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London, England, 1803-09-07 00:00:00

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ANTLCuRSICA.v ; or, WAR of LißEArr,

TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNrrEn Emrtar.

LETTER V.
Perfidious Tr nce ! Be this the TIOnII point
Of my wh, le life and pal Lon of ply foul,
To bumble thee, proud Gallop !

Among the numberlefs rchenies of oppreffion
which !he genius of modern France has collated in
its alga of tyranny, there is one that has been little
noticed, but which, in my opinion, is the molt formi-
dable of them all, and completes the rum of thole
moral evils with which its different governments have
tormented mankind. I mean the enrolment of the
inhabitants of the conquered provinces amongfl the
ranks of the French army. The moll enlightened
advocates for the law of nations, and confequently.
the moil intrepid enemies of France. Teem either to
have overlooked this monfirous engine of depopula-
tion, or to have been nr•.confcious of the alarming
extent of he operations, Habituated for ages to be-
hold the wild pafflons of the conqueror rufpended in
favour of that univerfal law, which was heretofore
praftifed by the common content of nations ; and
compelled to encounter, at one time, a multitude of
enormities, which menaced with diffolution the tem-
ple of focial order, it is not to be wondered at, if
roan of the dark refources of French perfidy fhould
have eluded the vigilance of fiatefmen, and the im-
mediate obfervation of politicians. It becomes,
therefore, my duty, to hold up the bloody mirror of
France to the view of the people of this United Em-
pire, that their patriot zeal, incenfed at the indignities
which the Corlican affalfin propofes to commit upon
them, may be infpired with a greater degree of ardour
to maintain their independence, and challife his guilty
ambition.

Revolution of property being the favourite point

of the aitildord rquarrators of the earth, our minds
have been confounded with the diverfifted pretexts,
Protean sautes, falfe allegations, and dexterous ver-
fatiNty, fabricated by thefe hypocritical cutpurfes,
for the take of fwindling mankind. Their ingenuity
has been fo well rewarded, that they are juilly entit-
lodlito the boomer of baring brought the art of 'bier-
brig to perfoltiou. Compared with BOMAPALTS, or
soy of his favourite Generals, and foldiers, Pack in
the Beggar's Opera, is but a Tyro. The latter puL
fered by accident and by fteelth, but the former
rob by rule, sod by /agifietive decrees. They have
fo improved upon the an, that they not only make
the people they rob accefaries to their crimes, but
they have exalted knavery itfelf from the obfcure

haunt to the academic porch, and from, the dung-
hill to the curule chair. The profeMon of a high-
wayman mutt be creditable is fuch a country of h-
eeded rogues, who, inflead of being rewarded with
halters as they deferve, are decorated with filken
falba, and called members of the National laftitute.
How has the light of reafon transformed the human
chi:alter, and turned topfy-turvy all moral diking-
doss ! The youth of France are cleaved to recei►e
the elements of wifdom and virtue from this band of
Omni& thieves, and pilfering rhetoricians I
The old falltioned fyflem of ethics is now difcard-
ed, as a category of follies, fuited only to fqueamith
old women, and eonfeientious religionifts ; while the
new code, lettered on the back Liberty, Equality,

Property, and blazoned dish the emblematical fron-
apiece of fortune blinded, (impious type of the new
theology of chance) holding in one hand a pair of
kale:, to weigh the fpoils of nations, and in the other

a hatchet and rods, to execute vengeance on the con-
tumacious, announces amldll the roar of cannon the
moral duties which French republicans are called
upon by their democratic philofophers to fulfil. Ac.
cording to this breviary of fin and iniquity, the
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nature of moral anions has been defined with a

Legieal presifinn wholly unrivalled. We have not
only the definition of the thing, but what has ex-

bawled in wain the refearches of the deepell me-
tiph)ficians, the definition of the name, as well as
t!ac t' initi,n of things without a name. This
is precildy the pivot of ssictednefs on which the

revolution turns. It owes its difenery, not to the
ancient Academy of Se;ences, or to the Doftors of
the Sorbonne, but to the Hierophants affembled at
Pari. under the name of Nitional Isillitnte, in wbnis
difivisling homilies of anarchical libettinins, emits
vs %lilted with she WISPS of grand, and Pod with the
name of evil. Enmpo and Africa have bitter goofs foe
remembering be dngssas of Mares, FeeLesraano,
R NODS a sa. sad Mesta of that* fettnaine4 political
economics, ohnfulatiambd front the tribune of P.M-
Idemomitue the decree of univerfal conlikasion, under
the pretest that the trotted 4 things, and the ideas of
'things Ihould be changed. Ilowsrsava, Moses,
SLITNOLLIT. all members of this kerwd confrater-
nity, have preached (word in.hand, thefe Stier
in Italy, Switzerland, Egypt, and wherever the
Trench ilandard has waved in triumph. In then, no
Trench army has ever marched forward without a
body of therefrom. in its train. Thus, wino we
formerly believed to be woes, they tell us is a mil.
take, beeauk in the modern vocabulary, the fapient
Doilors of the great nation have declared it• to be
right. Hence, the attack of neutral Rates is a pro.
Tifton for French !tensity ; the plundering of allies,
a boon for proteaion granted ; the Cale of church
property, and the &melees of a fovereign, is the re-
moval of prejuokta religious and political i contri-

butions, exatlions, loans, gratuities, pecuniary re-
demplious, extorted from the conquered, are evi.
dences of emancipation ; bribes are proofs of a paci•
is diipofttion; theft of all kinds, is a difplay of the
gout of the great nation ; a lie, is a ilroke of policy ;
a cheat, is a dexterous negotiator; a fwindler, is a
true Frenchman ; murder, is a confular term for the
extirpation of rebels; and rebels, are all thole mem.
hers of the different (late. of the world, who take up
arms to defend their religion, property, laws, and
country, from the grafp of a Corlican cu t.throadl
Were I to cite examples illuilrative of this text, I
could write whole volumes.

But there is another fpecies of •illainy, in which
thefe Anthropophagi are anklet—it is in the art of
thieving men; of kidnapping the perfon, after hay.
ing wised on his country and property. Every French
General is a recruiting ferjeant for his tyrant. and
the ranks which have been (wept away by the (word
of legitimate refinance, are !applied with the citi-
zens of each fubverted Rate.

When I revert to the hifiory of Man in every age
of the world, when I turn over the volumes which
contain the catalogue of his misfortunes, I Am at a
lots in what manner to account for this tranfeendant
inilance of French atrocity. The flights!! invelli-
gation will convince us in a moment. that it Rands
without a parallel in the records of human villainy.
The genius of 'conquering tribes bas occafionally
led them to incorporate the whole of the people whom
they had fubdued ; but never. until the epoch of rt.
generated France, has an inftance been found of men
hand-cuffed. and drafted into the legions of their
mercilefs conquerors, in order to filed the blood of
their fellow citizens, and to fight on the ruins of their
Dem country the battles of its defpoilers. The vie-,
tories of Mahomet and his fuccefors were the fruits
of a courageous enthufiafm, and of a bolder and
11 more generous policy. Their empire was over the
minds of men ; they preached and fought to make
converts ; where convietion failed, they exterminated ;
but they never dreamt of (welling the tide of con.
quell, by the help of auxiliaries, who refuted to ac-
knowledge the Prophet of Mecca. The Muffulmans
always incorporated other nations with their own, as
foon as they had embraced Ifianifin, which done, all
diainaions ceafed, and they went forth a people of
religious warriors, to acquire dominion, and to ex-
tend their faith.

The irruptions of the Mogul Tartars under Chen-
ghiz-Khan, in the thirteenth, and under Tamerlane,
io the fourteenth century, were executed by one peo-
ple, whore objea was rapine. It is true, the martial
policy of Rome encouraged the enrolment of the in-
habitants of the conquered provinces, and fent than
to a diftant frontier, remote from their native land.
But while they fought in the Roman armies againit
acknowledged barbarians, they (hared in all the
rights of Roman citizens. Thus, the youth of Bri-
tain ferved regularly as auxiliaries of the Romans,
but they gained by the event. For, wherever Rome
extended her conquefts, the communicated her know.
ledge and magnificence, eflablithed her tribunals,
and differed the refinements of focal life. When the
Roman Eagles were uplifted, Arts, Literature, and
Civiliaatioa fiourifhed around them. But, every
thing has retrograded with the eonquefts of France.
Wherever fhe has planted her fiandard, Civilization'
has gone back a century; and the morals of the peo-
ple have become vitiated. bilked of fprcading
widely Science, Letters, and Urbanity, the has rob-
bed and (tripped nations of the only means which
they poffefTed of maintaining them. Wherever the
footllep of a Roman was ken, monuments of im.
provement reared their heads; wherever the bloody'
track of a Frenchman is viable, every 'elite of he.
manity difappears. The fplcndid advantages which
Rome conferred on the conquered world, compen.
fated, in come degree, for the violence of conqueff;
and foftened the lots of independence ; but there mo.
dern viElors take delight only in ruins and &relation;
and difpenfe no other benefit but unconditional
()every. Above two hundred thoufand men have
been forced away from their native .countries, and
facrificed to the ambition of France. Intermingled
with the French confciipts, and fcattered over the
vall .urrace of the Republic, they have been grade-
alit drilled into habits of intemperance and immora-
lity, until they are almoft equal in profligacy to the
French themfelves. Their military career epees with
the comenitfion of parricide; with cutting the threatsl
of their own countrymen ; then are they deemed fit
auxiliaries of France ; Italians are fent to hold Be-'
tatiantin chains Belgians are marched over the
"Alps to hold Italians in chains ; and the heroes of
Swifferland arc fotced. acre& the Atlantic to teach
revolted flavei, the Wimp of liberty, equafity, and
fraternity.
I If we reflex on the abandoned life and cond'ia of
French foldfers,-and upon the contagious influence
of their example over men, who, ddpoiled of pro.
perty at home, are induced to look foe its poffelLon
frpm abroad, we cannot be furprifed at every con-
quered people being thus made infirunsental in ex-
tending the further enigmas of France, and the mi.
levies of other nations. Their fituation is the image
of a man, borne doles by a torrent, and out of .bis
depth, who, finding refinance hopelefs, flrives to keep
hinifelf afloat, under the idea of reaching at length
tome filial of 'Way, on which he may find a riling
place. Unlefs the Powers of Europe unite o refill
with vigour this military (Om, they will fall foe-

celEvely the 'Mims of that ntif-lbspen CoLoftus, which
afpires topearide the world, and wield the (word of
tcrror over affrighted nations, Attila made a conti-
nual traSc of the fears of the Romans. The Cor-
ficau has derived equal advantages from the timidity
of the Continental Powers. At the mention of five
hundred thonfand Frenchanea, every Ambairador is
dumb.

Let us not deceive ourfelves. We have not to
i(
cal with man whofe tote refourees are in their fibres,
d their intrepidity. Whatever means can be fur-,
bed by intelligent, naive, and enterprizing fpirith
tutored in the flormy fchool of revolution, and mt.-
tiled in the moll difficult labours of war and peace,
are now colleted under the tent of the Corfican.--
Whatever can be effetted by the refinements of po.
licy, by the arts of divifion, flattery, and corruption;
whatever can be accompliffied by the craft and tub-
tlety of the devil, to give force to the power of arms,
BONATILITS knows how to employ. A new kale is
about to open upon mankind, and eve mall be the
principal aeors. Impelled by a juft caufe, and for-
tified by thole magnanimous fentimeats which enno-
ble human nature, when jullice is on its fide, the gift
of prophecy is unnecefary to reveal the undoubted
true of fuch a (cent. Our beloved country enifi be
viaorious, and lITIINAL NUIPININI WILL SITTLI ON
ITS lIIIAD. 04LONOWS.