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BROADSIDES OF 1803

Century-Old Appeals Appropriate To-day

The Earl of Crawford has lent to the Wigan Libraries Committee, of which he is chairman, for public exhibition his famous Haigh Hall collec- tion of broadsides illus- trating the

conditions

prevailing in England in 1803 when it became known that Napoleon was preparing to invade England. There were no in popular newspapers those days, and the post- ing of printed broadsides was the most effective method of letting the general public know what. was afoot and what was required of them to meet the emergency.

Proclamation was issued in- forming the people that an invasion was projected. Ad- dresses by public men and many

patriots anonymous were published in the same way, so that the broadsides' preserved in the Napoleonic collection in the Haigh Hall Library give a remarkable picture of the excitements and the actions of the period. There are simple official and announcements, semi-official

there are exhortations to the people to prepare, to remain calm, to resist the threatened attack on their freedom at any sacrifice, and to join the Volunteer Corps, which was the equivalent of the Home Guard of our own time. Abové ∙all; there are warnings against the "fth column" activities of the period, and many parallel in remarkable exact- the speeches of our In- present-day statesmen. deed, it is only necessary to substitute the name of Hitler for that of Napoleon and many of the broadsides would

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do excellently for the present crisis.

Falsely Struck Medal

Lord Crawford has also lent an example of the medal which was struck, in advance, to "commemorate" the suc- cessful invasion of England by Napoleon's army. It was actually pretended that this medal had been struck in London'in 1804 when, it was falsely anticipated, the con- quest of the capital would have been accomplished. The obverse of the medal bears an egy of Napoleon and the - reverse -displaye Hercules strangling a merman gathered from the sea, as symbolical of British sen power.

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Quotations from the pro- clamations, songs, and prints show their appropriateness to the present day.

One broadside; which depicts "Bonapari's True Character," comments:-"Having enslaved the people whom he under- took to free, and plundered and subjugated all Order of the Inhabitants, rich_and_poor, of Holland, Switzerland, and Italy, under the solemn a3- surance of Fraternity and Friends help, he is now deter- rained on the invasion of this United Kingdom, and is mak ing the most formidable pre- parations for that purpose."

"An Address to all Banks of People," urging them to "Rise in defence of your country," after describing the peaceful prosperity of England in all ranks of life, goes on to say?→→

"Against this glorious edifice, crected by the skill, the industry, and the integrity of the inhabitants of this island, a man, who by the determined and unremitted prosecution of plans suggested by his inordinate ambition,

and unparalleled artifice, hath

so far succeeded as to strike terror into a almost all the other Powers of Europe, is now directing the whole force of his widely extended dominion. It galls his haughty soul, that this land alone should dare to stand in the way, and impede the progress of his mad and intemperate. projects. He therefore swears vengeance against it, and vows that he will bury all its high and invaluable privileges,, the grand achievement of the heroes of past ages and of the present day, in. the waves of the ocean that surrounds it. Every means which pride and malico can suggest is adopted' in order to blacken and degrado the character of the detested English in the minds of the people over whom he hath sny influence. The most extensive war-like preparations, both by sea and lund, are making for the in- vasion of these territories."

That description fits Hitler to the life, and might have been specially written to des- cribe what is happening to- day, instead of over a century -and-a-quarter-ago.

Recruiting Appeals

There are recruiting appeals for Volunteers to serve for the defence of the country, in similar fashion to those addressed to the Home Guard of the present time.

"Englishmen! Your coun- tics and shires are now assembling for the purpose of local defence, under a System which will be found formidable to the Enemy as efficacious towards your Security and internal Pence," runs one appeal. "Hasten then to demonstrate to your Daring Invader how high your national Spirit rises at the Insult, and that although his Discomfiture and Ruin be cortain in the Attempt, let

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HUSBANDS AND

Collected From Many Sourcos

I used to believe every word my nice, 'you won't need a new hat and dress

husband said, even when he smelt strongly

of drink and could hardly stand-and said he hadn't been drinking.

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Everyone in our strect respects my husband. He is a boxer.

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Rm sure our troubles would be over you ordered my husband to obey me.

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I have no children, but I have a cat 'with several kittens, and they need feeding»,'

My husband hasn't left mo. He merely says he is never coming back.

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When I told my husband we should have to economise, he said, "That'

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FUNNY SIDE UP

By Abner Dean

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"You see, Smithers, I can take a joke as well as the next follow! Incidentally, Smithers, you're fired!”

your strenuous and increasing efforts in General. Armament manifest to the Foo a firm Appearance of the same manly Vigour in Defence of every Thing dear to Englishmen, which purchases much Blood your envied' Liberty and glorious Con-. stitution, and

which can emanate only from the Spirit of Britons."

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In a congratulatory epistle to the Volunteers the country is urged to still further efforts:-"The opulent must forward with their wealth, the learned with their talonts, and all ranks with their persons. In the defence of his country, and in the preservation of national inde- pendence, every member of the community, the lowest as well as the highest, is equally interested."

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Gigantic rafts were structed for the invasion of England and an engraved. Illustration presents “A view of the French Raft as Been float at St. Malocs in February, 1798." This "machine," it is explained, is 600ft. long and 300ft. boård, und mounts 600 pieces of cannon. "A cavalry regiment is seen parading on the deck of-the raft. Another print gives the ground plan and 'an architect's drawing' of the vessel, at sea under anil, and Dar.

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Songs Of The Period Among the songs of the period one, "Britons to Arms !!

•has the music as well as a picture of the defence of Dover, and another, "The Volunteers of England," has a picture of the great gun that was taken at Alexandria on March 21, 1801, Master Boney's Hoarty Welcome to England" is described as the

Song of Songs, and worth all the songs in the Worlds put There is a "New and a and the ppeasement bə

Britons

Crave your long for bearing, Let insults Are your gen'rous

blood; Ardusc, ‘Arouset to marshai dar-

ing

And deeds of noble hardihood.

Rather apposite to the present situation is the following:

·Come;-with-all thy-slaves-around-

thee,

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Bonaparte! haughty foc! This litle island shall confound

thee,

lay thy giant projects low. And la Yet proud Chief before thy

sailing

Bid thy State a long farewell. The shouts thy rash departure

hating,

Cruel Tyrant, sound thy Knell,

It is of Interest to note that in nearly all the references the British Most people are called Britona. folks were under the impression that recent newspaper moves to describe the people of Great Britain

03 "Britons" Instead of British were quite new, whereas it is clear from these broadsides of the Napoleonte era that this was the term in regular use in the late cighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and that "Britons never shall be slaves" was not an ex- ceptional use, but in accordance with contemporary practice.

Axis Aviators Fall Out

Italian Fighters Flee LONDON, Nov, 25 (Reuter)-The breakdown of Axis "collaboraBon" in the air/war over Britain has had one. curious sequel, writes Reuter's". Air Correspondent.

- An escort' of Italian ~ Aghtors sent over the Channel recently to protect German bombers was so badly.

to

Handled by British Oghters that it fed and left its Nazi comrades fend for themselves.

ascertained that frgIt has now

when the scattered Garman Terma- ton returned home, their pilots salight out the Iulian pilots. Argu ments led to blows, and blows to hotstelt is reported that come of the combatants were killed a s

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Lord Baden-Powell Much Improved

LONDON, Nov 25 (Reuter)The improvement In the Health of the Chief Scout, Lord | Baden-Powell, who has been a seriously ill at his homa in Kenya, is so marked that no farther, bulletin will be larued, it is Fannounced from Kenya to-day,

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