The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1794-11-07 00:00:00, page 2

Nas the greatest and best fought battle that
the Republic had then gwhed. Jourdan was
recalled and dismissed, with as much facility
as if he had been but a drummer. Every
. body had reason to expeft his trial 4nd exe
cution, but lie has been,reftored to command.
Several other eminent officers have been
suspended or have fled. All have invariably
found that the integrity of the soldiers to the
national cause was inflexible. The talents
of a Cxfar or a Cromwell, could have daz
zled or debauched an army of modern French
Republicans. The common men seem to
have adopted the laconic motto of the cele
brated family of Douglas ; forward. The
fate of a favourite General, is like a bulrush
opposed to the ocean of military enthusiasm.
A people, who have undertaken to extirpate
the Sovereigns of Europe, are engaged in a
„ talk too arduous to give themselves leisure for
thinking of a displaced commander.
We do not fay that the French army are to
I be praised for every part of their condud.
We only state what has actually happened.
In all the squabbles and massacres of the
Convention, the army, the city of Paris, and
a very great majority of the rest of the pe%
ple, have invariably flood by the fuccefsful
party. This uniform adherence, and una
nimity, afford a strong presumption, that
many of these executions which appear so
Blocking, have been grounded on substantial
justice. ;''
There is no reason to expert that the pro
gress of the French arms will„be impeded by
the execution of Roberfpierre, or even of any
general in the French service ; 4ince Fayet
tee/Dumourier; Cuftine and Houchard, Ro
land, Briffot and Danton, have vanished from
the fleeting scene without revenge, and al
most without remembrance.
Britijb Insults.
-.NEWYORK,-^fo <wif.
Daniel H. Braize, mafler, and Perry E. Noel,
James Young and Daniel Conrad, cabin pas
sengers of the foip Fanny, being duly sworn,
refpeaivel, make oath and fay, that, —
The (hip Fanny, Captain Braine,
bound from Greencock to this port,
being on the morning of the 12th
instant about seven miles off Sandy
Hook the Africa man of war who
was then cruizing io company with
the Resolution and another British
(hip fired a gun, which the pilot, who
was then on board, taking for a fig
nak to the Fanny thought it fufficient
to hoist American colours, as he was
unwilling to lose the tide. This how
ever, not fatisfying the. Africa, (he a
gain, fired, upon which the Fanny
brought to, but on the report of a
nother gun the (hot of which struck
the water at no great distance, (he
wore to meet the Africa; a boat's
crew from which, with an officer,
came on board the Fanny who after
examining the (hip's papersand crew,
again returned to the Africa. The
fame boat however soon returned with
two officers, who took about 15 of
the passengers into the boat, under
pretence of being examined by the
Captain, persuading them, that if they
were lawfully permitted to emigrate,
would immediately be set at liberty ;
but go their utter astonishment, seven
of them were retained together with
the second mate.
The Captain was also ordered on
board the Britiffi fhip,k>ut as they as
signed no reason why he should do so,
he refuted ; upon which the boat with
what passengers ffie had returned to
the Africa.—ln a short time the boat
returned once more to demand the
(hip, papers, although as we have
mentioned, they had been already ex
amined. Captain Braine thinking it
proper to be the bearer pfhis own pa
pert, went on board himlelf, where he
met with the most grpfs treatment,
merely for anfwering^o the different
questions put to him by Capt. Hume.
Hefattified the captain of the Brit
ish (hip that every passenger he had on
board M& regularlyexamied on oath,
passed the Cuftom-hpufe# Green
ock, and again from the Polly, a
teh&Kin her paffagedo&ri the Clyde,
^awica^ |fofa^
pndfffl&crwhom he had t&ar h^
;lived-in Ammea m^ ac
knowJe^d'to tel naturalized &
' merican, even by the law of Great-
I britain.
Notwithflanding all this, Captain
Hume declared, that he found it ab
solutely necessary to ad in a mole de
termined manner, and that, although
these men were permitted to emigrate,
by the laws of their country, he con
ceived emigration to be so ruinous to~
Britain that he would make laws him
(elf, Thus henceforward he would
flop every vessel that had paffengeti
on board, and take out all British fub
je&F, except merchants carrying out
goods.
He further declared that he believed
all the American Captains were in the
habit of paying a certain sum to ever,
individual that would emigrate to A
merica ; and even more than insinu
ated, that they were kidnappers.
He looked upon the Americans he
said to be greater enemies to Britain,
than the French themfelves—ln short
all his actions and conversation discov
ered a spirit peculiarly malicious to
wards America.
• Daniel H. Braine,
Perry E. Noel,
James Young,
Daniel Conrad.
Sworn to, this 15th day of Odober,
1794, before-
Richard Varick, Mayor.
oct. 17. Yesterday the schooner
Orange brought back the seven pas
sengers who were taken out of the
Fanny.,
A NEW CHAPTER—Political.
«Z 10 01 U^
rp From the Centinel.
I HIS is the Book of :he generation and
downfall of Jacobinism ;
2. Briffot begat the Jacobin clubs of Paris
—The Jacobin clubs of Paris begat Genet, &
his French Brethren:
3. Genet begat the Democratic Societies in
America: The Democratic Societies begat
the Pittsburgh Rebellion, & its consequences :
4. The Pittsburgh Rebellion begat an ar
mament of Fifteen Thousand men:
5. The armamentofi §,000 men, will be
- get an expense of near Two Millions of dol~
lars; of which all thkpeople of the U. States
must bear a proportion<
, 6. Theexpenfe will beget an attention in
the people, to its rife and origin : and,
7. That attention will beget the detesta
tion and downfall of JacobiniJm fr its Clubs :
8. So all the generations, from Briffit to
the downfall of Jacobinifm, are 8 generations.
Thus endeth thefirft Political Chapter.
From ^he Philadelphia Gazette.
-— Itold ye all, ^
When cue sirs put this dangerousfont a rolling,
'T^ould fall upon ourjik/es.,
Shakespeare's HENRY VIII.
THERE is a story of an oriential
Sovereign who engraved on his family
plate this ufefol maxim ; never begin
a business till you well confider the
end of it. A barber had been em
ployed to let blood of this monarch.
He cast hit eye over the inferiprioa
upon the bafoa, dropt from his hand
a poifooed lancet, and confeffed that
be had been bribed to murder.
If the leaders of political factions
would maturely dfeeft this eastern pre
cept, they would save much unneces
sary trouble to themselves, to magif
trates,t^executioners,and to historians.
If the Sagacious people of England
had considered the end of their Dutch
Revolution in i 688, they would have
seen that William the fonin-law, was,
if possible, a still greater rafca lthan
William the Conqueror ; that he who
violated every domestic feeling and
every domestic duty, could never be
come a virtuous or refpedable sove
reign ; and that a Dutch Stadtholder
governing England by the medium
of a worthless cabal, would regard it
but as an appendage to the seven
provinces.
$ If Burgoyne had coofidered the end
of ihqiHtomahawk <proclamation, or
George the third, that of his Ameri
can -war, it is likely that the one and
the other never would have existed.
If the present Dutch despot had
cohfidered the probable end of his at
tack upon the French Republic, it is
to be supposed, that neither he, nor
our old friend "the Defender of Faith,"
would have disturbed their tranquility
by enquiring, whether the navigation
of the Sceldt was open or shut.
If Dorchester had forefeen that
Dundas and Greenville would deny
that he was authorized to summon the
savages to butchery, if Simcoe had
forefeen, as he might have done, that
his garrison at the rapids of the Mia
mi, would surrender without firing a
tingle (hot, or exchanging a Bogie
thrust with the bayonet, the harangue
of the one, and the incuffion of the
Other, would not have added two frefh
iotas, to the lift of Britiffi aggressions.
And finally, our Wetlern Brethren,'
" though last not least io love." If
they had considered the natural transi
tion from whifky liberty poles, to the
whipping post, and from burning of
hoyfes' to cracking of hemp, that the
federal army would cost them more
real hardship in three days, than the
tax upon their favorite beverage could
have cost them in twelve generations,
it is possible that even the intrepid
Brackenridge him(elf would have seen
the imprudence of storming Philadel
phia, and of pouring the "rage ofa
sorest," " upon her effeminate citi
zens.l
It is a trite remark, in the mother
country, that the minister, who begins
a foreign war, never keeps his place
to the end of it. In the fame way,
those who raise a tempest of (edition,
are commonly overfet in the course
of it ; and before the axe and the
halter can commence their operations,
have, been murdered or forgotten by
their quondam partizans.
Even the virtuous and enlightened
patriots, who began the great French
Revolution, were long since expelled
or extirpated, by a succeeding band of
reformers. These also have been
driven from the political stage by a
third party who in the dawning of
the Revolution were almost utterly
unknown.
Thus it happens, that when the
Chariot of reformation begins a race,
the horses almost always run away
with the driver. Some of the mem
bers of a certain assembly, for which
we have the highest refped Were dis
tinguished in last winter feffion,by ob
jedion tp every fort of tax. Accord
ingly, their neighbourhood in the wef
tern counties, became the very focus
of incarnation. These gentlemen are
now (training every nerve to quench
that conflagration which they so ar
dently excited. Their efforts are use
less, and motions are despised.
Perhaps we ought to fay were des
pised, for the conspirators already be
gin to distrust each' other ; and we
have no doubt that, the rage of a sor
est is already more than cool.
When Timur, the infamous Mo
gul conqueror, had eftablilhed his
focceffion to the throne, he cast 40 of
his competitors alive into as many
chaldrons of boiling water. Quere ?
Might not such of the " weftern breth
ren" as are not worth a more serious
punifhmeor, be directed to empty a
few chaldrons of Rye whifky, (moak
iog from the still. This would be a
lets ferocious science, than that of Ti
mur, and would in many Cases, prove
not jefe effedual. i^
To drink the vilest qf alHiqoon
would-be at least better employment,
than fending as these wretches pur
pose to do, for proteaion from the
vilest of all oppreffori, our mother
country " brethren."
—
CONCORD, NOVEMBER ?, 17,4.
L • ;
! From a Correspondent.
IPATRIOTISM.
The town of Salisbury, being call
ed upon to furnifh one Captain, one
Ensign, and forty five Privates, as,
minute men, the town met on Mon.
day last, and voted to pay each man
ONE dollar upon enlisting, to give
each a good blanket, to make up their
wages (exclofive of cloathing money)
equal to SEVEN dollars per month, ,
while in aQual service, and co advance
each FIVE dollars when called upon
to match : In conftquence of which,
the whole number immediately en
listed ; among whom were some of
the principal charaderrin the town.
From Pembroke we learn, that the
town has voted to give their quota of
the minute men, ONE dollar fin en
liding, and make up their wages 8
dollars per menth, when in aßua! ler
vice—a confiderabie sum to be ad
vanced Kherrcalled upon to march.
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By last Evenings Mail.
^—ft-rfefc.
Latyi Foreign Intelligence.
PHILADELPHIA, OCT. 25:
^ the flip Glasgow, Capt. Williams, from
Dublin, in 46 da,, net have received a Set of >
Dublin ntwjpapers dran to the yh of September,
inclusive, and containing London news to the firft
of September. This is jeveratdays later than any
other arrival on she Continent, <eitb London In
telligence. W# have Jtbfha at many articles as
z poffible,for this dafs pope,.
On a general rroieac, itfeerns that the, Spani,
ards appear to think themselves in a Very dange,
rous fituatian the Foks have a cor ftderable
chance of weathering out this fe&jon. The Lon
don papers fa, that the Convention has affirmed an
air of freedom, of candour, and of tranquilty, un
known for a twelve month past in that body. We
4 are also informed from a private correspondent,
that in Ireland a very general wfe prevailed far
the arrival of the French..
COBLETZ, AUG. 11.
WE have received here the very unpleas
ing news, that the French had appeared on
the 9th in great force, before Treves,and after
a bloody and obstinate adion,carried the en
treroebments, and forced the Auftriaris to re
treat to Hetzeradier. —Treves was in conse
quence forced to surrender.
The alarm is very great here, and every
one that can is taking flight. Six hundred
men work at the pontoon bridge, but if the
Prussians do not come to our assistance by
way of Hundruck, it will be impoih ble for
this place to hold out. There are hitherto
but a few militia of Treves here, and a small
number of Austrians in the castle of Ehren
brieften. The magazines are fending off in
great baste.
VIRNNA, AUG. 11.
The sum of subsidies offered by the Court
of Greatbritain to the Emperor, is stated to
be 60,000,000 of Austrian florins, about 7
millions sterling.
LONDON, AUG. 29.
The difoatches brought yesterday by Mr.
Major, from Earl Spencer, and the Right
Hon. Thomas Grenville, at Vienna, are, we
are informed, of a very fatisfadory nature.
The Emperor at the expense of this country,
is now willing to defend his own territories,
and to co-operate, in the most decided man
ner, in the views of the British Cabinet, in
prosecuting the war against France. That
is, he has agreed to take our money, and has
promised to fend his armies against France ;
which, wc have no doubt be will perform with
as much punduality as our faithful ally, the
King of Prussia. We have not learned wheth
er there is to he any article in the agreement
between the two courts, stipulating that the
conquests (hall be at the disposal of Great
. britain, as was the case in the treaty with
Prussia, from which we received so many sub
stantial benefits.
As one proof of the sincerity of the Em
peror, the command of the army is, it seems,
to be taken from thePriheeofSaxe Cobourg,
between whbm and his Royal Highness the
Duke of York, it is whispered, a difference
lately took place. Whether that was a&u
ally the case we cannot assert on positive in
formation of our own ; but We can ftatQith
confidence, there was hardly ever any agree
ment between them, or indeed among any
of the Generals of the allies; During the
late campaign, irtas no unusual thing for
the Germans to strike tents and quit the^