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this disgraceful sale, and these have been cast into the dungeons of the despot who would govern us!

Deluded peasants of Ireland, a patriot, and a true lover of his country, addresses you: he knows your Generals, though you do not; he knows their crimes, and laments your weakness; he knows that you are ultimately to become their victims. Range yourselves, therefore, under the banners of your Sovereign, against a daring and insulting invader, to preserve your country, to protect your families, and to save your honour.

Look up to your great and illustrious countryman, Mr. Sheridan, for an example: he who has been ever your advocate in the British House of Commons, and the champion of your liberties in the Imperial Parliament. Hearken to the thunders of his eloquence in the senate, inspiring those that hear him with that manly dignity which adorns human nature, and animating them with all that patriotism which at this moment should burst forth, to extinguish an implacable, a domineering, and a brutal enemy. Matchless for his consistency, admired for his constancy, adored by Irishmen for his love of his country, and renowned for political integrity, listen to the doctrines of him who has never once sacrificed the cause of the people to a lust of power, or to the accumulation of wealth.

By following the example of the good and virtuous patriot, happiness will attend you, and your efforts will ensure success. By suffering yourselves longer to be deluded by traitors, the awful hour will at length arrive, when, expiating your of fences by a shameful and ignominious exit, you will exclaim, with a deep and sorrowful sigh, "Would that we had hearkened to the WARNING VOICE of

Dublin, Aug. 15, 1803.

"AN HONEST IRISHMAN.

An Address extracted from Pizarro. My brave 'associates-partners of my toil, my feelings, and my fame!-can words add vigour to the virtuous energies, which inspire your hearts?—No, you have judged, as I have,, the foulness of the crafty plea by which these bold invaders would delude you; your generous spirit has compared, as mine has, the motives which, in a war like this, can animate, their minds and ours. They, by a strange frenzy driven, fight, for power, for plunder, and extended rule-we, for our country, our altars, and our homes. They follow an adventurer. whom they fear, and obey a power which they hate; we

serve a monarch whom we love-a God whom we adore.Whene'er they move in anger, desolation tracks their progress !-Where'er they pause in amity, affliction mourns their friendship!-They boast, they come but to improve our state, enlarge our thoughts, and free us from the yoke of error!-Yes-they will give enlightened freedom to our minds, who are themselves the slayes of passion, avarice, and pride. They offer us their protection;-yes, such protection as vultures give to lambs-covering and devouring them! They call on us to barter all of good we have inherited and proved, for the desperate chance of something better which they promise. Be our plain answer this: The throne we honour is the people's choice; the laws we reverence are our brave fathers' legacy-the faith we follow teaches us to live in bonds of charity with all mankind, and die with hope of bliss beyond the grave. Tell your invaders this; and tell them too, we seck no change; and, least of all, such change as they would bring us.

R. B. SHERIDAN.

A Farmer's Letter on the Invasion.

My Countrymen, listen to one of yourselves!

We are now threatened with a powerful invasion. Were it possible for the enemy to succeed, the consequence to us would be the same as if the whole frame of heaven and earth were thrown into its primitive darkness and confusion.

When I walk abroad, and behold the grounds that I have so diligently fenced and improved; when I reflect, that the lordliest 'squire in the land dares not touch my person, my character, or my property, with impunity: when I return home, and am met by my wife; when my children spread their arms around me, and my heart pours out its feelings over these rewards of my industry and pledges of my happiness, is it possible that I can think with patience on the threatened ruin? To see my fields destroyed, my house a heap of rubbish, my wife torn from my bosom, my children murdered! Oh no, I will never survive such a day of horrors! and I only wish for a thousand lives, that I might die as many

deaths in their defence.

Have you, then, my countrymen, no such property to preserve? Have you no parents to guard; no wives to cherish ;' no children to protect? Your properties and liberties depend, under God, upon yourselves: they may be weakened by luxury; they may be undermined by treachery, but they cannot be wrested from you by open force.

Let the nation be numbered; let that number be divided into three parts; leave two thirds to the timid: but sever to

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us one third as the protectors of our country; again divide that third, and one half of it shall be amply sufficient to crush invasion.

Fear ye to die, my countrymen? It is a necessary debt to nature; and GOD has made nothing necessary that is to be feared. It is in ourselves alone to make death dreadful, or desirable; to make it desirable by a life of virtue, or dreadful indeed by a death of dishonour.

Would ye be safe? Be valiant. Danger pursues the wretch that flies from it, but flies itself from a courage that dares the encounter. Life is short; death is certain; time is nothing; action and virtue are all by these, alone, life ought to be measured; and his is the longest who falls for his country.

Is any one a coward? Let self-preservation inspire him with courage. Is any man a parent? Let him fight for his family. Has any one affection? Let him fight for his friends. Does any man feel in his bosom the glow of loyalty? Let him fight for a king who is the father of his people.

To Britons, the love of their king and country, and of that freedom by birthright, the extinction of which is the object of our implacable enemy, are subjects to which the ear would listen untired; but action is instant, and cuts expression short be it sufficient that liberty includes all that is estimable; which no power shall take from us, or invade unpunished it is ingrafted in our nature; it is supported by our government, and confirmed by our constitution; it is the source of happiness; it is dearer than life, and TILL DEATH we will retain it.

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Then, LET INVASION COME! we will stand its utmost fury. The eyes of mankind are upon us, and nations expect their safety from our valour. Look back, my countrymen, to your forefathers; look round to your families; look onward to posterity: we will live with honour, or fall with our country; die we may, but we will not be disgraced.

Patriotic Fund for the Relief and Reward of the brave Defenders of their Country.

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a single-handed struggle against the old and inveterate enemy of our country, a struggle for all that is dear to us as free-born sons of Great Britain and Ireland, and in which, probably, there will be many suffering or meritorious heroes, it is a great consolation to know, that the most liberal contributions have been opened in various counties of the United Kingdom, for the sole purpose of relieving and rewarding

such persons. Three or four hospitals in London have likewise opened their doors for your admission, not to name others in different parts of the kingdom. Similar plans and institutions are to be found in no other part of the world, and especially we may affirm, that there are no such voluntary provisions thought of in the extensive dominions of Buonaparte. No, my friends, instead of relieving and cherishing the wounded sons of France, you must have heard of the atrocious murders, drownings, and poisonings, by which Buonaparte gets rid of his disabled soldiers and followers, by hundreds at a time!

To give you some idea of the vast extent of British liberality, let me particularize only one instance; I mean the PATRIOTIC FUND, which has lately been established by a set of merchants and gentlemen at Lloyd's Coffee-house, in London. The subscription is now carrying on at that place with the greatest activity, and already amounts to the enormous sum of more than ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS! Let this noble example of charity be contrasted with the patriotism of Buonaparte and his friends, who are every day boasting of their good-will to men, but have given us no other proofs of it than a uniform course of perfidy and de

vastation!

Aug. 27th, 1803.

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Gallic, Fraternity and Unity.

WE lately had occasion to shew, that during a time of peace the foes of genuine liberty were "meditating the conquest of the British islands." These perfidious slaves have the effrontery to expose their base designs even before they are ripe for execution! The following eleven articles, copied from a late publication, comprise the degrading terms, on which Great Britain and Ireland will probably be treated by France, in the event of a successful invasion! Our free-born countrymen, in every corner of these happy isles, may here read their threatened doom, and be stimulated to exert themselves for the preservation of the blessings we now enjoy! Let them here see what is actually intended by the vaunt of "LIBERTY VOL. I. N° 4.

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