do to the Public in general, I am fure our private affairs have gone on miferably; for by neglecting our business, fpending our own money, and wafting that of the Box (which fhould have been referved for the hour of fickness or adverfity), many of my acquaintance who used to be satisfied with their ftations, and by their industry maintained their wives and families comfortably, have, fince they began to talk of Liberty and Equality, Ariftocrates and Democrates, and twenty other hard words which I never heard of before, been obliged to part with their goods to appease their landlords; their clothes to fupply themselves with victuals, or rather drink (for I always remarked that the greatest politicians among us were the greatest drunkards); their children have been fent to the workhoufe; and their wives (from the contagion of bad example) have become as negligent as themselves; and very frequently more serious confequences have enfued from their political profligacy. Let us, therefore, my worthy fellow-citizens, avoid the evils I have above ftated, by paying no attention whatever to the counfels of those incendiaries who endeavour to poifon and deprave the public mind by whispering treason and difloyalty to the Members of your different Societies. Let us venerate the Government from which our fathers and fathers' fathers derived fecurity and happiness. Let us pay that refpect to the Monarch to which he is entitled both by his virtues and fituation. Let us treat our fuperiors with deference and efteem as long as they direct their influence to the fervice, and not to the oppreffion of their inferiors. Let us confider our religious opinions (to whatever fect we may belong) to have their foundation in obedience to the Divine commands, fubmiffion to the laws of our country, peace, charity, and love toward each other, and there is no doubt but that the many bleffings we derive from our Conftitution will still continue to be the envy of other nations, in fpight of the endeavours of concealed incendiaries, or those that avow themselves the authors of fchemes which they know are impracticable, and which, if they could be carried into execution, would be only productive of that confufion it seems to be the first wifh of their hearts to promote.-That we may avoid the fnare that is laid for us, is, My worthy Fellow-Citizens, The fincere Prayer of Your Friend and Servant, TH FRENCH KINDNESS. HE French, Brother Englishmen, would fain perfuade us to alter our form of Government, and imitate them in trampling under foot both the established religion, and thofe laws which we have hitherto been proud of. Before we hearken to their advice, let us try to recollect fome one inftance of their former good will to our nation; fome benefit which may tempt us to trust them. Let us begin with our Revolution in 1688. The French did their utmost then, by open war and private machination, to entail upon us popery and flavery. They fent an army to Ireland; they paid affaffins to murder King William in England; and when they received an account of his being killed (though a falfe one), they illuminated the windows of Paris for joy. In the year 1745, the French, after stirring up a fet of brave miftaken Scotfmen to rebel against King George the Second, meanly left them in the lurch, and contented themselves with terrifying the old men and women of London with threats of burning and plundering their city. Very lately, did not these very French excite the people of North America to revolt against Great Britain? and did not these very French join in the war with their whole force against us, altho' they had perfuaded our Ambaffador to believe that they meant us nothing but true friendship? Ah! my countrymen, be on your guard against every thing which France, our ancient, conftant, and perfidious enemy, may offer under pretence of its being for our good. JOHN BULL. FRENCH HUMANITY. TOLD you in my first letter to beware of advice from the French, as they never yet had fhewn to Great Britain any other difpofition than that of doing to her every mischief they could. I now warn you to avoid following French examples. They have none to fhew but fpecimens of Blood, Rapine, and Murder. You shall hear a little of their deeds and in telling the tale I will only confult their own writers. In 1418, a faction among the people of Paris maffacred all of the oppofite faction; above twenty thousand persons were ftabbed or fmothered, among whom were more than five thousand women.' In 1572, feventy thousand proteftants were murdered on St. Bartholomew's day in Paris and the diftri&is around it, And during the first twenty years of one of the French civil wars, Fromenteau, one of their own writers, affirms, that feven hundred and fixty-five thoufand perfons were flain, twelve thousand three hundred women were ravished, nine cities and two hundred and fifty villages burnt by this elegant humane nation. Let the forlorn deplorable Emigrants from France, thronging every street in London, and dependent on your charity for every morfel of bread they eat, defcribe to you the horrors of laft September. The prifons forced! the guilty and the innocent involved in one flaughter! Women, after having been cruelly murdered, carried naked on poles through the streets of Paris! Ah! my friends and countrymen, fhall fuch examples be followed by the mild and generous inhabitants of England, who in all their civil wars were never accused of a fingle maffacre; and who, altho' deluded to much mischief by a mad Fanatic in 1780, fpilt not a fingle drop of human blood in the midft of the moft intemperate riot! JOHN BULL. . THE HAPPY MAN. A NEW SONG. HAVE been married these dozen long years, I leave to the Great all the national cares, Nor trouble my head with fuch folly; I mind my own bus'nefs, and earn my own bread, When my day's work is done, to the alehouse I fly, A deal about Freedom, and Equality, And fuch like nonsensical matter; Tom Paine's Rights of Man! what are thofe Rights to me? To do what is right, I am fure I am free; I think that they all want to be at the top, Neighbours, mind this, and be quiet. LIBERTY AND PROPERTY PRESERVED AGAINST REPUBLICANS AND LEVELLERS. A COLLECTION OF TRACTS. NUMBER VII. CONTAINING, The Miftaken Part of the Community, &c-Liberty and Property, Courage, and Common-Senfe.-A Parish Clerk's Advice to the good People on the prefent Times.-A ferious Caution to the Poor.-Reflections on Paine's Trial. LONDON: Printed and Sold by J. SEWELL, at the European Magazine Warehoufe, Cowper's Court, Cornhill; J. DEBRETT, Piccadilly; and HOOKAM and CARPENTER, Bond-ftreet. Price ONE PENNY. TO THE MISTAKEN PART OF THE COMMUNITY, Who affemble in Seditious Clubs for the Purpofe of obtaining a REDRESS of what they fuppofe GRIEVANCES. L MY FRIENDS, ET me candidly addrefs a few lines to you on your prefent Impolitick behaviour. Either you are mistaken in forming your opinions of what you call Grievances, or else you are misled by an artfull fet of men, who are trying to bring you into trouble that they may reap the benefit. If they tell you that in France they pay no Taxes, they deceive you. The French at the beginning of the Revolution were not as you are; the poor paid all the Taxes. The very Salt B was |