APPENDIX to the CHRONICLE. 
for shelter from his unjust and ty- 
rannical government ; demanded of 
us the suppression of the liberty of 
speech, and of the press ; and, ina 
word, clearly demonstrated his reso- 
Jution not to leave us a moment’s 
tranquillity, till we had surrendered 
our constitution, till we had laid all 
our liberties at his feet, and till, 
_ like the Dutch, the Italians, and the 
Swiss, we had submitted to be go- 
_ verned by the decrees sent us from 
_ France. 
Besides the motives of ambition, 
_ the desire to domineer over, and to 
_ trample upon, all the rest of man- 
_ kind, the first consul has a reason, 
peculiar to himself, for wishing to 
reduce us to a state of poverty, 
weakness, submission, and silence: 
which reason will be at once eyvi- 
dent, when we consider the origin of 
his authority and the nature of his 
government. u 
_ through a long course of-perfidious 
_and bloody deeds, im usurping the 
Having’ succeeded 
throne of his Jawful sovereign ; hay- 
ing, under the nawe of equality, 
established, in his own person and 
family, a government the most pom- 
pous and expensive, while the peo- 
ple are pining with hunger, and in 
rags; having, with the word déberty 
continually on his lips, erected a 
despotism the most oppressive, the 
most capricious, and the most cruel 
that the Almighty, in his wrath, ever 
suffered to exist; having, by such 
Ineans, Obtained such an end, he 
feared, that while there remained 
upon the earth, and especially with- 
in a few leagues of France, a people 
enjoying, under a mild and legiti- 
mate sovereign, all the blessings of 
freedom ; while there remained such 
a people, .so situated, he dreaded, 
and not without reason, that their 
sentiments and their example would, 
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by degrees, penetrate through his 
forests of bayonets, his myriads of 
spies, and would, first or last, shake 
the foundation of his ill-gotten 
power. He could not, indeed, im- 
pute, either to our sovereign or to 
his subjects, any design, much less 
any attempt, to disturb him in the 
exercise of his usurped authority.— 
We never have interfered, nor have 
we ever shewn any desire to inter- 
fere, in the concerns of the consul 
or his pretended republic; and his 
majesty, even after all the acts of 
provocation, al! the injuries and in- 
sults committed against himself and 
his people, has now solemnly re- 
newed his declaration, that his ob- 
ject is not to destroy or change any 
thing in the internal state of other 
countries, but solely to preserve, in 
his own dominions, every thing dear 
to himself and his subjects. 
This, however, is not sufficient to 
satisfy the consul of France; it is 
not sufficient that we abstam, both 
by actions and by words, from ex- 
citing discontent amongst those who 
have the misfortune to be subjected 
to his sway; we must not afford 
them an example, we must not re- 
main free, lest they should learn 
Jessons of freedom ; we must destroy 
our ancient and venerable mo- 
narchy, lest they should sigh for a 
lawful and merciful king ; we must 
not be happy,'lest they should covet 
happiness ; we must not speak, lest 
our voice should disturb the peace of 
Bonaparte ; we must not breathe, 
we must cease to exist, because our 
existence gives umbrage to a man 
who from the walls of Acre fled, in 
shame and disgrace, before a hand. 
ful of Britons. 
Such being the grounds of the 
war, such the wishes and designs, 
such the preposterous and insolent 
pretensions 
