Alarm

,—the tocsin of delusion; plunging Eng­lishmen into all the calamities of war, under the falsest pretence of their liberties and properties being endangered, to cover the real designs of hatred, jealousy, despotism, and revenge. A pre­text for prosecutions, unconstitutional augmenta­tion of the army, the introduction of foreign troops, barracks, &c. &c. &c.