should be given up to be plundered by the People.These predatory excursions should be made in different, and even distant quarters, by detachments of two or three hundred men each.

The Commerce of the Enemy in the Country, is to be interrupted by breaking down bridges, cutting dykes, and ruining causeways, which is at the same time essentially necessary for the preservation of the Army; by plundering all Convoys of subsistence, the public stages and waggons, and even private carriages; the cutting off the supplies of provisions from the principal Towns, burning all Vessels and Boats on the rivers and canals, destroying Magazines, setting fire to Docks and Coalyards, Rope-walks, great Manufactories, &c. &c.-It is to be observed, likewise, that by these means a crowd of Artisans will be thrown out of employment, and of course ready to embark in any measure which holds out to them subsistence and plunder, without labour or fatigue.

The success of the Expedition will likewise be materially forwarded by disarming the Militia, by burning the Arsenals in the Sca-Ports, by stopping the Couriers of Government, by seducing the Enemy's Troops to desert, and by the terror which the success of the Legion, and the progress of the Insurrection, will carry into the bosoms of the unwarlike Citizens.

In order to spread the panic as generally as possible, the Legion is to be divided into several Columns, having settled a common rendezvous, where they are to assemble every four, six, or eight days.—The Inhabitants must be obliged to serve as Guides; and any who refuse, are to be punished on the spot: the Magistrates, or some of their families, are always to be employed in preference,

on this service, that they may not accuse or punish the others.

All denunciations against those who join the Legion, are to be punished with death. Wherever the Legion, or any of its Columns, is posted, if the neighbouring Parishes do not give instant notice of the approach of the Enemy, whether by ringing of bells or otherwise, they are to be given up to fire and sword.

Colonel TATE will not omit to observe, that there are in England numbers of French who will be eager to join him, such as Prisoners of War, Soldiers and Sailors, Privates in the Emigrant Regiments, and a crowd of others, whom want and the desire of vengeance will draw to his Standard. He may admit such Frenchmen into the Legion, but he will observe to be on his guard, that the newcomers may not raise cabals or factions; especially if there should be among them any Nobles or Priests, whose ambition is only to be exceeded by their cowardice; should any such attempt be made, he will take care to punish it most severely.

Colonel TATE will encourage all Deserters and Prisoners to enter into the new Companies before-mentioned. Should such Prisoners refuse, he will shave their heads and eye-brows; and if they are taken again in arms, they are to be shot.

To Colonel Tate, on his Military Operations
and Marches.

With boldness and intelligence combined, you may easily possess yourself of Chester or Liverpool, which you will ruin, by burning the Magazines and filling up

the Ports; or at least you may cut off all communication between those Cities and the Interior. There is another object which should likewise decide you to enter those Counties, as you will be joined there by two other Columns of French Troops, to which you will unite that under your Command, if the General commanding the Expedition in Chief shall desire it.

In order to spread the consternation and astonishment as wide as possible, after the destruction of Liverpool (for this point is capital) you must follow your blow, and seize upon some small Town, or Sea-Port on that Coast, which you will lay under Contribution.

Your Soldiers are to carry nothing with them but their Arms, Ammunition, and Bread; — they will find every where Clothes, Linen, and Shoes: the Inhabitants must supply your wants, and the Seats of the Gentry are to be your Magazines.

In case your Position should be, at last, no longer tenable, or that superior Forces should force you to quit the Country bordering on the Channel, you must not lose an instant to join two French Parties sent into the Counties of York, Durham, and Northumberland. In that case, you most send me notice into Ireland, that I may be enabled to execute a diversion in your favour: an Officer in disguise may reach me, either by seizing a fishing-boat on the Coast of Wales, or else by the route of Scotland.

POETRY.

IT has been our invariable custom, to suppress such of our Correspondents' Favours as conveyed any Compliments to Ourselves; and we have deviated from it in the present instance, not so much out of respect to the uncommon excellence of the Poem before us, as because it accords so intimately with the general design of our Paper to expose the deformity of the French Revolution, counteract the detestable arts of those who are seeking to introduce it here, and above all, to invigorate the Exertions of our Countrymen against every Foe, Foreign and Domestic, by showing them the immense and inexhaustible Resources they yet possess in British Courage and British Virtue !

To the Author of the Anti-Jacobin.

FOE TO THY COUNTRY'S FOES! 'tis THINE to claim
From Britain's genuine Sons a British Fame-
Too long French Manners our fair Isle disgrac'd;
Too long French Fashions sham'd our native Taste.
Still prone to change, we half-resolv'd to try
The proffer'd charms of FRENCH FRATERNITY.

Fair was her Form, and Freedom's honour'd Name
Conceal'd the horrors of her secret shame :
She claim'd some kindred with that guardian Pow'r,
Long worship'd here in Britain's happier hour:
Virtue and Peace, she said, were in her tiain,
The long-lost Blessings of ASTREA Reign-
But soon the Visor drop'd-her haggard face
Betray'd the Fury lurking in the Grace-

The

The false Attendants that behind her press'd,

In vain disguis'd, the latent guilt confess'd:

PEACE dropt her snow-white Robe, and shudd'ring shew'd
AMBITION'S mantle reeking fresh with blood;
Presumptuous FOLLY stood in Reason's form,
Pleas'd with the pow'r to ruin,-not reform;
PHILOSOPHY, proud Phantom, undismay'd,
With cold regard the ghastly train survey'd;
Saw PERSECUTION gnash her iron teeth,
While Atheists preach'd th' eternal Sleep of Death;
Saw ANARCHY the social chain unbind,

And DISCORD sour the blood of Humankind;
Then talk'd of Nature's Rights, and Equal Sway;
And saw her System safe-and stalk'd away!

Foil'd by our ARMS, where'er in ARMS we met,
With ARTS LIKE THESE, the Foe assails us yet.
Hopeless the Fort to storm, or to surprize,
More secret wiles his envious malice tries;
Diseas'd himself, spreads wide his own despair,
Pollutes the fount, and taints the wholesome air.

While many a Chief, to Glory not unknown,
Alarms each hostile shore, and guards our own,
'Tis THINE, the latent treachery to proclaim;
And humbler Warfare, but the Cause the same.
In vain had Pompey crush'd the Pontic Host,
And chac'd the Pirate swarm from ev'ry Coast;
Had not the Civic Consul's watchful eye
Track'd through the windings of Conspiracy,
The Crew that leagu'd their Country to o'erthrow;
The base Confederates of a Gallic* Foe:

Conjuravere Cives nobilissimi Patriam incendere-Gallorum gentem infestissimam nomini Romano in bellum arcessunt-Dux Hostium cum exercitu supra caput est.-ORAT. CATON. ap. SALLUST.