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London, England, 1803-11-12 00:00:00

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tritons, trite, to Empire born !
gaunt Defpair and haggard Fear!
'lli yours to make the Tyrant mourn
t And Itop the French infulting Sneer.
'The Liming Bride Flag unfurl!
Triumphant rule the Cubic& Main!
On Liallies..hores Deftruelion hurl!
Cunqured nations proudly reign!
'Tis Healey that bids the Britt& race
Subdue tech vain altering Foe.
Asir_ the deprefid vett't n'anty grace
Arid &moth the wrinkled Face of Woe.
/Lowy, he that in his Country's Caufe
Tle infernal Sword it. Treachery brava.
Tho' docea'd to fall dun pin spolastre.
While Britain triumphs Mt the Wanes
The fculptued Monument than tell
The martial Prowls of his Arm,
„And Emblcrns, pointing bow he yen.
eSilsal. I Youth with Eraulation warm.
wi.,e,eft

TO THE BRITI3II NATION.

ssr•Acr FROM A NOTE (WRITTEN. if APPEARS NY
THE DATE OF THF YEAR 1790. IN THE POEM

C•LLID " TH g PURSUITS or Lirstitruas."
Such an Union is now demanded of the minds, the
talents, and fortunes, of the fouls and bodies, of all
the inhabitants of Great Britain, as never before en.
tered into the hearts of Englifhmen to conceive. We
m be p.eferved frum the tyranny and power of
France, from all her principles, and from all her
arms, open or concealed, mental, moral, and politi-
cal. I have pride and fatisfadion in feeing, and feel-
ing that we are Alio convinced. We know we mull
die, or defend ourselves from the monflrous Repub-
lit. 1 If we confider it from the commencement, it
has threatened, devoted, and Oaiven over all its vieims
to defolation. wretchednefs, plunder, and final death.
Blood is the cement of the Republic of France.
Some victims have bled for principles others for ex-
ample, fame for funeral pomp, and Come for a civic
(call : blood mull flow. Each faflion has delivered
over its predeceffors to death. The Priells of Reafon
hold their rites in the field of Mars. Firft indeed,
they fanthe awhile their favagene(s with foe& and
feftival ; but thefe are the preludes of fangumary
cruelty, the :tops and paufes of their war-fymphcnies.
With their laurel and cyprefs branches bound toge-
ther and dipped in blood, they advance to the altar,
and perform their abhorred luftration. The Manes of
all chat is brave, and all that is ferocious, are invoked
in their democratic incantations to Rados and her
Republic.
On the blood of their murdered Monarch they have
Amid hatred to tyranny; and they have eftablithed
a Direenry to. On the bided of insolence and virgi-
nity (bey have (worn to retort and to proud the fe-
lla!, dignity ; and they have annulled the bond of
Marriage, and the charities of contangainity. On the
Wood of their generals &Laming an the tenfold, and
en the blood of armies partially devoted by other
generals in the day of battle, they have (worn to
give honour and to the Defenders of
the Republic. Suer ::I=decrests ; fiseh are their
oaths regiftered In blend. All is contradiSioa with
them, yet all is in maim. Principles of the moment,
plincipleu of relleSion, principles of defoliation, prim.
ciples of fafeey, ell have had their hour; all have
riks and fallen. Banithment and deportation have
now fuperfeded the axe of the guillotine, and the
fibre of ruffian mafacre. How long changes
with them ; all, but the fixed left of plunder, and ag-
grandifementa and the rooted hatred to the Chriftian
Religion, and to the name and Nation of Great Bri.
fain. To every government, and to every ellablifh.
ment in Europe, they apply but one axiom,“ What-
ever is, is wrong!"
Whoever Braves to refill (itch au adverfary, upon
principle and refieeion with eloquence, or vrifdodr,
or learning, in the robes of Rate, or in the veftments
of religion or of law, with arms is bit grahe. or well-
direCted opulence, by counfel, by precept, or by ex-
ample, mull be numbered among the Fattaos of MAN.
I am moil feriouvin my words, and camel in my
thoughts; 1 have been inftruded by theft great
events, to confider all aaions as oifome weight, and
that nothing is sow to be negle&ed, as wholly unim-
portant. If the efforts of the united genius, learning,
poetry, and eloquence of a country can be direlted
with ftreagth and difcretion, in their proper and na
tetra' courfes, we may yet have confidence. Enter-
prises of great pith aid stostent Neill (Emceed, and a
righteous fecurity may be eftablifhed.
Confider for a moment what is the hope of bad
men. Else orator of Athenst has declared, that their
hope of fafety ii placed in the excels of their wicked-
nefs and iniquity alone. The haunts, and eaves, and
tenements, and fculking huts of tophiltry, anarchy,
rebellion, democracy. and jacoloinifol. will at
be folly revealed.andifeefly levelled and rained. Vet
the fountains of hallowed fire arc wee opened. and
flowing with liquid purity in the thence of the night,
the objeets which darknefs would conceal, are not
only difcovered, but deftrnyed.
The force of France is indeed formidable; but bet
principles. wherever they take root. and grow. and
bear, are dear invincible. If we think otherwifit, I
fear, we deceive ()origins, and the truth is not arid
us. France invites every European Government to
ftsicide. Het High Prieft told her long ago, that no
Government could perifh, but by ha own hand, and
by its own confent to die. The Government of Great
Britain has given no fuch content. Her King, her
Nobles, her Commons. her Soldiers, her Sailors. her
Senators, her Stateliness. her Lawyers, her Artifis,
her Merchants. her Citizens, her Pedants, all main-
tain and declare, with eat voice, sad with it,wt is their
haat, u Great Britain has given no confent to ale."
She his not lifted up her arms agaioft berfelf; fhe is
willing and defirous to live. She-has humbled herfelf
before Gon, the Judge of all, through the Gs ea r
Mint aro, of hurnenity the knows her Itrengtha end
has felt her infirmity; Ste is carnet for her preferva
tins from her foes within and without, and having
dune an, and Rill commitsiug berfelf, and her cauk.
o him whojosigrth eiivitteritr, the hopes yet to Rand.
• Now a caafi.t.d., under the mat inhuman, peridlens. and
eseguirsty of all I irons. Noroitoo SONAPAITi, ran icon
sow entelenta. Surely at the intiih Namsamet patina!
* Deseltbaso. 4 Voisin.

—Whether the end of all things "say be at hand ;
and what the decrees of Eternal Power, Wifdom, Juf-
tice, and Goodnefs may intend in the lall retort, we
acknowledge to be infcrutAble. But we Kull, it can-
not be deemed an unwarrantable prefumption to rug-
geft or to affirm, that, if the attributes of GOD are
true ; if man is his creature, and governed by his
laws; the oppofers of this overbearing, defolatlng,
infulting, impious, and Vniverfai Tyrany mull be
juftified before him ! As to us, the inhabitants of
Great Britain, if we would 'rift at all, we muff be
preferved as we are. Our Conflitution is not loft; and
the ramparts we have raifed around it will maintain
it entire. Our liberties are fupported equally againft
arbitrary power, and againft the engines of licentiouf.
nefs and democracy. Upon us the de my of Europe,
and per apt ethe whole civilised worle4uhimate,:y :
it kerns placed in our bands, a fearful and an awful
charge. •

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