VOL. I. THE OLD ENGLISH LION, By the Author of " THE HERO OF THE NORTH." THE Old Lion of England grows youthful again; His eye-balls flash fire, his terrible roar, Like thunder bursts awfully over our shore! Devoted to Liberty, gather around, And indignantly hurl the false olive away, Vain symbol of peace, only meant to betray; Our high temper'd spirits, fresh touch'd with those fires, The natural Rampart of Albion we stand; Our banners unfurl'd, O'ershadow the world, Waving wide from those cliffs whence our rights are proclaim'd. Still proudly declare, The Old English Lion will never be tam'd. We fight for the Altar, and Throne we revere, Great Great parent of navies! it spreads o'er the waves, Our Father---our Friend, The King whom we honour !---the Man whom we love! Its nerves fresh endued, The Old English Lion immortal shall prove. From the sail-crowded bays and throng'd havens of France, Ah! vainly with numbers he threatens our coast, The Lion disdainfully pants for the fray; The greater his foes, the more noble his prey. Too late shall France learn on the blood-floated field, We'll grant her rash crew, should they 'scape from the waves, To those Brave, Gallant, and Loyal shores of that enemy's country covered Hearts, the COMMANDERS, OFFICERS, SEAMEN, MY FELLOW-COUNTRYMEN! BEHOLD, after a short and precarious interval of peace, your Country again involved in war with the ancient and implacable enemy of her liberties, with numerous bands of fierce, bloodthirsty, and rapacious Assassins, ready to seize the first opportunity of invasion, and prompted to the most desperate undertakings, by the promises held forth to them, by their unprincipled Leader, of universal pillage, rapine, and confiscation. All who are found in arms are to be put to the sword, in order to make the booty richer; and our wives and and daughters are to be delivered up to gratify the brutal appetites of the French Soldiers. So cordially are Britons hated by Bonaparte, that he does not deign to offer them FRENCH FRATERNITY, but avows, that nothing short of their utter destruction as a nation will satisfy the measure of his ambition, of gratify the insatiable spirit of hatred and revenge with which he is animated against us. Glorious distinction! to be hated by this CORSICAN MULATTO and his BLOOD-STAINED SLAVES! As we are the only nation that has hitherto successfully opposed the progress of his destructive arms, so he dreads us no less for our valour, than he detests us for the fatal experience he has had of it. : Nobly have YOU fought on former occasions! What obligations does your Country owe to YOU, HIER GALLANT HEARTS OF OAK, HER FIRM, INVINCIBLE DEFENDERS! She calls on you again to protect her and shall she call in vain? No! BRITISH SEAMEN can never prove false to the Land that gave them birth! It is a principle deeply imprinted in their hearts to fight for OLD ENGLAND while they have a drop of blood in their veins, as long as they are able to point a musket, or to handle a cutlass! And will they degenerate in these perilous times, when a MURDEROUS TYRANT, the Despoiler and Ravager of every Country he has visited, whether in amity or warfare, menaces the shores of their native land with his hostile bands, and threatens įts inhabitants with every atrocity which the wickedness of his heart can devise, or the iniquity of his career has rendered familiar to his imagination? No! BRITISH SEAMEN will never suffer that their Native Country should become a prey to any Foreign Invader, much less to an insolent CORSICAN USURPER, who has established with the point of the Bayonet, a power over a nas tion fitted only to be Slaves. BRITISH SEAMEN! At this important crisis you have arduous duties to perform: you must submit to many privations, and encoun、 ter many hardships and dangers. If you, display the same valour and perseverance you have ever shewn, it is scarcely possible that Bonaparte and his Myrmidons should ever be able to land in Britain; and it would be more to the honour and interest of your country, that he and his soldiers should be sunk in the Ocean, than that a single Frenchman should effect a hostile landing in our happy country. Every Tar who has a sweetheart on shore, or a wife, or a daughter, or a sister that is dear to him, must feel how much it is his interest and duty to make every exertion in his power, to defeat the infamous designs of the enemy, and to hold all danger trifling, and all labour cheap, which may conduce to place these tender and valued connections in a state of security. BRITISH SEAMEN! By the love you bear your country, and the honour in which you hold your mild and parental Sovereign; by the affection you bear your families, your friends, and your homes; by the hereditary and unconquerable attachment to liberty, for which the men of your nation have always been distinguished, and for which they have conquered and bled; by the hatred of tyranny, bloodshed, and oppression which animated your Ancestors; and by the spirit of indignation which at this moment fires every British bosom on shore, and arms every hand to retort on the Corsican Tyrant his own atrocious threats---Let not your Country call in vain for you at this moment to display your wonted E 2 ener energies, and the valour so well known and so justly dreaded by our foes. Then will Britain triumphantly surmount every danger, and shew to the Corsican Despot and his affrighted Slaves, that BRITAIN STILL IS MISTRESS OF THE SEAS, and that her Wooden Walls are her impregnable bulwarks. AN ENGLISHMAN. Naval Chronicle. PEOPLE OF THE BRITISH ISLES! LET Let us therefore make known to Frenchmen that whatever difference in Political Opinions may arise among ourselves, that when our beloved Country is menaced by Invasion, WE WILL AND HAVE RESOLVED ONE AND ALL, to defend with bravery and vigor its Entails a debt on all the grateful state, His own brave friends shall glory in his fate; But let us pause, and contemplate for a moment what we have to defend." We have to defend from brutal via lation the British Fair, whose unrival ́ led beauty so far from protecting them, will add proportionably to their misery. We have to defend, (and transmit unimpaired to our children) those Rights and Liberties for which our Ancestors have so often bled, from time to time, and even sacrificed their lives to preserve. We have to defend and to maintain, such glorious privileges as collectively no other nation on the earth can boast of possessing. We have a MAGNA CHARTA and a FREE PRESS; but above all, our glorious and invaluable Constitution, the admiration and the wonder of the world. What ardour will not the first consideration alone inspire in the breasts of our British Youths? What hitherto unheard of prodigies of valour, what feats of Courage may we not expect, in A CAUSE, SO TRULY GRAND-- SO TRULY JUST. "Rely on fate, whose out-stretch'd hand Shall still preserve thee from the hostile steel, For scenes of future bliss.-Think on the day When with a victor's emulation swoln, Thine arms shall clasp a mistress' throbbing breast, When tears of joy shall grace thy mother's DECLARATION OF THE berties---to defend the dearest hopes of our children---to maintain the unspotted Merchants, Bankers, Traders, glory which we have inherited from our AND OTHER INHABITANTS OF LONDON AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD. AT a very numerous meeting of Me.chants, Bankers, Traders, and other Inhabitants of London and its neighbourhood, held on the Royal Exchange this day, July the 26th, 1803, in consequence of public advertisement, The following Declaration was proposed, and UNANIMOUSLY resolved upon : "WE the Merchants, Bankers, Traders, and other inhabitants of London and its neighbourhood, deem it our bounden duty, at the present momentuous period, to make public our unanimous determination to stand or fall with our King and Country. The independence and existence of the British Empire---the safety, the liberty, the life of every man in the Kingdom are at stake. The events perhaps of a few months, certainly of a few years, are to determine whether we and our children are to continue freemen and members of the most flourishing community in the world, or whether we are to be the slaves of our most implacable enemies---themselves the slaves of a foreign Usurper? ancestors---to guard from outrage and shame those whom nature has entrusted to our protection---to preserve the hipnour and existence of the country that gave us birth. "We fight for that constitution and system of society, which is at once the noblest monument and the firmest bulwark of civilization !---We fight to preserve the whole earth from the barbarous yoke of inilitary despotism !---We fight for the independence of all nations, even of those who are the most indifferent to our fate, or the inost blindly jealous of our prosperity! "In so glorious a cause---in the defence of these dear and sacred objects, we trust the God of our Fathers will inspire us with a valour which will be more than equal to the daring ferocity of those who are lured, by the hope of plunder, to fight the battles of ambition. "His Majesty is about to call upon his people to arm in their own defence. We trust, and we believe that he will not call on them in vain---that the freemen of this land, going forth in the righteous cause of their country, under the blessing of Almighty God, will inflict the most signal chastisement on those who have dared to threaten our destruction--a chastisement, of which the memory will long guard the shores of this Island, and which may not only vindicate the honour, and establish the safety of the British empire, but may also, to the latest posterity, serve as an example to strike terror into tyrants, and to give courage and hope to insulted and oppressed nations. For the attainment of these great ends, it is necessary that we should not only be an unanimous, but a zealous, an ardent, an unconquerable people---that |