The Mirror — Concord, N.H., 1799-05-13 00:00:00, page 1

COLUMBIAN INDEPENDENCE
TWENTY THIRD TEdR.
'ALSO,
200 acres in the fame town,
lying together, exclusive of the undivid
ed land belonging to two rights.
The whole of the lot# are well water
ed, and the foil of a good quality.
For particular terms, apply to Tho's.
Ramsey, in Rumney, or to the fob
fcribers in Concord.
LEVI & ABEL HUTCHINS,
Concord, April s# 1799° X 339
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M/RROR.Office, Concord,
APRIL, 1799.
PROPOSAL if MOSES DAVIS,
For. Printing by Subfeription,
NARRATIVE
OF THE
Indian Wars
NEWENG LAN D,
From the firft Planting thereof in the
Year 1607, to the Year 167,.
CO,TA[NJNG
4 Reljim of the Qecafion,
R@%^
wjth the INDIANS, in the
Southern, Weftern, Eastern
and Northern Parts of said
Country.
BY WILLIAM HUBBARD, A. M.
Miaifff •, Iptetb.
coTTDTrToNs.
THE Book ,ill contain ppfyaof 300
pages Oaavo. It Bull be printed on
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zw^=^
? 8 copies: than have one book gratto.—
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ALSO,'
59 acres of unimproved land,
in the feme town, being half of lot Net
11, in the third range ; situated about
half a mile from the improvements on
the above mentioned lot.
ONE Hundred Acres of
LAND in Rumney, in Grafton
county, State of Newhampfhire, being
lot No. 15, in the fourth range of hum
dred acre lots, situated on the line ad
joining Campton, and calculated to
make an excellent Farm, 20 acres being
under improvement, and iown with
wheat and rye, and within one mile of a
Sawmill and gristmill ; —there is on laid
place a quantity of brick, boards and
timber, prepared for building.
WILL fend for Mares, this season,
at the Stable of the Subscriber,
on the east fide of the riser, in Concord.
The terms are Two Dollars the single
leap, three dollars the season. and five
dollars to warrant.
M„ AARON AUSTIN.
Lands for Sale.
YOUNG SWE EPSTJKES,
[Vol. VIL]
That fall blooded Horst
Printed and published every Monday morning, by MOSES DAVIS, in CONCORD, N^whampsmike.
FOR SALE,
IT cannot be denied that the power to
declare war, to raise and support ar
mies, to provide and maintain a navy,
to fupprefi infurredions, and repel inva
sion#, and also the power to defray the
necessary expense by loans or taxes, are
veiled in Congress. Unfortunately for
the prefect generation of mankind, a
contest has anfeu and rages with unabat
ed ferocity, which has desolated the fain
eft portions of Europe, and Shaken the
fabric of society through the civilized
world. From the nature and effeds of
this contest, a# developed in the expert
ence of nations, melancholy inferrences
must be drawn, that it is urifufeeptible of
the restraints whichJhave either designat
ed the obfea, limited lhe4urauta # a
mitigated the horrors of national con
tentions. In the internal hifiory of
France, and in the conduct of her forces
and partizans in the countries which have
fallen under her power, the public Coun
cils of our country were required to dis
cern the dangers which threatened the
. United States, and to guard not only a
gainst the usual confequence# of war,
but also agaioft the effeds of an unpre
cedented combination to eftablilh new
principles of social adion, on the subver
sion of religion, morality, law and gov
ernment. Will it belaid that the raffing
of a small army and an eventual provision
for drawing into the public Service a con
siderable proportion of the whole force
of the country, was io such a crifir un
wife, or improvident ?
If such mould be the assertion, let it
be candidly considered, whether force of
our fertile and flourishing States did not,
fix months Since, present as alluring ob
jeds for the gratification of ambition or
cupidity as the inhospitable climate of
Egypt. What then appeared to be the
comparative difficulties between invading
Americaand Subverting the British pow
er, in the East Indies ? If this was a pro
fe&d, not real objed, of the enlerprize,
let it be aSked, if the Sohan of the Otto
man Empire was not really the friend of
France, at the time when hit unfufpeaing
dependencies were invalid ; and whether
the U. States were not at the fame time
loaded with insults and affaited with «of-'
tility ? If however, it be averted, that
the system of France is boftile only tot
despotic, and monarchical governments,
and that our security arises from the form
of our conftitut|on, let Switzerland, firft
divided and disarmed by perfidious fe
duaions, now agonized by relentless
power, illustrate theconfequeoces of Sim
ilar credulity. It is necessary arthte
time to vindicate the naval armament;
rather may not the enquiry & boldly
made, whether the guardians of the pub-'
lie weal would not bate defected and re
ceived the reproaches of every patriotic
American, if a contemptible naval force
bad been longer permitted to intercept
our nece&ry Supplies, destroy our princi
pal force of revenue, and seize, at the
entrance of our harbours and rivers, the
produas of our ioduftry, defined to ®er
foreign markets : If such injuries were at
ay to be repelled, is not the rtfttiaion
For foie, at this Office,
THE
LAWS
Os NEWHAMPfHIRE.
FEATHER S.
FOR S4LR,
BY TIMOTHY DIX, JUN.
in Boscawen,
FEATHERS of various qualities,
from I*6 to gs 6 perJ^
April 27th, 1799.
Os the commit" of Congreh to ve^w wOT
- rftrred, on tbi iztb of February, certuix
Mimoriah aid Petitim, com,toning cf
ibe aa, intitUd, " An a& "narniag
Alim," and ether late ads •/ Coagreh,
(Concluded.)
CO NCO RD, MONDAY, MAY 13, 1799.
Excellent State Paper.
REPORT
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which confined captures by our (hip* sole
ly to armed vessels of France, a Efficient
proof of our moderation?
If therefore naval and military prepar
ations were necessary, a provision of
funds to defray the consequent ex
penses was of course indispensable ; a
review of all the measures that have been
adopted since ihe establishment of the
government, will prove that Congress
nave not been unmindful of the withes of
ihe American people, to avoid an accu
mutation of the public debt; and the
foccefs which has attended these measures
affords conclusive evidence of the 6nceri
tv of their intentions. But to purchase
Efficient quantities of military (applies,
to establish a navy, and provide for, all
ihe contingences of an army, without
recourse to new taxes and loans, was im
practicable ; both meefuret were in fad
adopted :lo deviling a mode of taxation,
the convenience and ease of the least
wealthy class of the people were consulted
as much as possible, and altho' th6 cx
penfes of assessment have furnifhed a to
pic of complaint, it is found that the al
lowance# are barely Sufficient to ensure the
execution of the law, even aided as they
are by the disinterested and patriotic ex
ertions of worthy citizens-besides it
ought to be remembered that the expens
es of organizing a new system, iheuid not
on any principle, be regarded as a per
manent burden on the public.
In authorising a loan of money. Con
gress have not been inattentive to pre
vent a permanent debt ; in this particu
lar also the public opinion and interest
have been consulted. On considering
the law, as well as the manner io which
it is proposed to be carried into execu
tion, the committee are well Satisfied in
finding any excels in the immediate
charge upon the revenue, is likely to be
coopenfaed by the facility of redemp
tion, Which is fecurerf to the government.
The alien and (edition aft, so called,
form a part, and, in the opinion of the
committee, am essential part in these pre
cautionary and protective measures, a
.dopted for pur Security.
France appears to have an organized
system of condu& towards foreign na
tions— to bring them within the Sphere,
and under the dominion of her influence
and control. It has been unremittingly
pursued under all the changes of her in
ternal policy. Her means are in wonder,
ful coincidence with her ends; among
these, and not leaft'fuccefsful, is the di
reaion and employment of the adive and
verfaft talents of her citizens abroad,
as emifariesand foies. With a numerous
body of French citizens add other for
eigners, and edmonifhed by the passing
feeoes in other countries, as well as by
afpe&s in our own, knowing they had
the power, and believing it to be their
duty, Congress passed the law refpe&ing
aliens, diieaing the dangerous and ful
pe&ed, to be removed, and leaving to
the inoffensive and peaceable a fate afy
lum.
The principle of the sedition law, so
called, are among the most ancient prin
ciples of our governments. They have
ten ingrafted into statutes, or pra&ifed
upon as maxims df the common law, ac
cording as occasion required. They
were often and just/, applied in the revo
'lutionary war. It is not Orange, that
now the, Should firft be denounced as
oppressive, when they have long been
recoghifed in the jurisprudence of these
states !I
The necessity that dilated these aft
in the opinion of the committee hill ex
ists.
So eccentric are the movements of the
French government, we can form ndo
pinion ot their future defigus towards our
Country. They may recede from the
tone ofmfni& lid insolence, kmpty
their arts of feddAion, before they afton
ifh us with their ultimate dengue Our
£fycoofifts b the wisdom of the pub
ft councils, a cooperation bn the part of
the people with the government, by fop
porting the mgafures provided for repel
ling aggreffious, and an obedience to the
social laws. w
t After a particular and general review
of the whole fubjea refined to their can-
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT,
ELEVENTH lEdR.
PARIS, FIB. 10.
OF NAPLES. ;
AS no cfrial details have been yet
published reforming the conquest
of the kingdom of Naples, the following
may prove interesting. The army of
Rome, flopped for a moment by the
sudden want of provisions, was obliged
to suspend its rapid career. Its impatient
courage was turned into indignation and
fury against the neglea of the commifa.
ries, who had qccanooed its inaaiou ;
when the general succeeded in Skilfully
direaing the rage of the troops against
the enemy. " Your magazines (he cz
claimed) are at Naples."
"'let us then (they replied) march ore
to Naples." Capua was infaatly car
ried by assault, and the remainsof the
Neapolitan army which had been rallied
by shame and despair, fell under the
point of the French bayonet, and cover
ed the Vulturne, and fix leagues of the
road to Napier with their bodies. Be
hind them were posted the Lazzaroni,
the boasted support of the expiring Mon
archy. Sixty thousand of them were
killed ; end the French, fatigued with
Slaughter, pitted the standard of Liber
ty in Naph. Their entrance into Na
ples produced a new engagement. Mid
the houfa "te which the inhabitants
Bred on our troops were burnt.;
The Prince de Ligne so indifoofed, end
though in a very advanced age, ft still
lively and amiable in his manners. It is
reported that the Prince de Cobourg is
to Succeedabe Prince of Orange.
— Ml (11l , ■' ■! —
LONDON, FFB. 2fo
The Dublin M^ of the 19th inst. ar
rived vefterday.. h mentions some frefh
difluibanocs to have broken out in the
Those to, whom the management of
public affairs is now confined, cannot be
juftified in yielding any eftablilhed prin
ciples of law or government to the sug
gestions of modern . theory ; their duty
requires them to refya the feffons of
perieoce, and transmit to posterity the
civil and religious privileges which art
the birthright of pur country, and which
it was the great objed of our happy cotte
ftitotion to secure and perpetuates
Impioffed with these feotimeots, th,
committee beg leave to report the fo&MU
ing resolutions :
Rejatoed, That it is inexpedient to fr
peal the aa padfed the last ftffion, intitled
" An id concerning aliens.”
Reeked, That it is inexpedient to re
peal the aa puffin the last session, imi&l
“ An ad in addition, to the ad, jotitled
an a& for the punishment of certain
Crimes against the United States.”
Refolded, That it is inexpedient to re
peal any of the laws refoeding the Davy,
military eftabliihmept, or revenue of the
United States.
The above resolutions were agreed to
after feme little debate ; thetwo firft b,
a majority of four, the last by a majority
of thirteen. .
In such of the petitions, as are conceiv
ed in a stile of vehement apd acrimonious
remonstrance, the committee perceive too
plain indications of the principles of that
exotic fyflem. which convulses the civil
ized world. With the system, however
organized, the public Councils cannot
fafely parley, or temporize, whether i;
assumes the guise of patriotism to millead
the affeSions^ of the people—whether it
be employed io forming prefers of local
,d eccentric ambition, or shall appear
in the more generous form of open hos
tility, it ought to be regarded as the bine
of public as well as private tranquility
and order.
fileration, the committee fee no ground
tor refeindiog these acts of the leg 11num
The complaints preferred by feme of the
petitioners may be fairly attributed to a
diversity of sentiment naturally to be ex
pefted among a people ot various habits
and education, widely dispersed over an
extensive country—the innocent miscon
ceptions of. the American people will,
however, yield to redeaion and argu
ment, and from them no danger is to be
apprehended.
Foreign Articles.
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