The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1795-02-06 00:00:00, page 2

is raised to 40 minings per month, as
they are properly considered the great
; fopport of a free people. The pay
of chose who wept forward with such
promptitude, to suppress the late in
forreaion, is also augmented, and
there is a proposition depending to
regulate the pay of militia officers,
Acts of Congress will be more ge
nerallp promulgated, and it is propos
ed to print them in the German lan
guage, for the more perfect informa
tion of that industrious and refyeda
ble denomination of citizens. Differ
ence in opinion, has prevailed on some
points ; a circumstance, perhaps, not
altogether improper in a free govern
ment.
Upon the whole, I rejoice with you
and every' American citizen, io the
many and great b'effiogs we at present
enjoy, while we may anticipate, with
zealous confidence, the future advan
tages that will result from the opera
tions of a government of equality and
brotherly love, formed by the people
—such as they intended, and such as
they are determined to fupporr.
May this cur common country,
continue to be the complete affylum
for the sentimental, orderly, generous
and oppressed of out species, from ev
ery clime, at the fame time it exhibits
to the obferviog world, the beautiful
.pictures of moderation, religion, jus
tice, and republican equality, is the
with of your sincere friend,
R. RUTHERFORD.
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•Foreign Article.
England.
LONDON, NOV. 6.
THE peace- mongers of the
A present moment, seem to
reason somewhat like the Irijb
man, who concluded himfelf half
married to a rich heirefs,becaufe
he had obtained his ownconfent.
They appear to have no idea;
that concurrence on the part of
the French is necessary, to effect
so important an event.
.By a foreign ship arrived from
the Cape, we learn, that four
Englilh fllips of war block up
one of the harbours of the Isle
of France.
The French fleet now at sea,
consists of nearly thirty fail of
the line, besides frigates, &c.
The Prince of Wales' civil lift
is to be 150,0001. per annum ;
50,000 of which is to be annual- -
ly appropriated for the purpose
of extinguishing his Royal High
nefs' debts.
[OI what a blessing it is to have a King,
who has sons for the Nation to support !—
HowWw& they are I—l§o,oool.1 —I§o,oool. per an
num \=Thank beaura, America has none /] )
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DomeW;ty;W^^
Newark.
NRWYORfy JAN: 19.
Extras of a letter, (received ,ia Phi
ladelphia) dated Portfmotab, Virgi
nia, Dec. 6.
" rpHIS moment the fbip Bow
&mania arrived from Glasgow
whicu place the left the 13th Nov.,; °
h,#&| was hot taken, but daily
expected to be in the handa of the
French—The siege of Maeflriebt if
closely pressed, and expected daily tol
fall—the Republicans having coliedt
fed an immeofe force against it-both
fleets to poterate successes of
the French in jtyW^m and ^
/torn hinfid w nidaJt
Peace 11 expected. :
Mffzebufart
SALEM, JAN. 28.
Lift Sunday, Capt. Greenleaf, in a
vessel belonging to Newburyport, ar
rived at Gloucester, from England,
after a passage of 3%days..
We yesterday teat an exprefob
Gloucester, in order to obtain the re
cent news which wai expected co be
brought by this arrival ; but unfor
tunately the captain had loft all the
English papers he had taken, and
could not recoiled one word of intel
ligence of a public nature. He men
tioned, however, a disagreeable re
port, that an American brig, bound
from France to a northern port on the
continent, was run down by a Swed
ish vessel, in the English channel, and
every foul on board periled, except
Mr. Williams, the fopercargo, who
was by some means happily saved. Ie
is apprehended that Mr. Sam'l Will
iams, of this town, is the man.
Frenchmen riflorious.
Yesterday arrived at Gloucester,
Capt. Griffio, in 40 days from Nimz
in France. He neither brings any
public intelligence, except in general
terms, that the French continue uni
versally vißorious ; sod that wherev
er they point their force, every obsta
cle vanishes before it.
'Q BOSTON, JAN. 28.
Latest European Intelligence.
The brig Betsey, Capt. Greenleaf,
arrived at Cipeann, on Sunday left,
from Ramfgate, in England, in the
short passage of 35 days ; but the
Captain, although he had procured
papers to the 17th Dec. by some un
accountable accident, left them at the
place of his failing. About a dozen
letters received in the Betsey, came to
town yesterday :—Extracts from two
of them follow.
^Commercial Treaty.
LONDON, NOV. 27.
"Since the execution of the Treaty
between the United States and Great
britain, has been announced, in she
Gaze ttee, the American Funds have
taken a start."
DEC. 6.
" The Treaty you will be plealed
with—your Newspapers go by the
Auroro, Hovey."
REPORTS
By the Betsey are, that a GENE
,RAL PEACE may be expected fooo:
That the Dutch made no resistance
against the French ; and that in con
fcquence of the new Commercial
treaty, American flock had risen
from 6 to 8 per cent; at London.
Earl Moira, had the command of
the British army, defending Holland ;
the Duke of York, having gone to
England to be present at the marriage
of the Prince of Wales, which how
ever, h ; d fioce been postponed to the
spring, by reafen of the difficulty of
getting the betrothed Princely from
the Continent.
A letter from Geo. Rigaud, com
mander of the French forces io St.
Domingo, dated December 21, 1794,
" announces that the town of Leogan
had been recaptured by the arms of
the Republic."
The Hon. David Cobb, Esq, one
of the Representatives of this Com
monwealth, in the Congress of the
United States, we are told, is appoint
ed Post Master-General. ^C/'^
Ship News.
^ Arrived at Cape-Aon, (burner
Freedom, Captain Grifin, in 42 days
from Nantz: For 20 days, prior to
her failing, an Embargo had existed
at that pace, on American vessels ;
another wie about co cake place, when
he avoided ft by towing his vessel
from Pain Bebuf. — All forts of naval
stores being in requisition for the use
of the nation, they were taken from
every merchant at Nantz, who pof-„
fcff.d them.
-Important— if, true.
Saturday last arrived in this port,
the schooner Helen, of Boston, Lot
Luce master, 66 days from Havre-de-
Marat. Capt. Luce, brought no pa
pert, hut informed, verbally, that on
the ioth of November, the important
news reached Havre, of the surrender
of Maeftricht, which was garrisoned
by 8,000 men,
Capt. Luce was at Paris, the iff of
November, where all was tranquil ;
provisions of all kinds were plenty
and cheap; as they were at Havre,
and throughout Normandy.
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Domefic Mijcellan,.
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(The Editors are averse to introducing Re
ligious disputes into Newspapers—yet, as
it is Constitutional to speak freely in this
Republican country, we fee no very Ibfolute
impropriety in admitting occasionally Reli
gious sentiments—We would willingly ob
lige and gratify all our “ Customers," if we
could—but it would not be anre thing un
der the fun, if some should fay, we are too
licentious, and some, we are too religious —
and, should frightful form at times appear,
we would suggest, we do not make, bat only
bold, the Mirrour.]
FOR THE MIRROUR.
Messrs. Russell & Davis,
Having read jei^al pitas in favour of Univer
' sadism, in tbe Mirreur— I thought it but an e
qual chance, that the Public should in the fame
channel, read /ome on the other file the question,
that the, might rhe better judge üb^re the Iruib
: lies.—^Truth is important —will bear its own
td^«weigb6 and is what every, one has a right to
feeh after and obtain, in every lawful medium
of conveyance —The Press is owe of sheie medi
ums, and the bappy privilege of our free coun
, try —where ever, man has liberty tofpeak and
publish bis font iments, upon anyfufya, provid
ed they do not interfere with the public good —
I think mine do not —1 hope therefore you will
as soon as convenient, give the enclosed and some
following numbers, a place inyour uJeful paper,
and you will oblige one of your confant Cus
tomers.
== NUMBER I,
BEWARE, ye children of Eve,
beware.; the cloven foot appear
ed on the happy fpor of Parsdife some
thousand years ago—Satan, in the
form of the fabtle serpent, said to our
great grand mother Eve, ye fall not
surely die—there is no danger—you
may eat forbidden fruit without the
least harm—nay, so far from that, you
will reap the greatest advantage— for
God doth know, that in the day ye
eat thereof, then your eyes (hall be op-,
ened, and ye shall be as Gods, know
ing good and evil. —She believed the
doctrine to be divine, and boldly risk
ed her foul upon the truth of it, to
pluck and eat the forbidden cluster—
But, alas! she found by dreadful ex
perience, that instead of being divine,
it was the dodrine of the devil—in
stead of being true, it was a lie—in-
Bead of the Godlike knowledge prom
ised, it was a plunge into darkoefs &
horror—instead of ^advancement in
holiness and happiness, it was a leap
into a woful abyss of fin and misery.
But notwithftandiog this fatal decep
tion, that ruined our tirft parents is
well known ; yet we fee some of their
children writing and publishing in the
weekly papers, (that ought to be the
channels of truth and virtue) the fame ri
dodtrine, ye shall not surely die, there
is no danger, the whole human race
shall be saved, not one can be loft —
[Methinks these pedons must have o
vertooked tlrtt paragraph, io ancient'
hiftary, tty gives us a) account ofl
riri' • ,'^ ri'' R ' '
ithe firft fata! deception— or they muff
have totally forgotten, that his infer
ral mirefty w,, the firft author of this
doarine—orherwife t^ey would not
affect so round y, that all are fife, not
one can be loft — Without the least
regard to difference of charaaer^all
are lumped together, in one heteroge
neous mafe, good and bad ; righteous
, and wicked ; clean and unclean ; be
lievers and unbelievers ; penitent and
impenitent regenerate and umegen
erate ; obedient and di(obedient; and
Salvation boldly insured to them all
without any intimation of the absolute
necessity of a change of heart, of re
pentance, or faith -But is this the
do&rine of the Holy God ? is this the
way he (peaks to men in the ftcred vo
lume ? No! the current of scripture
is entirely the reverse—A dißindion
of character is constantly held up to
view, from the beginning to the end
of the bible-=Salvarion and happiness
are p^mifed only to the good & vir
tuous ; whi/ft misery and ruin are de
pou: ced against the bad and vicious—
The irctffint language of the Od
Tt(lament is Oh! righteous man,
thou shalt surely live— Oh ! wicked
man, thou fhalc surely die, without
repentance, — Rtad the book of Job,
Plaims, Proverbs, Ecc.'efhfter, and all
rhe Prophets, and you will find, that
this diftinaion of chara^et# and fen
teoces takes up the drift and spirit of
the whole— The new testament is full
of the fame ideas in the fame order —
When our blessed Saviour came from
Heaven, to teach mankind the truth,
he pronounced his benedidions, not
on the whole mafi, but on particular
characters, —Blessed are the poor in
fpirit—bluffed are they that mourn—
bleffed are the meek—blessed are they
which do hunger & thirst after right
eoufneft—bleffed are.the merciful—
bleffed are the, pure in heart—blessed
are the peacemakers, &c—But on the
other hand, denounces woes against
chose of a contrary character—Woe
unto you that are rich, for ye have re
ceived your confutation—woe unto
you that are full, for ye shall hunger
—woe unto you tty laugh now, for
ye shall mourn and weep—woe unto
vqu when all men shall Ipeak well of
you, for so did their fathers to the iaife
prophets.—Thus cur divine Saviour
diftinguifhtd Chiracs, when he was
a preacher on earth— This difiinction
he carried forward into the other
world, and in hi# dtferiprion of the
universal judgment, when all the na
tions of men are g^he/ed before him,
he informs us, as ^ain a, words can
speak, that he will fcparafe these dif
ferent characters of men, one from an
other, as a shepherd divided his sheep
from the goats ; and he (hail set the
sheep, or the righteous characters, On
tis right hand ; but the goats, or the
wicked characters on his left— Then
shall the King fay to them on his right
hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father,
inherit the kingdom prepared for you
from the foundation oi the world
then shall he fay also to them on hit
left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed,
into everlasting fire, prepared for the .
devil andffiis angels—And these last,
it is added, shall go away into ever
lafttog punishment—but the righteous
into life eternal—Here is a diflipction
and Operation, with millions of wit
nesses concerned in it, and I dare fay
ft will not be disputed by any one of
them—No lumping altogether in one
mab, according to the universal plan.
As this is the last and final trial of the^ri
nations of men for eternity, it decides
the point, beyond a doubt, to every
rational mind, that is not refolded to
be an infidel— Where then is the doc
trine of UoiverfalSalvation ? &so
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