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Single sheet folio broadside; old folds, a few small marginal tears. 47 x 27cm. Oxford & BL only on Copac. An appeal to the working people of England on the danger of Napoleon's threatened invasion. 'I am not addressing persons of rank and property. It is that description of persons who are really the People, and who constitute the great mass of every society - those who exist by their daily labour, whom I would wish to convince of the danger that besets them. I shall not appeal to your passions, though the indignation of every Englishman must be most powerfully excited by the perfidy and the cruelties of the Tyrant of France. the man who massacres in cold blood prisoners, children and women - the man who poisons his fellow soldiers - the Desolater of Nations, whose steps are marked with hoor, rapine, and murder, wherever his ferocious and plundering bands have planted his standard. But it is not to this or any other passion I would wish to appeal; it is to your reason, and to your interests.'.