4 APPLICATION oF BARRUEL’S MEMOIRS OF FfACOBINISM, TO THE SECRET SOCIETIES oF IRELAND AND GREAT BRITAIN, BY THE TRANSLATOR OF THAT WORK. Princes a h ippear from the face of the E this aryYoLuT fhall be the Work oF sucaeT socIETIZS. + Difeeurfe for the Myfteries. LONDON: Sold by E. Boox en, No.56, New Bond-freet. 1798. PRICE ONE SHILLING AND SIXPENCE. [Entered at Stationers Wall.)ADVERTISEMENT, 1 cos: fold befire the Fourt ng the delivery of fopars be onblcation of the fecend Edition, sn completed. They are now ready fer delrvery, a . $6, New Bond-firrit, Lendenm—Price 11. 8s, ‘The Author had only published his firft Volume during the life-time of that valiant Combatant of French democracy, Mr. Burke; but the work, ercmin that carly flat, entitled the Author to that Gentleman's applaufe, as may be (cen by the following letter: “¢ Sir, * 1 cannot eafily exprefs to you how rmuch [ am inftruéted and delighted by the fir Vol tory of jacobinifm. ‘The whole of the wonderful narrative fs fupported by docurnents and proofs with the moft juridical regularity and exaétnefs. Your veftexions and reafonings are in- terfperfed: with’ infinite judgement, and in their moft proper places, for the fentiments of the reader, and preventing the force of plaufible ‘The tendency of the whole is admirable in every point of iew, political, religious, and, let me mike ufe of the abufed word, philofophical. So far as Ican prefume to judge of a French ftyle, the firft water. I long impatiently for the fecond Volume 5 je of my wifhes is, that the work fhould have a great in France, if by any means it can be compaffed; and for that end, I fhould be glad, feale of a poor individual, to become a liberal fut i Yam as yet in a miferable Mate of health ; and if Padvance at all, it is very flowly, and with many fallings t I forgot to fay, that I have ksown myfelfy perfonally, five of your principal confpiraters; and I can undertake to fay from my own certain knowledge, that fo far back a5 the year 1773, they were bufy in che plot you have fo well defe: d nner, and on the principle you have fo truly reprefented.— I can {peak as. withers, J have the honour to be, dc, ec. May ts 479) (Signed) « Ep, Burns.” ‘The Bei iti is judgement on the work when the three firfl Volumes were publithed, in the following terms: “ Certain we are, tliat no book hai appeared fince the commencement of our labours, which was more neceffary to be read, and weighed atten~ Perfon of any property, whether hereditary or commer- fal s every pero holding any rank in fociety; and every perion who k: hin him a (park of for the honour of God, or tlie welfare mankind" (March 1798, Page 293.) PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS On the Work entitled Mxmorrs, tlufrating. the Hiftory of Facobinifm, , "THE Abbé Barruel, has divided his Memoirs into three” different confpiracies, naturally owing from each other. The firft is, that of the Sophifters of Impiety, conlpiring’ againft their God, and impiotifly denoting thei hatred of Chrift, by {wearing to crujh the wretch; for thus they blafphemoufly ftyle the Saviour of the World. He dé- {cribes the divers means and arts employed by them in their AnticuristiAN Conspiracy, ftep by ftep; and the Chriftian needinot dwell on the proofs, when he is inform- ed, that, in O€ober, 1798, all places of Chriftian wore fhip were abolifhed at Paris; and that capital was no longer fubdivided into parithes, but into’ Wards, each having a Temple dedicated to PAGAN WORSHIP, as follows —Ift. Ward—The church of St, Philip du Roule is now confecrated to Concord. II. The church of St. Roche to Genius.—Ill, St. Euftache to Agriculture—IV. St. Germain-L?Auxerrois to Gratitude. — V. St. Laurence to Old Age. — VI. St. Nicolas-in-the-Fields to Hymen. — VIL. St. Merry to Commerce. — VIII, St. Margare to EQuarity and Liperty. —IX, St. Gery Youth. — X. St. Thomas of Aquinas. to Peuce, — St. Sulpice to 7 — XIL St. James-du-Haut-Pas to Benevolence ;— St. Medard to Labour; — and St, 3 phen-on-the-Mount to filial Piety. A Chriftian will fhudder at this recital; bet when the Abbé, early in 1797, afferted, that the total fubveriion of Chriftianity was the object of the Seét, he was fcarcely believed, and was fet down as anenthufialt: he had, never- *a2 thelels,iv PRELIMINARY thelefs, tamed the chiefs, Voltaire, D’Alembert, Frederic II. King of Pruffia, and Diderot; he had defcribed the micans employed, and led us from haunt to haunt inhabited by the impious pretenders to philofophy, whether at courts or petty meetings of female adepts, where every one ranked in {cience according to the impiety or blafphemy of his difcourfe. Thole jeaders that inhabited Paris affembled, under the direction of D’Alembert, at the hotel of a Baron D’Hol- bach; there did thele men begin to confpire againft Mo- narchy as they had conipired againft Chriftianity ; and from that club may be faid to have iffued the Sophifters of Im- piety coalelced with thofe of Rebellion, forming the -nti- smonarchical Confpiracy. Le Roy, the fétretary of that fociety, repentant when he beheld the revolution, thus defcribes the club: “ The following were our occupations 5 « the moft of thofe works which have appeared for a long « time paft againft religion, morals, and government, were “ ours, or thofe of authors devoted to us. They were all « compofed by the members, or by the order of the fociety. “« Before they were fent to the prefs, they were delivered « jn at our office; there we revifed and correéted them, and « added to or curtailed them, according as circumftances « required.—We began by printing them on fine or ordi- « nary paper, in fufficient number to pay our expences, and thenan immenfe number on the commoneft paper. Thee « Jatter we fent, free of coft, or nearly fo, to hawkers and « bookfellers, who were to circulate them among the people « at the loweft rate. Such were the means ufed to pervert “ the people, and bring them to the ftate in which you « now behold them. TI fhall not behold them long, for I fhall die of grief and remorfe;” (Vol. I. p. 335)—and he really died a fhort time after. How OBSERVATIONS. ¥ How different the deportment of Candarcet, (alfoa mem- bes of that clab,) who, in the midit of all the fanguinary fcenes of the revolution, proclaims the fuccefs of thefe two- fold confpicators, faying, “ There was a clafs of men & which foon farmed itfelf in Burape with a view not fo much to diftever and make deep re/tarch after truth as to diffule it: whofe chief object was to attack prejudices in the yery alylums where the Clergy, the Schools, the Government, and the ancient Corporations had received and protected them; and made their glory to confit rather in de(troying popular error than in extending the limits of fcience: this though an indireét method of forwarding its progrefs, was not on that account either lef dangerous or lef uleful. — Afeming every tone, taking every jhape, from the ludicrous to the pathetic, from the moft learned and extenfive compilation to the Novel or the petty Pansphlet of the day, covering truth with a veil, which, /paring the eye that was too weak, incited the reader by the pleafure of furmifing it, infi- dioufly carefling prejudice in order to ftrike it with more certainty andeffect; feldom menacing more than one at atime, and that only inpart; fometimes flattering the enemies of Reafon by /eeming to afk but for a half tale- ration in Religion or a half Liberty in polity ; refpeé?- ing Dejpotifa when they impuened relizious abjurdities, and Religion when they attacked tyranny; combating thefe two pe/ts in their very principles, though appa- rently inveighing againfl ridiculous and difeufing abufess firiking at the root of thofe peftiferous trees, whilft they appeared only to wifh to lop the firaggling Branches ; at one time marking out fuperfiition, which covers Dejpotifm with its impenetrable fhield, to ihe & friends of Liberty, as the firft vittim which they are a3 & gpPRELIMINARY to immolate, the firft link to be cleft afunder ; at another denouncing it ta Defpots as the real enemy of their power, and frightening them with itshypocritical plots and fanguinary rage; but indefatigable when they claimed the independence of Reafon and the Liberty of the Prefs asthe right and fafeguard of mankind ; inveighing with enthufiaftic energy againft the crimes of Fanaticifm and Tyranny ;—in fine, adopting reafon, toleration, and humanity, as their fignal and watch-v vord, & Such was the, Modern Philofophy. — Its chiefs had « the art of efeaping vengeance, though pofed to ha- c teed: of hiding themfelues from perjecution, though « fufficiently confpjcuous to lofe nothing of their glor —(Vol. TL. p. 134.) The learned Abbé next takes a view of the different {yfkems and degrees, and even deferibes the trials made of their principles, and particularly at Geneva, almoft under the dire€tion of Voltaire, the premier chief. It was natural that when their corifpiracy had gained fo much ftrength, thefe felf-created Philofophers fhould feck after and coalefce with every other fpecies of confpirator that was tobe found. An ancient confpiracy againft Chrif- tianity and againft Monarchy had been handed down, and zealoufly profecuted in the occur Lopces of Mafonry ;* they were no other than the ancient myfterics of Mansy 4 The leamed Author days Occult Ledger, as the Frec-mafons in gene~ yal were fur from being acytuainted with the confpir Ledger} and indeed many were people not to be tampered with. Tt might fe objedted, that all Lodges were Occult: with regard to the, public they were fo; buty befide the Cixemor Lodger, there exifted others which were Hidden from the generality of the Free-mafons. It is thofe which the ‘Author fiyles Anutzaxs Loces, and that have been called Occun? Lopozs in the Englith Tranflation. of OBSERVATIONS. vii of indefinite Equality and Liberty ; and left affaffins fhould be wanting to the Seét the following is the reception in the degree of Knight Kadb/ch: “In the Lodges of the « Knights Kadofeh, after all the oaths, coremonies, and trials, more or leis terrible, wicked, and can three figures are fhown to the candidate, reer Clement ¥. Philippe le Bel, (the two potentates who deftroyed the Knights ‘Templars,) and the Grand Majer of Malta®, cach attired in the attributes of their dignities. The unhappy fanatic is here to fwear eternal hatred and death to thefe three proferibed perfons, en- tailing thathatred and death on their fuccellc aati default. He then ftrikes off the three heads, which, as in the degree of Execr, are real when they or be procured, or filled with blood, if fiGitiouss this he does, crying out, vengeance! vengeance !”—(Vol, LV. Ae) ‘ eee Thi is an awful reflexion for honeft Mafons, who in their firft degrees interpret their fecret of Egualit Ped Li- berty only as an Equality within the Lodge aes each other, without any other diftin&tion than ae of the de~ grees; and a Liberty todo good, which, it is to be hoped needs not the moft bloody Oaths of Secrecy to ee ; But when we come to the third volume, a quite ene feene opens itfelf. Here all the myfteries of Ilu- minifin are revealed, from the fixit conception of it by Ea « “ It might be objected, that the Knights of Matta gained admittance te the Lodges Juft as other people could, Latterly, it is true, they could: but it was only becaufe the Seét had changed its batteries, and and though Proper to make ule of the fume art aid againtt that Order, as it did againft the church, by making its! adepts become members of’ the Urder ; witnels Delomicy and Bafredon formerl ; afreden ly the crofsof Mala was a ba exclufion from the Mafonic Lodges. era Fag Spartacus=vili PRELIMINARY Spartacus-Weithaupt, to its moft horrid views for the Si ftruction of Religion, of Government of every fpeciess and of all Property without exception. a hefe reforming impoftors affumed the garb of virtue and fcience i del letter of the founder wil! delineate his practice a virtue, as well as the ule he would make of eure. Weifhaupt writes to his adept Hertel, “ My honour is in danger, ad « Tam on the eve of lofing that reputation which Ln dep§ « great an authority OVER our people. My fifker-i -law « js with child, T have fent her to Munich, to Euripon, & {o folicit a marriage licence from Rome: aan fhould © fhe fail, what fhall I do? — We Bave already uy « feveral attempts to defiray the ebild 3 fhe Was sehr “ to undergo all; but Euripon is too timid. os F « fearcely fee any other expedient. But could T depens © on Baader’s fecrecy, (he was a learned phyfician at & Munich,) he could be of great fervice to me; he had “ promifed me his aid three years ago G pretty ufe « fcience). Mention it to him if you think proper. — If « you could extricate me from thisunfortunate flep, you & would reftore me to life, to honor, to relt, and ta sip thority” (that is, over his people). He ext aay to his friend Zwack, and fhows his hypocsify mae fays, “ What vexes me the moft in all this is, that my & authority over our people will be greatly dimi ae that I have expajed a weak file, of which they will © pot fail to advantage themfelves wenev 4 I may « preach morality, and exhort them to virtue and ¢ lefty.” : a be fufficient to pourtray the founder of the Atheiftical Iluminees, who has, together with Zwack a the Baron Knigge, compiled fo aftonithing and progrefiive i d to pro- f rebellion, that one would be tempte sere ; nounce OBSERVATIONS, ix nounce it fupernatural. The fondeft parent never fo foli- titoufly watched his moft beloved child, nor bethought him(elf of fo many arts for its pre(ervation as this aftonifh~ ing prototype of rebellion has invented for the perdition of Mea both in this life and the next. No ; Satan, when feeking vengeance init his Divine Creator, would have been proud to become the pupil of the modern Spartacus— Singuler to fay, the Sophitters of Impiety, fecking to ree cruit their ranks, when become the Sophift f Rebellion, had flocked to the Mafonic Lodges; and it is through the means ¢f thofe very Lodges alfo that Illuminifm has over- whelmed Europe with its The Abbé, after ‘having given eve cole of iuminifm, or of the Awrisoctat Conspiracy, proceeds to delineate the hiftorical part of Dluminifm, and then applies the triple confpi to the French revolution. He defcribes the Baron Knig ntriguing at Willemfbad, where the’Freemafons from all parts of the world had affembled. ‘The Baron prefently gained over about five hundred of the brotherhood ; and foon after: the Se@ de- clares, “Of'all the Legitimate Lodges in Germany, there “ts ONLY ONE that bas not coalefced with our Superiarss “and this Lodge has been obliged to fulpendits labours.” How formidable is this declaration in the eyes of him who has read the code of Uluminifm! ‘How fimple the means of feduetion! forwhen Weithsupt withes to make himilf mafter of the Lodges of Poland, he only inftruéis Zwack to make the following propofitions to the Polith Mafons: “ T. That'they fhould acknowledge but'the firft three de- “ grees.—IT. That-wach Lodge fhould he at Uberty to “have fuch “Superiors,‘and as many of them, as they pleated.—HiT. ‘That all) Lodges fhould be independent * of cach other, at leaft as much fo-as the Lodges of Ger- manyPRELIMINARY many are of thofe of Poland —IV. That all their union {hall be carried on dy the CORRESPONDENCE and Visits © the brethren—If we can but gain that point, we < fhall have fucceeded in all we wants leave the reft to me.” (Vol. LV. pe 193) And in what light does this arch-confpirator view (Lwill fay) the moft innocent Ma- fons? & Though thefe myfterious affociations fhould not « gttain our objeét they prepare the way for us; they * give a new intereft to the caufe; they prefent it under 5 of view hitherto unobferved; they ftimulate & the inventive powers and the expectations of man- Co » vender men more indiffirent as to the kind; y of governments; they bring men, of divers and religions within the fame bond of uni- cons they deprive the church and flate of their ableft & and moft laborious members; they bring men together « who would never otherwife have known or met « ech other, By this method alone they undermine the foundations of flates, though they really bad «& io fuch project: in view, They ‘throw them together « and make them clafh one againtt the other. They teach « mankind the power and force of union; they point out « to them the imperfections of their political conflitutions « and that without expofing them to the fufpicions of their enemies, fuch as magiftrates and public govern- « ments. They mafk our progrels, and procure us the « facility of incorporating in our plans and of admitting « into our Order, after the proper trials, the maft able « men, whofe patience, long abufed, thinfis after the « Grand Ultimatum, By this means they weaken the « enemy; and, though they fhould never triumph over & him, they will at leaft diminifh the numbers and the «geal of bis partizans. In proportion as thefe new at fociations GBSERVATIONS. the former ones (that is, of civil fociety), ihe Jatter muft weaken and infe fall——(Vo. TM. p. 213.) — And what is to be the Grand Ultimatum of thef Se- cret Societies, “ the/e febools, which have been in all ages © the archives of ‘Noturt and of thr Rigurs\o¥ Man? Thefe feheals fall one day retrieve the fall of Human “ Nature, AND PRINCES AND NATIONS SHALL DISAP~ ti PEAR FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH; and that without any violence, — Morality {hall alone produce « this great revolution.” But what is to be underftood by morality? He fays, © Nor is true morality any other @ than the art of teachinig medi to'fhake off theit’ ward “ fhip, to attain the AGE oF MANHOOD, and thus to « need neither princes nor governments’? —(Vol. WT: P- 199.) With refpe& to Property, it is reprefented as the bane of Liberty and Equality: As families multiplied, “ the means of fubfiftence began to fail; the nomade tae roaming) life ceafed, and PRoPERTY farted into ie. Peer 3 men chofe habitations; agriculture made them intermix. Language became univerfal; living together, One man bepanleaWestare’his Rreneth with aieetiec, and the weaker were diitinguifhed from the rouge This undoubtedly erected the idea of mutual atta of one individual governing divers families re-united, and of thus defending their perfons their fields againft the invalion of an enemy, éut dence Linervy was ruined in its foundation, and Equaurey difap- meaner i. P- 175). Thus would the Tiiamit= nes, indefence of Liberty and Equality, with to overturn every idea of property, and reftore us naked to the de- Serts, there to Jead the nemade or favaze, life, As to the “ Mercantile « cxii PRELIMINARY © Mercantile Tribe,” as they choofe to ftyle the commer- cial part of the ftate, “ confer on it any rank or authority & jn the government, and you will have created perba « the moft formidable, the molt de/patic of all powe They are reprefented as enjoying the means of creating, forefeeing, and fatisfying, wants hence dangerous to Li- berty and Equality.—So confident of fuccefs is Weifhaupt, that he exclaims, “ All the efforts, therefore, of Princes to ftop our progrefs will be fruitlefs ; the fpar# may long « remain hidden in the afhes s but the day muft come, in & which the general flame fhall burft forth,”—{Vol. IIT. p. 214.) "The Abbé has dwelt at full length on every artifice and device of the Code, from the regulations for the Novice, to thofe of the Maz-king, or Man recognizing no matter, either human or divine, but himfelf. It is fingular to fee the art with which even the Novices are prepared for the moft atrocious deeds. We fee them aflenting to the fol- lowing obligations: Gan you and will you look upon « the welfare of the Order as your own 2—Da joi moreover, grant the POWER OF LIFE AND DEAXH Js &« our Order or Society P—Da you fubjelt yourfelf ta @ & BLIND OBEDIENCE, WITHOUT ANY RESTRICTION «© watever?” This is not all; when preparing fuch defperate eonfpirators, left they fhould beteay their feeret, they ere queftioned unawares by their Teacher or Infins- ator, even fuddenly awakened cut of their fleep. And fuicide was not only encouraged, but, dogmatically taught jn the Order, under, the formula of patet exitus, or the exit is free; a certain inexpr effible pleafure was faid to appertain to fuicide; and all this is called the diffufion of light! The mode of diffuling univerfal light is, « not to proclaim it at once to the world, but to begin « with OBSERVATIONS. ~ xiii * with yourfelf; then turn towards your next neighbour ; you two can enlighten a third and fourth; let thefe, in © the fame manner, extend and multiply the number of the children ‘of light, until numbers and force fhall throw power into your hands (Vol. IIL. p. 196) 5 thew will you be dble ty bind the hands of your opponents, to fu them, and to fife wickednefi in the embriox? that is to fay, every principle of civil or political fociety, Left Weil haupt’s meaning fhould be miftaken, when writing to two of his favourite adepts, he fubjoins the following correfponding and explains it to Zwack, “ Immediately under me I * two adépts, itito whoin I infufe my whole [pirit & thefe correfponds with two others, ahd fo on. ® method, and inthe fimpleft way poflible, I can inflame “ nd put in motion thoufands of men at once,”’— He alfo Writes to Baader: “ T have fént to Zwack a fale, fhow- « ing how one may methodically, and without much trou- ble, arrange a great multitude of men in the fine/? imaginable — the {pirit of the firft, of the moft ardent, of the moft profound adept, daily and inceffantly com- municates itfelf to the two 4 4, by the one to BB, by the other to CC, — B Band C€ communicate it to the eight following; thefe to the next fixteen, from thence to the ‘thirty-two, and fo downwards — Ina 5 © word,xiv PRELIMINARY & word, every man has bis Aid-Major, by whofe means be < immediately aft. on all the.others. The whole force focht ifses from the centre, and then flows back again Each one fubjegts, as it were to his own perfon, fearches to ike bottom, whom he ob- nd drills, as it were, like recruits, that they ma ife and fire with nt”?—(Vol. IIL p. 409) — It is by are to be tranfmitted and political operations carried on. The learned Abbé alfo deferibes that famous affociation invented by a DoStor Bahrdt, and known under the ap- pellation of German Union. This was an union among all the bookfellers that could be feduced into the Order of the Iluminces, to fupprefs, by every means in their power, all works that might lay open the views or impede the progrefs of the Sect. They were alfo to circulate all writings, however feditious, when written by the Ses and at the head of this /iterary aflociation was Nicolai, a * Such is the nature of Illuminifm, which the leaned Abbé has laid open tothe publics meverthelefs, a foreigner lately come to this countrys ‘and who writes a new publication under the title of AZ¢ ritanniques hhas (page 541) inferted a paragraph on this work, as feurrilous as it is contemptible, In his rage, he goes fo far as co reprefent Iuminifm as f a few pedarts of Germany,” and which he {ups pofes the Abbé ck lefand bimfelf. Had not, this learned wor' Jready met with the unparalleled approbation of the Engliff’ nation at the few Specimens here adduced, which are hut too intelligible, would be fufficient to give the Englith reader an idea of the perfpicuity and of the leamed Abbé, efpecially when compared with the abufe ned in the above paragraph.—It is with real pleafure 1 announce his Praffian hasjuft publithed an Ediét in xiii g thiefe feeret focietiés. “The Eéiét may be feen.in Mr. Peltie’s Pants Prxpawt 1798, No. CLXX! page r155 and will, it tolbe hoped, find ite way into all the public prinks of this country. powerful OBSERVATIONS. xv powerful book(eller at Berlin, who was sided in his la« bours by other adepts indifferent quarters of Germany ‘The bufinels of thele chiefs was much of the fume nature as that of Holbach’s club, already deferibedt by Laney in the foregoing pages. Te was alf under the dire®ion of thele adepts, that Reading Societies were-fet on foot, ang Newfpepers and Reviews’ publithed to calumn perfon that could not be brought aver to their part Spread their principles, Among the rules for the Regent. we read, that “ Every effort mult be made to gain over the 5 ee but fhould all our attempts fail, and we fhould & be unable to entice him into the Order, fer him be dif * credited by EVERY means poffil *—(Vol. IIL. p. 343.) —To weaken the veneration of the : bs people for their prin- ces,and to aflume no matter what cl: : a 4, prov but fiucceed, is alfo tobe found in the inkru Re; clared ta be the mof? cawvenient cloaks, The very natu of this union thows the wifion (I will even fa rhe a ceffity), when prolecutions are cartied on age fee diary publications, not only to profecute the author, fae avery book/eller bout diftinfion who fhall ie h ia fuch publication. Should the Jacobin excl a a fuch a propofition, let him Jearn, that his much French DireMory not only fends the writer of any Heation that gives umbrage to their ferocious di : the deferts of Cayenne, but the publither, the ve: 1d even the buyer. But inftru@tions of a eee e fe nature fo every parent are given to the Raeieicha Py fe Never lof fight (ty. thle infusions) of y 2 itary-fehools, of the academies, printing prefl S libraries, cathedral chapters, or any public eftbiin ments that can influence education or overnm nt Ibac government: Ler 8 ‘be fo ions of the nt, though the inferior Lodges of Mafonry are de ourXV PRELIMINARY our Regents perpetually attend to the various means, and form plans, for ma us mafters of all thefe efta~ & will (pare no pains to gain pollelion of the /ebosls which Tie within his dif- tri, and alfo of their teachers. Hewill find means of placing them under the tuition of members of our Order; for this is the true method of infufing our prin- ciples and of training our young men.” It is with regret I find: myfelf compslied to fay, that fearcely an univerfity in the north of Germany has efcaped the plots of the Sect; and, at Jena, the magiftrates were obliged to interfere, the {eholars (many of them not ten years of age) having formed one of thofe fecret focieties under the name of Amicifis, and were difcovered to be nothing but young Tumiinces training up, and nurtured in their abo= minable principles under the fecret direGtion of more hard- ened feducers. The reports to the Superiors irrefra~ gable proofs of their baleful conquefts in {chools and femi- naries, though theyinever loft fight of COUNTRY SCHOOLS, as-one of the-fureft means-for gaining over. the common people to their plots. When Iluminifm had {pread itfelf, throughout Ger- many, Italy, Switzerland, -and Holland, it was thought proper ta make an attack on France, which’ had not hi- therta been tampered with, on account of the fiery and hafty difpofition of its inhabitants. -Mirabeau, who had been initiated by Mauvillon, was the perfon who informed the German chief ‘that it was now time to fend their emiffar Amelius-Bode and Bayard-Bufche were accords ingly fent, and were received at Paris by-the fecret commit- tee of the Mafonic Lodge of the Amis Reunis.. They fubmitted the code of Iluminifm to the High Council, and it was agreed that the degree of Epopt alone (whence LT have OBSERVATIONS. xvi L have chiefly made my” exitraéts) fhoutdl be adopted, but fhaped out to the Mafonic fe Itiwas received with enthufiafm all over France, and Freach Mafonry becanve illuminized without even having heard of the naméiof Il luminee, that is ry of Atheifical himineess for another-fp d grown very common in.France; thefe Were called. Martinits, and were the fume .Se&t: as the Swedenboigian Hlumninees::Tt-was beau wrote his pamphlet on the Illumif open all the intri faits of that s; and raifing and std! fo the ether "part of them, who ries of Equality and Liberty, ‘he is filer his objestin writ soother than to miflea ality of the world as ofthe Ad It. was becaufe: th iborgians were perpetually talking: of God and of fpirits, that they wel feyled: Theofophival Uluminces, though ‘their myfteries only by different and travelling adepts initiated into the myfteries fich Ma- fons as! were judged worthy of thems ire they fented ns the principle of all things. A ferpent with its tail in its mouth was the ¢mbiem ‘of che osrnilp of ‘the world, having neither beginning ‘or endl ‘The ferpent alfo, having the: property-of renovating its thin, was figu~ rative-of the revolutions of the univerfe and of natures and the. phoenix, revivifying from its afhes, denotes how the wiriverfe is reproduced, and will continue to be fo, fromp itfelf,— But this was. merely leading the candidate: to Materialifm: the next point was; to obtain ‘the oath whith in regular-built ledges’ toole place as follows: the *b candidatexx PRELIMINARY « tain the revolution; to gain over to it, in ell parts, © friends, partizans, and protectors; to prope ® flame, to vivify the fpirit, to excite zeal-and ardor « it, IN EVERY STATE, and by every means in their « power.” —(Vol.LV, p. 464.) — No fooner was this re- ceived, than Yom Paines ftarted up in every country, and the honours of French citizenfhip were the recompence of thefe incendiaries, Firft appe or the French effay-mafters in conftitutions, dabbling with Hdifeuffions on the Rights of Man; they, to en called Monarchiffs (thvough de~ tifion, probably), disjoint the fceptre, pillage the church, and then are abandoned by the Se@ who no longer want the fupport of their feeble talents, On théfe would J with Englithmen to reflect. Thefe were the trumpeters on abufes, inventors of portentous reformS, and were in their own minds to be the perledtors of the art of go- ernment. And what were they in reality ?—the tools mployed by the Se& to break down the facred pale of the French Monarchy, But why fhould 1 dwell on this, ina country where the laws fo well diftinguifh each man’s guilt? Does not every Englifhman on a jury, when a perfon is brought before him on his trial for a burglary, know that the heinoufnefs of the crime attaches to the breaking the dwelling, though even the theft fhould not be accomplifhed ? Nor would the crime of another baad of robbers, who really ftole trom that houfe which the fi - had Jeft open, be fo heinous in the eyes of the law as the crime of the former band, though the crime of the latter is alfo dec ed capital by the ftatute law of the land. Jult f do we fee the plundered Church and defence King of France delivered over to the fecond Aflembly 5 that is the Aira ofthe bloody roth of Auguft, of the butchering September. OBSERVATIONS. sber. ‘This Aflembly makes place for a third, when. and pontiffs are fubmerged in the ocean; death hunts them in every fhape: the Monarch, his Royal Confort, his Sifter, are dragged to the guillotine by the ruthlefs confpirators !) Thus do we {ee the plots againft the Church and Monarchy accomplifhed ; theplots againft rrererty had been profecuted with frightful fuccefs. In the firft aillembly, thofe confpirators who now gall themfelves Confti utionali/ts had annihilated the pro= perty of the Cler In the next aflembly, that of the Nobles was {eized, under pretence of emigrati thofe who remained in France were pil pretence of confifeation, During the third, adepts Bruiffart, Robefpierre, and the tw > Fulienss and they write, that the fayourable moment is now come te extirpate the MERCANTILE ARISTOCRACY 4s well as that of the Nostes. In their fecret correfpondence, as in Weithaupt’s Myfteries, they declare, that Merchantifn muft be crufhed; that wherever a large number of rich merchants were to be found, there were fure to be found as many cheats, and L wld n Lif its emp there. Accordingly, fpoliations and requifitions have robbed the merchants and citizens of their property, juft as the Clergy and Nobility had been robbed before them. But this was not the accomplifament of the Grand Endof the ultimate views of the Sect, which was the obliteration af all property whatever. Accordingly Drover, Babecuf, and Langelot appear. Tele declare, shat the Prench ion is but the forerunner of a Revolution greater and much more folemn, and which will be the laft. from the nobleman to the cottager all are to be ripped of their property. But, tremendous as is the profpeg how Small, when we look back, the fpark firlt folteredmall PRELIMINARY, &&c, foftered by impiety! yet how immenfe, how univerfal, its progrefs ! The Palatinate, Belgium, Holland, Spain, Por- , Naples, Italy, the Armies of the Princes, Malta, Con- ftantinople Eait, Africa, America, Switzerland, Sweden, Ruitia, Poland, Auftria, Pruffia, have all fele the effedts of it; and each has ¢ article in this volume. Would to God, that England were not entitléd ‘to ‘ind its place on’ this black lift! but the lea 4 author has unfortunately traced the agents of Iluminifm even to our fhores. We fee Rontgen {ent by the Superiors of I- fm; the boaftings of Zimmerman (che profligate, to inguith him from the great man of Bern); the pere~ Tf, after this, he curns his eyes d d Scotland; if he reads the Reports of ees of the Irith or Englith Legiflatures 5 not every er be induced to raife his hands to Heaven, and return thanks to the all-merciful and power- ful God, that has in his goodnefs preferved us from fuch numberlefS dar ! Thus far -has the Tranflator attempted to inal, The application of the M moirs of Jzcobinifm to thefe Kingdoms, being the objec of the note fubjoined to the fourth volume of the tranf= lation of tha » and it having been thought proper to publith it {eparately, this preliminary’ fetch has been ed, that the reader, who, from his wo occupa> not h: i to perufe the work at large, may remain entirely unapprized of the univerfal danger, imtthe ARTS OF SEDUCTION-~the of Jacobinifm. NOTE For the End of Vol. UF, of the Memoirs illujtrating the Hiftory of Facchinif ON publithing the Tranflation of the Firit Volume of thefe Memoirs, I declared that I confidered myfelf as only Fulfilling a duty in laying open, fo excellent a work to thofe cf my countrymen who were not fufficiently verfed in the French language to read the original, The objec of the Author throughout has been to few the univerfal havock and defolation with which thee d predatory Sects have threatened all Europe; ine has been to the vigilant attention of my countrymen, left they fall into the theres thatare Jaid toentrap them. This will, [ ho ec, be thought a fufficient reafon for the following more cumfintial application to Ireland and Great Bri the dreadful plots that have been detailed in thefe M moirs. IRELAND. { Trelanl, ever fince the year 1782, had prefented a per- potual feene of different affociations for different objects. The Volunteers had given rife to much ¢ 3 the Ro- man Catholics had been aétively employed in petitioning the jegiflature for the redrefS of certain grievances under which they laboured; and their prayer was at length parily acceded to. ‘The firft appearance, however, of the affociation to which we now allude was in June, 1791. The propofals for icare couched in the ftyle and exact terms of the Hie- a rophants2] rophants of Muminifm. They recommend the formation of an affociation, or, as it is ftyled, “ a beneficent con- “ {piracy” to ferve the people; afluming “ the fecrecy “ and fomewhat of the ceremonial attached to Freema- fonry.” Secrecy is declared to be neceffary to make ‘The bond of union. more cohefive and the fpiritof union more ardent; to envelope the plan with ambiguity, to facilitate its own agency, to confound and terrify its enemies by their ignora e defign, extent, and direction ce Tts Cer fa! is alfo Mafonic in order to create enthufiafin. ‘Let every member wear (day “and night) an amulet round ck, containing the « great principle which unites the brotherhood, in letters « of gold, on a ribbon, ftriped with all the original co- “ Jours, and inclofed in a fheath of white filk, to repre« “ {ent the pure union of the mingled says, and the aboll- “tion of all fuperficial diftingtions, all colours, and fhades of difference, for the fake of one illuftrious End. “ Let this amulet of union, faith, and honour, depend “ from the neck, and bebound about the body next to the {kin and clofe to the heart.” Mafonic Secreey, Equa- lity, and Union, cannot poflibly be better defcribed. Its members are to be chofen from among men in the prime of life, without diftin&@ion of religion; true phi- lanthropifts, « who are not bound down ro obedience to that wizard word EMPIRE, nor to the foyereigaty of jess? from among men, in fhort, who wifh to have it, and who are « determined to live and die free-men” (vivre libre ot ir}. This affociation (at firft called the Irifh Brotherhood, and rwards the United Irifhmen} “ will have, it is “ faid, an eye provident and profpettive, a reach and 8 © amplitude 13. mplitude of conception commenfurate to the progrefs five diffufion of knowledge ; —— it will make the light of philanthropy converg: Its ENp is declared to be, The rights of men in Ireland; the greateft happinefs of the greateft number in this Ifland; the inherent and in- defealible claims of every free nation: For, “ the rights of man are the rights of God; and to vindicate the one is to maintain the other. We muff be free, in order to ferve him whofe fervice is perfect freedom, ‘The Hierophant next proceeds to ftate, that “ to form a fummary of the national will and pleafire in points moft interefting to national happinefs, and then to put this dod?rine as {peedily 28 may be into practice, will “ be the purpole of this Central Society, or Ledve, from “ which other lodges in the different towns will radiate.” The diftin&tions of rank, of property, and of religious perfuafions, are to be abolifhed; but whether any thing thort of & great convulfion” can effoually and fpeedily procure the reform propofed, is to be, with many other principles of fedition, the fubje€t of future difcuition by the affociation. "The whole body was to meet four times a year, and the (regulating) committee once a month. Thele mect- ings were to be “ convivial; converfationa?, not a deba- “ ting fociety ; and confidentia!, the heart opsn and the door locked.” “Their external du/ine/s to confi, « 1, in publications to propagate their principles and effectu- ate their ends. All papers for this purpofe are to be “ fan@ioned by the committee. —2dly, Communication « with the different towns to be afliduoufly kept up, and “every exertion ufed to accomplith a National Conven- tion, — 3dly, Communication with fimilar focieties zbroad, as the Jaconin Crus at Paris, the Revolution a2 © Society[4 ty on Enchann, the Committee of Reform un « ScoTLann.” Eulogies to be pronounced (as in the Minerval Schools) * on fuch men as fhall have deferved well of “ their country until death, whofe works fhould live in 2 ‘ library to be formed by the fociety and dedicated to li- © berty.? — © The arift 'y (poor dupes) were to be “ made their inftraments.” — (Jrifh Report, Appendix, Ne, IF.) — Such was.the plan on which this affociation was to be formed, and it was recommended to the people of Belfaft by a Mr. Tone. On the gth of November, 34791, the day on which the affociation was inftituted at Dublin, a fimilar invitation was publifhed by it, and was figned Napper Tandy. Thus do we find that Liberty, Lquality, Secrecy, Union, and the Rights of man, were the real objeéts of this affeciation, Itis true that Parliamentary Reform and Catholic Emancipation were held out as their ely ebjeGts; but it has fince appeared upon oath, that thelé were only pretexts, and that “ the people in Lein- “ ter, Munfter, and Connaught did not care the value of “apen, or thedrop of ink it contained, for Parliamen- m or Catholic Emancipation.” — (Appendix, No. XXKI) Their Forms and Regulations were alfo Mafonic— Members were honorary or ordinary, and admitted be- cween two ypoafers, who vouched for the chara¢ters and ciples of the candidates, The fign and word were adopted. Funds were produced by admiffion fees, loans, and voluntary contributions of the “Arifiverats.” Taxes alfo of one penny per month were. levied on the indivi~ duals of the aflociation, and were generally tranimisted through regular gradations to the High Superiors. Many changes, however, took place on this fubjeét, and latterly three-pence Cased three-pence per month was levied. Thefe funds were not even entrufted to the Provincial Committees; but a member of the Executive attended to carry away the monies as foon as they were received. — It is true, indeed, that the Executive accounted to the Provincial Committee once every three months, A Chairman, or Mafter, prefided over the Lodges, whofe duty it was to preferve order and direct debates 3 he had the power of fining refractory members to the amount of five thillings, and even of expelling the member if he conti- nued to be contumacious; as alfo to erafe fiuch members as did not attend their duty after they had been ferved with a regular notice. Officers were appointed, and the fecretaries always belonged to a higher degree, The con- catenation of the degrees perfectly coincides with Weif- haupt’s plan, as the following fcale of correfpondence (of National, Provincial, County, and Baronial Committees, emanating from the Individual Societies) will demonttrate. N $e - — C c bos b BOR EB wa wn wt A ne mii at in iia When an Individual Society amounted to thirty-fix members it was equally divided by lot. ‘The frit cigh- feen drawn by the fecretary were confidered as the fenior fociety, the remaining eighteen formed the junior fplic, and received its number from the Baronial Committee through the medium of the fenior fplic. a3 TheC6] The Baronial Committee was compoled of the feerc- taries, treafurers, and a delegate from each individual fo- ciety under their direstion. The County and Provincial Committees were to be compoled of the fecretaries, trea- furers, and a delegate from the Committees immediately under them.—/( Ibid. No. II.) Ireland was fubdivided into jts four Provinces, and its thirty-two Counties; but as focn as two County Committees were formed, the Provincial Committee of that province was to be chofen, When two Provincial Committees had been eleéted, the National was formed of five members from each Provincial Committee. No perfon whatever could mention the names of com- mittee-men: they were not even known to thofe who had elected them in the cafe of the National or Executive ‘Committee, the fecretaries of the Provincial that examined the ballot only informing the perfons who had the ma, rity of votes, without reporting to the EleGtors. Thus was the fociety entirely governed by unknown Superiors. When any queltions were propofed in an inferior fo~ ciety, and this focicty wifhed to tranfmit them to other focieties (either to get information on the fubje&, or for any other reafon) it was to fend them to the committee under whole immediate direétion it might be. Strange members were admitted to the meetings (or, as they cermed it, “ ta the honours of the fitting” ) on pro- ducing their credentials; but the fecretarics made no re- turns in their prefence. ‘A teft was taken by every candidate previous to his admiffion, in a {eparate room, in prefence of his two {pon- fors and of a member delegated by the Mafter for that purpofe. The teft was declared to be “ a focial and fa~ cred compad,” and was in the words following: “ I, 4B. « do voluntarily declare, that I will perfevere in endea- « vouring Lh Ss youring to form a brotherhood of affection among Irithmen of every religious perfualion, and that I will alfo perfevere in my endeavours to obtain an equal, full, and adequate reprefentation of all the people of Tre- land. J do farther declare, that neither hopes nor fears, rewards nor punifhments, fhall ever induce me, directly or indireétly, to inform or give evidence againft any member or menibers of this or fimilar focieties, for any aét or expreffion of theirs done or made collectively or individually, in or out of this fociety, in purfuance of the fpirit of this obligation.”—( bid, No. 11.) Dublin, Belfaft, and Newry, were now become the head-quarters of the new confpiracy. The latter town even enjoyed the exclufive privilege of printing the con- ftitutions of the affociation, till by a decree of the 7th De- comber 1796 it was refolved, that they fhould be printed in three different parts of the Kingdom for conveniency’s Jeke. A delegate was alfo deputed from thence into the county of Cavan and the province of Leinfter, where he founded a number of focieties. The whole county of Antrim was foon in a ferment; its inhabitants were dif- fenters, whofe religious tenets bordered on democracy. — ‘The new-fangled Rights of Man began to be the favourite theme of all the difcontented in Europe; Paine’s Works were profufely diftributed among the Irifh; publications ef all forts and fizes were circulated, holding out “ Igns- © rance 8 the demon of difcord — Unien, as power, wif- « dom, and the road to liberty,” and teaching the rifing brotherhood “ that a more unjuft conftitution could not be devifed, than that which condemned the natives of a country to perpetual fervitude under the arbitrary do- « minion of flaves and ftrangers ;—that the firft and indif- penfable condition of the laws ina free flate is, the affene a4 “ of[8] “ of thofe whofe obedience they require — that the “ will of the nation muft be declared. — Away from us “ (cries the Hierophant) and from our children thofe “ puerile antipathies fo unworthy the manhood of nations, “* which infulate man as well as countries, and drive the “ citizen back to the favage.” No longer fhall man con- fine his attention to fome few fragments of the temple of Liberty. In future, “ the ample earth is to be its arca, “and the arch of heaven its dome.*’—( Ibid, No. ’. ‘The means of accomplithing thefe great things were the union of the whole peoples and England, Scotland, and Ireland, were fimultaneoufly to raife their voice. In thort, the clergy, gentry, and government, were held out as the real oppreffors of the people ; and thus were all the prin- ciples of anarchy and deftruétion of property to be infufed into that fame people. Clubs ond meetings were held under various denominations ; the Defenders were invited common caufe ; and the County Com- mittees were particularly entrufted with the care of making an union between the Orange Men and the Catholics, through great precaution was to be obferved in {peaking of the latter, left the Proteftants {hould take alarm. Union among themfelves and difufection to government was to conftitute their whole ftrength, It was feared that the Catholic Clergy would impede their finifter defigns; re- ports were ff » “chat the titular Bifhops had heen fummor re the Privy Council, and that they had “ received a bribe of five hundred guineass that they e to fummon all their Priefts, and com d them *© to do all in their power to difcover fuch of their flock “as were United Lrifhmen, or had a: Stion with « fuch.” — (Ibid, No. 17.) —in thofe parts where the whole population was Catholic, band-bills were diftributed, purporting [9] purporting to be the Conftitution of the Orange Men, which was death and deltrution to every Catholic; for, if the common people could be once Rirred up to rebeilion, it was eafy to turn their minds againft government as the centre of the Orange union (and what great weight muft this affertion have lately acquired, when that badge was worn by peifons whole duty it is ever to be above party Prejudice!) while, as in the county of Armagh, which had been the feene of much ftrife between the contending par~ ties, the Set fucceeded in uniting and leaguing them in one common caufé againit thofe who were held out as the oppreflors of the fate. The chain of correfpondence once perfectly eftablifhed, ations were opened with England and Scotland, and negociations carried on with the French during the Jaft fix mouths of 17955 and in April 1796 the outlines of a Treaty with France was drawn up by the National Committee, and tranfmitted to the French Direétory. — Ta the mean time the Seé continued to propagate its principles and enroll recruits, and on the 8th of Novem- ber all the affociations received orders to hold themfelves in readine(® to rife, and to procure arms and ammunition, as the French were immediately expeéted, On the 2gth of December the French really did make their appearance at Bantry; and, ftrange to fay, they were not {cconded in their attempts by the people, who uni- verfully rof: in the South to oppofe their invaders; but this is accounted for in a {till more extraordinary manner. ‘The Executive had received news, that the French had deferred their expedition till {pring ; this circumftance threw them “ off their guard, and in confequence of it “ no meafures were taken to prepare the people for the “ reception of the French anny... The prophe were left to “ them-[0] & themjzives.” T hope in God that this avowal, made by one of their intended Governors, may prove a wholefoms jeflun to that fame people, and encourage them to follow the loyal and genuine dictates of their hearts, — (Ibidemt, Noi XXX.) In. future, the bufinefs that will chiefly occupy the Committees will be reports on men, arms, and money, which fatecr article appears to have been a fubje% of great contention. Each degree thought itfelf intitled to dif- pofe of at leaft 2 part ‘of their funds; and fuck hed been the law originally ; but the High Superiors found it necef- fary to declare, that no Committee below the County fhould be empowered ta difpole of the funds. Soon after this power was confined to the Provincial, and ultimately one of the Executive DireStors always attended at the Provincial Committee to carry away with him to the Na~ tional Committee whatever contributions had been levied ‘on the brotherhcod. The jealoufy of the brotherhood obliged the National Committee at one time to iffue a proclamation, declaring that not “ one penny of their money bad been expended any other way than that it was intended for.” The vigilance of Government great- ly contributed to augment the expences of the Sect, as many of the members were taken up and brought to trials Thefe were defended at the expence of the bro- therhood, A regular Committee for the defence of pri- foners travelled the circuits; and the eminent talents of Mr. Curran (employed at a great expence) will ever ftand a voucher that juftice was done the prifoners wherever he was prefent. Large fums were fubferibed by sll claffes, and the duped ariftocrats (or, as one of the feeretaries ftyles them, the Araforricks) contributed at one fingle {ub(eription, in the county of Antrim, 3741. At the fpring aaa ipring affizes of 1797, held in the county of Downy 750R were expended, and a fafe conveyance had been procured to the prifoners thet were confined in the jail of that county. This, however, was not the only means of de- fence devited; for it was given as the opinion of a County Committee, “ that if there is any United Irishmen on the “ jury that will commit any of the prilom that is cons “ fined for being United Iriflimen, ought ta hfe their “ exiflence.” “The expences became fo heavy at length, from buying arms and fupporting and defending priloners, that a lottery was fet on foot; but what reader would fut pect (2s was really the fact) that this meallure was oh- jected to, on the plea that it encouraged ihe immorality of the people? To return to the new military organization of the Sest. It was ordered, that every Baronial Committee fhould form its three individual focieties into a company of one hundred men, choofing one captain, two lieutenants, and five ferjeants; total 108, The reader has already feen bow exadtly the correfponding, feale coincided with Wei haupt’s [lluminifm 5 but when the military formation be- gan to tke effet, and the numbers inereafed beyond all expeGtation, it was deemed necelfary to extend and change certain parts of this {eale. Greater danger attending the: taking of arms, the individual, fecieties began to fplit as. foon as their uumbers amounted to twelve. Thele were to be near neighbours, the better to watch over each cther's ations and to eafure fecrecy. The fecretaries lone were to form the higher committees. They were the bearers of all orders from the higher to the lower degrees; they reported the progrels made by, and the views of, the Sec, in as much as i¢ was thought neceflary to let them into the fecret 5 for we find that even the County Com-[2] Committees were not in the fecret as to the nature of the engagements entered into with the French. What un- happy deluded people then were the lower aflociators, who were informed of nothing, but were to be the meré agents of rebellion and murder, and were hurried on into this abyfs of horrors by a few political libertines who grafped at dominion, and wifhed to wade to the helm of the ftate through the blood of their countrymen! Ne- verthelefs, every petty piece of information that was tranfmitted to the lower degrees was ftyled @ Repart to their Conflituents. According to the new fcale it was ordained, that TEN Individual Societies fhould be under the direction of one Baronial Committees tex Barenials to one upper Baro- nial; and in large towns TEN upper Baronials to one diftrié. But as foon as a County contained four or more Diftri& Committees, the County Committee was created. When committees had been 2ppointed in two counties, the Provincial Committee was formed of two delegates from each, and the National Committee (or the Execu- tive) of five delegates from each of the four Provinciil Committees, though the National Committee was formed as foon as two Provincial Committees had been cle@ed, AA part of this Executive was ftationary in each province 5 and it appears that Dublin, Cork, and Galway, were their refidence in three provinces; but with refpect to Ulfter, it does not appear whether Belfatt, Armagh, or Newry, could clxim the honour. From this new formation, each upper Baronial will be found to contain a regiment. (Ibid, XXIV.) One Baronial | 40 One upper Baronial | xo | 100 20 3209 ‘One Individual Society | 32 Men. { 23] ‘The captains elected the colonels, and the latter pro- pofed three perfons, one of whom was created adjutant- general by the national committee. Ir may not be im- proper here to remark the care with which thefe higher conipirators fought to preferye their authority in their own hands, even in cafe of a revolution; for when there wasa queftion afterward of forming a national a/fembly, it was refolved that cach of the thirty-two counties fhould depute one perfon to be added to the executive, all lower focieties being caft out of the balance, and only to be confidered as agents, who, after haying been robbed of eyery moral and civil virtue, were to raife on high their fanguinary chicfs and feducers, glutted with the blood of their lawful go- vernors. Here, we fee the amazing progrefs made and the great power acquired fince the gthof November, 1791. Every thing now took a ferious and military turn, The new- elected officers were infirudted to ftudy taétics and acquire every fpecies of military information with refpeét to roads, tagazines, mills, 6c, Plans were devifed for the fupport of the wives and children “ during the exertions of the Bro- “ therhoul in the field.” Every thing that could thwart government was difcufled and refolved. The confumption of fpirits was prohibited, in order to hurt the excile; bank-notes were cried down; and even the buying of quit-rents was exprefly forbidden, In the mean time the High Superiors fiw that this armed mob could not be com- petent of themfelves to cope with the king’s troops ; a means of debauching the latter from their allegiance was there- fore contrived. _Hand-bills were privily circulated, hold ing out their officers “ as tyrants that bad rebelled again “ the rights of man, and whofe orders were dam: bills, in fhort, of the moft inflammatory nature were dif- 2 perfed{ a4 4 parfed amorig the military by the towns-people, who’ were a with the feduétion of thé’ treops'of their garrifon. ‘They fivore-in' fome few of the foldiets; thele fwore others 5 and when their number was fufficient, focietics were formed in’ the regiments. ‘Here’ again we find the fron ond word, which were changed every months the catechifm for recognizing a true brother; and the oath, which was, “to be true to the French republic, and to © take the life of any man who would attempt to dif ® cover... The rule for reckoning on friends among the military was, “that in café the perfon fworn is an © United Tvifhman, and has not taken any a&tive fteps * againft the body or any of its members, out of the line “ of his profeffian, he was to be deemed ftill the Friend of “ the United Lrifhmen.”—/Jbid. No. XIV.) — The bet- ter to propagate the [y{tem, it was held out to the military, that when the French fhould come, the foldiers were to be fuch as them; that there were to be no rich, but ALL “ Equatity; and that there was no ufe in their going ainft the French, becaufé when all the Powers were vk them, they could make no hand of them.” hey were alfo tampered with refpecting their pay. When all this had fufficiently fuccceded, “a foldier in ® each company was appointed to make a return of united “©men in his refpective company, while two of the * fteadief{ men” from each regiment * were employed to “ carry thefe returns” to the towns-people. Thefe, in return, informed ¢hem of the progref$ made by the Se& in Ireland, and of its numbers on-board the Englifh and French fleet; as 2Mo of all kinds of news from the lat- ter. A plan was {ettled, “ that upon a fignal given, (and “ this was fetting fire to a houfe, or fome fuch token,) if it was by day light, the men fhould turn out of the “ ranks pas j ranks; and.if it sas by night, and.ix could be fa'con- trived, an United Irifhman thould be fentry ae the-gate, who was to felll the barracks; and fuch United Ivith- men as weve within the barracks were to exert them- {elves in feizing fuch, arms, and ammunition within 2s they could get-—If there were but thirty friends in the barracks, by having, them.dilpesfed up and down in the rooms, when the attack was,to be made, they could give the arms to the| towns-people.”. If any) part of the garrifon were not tobe depended upon, the cannons feized were to) be pointed on the barracks, or whole corps were to be cut off for refufing to coalelce with them. Some of the brotherhood even wernt f far as to attempt to & fire to the ftores; but the burning coals were luckily dif covered by adragoon, Such: was the plan for garrifons and towns; the mode of proceeding in camp is exempli- fied in that of Bandon: “ On the it of July, 1797, the “€ country was, to be fet on fire on both ends and in the middle; and then, with what friends Mr. O’Brien near Bandon could fend them, and what friends they had in camp, about Four Hundred, they intended firit “ taking the cannon, and theni taking the bell tents, with “ the fmall arms, which they would give to the country « people fent byMr. O’Brien, and then go put General “ Coote and as many officers as they could te death, and “ retreat to Bantry, take polltifion of the battery, and “ keep itif poflibie till the French would land.” Itappeared that ata future time, whena rifing was alfo to have taken place, thatthe foldiess were to put all their officers to death, anid the yeamanry afo if they oppofed them, Unreturn for fo fignal a 2, the town of Skibbereen was to be given up zat diers for pillage during eight hours, — “hus do we fee the gradual progrefs of this.[ 16 ) this horrid aflociation toward its cruel and fanguinary ob- ject — THE GREAT END!! The committees in fue ture proceed with the'greateft eagerncls to Prepare every thing that can“ involve their country in rebellion and bloodfhed. » After the example of the bloody Marat, and according to the true’ principles of the Se@, a paper en- titked the Uniow Star was publithed at Belfaft, printed only onone fide, fo that it could be pafted ei the walls of thetlyects. Let this paper deferibe itfelf: As the Union “ Star is an official paper (of the Brothérhood) the mana- “gers promife the public that no chara€tets fhall be has “ aarded but fuch as are denouticed by authority, 2s being “ the’ partners and creatures of Pitt and~ his fadguinary “ journeyman Luttrell” (that is to fay, Lord Carkampton, the commander-in-chicf). “ The Star offers to public “ juftice the following deteftable traitors, as fpies and “ perjuved informers. Perhaps foié'arm more lucky than “ the reft may reach their hearts, anil free the world from bondage." Then was given’a lift of proferiptions, ex- aétly fuch as Marat cave when he flyled himfelf the politi- cal calewlator, becaufe, when four men had been torn to pieces by the demoniaes of Paris, he ftated, that fubtraQ- ing 4 from 30,000 there till remained 29,996 ariftocrats to fall beneath the national vengeance. Now this official weiter, in his frantic rage, thus addreffes his Sove! ign: “ Let the indignation of man be raifed agaiatt the im- “* pious. wretch who prophanely aflumes the title of reign- “ing by the grace of God, and impudently tells the world he can dono wrong. —Oh, man! of rather lef, Ob, king! will the Snothered groans of my coun. trymen, who in thy name fill the innumemble dun geons’ you have made, for aferting the rights of man, be C7) de confidered no wrongs ? —/Goy impious blafphemer and your hypocritical forcerers, to the fate Purnosos Puy, Juftice, and Linerty configns thee. ’Tis:in- * evitable, thy impofitions are detested ; thy kind have! been brought to juitice. The firlt poffeffor of thy trade has recently bled for the crimes of the craft, — We appeal to thy noble snd venerated name, O Brus “tus! who bravely aififfinated the tyrant of your coune “ try amidit his cohorts and in the profence of his pen © fioned. fenate.” — (XXV IIL.) — Thefe-are literal exe tras from this paper 5 andno Knight Kado/th of Mafons ry nor A4on-hing of Muminilin could hold more violent language. Another paper, nearly as wild, called Tue Paess, wes publifhed by Mr. Arthur O’Connor, with a fimilar view of inflaming the minds of the people, The violence of his own productions may be prefumed from the fentence he pailes on. all the moft yiolent papersiof Eng- Jand in his letter to his Brother. “ We (Burdett and “ himfelf) ordered you the Courier ; as to the morning “ papers they are mere lumber in your office; fo we did “ not fend you more than the Courrer, a3 in the bufie “ neff of the Prefs we found it wleleis to have any other.” —(Triats at Maidfione.) The Committees continued to receive daily reports of the motions and determinations of theirallies, the French; of their friends in England and in Scotland; aud of the immenfe progreis thet the Set was making. November, 1795, they are informed, “ that fewr new Societies are “ organized in Scotland, and that the County of Kerry Militia required one hundred conftitutions for their own “ute.” In April, 1797, that “their numbers are im- “ menfe in Leinfter, though unacquainted with the fyf * tom.[ 8 ] tem of organization. In Ulfter there were 116,844 & men organiwed.”* In May, a new fcene opens itfelf, which unfortunately fhews us, that the Irith Brotherhood were no ftrangers te deliberate aflafination, Between the hours of eight and nine ona Sunday morning, the 7th of May, 1797, a man of the name of James Dunn (a fimith and farrier, who had been in Lord Carhampton’s fervice for the fpace of fifteen years, and lived in a houfe at his lordthip’s park-gate) pre- fented himfelf at a Boronia? Committee, heldin a public~ houfe, Strand-fireet, Dublin. Mawice Dunn, the keep- eriof the houfe, was his {ponfor, and “ would engage his © ife for him that he was up or freight.” Hereupon the figns of the Brotherhood were put to him ; and having by his anfwers proved that he wasa true and accepted Brother, the chairman took the chair. James Dunn then filbmittedto the Society, “ that he and a few more friends “were thinking of doing ont (fhooting) Carhampton, © ‘The refolutions entered tato by the united focicties of Donaghadee and ite vicinity (and feized:on the r4th of April, 1797) are too explicit to be emitted here. They. refolved, that “ all power is radically in the peo- a ples” that “at ‘the prefent criffs the prople being ¢ chufe their officers, antl take a firft, fecond, and thir "6. fuch ag arable) to go forth to war in difeace ‘of their rights ‘as men 5 “ chat if any, prove hoftile tolliberty,, their eftates or property thall be 4 confifcated, and converted to the national fund." All enemics to the eaufe were tobe tied by a jury, « according to the taw ther a Revilatlonary Commitee was to be eftablithed. 1% js true, that this patyio- dic: zeal was.condemned by the Provincial Committee as prematare j but it 3s t0 "be remembered, that the ‘High Superiors of che Se feared nothing But a premature infurreétion ; * for,” fay they, by that means Govern- # ment would have it in their power to put us down, never to tif, af #6 Nealt for a cenuury ; andlikewife we have paid a great deal of money to the people in gaol, and it will ‘takea large fam of money to afi $£ them all winter.” = (Appendix, No, 1.) ra « becaule [ 19] “ becaufe he was a great hindrance to matters getting ® forward.” ‘This news electrified the whole committee with joy. One exclaimed, “ It is great news." It is * glorious news,” cried another: “It is the bet news we “ have heard yet,” faid a third; and a fourth declared, that “ it would do more for the caufe than had ever been done before.” Dunn then mentioned a narrow part of the toad leading to Luttrelfown, and a ftone wall from whence he might have 2 flap at Lord Carhampton, who he faid was dammed wery, and always carried piftols with him ; but one good blunderbufS would do as much as ten piftols, He then declared that four friends, John Brode- rick, Peter Reilly, Patrick Carty, and Ed. Martin, had engaged to join him; cn which the committee named feyen of their members to deliberate on fo important a bu finefs, and ordered them to meet at feven o’clock the fame evening, when Dunn and his companions were to attend. ‘The cuftomary oath of fecrecy was taken by all prefent, to the number of 173; they then parted, after giving as the new word “A Goop act.” At feven in the evening the delegated members met, one excepted. The oath of fecrecy having been adminiflered to the four friends; they were introduced. Thomas Byrne then faid, “I {appote “ thofe are friends and gentlemen; I fappofe we all un- © derftand what we are met abour?” —« If they were not,” sufwered Duar, “1 wouid nor bring them here. —‘ We know the bufine we are met about (irys Byrne); let us proceed,” Various plans were then pro- pofed for doing his Lordfhip eut, Dunn repeated his ; Byrne would have at leatt a party of nine mounted; but Jobn Ferral, with foguinary zeal, infifted thar every per= fon prefent fhould partake of the foul deed; and his opi- uion was adopted. Another refolution propofed by Byrne b2 thenthen paffed: “ that three at leaft fhould go out difruifed with loofe coats and blunderbufles; and the reft, as « yeomen cavalry, to be armed with piftols.” ‘The plan of execution was, that “ thofe with blunderbufles were to “ come at theiback of the carriage and to fire in; thofe “>with the piftols were then to ride on, and fire inat the « windows, left the fire from behind fhould not have * taken effect ; and as they pafled the feetman and pofillion they were alfo to difpatch them; they were. then to re- charge their pieces, ride on in a body towards Dublin, and keep together, fo as to fecure their retreat”. ‘A new oath was then taken, “ to be ftaunch and fteady, and true * to one another in the bufinefs.” When the book came to John Ferral, he enthufiaftically exclaimed, “ If this © bufinefs miflés, if provifion be made for my family, T will undertake to do him in the ftreets.” Several meet- ings were afterwards held on the fubjeét; for never was a murder more deliberately planned. Money being neceflary for procuring arms, the chairman of the commit- tee applied to the Baronial Secretary, who referred him to the Treafurer; and the Sunday after (May 14) James Dunn and Patrick Carty were arrefted in the park. ty had, together with his father penfioner) been a conttant labourer demefae, and had a houfe rent-free, arreft Lord Carhampton yifited Dunn in prifon, in the hope that he would difcover what was become of the three other aflafiins, buthe received no fatisfactery anfwer. On his Lordthip expreffing his furprize that th foner fhould be capable of fo atrocious a deed, t fin anfwere ed, that “he thought it was @ good ad; that he had no # perfonal diflike to his Lordihip, and would never execute is lone, bue with his party 5 that he bad never fuffered ® any {C21 J “ any injary from him but thst he was fworn to execute * it, and if he were out of that (the prifon) he would “ execute it if he could.” As to the murdering the poor innocent poftitlion, “ it was to do the thing completely.” place, Lord Carhampton, fome time after the arreft of the fon, had an interview with Carty, the father, and told him * that if his fon would give exami- “ nations he was inclined to let himdo fo; and in that * cafe he thought his life might be faved; an@ he defired “the father would tell the fon fo." The father faid, he * was apprehenfive, thatif his on gave examinations, he ® would be a Lh velt on this exemple, as it was the fbject of a trial, in which the Attorney-Ge- nerat profecuted for the crown, and four countel attended onthe part of the prifoner, Mr. Curran, Mr. M‘Nally, Mr. Greene, and Mr, Emmett, who had himfelf been a member of the Executive Directory from January till the beginning of May. Such able tounfel and fo public a trial will ever ftamp this as an authentic document.—( See Report of the Trials of Carty end Dunn, publifhed by Ridgeway.) In June, the captains were injormed, that the national committee been fitting fifieen days; but, as only 49,000 men of the County < ald rife, the bu= dinels was retarded, The colonels of the County of Down were unanimous for the rifing. In July their hopes were buoyed up by an intimation that 75,000 men were embarked at the Texel for Ireland; but thefe were irre- parably broken by the immortal Duncan on the 11th of O&tober. In Auguft they received news, that a number of foci- eties had been formed in North America, and that thefe aig toe had£) a6 had tranfmitted 221 dollars to their Brethren in Ircland. In Oa@ober 2 perfon, jult arrived from Scotland, at the county meeting: held at Down Patrick, and © fhew &@ Scotch conflitution, which was, WORD FOR WORD, + as ihe Irifh; only that the words North ® Barrons were put int 2 of InisHMEN.” No+ vember t4, inquiries were made of the delegates of the Province of U wil ¢ they thought that they if i 5 and they se all fad that they could, except Armagh.” —( Appendix, No. XIV.) — On the of December, * One co © tution was voted to a member, to be given to part of & a pig's company lying in Belfaft-Lough, for the props « gation of the general: principle. cia Meeting for Uller, held the rit of February, 1798) it was reported, that “ three del tunate Quigley, fince executed at Mai had: jut arrived from Prince thar the French were gong on with the ex} fon; and that ic was ina greater ftate of forwardnefs than was expected but what was moft flartering, ‘was, that three delegates bad been fent from the Unrrep Brrrons to the Irifh National Committee ani that frem that very moment they were to confider ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, and {rE LAKD, as one people ating for common caufe= There were Legiflators now choftn from the three « kingdoms to at as an executive for the whole.” They ere alfo informedy that’ Quigley and one Arthur Mac Mahon, of Hellywood, had been the two principal perfons who, during the'precéding fummer, Bad opened the commus nication with the United Britons, (Ibid. ddeg from England brought an addrefs from the United Bri- tonsto the United Irifh, In high fown and patriotic lan- guages [ 23 J gniage, the United Britons informed their FELLOW. MENy that © various political focieties had been inftituted for “ the purpofeof reworm, — But they bad vanifhed, ot difcontinued their exertions. The Lonpon Corne- sPonpING Saciety,and other focieties in union with it, « had rifen upon their ruins,” — That England was never without friends to fubftantial Liberty ; but that the fame of Liberty had been for a long time fmothered, “ till the « French revolution again fanned its dying embers into « a glow, which, they hoped and trufted, would never be « extinguifhed.— Our numbers (fy they) are immenfe, our influence {till more confiderable, and our fentiments accord with yours, We sre unthinned by the tyranny of the law or of the fword—-Our delegate is entruited to lay befare you our proceedings.” And they conclude With bett withes for the amelioration of the condition of man, aed hopes that your exertions and virtues, aided by an united people, will fpeedily emancipate your country: We remain, in bonds of Brotherhood and * Union, « “ “ Yours fraternally.” (Seal.) Friday, Jan. § 1798- It sppears on the evidence of John Hughes (Lords, No, I.) a printer of Belfaft, that the delegate was a Mr. Bonham, who was accompanied by Citizen Baily and the sounger Binns, ‘The latter, who was introduced to Hughes by Quigley, faid that he had diftributed moft of the printed addreiles, and defired to have an addition of them printed. Accordingly a thoufand were printed, and three guineas paid for them by a perfon of Belfaft. During this month a regular military committee was appointed by the Exccutive, “ to confider and digeft fuch b4 “plans,f 24] plans, and direét the military force in fuch manner, as might be neceffary in cafe of infurretion; and in cafe “ of invalion to co-operate with the French.” On the 27th of February it was reported, that the Alfociation had at that time fourteen delegates in France, and that there had been held in London a meeting of all the'delegates of England and Scotland, Yn March, the brotherhood of the province of Leinfter fuftained 2 con- fiderable fhock, by the arreft of fome of its leading mem- bers; but on the ath of the fame month it appears, that “ the Provincial Committee of Leinfter had perfeéily re- covered from tie hock they (the delegates of Leinfter) “ were only four days from the time they were taken before “¢ they had the whole province in a complete ftate of orga- “ nization; the Government had alfo taken three of the “ Exccutive, but there were three appointed in their place “ the very evening after they were taken.” How truly does this demonftrate Weifhaupt’s allertion, that when he once has properly organized his bands, he will bid defiance to all his opponents. Another principle of that prototype of rebellion had, unfortunately, been too well underftood by the founders of the Irifh brotherhood, and that was to make them- felves mufters of the education of youth. Many {chool- mafters (as I have been credibly informed) have fhown themfelves extremely a€tive in the whole courfé of this unfortunate affair. “The very firft man who was tried and executed in Ireland, for fwearing-in the deluded Irith to be true to the French, was a {chool-mafter called Lau- rence O'Connor. — The following are extracts from his papers, and proved an his trial: © I, 4 B. do wear in the prefence of Almighty God, that J will be true to “ the prefent United States of France and Ireland, and every [2 ] “ every other Kingdom in Chriftianity, without its being “ hurtful to foul or body, as long as tiey prove fo to me. And thar J twill not come as evidence againft any of my brethren or committees, in any court or place whatfo- ever, excepting in court-martial, under penalty of being excluded, or death wit mercy — All brothers to live lovingly and harmonioufly, 2nd quarrellous to be ex- cluded, as the Committee thinks proper.” “ Thefe articles are according to the Foreign’ United States of F : and Ircland, by order of our committee of L, G. No. 16.” A fecand paper was in thefe words: “ The hearér, A. Be was initiated into cur fublime degree of L. LL. by me +e Do There were alfo found on the prifoner three regular certificates, one of Free Majins, a fecond of Reyal Arch, and a third of Knights Templars, thowing that O’Con- nor was of thefe Orders, One of the Counfel attempted to explain away the oath, reprefenting it as “ the mere thapfody of a warm imagination, ufed to exercife itfelf on Matonic myfteries ;” he reprefented to the jury, that “ it would be a cruel verdict indeed that would conviét a man of high treafon, merely fer ufing a few cabaliftical words and fymbols.” I will venture to affirm, that fhould the Icarned counfel ever’ chance to peruta the Memoirs of Jacsbinifia, he will have a clearer infight into the Caufe he had to defend, than when at Naas at the adjournment of the fummer aflizes in 1795.—(See his Trial.) What a melancholy feene did the feat of feience (I mean the Univerlity of Dublin) prefent, when on the igth, 2th, and 2ift of April, 1798, it appeared on the eleareft evidence that a body of United Isifhmen had or- ganized themfelves within the walls of the College ! had confulted{ 26] confulted about providing themfelves with arms elected officers! Nineteen ftudents were expelled, and fome other perfons cenfured.— (Vifitation held by Lord Clare.) In the mean time open rebellion continued its progrefs5 and on the aft of April it is reported to 2 committee, that a letter hud been received “ from Bartholomew Teeling ”” {executed in September 179%, being taken in arms with the French in their im fion at Killala) ¢ who was one & of the delegates in France, ftating, that the French & troops would moft certainly be on board by the middle © of this month. The troops from Breft and that neigh « pourhood were determined to try to evade the Britifh & fleet, and to land in Treland; of courfe the Britifh fleer «& would follow them; and while thus drawn off, all the «i other troops. embarked at other ports would make a defeent on England. Whatever might refult, from this * attempt, it was .d determination of the National & Committee, in. cafe the French fhould be fruftrated, & thas she brotherbead fhould of themfelues make a rifing- & The citizens of Dublin, it was fappofed, with the af fiftance of the army, could feize the capital at any t moment.” Unfortunately, the principles of the Se& had made fuch a progrefs, that as early as February the returns declared the numbers of the brotherhood to amount in Ulfter to 110,99 in Munfter to 100,634) and in Leinfter to 68,2723 and out of 8,000 military in Dublin alone, it was ftated that 3,800 would agt againft Govern- ment. The Executive proceeded to carry their determin- ation into exceution. Dublin, Chapel-izod, the camp and the government, were to be feized on at one and the fame time; and the fignal was to be given to the whole country, by the burning of the mail coaches, But, in order { 27 ] order to get pofleffion of the camp at Lehaunftown, the Meffis. Sheares applied to Captain Armftrong, who, truce to his duty (and happily for his country), laid open the whole of the plan to his commanding officer, at whofe ex- prefs defire he continued to commune with the confpira= tors. He was queftioned by them as to the ftrong and ‘weak fides of the’camp; and a Mr, Lawlefs (2 sheen) vith the natural humanity of the Set, obferved, that « the trees on the right of the camp would be very convenient for hanging people.” At length: it was agreed, between the Melis. Sheares (John was a member of the Executive) and Captain Armitrong, that the latter fhould “ erect a « ftandard upon the night to be fixed upon for the attack upon the camp, which was to be joined by all whom he had previoufly known to be United Irifhmens that i perfon was to be pared; and they were not to be one the option of joining at the time of the attack.” The camp once carried, and Dublin fallen into the hands of the confpirators, we may judge of the ufe they meant ta make of their vigtory, by the following paflages of a proclamation’ found ‘in. the poflefhon of Mr. Henry Sheares, and in the hand-writing of John Sheares, the member of the Executive: iyi « “« « a « Tri i 3 Teifhmen ! your country is free, and you are about to be avenged. That vile government, which has fo & Jong and fo eruelly opprefled you, is no more. Some of & its mot atrociows monfférs have alreaily paid the for feit of their lives, and the reff are in our hands— # Arifé then, United Sons of Ireland! « & Rife like a great and powerfal people, determined to be free or die ! — Arm yourlelves by every means in your power, and rufp like tions on your fees —In the caule of Liberty, Pat > s tt inaétion is cowardice, and the coward fhall forfeit the « « property[38 property he tias not the courage to protest: let his arms be feized, and transferred to thofe gallant fpirits who want and will ufe them. Yes, Irithmen, we fwear by that eternal juftice, in whole caufe you fight, that the brave patriot who furvives the prefent glorious ftruggle, and the family of him who has fallen or fall fall here- after in it, fhall receive from the bends of a gi efal & nation an ample recompenfe out of that property which the crin But we likewife fwear, to pun & and infamy!!! “ As for thole degenerate wretches who turn their ainft their native country, the national ven- geance awaits them: let them find no quarter, unless é they fhall prove their repentance by /pecdily defert- ing. —&c. & “ Many military feel the love of liberty g glow within their breafts, and -have joined the national ftandard. Receive with open arms fuch as fhall follow fo glorious an example. But for the wretch who turns his fword aint his native country, let the national vengeance be vifited on bint, let him find no quarter.”—(Trial f Meffirs. cen The foregoing is more than fufficient to thow the na- ture of this alluciation, My obje& has not been to write the hiftory of tke late rebellion, but merely to: dhow that its objet, end, and means, were entirely fimilar to that of the 1 Ses deferibed in the Memoirs that have juft been laid before the Englifh reader. May my countrymen profit of this awful example in Ireland, and guard again& the infidious progrefs of that Seét in Great Britain ! GREAT GREAT BRITAIN. WHEN we turn cur eyes toward Great Britain; affo» ciations of a fimilar tendency. appears under a great di- verfity of names indeed, but’ all actuated by a fi o fpirit. ‘Their firft obje& was, to captivate the minds.of the people by’ means of * leStures delivered on. political & fubjeats, calculated by their yery extravagance to catch the attention of the audience; and in ‘the courle..of them. every ‘topic was employed that.could inflame their minds, alienate them from the Jaws and conftitution of their country, and habituate them to principles of fe- dition and rebellion. The moft violent publications to the fame effect were fecretly but generally circulated in hand-bills, both in the ropolis and in the remote parts of the country. Every point that could excite difcontent, according to the purfuits, interefts, or pre= judices, of different clafles, has been fucceffively dwelt on, and always in fuch a manner as to connect it with the leading defig The attempt to accomplifh this End has appeared in the fhape even of play-bills and fongs; feditious toafts, and a ftudied feleétion of the tunes which have been moft in ufe in France fince the Revolution, have been applied to the fame purpofe, of. endeavouring to render deliberate incitements to every « fpecies af treafon familiar to the minds of dhe people.”— (Bag. 24 Report, p. 20.) —* dn the fame manner (fy & the confpirators) that a farmer may be roufed by the mention of tithes, the floemakers may Sy the excefive dearnefi of leather, the ian-Reeper by the numerous and unneceffary flanding arny, und ALL by a temperate and difpafionate relation of the immenfe number of fi- “ necure « « « « “i 3x 4 & arcure places and ufelefs offices, in which the corrupt and proftitute favourites, agents, 8c, of the Rich and « Great riot in the {poils and plunder wrefted from the © hufbandman, mechanic, &e.—(4p. C. p. 28.) ‘The affociation that took the lead was, Tar Socrety ror ConsrirutionaL [yrormaTion, which on the 23d of March, 1791, voted thanks to ‘Thomas Paine for his work on the Rights of Man.—(Jbid.ar.) Other facieties, fuch as thofe of Sheffield, Manchefter, &c. pafled fimilar votes, for his having demonftrated the rights of man in amenner fo clear and convincing. In May, 179% this fociety refolved, that a communication fhould be opened with the Facobin Club of Paris; and an addrels to that club was tranfmitted, figned by the chairman. An addrefs was alfo voted to the National Convention on the gth of November, 17925 in confequence of the attack of the roth of Auguit on the French Monarch, ftyling the Convention “ fervants of the favereign people, and be- & gefattors of mankind. The benefits (they fay) will in « part be exrs, but the glory will be all your owns and & jt is the reward of your perfeverance; it is the prize of virt 24.) Another aflociation, calling itfelf raz Lonnon Cox~ RESPONDING SocieTy, was inflituted in January, 1792+ Ie immediately formed a clofe conne&tion with the Society for Cenftitntional Information; on the rath Ogtober, 31792 it framed an addref$ to the French Convention 5 the deputies whe prefented it, “ after pointing out their withes ® to effect in this country @ revolution fimilar to that & made in France, confider the example of France as & having made revolutions eafy 3 adding, that it would not « be extraordinary, if in a fhort {pace of time the French & fhould fend addreffes of congratulation to a National Con~ © vention f 31 7 vention of England ; and the prefident in his anfwer fays, “« the moment, without doubt, approaches when the French « will bring congratulations to the Netional Convention « of Great Britain.” — (Ibid. 25.) ‘The fraternal em- brace and the ‘honours of the fitting were the natural recompente of fuch patriotic declamation, The fanguinary Barrere, St André, and the infolent Roland, were de= clared honorary members, and the fpeeches of the two former’ on the trial of Louis XVI. were entered on the books of the fociety. Various focieties were now formed in different parts of England, all corresponding with thofe in London, as their centre. Reform in parliament, univerfal fufftage, and annual eletions, were the objects held out to the over-credulous. Scon we fird the Landon Scciety for CONSTITUTIONAL InrormAtion and the London Cornesponpixc So- creTy in clofe conneétion with, and atually dire&ting, fimilar focieties at Hertrorp; at Camerincs; in Norrouk, at Norwich; 2t Leicester; in War- WICKSHIRE, at Coventry and Birmingham; at Nor- vTincuaM; in DereysHirE at Derby and Belper; in Cuesnire, at Stockport; in Lancasuire, at Liverpool and Manchefter ;in YorKswire, in the Weft-Riding, at Sheffield, Leeds, Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield, and Wakefield; in NORTHUMBERLAND, at Newca/ile upon Tyar, Ge, Affociations were allo formed at Barstow, With refpect to Scornann, Edinburgh appears to have ‘been the central point for that country, correfponding with London, In the interior of Scotland, and under its direGtion, we find many towns, fuch as Leith, Dundee, Perth, Stirling, Kilfyth, Kerkintullech, Glafgow (which alfo cosrefponded with London) Pai/ley, Strathaven, Dal Feith, &c, “The fame, rules ef proceeding, and for fub- dividing[ 32] dividing the focieties, aze tobe traced again. But nothing can better illuftrate the nature of thefe! affociations than y tellus (Appendix D.) themfelvesy mbly of five or fix mechanics, who ¥ ng at forme one of their houfes, and con— © verfing about t mois high pricéof provifions >the * groft abules this nation Ishours) under from the un & houniled authority of the Monepolifers of all ranks, from % the KinG to the PEASANT; the wafte and lavifh,of ‘the « public property by. placemen, penfionersy: luxury, and « debauchery, fourcés of the greivous burthens. under « which the nation groans, together with the mock re- & prefentation,of the people y— theft being, the fubjedts 4 of their converfation, they concluded, that nothing but % DARKNESS and IGNORANCE in the people could fuffer “¢ the rights of every freeman te be THUS vislated.” ‘They then invited their neighbours to deliberate on this patriotic difcovery ; they reprinted an edition of 1600 copies of Paine’s Rights of Adan, and fold it.at fixpence, to enlighten their fellow-countrymen. ‘They ftyle them- felves the Society for Conftitutional Information, write up to London, on the 15th of January, 1792, to requeft the favour “ of forming a conneétion with all the like focieties in England, and efpecially with thofe or fome of them, in London, the Thatched-houfe, the Londons tavern, or others, and humbly folicit their advice and « affiftance in the accomplifhing thereof, in order to form % our refolves fimilar to theirs; becaule, as weare actua~ ted by the same caufe and principle, and all our in- % terefts being one, our fentiments ought and muft be the « fams.” In about four months after, they inform the London Society, that “ not only their large and populous * town, “ of the towns and villi & fimilar afficiations, slfo declare their object to be, “a RaDicA “ the Country a8 foon as prudence and dift “© permit, and eftablifhed on that fyftei which is confif © tent with the ri tain members of their affod London meeti now becom’ mittee, that “a more clo corinedtio: and communication be maintained,” for the ex ufeful knowledge from town to villaze, and from vil to town, until the whole nation be fuffic! tened and unite ne cafe, W “« « being the café wherever the moft excellent Wor Thomas Paine find reception.” Should any perfon with to be convinced, that all the! as the Irith focieties, were formed on Weithaupt’s correfpon Tet him attend to the improvement which ¢ people were about to adopt at the end of and after this offspring of the di “ the belt way of managing la populous town: or meetings of ten point a deleg meeting, and {0 on, deleg till at laft they are reduced to a ftituting the Cxmmittee or Grav Coun this, itis really ufelefs to troub “« thing more on the nature or principles of Great Britain, We find fibleri zC 34] defence of the profecution commenced againft Thomas Paine. The Scotch Societies agree with thofe of Eng- Jand to hold a ansentions phi frough not general from Appendix F.) = & from the fo ur u eed focieties of Ire- land. Citizens Hamilton Rowan and Simon Butler attended from Dublin, but were not delegated ; however, the lat sntion on the flate of Ireland. ter made a report to the co: Margart, 2 London delegate, faid, “The focieties in « London are very numerous, though fomewhat flu€ua- ti In fome parts of England whole towns are re~ * forossesy Sheffield and its environs have 50,000. — In Norwich there are 30 focieties in one. — If we could get 2 convention of England and Scotland called, we might reprefent fix ot feven hundred thoufand males, which is a majority of all the adults in the kingdom 5 « and miniftry would not dare to refufe us our rights.” They had held fourteen fittings, when the m thought proper to put a ftop to it and an reft fome of the there aped the conduct of the ti jers etat at members; Verfailles, when ordered to difperfe, and adjourned ftom place to place ; happily, however, they did not fucceed. All their for : r modes of {peech, were fervilely copied from the French, After the numerous Be ae 5 to effectuate this, pikes nt parts of Great Britai 1» 1794) has been fary bulinchs (of ith hocps for the fhafts to fit the top ¢ bottom end of the fhafts fhould be about an inch er, and fir is recom mendid for 7 & perfons f es) * perfons who are judges of wood, The blades and * hoops will be fold at the rate of one fhiliiig, properly © tempered and polifhed. The money fent with the or- © ders."=— (2d Report, p.2.)—= The fecretary of the Correfponding Saciety gave direttions where the pikes night be procured (page 5); thofe who could procure iufkets learned the ufe of them, exercifing by candlelight, or under pretext of loyal aflociations ; that which affumed the name of Loyal Lambeth would admit none but thofe who were members of the Correfponding Society, or who promifed to become fo; nor hid this armed aflociation been authorifed by governnient. Meanwhile Scotland had made fuch progrefs, that the brethren there not olily began to arm with pikes, but alfo turned their minds towards acting! The plot was fortunately difeoveréd. A fheriff’s officer went to featch the houfe of a Afr, Watt, for fome goods Which were fuppofed to have been fecreted, as beloriging to 2 bankrupt of the name of Niei/in, and who has fince commenced preacher in England. Ia this fearch he found fome pikes; and in a fecond (msde in the fame week, on the 15th of May, »794) many mort were diftovered in aclofet. This gave rife to inquiries, and it was found that no [eis than 4000 pikes had been ordered for Perth, befide thofe wanted for Edinburgh. It was farther difco- vered, that this #att was a member of the Committee of Ways and Means delegated from the rempants of the convention, that he had i this committee read a plan “ For feizing on the Lord Juftice Clerk, the Lords of * Seffion, and the Lord Provoft, A fire was to be Jight- *« ed at the Exeife, and when the foldiers were coming “ down the people were to fall on them and {eize the * Banks.’* As foon as this had fucteeded, a proclama- tion was to be iffued, “ Defiring all farmers not to remove ca “ theirhe rs | & their grain “to go three miles from their houfes.” This grand plan was communicated to the Societies by means of tras velling adepts, who had a certificate auth ng them to t the Societi It was not figned, but feals were ‘The plan executed, and the courtiers were to be fent to the In Wait’s houfe were alfo found hem up to revolt. The manner of diftributing them is worthy of remark, as being mmon to England as well as to Scotland. Dswanie, who was alfo a member of the Committee of Ways and Means, and who was conviaed with att, after giving fome toa perfon who was to diftribute them, “ defired “him to throw the parcel on the floor ; and if any body & afked him where he got it, he might fay he found it.” A fhort time after, thefe hand-bills found their way to the foldiers in gartifon at Dalkeith, — (See the Trials of Watt and Downie, in Auguft and September, 1794.) On the x2th of April, 1797, England witnefled the awful fight of its fleet in epen infu rection, Tere, as on Jand, we find oaths of fecrecy and of union, deleg and accord of fyftem pervading the’ whole mut Portfmouth it wes happily quelled, in a the 2oth of April; fome ftraggling fhips we fhow fymptoms of revolt, from time to time, and at Plymouth : at length the great mu! broke out on the 12th of May,.and was sot {upp the month of June. Many of the mutineers were brought to trials and Parker, their le: of June. No authentic docum: 6 Enon indeed, that could conneé this mutiny with the fecret focietiés on Tand; but, if we lock to dates, it will be evident that the Corre/ponding Society did not view this infurreétion of the fleet with an indifferent I here allude to the papers that appeared on the trial of a m of the name of Fellowes, who had been a jot man carpenter before he took to the patriotic line; he was tried at Maidftone on the 13th of March, 1798 (his trial having been deferred at his own requeft) and fen- tenced to two years imprifonment. The account of the tranfaction given by the prifoner, as appeared in evidence, is as follows: © That he lodged at a Mr. Wratten’s © houfe in Maidftone; a parcel came there on the © 18th of Me he fleet in full mutiny) directed « to Mr. Wratten, by a Charing-crots coach. ‘The wife opened the parcel ; and, as Mr, Wratten was from home, ¢ (Fellowes) told the wife, that the papers it con- tained belonged to one of the focieties; there was ta ting, he told her, on that night at the Ro/e rown ; that he would carry them there, and take « the fenfe of the meeting, He accordingly did fo ; read * one of them, and none of the fociety made any ob- * jection, He then laid them on the table, and the © members of the fociety helped themfelves as they th * proper“ (or, perhaps, found them, as was the cale with the hand-bills in Scotland). Some of the bills v carried from this meeting to another divifion of the fo- ciety, fitting at the Co/ile Inn, under the pretence of knowing whether they were legal; but, whether legal or not, they were diftributed before morning among the fol- diers then at Maidftone, The paper began thus: —“ To ® the Britith Army: — Comrades, are we not men? Is it * not high time we fhould prove we know ourfelves to 63 © be[ 3] be fich? Are we any where refpedted as men, and why are we not? Have not wrong notions of difci- pline led us to our pefent defpifed condition ? Is there a man among us who does not with to defend his country, and who would not willingly do it without being fubjed to the infolence and cruelty of effeminate puppies? [ere not tHe Sartons (at that time in fall infurrettion), like us, mocked for want of thought, though not fo much defpifed for po : Have they not proved that they CAN THINK and act jor thenfeloes, and preferve every ufetul point of dit cipline’ full as well, or better than when under the tyranny of their officers?” ‘Then comes a heap of de- clamation againtt the officers, againft Parliament, againft barracks (a terrible grievance, as it guards the foldiers from falling an eafy prey to the difeontented), ond on the fyftem of clothing; the Addrefs then: proceeds: “ Thefe are a few of our grievances, and but a few 5 what fhall we do? The tyranny of what is falfely called difcipline prevents us from atting like ather men, We cannot even give ina petition for that which common honefty would fieely have given us long ago. We have only twe choices, either to fubmit to the prefent impofitions, or demand the treatment proper for men. The power is all cur ewn. The regiments which fend you this % willing to do their part.” (Can the Correfpond ciety ihere denominate: themfelves regiments, in confe- quence of their pike-bufinefs?) “ T hey can fhow th & countrymen they can be feldiers without leing flaves, te and will make their demands as foon as they know you « qill NoT DRAW THE TRIGGER AGAINST THEM, OF this we will judge when we know you have dif. & tributed this bill, not only among your comrades, but © to { 39 ] “ to everz foldier subom you know IW EVERY PART of the country—Be fober—Be ready.” The whole of this trial took place in prefence of feveral of the members of the Correfponding Society of Maidflone ; and after the fentence of two years imprifonment was pafled on Fel- lowes, and that he was taking from the bar, fome of his friends confoled him by faying, “ Two years! that is a Jong while; but Buonaparte will be here before that.”* However, this vapouring Cameleon is tittle to be dread~ ed by Britons. Handsbills of the fame nature were’ difperfed among the acmy in other*parts, and particularly in London; but, like true foldiers, they only anfwered by offering rewards (colleéted from their pay) for the dileovery of the mif- creants who had conceived fo mean’an opinion of them as to think they could be feduced from their duty. A par- cel of hand-bills, in’ the very terms here mentioned, was thrown into the flables of the Second Regiment of Hor Guards, between the hours of one and three in the morn- ing, but was treated with the contempt it deferved. The ribution of {uch hand-bills, and the proof adduced at Maidftone, will caufe much lefs furprize, when it is knows, that “ the defign of endeavouring to feduce the % army from their duty had been the frequent fubje& of i mombers of the Corvefpond= ing Societys it even appears, that a project was repeat- edly agitated among them, of ftriking a fudden blow, and beginning by fecuring the Roy:l Family and the Members of both Houfes of Parliament, with the hope (as it was exprefled) saz the army, being without leaders, rvould no longer oppoje th attempts? a (24 Report, p. 17.) The£4) The Irith fyftem was. now. fully adopted in Scotland; as.on, the. ant, OGtober, 1797,’ a-perfon juft arrived from Scotland brought. a| Scorch. Conftitution to a: County Meeting at Down Patrick, © which was word for word © the fame as, that of the Irith, only the words United “ Nortu-Britons, were fubltituted, for Ynited Intsn- < yene?—(Inifh Appendix, No. XIV. }--Andyon the gtk of January, 1798, The United, Britans fend. the, addrels already me: ntioned in tke accouat, of, Ireland, declaring: that “ The § be Fi People; and that ontirued: their nding, Society, and fen upon their J = The. delegates, who, carried it in- ional Committee of Ireland, thar. .Eng- land, Scotland, and.Ireland, in future, to be cone. & fidered, as..one people, acting, for. one common, caules Ssthat legiflaters wer y fen from the three king- dems, to aétas, any £ ine for THR) WHOLE.” — Whither does this information naturally, lead us? Surely. to that paper. which gave. rife to, the, famous) trial at f Quigley, Binns,,OtConnor, &c.?. In, began hus >“: The. Secrat. Commitiee of Exgland to.the Exe~ we DireGory of France — Health.and Fraternity— of Pluviofe:(or January 25, exacily twenty days after the:addrefs to Ireland). Crrizzs Directrors— we/are called together, on the wing of, the moment, to communicate to you our fentiments; the. citizen. who now. prefents them to. you, and:who was thse: bearer of ving but afew hours to remain in town, expe not a laboured. addrefs from-us ; but-plainnels is the great charagteriftic of republicans. Affairg £ 4 J * Affairsiarée now: drawing to aigreatiand muful erifiss + tyranny, ‘thaken to its bafis, feems about to be buried “ in its own ruins. With the tyranny of England’that of ‘all Europe muft fall. Hafte theny Great’ Nation, pour “forth thy gigantic force! Let-the:baf defpat féel'thine “avenging ftrake,and letoneioppreffed nation carol forth “the ipraites) of France at the!altar of ‘liberty. Se We fave with: rapture -yaur proclamations ythey met our warmoftywithes; and removed/doubts from the minds of millions. Go on Englifimen will be ready to fecond “your efirts 111 What fpurious breed of Englithmen are thefe?) What race of Engliflimen have fuffered them felves to be led’away by fuch bafe-born cowards? Is it in the life-time of a Howe, a Hood, a Bridport, a’ St’ Vine cent, a Duncan, ora Nelfon, that they dare invite thefe enemies of the human race'to come and pillage this flous rifhing country? Are the: fans ¢ulottes then to Jordit in London ftreets, bearing on: piktes*in fanguihary ttiumph the heads of the beft men’ of England, with the hidéous yells of Lquatity and Liberty? Vainly thal fuch fyco- phants, in the’ hope of partaking of ‘the general pillage and of defpojling ‘their fellow-countrymen (for, from the king to the peafiint, aux are declared monopolizers) {pread the terror of French arms and the impofiibility of refift- ing them, No; far from us be fuch teachers and fich leaders, who only beguile the unheedy to lead them to beggary, wretchednefs, or the gallows. Encursuarn are loyal; manly, and brave; and when once they fhall have unmatked thefe infidious brethren, they need never doubt of vitory. But to return to the addrefs: — The nation is reprefented' to be on the eve of bankruptcy 5 s making great progrefs in democracy ; and as placing little con-[4] confidence in the leaders of oppofition (at Ieaft fuch was the explanation of that pallage given by the Counfel for Mr. O'Connor). | It then proceeds : — « Already have the Englifh fraternized with the Trify “ and the Scots; aud a delegate FROM RACH now fits “ with us, ‘The facred flame of liberty is rekindled, the & holy obligation OF BROTHERWOOD is received with en» thufiafm, Even ix tHE Fieers and Armies it makes & fome progreft. DisarFEction prevails im, both, and United Britain burns to break her chains.” T had forgotten to {peak of a circumftince relating to the fleets. Englifhmen have viewed with horror the feene of the Hermicne frigate, whafe crew rofe on their officers, murdered them, anid carried the fhip into an enemy's port. They have feen many other plots laid (but fortunately difeovered) to murder the officers and give up the hips to the enemy. Looking back to the oath adminiftered to the military, in Ireland, “ to be-true to the French,” and the plans agreed upon “ to murder. their officers and deliver the arms up to the towns-people,” the reader will not) be fo much at a lofs to judge whence fuch’ atrocious plots could arife, or what the progres of the BROTHERHOOD in the fleets can mean. God forbid, that I fhould men- tion this with any idea of reproach to thofe gallant men who have fines fa glorioufly obliterated every ftain that could have attached to their condu& during the mutiny. “They faw with regret that they hal fallen yiétims to fedudtion, and they glorioufly revenged themfelves on the s of their country. They have counteraéted the ious plans of the confpiring Brotherhood; and when T mentioned the mutiny, it was only to remind them, that crafty feducers could furprize their natural honefty. It { 43 ] Tt continues; * United as we are, we only wait with * impatience to fee the Hero of Italy, and the brave ‘ veterans of the Great Nation, Myriads will bail their © arrival with fhouts of joys they will foon finifh the glorious campaiga! Tyranny will vanifh from the “ face of the earth, and, crowned with laurels, the in~ " vincible army of France will return to its native * country, there long to enjoy the well-earned praife of % a grateful world, whofe freedom they have purchafed with their blood,” (L.S8.) Did (ycophants ever beg more carneftly for the plunder and devaftation of their fellow-countrymen; for they could no longer plead ignorance of the views of the French? Colonel Tate had made his defcent on the coaft of Wales the 22d of February, 1797, and his ine ftrudtions, figned by Hoche, * the faithlels conqueror of Quiberon, ordered him “ to execute a ¢ de main on “ Briftol; ” for its deftru@ion was “ of the very lalt importance, and every poflible effort fhould be made to ® accomplith it," on account of its riches and commerce, ® Thefe inflrudions were much cavilled at by thofe papers that are ‘ever founding Mic praifes of the French Revolution; and even fo late as she gait of OGober, 1798, the Courre® boldly declares them to be a fabrication of the minifterial writers. ‘The Englith nation at large thould know that thofe inftruétions were never doubted of by any well Informed perfon, from the firft feizure of them by Lord Cawdor in Feb. depotited at the Secretary of State's office ; that they jort made the oth of May, 1798, by the Houfe of i ry and are publifhed in the ait report. When the reader is informed that an office is eftablithed, Rue du Bacg, for the delivery of the Covrien at Paris, that it is flrongly recommended by a creature of the Dir: one of their i aiother Englith papers, dut one, are rize will ceafe, as it is natural to éxpeét that fome re- turn moft be made to the Diretory by the editor of this paper for fo mark- gdafayour, though it were at the expence of truth,Ct 4] The troops were to be landed by night “ within five © miles of the town, in the greateft filence, and, being “ fupplied with combuftible matter, were to advance ra- « pidly in the dark, on that fide of Briftol which might be to windward, anid immediately fet fire to that quar- ter, If the enterprize be conduéted (they fay) with “ dexterity, it cannot fail to produce the total ruin of the town, the port, the docks, and the veffels, and to ft ror and amazement into the very heart of the pital’ of England.” Let the Inhabitants of Briftol now call oh thofe infidi bre n who dare commune with them, and afk them, Whe they a re oF this invitation of the brotherhood to the Fr “applauded and approved the refols © ther general convention” on the 24th of Apri after the difperfion of the Scotch Convention in Decem- ber 1793. After reading Hoche’s Inftruétions, will they write again to the London Correfponding Society —“ we * read — we blufhed — we took courage — we did more ; © for we refolved on re-affembling.” IF fo they do, it is to be hoped that they will do it for the purpofe of making public atonement to their fellow-townfmen fr their paft conduét; for they can’ no longer fay “ *#is a noble—'tis « a virtuous —'tis a god-like and immortal caufe—in © which we are now mutually embarked,” — (Appen- dix H.) The inftru@ions proceed: “ The expedition under Colonel Tate has in view three principal objeés; the « firlt is, if poffible, to raife ar infurreétion in the c conimerce of the enemy; and the third, to prepare and facilitate the way for a defcent, by diftracting the atten~ tion of the Englifh government, “Tn C45 ] * Tn all countries, the poor © infurreGtion; and this diftributi “« « “« zines, “ perty of the rich whofe affluence is the natural 4 % of envy to/the poor,” By fuch means. “numbers of artizans and. workmen, of yagshonds and idlers, and “even, mi ‘ors,’ were to be attracted and “formed into new companies under the command of French officers.” “ The commerce of the enemy in the country is to be interrupted by breaking down bridges, cutting off dykes, and ruining caufeways, which is, at the fame time, effentially neceflary for the prefervation of the army; by plundering all convoys of fubliftence, the public Rages and waggons, and even private carriages ; the cutting off the fupplies of provifions ftom the principal towns, burning all veffels. and boats inthe rivers and canals, deftroying magazines, fetting fire to docks and coal- yards, rope-walks, great manufaétories, &c. &c. It is to be obferved likewife, that by thefe means a crowd of artixans will be thrown out of employ, andof courte be ready to embark in any meafure which holds out to them fubfiftence and plunder without labour or fatigue.” To be fure, the poor, the workmen, and artizans, are here held out as a moft profligate race ; but Hoche, it is to be remembered, {peaks from the example of France, where the deftrution of manufs@uring towns’ was looked as a means of recruiting the Jacobi ties had prepared, them for fuch horrid d and Shefield, Birmingham, and Manc « « « « « «[48] have been the fir objects of the patriotic labour’ of the fecret focieties in England, « Subfiftence is to be feized wherever it can be fourid 5 ifany town or village refule to fupply it at the moment, it is to be given up to immediate pillage, your {oldie are to carry with them nothing but their arms: th: will find every where clothes, linen, and fooess the inhabitants uf? fupply your warits, and the feats of the gentry are tobe your magazines. Wherever the legion, or any of its columns, is pofted, if the neighbouring parithes do not give inflant nstice of the approach of the enemy by ringing bells, or otherwife, they are to bé given up TO FIRE AND sWoRD. “ With boldne(s and intelligence combined, you may eafily poflefs yourfelf of Chefer or Liverpool, which you will ruin dy burning the magazines, and filling up the ports, or atleaft you will cut off all communication between thofe cities and the interior. In order to « fpread the confternation and aftonifhment as widely as “ poflible, after the deftruction of Liverpool, (fer this © point is capital,) you mutt follow your blow, and feize upon fome {mall town or fea-port on that coaft, which « you will lay under contribution.” Was it (T would afk) to prepare the town of Liverpool for fuch a fate that fo easly as 1792 fome of its inhabicants entered into a direét correfpondence with the London focieties that were at that time addreffing the Jacobins of Paris and hailing them as brothers? Did they then conceive, that within the {pace of fix years an addrefs would be fent to invite thofe Jaco- bins into England, beating fuch inftructions as are now* Jnid before the reader ?—-During this time Hoche, in per- fon, was fappofed to be in Ireland; and my reader may eafily conceive, by thefe inftructions, the horrors that he would would have committed himfelf, had he fucceeded in his at- tempt at Bantry-Bay. Two other French parties were to have been ating in concert with Tate in all probabili- ty with fimilar inftruétions, in Yorkfhire, Durham, and Northumberland ; and without doubt thefe parties, if fucs cefsful, would have as radically reformed the cahititation as could have been deficed by that affociation at Newcafile- ; '¢, which wrote, on the 24th of April, 1794, to inform the London Correfponding Society how cuningly they met every week, “admitting none but Anoton friends, £ sexo if no name but that of NEWSPAPER-com- NIES, {News indeed! their town burnt, their port deftroyed — Great news — bloody news for the FR1ENDs, Should they, however, not have been the firit obje& of the rapacity of the implacable enemy, and, learning by the example of Briftel, have conceived hopes of prefer. ving their town, by petitioning his Majefty for a military force, would they (I make bold toafk) pattiotically finith their petition, by “ Farewell, hoping the HYDRA OF “TYRANNY AND ImpostTion /hall foon fall under the “ GUILLOTINE OF TRUTH AND REASON ! 1? Let them learn before it is too Ia ( Appendix H, p. 12%.) In February laft, the united Britith were {wearing-in profelytes inthe Borough and thefe feducers would have continued their feditious pragtices, had they not. been put - ae by, the a halls and Johr ormick, in his declaratio: 7 rt hi «he known ter isan agee fr he Ureee Heth “dent in Paris, and that there are agents tena, * United Brith and Ich refident at Hamburg,” —y ips ANIL )—Thus are we led to July, 1798, by hentic documents, which will be more than er nvince thy b ick Sonvince the moft obftinate fteptick, that this confpirin Set{ 8] Sect is ever aQiive and vigilant to betray its country= men into the hands of the moft implacable of enem Would to. God that every Engl would Aleét om the procecdings of ‘Secret § ly might he perceive their twofold oly ing aconflitution that has: led Engl cieties! how ch ct of overturn- gland to the fammit of glory.and profperity ; and of ere&ing 2 power, on blood= thed, rapine, and the neglect of every focial duty. Onthe one fide, we fee the Rights of man, Equality and Libertys fet forth by thefe infidious teachers, to prove to the induf= trious labourer and unwary artizan, that it isa breach of their rights to fee the inhabitants of the earth diffinguifhed into clafles fubordinate to different ranks and fubje& to Superiors; that were thefe diflindtions’ of menopolizers once broken, the people would then be repoffelfed of their impreferiptible rights 5 that al laws would no longer reprefs the glorious zeal for the welfare of man= kind, and de(potically condemn thofe real patrists, the friends of man and the defenders of their riches The exifting govemments are reprefented as an infringement of the rights of the people; the m rates and military as agents of defpotifm; the clergy as imp. other fide, to eftablith the rebellious power Societies, any number of pe i ted by hearing the perpetual declamatior nes; an oath of fecrecy and union them; their curiofity and enthufi ed upon by the hopes of fecrets of high imp 3 they make profelytes; their aflemblies foon becor Tous $ it is hinted that it would be dang r the exifting the circumftances, to meet in fuch numbers ; it is propofed and agreed that they fhould divide, 5 r example 5 that, in order to eftablith a fort of ordination, each foci r 49] fhould choole delegate; chen the tem delegates ee vn of theiva fsa higher degree; fo from de SE oh Regulating. C ; One would think they hal forgotten their declimations agit rgik-and Superior. The leat breach of fecrecy is to be punified by-poifon or the daggers Difobedience is feyeely gunifheds and when we look to the Jacobin Se RE path -we find that neither Father, Mother, Friend, Relation, hor even Miftre/s, areto, be {pared, when the good Ps th aufe is in queftion. Is it that.a few rebels, ftyti ea a felyes a Secret Committee, may in conjunction mY 4 moft inveterate enemies of thefe kingdoms pare ler — defpoil their fellow-countrymen, that Br ithe . hearke to thefe feducers? Shall a few. frantic Jacol nS at the fummit of the pyramid, becaue they are arrive eae thereto receive the loathfome fumes of blafp f i ion that can boaft of a Sovereign bellioa, lord it over a nation that can b whofe virtues and paternal affeGtion have rather made him the father than the ruler of the na ono dF a Houfe of Lords, deferibed even by the Jacobin Lacroix, © as preci- ous to the nation, becaufe it is a rampart of its Lee & ties,1 —of a Houfe of Commons ever watchful of the i ite of the declamations of real rights of the people, in fpite of the declamations o i trary; * overa the Brotherhood to reprefent it as contrary; nation ho@ebutes in Parliament could ever w people would fufpect, thar the@ebetes in ¥ 7 gation of the views of the Corre- verted intoa tool for the propagation of th ‘The following ry will thow how care- s had for when they ordained to-explain the vehe g of the gall » fach, for ex- bar during certain debates of ample, as the frith bufinefs. ‘This letter from the jon Correfponding 2 pefficld S Appen > 1793) 18 written to a fociety at Sheffick Society {App a 4 1793) *€ ‘With regard to petitioning Parliament, we are he opt ‘ nio’s nanimous in the opiC 504 nation, in fhort, that can boaft of ays which, formed | the mutual confent of King, Lords, and Conmons, have led it to unparalleled glory, profp ‘Ys and richtig? Lege to men who have been {eated on juries, whe haya attended the public courts of juftice, that thefe fedurers fya1j hold forth on the mal-adminiftration Of jultige ? Shalh's loyal army and vidtorious | n: be reprefénted as the nts Of defpotifn and tyranny, becaufe they will not murder their Officers and defert’ to. the emy't— No, Englifhinen} fuch efforts fhall ever Meet with the Contempt they de~ ferve ; union, honelfy,-and loyalty, fhall? lea ws \to vje~ trys and, ever mindful of out duties to Gad aid many we may bid dafiance t6 the malighity of our internal, ‘and the rapacity Of our external foes, 0 be il jE Biome that Tach 4 petition will not prodwe: a reform ; yet, fioa many «, soniiderations, We ate nbw perfosded, thariécan foci SSowouid tend forward a petition, w Ir gain gro 4° much -assit oi a eer mofl naturally ‘ the radon once in $ di Acrived at that p; acco