The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1795-01-30 00:00:00, page 2

for showering such treasures upon them.—
But now the profpea, brightens and displays
happiness and freedom rapidly advancing,
and the fun of civilization bursting from
behind the clouds of ignorance.
The United States
amidst the commotions of the world, undis
turbed and undismayed, securely hear the
thunders roll across the vast Atlantic. All
that can enrich a nation—all that can con
tribute to its happiness, heaven has liberally
layilhed upon us. Commerce expands her
fails to every wind---agriculture rears her
head, encircled with the fruits of the earth
—and literature enrolls the names of our au
thors in the records of immortality.
We were threatened for a time with the
profpea of being plunged into war---but we
were happily delivered from this evil by the
wife councils of our rulers : a black cloud
hung over the weftern country, but, thanks
to the patriotism of our citizens, it has passed
away. Nothing now remains to disturb our
tranquility, but the disputes concerning pop
ular societies---disputes, which are happily
Calculated to keep alive the spirit of freedom,
and prevent us from finking into that lan
guor which is so dangerous to liberty.
There is now at anchor before Wilming
ton, (N. C.) an 18 gun brig, Letter of
Marque, richly laden with cocoa, coffee,
ivory, indigo, cotton, rum and dye wood---
captured by a small French privateer of only
fix guns and 24 . men, fitted from the Weft
indies.—-—What is impossible for men con
tending for liberty to do ?
The President of the United States, with
the consent of the Senate, has appointed
Timothy Pickering, Esq Secretary of
War, in the room of Henry Knox, Esq.
who has resigned.
A. late Discovery.
A discovery has been recently made, which
may prove of the highest importance to the
commercial world. A Mr. M'Kenzie, of
Montreal, has lately returned to Michili
makinac, after an absence of near 3 years,
during which he has been so fortunate as to
penetrate across the Continent to the Pacific
Ocean, and reach a place between King
George's Illand and Nootka Sound. This
gentleman, in his travels, arrived at the
banks of a river which took a weftern direc
tion, and which he observed to rife upwards
Os two feet, by the influence of the tide.
In prosecuting a fecund expedition from
Michilimakinac, he at length attained the
utmost bounds of the Weftern Continent
This circumstance will, in the course of time,
be of the greatest consequence to this coun
try, as it opens a direct communication with
China, and may doubtless yet lead to further
difeoveries. The distance from Michili
makinac to the Weftern Coast, is supposed
to be 1500 miles.,
African Intelligence.
[From the Gazette of Guinea.]
whidaw, noy 24, 1793. Cato
Mungo, who lately arrived in thir
city from the United State! of Amer
ica, where he has been kept in slavery
for upwards of 20 years, has given us
a long and melancholy account of the
treatment of the poor Africans in that
land of cruelty. This account would
far exceed the limits of a newspaper,
we shall therefore publish it in a pam
phlet, as soon as possible, that the
people here, may be informed of the
miserable Bate of their brethren, who
have been so unfortunate as to fall in
to the hands of the Americans ; and
that they may fee the necessity of
some measures taken for the redemp
tion of such of our brethren as it
would be in our power to restore to
their families and connections, and to
alleviate as much at possible, the fuf-.
ferings of those, who being kidnapped
while young, from their native coun
try, have loft the &@br,nce of
their parents and relations.
Mr. Mungo informs us, that seve
ral of the Royal family of chit king
dom, are now actually doinggrudge
ry in the kitchens of the united
States!!!
Penrtfylvania.
PHILADELPHIA, JAN. 12. 1
FROM EUROPE.
By the John, arrived yesterday from
London, we have received a regular
, file of London prints to the 25th Oft.
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they can contain nothing abfolucely
new. The Captain of the John hav
ing touched at Torbay, procured there
one paper of the 6th November, with
which we have been favoured, It
contains in 3 12 p^ges, the latter part'
of the trial of T. Hardy, one of thole
confined in the tower for high treafoff.
• Baron Eyre prefixed in the court,
and after a trial of 8 days, in each of
which the court adjourned at a very
late hour, the jury having retired for
about three hours on the sth Nov.
brought in, not guilty.
Mr. Erskine and Mr. Gibbs, man
aged the defence of the prisoner with
such ability as to draw a compliment
from the chief justice, who indeed dur
ing the whole trial conducted himfelf
with great humanity, especially in him
charge.
The evidence both written and
verbal, in favour of the prisoner, ap
peared fatisfadorily to prove, that the
London corresponding society, of
which Mr. Hardy was a member,
aimed only at a reform in the com
mons house of parliament. The evi
dence for the crewn was obfeure,
sometimes contradidory, and in a lew
instances the witnesses evidently per
jured. The charge against the pris
oner, was, aiming at the overthrow of
the government, and compassing the
death of the King.
When the foreman of the jury de
livered the verdift not guilty, Har
dy modestly bowed to them, and said,
in a voice scarcely audible, v fellow
countrymen, 1 thank you,"
The following are the only paragraphs of any in
terest in the paper woe have received.
LONDON, NOV. 6.
Mr. Eifkine, was yesterday escort
ed to his house in Serjeant's-Inn, by at
least two thousand persons, teftifying
their approbation of his conduct, by
huzzas and clapping of hands.
After Mr. Erskine had alighted
from his carriage, he appeared at the
front window of his house, and silence
having been with some difficulty ob
tained, Mr. Erskine, addressed the
people to the following effect :
" GENTLEMEN,
" For several nights, you have man
ifefted your attachment to me by at
tending me home.
, “ You are all witnesses that, during
that time, the fate of our dear coun
tryman not having been decided upon
by the Jury, I (poke to no man.
" Had the verdift been other than
it has been, whatever I might have
thought, 1 should have continued my
silence.
66 But, gentlemen, what I expected
from law and justice, has happily tak
en place. A jury of 12 good, honest,
and independent men, have given a
conscientious; an honest and good ver
dift.
"gentlemen,
" You have shewn your approba
tion of that verdift, in an honest and
lawful manner ; and in such, I hope
every honest and just man will shew
it.
"gentlemen,
" To us (Mr. Gibbs being at the
next window) you are unknown, but
let us entreat you, now that you have
shewn your approbation pt the ver
di&, to go tefyour homes and be hap
py, and thank God for what has pall
ed."
Mr. Erskine then retired from the
window, and the populace, after a few
Jnzzas, retired with the exclamation
" Erskine and Gibbs forever."
[Mr. Kirby, keeper of Newgate,
with hit usual prudence, conveyed
the prisoner through his house pri
vaiely, and on entering the coach,
Mr. Hardy 6@ed & coachman to
drive with all polity? velocity. The
multitude wp fooha^riffdof the de
cepion, and purfaing the carriage, dif
mifftd the horfts in the ftraad from
their duty, and took charge of the ve
hicle themlelvei. They paraded him
through many of the ftfeets, round
Pallmall and Sr. Janra's-ftreet, Pic
cadily, and left him, as we hear, at
the house of his brother in law, Mr.
Vaughan, in Lancaster court, Strand ;
where the firft objea of his atten
tion was the tomb of his wife, who
was buried in St. Martin's Church-
Yard. [His wife died of grief, when
he was apprehended on suspicion —
who can restore her to him ?j
Newyork.
NEWYOR K, JAN. 14.'
FROM EUROPE,
The fortrels of Luxemburgh, is one
of the strongest in Europe ; the gar
rison consists of ten thousand men ;
and the inhabitants not disposed to
endure a siege, are permitted to de
part. But the French mode of con
quering, will probably save the trouble
of a long fiege —they defeat the cov
ering army and cut off all poffibiliiy
of fuccours—and it is then madness iri
a garrison to sustain a bloody siege.
By not (offering the treasures of
Holjand, to be landed in England,
without paying the duties, England
has driven them to the Elbe. At
Hamburgh, there is more property
than can be stored.
The third payment of £.300,000
sterling, part of the British subsidy, to
the King of Prussia, has arrived at
Hamburgh.
A new manufactory of hats, laces,
silks, &c. is established at Constance,
by some French emigrants from Ly
ons. Thus much for the Jacobin
proscriptions, under Robespierre, Ev
ery one knows that the expulsion of
the proteftantt from France, by the
revocßGon of the edict of Nantz, laid
the foundation of similar manufactures
in the Netherlands, and other parts of
Europe. Tyranny, whether of the
people or of monarchs, has always the
fame effect ; it depopulates and deso
lates the country where it is exercised.
It is said that the offer of mediation
to bring about a peace between the
Belligerent Powers, made by the courts
of Sweden and Denmark, has been re
fufed by France. The report is Bat
ed under the head of Stockholm.
The French laid a contribution on
Bois-le-Duc, of seven millions of flo
rins, and put every thing in a state of
requisition to supply their troops.
At Cologne, the contribution de
manded, was eight millions of livres,
which may be paid in affignats.
The return of affignats,in the French
Treasury, and burnt, amounted, Sept.
30, to 2367 millions of livres.
Maffaebufetts..
BOST,ON,JAN. 24. :
Important Information !
Extrafl of a letter to a gentleman, ts reffeeaability
in this town, dated,
"PARIS, NOV. 6, 1794.
" Dear Sir,
" It is with great pleasure we announce to
you the good news of this Republic's having
made Peace with Prussia—We have it from
the most indubitable authority—from a gen
tleman on the foot :—That on the 12th ult.
the treaty was figty at Neufchatel in Swit
zerland.<
"We have reason alto to allure you, that
the articles of a treaty of Peace with Spain
and Sardinia, are now framing ; so that any
farther hostilities between thole powers are
now at an end, or near it.
"Germany has sued for Peate a long time
since ; but lhe finds an unwillingae&o ac
cept the conditions which France has held
out to her.
" Austria will be obliged to hnmble the
eagle pride,andSwallow theßepublican dose;
; otherwise her triple drown mayfoe reduced. ? :
" There is no doubt but the Rhine will be
the line of diyifon, andghus German Flan
ders be added to Frances and the right arm
of the leven Provinces cut off.
" Holland under these circurnftances, Cas
but look despondently at her impotent allies,
,and accept of what, in mercy, may be grant
ed her ; and.
" Greatbritain may fend forth her windy
threats, and her lifclefs vengeance, for a few
months longer ; but the only hope left her
is, cf having the whole force of this great
people, with all theiT powers and energy,
thrown against her this next year, in such a
manner, that nothing less than a probable
total ruin of that proud and imprudent na
tion, will be the consequence, unless another
piratical capture of defenceless American
fllips Should Support her.
" The newlv adopted idea here is,
" PEACE WITH ALL THE WORLD,
except GREATBRI TAIN—AND THE
STRICTEST FRIENDSHIP WITH THE
AMERICAN STATES.
" The stoppage of paying the freights
and cargoes in Specie continues still ; but •
you may depend on it, however, that the in
tention of France is good towards Ameri
cans, arid that finally justice will be done."
Cruelties during the reign of the
Mountain Party in France.
NATIONAL CONVENTION,
ocr. 22. Merlin of Thlonville, recalled
the attention of the Convention to the atro
cities committed in the departments of the
Lower Loire, and read the papers he had re
ceived from Bouquet, the war commissary,
which excited horror —They prove in a man
ner, unhappily too authentic, that the (noy
ades) drownings were directed by the mem
bers of the depeftable revolutionary commit
tee of Nantz. He, Merlin, produced an or
der Signed Le Fevre, adjutant general com
manding at Painbeuf,requiring to be thrown
into the sea, from the heights of Painbeuf no
less than forty one vi&ims, among whom
was one man Seventy years old, and who
had been sixty years blind, twelve women,
twelve girls of different ages, fifteen children
from fix to ten years, and five infants from
the breast. The commander at Painbeuf
had ordered these miserable victims to Nantz,
but the vessel on board which they were was
scarcely in the bay of Bournet, when Mace,
the captain of the vessel, received the order
following.
" Liberty, Equality, Indivifibity.
Captain Mace is required to Set Madame
M. ashore, and to throw overboard the other
prisoners, rebels against the law—and this
do on your peril. (Signed)
LEFEVRE."
"3d. Ventofe, the above order has been
executed."
It is impossible to describe the emotions
of horror that shook the convention.
If, cries Merlin, there are punishments
proportionate to such crimes, let them fall
on the execrable offenders.
Goupilleau de Fontenoy, tranfpbrted with
indignation, exclaims, declare them outlaws.
No, relumes Merlin, the confeffiops of the
cannibals will illustrate the hiftory of these
wretched times, and besides may bring out
greater offenders. I demand the arrest and
delivery of the culprits to the revolutionary
tribunal. At length we Shall fee to what in
famous tyrants the country has been betray
ed.
Andre Dumont role to inveigh against the
authors of this horrid plan of robbery and
massacre which is still in agitation. Since,
cried he, you invite justice to return again to
this country, so desolated, and swimming in
the blood of brethren, finite the guilty, and
let them fall under the sword of the law. Be
warned, for these monsters are nearer than
you are aware—Forget not the night of the
9th and toth Thermidor. I aft, bawe you
punished all the accomplices cf Robespierre, <wbe
•within these avails have fought to dijolie the con
vention ? Reft>e& is due to the invitation of popu
lar societies : hut is it poffibteto refrain our in
dignation, TVben woe beholAm of them <ubere
guilt is audacieufly dominefog ? Let complete
justice be done, let us rid aurfelwes of the wuretebes
•who prey on our witalsjßequire the Revolutiona
ry tribunal to projecufy the persons accused of the
horrible dro<wnings (&yades) at Nantz, and to
fft out the acctfariefty the crime, writboutf^war
or exception. To that end, order the public accus
er to consult with & committee cf general fafety
on the measures propgto be adopted by you.
Applauded and w&imoufy adopted.
The next day tbJnblic accufir transmitted to
the 14 members of tfyfewolutionary comtnitte&tf
Nantz, the a& of actuation be bad drawn up a
gainst them. °~,
Hersfollows the i&raduaion of this important
paper which it is impossible to read without hor
ror. '
" Whatever tberejs in cruelty mos fawage,
in villa?, most perfidious, in ufarpation most ar
bitrary, in violence mMtfrigbtful, j n depravity
most Locking, combines imbe charge against the
members and commiffimersty the revolutionary
committee of Nantz.
In the most remote periods oftht'world, in the
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atcufed."