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It appears by the late Message of the Directory, that the modern Republicans have not entirely forgotten the ancient French Character

Proud of their numbers, and secure in soul,

The confident and over-lusty French

Do the low-rated English play at dice.

But the Gamesters described by SHAKSPEARE, were Courtiers and Soldiers, whereas it is a set of sober plodding Money-lenders, of men not much addicted to be so over-lusty, and little in the habit of lending their Funds on prophetic Mortgages, who are now bargaining with the Directory for a post-obit on GREAT BRITAIN.

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The French Financiers seem to reason thus: English Minister can only raise a Loan by mortgaging the Landed and other Property of England - But the value of the things pledged depends on the quantity of them which is brought to market. Ergo, if we offer the same pledge (viz. the Lands of England) as a security to our Creditors, we shall annihilate English Credit.-Q. E. D. From this obvious conclusion, which certainly cannot escape the sagacity of Mr. Fox, we expect various new arguments, evincing the folly and wickedness of prosecuting any farther the present ruinous, unjust, and unnecessary War.

Count TAUENZIEN is arrived in London, to announce the Accession of the KING of PRUSSIA. He will have

his Audience of HIS MAJESTY on Wednesday.
Last night Mr. WICKHAM, His Majesty's Minister to
the Swiss Cantons, arrived in Town from Switzerland.

VOL. I.

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IRE.

IRELAND.

(Extract of a Letter.)

"THE Civil Power ought certainly in no case to be superseded by the Military, as long as the former is "capable of acting; but when, through a nefarious sys"tem of Assassination, much worse than a state of open “Rebellion, men are universally deterred from acting in "their Civil Capacities, it then becomes necessary to the "salvation of the State, that a Military Power should "be substituted, else all Power, all Government, is at an "end, and Men are let loose one upon another, without "the possibility of controul; Property, Life, Liberty, and "Honour, are at end, and Men are returned to a state of «Nature.

"It is to be lamented, that the wickedness of Men "sometimes necessitates the introduction of a Military "Force. When that becomes the case, disorders are inevi"table, from the various dispositions of those to whom "Military Commands are entrusted; that such disorders "have been committed, is not to be denied, but the Noble "Lord in question was rather unhappy in his examples "of them. To give you an instance, he lays it down

as a general principle, that the Liberty of the Press is "destroyed in this Country. Any man who reads a "Paper called "The Press," and another called "The "Dublin Evening Post," could have set him right upon "this subject; he however, gives an instance of it (and

Lord MOIRA, of whom the Author had been speaking in another part of his Letter.

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a curious

"a curious one it is) of a Paper called "The Northern "Star," the Presses of which, with the Types, &c. &c. "were broken and destroyed by the Military, and the "House, in which it was printed, pulled down. As I un❝derstood him, he insinuated that this was done with the "sanction of Government. That the Presses, Types, " &c. and House were destroyed, is true; but that it was "done with the sanction of Government, is most false."The case was this "The Northern Star " (which, "though a very Seditious Paper, is not to be compared "to"The Press ") had, among many other inflam

matory Libels, published one highly reflecting upon the "Monaghan Militia; who were so enraged thereat, that

they immediately took up arms, and before the General "of the District could come up with sufficient force to "prevent the cutrage, the House was pulled down, and "the Materials with which they had been libelled utterly "destroyed. So far therefore from this being under the "sanction of Government, the General of the District "did his utmost to prevent it; and the whole was no C6 more than the effect of a sudden resentment in men highly jealous of their Military Honour, and who had "been cruelly libelled by the Editor of the Paper.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We are again under the necessity of postponing the STATEMENT respecting PRISONERS OF WAR, owing to the pressure of matter of a more temporary nature. In our next Number, however, it shall cer. tainly appear; and we challenge the attention of the Public to it, in the confidence that it will set this question completely at rest, in the mind of every man of common sense, feeling, and humanity.

An ANTI-JACOBIN has our best Thanks for the detection of a gross Misrepresentation in The New Annual Register. We should have given him a place in this day's Paper, but for the multitude of Articles of the same kind with which we are already almost over-loaded.

The Ode to Anarchy shall appear in our next: it has not been delayed from any want of a proper sense of its excellence.

We feel ourselves much indebted to any Correspondent who will give us an opportunity of correcting any Mistake into which we may inadvertently have fallen.-The two false dates in the NAVAL HISTORY, were errors of the Press, and as such have been corrected. We forbear entering into a discussion with the Correspondent who has pointed them out to us, upon the more serious subjects of his Letter, though certainly differing from him in opinion upon many of them. He will observe, however, that the Naval History is intended, not as a Narrative of Political Events, but merely as a Register of the Naval Actions of former periods, with a view to a just estimation of our present Maritime Superiority.

We should very much wish our Correspondents to use more discriminating Signatures than those of "Anti-Jacobin," or "A Constant Reader," in order that we may be enabled to acknow ledge our obligations to them more intelligibly. We have no less than three "Constant Readers," and eight "Anti-Jacobins," now before us. We need not add, that it is in their signatures only that we wish for any alteration.

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N° IX.-MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1798.

Lie on: while our revenge shall be

To speak the very Truth of thee.

PRISONERS OF WAR.

refutation of the atrocious calumnies published in

the Official Papers of the French Directory, respecting the situation of their Prisoners of War in England, we promised an Authentic Statement of the Conduct of the respective Governments on this point. We now present our Readers with this Statement, which we think it right to introduce by a reference to a Communication officially given to the Public by the Directory, in the Rédacteur of the 17th ult. It is as follows:

"The Directory NOT THINKING IT SAFE TO TRUST TO THE HUMANITY OF THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT, has DIRECTED its Agent of Prisoners in England to provide them with Clothing, Subsistence, Medicines, and "Medical Attendance."

The following is the Arrêté of the Directory, to which this Paragraph ailudes:

"The Executive Directory having taken into consi"deration the Report of the Minister of Marine, rela"tive to the dispositions of the British Government upon

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