Ulysses? Have the Jacobins had so many proofs of our perseverance in the Cause of our Country on less serious occasions, and do they now foolishly believe that we shall slacken in our endeavours to hold up to reprobation, this most unnatural attack on its peace, its security, nay, its very existence? We return to CAMILLE JORDAN. "Let the Di rectory," says he (p. 43) " produce against me proofs of a different nature from the assertions of THAT ENGLISH EDITOR OF A NEWSPAPER IN THE PAY OF OUR GOVERNMENT, who, by attributing to me a ridiculous importance, held me up to view as the hopes of the Priests and the Emigrants," &c. We think it right to give notice to the Jacobin Prints, that we shall continue to recur to this charge until there shall have been found one among them hardy enough to deny it. And let the guilty beware how they deny it rashly. In the mean time, We request our Readers, when they see the Religion and Government of their Country ridiculed and reviled in those Prints, to call to mind the Assertion of CAMILLE JORDAN, and to be assured that some of these Paragraphs were written, and most of them paid for, by our irreconcileable Enemies, the REUBELLS and MERLINS of France. SIR, To the Editor of the Anti-Jacobin. THE Jacobin Writers have, for some time past, thought fit to indulge their merriment on the subject of a French Invasion, and to treat it as a Raw head and bloody bones, devised by Ministerial Agents, for the purpose of giving activity activity to the Voluntary Contributions. The same Writers, who have so long and so frequently expatiated on the resistless power and inexhaustible resources of the Great Nation, in the patriotic hope of terrifying us into unconditional submission to the dictates of the Directory, now suddenly change their language, on discovering that their menaces have only served to rouse the indignation and awaken the energy of our Countrymen; and would willingly persuade us that the attempt to subjugate an insulated Naval Power, without the assistance of a Navy to cover the Invasion, being apparently impracticable, we had better try to raise a laugh against the absurdity of such a plan, than employ those means of defence which must ensure its failure, and thus disappoint the last hopes of our Enemies. That an Invasion of this Country will be attempted, must appear probable to every man who considers the character of the persons who compose the French Directory; that of the General appointed to command their Forces, and the avowal that has been made to the French Nation, on the part of its Rulers, that the co-existence of a Republican Administration in France and a regular form of Government in Great Britain, was impossible: but we may farther assert, that an Invasion of these Realms unquestionably will and must be attempted, or the Jacobin Power in France will and must be speedily annihilated. This position is incontrovertibly proved by Sir FRANCIS d'IVERNOIS, in a Work just published, and not yet translated into English, intitled "An Historical and Poli"tical Picture of the Administration of the French Re"public during the year 1797." The principal object of this Work is to support the former opinions asserted by this Author; to shew that the 7 utter utter destruction of the French Paper-money, which was foretold by him three years ago, could not fail to take place; that it has actually taken place; that no new Fictious Medium of circulation can be substituted in its room; that a Nation cannot, by robbing itself, acquire a Colossal Fortune; and that the principle of making War for the sake of subsistence, a principle originally laid down and hitherto successfully persevered in by the French Jacobins, must tend to destroy, instead of increasing, the real solid resources of the Nation by which it is adopted. From the most authentic documents furnished by the French themselves, from the Reports of the Committees of the two Councils, and from the Messages of the Directory, Sir FRANCIS proves that the French Government, after trying the effect of Five several Bankruptcies, has so completely wasted the resources of the Country, as to be now struggling with a daily deficit of Three Millions of Livres; and that, although the civil officers of Government are still unpaid, the Contributions raised on the People, and even the Funds belonging to the Hospitals are so totally absorbed by the expences of the War, that above seven-eights of the Foundlings born in France during the last year, have actually died of neglect or hunger! It is impossible to read even these few Facts, selected from the many curious details which this Author has preserved, without admitting the conclusion he draws from. them, and which I shall offer you in his own words. "Is it not evident that the Finances of the Republic are now arrived at such a crisis, that its Government "is exposed to the alternative of perishing from distress, "or of devising new Military Enterprises, for the purpose of giving Subsistence, out of the spoils of Van"quished VOL. I. SS "quished Nations, to an Army which it is unable to feed, " and therefore cannot safely detain within the Country? "By what dangers can that Government be deterred, "since it has resolved to brave those of the Ocean, and "since it is induced, by the feeble hope of throwing "Twenty-five or Thirty Thousand Men on the Coasts " of England, to devote that number of men, together "with the miserable remnants of its Marine, to almost ❝ unavoidable destruction? Certainly, the Neutral Pow"ers, if they calculate all the chances of this desperate "Enterprize, may think themselves justified in leaving "to the English Nation the double task of its own pre"servation and the general vengeance; but if, by some "strange stroke of fortune, the Army of BUONAPARTE "should succeed in pillaging Great Britain, can it be "supposed that the Plunder thus acquired would not be "immediately employed in pushing forwards the same "Army for the destruction of the North of Europe? "Or, if the French Army, blocked up in the Ports of "France by the British Fleets, should be forced to re"nounce the projected Invasion, can it be doubted that "the Directory will immediately endeavour to indemnify themselves for the loss of the Booty they had promised "themselves, by devoting the whole of Germany to the "fate which they had prepared for Great Britain? "I am, Sir, your's, &c. « MUCIUS." POETRY. WE ate indebted for the following exquisite Imitation of one of the most beautiful Qdes of HORACE, to an unknown hand. All that we can say is, that it came to us |