The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1794-05-12 00:00:00, page 4

Tbrn is „ Hop,into ^bont Virfa..
TVIRTUE is that perfeft Good
V which is the complement of a
happy life; the only immortal thing
that belongs to mortality: ft is the
knowledge both of others, and itfetf 1
it is an invincible greatnefsof mind,
not to be elevated or dejeded, with
good or ill fortune. It is sociable,
and gentle, free, steady, and fearlefi ;
content within itfelf, full of inexhaust
ible delight ; arid it is valued for ib
felf.. Ope may be a good phyficiaq,
a good governour, a good grammars
an, without being a good man ; A
that all things from without, are only
acceffaries ; for the feat of it is a pure
and holy mind. It confifti in a con
gruity of action ; which we can never
exped, so long as we are diftraaa
by our paffioni. Not but that a roan
may be allowed to change colour and
countenance, and fuffer such irapref
fionras are properly a kind of natur
al force upon the body, and not un
derthe dominion of the mind : But,
IrThA^l^tlwOTld npt press
upon dangers, no not so much as up
on inconveniencies, uffi %^e the
^eMOre^
tion : And, in such a case, rather than
make a forfeiture of my credit, my
§ Pfoty^ny faithri wonUrun Ml
extremities. They are great buffings
to have tender parents, dutiful chik
1 jren, and to live trader a just, and well
ordered governments Now, would it
.. not trouble even a virtuous man, to
Y#!###to# before his
^ 1 ire'^'!tt#<™°^»ie>.
SEAT OF THE MUSES.
—CTP— 1 —
to CONTENT.
HArc Content, pure fount of pleasure!
. Sweetest bliss we mortals find;
Come, thou dear, thou precious treafore,
Gently sooth my anxious mind!
Fairest miniature of Heaven !
, Spark etherial from above f
Let thy sweets, profufely given,
Still my joy, my blessing prove.'
Cherub come with all thy graces.
Ever in my bosom reign !
Riches, honours, titles, places, )^
Are, without thee, care and pain.
But, with thee, the meanest Ration, , ,/'
Humble weeds and homely fare, % f
Still afford the cenfolation,
That we are a Father's care. ' • '
Come thou source of purest pleasure !
Come thou forrew Toothing power !
Shed thy influence without meafure,^
Rainthy joys a ceaseless shower.,
frfepßet^^
Miscellany.
FOR THE MIRROUR.
To all to whom theft lines ma, come—greeting.
MR. RUSSELL,
T)RAY be so obliging as to print the fol-
A lowing laconic Quaker Sermon, cele
brated as an excellent moral difeourfe —-It
contains only these words—" It is the best
way for ever, man to mind his own buhnefs."
Perhaps some of your readers may take this
Chrifti^n admonition, and not be so much
concerned about other people's affairs. , '
^.'^ ', N P Ep ENDENCE.
[From t^ffoage.]
numbers. The Convention of France,
firm as the everlasting hills, thinking
only of victory, and anticipating the
speedy display of the tri-coloured flag
over the tower of Lpodon ; despising
peace on any terms short of the en
tire acknowledgement of the Repub
lic ; potting every engine in opera
tion for carrying on the war—manu
f^uring fix hundred muskets a day,
and 1200 pieces of ordnance a month
—having 72 fail of lip in complete
repair at Brest, 16 of which *e df
ITO guns, besides 14 fail of the lin€;
at Toulon, which are equipping with
the most furpfifiog rapidity—the de
feent on England not given up— and
the augmentation of the land forces,
which already amount to twelve hun
dred thousand, daily made. Howev
er florid this Sketch may appear, we
brieve it no exaggeration. On the
other hand, the combined power# are
pursuing the most active measures.
The railing of the peasants of Germa
ny, in amass, is ordered—ln England,
a hwfo paged augmenting the mi
litia, in order to employ the regular
iforces of that country on the frontiers,
if not in a defcenc tax the coast of
France—a large k>an of money is ef
feaed—P fhipt of the ^line are in
commission, besides fifty gun (hips and
lesser vessels— and large majorities in
both houfesof Parliament determined
to support the war. In short, altho'
in tfa k^^ffite three hundred
thousand men, tty fewer of Europe,
were sent heading to the tomb, we
may expe& that the current rear will
not bejel# bloody; unlefe die week*
eyedPeity (hall deign to disperse on
the wings of the wind, the teftlek
Spirits who delight in war. One con
folationalone remains, the violence
of the exertions may ffiorten their du
ration-Such a war must soon beget
poverty, and Poverty will soon beget
Peace.'
eyes, his father made a save, and his
country overrun by a barbarous ene
my ? There is a great difference be
twixt the simple loss of a blessing,
and the succeeding of a great mifehief
into the place of it over and above.
The loft of health it followed with
fickoefi ; and the loss of fight with
blindness ; but, this does not hold in
the loss of friends and children, where
there is rather something to the con
trary to supply that loss ; that is to
fay, virtue, which fills the mind, and
takes away the desire of what we have
not. What matters it whether the
water be ftopt, or no, so long as the
fountain js fafe? I, a man ever the
wiser for a multitude of friends, or the
more foolifh for & loss of them ?
So neither is he the happier, nor the
more miserable. Short life, grief and
pain, are accessions that have no ef
feft at all upon virtue. It confifti in
the adioo, not in the things we do :
In the choice itfelf, and not in the
fubjed matter of it. ft is not a des
picable body, or condition ; not pov
erty, infamy, or scandal, that can ob
feure the glories of virtue ; but a
man may fee her through all opposi
tions, and he that looks diligently in
to the fate of a wicked man, will fee
the canker at his heart, through all
the falfe and dazzling fpendors of
greatness and fortune. We flhall then
difeover our childishness, in felting our
hearts upon things trivial and con
temptible $ and in the felling of our
very country and parents for a rattle.
And what is the difference (ip effea)
betwixt old men and children, but
that the one deals in paintings and
statues, and the other in habiei ? So
that we ourselves are only the mote
expensive fools. (Te be continued.)
!,&&&, Martha, I„e
* The commercial fate of things
between France and this country fa
now as much deranged, as the politi
cal , and the commercial men there
are watched with a jealous eye. The
late cruel decrees of the French Con
vention, tended to universal Spoilage
of all British private property—but
the counteracting bill passing here
will save some. For Heaven's fake,
let America keep peace. The old
adage should be ever in view $ “ war
begets poverty/' This country would
have avoided war if she could. Let
what will be laid, Pitt is not a War
Minister, but was forced into it—
Atonement must be made for your
fufferings. The American interest
will be better regarded in future ; the
rascally privateering interests, which
have done all the mifehief, begin to
(offer in their turn. The /hip Button
Pacquet, and others, are liberated—
compensation for detention, &c. is
demanded, and it must be had. Our
committee have been to the Admiral
ty, and hare been told, if your gov
ernment should alk convoy for your
(hips It should be granted ; but I fay
you had best guard youtfelves $ had*
you been possessed of half a score pro
ceding frigates, which from your op
ulence and great commerce you ought
to be, your flag would be refpeded,
and the prowlers of Algiers would
probably not have commenced hos
tilities against you. The truth is, that
as a great nation, growing in wealth,
you have been by much too parsimo
nious; but you will now amend—
No foul here can divine, why France
locks up in the rivers of Bourdeaux
near 120 fail of your ships— some
conjedure for ttanfports—hardly that,
when they have such a multitude of
their own lying idle—perhaps you
know the cause in Boston better than
we do here.
f The funds of your States are
nearly as they were months past, ex
cept bank flock, which has mended
since the last arrivals from Newyork,
—very little demand—and our own
funds are drooping: Nothing will get
right until we can end thil airfeQ
war—the armies are preparing for a
meeting, tend dreadful will be the firft
conflia— France in the field opt num
bers the allied, powers much, and she
cannot want recruits while the guillo
tine and want of bread exist.
6 fWe? are about to enlarge our
militia, that the 1 regulars may indulge
themselves on the Continent—this has
always been an unfortunate business
for this country—is something of a
piece with your Indian war: I pray
you have done with that, and subdue
them with other weapons than fwordi
and gun#r^^^
00^3 7 — — r^ r frr^ % ^
;Captain Lovell from S& Euftatia
mentions, that the Britifhin the Weft
indies were calling in their pfiyatras.
The virtuous but unfortunate dif
cip!e of Liberty, at the date of our
last accounts, was Bill a close prifon
efrin Pruffil Hi^fe^^
lamented pa the King of Prussia,
as an apology for his confinement,
fiiyi, that he is not his prifonet but
the prisoner of the combined powers.
Mr. Fox has lately mentioned in the
Britilh Parliament, the fubjed pl his
release ; and was concurred' with by
Mr. Pitt. fi^
=. -
General Jourdan, the late comman
der of the French army of the North,
has been displaced—and Gen. Piche
gra, chosen in his room. He is re
called to enjoy ata fol ditytae. I
Ia The Duke oLßrunfwick—fo fa-|
moot fate% bamte winning!
7j,i *'' '
From Philadelphia, April 28.
We hear that the President of the
United States has appointed Nathan
iel Cabot Higginfon, legal Commis
sioner lot the United States, on 4
mission to the Weftindies, to superin
tend the entering of appeals from the
decrees of condemnation ; to investi
gate the grounds on which they have
been made, and to do other things
relative to American vessels and car
goes which have been condemned in
the Vice Admiralty courts of the far
eral islands, and also to afford relief to
our teamen now there.
The resolution for the cessation of
all commercial intercourse with Great
britain, after the ift Nov. next, pass
ed the Houfeof Representatives 2 Ift
April—yeas 58, nays 38.—1 tis con.
jedured it will not pass the Senate.
The Senate have concurred in the Presi
dent's nomination of John Jay, as Envoy
Extraordinary to the court of Greatbritain.
Yeas iß— Nays B.—He was to have failed
for England, in five days from the date of
ttpg laftmail. , ^ #
Congress was to have adjourned ztyh Ap.
until Nov. next ; but some dispatches from
Europe, it is expeded, will prolong the ses
sion a few d^ys.-n/* the •wijdom, prudence and
patriotijm of the President, on the prefect eventfad
period*, prfea reliance it placed b, fa Repre
fatafoeeof al/ #%fa, (amen.
Foits.
qrHE Priz/er tfl/OMirrour prefertt bii
I grateful 'acknraUdgments to bit patrons
h BoJcavten, SahJbery, Warner, Hephtaon,
Heimiber, and Duntot&t, did inform; them that
Capt. ,ofepb Leach and Mr. Israel Cleford, if
Dunbarton, bave coneraded to ride po, through
said towns, for the term of oneyear from tkgtb
day of Ma, infant, and fety the papers to Job
jeribert <weekl, during said ttrix—Tbe Prihte,
flutters bimfelf, that from the punAualit, with
ty&cb »e, have corvejed the papers ,for the three
months las pas, they will give generalffli&L
tion.—As they are now riding for themselves, it
wiU be riecefa &affiletejQ
by all te tbe trefext fime—Tbrir aecourftifrma&
out from No. 4c to No. 79, which 0&fy&
printer-and which, he hopes, tbg will be ft
good as to dijc^arge, as fa a 'to#raaffi
is in,relent REAL want offaelb^'raffm
Pap, Maker, Ptf, and other fodeQ &e^
The accounts e lodged with the fampoffifa
when paid fbJtefe%a,od„r, ^ forbrabh
^3l ^^l*l*'++ """''«^^^
M LEACH & CLEFFORD,^
TT EREBY tyfo theirM&tand&,±
£1 lie. Tta % so m&to.fa
Pr^r,ra n&^,f # ffi ,%ftm the Rfr
date, and conty\bo MißkOuß, e&er, week,
tofebjeribm id th following towns, vra. Bof.
cawen, SalifQ %t ffopkit Henniker
^t^^ '^^
fare fall brieftat tMwfy of Jub,cribtaon tbe
rood, and tbofe who dive off iball btasktbe tat
pert left al oyplaceratbe r„&^ %foffi
Tbs, will aft their utmof endeavours to give gen.
eral fatijfaaiou to tty tyh vtyfev^fr titre
with their cuflom —and all bsfottfi ratrtfed@
star, &1 be attraded to witbJfcdi%Qevo,
fare ref%^r^'^^#^
— % ^^
ISRAEL CLEFFORD,
D^&tM, gb, %, ^'
racel—has resigned hit command in
the armies of the allies.
rOur last-letters from Paris, inform,
that M. Ie Tombe, late Consul in this
State, was certainly coming out to (he
Weftindiei, in a civil capacity.f
Admiral M^Brife's squadron had
riot failed from England; the firft of
March lift.
The Marquis Cornwall—has re,
turned to England from India ; where
new honours have awaited him ; he
being appointed commander in chief
of the forces in Greatbritain.
According to Lloyd's lift, the
prizes taken by the French, from Feb.
^^gs. to F eb - L <794, w M 410
ships—the allied powers 316 —bal-
ance in favour of the French 94 Ihips.
The French fleet from the Chesa
peake, consisting of upwards of 150
fail, we understand, have beep spoken
with in the latitude of Bermuda.
§