Star. — 1814-01-25 (London, England)

XIV. and Lou ;X‘'. ; Ind should the some time longer be cursed with the sway of your iron sceptre, her military navy will be oil a level with her coninier era! navy ; and is her sea ports, nothing seen but shameless pirates, ruined merchants, and beggared traders.  " But has even my country Ititherto derived or gained any honour from all your fortuiate campaigns?—is the more free under your unlimited authority ? • Overburthened with taxes. and cruelly oppresstd by an active relentless tnilitart detpotistn, my slavish countrymen, without daring to utter a dgh, mourn the gradual approach of inevitable ruin. Whilst you, Sir, your relatives and your creatures, alone profit from conquest', achieved at the expence of the purest blood, and most valuable treasure* of France. 44 But to consider even in a political pffint of view... Tour user. pation, your devastation, your indemnities, your changes, kid your pacificatlons„ what glory, what advantage an ,Frenchmen' and what safety can other Nations derive front sat• from beholding a sanguinary adventurer an Emperor—his vicious harlot an Empress, his obscure and wicked brothers. and-la-others- • in-law Kings and Princes, his profligate niecetc2yeens pod Priti7 resses, and biz criminal itscomplites Dotes, Field Marshals, led Counts. Though you have enchained the persons, TO' have not been able to bewilder—you cannot seize tbi serleirpt men. Can therefore the presence in France Of 9.4,VlKAustnar.s and Russians; prisoners, remind them of any *ix' else, than that number of their countrymen in England, while -the form. r are returning to their friends, but wham ale latter must never , expect to embrace again, iatuil delivered- from your tyranny.... They are svdi aware that GM'S Xritain a tee %wise and rce ',web! resign another Peace wit& e seen who is more sanitising spina her independence as a prdesskd friend, than daagerovi as en dreArgif *eery; 'whose' olive branches hare always been the saipistirevis . . Fagot of a policical and social incendiary, Who continually offers peace during war, while he plots and Meditate' nothing but doi • itruction during a peace. From the language of this triter, you . will easily perteive that Its author Is beyond the reads Of your • ferocious vengeance, and fears :so longer either pow tacks or • dungeons, your poisoners or tormentors. . • " Your Minister's orders to me Dot to approach the Capi:al without express permission from you, have spin Leen theaseans of deferring your punishment, and the deliverance of mankind from it scourge. I waif resolved not to survive the ruin of the "Ff4MC4 navy, sad bad meditated on dispatching you, before I punished myself for haying been your tool, to the disgrace of my 'tenons, of my duty, of my birth, and of my proresiloo. " that you are still among the living, and permitted to e'erc.,,,• your hubstrous tyranny, must be ascribed to the inscrutable motives of YIROVJDLNCt, which time alone can dewelope. Depend, however, upon it, (and the vast enormity of your innumerable crimes must convince yen of its truth,) that as you have lived one of -the grandest criminals on earth, so your end must be untimely and terrible. An assassin or an executioner shall finish a career of atrocities, which, to the shame of humanity and of our age, has already been too long endured. That nein. t nous posterity, which might blame apart,,,of my ptibile itfe, may not be ignorant of the sincere repentance and patriutic sentiments thit accompanied my death, copies of this letter hive been expedited to several Officers in all French Naval Stations, notwithst.u.dieg whet your vile flatterers shall say to the contrary ; and had your murder preceded my suicide, not only the present generation, but ages to come,t would have bailed me as $ deliverer, and revered MC as a saviour. Altars as weU as statdeCwouid then have been erected to my memory. " Tremble, Tyrant you have lived abhorred, and mil expire with the cones of the universe following yore, .4.3 beyond the grave. (Signed) thg Vii.eantuva."