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BACKS OF THE CRITICS,

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By the Editor, by way of PREFACE,

TO THE

Bone to Gnaw for the Democrats.

HE fame motives which induced the

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republication, in England, of "THE BLOODY BUOY," have led the fame Editor to promote the circulation of another production of the fame author. To impress the minds of his countrymen with a proper fense of the atrocities which have refulted from the propagation of Revolutionary Principles in France, he conceived to be the beft means of averting the

dangers to be apprehended from the industrious diffufion of fimilar principles in England.

The horrors contained in "THE BLOODY BUOY" are, indeed, of fo black a dye, as almoft to justify the disbelief which has been expreffed by many, of the reality of their existence; but it is effential to the cause of justice and humanity, to recal to the minds of the public, that thefe dreadful recitals are not the effufions of party-malice, are not the reprefentations of the enemies of France, but ABSOLUTE FACTS faithfully extracted from AuTHENTIC DOCUMENTS, fupplied by the GallicRepublicans themselves, chiefly taken from the Formal Depofitions, delivered upon OATH, of eye-witneffes, or indirect accomplices, of the criminal deeds which they defcribe; and the whole Democratic Junto of Advocates for the French in Great Britain,-for fuch degenerate wretches, I am forry to fay, exift-are hereby dared to impeach their authenticity. These facts are written in characters appropriate to

the Genius and Spirit of their legitimate parent, the Republic of France, the deformed offspring of Perjury, Plunder, and Aflaffination; they are written in characters of BLOOD, which can never be effaced!

I before had occafion to obferve*, that the first production of PETER PORCUPINE, entitled "Obfervations on the Emigration of Dr. Jofeph Priestley," had been reviewed, or to speak more correctly, reviled, by fome of the Minor Critics in this country, who, in order to dif credit the work, made no fcruple to affert, that it was written in England, and was, in fact, an impofition on the public. The author, however, has fince avowed the publication †, and has reprinted it with a spirited introduc

my

* In Preface to the " BLOODY BUOY," THIRD EDI TION, page vi.

See the LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF PETER PORCU PINE, written by Himself, page 34, &c.

tory Addrefs, and fome important Additions, tending to demonftrate the truth of those facts, which the Critics in queftion had the effrontery to reprefent as undeferving of credit.

If these men have any fenfe of decency, if they are impreffed with a proper idea of the` duty which they owe, in the first place, to an honeft man whom they have calumniated, and, in the next, to the Public on whom they have impofed, they will haften to retract the calumny which they have advanced, and to atone for their Injustice by an avowal of their Ig

norance.

But I know them too well to expect from them any line of conduct connected with Principles of Integrity; I am no ftranger to the fupercilious difdain with which they infolently affect to treat all appeals to their Juftice. I am no stranger to the inflated arrogance, the ridiculous Importance which they affume, when called upon to correct their errors and