The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1803-06-22 (London, England)

CORRESPOYDEAPCE.  -.r.w.r.-, ..  ...  ZIFRACT OF A LETTER, FitoM LA VLtiDAts DATED jumE 10, 1803. " Since England began to arm against Bonaparte, the reign of terror is the order of the day in our wretched country. Spies, intrigues, bribes, threats, and fetters, accompany our suspicious tyrants .very where in our ruined cities, and in our depopulated villages. Religion itself is employed to betray the sacred secrets of the virtuous, the unwary, and the timorous, and to discover if true loyalty is yet existing in a country where so many royalists have bled for the cause of their lawful King, and sealed with their blood their faith in the religion of their ancestors. Arrests, imprisonments, and transportation, immediately follow a thoughtless aftion, an indiscreet word, or a suspeifted look ; we are not permitted to go two leagues from our houses, without a pass ; and after dark, even in crossing our streets, or visiting our neighbours, we dare not be svithout our 'civic. cards, or our alts of amnesty; bemuse ,gene d err me:, on foot and on horseback, stop every one.; insult, arrest, and often plunder those who have been imprudent, or negleCtful enoti:ll, not to carry with them those undeniable proofs, we, the inhabitants of France, enjoy. Where no protcCtion is afforded, no obedience can be expected ; and the inhabitants of the \Western Departments arc as ripe for insurration now, as in 17;13 ; and should an insurrection take place here, we are certain it will be a signal for a rising en mut, not only to all loyal Frenchmen, but to the oppressed per,ple of Italy, Switzerland, and Holland ; and if four yzars have been necessary to organize Bonaparte's military dLspotism, four weeks, four hours, or four minutes, may be sufficient to shake an usurped throne, and to dethrone an usurper, who, by attempting to unite all parties, to degrade the royalists by associating them with the jacobins, and to elevate the demagogues in mixing them with the aristocrats, has displeased or offended them all ; and if ever any union amongst them takes place, it will no doubt be to chastise their common tyrant. 1 he Corsican knows that ..re have many deposits of arms, yet undiscovered, and yet concealed ; he knows what use. we intend to make of them, and he know; we abhor as much his tyranny, as that of his ,;:tortay predecessor Robespierre, who satisfied himself with the murder of the royalists, but never tried to introduce a revolutionary clergy, and a revolutionary religion, to betray, totorment, and to trouble the consciences of the Christians. • " Two months ago, every person here, except the public funetionaries, were ordered to deliver up their arms, and domiciliary visits have taken place in every house where arms were supposed to be hidden. All returned emigrants, and pacified royalists or Chouans, are obliged to present themselves twice in the decades before the prefects, sub-prefeas, or their deputies, under pain of transportation ; and those purchasers of national property, who have given up or sold again to the former and legal owners, their confiscated estates, are subjected to the sa:nc revolutionary vexations as the royalists, of hom all the former chiefs, who have not by treason made themselves worthy to be the slaves of Bonaparte, have been carried away from their homes, and nobody knows to a certainty what has become of them.  " By the pacification in 1800, all young men in this and other royalist departments, were to be excepted several years from conscription. By fraud, force, and treachery, they have not only been put into requisition, but dispersed and incorporated in different corps, in different countries ; this has, however, partly turned against our tyrants ; because they have not only themselves m•)stly deserted, but decoyed away with them number-, of other young conscripts ; and we know where to find them, should occasion present itself to make use of them. "Ily the same aft of pacification, 't e were excepted from paying certain contribution, which, during our civil wars, the fire and the sword of the Republicans rendered us unable to pay ; but such is the modern republican faith, that I pay more taxes to Bonaparte for two farms (remaining of 25 I formerly posse: ;NI) than I paid in proportion fin fourteen farms to Louis