The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1809-10-11

sition had ceased, says >Smollet, the country
was laid waste with fire and sword, tor htty
n lies round the old men were shot like wild
beasts ON the mountain and the smoking re-
mains of the cottages presented a scene of ru- \
in, silence, and dcsolstion. Never was &c.
MUS and poetry better employed than in paint
ing this affecting scene. Smoiet says,
The infants perish on the plain,
NJ The ravish'd virgin shricks in vain,
The houseess wanderer from far,
Ills all become the prey Of war.
Bethinks him of his babes and wife,
7 Then smites his breast and curses life
F King William Cd disowncd the affair of
Gicnco, but the imputatioh stuck to his char
actcr all over Europe as black business.
The neutral French were happy; their own
labours with that of their ancestors had dyked
and reclaimed from the ocean the richest
fields inthe world they are deceitfully invit-
cd to assemble on the shore they are COM
PEELED to depart and leave forever their de-
iightsome fields, and coast and starve on the
shores of Ncw-England. History gives no
instance of more deliberate and cool-blocded
cruelty, or greater abuse of power. AT Ben
gal, in Indostan, the English flag and bayonet,
those cnsigns of terrour, had long been dis.
played In the year 1879, the harvest in that
country was SO small ss plainly to shew to
government the necessity of sending abroad
F! for food ) but all the exertions or efforts the
| English government made was to collect and
| monopolize the small harvest in magazines
for their own soldiers, and before the next
harvest the dead bodies filed the highways 10
such degree that two hundred soldiers in
the English army and pay were constantly en-
ployed in throwing the dead bodies into the
Ganges. Says an English officer in letter
to his friend, " within twenty yards Of my
window have seen forty dead bodies lie in
the morning" Nor does it appear that any
vessels were sent by government in quest of
food. But on the contrary that the great Of
fcers Of government turned the famine to
their profit, by selling rice to the dying In
tlians at such price as they could obtain. So
terrible was the famine that a quarter part of
the population, or three millions of Indians are
supposed to have peiished under the eye and
abuse of British government. We are told
by authority better than Robert Wilson, and
no less than members of the august parlia-
mcnt, E. Burke, speaking of British govern
ment in the 4. Indies, says, he de6es the
united calenders of gaol delivery throughout
the kingdom to produce lis; of crimes i'll any
| proportion in point Of foulness and atrocity
; Sheridan OF tire same. subject says British
| friendship is the damp Of death: The author
| Of travels in Asia, an Englishman, speaking o
the Rohillas says, /" the fata. battle was Tough
; bon the 23d Of ApsA. l774, which iniluitously
: | decided the melancholy fate Of the brave, in
, dustrious, popalous and inoffensive Rohill
: nation. To the immortal honour of the BRAY,
Rohiilas, tits asserted they left four thousan,
c men lying dead on the field before they re
e treated, the surviving chiefs surrendered a
y discretion. The British general was unde
the command of prince whose object wa
c savage barbarism and inhumahity. Tn
{ wives, daughters and sisters of princes wer
: I vioalted and abused-the plumber millio
a and a half s,erling--and it is computed ths
}. above five hundred thousand industrious hus
/ bandmcn and artists, together with their fam
:, lilies were deliberately driven over the Jumn
=. Il Zrayeis in Enrohej .fsid and .!frica, Yci..
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e The people of this country have the behei
Is of experience to warn them of the fatal cons'
r qucnces Of an union with England. Sher
ir dan, speaking in character of HiRdoo, say
&c I" We sink under tho pressure of their SUI
lr port-we writhe under the gripe of their pc
ID tifcrous alliascc" And their brotherly gree
= ings Of the DaDes, and their kind visitation
Of Copenhagen, hath still further extended a,
10 confirmed their character. And we really b
j ! licve and hope that there are and ever will
pt in this country, and in every other country,
T. great majority who would trust their lives al
n interest with Generals Rochambcau or
OF Fsystte rather than with any Connection; 10
Of aIist or friend to the English party in Il
a. countryside honourahle. Theodore Dwis
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On Toaf stniyy A REPUBLICAN,.