06 "great attention to diftinguish the innocent from the guilty, "and of the fervices they had rendered :—and they wanted66 can it be believed?—they wanted to be paid for the time they had thus paffed! I was confounded at hearing them. "I spoke to them the stern language of the law. I spoke to "them with sentiments of the deepest indignation. I made "them all go out before me; and fcarce had I quitted the prifon myself, when they returned. Again I returned there. "to drive them out. In the night they completed their hor-. "rid butchery." Thus perifhed, by the most moderate accounts, in the space of two days and nights, near five thousand perfons, priests, nobles, citizens, foldiers, and women---and not even an attempt has yet been made to bring the merciless affaffins to juftice. To avoid a fimilar fate, full forty thousand French of all ranks and descriptions have fled to the different countries of Europe-condemned, unheard to banishment, confifcation of property, and the last extremity of wretchednefs and wantfome for having adhered confcientiously to the religion and conftitution their country---others for having refused, though, in the beginning, favourers of the Revolution, to go all the lengths dictated by a wild, cruel, and fanatic mob. Are thefe examples to be proposed to Englishmen? FINIS. SONG. Tune : "O the golden Days of Good Queen Befs. WHAT HAT a pother in this land, about our French neighbours!' Nothing now muft be talk'd of, but the Grand Revolution, How these gallant French heroes through Flanders do roam, Well fupply'd with English muskets, how valiantly they fight; Then their good friends in England rejoice at the news, And another fifty thoufand goes for blankets, coats and shoes: But orders are given now, by those in high command, That no more corn or flour shall be shipp'd from out this land; That our poor may not want bread, and be famishing with hunger, Whilft French foldiers are brought over our towns for to plunder. Long may Old England, &c. For when into winter quarters the French do retire, Of providing for fuch numbers their Flemish friends will tire; For the fake of pudding here the rogues would foon come over, And our patriots would all fubfcribe to land them fafe at Dover. Long may Old England, &c. What What a dinner they'd provide for their friends the mounfieurs, Good beef and good pudding with plenty of ftrong beer. How they'd fing Ca ira as they march'd up to London, With the thoughts of good cheer, and the hopes of good plund'ring. Long may Old England, &c. How would Englishmen brook to behold fuch difafters; 66 The men they've beat so often, brought here to be their mafters. "You must all become French citizens, we've told you our plan, "Or we'll cut all your throats to enforce the Rights of Man." Never may Old England behold fuch brutality, Liberty and property, and no equality. Would thefe Friends of the people but look about at home, A hundred thousand facks of flour, with blankets, coats and fhoes, Let no knaves us allure, nor no French us command, Long may Old England poffefs good cheer and jollity, LIBERTY AND PROPERTY PRESERVED AGAINST REPUBLICANS AND LEVELLERS. A COLLECTION OF TRACTS. NUMBER III. CONTAINING, The Plot found out;-The Frenchman and Englishman.The Labourer and the Gentleman.-English Freeholder's Catechifm. LONDON: Printed and Sold by J. SEWELL, at the European Magazine Wareboufe, Cowper's Court, Cornhill; J. DEBRETT, Piccadilly; and HOOKAM and CARPENTER, Bond-Street. PRICE, ONE PENNY. THE PLOT FOUND OUT; First Facebin. WELL A Dialogue between three Members of the Jacobin Club in France. ELL met brother citizen, I think at our laft committee, that we proved ourselves fit to govern the universe; for by making the king our prifoner, we can poffefs ourselves of all his property; and the plan that was laid of maffacreeing the prifoners, and thofe that are rich, whofe affistance we do not want, or that we have any doubt are likely to flinch, will caufe fuch a general terror that thousands will fly the kingdom, and in fuch hatte that they will not have time to carry any property away with them, and what ready money they have they will give to obtain paffports: we fhall make a fine fum even before they are gone by that means; they will think many of them of foon returning, but we have agreed, that we will feize their property, which will make us the richest body of men in Europe. I mean we who confider ourfe ves as the heads of the club, for the others thall have but a flemish account. A And And as to the nation, we can easily deceive them; for if a fmall part of what we feize is expended for the fervice of the state; we shall not be fufpected, and for a time we can conceal our wishes fo as to guard against fufpicion. Second Facobin. It is a glorious deep laid plot; and by eternally talking of liberty, equality, and the majority of the people, we fo gull the fools, that we fhall encrease our party every day. If the jugglers did not talk fo much, they could never fhew their tricks without being found out.-The wifeft thing we ever did was driving all those priests, who were true Chriftians, out of the kingdom.-I hate a Chriftian; their religion teaches them to honour their king, and to submit to all who are in authority over them, and bear no malice or envy in their heart: We worship men who have done all in their power to abolish all religion; we cannot bring the people to our purposes if they fear God and honour the king; to abolifh both at once was abfolutely neceffary-and what a glorious harveft fhall we have if we can blind the infernal English!We fhall be fools indeed if we leave them a fhilling to blefs themfelves with; part of their riches fhall go to defray the expences of our wars, which will make our people fight like devils, when they know it comes out of that curfed ifland. Our club has long had an eye on Old England; they shall foon know that a Frenchman will no longer live on foup-meagre-No, no, it shall be the Englishman's turn; and not even those who we have there as our emiffaries, shall be spared; for the fools we have gulled to affift, we will treat as fuch, when our club have fucceeded in poffeffing themselves of the government. We will compleatly clip their wings, for we may make a massacre more general then; fend once our own blood hounds that have been fo long in practice, and I warrant in a little time, there fhall scarce be any man left alive, that wishes to recover their country, when they have found that we have deceived them. For at firft we fhall pretend that it is out of love to the English we came there for you never can impofe on a man compleatly, unless you make him believe you are his friend; they are eafily duped, and will not give themselves time to reflect; that fo far from being changed in regard of our hatred to them, our making them difcontented under their prefent government, is paving the way for their compleat ruin as an independent nation. We do nothing by halves; our plans are deep; we must not stop till we have got all the English gold in our country-they have poffeffed it long enough we will make them begin the world again under their French mafters; and I hope to live to fee the day when that ifland, which was once fo rich, fhall |