The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1794-06-16 00:00:00, page 4

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1' SEAT OF THE MUSES.
The AFRICAN's COMPLAINT on board
a SLAVE SHIP.
TREMBLING, naked, wounded,Jighing,
On dis twinged boufe Island, 'f
Dat with poor black-man it flying, =
Far away fam bis own land !
Fearful water all around me !
, Strangefight on every band,>.
Hurry, noise, andfauts, confound me,
When I look for Negro land.
Ever, ting 1 fee affright me,-
Nothing I can nndtrftand,
With de Jeourges white manfight me.
None of die in Negro land.
^rede white man beat de black man,
'Till he's fek and cannot Jland, ^
Sure de black if eat by white ma, !
MIM no! go to white manfand !
Here in chains poor black man lying.
But so tick dey on us fland,
Ah! with beat and smells wer'e dying!
'Twas not thus in Negro land.'
Dere we've room, and air, and freedom,-
Dere our little dwellings Jtod ; ^,
Families, and rice to feed 'em !.
. Ob Iweepfor Negro land !
Joyful dere before de doors • '
Play our children hand in band ;
Frefe de fields, and sweet defow'rs,
Green de bills, in Negro land.
Dere I often go when feeding,
See my kindred round meftand ;
Hear 'em toke —den wake in weeding,
Dat IQ.loft my Negro land.
Dere my black love arms were round me.
Dewbole night ? not like die band,
Cloje de, held, but did not wound mi;
Oh! Idiefor Negro land !
De bad traders sole and jolfme, L
Den was put in iron band +
When I'm dead they cannot bold me,
Soon I'll be in black man land.
From the Newjerfa State Gazette,
. M^ Day,
Please to give thefollo^ing Extract front
, Cooper's Table Talk a place in your
Gazette, and oblige every D-m-cr-t.
" QUEVEDO, as be telbbisfober tale,
" flak'd, wbek in bell, to fee the royaljail== -
"Approv'd their method in all other things,
, But where, good fir, do you confine your Kings ?
" There,jaidthe guide, thegroups isfull in view,
" Indeed Implied the Don—there are but few:*
'' His black interpreter the charge difdain'd—
" Fewffellow? There are aUtbat ever reign'd."
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.Hitarityll
MR. D—, of U—, wai praying
one, morning with the utmost
fervour, and happened to stand facing
a window which looked towards his
cabbage yard. In the time of his devo
tion, at the very jonfture when the
' effufidhi of his pibus hear were pour
ed forth in the muff seraphic strains,
the good man, to hit exquifice vexa
tion, saw a large flock of half starved
cattle burst into the enclosure, and
with fat^nic avidity devour hit cabto
ges. He immediately left his spiritual
tgtake car^ hit temporal interest ;
and, having secured the latter, return
ed <4qfe@ xte former. But having,
io r hit great perturbation, forgotten
^^.M ? fffo ^ ^ ef?
^,. Wife, wife, where wu 1 last ?"
Said she,“ Why in the cabbage yard,
, youojd,fopl you,!^.^^
great in those days, and more by half
than the King expeded, he gave the
widow thanki, and kindly fainted her;
which had such an effect upon the old
'woman, that the replied, " Neay now
King, by th' mafathou fha't hatwon-|
ty pounds more," and she paid it ac
cordingly.
aphorism.— —Those who make
Ifew cootrads and fulfill them-have
no need of apologizing to one they
meet,— While he who engages all and
completes none, will spend his time
for nought and breath without profit.
Monitor,
GOD, in his divine mercy, fays
Sadi, the philosopher, introduc
ed a certain vicious man into a socie
ty of religious people, whose man
ners were pure and holy. Struck with
their virtues, he quickly began to im
itate them, to shake off all his for
mer habits ; in a word, to be a mo
del of justice, of sobriety, of patience,
of induftry,and of benevolence. His
good works were undeniable, but
people imputed them to unworthy mo
tives. They were always for judg
ing of him by what he had been ;
not by what he was. Overwhelmed
with sorrow, he poured forth his tearr
into the bosom of an ancient solitary,
who was morejuft, as well as more
human, than the rest.
“ Oh my son, said the old man to
him, return thanks to the Almighty,
that thou art Superior to thy reputa
tion. Happy he, who can fay, my
enemies and my rivals stigmatize me
for vices of which- I am not guilty^
If thou art good, what matters it to
thee that men persecute, and even
punilh thee, as being one of the
wicked ? Haft thou not for thy com
fort two unerring testimonies of thy
a&ions, God and thy conscience ?"
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BOSTON, JUN E4.
From AMSTERDAM, March 2 .
" Every thing is, as yet, tranquil. A few
days>muft, I think; bring forward something
of consequence. . ^^ , % "
" The English mail is in to day. Lord
Howe has again gone to sea. :r °"
' ,jUfctofe.s^.l
±%%iarch 15. " The Columbia, Captain
Maley, from Philadelphia, taken and carried
into Jersey, was offered by the Captors to be
given up, provided they mould not be called
upon lor damages ; but Mr. Johnston, the
American Consul, has refuted it, and insists
that they Should pay the loss sustained on ac
count of the vessel's having got water into
her, and the lower tier^ which is sugar, hav
ing washed away."
In the Legislature, May ~
His Excellency the Governour, delivered the
following SPEECHto both Branches.
FELLOW CITIZENS,
WHILE I attempt a short, but, very re
fpeaftil address to the two Branches
of this new General Court, 1 cannot help ex
pressing a great Atlsfaaion in the continu
ance of the right which the citizens of the
Commonwealth at large enjoy, of exercising
their own sovereignty. In putfuance of the
diredion of our Constitution, which is ex
preilive of their will, ,hey have again, in their
anniversary meetings, made their free elec
tions of such persons as thty have judged
meet to administer their publick affairs. In
this great tranfadion, they must sorely have
, felt their own dignity ; and however differ
ent their sentiments may haye been with re
gard to the men of theit choice, each eledor
having given hit fuffrage according to the
fdilates of his own conscience, muff enjoy
.the consoling reflexion of having honestly
I done his duty. Those in whom the people
I l^ave placed their confidence, it is presumed
■will faithfully watch over, and guard their
■general interest, and take care that the liber
■ties and the sovereignty of right belonging to
■his Commonwealth, fhali fuffer ne diminu
■ion.
■"FkiLOW CITIZENS,'
I WE are met at aver, critical period—-
fee baneful influence of war in Europe, has
■already too far extended .itfelf into this re
■mote region. A War of Kings and Nobles
Uageitf the equal Rights of Men. Their firft
■object was to controul the common right of
Lllcivil societies, by fruftrating the attempt
Lmagmnimdus nation, to establish a Con-
C^fo^ for themes, ...
cording to their owa mind : More lately the
nefarious design has been to crush the new
formed Republick in its infancy :—But the
GOD of Armies, who favours the brave in a ■
righteous cause, has hitherto appeared for its
protection, and crowned the astonishing es
;forts of its defenders with astonishing vi&p.'
ries.
Greatbritain takes an a&ive part with the
mighty combination of Kings. Indeed it
does not appear that she has yet made a de
mand bn our confederate Republick to join
the league. A demand which we are well in
formed she has made upon some of the neu
tral Republicks of Europe; But, whilst we
have preferred the most Arid neutrality tow
ards the belligerent powers of Europe, in.
observance of treaties made under the au
thority of the United States, which are the
fuprgme law of the land, she, for the fake of
aiding the cause in which she is so deeply en
gaged, has employed her naval force in com
mitting depredations on our lawful and uri
prote&ed commerce. Thus in fad, she has
commenced hostilities. The Federal Gov
ernment, although very felicitous if poflible,
to prevent the calamities of war, have medi
tated measures preparitory for the event.—
The papers and communications which I
have received on this fubjed, shall be laid be
fore you.
It was a declared intention of the people of
the United States, when they adopted our
present constitution, " to form a more per
feft union"—an important objeft indeed.—
The deliberate voice of thepeople is com
monly the voice of reason—the voice of the
people ought therefore to be attended to.
Union, formed upon the genuine republican
principles and views of our political institu
tions, by combining our strength, will have a
powerful tendency in a time of war to reduce
an unreasonable enemy to terms of justice,
and the re-establishment of tranquility ; and
in peace to secure the blessings of equal lib
erty to the present and future generations;
Fellow Citizens,'
IT is my sincere and ardent wish, and I
have a strong persuasion in my own mind,
that wisdom and publick spirit will guide you
in all your deliberations and decisions. I
will endeavour feafcnably to dispatch such
business as you shall lay before me during this
feffipn, and at all times, to support the true
dignity of this Commonwealth in the Ration
in which I have the honour of being placed,
by a vigilant attention to its essential duties.
SAMUEL ADAMS.
FROM PORTLAND, MAX 24.
A MURDER.
Last Sunday evening, at a young
gid of about T 4 year, of age, of a
4 creditable family in Vaffalborough, by
the name of Tilion, was returning
home from her lifter's house; where
she had been on a vifir, was overtak
en in the woods by a negro man, who,
after committing a tape, murdered
her, and hid her body under h log,
and covered it with rotten wood. She
was found on Tuefday, after a long
search made by the neighbours, who
from certain circumstances, fufpefting
the perpetrator of th^ crimes, took
the negro with them. —We hear the
villain has conftffed the fads, and is
in custody.
Centinel Marine Journal.
JUNE 2iArrived brig Betfey,Capt.
Farley; from Oporto, (Portugal) 62
dap. Three days before Captain F.
failed, a press of 500 men was made
at Lisbon, to man the fleet to (hut up
the Algerines in the Mediterranean.
The Algerines in their 2d cruise,
did not take a prize. In their firft
they captured 10 Americans, and fix
Genoefe veffete.
TheTtedalus and Fox Britilh frig
ates, of 32 guns each, have lately fail
ed from the Chesapeake. Shortly af
ter they puffed the Concorde, she
weighed, and proceeded after them.
;The Concorde is a faith 44,
- ;fe incston , (Jamaica) A PRIL 19.
The American ship Sampson, late
ly commanded by Capt. Jpfhua Bar.
ney, and her cargo, were condemned
on Wedpefday at a court of admiral
ty felfore Town, as a lawful prize.
The grounds of the condemnation,
we understand, were, for associating
and afliog in concert with the enemy,
and defending the enemy's property,
as well as divers other ads contrary
tQthe to of neutrality. ^^,|
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Canterbury —Capt. Stephen Heines & Mr." Wal
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Mr. Boynton, Meredith—Mr. Andrew Woodman,
Col. Ladd, Mr- Burns, Mr. David Beane and
Mr Swett, Gilmantown —Mr. Wood's store, Mr
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Leave good Rye, at 41. or Corn at ts. a bushel,
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Concord, fune g. E. RUSSELL.
SHOES' TO MAKE.
—= —
WANTED to contradfor the making of
fever al tboufand pairs of good thick leather
men's SHOES —to be delivered Joon —The pay for
making fadfhoes, to be wholly in leather-and a
generous price given,-if application be made imme
diately NATHANIEL LADD.
Concord, Jtae7, 1794. B§tf
— - ,
HEMLOCK BARK to peel.
WANTED TO LET,
^quantity of Hemlock Bark, to
peel; or, hire a band E, the month—for which a
generous price will be given, if application is made
immediately to NATHANIEL LADD.
Concord, June 4. 85/f
; — —- ; ra -
WANTED IMMEDIATELY,
< Two stout, healthy BOY S,
15 or 16 years of age, as apprentices to the
Tanner's and Currier's Trade. ' Apply to
NATHANIEL LADD.
Concord, May 24, 1794. 8 3 tf
WHEREAS Samuel Parker fa
absented bimfelf from m, bed, for 7 yean^qL
^withoutju}l cauje, and has lately advertized that 7
refujedio bed and board with him—This is to fir
bid all persons harbouring or trafting bimtofy
account, as I cannot conveniently ,a, any morrof
bis debts—J never refund tubed and board witb
bim,wben be made provifan fir me, or wben&
was willing tofare with me fytod bed, or par
take of an, provifan of mine—All perJonfare cau
tioned againfpurc&fag an, notes of bim, without
art leave, as be has fold jtveral which wereta
& MARTHA PARKER.,
Pembroke, June 2, 1794. 85'
.Q&foefes
James Jewett's Efate.
ALL persons indebted to the Estate of
JAMIES Jewett, late of Pembroke,
tanner, deceased, are desired to make imme
diate payment-and those who have dams
against (aid Estate are coquetted to exhibit
thfir accounts for settlement to
LUCY JEWETT, Administratrix.
Pembroke, May 28th, 1794. 84
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