The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1794-03-10 00:00:00, page 1

FOR THE MIRROUR.
MR. RUSSELL,
lour papers of late toe had jeieral strokes con
cerning Lawyers, and as all profeffioas are ri
diculed and fatiritced,fame times ^t^^*^
end sometimes mith malice and igtoefte^f,#
think the following LECTURE ohLam, wor
th, a place in ,onr paper, please to publife it ;
it is only dfragment—the old pamphlefe
«wbicb it is taken being torn or morn out.
PHILANTHROPOS.
"frffiiffll^ of the Ledure, our
1 laws will be considered ; because they
are considerable, both in bulk and number,
as the statutes declare :
Conf derandi—confderando—conf derandum
They are not to be meddled with, by thole
who don't understand 'em.
The Liw always expresses itfelf with true
grammatical precision, never confounding
moods, cases, or genders •, except indeed, when
a woman is accidentally slain; and then the
verdia is brought in— man slaughter.
Law is divided into three parts ; the of
fence, quintessence, and consequence : The offence
of the Law is altercation, because the law can
altercate, simulate, deprecate, fulminate, and go
on at any rate. The quinteftnee has five pans
agreeable to its name : iff, the beginning,
or— lncipiendum— 2nd, the uncertainty, or —
Dubitendum—^, the delay, or—Puzzfodum
—4th, replications, without Enaarn — and,
flhly, Monfrum et Horrendum !
All which will be exemplified in the case
of Daniel afiinft Difal^t—the proceedings
whereof we have carefully preserved.—The
counsel, whoopened the case, was Mr Ex
pletive ; who rising up, addressed himfelf
to the court aS follows :—My Lard, may it
please four Lardfap, and you gentlemen of
thejury—to avoid prolixity, verbosity, and
pompofry, I take the liberty to declare, and
declare that I take the liberty, to acquaint
you, that I am counsel in this case for the
fasff—we shall therefore endeavour briefly,
To shew to your Larfbip, and you gentlemen
'o^ jury, what damages we have sustained
hereupon,—thereupon,—^rid whereupon, —
clearly, concisely, and candidly, with perfpi
ctiby— and ingenuity, void of all ambiguity.
My clien Daniel, my Lard, was footman in
the fame h6dre, where defendant Difhclout
was cook maid ; he was in liquor, my Lard,
that is, the liquor was in him ; which having
fetved an frament upon his understanding,
common sense was nonsuited ; or, as Dr. Bibi
us expt&ffes it in hirdiffertation on bumpers,
he was homo duplicans, or # a double man; not
only because he fees things double, but, my
Lard, because he was not as be Ihotild be,
profdo iffi HE—but he was as he ftlould not
be defeat ttyeHE.-—The next counsel on
the fame tide observed —My ! Lord bogh!
my Lord! i am on the fame fide for the
plaintiff Daniel, who supposing that he had a
right to thefa fimfele ot itedripping pan, took
a fop out of it with bis right hand, which de
fendant Difhclout re,leq,'d with her left ; &
thereupon forcibly pufh'd, knock'd, tumbled,
and tripp'd us up into the dripping-pan.—
Now in the 149th Folio vol. of the a^n/ge
me/// of the Statutes, Broughton reports, Stuck
verfu, Snralhoobd; 'tis adjudged, that .primus
ftrokus; fine jotus, abfolu'u^ est provocus-—
Now my Lord, who was the primus ftrokus?
who gave the firft offence ? Who brought the
dripping pan—why the cook !— for though
we do allow —that if we had not been there,
we could not have been thrown down there—
yet if the dripping P an had not been put there
—we could not have been throwri 'into the
dripping pan.
The counsel on the othere fide rifirig up
flowlyi Smelling at his nosegay gracefully,
and to/fagtthe tail of his wig emphatically,
began thusk-My LW / hem—my L^ /—I
shall not', my Lu^Aflouriffi away in words—
fome persons may think it an embelkfoment ;
but I think it an aftonifoment, how any one
\ can be so impertinent, to the detriment of all
manner of rudiment. Now my Lud ! I move
your Ludfhip for a new trial : because it is
specified in the plaintiff's declaration, that
the kitchenis the cook's premises. ^ Now my
Lud, the kitchens I humbly presume, is no
body's premises ; it is neither awash house,
nor a flo^e house, a brew house, net a bake
house. It is like Noah's ark, a receptacle for
ail kinds of animals. &W iris otherwise
more elegantly expressed, it is—Camera nec^
faria, in usu cookaria, cum fauce,annis,ftfrwpM-
nis, fcullero, drefero—coal holo, et f&uo, fmoke
ja&o; pro dressi turtle foofeo, calvesheadajhibus,
talhpee et callipa/bibus: And where, my Lud,
my client, the d^to, tab employed in
sassing dinner, or dinner dressing ; or as the
PHILANTHROPOS, N°. 6.
©lie "^iffOl
CONCORD.
[Vol. ll.— Num. 72.]
for b^'* #
nothing decisive happened on that
day ; but the next morning, at fix
o'clock, they made a vigorous attack
on Erlenbach, where three Saxon bat
talions were placed, the greatest part
of which were cut up.—The Duke of
Brunswick upon this ordered his troops
to charge bayonets on theleft wing of
the French army ; which after a few
hours refinance, were beat back. At
the fame time the French made an
affiuft on the post fituared on G lows
Hill ; but, being exposed ^ aeavy
cross fire, they yiere oblige, \u retire.
On their right wing they attempted,
with 15 baftalions, to force their waft
to Hoheneck, but in vain. After this
they took their former pbfition==
When the Prince of Waldeck, with
a corps of Austrians; came up to the
assistance of the Pruffiaos. After
which the French were drove out of
Lautern and Landfhul.
Their loss is vefy great, bur the
porticohh cadnot he afeertained , and
the (tfaotthe Prussians and Auftriani
is also very considerable. "The regi
;ments of Hohenloe andthe Duke of
IRforifwick's, have fuffered greatly.co'
General Kalreuth is mortally wound
ed, and is carried to Frankfort; Major
IHirfchfcid, AdjutanfGeneral,and aid
to the Duke of Brunswick, is killed.
It is laid that Gen, Klieft id amoDgft
Imperial Head-Quarters, at Hagenau, Dec. I.
This day the French gave us a most
furious battle ; and the attacks were
every where most furioufly conduded.
The conflict lifted from day break
until late at night, when the enemy
were ultimately turned and repulsed.
Yesterday and this day bloody ac
tions have been fought. The patri
ots did all they could to break through,
but they were obliged to retreat with
the loss of seven pieces of cannon.
General Count Kegivich was carried
off by a cannon ball, and the Duke
of Bourbon received a wound in his
hand with a Broke of a fabre.
Germany.
manheim,)T I 7 E yesterday morn.
nov. 26. j^V-i^g MWtd a terri rf
ble cannonading towards Landau, and
we are assured that fortreb it upon the
point of surrendering.
Nov. 27. —We have received ac
counts that General Sztkuli has re
pulsed the Republicans, and is now
polled at Hambourg. We have al
so received advice from Landfhuhl,
that affairsjn that neighbourhood wear
a better afped. The Prussians, who
had been obliged at firft to cede to
fuperiour numbers, having received a
reinforcement of 10,000 men, attack
ed the French in their turn, in the
neighbourhood of Bliefe, and repulsed
them vidorioufly with great loss.
Law more classically expresses it, [he was—
roaftandum, Fotlandum, fryanfun, friggajeean
dum, et plumbpuddingandum magnum mixandum.
Accordingly a new trial was granted—The
La<w being our Liberty . •and it is very happy
for jus, that we have the liberty of going to
Lanv. + #
dec. I. —By accounts received from
the Prussian army we learn, that the
French made an attack on the 29 h
of November on the army command
ed by the Duke of Bruofwick, near
Lautern, and were repulsed ; but
Latest Foreign Intelligence.
dec. 2. 8 o'clock in the evening.
BY E. RUSSELL.
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MON D A Y, march 10, 1794.
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the slain. The last adion lifted from
6 o'clock in the morning till night.
The militia chest, and the papers
belonging to the Quartermifter Gen
eral's department, were yesterday, (ty
way of precaution) removed from
Franhendal through this*city, to La
denburgh, fhere to remain till further
orders ; aww is presumed that a third
action will footyake place.
N. B. By this precaution of the
Duke if is' prefumeable, that The
French are not so much beaten is fttc
ed in the above accounts of the battle.
1 Gen. WuteMSER having received
orders from rhe Duke of Bruofwick
to retire behind the Motar, and enter
into winter quartern, on acconunt of
the advanced Bate of the ferifon, was
preparing to put them into execution,
when he learnt by a deferrer, that the
French designed to attack him ; in
consequence of which he determined
to wait their attack which was made
on the 18th, and in which they were
defeated with the loss of 6000 men
kilted, and 19 pieces of connon tak
en : our loss was very trifling. On
the 19 b we marched to take up our
post between the Moter and Zorn : —
on the 20th, the enemy crossed the
Zorn to ravage the country : but on
the 2 ift we obliged them to repafs it,
killed a great number and took 22
pieces of cannon : and yesterday we
returned to our portion, nearly under
r he walls of Hagenau. The head
quartered of the Duke of BrUnfwick
are at Pirmafen. Our loss, in the
course of these four days has not been
very great but the loss less than
15,000 men. The left wing of out
army this evening drove the enemy
as far as Robatzu.
Frankfort, DEC. 's. —The io;el
ligehce that Lieutenant Colonel Kirfh
feldt, Adjutant General to the Duke
of Biunfwick had been killed, is with
out foundation. He had a Acme
thrown at his head near Bitche, which
wounded him ; he is alive at Worms,
whither he went to wait his recovery.
The wound which Lieutenant Gen
eral Kalkreuth received, near Leaute
ran, in his shoulder, was occasioned
by a piece of grenade ; it is far from
being dangerous.
On the 29b of November, the
Prussians again threw a great number
qf bombs into Landau.
tiouRLACH, nov. 25 —-Yesterday a
strong cannonade was heard here all
day long, and we learn, this day that
9000 men of the garrison of Stras
bourg made a sally upon the Auftri
ahs, who being previously informed
of their design, received them as usu
al and repulsed them into the fortrefs^
Extras from t^ L,den Courant of the ilth of
Deember..
By last post fev^ral letters were re
ceived from Hagenau, Lautern Man
heim, Worms, and Frankfort dated
from the 27th November to 2d De
cember, whicti^fete, that the French
had made incessant attacks on the
Auftriani and Fruffians, but were at
last beat back, with the toft of eleven
thousand men killed arid wounded,
ind were driven back five miles be
yond Lautern.
The la of the allies, the fame let-
'amp of Schweickbaufen, at Hagnau, Nov. 23.
NEWH
[Price 7s. per ann.]
Austrian Netherlands.
brusselSels, nov. 29. —After the
repulse ot the Prussians at Bitlche in
in which, according to their own ac
count, their loss has been very confid
etab!e the current has appeared to
turn in favour of the French. In that
assault, Prince Frederick, of Prus
sia, received a severe wound in the
shoulder. Os the Pruffun army it is
'hid that the attempt cost them no
less than 800 kilted and 1300 wound
ed. The battailion of the grenadiers
of Rumfky who wished firft to fcale'
the waifs was almost entirely destroy
ed. This affair took place on the
evening of the 16th, and on the
morning of the 17 h the French made
an attack on B ittcaftle, but the Duke
of Brunswick having succeeded in
turning their right wing, they were
repulsed, but with what loss has not
been ascertained. On the ißth, an
other dreadful engagement took place
between the Austrians under Gener
al Wurmser, and the troops of the
enemy in the vicinity of Strafboug,
aided by apart of the garrison of that ^
fortrefs. The account# here fay that
the loss was extremely severe on both
sides, but the silence observed ref
peding the particulars, furnishes no
favourable augury. This wa§ follow
ed by a third engagement on the
21st. when Gen. WurMser was at
tacked in all his petitions. The
daughter was prodigious.
The loss of the Auftriani is calcu
lated at 6000 killed and wounded,
and yet their per fevering bravery com
pelled the French to retire to the
heights of Saverne, where they have
an entrenched camp. The Austri
ans resumed, for a time, their former
position ;—but by later accounts we
learn that Gem Wurmfer with the
greatest part of his army, has retired
to Hagenau.
The French have taken peffeffion
of Biefcaftel, have entered Deux-
Ponts, and as it is here believed, are
in pofftffion of the capital of that
Duchy. They have also entered
Luxembourg, which was left nearly
without defence, and carried off large
quantities of ptovifipns and flores.
They have changed their quarter#
near Philipville, and have moved up
Sambre towards Thowio.
Reinforcements are hourly puffing
through this place, and all the army on
this frontier is in motion. His Royal
Highness the Atch-Duke Charles, our
Governour, add^ffed a depeche, or
memorial to the states of our provin
ces,' requeuing a supply to their finan
ces from the fubjeas ^takEmperor
in these provinces, bj^U,«iofr
ic contributions, m Icm%
with or without iraffr defray
ing the expenses client war.
bic. $ OT| reffiM
again made a gefl , on nhe
;Imperial Front'q ft^ey bad
the good forturf F^* ¥ hr "
Air
ters fay, are very considerable. At
Erlenbach three battalions of Sagons
were nearly all cut to pieces ; che'rfy
gimert of Hohenloe, it is bid, 101 l
Bxfyr f^ven hungered men, and the
Duke of Brunswick's regiment loft
four hundred men. Mafor Hirch-
Fifld aid to the duke, had both his
legs shot oB; and died of his wounds,
and Gen. Kalkreuth is mortally
wounded.