Star.
London, England, 1803-08-09 00:00:00

LETTER IT.

I concluded my former letter with the reflation
that. in the prefent flate of the world, " greater clan.
gers never prefented more multiplied iefources to
courage and to genius." Before I proceed,, it will
be proper to illuftrate the truth of this propolltion.

One of the moll formidable and fuccefsful inftru.
=cots of French aggrellion, whether confidned in its
influence over their arms, or in blunting the means of
tefillance adopted by their enemies, has been, the
corruption of the minds of every people whom they
intended to fubdue. The rulers of France have al-
ways acted upon this principle, and it mull be con-
felted, they judged wifely in placing more reliance
on this engine of deflruftion, than on the number and
ibravery of their devoted legions. For, it is felf-evi-
dent, that when the Ibbjed ceafes to confide in his
government, or looks to its protettive power only
with a lethargic apathy, the moral and phyfical
Arength of a country is thereby weakened, and con-
fequendy, the greater encouragetnent is afforded to
the view of ambitious foreigners. There is not,
there never was a government, which better under.
Bands the art of difqualifying a country for defence,
than the government of France ; and the dexterity
with Which they cask all the barriers againa lava-
fion to 'fall before than, has no example in the in.
Wats of bud= iniquity. The author of all wicked-
nefs cOhimeneed his malignant opts ations againft
mankind by dailies the virtue of the weak; but the
modern fauns, more expert in the career of fraud,
Falai& not only upon the neat, but upon dn./Iraqi
Ipaisad in the curdle of their mifchievous ingenuity,
' tts the fallen (pipit himfelf in thdr ardour to vi-
is dse morals of their fellow creatures.
if a people be unhappily divided in opinioir, they
fide with dim fadion, whether great or (mall., whok
Views emboldened by the entbufiafm of oppofition,
hens moll likely to difpofe them to embal It in def.
Rerate change.. To duty they proasife the enjoy
meat of authority, and to all the reit, the full pirf.
teflon of liberty and property. The mats of every
eionskianity, being compofed in general of the mat:,o
sky of the people, who are food af tranquillity, and
itawilliog to dive in politittel agitations, it followa,
abut the %elutes man always, be in favour of that
party which has the nsidus tune to be trader th- Fs
Maas of France. Ambition, avarice, and refenunatt,
thus hued 4 the profpalt of vitlory, all love of coon
try nod Oldie (pint are catinguillsed in the foul, and
%radon opens the gates of the capital to a perfidious
ally. What has followed loch mifguided councils;
What bays been the is.wards of loch a downward
yogurt= in traitorous &Mirky, may be read in
every page of the hillary of the French revolution.
The thipenfers of organized evil, have made a por-
tion of every people fubfervient to their hostile views,
and an as the guides and pioneers of thole armies,
fint to ranfack and devaftate unoffending commis•
skies, and when the uuhailowed Itandard of the tre-
mendous republic has been firmly planted in the cen-
tre of their country, then, and not till then, the inftru-
menu of their perfidious deigns, difmi(led with ig-
nominy, or repaid with infulting reproaches, ate
abandoned to all the honors of an accufing conlei-
cote, while a (warm of Pro-confuls, Comnsiffaries,
Agents, Brokers, Jews, 'and Pedlars, who always
march in the train of a French army, fupply their
places, and are let loofe upon the inhabitants to fuck
what remains of their blood the compaffionste rapa-
city of the Generals and foldiery may have (pared.
But the Cervices of the anti-patriotic party are eon&
dered as incomplete, until they have Wed the con-
cluding (tens of this tragic farce. Thejvas f friends
of France, who have thus introduced boedes of arm-
ed banditti into the hofosn of their country, and who
behold in every quarter to which they tars their eyes,
the framed fpeetade of the vielatias of their wives
and daughters, and the (pod of their polieffiens, by a
brutal foldiery. are made to ling hymns of jubilee in
the rnidll of ruins, to dance is chains over the confe-
quinces of their crimes, and with their pens dipped
in blood, to compote addrelres of thanks, which down
in the mire on beaded knees, they are made to folick
the conquering gerund to tranfmit to his =diem
who bloated with avarice, look in fadislity, and
wallowing is the filth of their crimes, are regaling
thetafelves with the tars of fubjogated nations.
This is the inyliery of French conquells—thefe.
the fares workings by which their 'idiocies have been
prepared at their bands, and dohs the triumphs of
French fraternity, but not of French prove& On
the mammy, their chain weapon are, corruption
and fraud, their triumphs over inniscence and marl- 1
otitis. If any circomflance can add to the horror of
thefe fans, it le the idea of the add blooded fatisfac-
don, with which the Corfican freebooter inhales the
incenfe offered op to him by the manacled [offerers,
who, with (words pointed at their throats, are com-
pelled to implore the favour of HU'S' on their de-
bow.

It is thus the French armies go forth to acquire
glory. The midnight forcay of the imagination is
conjured up to appaU the wef•difpofed. a boos is
held out to tempt the wicked, and all Europe, fedue-
ed from the ezercife of its realm', has been aaually
f.ightessed into inbmiirioo, by phantoms of its own

'breaking Ibis Ipell. 1711thilinph which saWieny
Corfi,:an has promifed to himfclf and his WM, if
realized, would prove the triumph of ravage bars*a
tiros over the civilized world. No pains, no exer-
tions, no facrifices will be efieemed too great to ac-
complifh this abominable end, which, if fuceefsful,
would leave this fair ifland a depopulated wafle, and
enable your bittereß enemy, like the infatiate wolf, to
Purvey with exulting pleafure, the defolation which
his rapacious ferocity (hall have carried.

• In England, the fyflem of re-aeion by which the
French have obtained poll-et:Grin of fo many countries,
does not teem to be thoroughly underflood. Re
moved by nature from the theatre on which theft
tragedies have been performed, many perfons are in-
duced to afcribe to valourous feats of arms, what has
been only the offspring of low cunning, and impu-
dent contrivance. If it were practicable for an Eng.
liftman, who doubts this truth, to vifit any one fpot
which has been tenanted by a French army, I am
perfuaded, that in let's than three hours, he would
fly to his native land, fhoulder his muflcet. and ani•
mate his countrymen to follow his example. Indig-
nation and offended virtue would itifle all argument ;
and on being afked by his neighbours to defcribe what
he had Peen, be would prime his gun and anfwer,
a There is not a moment to loft, do as I do."

Thole, however, whit have been rpedators of chef.
fetus, will do well to reprefent them to their coun-
trymen ; fence, the expofure of the carafes which led
to the fubverfion of other (fates, will furnilh the means
°reverting a fimilar calamity from our own ; for cape-
rience is the molt convincing argument in times nf pe-
ril. The lyftenz of re adion may be thusdefined ;it ;Jibe
art of alighin: the anxieties, gentiontg and antipathies ofdoff-
eat pinks is a/ate, to hear goon each other, in fah a man
was to podia a ekree of inertriefi and overweening An-
ti* inform. sod of treafonails thick, in other clisfiv of the
comatwity. dy subteb the approackm of an invader may be
ementealedfran She whole, gaud ige is in algal pollen of tie
Camay. Thus, at the time of the invafion of Hot-
laud by the French troops. that nation was divided
into two parties, the one dillinguiflied by the name
of adherents to the Hoofe of Orange, the other. by
that of Patriots. who defired the fiipprenion of the
office of Stadtholder, and the renoration of the an-
dent form of government. It is not a little remark-
ante; that the former was compofed of Tome perfons
of great confideraiion, together with nearly all the
lower Orders of the community. The latter was
formed wholly of Tome dirconrented and ambitious'
perfons ot note, together with a great majority of
burghers or refpe&able tradefinen of the towns. Out
of there (prong a third party. nurtured by the Fretmh
revolution, and abetted by the agents of France, Few
in number, ma of them bankrupt in fame and for-
tune, but well known for their jacobin zeal and ac-
tivity. There were conductors who colleded the
e'ementary fire and thunder or the fuperior fulmina-
tors of profeription, and difeharged it on the loweß
of the onproteded. In a ()tort time after the entry
of the French troops, the latter neared in the esercife
of public authority. The Trench then conceived it
time to receive tome marks of gratitude from the
Dutch fir their einalcipation. Accordingly, refcript
after refcript was ifued, infcribed at the top with the
reducing winds, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, but
throughout every other line, loans, contributions,
requiritione, or profcriptions. Remontiranee was vain.
Infiead of the revival of their ancient fyfiem of go-
vernment. and the days of their Barnevelts and De
Wilts, the people of Holland found themfelves ab-
(Gybed in the revolutionary whirlpool; and in the
place of figuring in the univerfe as a bright Aar in
the firmament of nations. beheld their once inde-
pendent country, revolving as a fattellite round that
fiery orb, which bad either (torched or confumed the
refi of Europe. When the miferies of their country
forr.od the reprefentatives of the Dutch nation to pe-
tition againft the unceafing vexations of their daSorrert,
'the French general, in imitation of old Cardinal de
Gaitoviu.s, pointed to his embattled legions, ready
drawn up to give efficacy to his orders, and with this
fignifitant reply, left them to their own refiedions.
Nothing can be more fallacious than the hope of
, extorting a fentiment of contpaffion, much more of
lalfmee, from as army of licentious robbers. It is like
tha waploid traveller, pleading the aide of mercy
Werra hungry tyger. Mon Quaid prewar oppreffion
by arms sod vigorous refinance. while there refonrees
are in their power, and not tech to appeafe it when
they have furrendered the means of defending them-
felves. Outrage and derifion are the inevitable lot
of thole who voluntarily relioquilh acknowledged
fcrrereignty. fot• a degrading fubjedion and infigni.
&anat. Nor will vi&orious barbarians be found to
fYmpathize with thole whom they confider as too def-
picable to be pitied.
The example of this fordid and degenerated peo-
ple affords an inaruelve lefon to TOON MT COONTIT.
MIK; not that you are to be fulpeded of fuch cul-
pable isdifference towards the interefts of your coun-
try, or of fuel bare pufilanimity as difgraces the
conduit of the Bauvians, but to infpirit your patri-
otifm, and to give additional energy to your virtuous
exertions. One cannot relied upon the fate of Hol-
land without pain. Inßead of being as clofely united
in the great caufe•of liberty as the bundle of arrows
which formed their arms, and was their tract cm-
hlem—lnflead of difplaying the fame unconquerable
jealousy of a foreign yoke, u their forefathers bad

Tim's! the dominion 'ache tea, and it, people from the
power of Spain, behold them the viaitns (f French
perfidy and their own delufion 1 An amphibious
world, uniting the bulwarks of art to the advantages
of nature, impregnable from their local fituation,
abounding with refources for defence, furrendered
their independence without (hiking a blow, and 101 l
in .one fatal hour that precious liberty, which had colt
their progenitors whole ages of firuggles, and oceans
of blood to aecluire—
And.calrety beat, to iervitode conform,
Dull as their bites that dumber in the Roan.
Resent! how uolike their Belgic Area of old!
Rough, poor, content, ungovernably bold;
War io each breaft, and freedom on each brow ;
How much ant he the funs of Britain lOW
OALGACVS.