The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1793-08-19 00:00:00, page 2

ART thou a Governor, a Migiftrate ?
—What is thy Duty ?—Be ay honest
, Man—be the Arbiter of Juftice —be this
thy Creed, " I ought to do unto others, as I
would others faidd do unto me-" So (halt
thou be loved, & esteemed by thy Subjeds
as a Friend and Guardian.
Art thou learned ? —Then inftruft thou
the ignorant—& when thou haft enlight
ened his Mind, he mail behold thee with
Delight, and be will love thee.
Art tbeu ignorant ? —Hearken to the In
ftrudion of the learned : So malt thou ac
quire Wifdom,and Happiness.
Art thou aMinfer? —Confider thy Du
ty—Confider well the Importance of thy
Charge ! — Confider thy sacred Trust !—
Do any of thy Parishioners offend against
thy God ? Watch over them, as the
good Shepherd over his Sheep—Go thou
unto them, warn them of their Danger—
If any one offend thee—admonilh thou
him: —tell him of his Fault ^^m him &
tbee —But if he be stubborn, and gainsay
_thy Inftrudion, make of him a,u#fc4 Ex
ample to warn others.—When thou doest
this with KindneG; Meekness, Charity,
and Love, then (halt thou have Peace of
Conscience—So shalt thou be juftified be
fore God, by Christ Jesus, who was
meek and lowly—and who to the wicked
told them of their Sins with Candour, &
reviled not the Reviler —But who, with a
Christian Love, Meekness, Condescen
sion, Charity, Benevolence and Humility,
taught Man to toe bis Neighbour as him
fdf—and left for his Guide this most di
vine and excellent Law, Do unto every one
as you would be done by. —-In this is contain
ed enough to make this World a Paradife,
and Mankind happy.
Art thou a Parishioner ? —Confider the
Refped that is due to the Ministers of Je
hovah—attend to their Inftrudions—be
devout—be ferious —and store their good
Precepts in thine Heart.
Art thou a Parent ? —On thee depend
eth much—the Welfare of Society refteth
on thy inftruaion to thy Offspring—lf
thy Son be prodigal, let thy Wffdom and
Example point out to him " the better
Way."
Art thou a Master ?— Deal humanely to
wards thy Servants, and they Shall honour
and esteem thee.
Art thou a Servant ?=Be faithful to thy
Master—be honest—be industrious—so
FOR THE MIRROUR.
On bearing Sermons.
IT has always been reckoned one Parto
the Office of the Sacred Funaion, to
explain the Scriptures, and to make
Discourses of PIETY and RELIGION to
the People ; which is generally called
preaching ; (the Character of the
Preacher, I must confefs, will have weight
with the Hearers; and will continue to,
till the Nature of Man is changed ;) and
it has been esteemed a Part ot the Peo
ple's Duty, seriously to attend such Dis
courses ; and although the great Cor
ruption of the present Age gives too much
Reason to complain of the small effed it
has on the Lives of Men, yet it is an ad
mirable Means, when performed with Se
riousness and Judgment, to inftru& the
Ignorant, to reclaim the wicked and pro
fane, to awake and rouse the careless Sin
ner, and to confirm and strengthen well
disposed Minds in their good Resolutions.
Now to effed all these valuable Purposes,
that so immediately concern our well be
ing here and hereafter, is it not to be wilh
ed that all our Priests were circumfpea
in their Lives, blameless in their Conver
sation, and Patterns of Humility and
Charity to others ? But since they are
but Men, and liable to the fame Tempta
tions that others are exposed to, their per
sonal Infirmities should not so far possess
People's Minds, as to deprive them the
Advantage of their good Inftrudions. So
far as a Minister falls short of his Duty,
he will answer for the Negleft of it : Let
not therefore any austere, uncharitable,
penurious, felf-important, felf-fufficient
Character, though robed in Apostolic Uni
form, so far engage your Attention, when
in the House of Prayer, as to deprive you
the Benefit and Advantage of a good Dis
course ; attend to what is said, and leave
the Preacher's Reputation to rife or fall
by the Judgment of those who support
him ; and when his Fate is decided, be it
for or against him, it can be no Hindrance
to your Improvement, if you make a right
Use of the Sermon.
A MODERN CHRISTIAN.
Morality.
The French Republick being desirous
to terminate all its differences with Great
britain, and to end a war, which by the
manner it is otherwise likely to rage, can
not fail to bring miseries dreadful to hu
manity on both nations, I have the hon
our to demand of your Lordlhip, as Min
ister of his Britannic Majesty, a passport
and fafe condu& for a person possessed
with full power to repair to London for that
purpose.
Mr. John Salter, Notary Publick
in London, will deliver this to your Lord
ship, and on the condition of its being
requisite, another letter containing the
name of the person who will have the
confidence of his nation.
[The following letters were delivered to
Lord Grenville (No. I and No. II.)
on Friday the 26th April last, by Mr.
John Salter, of Poplar, at his Lord-
Blip's office, Whitehall, on his Lord
ship's requisition, after having perused
Mr. Salter's authority.]
May 14. —Several Deputies from Tbo
loufe appeared at the bar, and demanded
arms and artillery for the troops to defend
the frontier of the Pyrennees against the
Spaniards, and also the institution of a
Revolutionary Tribunal.
A letter was read from Gen.KELMAiN
to thecommander in chief Lamarche,
It states, that the General had just re
turned from an expedition useless at least.
The French had loft the effed of all their
late conquests, through the fault of the
19th battalion of Charente, which had
fuffered itfelf to be furprized, and had
thus loft the principal post.
I have the honour to be, my Lord your
Lordship's obedient humble servant, the
Minister for Foreign Affairs,
Paris, ^ril 2, 1793-
Second Year of the French Republick.
To His Excellency Lord Grenville.
'. : .±
1) NUMBER 11.
MY LORD,
Agreeable to the intimation given
in my firft letter, and which has for its
WEDNESDAY, MAY 2§.
Letters from M. Le Brun, Minifir for
Foreign Affairs in France.
" After the Counterrevolutionifts shall
lave been subdued, an hundred thousand
men may really make a descent on Eng
and, there to proclaim an appeal to the
^nglifh people on the present war."
Referred to the Committee of Publick
Safety.
means he has devised for the adivity of
the service of the artillery.
" qthly, The War Minister shall have at
his disposal fix hundred thousand livres
for the repair of the fufils, and five
hundred thousand for execution of the
preceding article."
The General concluded by suggesting,
that
" To make our successes more certain,
I propose to you to decree,
'' ift. To all the battalions of volunteers
who are not inferibed, an experienced
officer shall be annexed.
" 2dly, All the citizens of Paris who
have serviceable mufquets, shall deliv
er them to those who are to set out.
The War Minister shall recompence
them by fufils to be repaired for that
purpose.
" gdly, Santerre is authorized to
communicate to two members of the
Committee of Publick Safety, the
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
MAY 13.
GEN. Santerre appeared at the
bar, and made this address :
" We are ready to set out for la Vendee ;
and to morrow, and the ensuing days,
twelve or fourteen thousand men will set
out. We have eighty guns, and abund
ance of ammunition.
shall thy Master regard thee, and render
thy Servitude easy.
Art thou a Man ? —Know then that thou
art of the Daft—and as the dry Clay thou
flialt be Mown away by the Wind.
Whosoever thou art—be assured that
thou shall one Day lie low in the Dust.
Latest Foreign Intelligence.
my lord,
NUMBER I.
France.
LE BRUN.
Massachusetts.
PORTLAND, August 3. — An American
Artist (fays a Virginia Paper) has lately
di/cowered and propoJed for the publick Ser
vice, an Improvement in the USe of Firearms,
by which a Soldier, without the leaf burr, or
Embarrassment, can fire thirty, forty, or more
fats in the Space of one Minute. The Au
thor, it is said, is employed in prosecuting
Measures to have this Stratagem made use of
to fread Conformation and Havock among
the Savages on our Frontiers ; and from the
Nature of the* Engine, it is probable it vuill
have a powerful Effeß. The Principles of
this Improvement are fmple and original—th
Number of foots intended to be suddenly fired,
are to be charged into the Gun at once, and
fired off at Intervals, just Sufficient to recover
Pennsylvania.
PHILADELPHIA, August 3.—Late
Accounts from Ireland mention that up
wards of ten thousand People were in
Arms in the weftern Parts of that Island
committing every Kind of Havock and
Devastation. The Military Force was
obliged to retreat before them. This In
furredion is said to have been occasioned
by the Militia Ad, and the present Dis
tresses arising from the War.
The last Letter from France fays, that
the principal Body of the insurgent Army
has been completely defeated by the Army
of the Convention.
Several Merchants, Agents or Consig
nees of British and French Vessels, were
presented by the grand Jury of the Circuit
Court, for having finished Arms and
military Stores for such Vessels, in the
Port of Philadelphia, to be employed in a
hoftiie Manner against Powers with whom
the United States are at Peace.
Auguis, a National duputy, stated,
by a letter dated at St. Maixent, May 11,
that he had repaired to the Departments
bordering on those in a state of revolt, to
demand fuccours. Three thousand arm
ed citizens, terrified by the exaggerated
statements of the force of the revolters,
had retreated to St. Maixent, and after
wards to Nyori, many others following
their example, and exclaiming as they re
trograded, that the design was to condud
them to slaughter. He had collected to
gether a body of men, and was told that
the rebels were only two leagues distant.
And I do attest the truth of the be=
forementioned copies of letters, No. I.
and 11. as also the letter to Mr. Salter,
to have been signed by M. Le Brun,
Minister of Foreign Affairs in France, in
my presence ; to have received the letters
so delivered to Lord Grenville, (as
also copies of the fame) from the said
Minister, and to have delivered the fame
into the hands of Mr. Salter ; and I
do hereby authorize and desire the publ
cation thereof.
Paris, April 2, 1793.
Second Year of the French Republick
To Mr. Salter, Poplar, London.
You will deliver to his Excellency
Lord Grenville, Minister and Sec
retary of State to his Britannic Majesty
for Foreign Affairs, the enclosed letter,
No. I. and if his Lordship demands it,al
fo the enclosed letter, No. 11. on behalf
of the French Republick.
I am with consideration, fir, your very
humble and most obedient servant, the
Minister for Foreign Affairs.
I need not remind your Lordship that
it will be necessary to attach to him three
persons, as his Secretary, Valet-de-cham
bre, and a Courtier ; but I claim of
your Lordship the necessary proteaion for
them.
Copy of the Minister's Letter to Mr. Sal
ter.
I have the honour to be, my Lord, your
Lordship's most obedient humble servant,
the Minister for Foreign Affairs,
Paris, April 2, 1793.
To bis Excellency Lord Grenville.
obje& the restoration of peace, I have the
honour to inform your Lordship, that
Mr. Marat will be deputed to give to
our nation that desirable event.
JAMES MATHEWS.
Biggin House, Surry, May 21, 1793
American Intelligence.
sir,
THURSDAY MAY 26.
LE BRUN.
LE BRUN.
The Intelligence by the June Packet,
contains a great Variety of Particulars,
which though not of so late a Dateas those
received by the Way of Portjmcutb Serve
to throw light on several important E
vents :—General Custine in his Sor
ties, and Attacks on the Prussian Camp,
in order to fuccour Ment%, has gained ad
vantages which are deemed equivalent to
the loss by the French, in the strong
Camp at Famars : In the; various Skir
mishes which frequently take Places the
French attack and defend with an Impet
uosity and Steadiness, which oftentimes
defeat, and not unfrequently appal the •
Veterans of the combined Armies • And
there is scarce an Account in the many
A Letter from Lifan, to a Merchant in
this Town, dated June 19th, fays, “ The
War still continues without any material
Advantage to either Party." —This must
be the latest Intelligence from Europe.
A Letter from Charleston, Southcarolina,
dated July 18, fays, " Advices were Yes
terday received from the President of the
United States, to the Goverhpur of this
State, and Georgia, to have the Militia
ready at a moment's Warning."
Extraß of a Letter from an American Gentle
man of Information, who has lately puffed
through Franc, and the Netherlands, to bis
Friend in this Town, dated London June 5.
I am very Confident that the
French cannot be subdued ; and in Case
Conde and Valenciennes Biould be taken,
the combined Powers will not be a single
step nearer the Objeft they aim at, than
they are at present ; because Life, and
several other Towns are so strongly forti
fied, that it is impossible they Biould ad
vance into the Country, even were they
superior in the Field, which I am sure is
not the Case."
BOSTON, August 7. —A Gentleman in
Town has received a Letter from London, dat
ed June 6, 1793, which informs, that, the
National Convention of France bath lately
paged a Decree, that all Property found in
neutral Bottoms, belonging to an Enemy, Jhall
be a lawful Prize : And that all neutral Ves
sels bound to an Enemy's Port laden with Pro
wifons ma, be taken and carried into France,
th, paying the Parties the Prices the, would
have received at their defined Market. A
fmilar Aa is passed in England.
-Sea Monster.
Captain Crabtree, who lately arrived
at Frenchman's Bay, and now in this Town,
gives the following extraordinary Account of
a Sea Serpent, the Authenticity of which may
be depended on : —
" On the zotb of 'June left, Being on may
P^ff'ge f rom Wefindies, tn the Morning,
laving just made Mount-Desert Ijland, dis
tant nearly ten Leagues, Ijuddenly got fight of
a Serpent of an enormous Size, swimming on
the Surface of the Ocean, its Head elevated
about fix or eight Feet out of Water, rather
prone forward. That Part of the Body which
was out of Water, 1 judged to be about the
Size of a Barrel in Circumference, but the
Head larger, having feme Resemblance of a
Horde's. According to the most accurate Com
putation which I made in my Mind, of his
Length, I think it could not be lejs than from
„to 60 Feet, and perhaps longer. That
Part of the Body which was not elevated, but
of which I Lada diflina View federal Times,
was larger than the Part out of Water.—
The Body of a dark brown. I was within
two hundred Yards of it near an Hour ; dur
ing which Time, as it difeovered no Inclina
tion to molest us, my/elf and the whole Crew
observed it with the minutest Attention ; nor
was its Attention lefsfixed on us. The Eye
was perfealy black, sharp, and piercing. I
was so near it as to observe clearly that there
were no Fins or external Appendages to the
Body ; but that its Motion was by the writh
ing of the Body, like other Serpents. During
the Time it was with us several Flocks of
Birds flew near, which it eyed very narrow
ly. I observed in it the greteft Agility and
Qiicknefs of Motion."
There is no Doubt but this is one of two
which have been seen in these Parts. All
Accounts agree refpeaing their Size and Ap
pearance. Two of them (perhaps the fame)
were once fan on the Shore of the Cranberry
Ijiands, but immediately took to the Water on
being difeovered. These are the firft ever
Jeen in our Seas, that we have any Account
of, though they have been jeen on the Coafl of
Norway, more than 100 Feet in Length.
\tbe Sight of a new Objeft, with fucb flops
and referees as may be thought proper.
August io.
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