The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1794-02-24 00:00:00, page 1

FOR THE MIRROUR;
MR. RUSSELL,
OUR papers every week afford something
new and wonderful, done by an order
of men, stiled Sans Culottes—l don't dil
pute their authenticity, and the novelty, and
heroic appearance they make when drawn up
in order of battle, answers, I foppofe, as a
stimulus to the other sex, and the principal
cause why so many of the female citizens of
France take the field ; but as I well know
there is another order of beings in France,
- very properly stiled Sans Chemise, and vast
ly more numerous than the Sans Culottes—
-1 cannot account for the Sans Chemise never
embodying themselves, persuaded, that both
orders, are fufficiently numerous to cope
with all the leagued powers, and may in a
campaign or two, rid France of all their hosts
of enemies, faring for themselves all their
enemy's "Culottes and fChemifes.
' , LA SANS COMMUN.
Feb. 19, 1794.
• Culote if breeches.
f Chemise is foirt, Sans without either.
Declaration of WAR by France
againji Genoa.
THE following Declaration has
been addressed to the French
National Commissioners in the army
of Italy.
" The undersigned Commissioners,
deputed by the National Convention
of France, considering that the social
compact of all nations has been violat
ed in the most indecent manner—
that the ffocioui aft committed in
the port of 'Genoa towards the mem
bers of the French Republick, by men
calling themselves fubjefts of the
Monarch of England, has outraged
the rights of nations and endangered
^^^:^6^tnce of humanity—con
sidering too, that these affixing events
cannot be indifferent to an, people,
particularly to the people of Genoa,
under whole Cyes the crime of treason
against society has been committed—
that the punishment of such a crime
ought to be as speedy as it should be
terrible—that justice and humanity
demand it —that the French Repub.
lick has the power and the inclination
to execute, it —that the people of Ge
noa, by preferring a silence, would
fanaion the condud of the agents,
declare—•th* in such circumstances
Genoa cannot without shame and dif
honour hesitate an inflant in deciding
between the friends and foes of society
outraged in the persons of the French
Republicans, and, that neutrality in
such an extraordinary fixation of af
fairs, would involve all people in an
archy.
Considering further that the peo
ple Os Genoa fee daily the religious
attention with which their territory is
refpecled by the Republic fat the very
moment when the enemies of France
find in Genoa a fetye^fylum, and
thus escape the pursuit of the French
who ,e armed in to&fencejof Lib
erty, aod Equality, finally that such re
fped must soon cease fora territory
which is used as the tomb of French
Republicans.
Declare in the 4M&@OP man
ner, inihe name of the French Re
publick, to the people of Genoa, that
the tardintfs and indecision of the
Senate, to ^egleding to indid a just
and signal punishment on the authors
of the crime committed in s^r porfa
and under their canton, against the
human race, in the persons ^of the
Members of the French society, is re
garded as an ACT of HOSTILITY,
and that the French Republick is pre
pared to adopt such a co^^ as is
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necessary to obtain reparation for so
great a crime.,
The French Charge de'Affaires is
commanded to communicate this Dec
laration to the Senate of Genoa.
Roberspierre, the younger,
(Signed) Ricard,
Raspaud, Secretary.
Done at Nice, Oa. 13,
Second year of the Republick,
* One and l^dio'fihle.
Political Mijcellany.
From the INDEPENDENT CHRONICLE.
• Messrs. Adams & Larkin,
If the following paragraph, taken from an English
Newspaper, be worth your acceptance, it is at
your jervice.
EQUALITY.
THE perverse sense imposed on the
word EQUALITY, by the fol
ly or the fears of some of our coun
trymen, is as dangerous as it is absurd ;
and they may probably fee the day,
when they may repent of having in
fufed into the minds of the people, a
notion, that the EQUALITY to
be contended for, is an Equality of
wealth and poffeffions.' If, by continu
ally repeating this idea,the uninformed,
or as they are now politely termed, the
SWINISH MULTITUDE, should
take it into their heads, that they are
juftified in inforcing such a system; the
consequences will rest on those who,
by a perversion of terms, hive wick
edly or foolifhly propagated so dan
gerous a doftrine. The Equality in
filled on by the friends of reform, is
an EQUALITY of RIGHTS, or io
other words, that every person may
be equally entitled to the proceaion &
benefits of Society ; may equally have
a voice in the election of those who
make the laws by which he is affefted
in his life, his liberty, or his property ;
and may have a fair opportunity of
exerting co advantage, any talents he
may poffTs. The rule is nor " let all
mankind be perpetually equal." God
and nature have forbidden it. — But
" let all mankind start fair in the race of
life." The inequal ty derived from la
bour and fuccefUul enterpilze, the
refuir ot fuperiour industry and good
fortune, is an inequality eflential to the
ver, exi/lence of Jociet, ; and it natur
ally follows that the property so ac
quired should pais from Father & Son.
To render property infecute, would
destroy all motives to exertion, and
tare up publick happiness by tharoots.
Such are the truths acknowledged and
avowed by the reformers of the pres
ent day ; and where, but in the wild
workings of a di(ordered imagination,
do their enemies find the dangerous
dofyine, with which they daily alarm
the publick ? Are they acknowledged
by rhe government of America? Are
rhe, to be di(covered in the code of
the French nation ? Have they been
avowed by any Constitutional Society
in this kingdom ? Or are there any
traces of such dodrines in the works
of any modern reformer ?——-Again,
are the reformers of the present day
lefa interested than their abusers in the
prosperity of their country ? Are Mr.
Grey ind his numerous coadjutors
men without property ? Let the op
pofers of reform come forward and
#ofw& these questions, or let us hear
no more of LEVELLERS and, LE
VELLING SYSTEMS, nor let an
odium be thrown on great and un
changeable Truths, from the wilful
pervefa of a word.
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BY E. RUSSELL.
ZrfgfcQ&c — — —- -
f''MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1794.
pt# ^v- -. ^ —^vr ruiammriMn^l^^ ^.-..,..,.
1 Os tbi Good gain'd by having
ENEMIES.
A constant Friend, is, like the Phoenix rare.
And who can tell, where two such beings are?
AS savage beasts of the wilderrefs
furnish men with many neceffd
ries and conveniences, though against
their inclinations; so the envy of men
against their wills,if prudently order'd,
may be turn'd to advantage, as fire
too nearly approach'd, burns and
fchorches intolerably § but at a rea
sonable distance warms, refrethes, and
enlivens, bellowing on us the blessing
of light and heat, and is exceeding
serviceable to those that know proper
ly how to use it.
When an enemy reproaches us, let
us look op him as an impartial relater
of our faults and failures ; for he will
tell us more truly of our imperfections
than the best of friends will adventure
to do, pr ourselves, being partial to
ourselves, are able to difeern : And
this may be apply'd as precious balm,
to heal the wounds our folly or over
right hal given our fame arid reputa
tion, by attoning what part, and guard
ing our actions for the future ; and so
forgive his anger, whjlft we mak^ use
of the plainness of his declamation.
Drfgrace cast upon a man, though
caulelefy, may bring this advantage,
viz. to tender him very cautious, and
walk warily ; and as the ox does
when he is weary, tread the surer, for
fear of giving a real advantage to our
enemies ; and this is far better than
to be flatten'd into pride or careless
ness.
As vultures pursue putrid fifth, cor
rupt and' noisome carcafles, because
they have no perception of the found
ones ; (0 our enemies catch at our
failings, and then spread them abroad
by uncharitable and ill-natut'd reports,
which begets in us this advantage, viz.
to lead blameless and inofftnfive lives,
to have vehement desires and earnest
endeavours to retrain disorderly pas
sions. This will fill our minds with
good thoughts and meditations, and
with ftroog refolutioos to proceed in
a virtuous and harmless course of life.
As men most love peace and quiet,
and study to preserve it, who have
been long harrafs'd by unnatural war ;
so we being brought to live soberly
through the fear and awe our enemies
have infus'd, are taught to condemn
no mao, but to behave and demean
ourselves courteously to all ; so by
degrees a man may be drawn as it
were in fen fibly into a habit of good
living, and ever decline to be offen
five or hurtful to any body, and his
manners be compos'd and fix'd in
obedience to virtue by custom and
use.
By a virtuous life you may gain
your enemies to be your frinds, or at
least wound them with their own en
vy, which being darted at you, will
recoil in their faces. Diogenes being
dik'd by one how he might be re
veng'd on his enemy, The only way,
(ays be, to gall and fret him effectually,
is for yourfelf to appear a good and
bonefl man. !"
On the D UCTILITY and DIVISIBILITY of
GOLD. B
I HE Ductility of Gold, is such as
A to admit of one grain of it being
drawn out to the length of 500 feet,
which no other metal will : indeed it
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is the most divisible of all bodies ; if
melted with 100,000 times it weight
of Silver, it will be so perfectly blend
ed with it, that any grain of the melt
ed mass is, on sffiying, found to con
' tain its portion of gold : a single drop
of its solution in aqua regia, gives a
metalline taste to a point of the recti
fied fpiric of wine. It is so ductile
that the wire-drawers can extend a leaf
to the 12,000,000 part ofan inch in
-hiontfs, over a flatted silver wire,
which will be perfectly covered tho'
viewed with a microscope. One grain
of gold may be so beat out as tufovec
a large house, and still be so compact
as not to admit of the rays of light
through if. The force of cohesion
in gold depends on its freedom from
fu'phur ; for one grain of fulphut
mixed with 1000 grains of pure g^,
destroys its malleability.
{Moth. Me). D&.]
Newbamp/bire Legislature.
In the HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES,
FEBRUARY I.)
'T'HE Senate and house being again
, met in convention agreeably to
adjournment, proceeded to examine a
part of the inventories returned by the
county of Hiufborough, and having
proceeded as fat as Hillfborough, ad
journed to Monday next, at ten
o'clock A. fyl.—The speaker re fum
ed the chair, and the chairman report
ed progrtfs, aid the senate withdrew.
FEB, ,* —TW>4ferata&d^
ing met in convention; (pent the day
io the examination of the returned in
ventories.
feb. 4. —The Senate and House
met and concluded their examination
of the returned inventories#
feb. 5. —The House spent this day
in considering the report of the con
vention, debating upon, and passing
the fame.
feb. 6.—The House met, & went
on with the report of convention re
fpeaiog inventories, and concluded
the fame.
feb. 7. Messrs. Gains, Hoit, Smith,
Lane, and W. Simpson, were appoint
ed a committee to confider of, and
report what business is yet necessary
to be done this session—The time of
adjournment, and the place of the
meeting of the General Court in June
next ; also, what allowance should be
made the members of the Council;
Senate, House of Reprefentatives,and
their officers this ftffion^
An act for enlarging the power of
Judices of the < Peace, was read, and
passed to a second reading,
A letter from his Excellency the
Governotir, fignifying to the hon.
Court, that being so far advanced fit
life he found it expedient for him at
the elofe of the present year to retire
from the cares and fatigues of publick
business to the tepofe of a private life;
was communicated by the speaker —
A vote came down from the Senate,
appointing a committee to prepare an
answer to the Governour's letter,
which was read, and Meffis. Peabody,
Prentice, and J, Pierce, were appoint
ed on the par; of the house for that
purpose.