New rebellions raise Their bydra heads, and the falfe north displays Her broken league to imp her ferpent wings. The forty thousand confpirators met in convention, at Edinburgh, by their delegates. Thefe mifcreants did not few their dang'rous brow by night. The noon-tide fun enjoyed the honours of their fitting. These miscreants adopted the French modes; spoke in the French idiom; avowed the French defigns; and raised the standard of revolt against the parliament, till it was torn down, by a laudable effort of legal authority. And, thefe mifcreants, by their manners, by their language, by their practices, by their avowals, furnished demonstrations to all, who are capable of argument, that what had been. afferted of a plot was true; and that a dangerous confpiracy did exift, among us, in November, 1792, against the established conftitution. Yet, you are not convinced, that any thing resembling a plot really exifted. Still lefs are you convinced, that there exifted a correspondence and connection, between the confpirators in Britain, and the plotters in France. You read the correspondence between them. You fee the intriguers, paffing and repaffing. You behold the meflengers of mifchief received by the national convention, at Paris, to the honours of the fitting You have witneffed the proceedings of the national convention, who do not much fcruple about the means when they have adopted the end, in pursuance of those intrigues, and of that correfpondence. And, you might have opened opened your eyes, which fometimes have the quickfightedness of an eagle, on what aftonished the world, the decree of FRATERNITY, at the fitting of the convention, on the 19th of November, 1792. This hoftile decree was ordered to be tranflated into all languages; in order that all parties, and all nations, might know its object. And, by this decree, thus hoftile, and comprehenfive, fraternity and affiftance, were granted to all people, who wish to recover their liberty, and to fuch citizens, in every country, who had fuffered in the caufe of liberty. This, then, was a declaration of difturbance against the domeftic quiet of every nation; fince in every country, there are perfons, who think themselves fufferers, in the cause of liberty; as the decree of the 16th of November, directing the French armies to pursue their enemies into all places, was a declaration of war, against all countries*. Now, unless you be determined, that your conviction fhall contend with fact, you must acknowledge the truth of my pofition, that difcontent produced this war: that the plotters of Britain, and the convention of France, were the true authors of the prefent war, which was inevitable, owing to the intrigues of the British confpirators, and the decrees of the French convention. But, you are determined, that your conviction shall contend with facts. Indeed,→ " Conviction to the ferpent none belongs!" * See both those Decrees in The Collection of Addresses, &c. $793. And, the ferpent of Jacobinifm, with double tongue, continually hiffes out, how "the notion, fo induftri"oufly circulated, that there was, among us, a large "body of men, leagued in a confpiracy against "f their country, with the Jacobin party of France, " is one of thofe wild and foolish things, of which, "in a few months, thofe who credit it, will, in "their cooler moments, be ashamed*." The fer pent is fo involved in recrimination, that he nei-. ther recollects the paft, nor forefees the future. The ferpent forgets the forty thousand confpiraters, who fought alliance, and received fraternity, from France, whofe armies were empowered, as early as the 16th of November, 1792, to pursue her enemies into the harbour of Portfmouth, or the interior of England. Neither does the ferpent recollect the circular letter of the marine minifterto the fea-ports of France, dated the 31st of December, 1792, in thefe memorable words: "The King and his Parliament mean to make war against us, Will the English republicans fuffer "it? Already thefe freemen fhew their difcontent, "and the repugnance they have to bear arms "against their brothers the French. Well! we "will fly to their fuccour. We will make a descent "in the island: we will lodge there, fifty thousand << caps of liberty: we will plant there the facred "tree: and the tyranny of their government will "foon be deftroyed f." The ferpent had every In p. 42. † See The Collection of Addreffes, &c. 41-24 document document before him, when he talked with confident tongue of "foolish things." About thofe wild and foolish things, however, our national councils have of late greatly bufied themfelves. The grand inquest of the nation, the parliament, have found, upon minute inquiry, that a plot did exift, and that the plotters ought to be punished Yet, you continue your Jacobin meetings, and, write with Jacobin pen, against the existence of a plot, which has long existed among us, against the conftitution! And, TRUTH attending to dates, and adjusting facts, might well cry out: He whose practis'd wit Knew all the ferpent mazes of deceit, With practis'd wit, you go on from foolish things to plain affertion, how "the whole body, that af "fociated with Mr. Reeves, feemed to think the " fupport of the war neceffary, for the fupport of the conftitution." The whole body of affociators was only the whole people of Great Britain, who affociated against republicans, and levellers, two months before the war began. Such numbers, and unanimity, this nation never faw affociated together, on any former occafion. The variety of claffes, who concurred, in affociating for one conftitutional caufe, juftifies the remark of TEMPLE, that frugal and industrious men are commonly friendly: * See the Reports of both Houfes of Parliament, to the established government. Such a vaft affemblage of traders, as met on the 5th of December, 1792, in Merchant-Taylors-Hall, for fupporting the conftitution, did not exift, within our ifland, in' November, 1688. And, with no great impropriety of language, it may be afferted, that the intrigues, and the violences, of the forty thousand confpirators produced, in November, 1792, a new revolution, in fupport of the revolution, in 1688. By those intrigues, which had long continued, and by thofe violences, that continually teazed the bofom of our peace, the nation had been prepared, without any alarm from the alarmifts, for fome great effect. And, the merit of Mr. Reeves, confifted, in giving a watch-word, which made all hearts unite, and all hands join, in avowed measures, for protecting property, from levellers, and defending our conftitution, from republicans. It is the people of Great Britain, then, of whom you speak, in language of diminution, as affociators with Mr. Reeves *. And, it was the people of Great Britain, who, if they thought the war necessary, for fupporting the conftitution, had fufficient caufe for their thoughts, and their efforts t. * In p. 42. But, The people had read, what you feem not to have read, the decree of the National Convention, dated the 15th of December 1792, against all eftablifhed conftitutions: Thereby, the French nation declared, "That it will treat as enemies, the people who, refufing, or renouncing, liberty and equality, are defirous of preferving their PRINCE, and PRIVILEGED CASTS, or of in tering |