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 of Providence in so exemplary a manner punishing that most cruel, sanguinary, and intriguing nation the French, who have been from the earliest accounts of their nation, either the perpetrators or inciters to not only these unsuspicious barbarians exercising their ingenious cruelties on their friends the English, but to all the wars, massacres, and persecutions that have, and now lay waste Europe.— At the beginning of the many Revolutions that have happened since 1790 in France, we see them butchering the whole mass of their priests, with the same unrelenting fury as these prostituted missionaries caused the ignorant nations of Indians to exercise in America; next they destroy the most probable rallying point that the wise and moderate of that nation could martial themselves round to overturn the crowd of tyrants that were ruining the country; these miscreants cruelly butcher the King and Queen, and declare to the nation that they had gained them liberty, but it was only the assumed liberty of that Convention to guillotine every man or woman who was not entirely submissive to their uplimited despotism! A partial victory, in the winter of 1792, over the Austrians in Flanders shows us their General Demourier, with like impudence to the devil in heaven, before the fall, assuming the language of the Almighty, publishing in his manifestos that he would not only overthrow the governments of Britain and Holland, but that he would make war, or “say to the troubled nations be still” as he thought proper—Relying on the invulnerableness of this gasconader, and to keep the people of France