With grape-shot discharges,

And plugs in his Barges,

With National Razors good store,

We'll pepper and shave him,

And in the Thames lave him—

How sweetly he'll bellow and roar !

What the Villain likes worse,

We'll vomit his Purse,

And make it the Guineas disgorge;

For your Raphaels and Rubens

We would not give two-pence;

Stick, Stick to the PICTURES of GEORGE.

the whole, the French themselves acknowledge, that Two Millions of human Beings (exclusive of the Military) have been sacrificed to the Principles of EQUALITY and the RIGHTS OF MAN: 250,000 of these are stated to be Women, and 30,000 Children. In this last number, however, they do not include the unborn; nor those who started from the bodies of their agonizing Parents, and were stuck upon the bayonets of those very men who are now to compose the "Army of Eng"land," amidst the most savage acclamations.

* At Lyons, JABOGUES, the Second Murderer (the Actor being the First) in his Speech to the Democratic Society, used these words -

"Down

French Fortunes and Lives,

French Daughters and Wives,

Have FIVE HONEST MEN to defend 'em?
And BARRAS and Co.

When to England we go,

Will kindly take JOHN's in commendam.

"Down with the Edifices raised for the profit or the pleasure of the "Rich; down with them ALL. Commerce and Arts are useless to a war"like People, and are the destruction of that sublime Equality which "France is determined to spread over the Globe."

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Such are the consequences of RADICAL REFORM!!! Let any Merchant, Farmer, or Landlord let any Husband or Father sider this, and then say, " Shall we or shall we not contribute a moderate Sum, "IN PROPORTION TO OUR ANNUAL EXPENDITURE, for the purpose of pre"serving ourselves from the fate of Lyons, La Vendée, and Nantz ?”

STYPTIC.

Much cannot be added to the concluding Note of our unknown Correspondent (whom we thank for his most excellent Translation); yet we will take the opportunity his Appeal affords, to address the following impressive lines from JOHNSON, to as many of the various ranks of people whom he enumerates in his concluding note, as may hesitate to answer in the affirmative.

"THAT WEALTH, too sacred for their Country's use!
"THAT WEALTH, too pleasing to be lost for Freedom!
"THAT WEALTH, which, granted to their virtuous Prince,

"Had rang'd embattled Nations at his side;

"THUS, THUS reserv'd to lure the Wolves of France,
"Adds shame to GRIEF, and infamy to RUIN.
"Lamenting Av'rice, now too late, discovers
" HER OWN neglected in the PUBLIC SAFETY.

FRANCE.

FRANCE.

PARIS, JAN. 4.-" This morning guards were stationed at the gates of Paris, and detachments of the military were placed on the bridges, and in the principal squares. They stopped all carriages, in search not of persons but of things. Their object was to seize all articles of English Merchandize. Domiciliary Visits took place at the houses of a great many Shop-keepers, and continued through the whole day and part of the night. This rigorous execution of the Law, of the 10th Brumaire, had been prepared by the exasperation of the National Hatred against the English Government."

Such is the French account of this extraordinary measure, on which we need only remark, that though the Great Nation may be subject to great exasperation against our Government, it is rather odd that the National Hatred should have prepared the Executive Government to execute on the 4th of January, 1798, a Law which it ought to have executed in November, 1796; and that the Public impatience to be robbed, should be the only stimulous that incited the Five Directors to commit this legal robbery.

But as some of our Papers, and particularly the Morning Chronicle of Saturday, see in this measure of desperate extortion (which, to common observers, might argue the poverty of the French Government) the completion of our ruin, and the extinction of our Manufactures and Commerce; we think it our duty to dissipate such me

lancholy

lancholy apprehensions by the following plain State

ment:

The greatest Export of British Manufactures in any year since the Peace, excepting the last, was that of 1792. It amounted to £.18,335,851 The Export of the year ending the 5th of January, 1797, was 19,102,220 Excess above the Exports of 1792

£. 766,369

The direct Exportation of British Manufactures to France, in 1792, was 743,280l. The same, in the year ending in January, 1797, was 30l. consequently the decrease was 743,250l. ; a decrease which might have been held out, with some degree of reason, to our Manufacturers as à cause for apprehension. But we trust the loss of the remaining 30l. will not ruin the Commerce of Great Britain.

While the climate of France shall continue the same, the French will probably not consent to go naked; and until their own Manufactures shall revive, we may fairly hope that they will, notwithstanding the most rigorous execution of the Law of the 10th of Brumaire, continue to resort to the only market which is able to supply them.

It remains to be seen, what will be the feelings and the conduct of NEUTRAL NATIONS, upon the Message of the Directory which has followed this proceeding, and which announces measures so outrageously injurious to their Interests, Rights, and Honour.

The

The Paris Papers, from the 31st of December to the 9th January, contain few articles of importance, and we shall select only those in which this Country is particularly interested.

We find that the Ex-Bishop of AUTUN, Minister for Foreign Affairs, has addressed a sort of Pastoral Letter to the several Diplomatic Agents of the Republic, inviting all those Ministers of Peace to unite their efforts with those of the Military, for the utter destruction of this Country, which he calls "A COLOSSUS with feet of

CLAY, which it will be now proper to overset." He complains that this clay footed COLOSSUS has hitherto been very happy, or very wise, in the choice of its Negotiators, and that "the DIPLOMATIC WEAPON has "been TERRIBLY EFFECTIVE in the hands of the Bri"tish Ministry, while it has been blunt and languid in "those of the French;"- But, that," the Directory "has just restored its lustre and vigour; that the Treaty "of Campo Formio is the epocha of this restoration; that "the Congress of Rastdat will confirm it; and that it "will be their duty to concur in giving it effect."

M. D'ARAUJO, the Portuguese Minister, is in prison. The Minister of an Independent Crown sent to negotiate Peace with France, is thrown into the common Goal of Paris! LIBERTY and FRATERNITY!

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By intelligence received from Brussels, it appears that the United Departments continue to enjoy the blessings in which they have been permitted to participate ever since the amalgamation of Belgium with the French Republic; that Domiciliary Visits, for the purpose of discovering Requisition-men and Deserters, are more frequent than