# Britons to Arms!

AMONG the various THREATS used by the TYRANNICAL and INSIDIOUS ENEMY, who is attempting our DESTRUCTION and OVERTHROW,

## The Plunder of our Country!

Is held out as the REWARD to the ARMIES which are to INVADE us, and the
MURDER of the INHABITANTS!

to gratify the REVENGE of the CORSICAN USURPER, whose diabolical and restless Spirit cannot endure to see us in the Enjoyment of the Fruits of our honest Industry, and the LIBERTIES of our happy CONSTITUTION.

*That this is the avowed Intention of the Invasion of BONAPARTE,*

he has told us in a Hundred different Ways—he has moreover insultingly called us a Nation of Shopkeepers, Tradesmen, Mechanics, and Manufacturers—too fond of our Ease to engage in the Hardships of a Soldier's Life; and that as we depend on our Safety upon our Fleet, he will attempt various LANDINGS BOTH HERE AND IN IRELAND, at the same Time, relying on the Success of one of them to carry his Point—such are his Plans. Be it ours to turn them into DEFEAT and DISGRACE.

It is no wonder he should Wish to escape the Vigilance of our BRAVE TARS who have so often made FRANCE feel the Power of their Thunder, and will again whenever they meet them. But, BROTHER COUNTRYMEN!! the present Moment calls to us who inhabit this happy Island, 'TO PERFORM OUR DUTY ON SHORE, while our Fleets are employed on the Ocean. It is probable, that, from the various Points that FRANCE can make her Attacks, she will succeed in effecting a Landing somewhere.—Let us then be prepared, not only to meet it with Vigilance, but repel it with Success. Let us shew FRANCE, AND ALL THE WORLD,

That there are BRITONS ON SHORE, spread over every Part of the UNITED KINGDOM, ready to meet them at the Point of the Bayonet, and resolved not to allow one to return to FRANCE to tell the Tale of their Overthrow. Let every Man among us, who is capable of bearing Arms, repair to the Spot nearest to his Home, and give up a Portion of his Time to learn the Use of them, and how most to annoy the Enemy with Success, who shall have dared to set his Foot on BRITISH GROUND. This is the Moment to give a bright Example to the World, as we have often done in Times past, by uniting as one Man for the Defence of our Families, and every Thing that is dear to us. Never was the Appeal so strong to BRITONS as at present. But strong as it is, never will our National Character shine forth with greater Strength and Energy. We will shew the World what they have never before seen—

## One Million of Free-Men in Arms!

resolved to defend their Country to the last drop of their Blood—In such a Cause, SUCCESS WILL ATTEND OUR EXERTIONS.— And those who survive the Conflict, will be rewarded by a happy and joyful Old Age, and teach their Children, and their Children's Children, that all the Sacrifices they made of Time, Exertion, or Fatigue, are nothing compared to the Comforts they have thereby transmitted down to them, in having saved their Country, and all that was dear to them, from a cruel and bloody Tyrant. Bold and determined in our Conduct, let it be our unremitting Care to be Vigilant and Active at the present Moment, and shew FRANCE that justly as we Value our Navy, for its Vigilance and its Prowess, THE INHABITANTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM ARE ONE AND ALL at their Posts ready, not only to meet them on BRITISH GROUND, but to avenge the Insult of any Army, however numerous it may be, that dares to land.

## Fellow Countrymen! Do not be deceived!!

It is only by being thus prepared to repel by Force of Arms every ATTACK that can be made upon us, that we are to look for a SECURE and HONOURABLE PEACE—Let the World see this, and she will be your Friends and Allies—Let FRANCE know this is your internal State, and she will compel BONAPARTE to seek for PEACE with you—You know the MAN against whom you have to contend—He has written his own perfidious and blasphemous Character in LETTERS OF BLOOD, in every Country where the deluded People have listened to his Promises—To compromise the Question between him and us, would be to SURRENDER OUR INDEPENDENCE and even our EXISTENCE AS A NATION—And shall this happen in our Days? Shall we give up what our Ancestors purchased with their Blood, and what has raised this Country to the highest Pitch of Greatness and Prosperity?—BANISH THE IDEA FROM OUR HEARTS.—We will, by our UNWEARIED EXERTIONS, at this present important Moment, give the Lie to all the Libels which BONAPARTE published, even during the short Period we were at Peace with him, and which, in Fact, were all hatched from this one impudent and insulting Menace, that "WE DARED NOT CONTEND AGAINST FRANCE SINGLE HANDED."

*Away with such FRENCH Bombast!—We not only dare to CONTEND, But we Dare to Conquer!*

London: Printed for J. HATCHARD, No. 190, PICCADILLY.—Price 6d.per Dozen.

[J. BRETELL, Printer.]