1 is manifest that there could be bloody tyrants feel aneasy. It is none; and that commerce could : not be carried on. Besides, what would be the peril in case of war? If some men have been artful in juventing a false currency, others are as artful in inventions for its destruction. A nation, which has a paper-currency, not convertible into specie, is at the mercy of any enemy. To imitate the false money is easy; to introduce it easy; to have it made in the country easy. I say, that a thousand guineas, judiciously employed, would, at this moment, produce utter confusion. What, then, might an enemy do with some hundreds of thousands of pounds! not in reason or in nature, that she should not endeavour to seek revenge for the injuries and insults that the despots have, by the means of our paper-fraud, inflicted on her. There are men in France who clearly see the real state of our tyrants. I, though here, see and hear Frenchmen. They all thirst for revenge; and, the greater part of them that I converse with, clearly see, that the paper-bubble will afford them ample means of revenge. France is, in the main, in a good state. No debt worth speakingof; numerous small proprietors of land; the land not burdened with tythes; no innumerable bands of Boroughmonger dependents to feed with places, sinecures, and pensions; taxation nothing com pared to what it is in England; a real money in circulation, which nothing can throw into confusion. This is the state of France: and, if political animosities should be buried in the desire to obtain The Boroughmongers complain, that the French get, and coin up, in large sums, the English gold. To be sure they do; but why need the fools complain of this, seeing that a "metallic" money is so wasteful, and that paper-money is a great improvement in political science? They ought, according to this new doctrine, to endeavour | vengeance, the day of war is not to get rid of the coin as quickly as possible. Yet they pass laws to prevent a guinea getting out. If it be an evil, why not let the French have the whole of it? Here is an inconsistency in words and actions that prove the vagabonds to be false; or, that proves them to be fools. France stands well. France has no debt worth speaking of. France has a real, solid money afloat. And, be you assured, that France will not be long before she makes the far distant. The statesmen of France see clearly the situation of our dungeon-makers. The transactions of the last two or three years have not escaped them. They must have been delighted with the dungeon-laws, and, now again, with the sixty-ounce and the fraction-laws. If I were in their place, I should be incessantly on the look-out for the circumstances that might give my country a chance of obtaining revenge. And, 1 , to be sure sure, they are continually on bubble and the dungeon-making the look-out for such circumstances. should continue to go on; for these make the nation feeble, fill it with discontents, and will, in a short time, render it wholly incapable of foreign war. He said, that he himself could, at any time, destroy the paper-bubble. I told In short, they will be ready, as soon as possible, to obtain revenge. They well know that France was not subdued by the arms of England. They well know that she was subdued by bribery and hiring. They well know, that it him some of my plans, of which, was the Boroughmongers, who, indeed, he had read before; but by means of anticipated resources, he had a plan greatly improved; hired every ruffian in Europe, and and he demonstrated to me, that bribed every knave, in order to he could destroy the whole-bub make them pay before-hand too! But, as he truly said, it is for the interest of France, that the thing, in England, should proceed in its present way; for, at least, a con ruin France. They well know, ble for about four hundred pounds. that means of that hiring and that I say, that I could do it for a thoubribery, were obtained by bor- sand; but, then he, from France, rowing money, which has yet to would have facilities which I be paid, or, that this present sys- should not have here. He made tem of sway in England, must fall. me laugh with a part of his plan, They also well know, that, in case which contained the sure means of of war, they are able to produce making the Boroughmongers pay *confusion in England without a all the expences of making and man or a gun being employed.- circulating his notes! and to They read my Registers. They know what can be done. I know of more than ten safe ways of introducing Bank Notes into England, even from this distance; and, I am sure, they would disco-siderable length of time. The ver a hundred such, or better, longer it shall drawl on, the feeways. A Frenchman (and one of bler will the nation become. But, some note, too) that I was talking for this reason, amongst many with the other day, said, that others, we ought to endeavour to they would have the Boroughmongers on their knees, at Paris, in less than five years. They may, if they will; but then the Boroughmongers will have nothing to do with us, you know. He says, and he says truly, that it is for the interest of France and of America, and of all the Continent of Europe, that the paper ships are even now thronged with shorten its duration. In case of war, the scene would be a pretty one indeed! Loans to the amount of fifty or a hundred millions a year. Taxes up to our very teeth. Men of property would flee from the Island as people flee from a city infected with the plague. The American 7 f 1 passengers: what would be the case then? Flight would then become a measure absolutely necessary to the avoiding of actual beggary. The country would be deserted by all but the Boroughmongers and the paupers. You will always bear in mind, that the Borough Bank can never pay in specie, without a blowing up of the whole system. Always bear this in mind, and then you will see, that, at all times, we have our remedy. Little did the vagabonds imagine, in 1814, what troubles awaited them in peace. They thought that Napoleon was their only foe. When they had put him down, they exclaimed: "the play is over: we may now "go to supper!" No, suid I, you cannot go to supper yet. You must first pay for the play. You must, first, pay your reckoning; pay your score. The Debt, I told them, was our friend; and 1 told them, even at that time, that dungeons and gags would not put down the Debt. How the vagabonds scoffed at me, while they were roasting sheep and oxen whole! My turn to triumph is now come, and triumph I do most luxuriously. I would not exchange an hour of my present enjoyments for ages of common life. I see their troubles with more pleasure than ever courser saw his own dog run by another man's in pursuit of a hare; and I have the pleasure to reflect, too, that I have, in some degree, been the cause of these troubles. They P. S. The hired press is, I see, setting up a very dismal howl about the killing of KOTESBUE.--This prostituted tool of tyranny has, it seems, long been in the pay of the Russian to send bim, privately, accounts of what is passing in Germany, and espe. cially to let him know of every thing that men of talent and letters are doing in the cause of freedom and against despotism. An enthusiastic young man, named SANDT, goes and stabs the hireling; and then, in order to avoid an ignominious death, stabs himself. This is the only case, in which suicide can be justifiable.A man may do any thing, even kill himself, in order to combat a tyranny, and in order to defeat any of the wishes of a tyrant. Whether KorESBUL were guil ty, or not, I do not pretend to say; nor do I know (for I have no means of knowing) that he was a tool of the Russian in the base work of enslaving Germany; and, if he were, it is not clear, that BANDT had a right to kill him; for, perhaps, there were other means of counteracting his efforts. But is it a new doctrine, that the people of a country have a right to kill tyrants and their abettors? Was BRUTUS an assassin, because he killed TARQUIN ? Was WILLIAM TELL an assassin? Was JEHU an assassin, who killed a king and his mother? Was EHUD an assassin? Was MOSES an assassin? Bless us, what a fuss is made about this KOTESBUE, while not a word is said about the death: of RILEY, who expired in one of the dungeons of the Boroughmongers; and while it is notorious to the whole world, that whole bands of men were hired, paid, and sent over to kill Napoleon ! 1 "offensive to the students in ges The COURIER is very eloquent upon this subject; and, with your leave, we will see what he says. "The fact is undeniable, that the "moral discipline of the German "Universities, at the present mo"ment, is deplorably vicious. "Academical studies form the " least portion of the pursuits of "the students, who league them"selves into secret confederacies, "for purposes of the darkest com"plexion. The exploit of SANDT seems to have let loose a thou"sand sanguinary spirits, eager to "emulate his atrocious crime. "We learn, from the Papers now "before us, that the proprietor of "the German Observer, which is "published at Hamburgh twice a "week, has received an anony"mous letter, threatening him "with the fate of KOTZEBUE, if "he dares to publish any thing ; "Germany, at least betoken the | PAINE, the former called upon the "prevalence of a feeling with re"spect to the most cowardly as "well as the most frightful of all "crimes that can beset society, "which it is painful to contem"plate. We have received this "morning Dutch, Flanders, and "Hamburgh Mails. An article "from Frankfort, dated April 8, says, that the murderer of Kor"ZEBUE was alive on the preced"ing day. It is evident, there"fore, that the accounts of his "death in the Paris journals were " premature. We are glad of it. "If the wretch survive, he may " be induced, in some moment of "compunction for the enormity of "his crime; to make disclosures "that will explain its origin. It "would be some consolation to "find, that it sprung only from "his own distempered passions; " but even then we fear, those very passions might be too cer"tainly traced to the influence of " opinions which have been auda"ciously promulgated by men "who will dare to counsel what "they have not nerve enough to act. It is added, in the article "alluded to, that 'several writers, *" who are supposed to entertain "the same sentiments as KOTZEBUE, have received anonymous "letters, in which they are warned "not to be traitors to the cause of "Germany: that is, not to pre"sume to think differently from "their assassins, whose logic is the "dagger's point." And why is their logic the" dag"ger's point"? Why? Because their opponent's logic consists of bastiles, dungeons, gags, halters Fuand axes. Leave disputants to the free use of their tongues and pens; and they will make use of no daggers. When the base, pensioned BURKE was answered by Attorney General to make the reply. When my two-penny trash was ringing throughout the nation, in spite of Stewart, Walter, William Gifford and Southey, these ruf fians called for dungeons to answer me with. Are not daggers as good logic as dungeons? Aye, and more manly logic too, because the use of them exposes the killers to danger; whereas the dungeonlogiciansentrench themselves safely behind an army. The state of the matter is this: on the one side there are men, call them Jacobins, if you will, who, being able to unite and to attract the attention of the public, write and publish their complaints against what they say are acts of gross and abominable oppression. On the other side, there are men, who say that these acts are not acts of oppression; and they, too, publish these their assertionsWell, this is fair play; but, then, these latter, call in the assistance of the alledged oppressors, whose cause they support, and these oppressors, by way of answer to the Jacobins, put them into dungeons! And, they plainly tell them: " if "you publish truth against us, we "will punish you; and, we will "reward and uphold those writers, " who shall publish either truth " or falsehood in our praise, and " who shall either in the words of "truth or falsehood, write and "publish against you." This is the state of the case; and, if the Jacobins, treated in this manner, resort to the only means within their power to resent such treatment, is it so very surprising? Is it so very unnatural? Is it so very monstrous? A man, smarting under such treatment, must die, 'or do something to obtain redress, or revenge. What can man's imagi |