion agaiuft Ties PRO.
laaTY of the world, civil; zed and barbarous,who hare
been enured to melt in blandintment over the qui.
Tering and defencelefs reptiles they meant to devour,
and who have always Reiven to circumvent by fraud
thofe whom they could not fittadue by open violence.
If the experience of the tall ten years does not belie
their character, there legions, which have proved in-
t:Mak where none were found to rO/1 their incurfions,
will become wearied of inattionl they will either
crumble away by defertion and the plague of camps,
or exafptrated at their mifapplied confidence, they
will turn upon their vaponring chief, and extinguith
his name and dynally in blood.
This is the real nate of that herd of cattle, which
the ihepherd of France calls French Republicans ;1
this is that eirrfi of raison, the army after army, corn-
pored of volautary warriors, liorniag soak ardour, who
have been driven handcuffed, over the high roads of
the great nation by gnu Aliases with find bayonets, in
order to 'emancipate Ireland, aid to coupler the tree-
fares, induftry, and population of Great Britain I
Need I add to this fplendid enumeration of; ardent
heroes, thole lemmas and seine: tribes of Belgici,
Batavian, Swifs, German, and Italian eancEssies, Eirt
word by a confcrrption,that baffles all political cal-
culation, that anathematizes by one ftroke of the pen,
all the vital principles and facial alfeeions of life,
that authorizes the blood hounds of a military police
to hunt them down, and drag *A like beafts of
prey, from the threfhold of parentsl or conjugal love,
to (well the lifts of this magnificent proceffion to a
difgraceful and an untimely grave ?
Is :biz alto the image of GIL AAAAA St ? Will atilt tnitn
proftitute the name by affociating it with wretches
who dare not refute their lives to the will of one ty-
rant—of one who never did a had *Elkin bat by
blowier, nor a good one but by nrifierie--of one who
has courted Athelfrn, legitimated crimes, fantlified
perjury, introduced the dark pratlices of hypocrify
into the public tranfattions of men, who triumphs
in the impunity of his crimes, and dedicates them
with hardened effrontery to the demon of his own
impious creation and worfhip ?—The world has not
yet undirgone fo frightful.a metamorphofis, as to
have loft its %coed faculty of difcrimination. The
viletl nate whet crawls upon tht earth, or tugs the
oar of a Tunifian galley, if not bereft of reafon,
knows which of the two nations is entitled to afrome
the name of greatnefs, and how to qualify the genius
of the other. It the outftretched arm of an avenging
Deity had not blinded them to their own deftration
as a perpetual example to fuecceding generations,
the abandoned naves of the ufurpiag Republic might
atfo difcriminate. But their fouls are barred againit
I 1 common feelings ; are open only to thofe of the re-
volution ; their eyes look through a different optical
medium, their minds conceive and produce, and their
horrid hearts beat differently from thofe of other men.
If any fall or wander in this wild career, they are
innantly replaced by new candidates, whole r-pid
fuccetlfion caufes the fire of an eternal youth to reign
over their tren.i. islous revolution.

Amidlt all their fatage denunciations fulminated
againft this !gland I amicift all the philofopbical
berifh uttered from their National Inftitute and pol-
luted tribunes ; Ind in defiance of their blafphemcus
manifefloes, are have been reflrved to mock and
fallify their preter.fions. Thi ec days after they had
proclaimed in the language rd bombeft impiety to
their apoftatized fatellitet, that " the u•isulr and el
orawes bad le:a avocets' so the grill of the Frearh Re
tau, ;" they received the ecolotat: intelligence, tLa.
after the difcomfiture of their lquadron by Lord
!lota, one third of it, acre on their any, to grace
the triumph of the victors in the harbours of Bri;a:n.
But, the mortification of this difafter made no alter
ration in the flippant tone of their &brim): ;argon.
They conrinued to blutter, and confprred to be de
feated.

On the 14111 day of September, t-;?, they di!:
charged from their ufual ordnance of impolluse, a
ih:et of cartridge wrapt in fasoke, called a meiTage to
the Legit? ttive Body, cur:spored with ingennity, to en-
tertain the automatons of France, and delight all the
knaves and crednlous fools in Europe. After decant-
ing according to their manner, upon the thunder and
lightning of the Republic, th is fanciful piece °folk:1t?l
epic poetry announced that the-f/raj, v irh the
kit u•;n: rid? my accompArkieJ by a yhlo-
fop:sical gtoupe of laws, claaclad Iro3ll the National

Inf Mute. had Carpi:kid Alexandria. evermetllLowac
Egypt.and taken polfernon of Cairo. But there was a*
v s that marked the progrefs of their defolatingronts I
The ocean," (raid they. that is, in 'vulgar profs. the
Mediterranean fea,) "exulted in carrying their tram*
ant nay, ; this ivertrtrodiy was referred/or the Pirivadk
Republic." Tirefe droll expeellions bed not
the limits of the department of the Seina.ana,tiot
official account was brought to England. that fry/
thirtyfut days before they had been publiased, fear
their triumphant nail: had been bdrnt and funk. and
that the refidue of this arm prodigy, with the exception
of two rads only, which fortuaately duped, had
confeffed the marchlefs gallantry of the Erbil!' arms.
and contributed to (well die catalogue of chafe naval
trophies which they had invariably won during the
whole courfe of tha war. This was unqueflionab!T
a new podgy, referred for the French Repubhc to
witnefs and deplore—for it confirmed and ratified the
caufe of jullice, and evinced the awful preffnce and
interference of GOD.

One-would have fuppored that inch fignal and re-
peated inflances of acts-Lied imporinre and humi:ia-
tion, would have lowered the tone of arrogance, and
removed, at length, the bandage of deluilon front
their eyes. But thefe fatal revetres ferved only to
inflate their guilty fouls, 2nd precipitate their fell.—
The fame Hero of Italy is now at the head of another
Army of England, contrivini for the intrepid Cole-
wa cis the complement of all our naval glories, by the
deffruftion of the laR remains of the navy of France,
which done, it may be rationally concluded, that
thefe tranfports of hydropfiobia will fubfide. Prompt-
ed by the love of Anarchy, from whore chaotic womb
this bloody-minded incendiary fprung, and enflamed
with the Caen revolutionary genius which impelled
him to cheat, rob, poifon, and butcher the defencelcfs
inhabitants of unoffending Rates, he has lived jot
long enough to fee hinsfclf the objea of univerfal
execration, and to have prepared involuntarily the
final chaitirement of his criminal abettors. Adopting
the infofeet thiprodies of his predeceffors, whore
example he &ems emulous of furpaifing, he Coleus*
declared to the, world, that, fingly, Great Britain
could not contend with France. We gave the lie to
this afreveration, by-making war upon flim without
the cooperation, or the profpea of a fingle ally.—
He 'rowed his intention of delivering over our
country to fire and (word, and of reducing it to the
condition of a conquered province. He has not kept
his word. You& determined patriotiftn has arrefied
his fanguinary purpofe. He has dircovered at. length
the fecret a our tranquillity, while the reit of Eu-
rope tremble at the mention of his name. He is
aware that his laconic boffoonery is defpifed, and his
etteminating furies eonfidered as lets dangerous
than Vs frauds, by a people, every man of whom isa
party in the nauor.al Interefts, and whofe government
is at the head of this trahrcendently glorious confer
aeration of talents, efforts, and patriotic's,.
The meafure of his iniquities is now filled. Pao.
tuner t will at length overtake the rancorous ma-
lice, the infatiable cupidity, the unparalleled crimes
of this abandoned villain. The brim of retributive
vengeance is faft approac:iing. D:44re jejiriam me-
G•LCI•C01.

ty Genera Centrist o's will. which was proved
yetterday, his younger brother. a Clergyman at Sa-
to), becomes entitled to ail the fortune. excepting a
legacy to the late Mrs. QIUNTIIILD'S relations.
We heard a rumour on Wednefday of fome
nnderflanding having taken piece between Colonel
TieNVer and Come of his troops, in the Borough.
bin we did not think it proper to Late. loth a est-
cumflance upon flight foundation. We have now
afeermined the fait, and can acquaint our Readers
with the particulars upon the moll nnqueilionable
authority :—Captain 1 nose 'soh and Lieu:. Bataan
had given up their committals from fume private
motives, which concerned thetrifelves only. Colonel
Taw' ay. and his friend Mr. Accoca, as principal
Officers of the Corps, named two other Gentlemen
to GU up the vacancies, and their name. were to be
tranfmitted to the War Office in regular form.—
Mr. Boacess. a Lieutenant in another company,
was nominated ro the rank of Captain. vice Twisty-
-14)14, reigned and Mr. :tare, a fie: and Lieutenant.
was pram ate, in the fame *antler be a FOR Lieu.
tenant, vice B . religned. Other promotions.
however. were Rill necelfary for perfons to ill the
fitilation; which thofe gentlemen bad formerly
held. company in cionfequenee proceeded to the
ele.flion of a Second Lieutenant, in the room of
Mr. Tuusirson. *lan had been promoted by the
nomination of the Chief Officers ; Mr. Ross. a fee.
jeant, was unanimoufly agreed upon to he a fit °b-
ird fir their choice. The company fent the name
of that Gentleman to the Commanants declaring
th it he had been duly elated. The Commandant
infitled on his right to nominate, and the company
was equally tenacious of whet they Pit-poled to be
their right of clettion : adding. that the Corps had
exerciled that right at their found.ition. and that they
thought there was an cad to their being called Ws
lonteers, ii they gave tip every tl.ing, Omagh being
Icyal men, they would limeader a great deal at tile
prelim cries,. The Command., or finding them fn re.
Ireton-, ordered them to pile their arm, an,i &Nand,.
which they did immediately son the trot. ooporitc the
Nt..r t. 1, in Hot fcmoriget-bw, in the B irongh.—
Sertral ether Gentlemen have fent 111 their refigna.
ila•ing the introdnnion c. 11.141 . pratiliee sobs
a deviation from the principles on which the Corps
,ca, formc..l. The Commandant. Iti-iwsver. will not
acciirpt of fuch offer of refiry.ation, hut MO, upon
t:lc-r continuing m•.mLe 4,1 the Carps and forme,
t Ay, :,1 any t•rtute .11 in, 1.,:c t: `.l
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