то MY COUNTRYMEN. AT the most awful and perilous and momentous crifis, the BRITISH DOMINIONS ever faw Big with the fate of CARTHAGE or of ROME When we learn from the highest Authority, that "Treasonable Societies of UNITED IRISHMEN, UNITED ENGLISHMEN and UNITED SCOTSMEN, holding continual intercourse and connexion with each other, have formed a fyftematic and deeply organized plan, for the entire overthrow of the British Conftitution; the general confifcation of Property; and the erection of a DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC, founded on the ruins of all Religion, and of all Political and Civil Society, and and framed after the model of THE FRENCH;relying on the affiftance and co-operation of FRANCE-and that hoftile preparations are now making, with extraordinary vigour and exertion, in fome of the Ports of FRANCE for the invafion of GREAT BRITAIN or of IRELAND:" Report of the Committee of Secrecy of the British Houfe of Commons, March 15, 1799: At fuch a crifis then-" when the season of temporizing is paft"-when the filence of anyof every well affected and well informed CITIZEN -who is able if willing to furnish fully authenticated facts”-not flimzy fpeculations, not idle declamations-not "prophefying Smooth things"-but, telling truth in charity" to the community-" the whole truth"-as far as they are able to receive or bear it-and " nothing but the truth,"—" SO HELP HIM GOD"-is not only bafe and dishonest in itself-but treasonable against the CONSTITUTION, and impious against THE GOD OF ORDER if by any means, or upon any paltry confideration of personal hazard, through enfnaring fear of man"-he fhrinks back from commu communicating, what may tend, (with THE DIVINE CO-OPERATION)-to undeceive deluded Infurgents-(not fteady Traitors-whose recovery is defperate having their confecience feared with a hot iron-and made callous againft impreffions of Truth, Religion, and Loyalty,)" to give light to those that fit in darkness”—in mental, worse than Egyptian darkness" to guide their feet into the way of peace"-and to heal those unhappy "wounds and bruifes" of religious fchifm and political difcord, which have fo long harraffed, and now convulfe, and by putrifying, threaten "to extinguish IRELAND❞—if suffered to fefter and rankle, without emollients and cathartics; -to rouze "morbid infenfibility" and ftimulate to action, if poffible, that languid neutrality of conduct, which difgraces a mafs of negatively loyal fubjects, and paralyzes the circulation of the life blood of the body politic, in the prompt and vigorous and combined exertion of all the well affected-with the Executive Government :acting therefore, under the powerful impreffion, the irresistible impulfe of fuch mighty incentives, fuch paramount confiderations, I now offer to the the public, the following frightful-(and yet perhaps not altogether dry nor unentertaining) fketch of French principles and French practice, flowly and carefully collected, from various and authentic fources of information, fince the commencement of the FRENCH REVOLUTION. CATO. April 5th, 1799 THE MONSTROUS REPUBLIC. Inftat terribilis vivis, morientibus hæres ; Savis opus eft, et fortibus umbris; Ipfa facit manes: HOMINUM MORS OMNIS IN USU EST. OMNIA FATA LABORANT UNOQUE SUB ICTU "Terrible SHE affaults the living, is heir to the There is no refpite: When plunder fails, then luft fucceeds; B Day 1 |