The only "intention to deceive the public," which we have been able to defcry, is to be found in the obferver and his critic. But we fhall enable our readers to judge for themselves, by laying before them the two inftances of mif tranflation which are faid to dif play this difregard to trub. In a letter from Pouffielgue, we read, in allufion to the treaty opened with the Grand Vizier, " Le General Kleber met fous les yeux du Directoire les notes qui contiennent l'analife de la conference," which is thus tranflated, "General Kleber is now engaged in arranging for the Directory the notes which contain all the fubftance of the conference." The literal tranflation would be this; General Kleber fends, for the inspection of the Directory, the notes which contain the fubftance of the conference. The inaccuracy is merely ver bal; and it would require an uncommon portion of fagacity to difcover in it, that "total difregard of the truth," which the obferver, and his echo the critic, fo confidently proclaim. For whether Kleber had actually prepared the notes, or was in the act of preparing them, while Pouffielgue was writing, it is not poffible to difcover from the letters themfelves; nor is the fact i self of the smallest confequence, for in either cafe they were meant to be fent by the fame conveyance as Pouffielgue's letter, and the inaccurate tranflation implies this as well as the literal tranflation; fo that there could be no poffible intention to deceive. And yet this observer, not contented with the discovery of deception, where none exifted, has the effrontery to ascribe it to some finifter "views of our minifters." He then proceeds to the other inftance of falfhood; “In "order to continue this ingenious deception, he afterwards tran"flates le plan refultant des notes que lui envoye le General Kleber,' "by these words, the plan refulting from the notes which General "Kleber is preparing to fend bom. The only inaccuracy here is in the words marked in italics, which fhould be changed for thefe-fends to the Directory. But in what the deception and falfbood confift, we leave to wifer heads than our own to difcover; remarking only, that that must be a very ingenious deception indeed which is attempted "in the face of unavoidable detection" as the observer declares this to be!

It is the main object of this pamphlet to prove ; 1. That Bonaparte is a decided Anti-Jacobin! 2. That in the vaft effufion of blood, of which he has been the immediate caufe, he is not more culpable than the other Generals and Potentates of Europe; and 3. That the British Government ought, on the reception of his note to our Sovereign, to have entered into an immediate negociation with him. On the first and laft of these points we have fo frequently declared our opinion, that it is needlefs to repeat it here. As to the fecond, the author feems to make no difference between the aggreffive party in the war, and the parties who have only refifted an unjuft aggreffion; between the blood unavoidably fhed in defenfive hoftilities, and the carnage produced by unprovoked attacks and wanton maffacres. As on the one hand, his penetration is fo acute as clearly to fee what is invifible to all but himself; fo, on the other, his judgment is fo blind as not to perceive a diftinction which is obvious to the plaineft understanding.

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The author is very angry with Pouffielgue for having disclosed the fecrets of his prifon-house; and he labours hard, though unfuccessfully, to convict him of mifreprefentation, in his lamentable account of the state of Egypt, and of the French army there. Of Bonaparte he speaks with rapture; and kindly overlooking all those enormities which render him an object of deteftation to every virtuous man of the present day, and will infallibly secure the execration of future times, he reprefents him as a "character the most emi→ nent, both for civil and military capacity, who, by a rare and almost unexampled affemblage of great and energetic qualities, amidst the ftorms and hurricanes of times more turbulent than the annals of the world can, perhaps, exhibit, has raised himself to the command of the greatest and most powerful nation of Europe!" When we confider who and what this man is, with his conduct and difpofition towards Great Britain, we are at a lofs for words to exprefs our abhorrence of his panegyrift; to mark our opinion of the profligate writer, who thus adopts the fentiments and the language of the Gallic Republicans, and who stoops to "a total difregard of the truth" in order to exalt the most inveterate and unprincipled enemy of his country.

As to France being the greatest nation of Europe, if the most abject fubmiffion, for a series of years, to the abfolute fway of fucceffive ufurpers, and a final acquiefcence in the tyrannical dominion of a foreign adventurer, obtained by violence and confirmed by perjury, conftitute greatness, the affertion is undoubtedly true. The author conceives that "going into the minute particulars of Bonaparte's public conduct is a thing, perhaps, as little neceffary as a recapitulation of all the paft tranfactions of the different ftages of the Revolution." That be has good reasons for objecting to such an expofition of facts, we can easily believe; but we deem it fo very neceffary that all fuch particulars fhould be generally known, that, if no body elfe will go into them, we certainly will undertake that talk ourselves; convinced as we are, that it will afford much useful inftruction to our cotemporaries, and convey a very beneficial leffon to pofterity.

This obferver chufes to take it for granted, that the introduction to the intercepted correfpondence, having been written by a confidential friend of the minifter, fpeaks of course the exact fentiments of the minifter himfelf; whether that be the cafe or not, in the prefent inftance, we shall not pretend to determine; but, a very little attention to "the evidence of facts," to which he fo strongly objects, would have fufficed to convince this confident writer that the minifter does not deem himself refponfible for every thing which is contained in the writings, or uttered in the fpeeches, of his ". confidential friends."

The comments on the pretended grammatical errors of the writer of the introduction are truly curious in an author whose real deviations from grammatical accuracies are frequent. For inftance--"it would have been the height of impolicy to have negociated," (to negociate) from their outlet, the confular government bas endeavoured," &c. &c.

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The affertion (in P. 18) that the dearness of provifions is imputable to the war is both falfe and malignant; and the remarks on the former negociations with the French Republic and the minifter's fubfequent declarations on the fubje&t, are fo puerile, and the attempt at perverfion and misrepresentation is fo grofs, as rather to excite contempt than indignation.

In his peroration the author ingeniously contrives to blend a new panegyric on Bonaparte with a panegyric on the French Revolution; thereby combining the efforts of a Sheridan with those of a Fox. Adverting to the difcordant fentiments which prevail respecting the character of the first conful, he says:

"To fuch as have never contemplated the French Revolution with other fenfations than those of terror, averfion, and difguft, the moft eminent, powerful, and efficient inftrument of its fuccefs cannot but be an object of horror and deteftation. Among those who have looked at it as a fcene which has called forth, exhibited, and given scope to a full exertion of all the ftrongeft powers and ener gies of which the nature of man is capable, of a display of the higheft efforts of fuperior genius, of a ftriking, and perhaps unequalled eminence of military talent, a promptitude in decifion, an activity in execution, together with an inexhauftible refource of mind, the character of Bonaparte can hardly fail to have raised high degree of afstonishment; and, if what the Poet obferves be true, that

"Wonder is involuntary praise,"

they will find it difficult to withhold from him the tribute of their admiration." We fhould be difpofed, on fuch an occafion, to prefer the interpretation of the lexicographer to that of the poet; the former defines wonder to "be the effect of novelty upon ignorance." But the paffage fufficiently explains the fentiments and principles of the writer to render any farther obfervations from us fuperfluous.

MISCELLANIES.

JACOBIN SOCIETIES.

THE following Jacobin Manifefto has been put into our hands; but we do not mean to vouch for its authenticity. We can only fay that its contents perfectly correfpond with the information which we received, at the time, of the movements of the Jacobins, immediately after the news of the battle of Marengo had reached this country. We have fince been affured that the Delegates from the refpective Societies of Great Britain, France, Ireland, &c. &c. have affembled and verified their powers.

DECLARATION OF THE NEW UNION, OR OF THE UNITED SOCIETIES OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, WALES, AND IRELAND, TO THE PARLIAMENT OF THE ARISTOCRACY OF THOSE COUNTRIES.

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WHILST liberty of fpeech, and of free difcuffion of our rights and our grievances remained, we defired no other methods of com

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paffing thofe ends which we deemed neceffary to public juftice and the fafety of the country; but even the miferable right of complaint being torn from us, by that confummation of all tyranny, the ope ration of the Two Bills, we, who dared not fpeak, formed the determination to act. We inftantly, through our trusty Delegates, entered into a political alliance, offenfive and defenfive, with the people of France: we humbly conceive we had to the full as good a right to take this step as you had (unauthorized by the country, by whom you were not chofen, being the mere creatures of a tyrannic court and a corrupt aristocracy) to enter of your own mere motion into foreign alliances for the fuppreffion of liberty. You have ftopped every avenue to Reform with murderous arms, determined to impofe, on the enlightened citizens of the prefent times, the accumulated frauds of the old governments: you have endeavoured to bind our fouls with the chains of abfurd and ftupid fanaticifm, to which you pretend to bind yourselves by the moft horrid and reiterated perjuries. you have for ages enriched yourselves at the expence, and with the property, of the ftarving poor, whofe end in the streets, the workhoufe, the bloody-field, or at the gallows, you view even with plea fure you have long fought to brutalize the minds of the English people to the level of your own, by familiarizing them with murt der, affaffination, and cowardly barbarity: you patronized Suwaroff, the bloody butcher of the North, who murdered in cold blood more than thirty thoufand men, women, and children; with your ap probation you fanctioned the bloody and infamous affaffination at Raftadt: you know no mercy ;-death, everlafting imprisonment, your Baftile, are the rewards for every attempt at freedom. Forty gallant feamen, the victims of liberty, are this moment perishing for want in the dungeons of the English Baftile, Tyrants tremble; fhudder at the glorious names of Bonaparte and Liberty! The hour of retri bution approaches.

Our focieties confift of a portion of the labourers, traders, and manufacturers, with a few of fuch as are ftyled the gentry in every country; of a very confiderable number of the Citizens imprisoned in the Fleet, and of a great and increafing number in the army. Convinced that no fecure peace can be made by you with the Republic of France, we have fent our terms to the grand Conful→→→ they are as follows:

Án immediate ceffation of hoftilities, to be compaffed on our part, on a certain day, by the grand fleet and the army; they previously and pro tempore difcharging their prefent, and chufing new, commanders and new officers. The new commanders of the army and fleet jointly to announce to the nations the commencement of the British Revolution; to the French people our defires of peace, on the grounds of the two nations reciprocally guaranteeing each other's liberties. The military commanders, affifted by a council of officers and other Citizens, to fecure the perions of all delinquents, malignants, and perfons dangerous to the new order of things to declare and authorize the continuance of all the inferior

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inferior courts and constituted authorities for the prefervation of order, the fecurity of property, and the due adminiftration of juftice; and, finally, to iffue orders under their hands and feals for the calling together a convention within forty days by Univerfal Suffrage: the only oath to be required, fidelity to the Sovereign People according to the facred rights of Univerfal Suffrage. All perfons, without exception, faving fifty delinquents, to be eligible on those terms. The convention to appoint five of their own body to perform, pro tempore, the functions of the executive government within one year the permanent executive to be established. The focieties are unjustly accused of attempts at affaffination, which they abhor; in proof of which, when, in the last summer, offers were made by certain foldiers, to affaffinate the person, known by the title of king, as a mean, avaricious, and bloody minded tyrant, the fupporter of all the flavery of the world, fuch offers were not only rejected with difdain, but intelligence thereof inftantly forwarded to the Duke of Portland: but whatever may be done by the people in their fovereign revolutionary charafter, the focieties neither defire nor pretend to any controul; of this the nation may be affured, that the Foulons and those infa mous tools, always to be found in a corrupt magistracy, will never efcape; nor fhall one ftone of the bloody and infamous Baftile be left upon another.

Ordered that five hundred of these MSS. be circulated the fame day in these nations; and that in Paris be printed, at the expence of the grand affiliation, one hundred thoufand for France; the fame for Germany; the fame for Batavia and Belgium; and fifty thousand for the North in the feveral languages.

Lang-s delegate ambulatory fully accredited by the focieties of London, Edinburgh, Dublin, Paris, Milan, Altona, Hanover, Munich, Kingston Jamaica, &c. &c.

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PETER PINDAR.

UST as this fheet was going to the prefs, we received an account of the corporal punishment of this old and hardened offender. Writhing, it feems, under the lafh, which he fo richly merited, and which was fo ably laid on him by the celebrated author of the Baviad, finding no refource in his hacknied and exhaufted Muse, he determined to seek for fatisfaction in a personal assault, and, in this determination, proceeded to the fhop of Mr. Wright, where, very luckily, he found the object of his revenge. Having asked the gentleman if his name was Gifford, and having received an answer in the affirmative, he instantly aimed a blow at that head where the means of his anguish and difgrace had been conceived. Mr. Gifford, who is as active in body as in mind, caught the blow on his hand, wrenched the ftick from his affailant, gave him two fmart ftrokes on the head, and was proceeding in the good work, when two gentlemen, who, unfortunately, happened to be prefent, interfered and prevented the farther execution of justice.

Peter was now turned, bleeding and bellowing, into the street, where his clamorous complaints foon drew around him a croud of

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