The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1792-12-10 00:00:00, page 1

Con corb, December 1792.
to thePATRONS of LITERATURE, and
the LOVERS of the ARTS and SCI
ENCES, Tn the State of Newhamp
. SHIRE.
PROPOSAL'",
of ELIJAH RUSSELL,
of Concord, (Newbampfoire,)
for PRINTING by SUBSCRIPTION,
A NEW' WORK, to be.entitled,
THE
Newhampihire MAGAZINE:
OR, THE
MONTHLY REPOSITORY of USEFUL
INFORMATION,
„On the stowing Conditions,viz..
I. The Newhampshire Magazine,
&c. shall be published in monthly Numbers,
Oil the firft Monday of every Month.
11. Each Number shall contain sixty four
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on excellent white Paper, and a good Type ;
and the Work fliall be executed with Accura
cy and Neatness..
\_HL. SIX Numbers to complete a Volume ;
which will Contain three hundred and eighty four
Pages, besides a Title Page and Index, which
will be given gratis, with the last Number
of each Volume—And, to pteferve the Work
, clean for binding, each Number shall be ftitch
cd in blue Paper.„
IV. The Price, to Subscribers, will be
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on receiving the firft Number—and" Six Shil
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Volume afterwards. ^ '
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the most grateful Thanks of the Editor—and the
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[Volume I.
THE Encouragement and Support of
evefysffleful Art and Science, in a free
State, is the only fare Mean whereby Liber
ty and Independence can be preserved in
^heir genuine Purity. The more expanded
the Mind, and the better informed the Un
derstanding of Man is, so much the better is
he qualified to enjoy the Rights of Freedom
- Where Ignorance prevails, there Tyran
ny bears fway—and,by debarring the People
the Means of rational and reasonable
Information, Defects usurp Authority, ahd
make Slaves of the Commonalty.——Let us
not, my Fellow Citizens, by our Inattention
to the 'Privileges of Freemen, forfeit our
Claim to that most enviable of all Appella
tions ! Let us not forfeit those inestimable
Blessings, Liberty and Independence,
which our departed Friends, Heroes, and Pa
triots, fought, and bled, and died, to obtain
for us ; and which we are better qualified at
prefen, to enjoy, than perhaps any People
under Heaven.— Let us not, by our literary
Sloth an^Negligence, fink into Slavery, and
dishonour the Memory of those who nobly
'iealed with their Blood,the Blessings of PeacE,
and transmitted to us Freedom, both civil
Published by ELIJAH RUSSELL, at his Office, near Mr. Hannaford's Tavern, in CQ NCORD, Newhampshifef.
NEW MAGAZINE.
To the Citizens of Newham,Jhire,
CONCORD, MONDAY, December 10, 1792.
The Mirrour.
and religious ! —But let us rather strive topre
ferve those Blessings, pure and unrallied, by
generously aiding and fapporting every Insti
tution and Endeavour, which may serve to
enlighten the Mind, and inform the Uhder
ftanding — and which may tend to ennoble the
political and literary Charader of our State.^
This (I believe) is the FIRST Rropbfal
ever offered the Citizens,,r Publ&ng,
MAGAZINE ta|ft=-The Puffi
er theref&tyjlfcrs himfelf, that when they
take into view the Importance of encouraging
Literature and the Arts and Sciences, they
will generously afford him that Supportwhich
the Attempt may merit,fa a liberal Subfcfip
fon.#=-No Pains of &penfe, in hh Poiver
so bestow, shall be Wanting on his Part,to ren
der this* MAGAZINE worthy the Patronage
of a free, enlightened People, and the Bene
fadlons of the Lovers of the Arts and Scien
ces, and the Friends of Literature, in this and
other States.
The NEWHAMPSHIRE MAGAZINE,
&c. is intended to be comprised of original and
extracted Essays, moral, political, historical,
commercial, agricultural, phitofophical, phy
sical, &c. &c, Poetry, Anecdotes, and a
monthly Abftra& of foreign and domeftick
Occurrences, which may serve to give the
Publick a just Idea of the Prosperity end poli
tical Situation of our own and other Coun,
tries.-=-To this End the Editbr earhbftly
solicits the Assistance of the Learned, in this
and the neighbouring States, who with the
Prosperity of their Fellow Citizens—The Aid
of the enlightened,'ingenious Sons of Dart
mouth, will be a welcome Offering at the
Shrine of our Magazine— The ingenious
Fair, who are favoured with the Smiles of
the Muses, will receive otrcgrateful Acknow
ledgements for their Fa&ms ,which shall ever
be treated with inviolable Secrecy, and the
utmost Refpea—We shall be particularly
thankful for the Assistance of the ingenious,
judicious Divine, the Moralist, the Philan
ttiropift, the Philosopher, the Physician, the
Politician, the Sage, the Hero, the Literary
Farmer, the enlightened Merchant, the Hu
mourift, and the inspired Votaries of the Sa
cred Nine. —Under the Auspices of such Aids,
the Editor hopes to be able to present an enter
taining, inftrudive and valuable Volume,
which will form a judicious REPOSITO
RY of USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. But,
should he lack those Aids, he can promise noth
ing very flattering from his own Abilities—
He can only promise, that such Advantages
(if any) as may be in his Power, shall be in
defatigably exerted to benefit and please his
generous Benefadors and Patrons—White he
hopes to meet their friendly Indulgence, he
begs Leave to subscribe himfelf, the Publick's
devoted humble Servant,
ELIJAH RUSSEL L.
g > Subfeript dm will be received by the Printer,
by Gentlemen in different Parts of the States, and
b, the principal Booksellers in the Union.
^E. Russell requests the several Printers
to publijh the above in their Newspapers—He will
return bis Thanks to the Bockfellers in the United
States, for their Assistance in receiving and pro
curing Subscriptions. w
TTFZrETTE.
[Concluded from our lof.]
} On the return of the King into
Paris, after bis Escape, the Marquis
shone with redouble Splendor, at the
head of a hundred thousand Na
tional Guards ; he led the humble
Monarch, in triumph, th rcu gh the
Streets of Paris \ and to add to the
Degradation of the King and his own
glory, it is hid he gave orders that no
Hat ffiduld be rafted as the King pass
ed.
Me was now at the Zenith of po
pular favon; I^ds the full poffeffibn
of popular power ; and well would it
have been for him could he have con
tinued him felf in the enjoyment of these
fafciriAting tributes of a People's lov^,
but however desirous he might have
been of continuing tb " ride in the
Whirlwind and direct the ftb'rm," he
soon found that passions once set afloat
and m motion, are not easily checked^
and that the tumultuous passions of a
Paris Mob in particub; when once in
flamed, buffi with unextinguifhable fu
ry ; he soon perceived that the pure
principles of liberty and equality, Which
had formed the solid piltarsof an Adt.
mirable government for the enlighten
ed and industrious yeomanry of Ameri
ca, had been so much misunderstood
by the Publick of Paris, and the igno
rant peasantry, as tb excite them to an
archy, disorder and the most flagitious
licentiousness : That in the untutored
mindsof a 'difordered populace, the sa
cred word liberty had been prostituted
to the purposes of licentious outrage,
and had been construed into £ permis
sion to overthrow all species of subor
dination, and the term equality implied
a levelling of all ranks and conditions,
and a degradation of every thing that
was wife, virtuous and venerable, to
the level of their own brutal condition ;
when these things~were but too appa
rent, the Marquis, who, notwithstand
ing the abolition of tittea still plumed
himfelf on his birth, name, rank and
connexions, who possessed property,
and unlike many of his coreformers,
had fomethinty|t fake, who was un
willing io WFhit native Country,
which had more than once given Law
to Europe, become feeble and contempt
tible, by being converted from a re«
fpedable and powerful Empire, into a
great and melancholy theatre of affaL
finations, tumults and civil discord, and
who was convinced a monarchial sere
of government, was essential for "&
internal police and external fafety of
the Nation, now wished to tread back
some of those incautious flaps, which
had led him too far into the paths of
anarchy and to bring back his Coun
trymen to the true point of reforma
tion. But the mifchief was done, and
he soon found himfelf ih &bger of (of
fering from the very principles he had
propagated, and periling in the tem
pest which he had excited :The pas
sions of the People were op, and there
was more fafety in yielding to than io
thwarting them. Too good a Citizen
and too honest a Man to do the one,
til has loft his popularity, his fortune,
and his Country, by attempting the
other. At this juncture, too, there
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