The Minister of War, par interim, ANGEREAU, The acclamations of the French soldiery-Vive Bonaparte-le Heros-le Pacificateur le Magnanime-re sound through every street, 13th, 13th, 14th, Thermidor. LONDON PILLAGED. The doors of private houses forced. Bands of drunken soldiers dragging wives and daughters from the arms of husbands and fathers. Many husbands, who had had the temerity to resist, butchered in the presence of their children-Flames scen in a hundred different places bursting from houses which had been set fire to, by the vicecity of the troops-churches broken open, and the church plate plundered-The pews and altars converted into stabling-four Bishops murdered, who had taken refuge in Westminster Abbey-the screams of women and of children mix with the cries of the soldiers-Vive la Repub lique! Vive Bonaparte ! St. Martin's church converted into a depot for the property acquired by the pillage of the soldiery. 15th Thermidor. A proclamation published by the FIRST CONSUL, promising protection to the inhabitants. The houses of the principal. Nobility and Gentry appropriated to the use of the French Generals. Every house is required to furnish so many rations of bread and meat for the troops, At a Council of State, presided by BONAPARTE, the two Houses of Parliament are solemnly abolished, and ordered to be replaced by a Senate and a Council of State. General MASSENA appointed Provisional President of the former, and General DESSOLLES of the latter. The Courts of Law are directed to discontinue their sittings, and are replaced by military tribunals. 17th Thermidor, A plot discovered by FOUCHE against the FIRST CONSUL, and three hundred, supposed to be implicated in it, sent to the Tower. Insurrections in different parts of the capital on account of the excesses of the soldiers and the contribution of twenty millions. Cannon planted at all the principal avenues, and a heavy fire of grapeshot kept up against the insurgents. Lords NELSON, Sr, VINCENT, and MELVILLE, Messrs. ADDINGTON, PITT, SHERIDAN, GREY, twenty Peers, and Commoners, among the latter Şir SIDNEY SMITH, tried by the Military Tribunals, for having been concerned in the insurrection against France, and sentenced to be shot. Sentence was in mediately carried into execution in Hyde Park. 17th Thermidor, The Dock-yards ordered to send all the timber, hemp, anchors, masts, &c. to to France. The relations of the British sailors at sea sent to prison till the ships are brought into port, and placed at the disposal of the French. Detachments dispatched to the different counties to disarm the people. which he unjustly reigns, and on the continent of Europe, as well as in Asia, Egypt, Syria, and divers other places, spread Murder, Rapine, Slavery and Death, in cruel and horrible wantonness; and not having the fear of God The Island ordered to be divided in- before his eyes, but being thereto movto departments and military sections-ed by the instigation of the Devil, and the name of London to be changed for Bonapart--opolis-and the appellation of the country to be altered from Great Britain to that of La France insulaire Edinburgh to take the name of Lucienville-Dublin, that of Massen-opolis, BRITONS! can this be endured?Shall we suffer ourselves thus to be parcelled off?—I hear you one and all say No!- -To your tents, O Israel!BRITONS NEVER WILL BE SLAVES! PROCLAMATION Made to every man in the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, this first day of August, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Three, and in the forty-fourth year of the reign of our especially dear Son King George the Third. WHEREAS by the blessing of God, the patriotism, courage and industry of Englishmen, the natural advantages of our situation, the excellence of our constitution, and the wise administra tion of our government, we are a glory to ourselves, the seat of freedom, the empire of happiness and wealth, and Mistress of the Seas:And whereas at the head of the corrupt and despotic government of the neighbouring realm of France, there is a USURPER, a Cor sicun by birth, and called by the name of NAPOLEONE BONAPARTE, who having subjugated to the most abject slavery the whole of the vast empire over filled with envy, malice, and hatred to Us for the aforesaid blessings We enjoy, as well as at our magnanimous resolution to resent effectually his outrages and insults, hath presumptuously threatened, and doth actually intend to attempt an INVASION OF OUR LAND, and for which said diabolical purpose he hath been, and at present is collecting a vast Armed Force, whose orders are to murder all inhabitants bearing arms in our defence, violate the wives and daughters of our people, and plunder our cities, and all this to reduce this happy and independent empire to a mere province under his vile dominion: We have therefore thought fit to address this proclamation unto you, calk, ing upon you as you would express your love tous, and your wish to trans mit to posterity your Country as you received it from the hands of your forefathers, and to preserve yourselves and yours from the aforesaid barbarous and sanguinary measures, that you, with one heart, immediately give effect to the wise and salutary proceedings of our government, thereby exhibiting to those who would destroy You, AN ARMED HOST OF BRITISH FREEMEN, READY TO DIE IN OUR deFENCE-And although in our reliance on God, we know the blood and utter discomfiture of the enemy will be the price of his temerity, yet it is your duty so to arouse and prepare yourselves, and so vigorously and unanimously to join in the common cause, that you ་ may. may be able not only to inflict an awful punishment on the legions of murderers who may assail you, but by a grand and dreadful direction of your vengeance, strike deadly terror and confusion into the hearts of all your enemies: -And as our brave SEAMEN, should they meet them, will save you on land great part of the trouble, if not the whole, yet as in the nature of things our fleets may miss them, have no other reliance for your safety than what aarises from TRUST IN PROVICONFIDENCE, UNAMITY, AND VIGOUR AMONG YOURSELVES. Given at our Metropolis of London. BRITANNIA! The following is an extract from the animated SPEECH of Lord MOIRA, at the County Meeting held at Leicester, on Friday, August the first. THE LEGISLATURE has required the services of every man in the country, presumed from his age and particular circumstances to be fit to carry arms; yet it has wisely left an option to the several districts to commute that service, by turning out a certain number of volunteers. It is highly desirable that you should avail yourselves of that option, and that such a number of volunteers may be encouraged to take arins, as may exonerate the county from the operation of the General Defence Act; for otherwise, the lot of service must inevitably fall upon many individuals, whose residence at home is so indispensable for the support of their families, that every motive of policy and humanity should make you eager to exempt them, by spontaneously discharging that duty, which you would be conscious did not the less rest upon you as honest men, even if they also were forced into the field. They who turn out upon this principle ought to be indefatigable in learning that practice with the firelock, which is requisite to make them useful upon service, not so much from the magnitude of any impending danger, as because it would be unworthy in any one not to fit himself for the service he professed to undertake. There was an hour when I thought danger (but even then danger of a limited nature) very probable; it was whilst an erroneous belief appeared to be entertained that it was impossible for the enemy to make any landing at all, under which fallacious security it semed to me very feasible for the French to throw ashore five or six thousand then, upon some part of the coast not remote from London, and by a forced march to push for the capital, in the hope of being joined by that profligate rabble, which must be found in greater or less number in every debauched metropolis, and which, having no real national attachment, must be ever ready to seize any opportunity for riot or pillage, That danger you perceive exists only in our refusing to believe invasion impracti> cable, and consequently our being. unprepared for it; now, that we are upon our guard, the hazard is dispelled; still, as some attempt will almost certainly be made, it is right to be prepared, not only to meet it, but so to meet it as that the foe shall be crushed before he can have had time to do much unischief. Were Bonaparte (though the sup position is beyond the possibility of realization) in the heart of this country, at the head of 40,000 men with all the stores, artillery, and appendages he could wish, I should not have a moment's uneasiness as to the result; for, I should be confident, that, before the end of the month,, that army would. ba annihilated: that confidence, however, is is built upon the assumption, that the enemy would be judiciously encountered; but to enable any General so to encounter them, you must put yourselves into a state of discipline, such as would render you capable of comprehending and fulfilling the orders of your leader. Observe this too, that, although it appears to me impracticable for the enemy ever to have any very serious force united in this country, you must always in war provide against dangers that seem beyond ordinary calculation. It is not to diminish the apprehensions of those who are listening to me, that I state the presumed inability of the enemy to assemble a large army en our territory, because I can well see that no apprehension exists among you. On the contrary, I read in every countenance the gallant eagerness with which you anticipate the contest with those, whose forefathers forefathers were your wont to seek and conquer in the heart of France, where every disparity of nutnber was of course to be against our countrymen. Yet I cannot but feel an avarice with regard to every drop of precious Euglish blood that is to be exposed in such a contest, and I must be anxious that the extinction of the enemy's force should be obtained without the unnecessary loss of one of those estimable lives, which I see you are so willing to hazard in the struggle. Now if you prepare yourselves by proper discipline, you will enable the General commanding you to turn this plan against the eneiny himself, and I congratulate you on this perfect ground of confidence, that the Generals now appointed to lead our army are of such a stamp in skill as insures to you that your valour will be employed upon the terms that will give it every possible advantage. It is not probable that it would ever be thought requisite to lead you in battalions against the enemy: this I mention that the short time you have for discipline may not be unprofitably employed in-learning evolutions, which you are not likely to be called upon to practice in the field; a ready habit of priming and loading, and a facility of understanding and obeying the orders of your immediate officers, are the points which I deem the most essential for you to attain; I should imagine that the General under whon! you serve would wish to detach you in small bodies, to hang upon the flanks and rear of the enemy, bidding you avail yourselves of every little bank or inequality of ground behind which you would cover yourselves, whilst your shot would do execution at its utmost range in the columns of the enemy, unavoidably obliged to keep in a compact body, instructing you to retire whensoever the enemy should advance in considerable strength against you, and to return to harrass them whensoever that detachment fell back to its main body; you must not think this is unworthy of your courage. If the safety of your country demanded the sacrifice of your lives, I should be the last to check the devotion which I know you would deliberately feel; but if that necessity did not really exist, it would be absurdity to prefer even a dignified death to the honest triumph of consciously participating in the glory of having crushed the invader of your country: were I to propose to you a principle for your conduct, it should be that which was held so praiseworthy by the Greeks of old, and which has been thus happily described: ORIGINAL POETRY. WAR SONG, ON THE THREATENED FRENCH INVASION. WHO shall impede the Tyrant dread, With desolating brand, And flag unfurl'd, bestriding the world, Who but they, whom the waves obey, With bosoms steel'd, in the battling field, Whose conquering sires, at Cressy their fires Who with Lion-port, at Agincourt, Held revelry supreme. And this is the foe, whose children now, And thy rights betray, which, ALBION, say, By the sacrifice dread, at Poictiers made, By the charter'd deed of Runnymede, By the hecatombs slain, on 'Blenheim's plain, The Tyrant he shall die! Lead, lead the way, bid the "battle bray," C. REBELLION DEFEATED. AN ODE. Respectfully inscribed to those brave Defenders of their Country, who quelled the late alarming Insurrection in the City of Dublin. VOL. I. BY A BROTHer Soldier. THOU, thy horrid shape still mantling In the gloomy garb of night, Gorgon |