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Les cartes, planches, tableaux, etc., peuvent dtre film^s & des taux de reduction diff^rents. Lorsque le document est trop grand pour dtre reproduit en un seul clich6, il est filmd d partir de I'angle supdrieur gauche, de gauche d droits, et de haut en bas, en prenant le nombre d'images ndcessaire. Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mdthode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 * • S^ ^ :■ :■• : ■ . *. : y-ipp L wmmmm •t I A N ADDRESS T O T H E BritiJhKxm^ and Navy. 1^ [Price Sixpence] ^'■rVi^HIHJWTfi.fPIIVPKVJi i- m- /i N s5 m ADDRESS To the Britijh ARMY and NAVY. INTENDED To remind our brave Warriors of the important Interefts, in which they are engaged, and the generous Motives and Incitements they have to aft with Vigilance, Steadi- nefs and Refolution in repelling the bold Jnfults, and chaftifing the infufferable Pride, Ar- rogance, and Perfidy of France, WoAo at ty^y/AOTtgji jjj ro» ityuvx tivoti. Ego njero commonefacere 'vos eorum volo, qua ft Memoria teneatis* long} mea quidem SenUntia, Jitis ad prcelium alacrius accef^ furi. ^ ril thunder in their Ears their Country's Caufe, And try to roufe up all that's B R I T O N /« them. Cato. LONDON- Printed ft, J. B„c...»„, ; P.„,.^j,,^.j^^^ ^^ 1 . 1 o F T, m Chelmsford. MDCCLVI. [ ' ] A N ADDRESS TO THE Britijh Army and Navy. HILE fo many ingenious Heads and indefatigable Hands are employed, in moulding and framing, as I may fay, the Body of War, I hope it will not be thought an unfeafonable Piece of Service, if I endeavour to infpire it with a Soul, and fill every Limb and Nerve with the adive and enlivening Spirit of Valour. B Valour [ 2] Valour is the Energy and Soul of Warj without which, its bodily Parts , how ftrong , nervous , and well * proportioned foever , will be motionlcfs, defencelefs, and like a dead impotent Corpfe trampled and blown upon, by every diminutive and contemptible Infedt of an Enemy. Whereas Valour animates every Part, fwells it with Life and Vigour, gives it that Impetus and Agility of Motion, and that bold, refolute, intrepid Front, by which it intimidates, repels and tri- umphs over the moft numerous and formidable Adverfaries. Y % To infufe this therefore where it is wanting, and heighten it in thofe Minds that are already warmed and animated with it, muft needs be thought as neceffary a Preparation for Wan [3 ] War, as planning and crefting Bat- teries and Fortifications, building Ships, and fabricating Weapons. For as Men without Weapons, and Wea- pons without Men are ufelefs, fo are both without Courage. While others therefore are fitting out the mechanick Part, the Engines and Implements of War, I will endea- vour to roufe the martial Spirits, and inflame the native Bravery of Thofe, for whofe Ufe they are with fuch admirable Induftry and Expedition preparing. Were the great Body of which I am fpeaking, a mere organized Shape, a fpiritlefs inanimate Lump 5 to infpire it with Life and Motion, would be an Undertaking much too arduous for me. Some loftier and more promethean Ge- B 2 nius [4] nius would here be wanting, with his celeftial Fire. But happily itis already infpired. The Fire ot Valour already burns and flames in every Part. The important Interefts my brave Country- men are efpoufing, and the noble Motives they have to adt-with Stcadi- nefs and Intrepidity, have long fince roufed their Attention, and fpirited them up to an uncommon Pitch of martial and heroick Ardor. To r^- mind them of tliefe, and thereby aug- ment the generous Heat, and blow it up to a fiercer Flame, is all that needs to be done. I '"a You well know, Gentlemen, and doubtlefs glory in the Thought, that you are rifing up in Defence of a great and excellent People ; a People every way worthy of your Friendfhip and Protedion ; your Love, your Admi- ration [5] ration, your Reverence. A People jiiilly celebrated, not only for Inge- nuity and Learning, Sprightlinefs of Wit , Depth and Penetration of Thought, Delicacy and Politcncfs of Tafte, and every other refined Qiiali- ty human Nature boafts of; celebrated, not forthefe elegant Accomplillimcnts only, or the Greatnefs of their Power, the Extent of their Commerce, the Splendor and Magnilicence of their Wealth, but their unbounded Libe- rality, their Munificence, their pub- lick Juflice and Honour, their invin- cible Love of Liberty, their bold Struggles and heroick Efforts to fecure and continue it to themfelves and others ; their Courage and Magnani- mity, Battles, Trophies, and Monu- ments of Victory, and whatever elfe ennobles and aggrandizes a Na- tion, [6] tion, and renders it illuftrious in the View of Mankind. Thefe are the People in whofe De- fence you are now glittering in Arms. Nor are they Strnngers and Foreigners you know not, and with whom you have no natural Affinity or Connec- tion, but your own Countrymen and fellow Subjeds. Many of them your affedionate Relatives ; Fathers, Brothers, Wives, Children, intimate Friends and Companions, with whom you have pafTed many familiar and delightful Hours, receiving from them as they from you, innumerable Tokens of Kindnefs and Love. Thefe are all looking to you for Protedion ; all expecting it from you. All rejoicing at the Sight of fo many martial Habits and intrepid Faces. All exulting H [7] exulting in the Number of your gal- lant Ships, and thofe Vollies of Thun- der, and Storms of rapid Balls, you are ready to difcharge on the perfi- dious Enemy. All triumphing in the Sound of your Drums, and Spirit- Jlirring Fifes and Trumpets, the Prancing of your warlike Horles, and the Splendor of your rich Caparifons : All, rejoicing, exulting, triumph- ing in thefe ; and, if you behave worthy of yourfelves, and the impor- tant Caufe in which you are engaged, ready to applaud and extol your Va- lour to the Skies. But if not — What can you reafonably expecS, but that all fhould join in branding your coward Names with everlafting Infa- my, and curfing your daftardly Weak- nefs and efFeminacy of Spirit? You [ 8] You are rifing up to defend, not only an excellent People, but an ex- . cellent Prince ; venerable for his Age, and ftill more fo for his eminent Vir- tues. A Prince of fuch intrepid Cou- rage ! So fierce and daring in War ! And yet, which is common to heroick and magnanimous Spirits, full of Gentlenefs and Humanity, full of Sympathy and Compaffion. Tender and affeclionate to his Royal Family, in the remoteft Branches of it. Jealous of the Liberties and Interefts of his People, indefatigable in purfuing; bold, refolute and fleady in defending them. Munificent in rewarding, gen- tle and mild in punifhing. Inviola- bly attached to the Laws, Cuftoms, and Rehgion of his Realm. Pure from Tyranny and Oppreflion. Un- ftained with innocent Blood, Tem- perate you have heard. And what kind of Religion is it, they would thus ftrangely introduce ? What but ro- mantick Pilgrimages, Proceffions, and idolatrous Prayers to lewd Saints ? Auricular Confeffions to jefuitical Priefts! [ ^3 ] Priefts! Wafer-Gods, that a Dog would not thank them for ! Beads, Crucifixes, Exorcifms, Conjurations, Penances, Purgatories, and infinite other folemn Fooleries, and ridicu- lous Abfurdities ! 1 ,! Thefe, if our Enemies prevail, which God and your own Valour for- bid I Thefe, I fay? muft either tamely be fubmittcd to, or you muft exer- cife at the burning Stake, that Strength, Patience, and Fortitude of Mind, which vigoroufly exerted in the Field of Battle, will fave you from them. Will you then open the Door, and let in upon yourfelves and us, this Madnefs and Nonfenfe ? This unfanc- tifitd Train of juggling Tricks and antichriftian Fopperies? Will you fuffer thofe brave Faces, the Terror of your Enemies, [ H ] Enemies, to be fprinkled like Babies with fuperftitious Water ? And thofe warlike Hands, able to cut through the thickeft and boldeft Ranks of France^ difgraced with ridiculous Beads ? S \11 that holy Religion you profefs, be thruft out by Idolatry? That Freedom you boaft, exchanged for Slavery and Thraldom ? That generous Country, which gave you Life and Being, and infpired you with heroick Valour, betrayed and aban- doned to foreign Plunderers ? And your aged Prince, fo amiable, fo ve- nerable for his many royal and pater- nal Virtues, fo beloved by his People, fo reverenced by his Friends, fo feared and dreaded by his Enemies, driven away from his illuftrious Throne, and fucceeded, by whom? By what? An Idiot perhaps, or a lawlels Tyrant \ and if not a lawlefs, yet a fuperftitious One ! i ?9 :.¥. , \ i [15] One ! A bigoted Dupe of infidious Jefuits, illiterate Monks and Friars, and damned Inquifitors ! I hope, I truft, neither of thefe hor- rid Evils will befal us. Not only your Valour, and the uncommon Spirit and Rciolution of our excellent Go- vernment, but Heaven's Mercy, and the known Equity and Juftice of your Caufe, encourage me to hope fo. For you arc rifmg up in Defence, not only of you i holy Religion, your Prince, your Country, your afFedion- ate Relatives and Friend i5, but of publick Liberty and Janice. You are arming to chaftife a perfidious as well as infolent Enemy ; that has treacheroufly encroached upon you in time of profound Peace, and having wickedly ravaged your Territories abroad, -# [i6] abroad, feems preparing to bring the Ilavock and Defolation of War home to your own Doors. Such is the Caufe you arc pleading ! Such the Enemy, whofe boundlefs Luft of Power fummons you to Arms! An Enemy always infamous for his violated Faith, his infatiable Thirft after Univerfal Monarchy, and an in- fuppreflible Inclination to infult and trample upon the Liberties of all Mankind. You are vindicating there- fore not yourfelves only, but Europe ; not Europe only, but the human Race. By generoufly curbing this imperious, lawlefs Temper, you arc fervingthe Interefts, and defending the Liberties of Man\ of Man, againft Man's Enemy, Man's infolent Diftur- ber. A truly magnanimous Defign ! Worthy of that Race of Heroes from whom i I [17] whom you fprung ; fo renown'd, fo glorious in the Annals of our Hiftory^ for their Love of Liberty, and that Zeal, Diligence, and Alacrity in the Defence of it, in which you are imi-' tating their illuftrious Examples. And what fhould deter you from carrying on the brave Enterprize, and perfuing the fliining Footfteps of your immortal Anceftors with growing Ar- dour and Refolution ? Is it the ima- gined Greatnefs, the pretended formi- dable Power of your Enemies ? You are infinitely more formidable to them. At Sea you are undoubtedly fuperior, not only in Bravery, but in the Num- ber of your Fleets. Your Land-Forces indeed are not fo numerous. Your Enemies, no doubt, can bring into the Field a greater multitude of Bodies, D But wmmmmmm [ i8 ] But you have Souls ! You have bold brave Minds! And what are the former oppofed to the latter ? Wliat are Bodies when incountering with Spirits ? Or Num- bers, contending with Valour ? Pof- feffed of this intrepid Quality, one Man drives before him ten of equal Strength with himfelf, and equally inftrudled in the Ufe of Arms 5 as one Animal fre- quently does another, of ten times its Bulk of Flefh and Largenefs of Limb. And what is there in this more ftrange and furprifing, than that a Musket Ball, flying with its greateft Rapidity and Force, fhould do ten times more Execution , than one of fuperior Weight, whofe Motion is too flow and languid ? What [ »9 ] i What is the Body of a Lion, com- pared with an Elephant or Rhinoceros? and yet by the undaunted Boldncfs of his Spirit, and the Swiftnefs and Agi- Hty with which he moves, neither of thofc huge ponderous Animals are able to incountcr him, but either avoid him if they can, or fufFer their enor- mous Maflcs to be torn in pieces. Such is the Influence of Valour ! Thus it fubducs and triumphs over inert and fpiritlefs Matter! Driving before it the bulkieft Animals, the largeft and mofl; numerous Fleets and Armies, and giving Vidlory to all thofe Bodies, whether of Men or irrational Creatures, that have the greatefl; Share of its adive and invio;oratinor Force. This, in fliort, is the conquering Power ! This is the fierce bold Spirit, D 2 animated animated and impelled by which, the valorous Lion of Emland has fo often defeated and triumphed over, the unweildy and pufiUanimous Elephant of France, This is not the firfl: time the in- croaching perfidious Nation has at- tempted to inflave rs and the World ; nor the firft time we have rifen up to reprefs its Infolence and Priv^e. Wit- nefs the glorious Plains of ^gincourt^ Blenheim^ and infinite other Scenes of Englifh Valour ! Where our vidorious Arms broke her iniquitous Power, and humbled to the Duft her Arrogance and Haughtinefs of Spirit. Not only the innumerable Victories and Triumphs obtained over her by Land and by Sea, the Uprightnefs of your Intentions, and the Juftice of [ 21 ] of your Caufe, but I may add, the vigorous and timely Supports, you will undoubtedly receive from a Go- vernment, fo fenfible of its real Inte- refts, fo aftive and induftrious in de- fending them, fo wife and fteady, as well as impenetrably fecret in all its Meafures, fo vigilant, fo refolute, fo undauntedly brave and magnanimous, as the prefent, all ferve to heighten and inflame your Courage, by in- fpiring you with Hopes of Conqueft and Glory. Let thefe therefore, and the gene- rous Motives before fuggefted, ani- mate and infpire you. Think in what Caufe you are acting, and againft what Enemy ? For how holy a Reli- gion, how great a People, how good a Prince ! For what admirable Forms of Government, what juft, what ex- cellent cellent Law?, what ineftimable Rights and Liberties, what Friends, what Countrymen, what Relatives, you are girding on the burniflied Weapons of War ! Think of thefe ! And re- member in whofe ftead you are rifen up to fight thefe great Battles, and defend thefe important Interefts. Think of the Heroes that have gone before you! The B/akeSy Rujfelsy Mardboroughsy and the reft of thofe brave Men of whom you have heard and read! Thofe Terrors and Scourges of France I Thofe impregnable Bul- warks of publick Liberty ! Thofe Rocks! upon which Tyranny and Un'iverfal Monarchy rafhly ftriking, had nigh gone to the Bottom, in- gulplied and Ivvallowcd up with all their Pride. Let the heroick At- chievements of thcfc great Leaders, their Lawrels and their Triumphs, be ever 4 i [ 23 ] eVer in your Memories. I fet theni before you to roufe and inflame your martial Spirits, not doubting but the Remembrance of them will infpire you with Courage and Magnanimity, and fill you with i noble Ambition of reaching the fame Heights of Glory which they attained. But if after ail, this, and every other generous Motive fliould be ineffectual, andy^*;^^, for I cannot fuppofe it of many in a BritiJJj Army, or 2. Brifijh Navy ^ I fay,if fome fhould ftill be found fo bafe and un- natural, fo degenerated and funk from theHeroifm of their warHke Anceftors, as to indulge a pufillanimous Fear, and bely their dreaded Name as Bri- tons, I call the illuftrious Shades of thofe renowned Warriors to witnefs againft them. And not only theirs^ but the injured and affronted Shade of Liberty : M, 'f Liberty : Liberty loft by their EfFemi- nacy and Cowardice. t ♦>.» ' And may it ever be loft to thofe who bafely betray it! May divine Providence blaft them where-ever they go ; confound and Icatter them by Sea and by Land ; and, rendering them Fugitives and Vagabonds in the Earth, vex and plague them with their own coward Fears, and for ever fpoil and plunder them of that Hap- pinefs, which they had neither Senfe to value, nor Courage tc defend, ? C) lii •, • . , , ' F I N I S. -f J iliD I ^r.\ ■■ ,. = i Cl' \J^iM^ ^'^ ' ■ '' '■T r ■ ■■-■-' i «x . ■' ' . ■ 'i . :mi- a lofe /ine 2ver lem ing the mh *ver ap- infe ■ ♦ |« » I .» :..'■■?>