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of much more importance to the Portuguese than the Mother Country itself, and that Cayenne, unluckily, did not belong to them. "I know all this better than replied the indignant Editor-" but OR should have been << FOR; and that would have set all right!

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These are errors of little account, it must be confessed, in the effusions of a Party gloriously unrestrained by any paltry attachment to accuracy or truth; yet it is not amiss to point them out occasionally, that such as have been accustomed implicitly to rely on them, may see what kind of Guides they have chosen !

"The fears expressed by the Government Journals, lest the French "should make an attempt on this Country, seem to argue that "the Alarmists begin to lose a part of that unlimited confidence "they have hitherto reposed in the vigilance and wisdom of His "Majesty's Ministers."-Morn. Chron. Nov. 21.

REAUMUR observed, that spiders might make silk if they would live together. What our Jacobin writers might do if they were "all in a tale," we know not, but certainly they would stand a fairer chance for obtaining credit. The following exposure of the falsehood of the Morning Chronicle, is taken from the Courier, which the rankest Jacobin will hardly call a "Government "Journal."

Listen to the voice of COMMON SENSE, Men of England! Behold "300,000 Frenchmen, fresh from the conquest of your late Allies, flushed with the blood and spoils of all Europe, marching "with rapid strides to the neighbouring Coast, within seven short "leagues, within two days forced march, of the opulent and de"fenceless City of London."-Courier, Nov. 20.

Here's an "Alarmist" for you!

Cape saxa manu, cape robora,

Tollentemque minas dejice,

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But there is a little mystery in this business, which we shall take the liberty of unfolding. While the Dutch hung upon our Northern Coasts with a stout Squadron of Fifteen Sail of the Line, some fears were rationally expressed that an Invasion might be attempted. It was then that the Jacobin Papers rung with the "ridiculous fears ❝ of the Alarmists;" but now that the gallant DUNCAN has taken the major part of this squadron, and driven the remainder disabled into port; now that all sensible people find their apprehensions subside: now that the Minister has been enabled to reduce the Marine Establishment; now that all this is done, these secure Gentlemen come forward, and with a perverseness in folly, as well as in iniquity, tell us that "300,000 French are ar"rived within two days forced march of the Capital !"

"It is incredible that the French should prohibit the introduction " of Foreign Journals. Now that they are determined to give "loose to their invectives against this Country, they would want "the advantage of studying the scurrilous style in the works of "the ablest Masters-the Ministerial Journals in this Country." Morning Chronicle, Nov. 22.

"It is incredible" for a better reason: they would want the scurriloùs invectives against the Minister; they would want some of the most rancorous and envenomed sarcasms against the Political and Religious Establishments of this Country, with which the Opposition Papers abundantly supply them, and which are carefully translated and dispersed throughout Europe: they would want the notable Brief, drawn up for them in the Morning Chronicle of November the 8th; that master-piece of Jacobinical frenzy on the King's Declaration, signed, "A Member " of Parliament;" and, what perhaps is of more consequence,

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quence, they would want a detailed account of that man's Speech, who stood up in his place in a British House of Peers, and as the best way of furnishing the Enemy with arguments, without endangering his head, declared "he "put himself in the place of the French Directory"and spoke accordingly.

"The coercive measures pursued by Government to quiet Ireland, "have produced an effect so different, that the prospect grows "every day more gloomy. Lord CAMDEN has long felt himself " in an unpleasant situation: he has repeatedly solicited his re"cal, fearful of the events threatening to result from the harsh "steps of the British Cabinet, which he is obliged to carry into "execution. The most serious alarms are entertained respect❝ing that Country, and Government is engaged in taking mea"sures of precaution, but not of a conciliatory nature. It is "thought prudent and necessary to change some of the Troops. "Twenty-two thousand men are to be sent from Ireland to "England, and the same number is to go from England to Ire"land to replace them. Considerable parties of Troops and Ar"tillery are now moving from Kent and Sussex, and they are to "proceed to Ireland with all possible expedition."-Morning Post, Nov. 22, 1797, and Courier of the same day.

This paragraph contains several distinct Falsehoods, the nature of which will be explained by the following statement: Lord CAMDEN has not asked to be recalled. If he had, we know it would be a matter of triumph to the Traitors and disaffected now kept in awe by the energy and vigour of his Government; but they must not be allowed to indulge in this expectation. He accepted the situation at a moment of great ferment and difficulties. He allayed that ferment by moderation; he met those difficulties with firmness. By the same conciliatory temper on the one hand, by the same determined spirit on the other, he will, we have no doubt, recover the deluded to a sense of the duty they owe their King and Country, and crush the Traitors, paid by the Directory, to betray both to that implacable Enemy.

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The next and most malignant Falsehood which we have to contradict, is relative to the exchange of 22,000 men between Ireland and England. The Army in Ireland, no less than the Army in England, has, in the most trying circumstances, and surrounded by every species of seduction, given the most satisfactory proofs of loyalty and attachment to the Constitution. It will continue to do so, notwithstanding these infamous insinuations, which however answer the purpose of creating some little uneasiness among ignorant and timid persons here, and copied, as they will not fail to be, into the French Papers, of creating delusion in France, and raising the spirits of the French Army of England. The supposed movements in the Troops and Artillery in Kent and Sussex, as far as Ireland is concerned, are wholly false. A very small detachment of the Horse-Artillery, to serve as a model for a similar establishment in Ireland, is the only force now under orders for embarkation to that kingdom.

"It was all along foreseen, that the measure of blocking up the "Ports of the Enemy, though a splendid measure, was at the "same time both dangerous and defective. It exposed our ships "to the dangers of the seas, wore out the seamen, and exhausted "their provisions; while, by the course of the seasons, they could "only hold the proud station for a limited time, and that they "must necessarily leave the sea open at last to the Enemy. It "has happened exactly as was foretold. Our ships, exhausted and "worn out, had no sooner returned to Port than the Dutch Fleet "took the advantage, and bent their sails, Morning Chronicle,

October 12, 1797.

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* EXTRACT FROM ADMIRAL DE WINTER'S OFFICIAL REPORT TO THE 66 DUTCH CONVENTION.

"The English ships having been together at sea during the space of "nineteen weeks, the particular capacity of all the ships was known "to them, with relation to each other, which it must be allowed "is of the utmost importance and advantage in nautical manœu "yres. This was not the case with the Dutch."

If any person is curious to read these contradictory opinions in French, we must refer them for the first, to the files of the Redacteur, for which Paper it appears to have been prepared. We are not yet certain of the decision of the Paris Police with respect to the latter, possibly too candid to admit of the Republican Impri

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"The Executive Directory have called upon the National Institute, "and all the Academies in the Republic, to consider of the most "efficacious plans of reducing the power of this Country, by Invasion, " or any other mode. This information is not contained in any "of the French Papers, but the fact may be depended on."Morning Post, Nov. 22, 1797.

We are at a loss to conjecture precisely what means the Morning Post may have of procuring intelligence from France relative to the hostile designs of the Directory, except the usual channel of the French Papers; but we are far from denying that it has some means of doing so, or from disbelieving a fact which appears so consistent with the present Rulers in that Country. The avowed object of the War being the destruction of our Constitution, it is very probable that a Committee may have been formed in the National Institute, for this purpose. Such a Committee would naturally be instructed to confer with all, or any of those, whose experience and ability in the business under their consideration, enabled them to furnish advice or information: or (to borrow an expression from other Committees), to send for Persons, Papers, and Records. Possibly the intelligence in the Paragraph before us may have come to the Morning Post in the shape of a Summons to this effect. If this be the case, they may perhaps give their testimony more weight with the Committee by calling us to their Character.

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