Star.
London, England, 1803-08-02 00:00:00

TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED EMPIRE.

LETTER I.

*spears orbit, vacua'', eunaa raflantibuo Mare terra, et
mare ferutantur; L locuples honk eft, sari : ft pauper, ambi-
t/aft : quo. non orient, non orsidens, (anorak: fel minium,
ors anise inopiano purl affeftil eoncupirsunt : aufvrre, nun-
dare, rapers fat& nonnalbus, inmates; atque übi folieudi-
loam fathom PACtlit appellant. Tams. io Tit. 4,4. C. 30.
If the voice of departed fpirits could arcend to
Mortal ear; if the fpeetres of horror were vifible to
our view i if we could hear the dread warning of
the bottomlefs abyfs ; if we could fee the tyrant
!!retched upon the wheel, and hear the thrielts of the
fyeophant who had perverted the gift of eloquence
ioes
o juilify opprefSon„ and to atinguifh the light of
'brty ii the fuul; then, indeed, we lhould have an
mple that would eaufe the uppretTor to (brink
en his murderous meditition, and deter from pur.
!I wrong the funs of violence. But though PRO.
sca has removed from human fight, a fpeEtaelc

franellsamith (alutary inftruaion, yet, has it not
ft us anprovided with the means of punithing in.
unite even in this feeble Rate of our exifience. The
ments of private and 'public virtue are implanted
n the breafts of all men, and if we make a good ufe
them. they frelhen, on emergencies, into filch
net's, firength, and vigour. as to be alone fug-
lent to prates us again& the greateft threatened!
evils. It it in a manly exercife of public virtue,
therefore, that nations mull place thcir fecurity; and
the piople who are moll habituated to the prat:lice
of it, have made the bell ufe of the gifts of heaven,
and are molt worthy to be Paved, and to be Prue.
From this moral, we may learn what is precifely
our political atuation. The people of England are
want neither of union, courage. nor fortitude'
ut they are defeaive in zest.. A culpable apathy
eigns among us. from an opinion too generally pre-
ominant, that our *4 fea-girt ale" is fufficiently ,
rotated by its wooden walls, by nature, and by its
ancient reputation. There, dnobtkfk, are the belt
guardians of any country, but they are not the;enin
ones necedsry to fecure. independence. After the
experience .we have had of the temerity of our ad-
verfaries ; after their repeated impious all mations.
that $, the winds and the waves are obedient to the .
will of the Republic ," after the innumerable ob..
ine

Racks which have been overcome by their bold en-
terprifing fpirit ; we mutt not be confounded, if the
me
genius, prompted by the luft of rapine, thould
d an army of fanguinary robbers Au our Chores.
ofe who have been accußomed to furmount diffi•

ties which at the reit of Europe pronounced to

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gise infoperable, and who in their turn laugh at all
Europe for perfilling to believe in feeming impoffi•
bilities, are not to be deterred from an expedition
which pronsifes fo much fpoil, power, and glory, to
!the fuecefsful adventurer. Half the difficulty is
paled, when the mind once imbibes the idea that
nature is to be conquered. We mull not ref! our
fafety therefore, en our natural and infular advan-
tages rey, but on the native valour of every Englifh-
man. This is the ancient and tried defence of Eng-
land, and I affert fearlefdy, that if tome tremendous
operation of nature were to wreck our whole navy
on our own coatis, this refource would be more than
adequate to refill, to repel, and to punith any in-
vader. But it implies a general co operation cf all
orders of men, and the devotion of principles and
talents to the public fervice.
How, then, are we to aR ?—ln loch a manner u
if we enjoyed neither the advantages of an infular
politicn, nor any Chips of war, brit had our reptliZ7
Lion to maintain for valour and a love Of freedom and
independence. Until the ardent entlititialm of the
people thall have railed their minds to this pitch, I
Mall not ceafe to warn them, that though we are not
in In weak a conditiorrac to jeer the enemy, we are
not ysr flrong enough to /WM him.
In order to avert the (entente of final deans:Jinn 1
from befog ClttlltCd upon us, we ought always to
hear in our minds the dih)ofitit.n Ind charaaerof the
f‘t
oe st ith whom we have to contend. The banditti
ho falow the focitteps of the Corfican Adventurer,

are, like himfelf, ready for defperate novelty. Hay.
ing no happinefs in poffeflion, or in hope, their lives
are of no value, and the rifking of them occafions
little hefitation ; they are murderers becaufe they
have nothing elfe to do. To plunder the innocent is
their chief delight ; the groans and wretchcdnefs of
conquered countries their boaft and fcorn ; their bu-
finefs murder and pillage ; their pleafure, vice and
fenfuality ; their whole conduct an example of
Intenefs and profs debauchery. One hundred thou.
land of fuels unemployed barbarians may be fpared,
to come and celebrate the fraternity of Cain in Eng.
land, headed by that deteflable Ruffian, who, in
ration of his great Prototype, the author of all evil,
has betrayed and abandoned the confiding vietims
of his promifes and temptations.
In Switferland, Milan, Holland, Genoa, Rome,
and every where, as at Paris, the Corfican Barba.
rian has traced the fame circle. Plasmas and pito
rears- are his objeßs 'mu:a and raorsayy arc
written in charafters of blood upon his flandard—
He is in a league againft the univerfal property of
Europe. From the demefnes of the Monarch to the
chattels of the fenat,.r—from the coffer of the Banker
to the trinket of the female peal-ant—all is destined
to Isclong to him and his harpies. The world is in
his eyes a Rage coach, whole condulors, honks, and
guards he murders, in nriler to rob the paffengers
without dittinflion of birth, fortune, or rank. In.
furreelions, violence, treafon, and crime,, he en.
courages, for the like of r.-riltrowing tesiiiinate au-
thotity ; maffacres, profcriptions, rapine, confifea-
lions, taxes, banilhments, the liberty of the prefs and
of fpeech fmotheted, to preferve iffurped authority.
With the eternal fever of the tygcr, he preffes for
ward with blind and inconfiderate fury, to flake his
thirft in the blood of all he can reach and overcome.

Formerly, urbanity of manners, travels, a natural
moderation 'of fcntimcnt, the decorum of monar-
chical forms, ci -ilized ideas, and enlightened reafon,
tempered ride long habit of national rivalfhip. But
now, the brutal hatred of a mob, having taken pof
felflon of the ferocious difpwltions of a government
compelled of men dellitute of principle and huma
pity, is joined to a wild ..nd atrabilious envy of the
happinefs erjnyed by the people of England, in the
mida of the general defolation which their ambitions
policy has fprcad over Europe. Whoever has not
well watched the progrefs of this league of mifereants,
can have but an imperfed notion of the intenfenefs
of their antipathy, and of the influence which the
torment of comparifons has over their phrenzy
again(' England. 'limy hate it, as the only obitaele
to their fanguinary determinations, and as the bulwark
of mankind againfk their univerfal tyranny. They
hate it, as the tares of patriotifra, Strength, and
!lability.

We are not feparated from the Continent by the
Channel only, we are alto feiarated from it by the
proud contra(' of our moral pofition. AU the rage
of the different Governors of France, from the days
of the National Convention to the time of the pre-
fent tyrant, all theiceforts, confpiracies, armies, vie-
rmics, robberies, and crimes, have been, and are
direEled again(' this point of the world. In the
purfuit of this objed, the forces of the revolution are
alleded,and milltar y refources are acquired by a rue-
eeffion of defputic e allions,depopulat ions, and public
mifcry. It is again(' the life-blood of England that
the political magnet of France points with immove-
able conflancy. The Corfican has profcribed Great
&juin, as he profcribed every man of principle. At
his command, his Batavian, Italian, and other tribu-
taries, have Phut their ports again(' our commerce.—
He vainly flatters himfelf that he will be able to lay
us under an interdia from one end of Europe to
the other. With the torch of Eroftratus in one hand,
and the Libre of Genferic in the other, this mercilefs
incendiary world let the world on fire, provided Eng-
' land perifhed in the flames.

But this i fiend has ever refitted with honour the ter-1
rible menaces of France : its dignity is as unblemilh...l
as its arras ; its fquadrons coop up in every part that
Coloflos railed out of the dull, and trampling under
his feet thofe who fear, terve, and carers him. It is
in the :nicht of annihilated commerce, of blockaded
ports, and empty harbours, of fleets imprifoned, and
not daring to venture upon the ocean, but by Health,
that the Sultan of the Grow Krum !buffs up the
murky air of hlarphernous adulation, during his cir-
'cui4 among his naves, and in return, vents his im-
potent rage againft this country, in foul and furious
imprecations..
While from other Parts of Europe he is implored,
; with groans, prayers, and diplomatic mummery, he
finds hin►felf contemned by this invincible if a zd,
whole unbroken fpirit, braving all dangers, confiders
no facrifiee as too great which may he neceflary to its
honour and fArcty. When I contemplate our name-
roes fleets, bringing home the tributes of the world.
xra renewing, without' interruption, the natit.nal
, wealth, under the prntation of a force, in Ott pre-
fecee.or which the French fcarcely venture to fend
out a few pirates—when I re le& on the miracles of
indultry, labour. and attivity, al! the fosrosa of ors-
knee and grandeur maincalaed and asaussted is as
midtt of the languor, di/couragemenr, and iiifallee.
which have ruined the commerce and riches of di:
molt flAuthhing nations—when from London to
the Orkneys, (raid the Throne to die Cottage.
from the Parliament to the (mallet! C.,rporatioc..
in counting•houfcs. and in country fiats, auto, s

the moll obr•are citizens, as wsll as the Peers
of the empire, nothing is to be lien or heard but an
uniform devotion to the country— fo many cultivated
minds united in an enthittiallic attachment to their
native land, and to its laws—fir happy an agreement
between the Government and the nation—all orders
of men living in harmony together, repelling by one
common effort the ferocious limner who menaces
their liberty and happinefs, with bended knee I bow
down b:fvrtt the Providence 01 Gun, for permitting
this living lzfron to be prefented to all nations, as the
Pharos of luccour and prefervation.
At this moment Europe is in furpenfe. It depends
on you to decide the quellinn, whether the moll mer-
cilefs, ignorant, and immoral barbarians, far Ids to
be feared than their ancettors, than become matters
of human fociety, in order to deluge it in blood and
tears? or whether the reign of juflice, reftored by
you, expiring Nations (hall revive, and laugh to fcorn
the curbed and cteft-fallen pride of the Corfican Ty-
rant ? The (hades of murdered thoufands (tart from
their untimely graves, and call on you for yen•
gea ice ! No epech in hiftory furnifhes fuch mighty
interefts. Greater dangers never prefeeacd more
multiplied refources to courage and to genius.