The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1793-04-29 00:00:00, page 4

I Detraction.
,TT cannot fail of hurting a
1 * delicate Mind; the missive
1, Shafts of Slander too severely
k wound, and even the Cheek of
L Re&itude will redden with In-
Idignation to find itfelf branded
, with Vices which it abhors ; it
I is thus that Calumny is capable
of inflicting the keenest An
-1 guifh; for a Season it will fink
the Spirit, but Innocence will
ifoon uprear its Head; it will
appeal to the all searching Ken
1 of Deity ; but from the Lip of
I Truth it will expert its Juftifi
location ; it will know that its
||God acquits, and it will soon
r wipe^frem its Eye the Tear of
L DefponMency.
Ore'en ufurp'd more poorer than you gave :
Did ye not rife the tyrant to oppoje ?
Didye not drag him from his regal throne ?|
Should not this fall appease hisfrenuous foes
Could only murd'rous guilt for wrongs atone ?
Columbia's bafefapports fairfreedom's
fine, / [nefsgave)
Whichfames with iqcenfebca ven's great good
z^frf refold'd, the godlike meteors fine >
To light the glooms beyond th' atlantick wave.
Fayette and Louis from the wefern torch
Their aid enkindled, were allow'd a fark,
The blaze began thefranger France to scorch
Ereyet it quite pervaded thro' the dark.
'The le,on, Frenchmen, from Columbians
learn,
Tofmart th' oppressor's hand, bat not conjume:
The wayward,re of liberty will burn,
Unheedful watch'd, the dome it fould illume.
Frenchmen ! be cautious in your growing
work,
Nor blaftyour journal with th' increasing blot,
Behind one fault, 'tis found, vast numbers
lurk
Unjeen, 'tis crowding they dilate the fpdt !
Learn from theguilt incurv'd by Bourbon's
death;
Brighter than freedom's fonsye fall not fine ;
Heav'n Jaw your jealous efforts fain the
wreathe / '
Four arduous fruggles for your brows entwine !
'Twas thine tofuffer by the blaze ; to drown
The kingly charaaer in floods of gore !
Frenchmen, 'tis true ye boreyour fbackles long,
Too Jong ye pin'd beneath the favijh load ;
True 'tis,our fathersfeffir'd many a wrong;
Andyou havefmarted from the tyrant's goad.
Yet fbould ye not reflect, that all mankind,
Thou fhap'd in various moulds, are kindred
clay ?
Spar'd to revenge,fhould ye not bear in mind,
All men but their own charaaer display ?
Louis by birth was seated on a throne—
As monarch, not as Citizen, be glow'd—
Aair.g not by yourjudgment, but bis own,
Great were the man if nought unseemly flow'd.
What thb'dsis foibles kept bis fubjea poor—
What tbo' be made bis ev'ry Jubjea Jlave,--
What tbo' from mis'ry's call be barr'd bis
door,
Whose the deep cicatrice by vengeance riv'd ?
Whoje the red flream which chokes thegap-
Itig pore?
Whose tbefad fate Licentiousness far wiv'd ?
See ! o'er the distant bemijpberick mound
In dizzing Jhades exuding vapours rife !
See ! flirting from the aetber fevering wound
The ruddy current tinge the blufbing Jkies !
'lll fated Louis ! born to wear that crown
Which, fafe from freedom's fire, thy fathers
Verus hates a Thing that's bast ;
AY I ran indeed he's got a Knack
Of flattering People to their Face,
But /corns to do 't behind their Back.
From the General Advertiser.
ELEGY on the DEATH of LOUIS XVI.
WHAT lamentations grate th' unfatter'd
ear ?
What tragick Jcene affults the straining eye ?
What jorrow drawsyet checks the stagnant
tear.
And hujhes as it wrests the fatilteringfg^F
Whose headless trunk Jalutes Columbia's
/bore ?.
wore,
THE PIERIDES.
HILARITY#
publick necessity are urged by the
Secretary as paramount to the ftrid
fleeter of law and inftruftion^ and to
juftify a departure from them —
Iwhat a strange and striking contra
diction does the defence of the Se
cretary made by himfelf afford to
the speeches and votes of the bank
diMorij and his other , friends in
CongreG, who have laid, “ that he
neither violated law or inftruaions^
and from the beginning to the end
of the business, did nothing but
what he was clearly authorized and
empowered to do,"—For ; if it was
clear that he did nothing but what
was authorized, w,s it not very ab
surd to make an apology for hav
ing done his duty ? Nay more, to
write an elaborate defence for hav
ing done so ; to detain Congress
fix weeks in an enquiry about noth
ing ; and finally when a partial and
equivocal hearing has been had, to
exult in an acquittal!
But the friends of the Secretary
thought it fafer and easier, to gloss
over a violation of law and instruc
tions, or even boldly to deny it al.
together, altho' the Secretary has
expressly acknowledged both, than
to hazard the enquiry, what use the
two millions of publick money had
been put to by the Secretary. In
the firft case they only exposed him
to the absurdity I have stated , but
in the latter, they could not so clear
ly exonerate him from the charge of
an unfaithful application of the pub
lick money.—-Unfortunately for
them, as well as for himfelf, he was
obliged to acknowledge, that not.
withstanding all those cogent and
Puffing'publics nectffities, which in
the period of two years had irre
fiflabl, compelled him to draw over
CRIES Sylvia to a reverend Dean,
What Reason can be given,
Since Marriage is a holy Thing,
That there are none in Heaven ?
There are no Women, he replied —
She quick returns the fef —
Women there are, but I'm afraid
They cannot find a Priest.
A Virginian Farmer, hap
pening to be at Norfolk, soon
after the Arrival of a Vessel
from Ireland, and ohferving
that some Irish Potatoes which
Ihe had brought over, were
fold at a good Price, resolved
to take Advantage of this Cir
cumstance. Accordingly, on
his Return home, he collected
all the Eggs which could be
found within ten Miles of his
Plantation ; and bringing them
to Norfolk on the next market
Day, strongly recommended'
them to his Customers, as fine;
FRESH Eggs, just imported
from Ireland.
the two millions of dollars from
Holland, yet at the end of the laid
two years, after all these cogent and
p r 'fog publick necessities had been
provided for by the ordinary reve
nue, there remained on hand, on the
firft day of January last, the funrof
2 '33377° dollars and 66 cents,
the Husband, to his painting Lady.
[Next Morning after Marriage.]
I LOV'd thee, beautiful and kind,
And plighted an eternal Tow ;
So alter'd are thy Face and Mind,
'Twere Perjury to love thee now.
[From firfl Page.)
confiding of Dolls. Cis.
Calh in the treasury at the end
of 1792, - - 783,444. 31
Do. in Bank, arising from
loans, and not passed into
the treasury, - 605,883. 08
Do. proceeds of bills diawn
on account of foreign loans,
account not fettled, 614,593.02
Do. deposited in the bank of
North America, - 177,998. 80
Do. in the hands of collec
tors, - - 151,851. 25
2 ,333,77 0 - 66
A sum exceeding by thirty thou
sand dollars, the whole amount of
money drawn over from Holland.
The money then being on hand,
and manifeftly not one (hilling of it
ever used for any one of these great
purposes of cogent and pressing pub
lick neceflity, stated by the Secreta
ry, it became a natural and neces
sary question, to what use, and for
what purpose the money had been
I really applied ? Since there was no
man either in or out of Congress,
who had so far loft his senses as to
believe in the conjuring charm giv
en to this money by the Secretary,
[namely, that it could be played a
bout for two years in the hands of
[the banks; as agents for the public,
land by mere inchanting force of its
inftrumentalil, and applicability, with
out touching one (hilling of it, could|
satisfy and difeharge all the cogent!
[and prefling publick necessities, which
[occurred during the said two years,!
'and yet at the end of that time, the!
whole of the fame identical money!
be found undimifhed, and untouch-|
ed in the publick treasury. Here
then the shoe pinched, and the en
quiry pressed ; for altho' the Secre
tary had acknowledged that the
banks were his agents, refpe&ingl
the whole of this money, which ofl
course made bank directors and
stockholders par ties in the cause be-|
fore Congress; as in truth, they!
had been the only and happy few
who had sensibly felt the real and,
actual injirumentalit, and applicabil
ity of it,yet there were reasons of the
moment which rendered it neither con
venient nor proper to pursue ver,
clo/el, this part of the enquiry ; and
therefore when the honest FIND
LEY in his speech came to that
part of his argument, he was clam
droufly flopped, and called to order,
as Mr. Merger had been on the
fame ocoafion before him.
Such my fellow citizens, are the
plain and simple fads on which
rests the firft point of consideration
offered to your view, and if in the
perusal of them you feel yourselves
injured and imposed upon by the
aCtors in this business, remember
that here at the great and impartial
tribunal of the publick, there is no
celling to order, no flopping the cur
rent of free enquiry ; and that as
truth is mighty she will prevail.
March 10. TIMON.
IF we take a Survey of the Life of
Man, we shall find it replete
with Trouble..—Death, together
with a numerous Train of Evils, is
the conlequence of Man's apostasy.
No fconer do we begin to breathe
the vital Air, than we become the
Subjects of Pain and Distress: from
REFLECTIONS.
our ear lieft Moments we cherish
the cruel Monster, which shall one
Day devour us. Frequently fo|
soon as the Light dawns upon the ,
tender Infant, it is attacked by dis
ease ; cruel Death rises up, and
snatches it from a fond Mother's
Arms —Another having arrived to „
riper Years, indulges th\ delusive
Hope, that, as he has passed the
most dangerous Stage of Life and
possesses a firm Constitution, he
(hall reach old Age : But, alast at
an unexpected Hour, he meets the
!ghaftly Meflenger, and is fumrnon
ed to appear at the Bar of God.
Others at middle Age, are cut
down in the Height of their Am
bitious Pursuits and flattering Prof
peels.—And these, who are spared
to old Age, ilk them what their
Lives have been, and they will an.
fwer, in the Language of the anci
ent Patriarch, " Few and evil have
been the Days of our Lives."—Thus
is Man born to trouble : his Life,
a Series of Pain and Woe ; yet,
happy f° r him; he is not left defti
tUte of Confutation : the glorious
Gospel assures us that Affliction
cometh not out of the Dust, neither
doth Trouble fpriog from the
Ground ; but from a God of uner
ing Wisdom, and unbounded Bene
volence.=—Therefore, We may be
assured, that all our Affliction, and
troubles, in this variegated World
fare for the highest Good. "It is
igood for me, fays the Psalmist, that
Il have been afflicted." Punishment
!is always disciplinary, when the
Subjefts of it are in a probationary
lor falvable State.—Hence Afflic
tion is no sure Evidence, that those
afflicted are not the true Children >
of God ; but rather an Evidence
that they are: For faith the Apof_
yle, " Whom the Lord loveth he
\chafteneth, and fcourgetb ever, Son
iwhom he receivetb."
[ Affliction is really necessary to
fdifengege our Minds from th%
^Things of Time and Sense, and
/place them on God, the supreme
Good, and only Source of Happi
ness.——The Allurements of this
World, frequently lead the most
pious and devout affray. Prosperi
ty, with her gaudy Equipage and
enticing Charms, makes many f°r>
get the God that made them, ana
lightly esteem the Rocks of their
Salvation.—But when envelop'd in
Adversity when Affliction lays
her luthleb Hand heavy upon us—
when earthly Comforts fail, and
from worldly Enjoyments not a
Gleamof Hope is left, then, as
Hope is the Life of the Soul, we
are led to place our Hope in God,
who is the only Refuge in a Day of
Trouble; [To be continued.]
MASSAC HUSETTS;
BOSTON, April 20. —A London Paper
fays, Let France beware ; the Batavian
and British Lions are rouzed, & the Prus
sian Eagle is ready to bounce upon her
Prey.* Where can that wretched, that
deluded Country find Shelter from the
Storms that threaten her.
From a Paris Paper of fan. 21.
On Friday Morning the Dauphin stole
down Stairs—the Sentry at the Door afcd
him where he was going, "into the Streetl
replied the infant Prince, throughout all
Paris to beg of the People not to kill m,
dear Papa." One of the Guards carried
him to the King: when he heard what
the Child had said, he burst into Tears,
and pressed him to his Bosom,
NEWS !