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that’ friendship between us! and 
may ‘vengeance to the uttermost 
overtake the man who shall here- 
after attempt to cause a rupture! 
Though we appear comparative- 
ly so few at present, be p leuee 
Frenchmen, that our number: 
creases daily. It is true that the 
stern uplifted arm of authority at 
present keeps backs the timid—that 
busily circulated impostures hourly 
mislead the credulous—and that 
court-intimacy with avowed French 
traitors has some effect on the un- 
wary, and onthe ambitious. But 
with certainty we can inform you, 
friends and freemen, that informa- 
tion makes a rapid progress among 
us: curiosity has taken possession 
of the public mind; and the con- 
joint reign of ignorance and despo- 
tism passes away. Men now ask 
each other, what is freedom? what 
are our rights?—Frenchmen, you 
are already free, and Britons are 
preparing to become so!—Cast- 
ing far from us the criminal pre- 
judices artfully inculcated by evil- 
minded men and wily courtiers, we, 
instead of natural enemies, at 
length discover in Frenchmen our 
fellow-citizens of the world, and 
our brethren by the same Heavenly 
Father, who created us for the 
purpose of loving, and mutually 
assisting each other; but not to 
hate, and to be ever ready to cut 
each others throats at the command 
of weak or ambitious kings, and 
corrupt ministers. Seeking our 
real enemies, we find them in our 
bosoms. We feel ourselves in- 
wardly torn by and ever the victims 
of a restless all-consuming aris- 
tocracy, hitherto the bane of every 
nation under the sun :—wiscly have 
uacted in expelling it from 
e. Warm as are our wishes 
-- 
for your success, edger as we are to 
behold 'fréedorn’ ‘triumphant, and 
man every where restored to the 
enjoyment of his just rights, a sensé 
of our duty’as orderly citizens for- 
bids our flying in arms to your as- 
sistance. Our government has pledg- 
ed the national faith to remain neu- 
tral! In a struggle of liberty a- 
gainst despotism, Britons remain 
neutral. O shame! But, we have 
entrusted our king with discretion- 
ary powers—we therefore must 
obey. Our hands are bound, but 
our hearts are free, ‘and tliey’ are 
with you. Let German despots . 
act as they please, we shall rejoice 
at their fall ; compassionating, how- 
ever, their enslaved subjects, we 
hope this ‘tyranny of their masters 
will prove the means of reinstating, 
in the full possession ef their rights 
and liberties, millions of our fellow- 
creatures. With unconcern, tliere- 
fore, we might view the Elector 
of Hanover join his trocps to trai- 
tors and robbers: but the king of 
Great Britain will do well to re- 
member that this country is not 
Hanover:—should he’ forget. this 
distinction, we will not. While 
you enjoy the envied glory . of 
being the unaided defenders of 
freedom, we fondly anticipate in 
idea the numerous blessings which 
mankind will enjoy, if you succeed, 
as we ardently wish. ‘The triple 
alliance, not of crowns, but of the 
people of America, , ‘France, and 
Britain, will give freedom to. Eu- 
rope, and peace to the world! Dear 
friends, you combat for the advan; 
tage of the human race! How well 
purchased will be, though at the 
expence of much blood, the glo- 
rious, the unprecedented privilege 
of saying ‘* Mankind is free! Ty- 
rants and tyranny are no more! 
KE 4 Peace 
