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went about to eftablifli a righteousness of
their own, not having fummitted themselves
to the righteousness of God —ls you are one
of those Mr. V. go on and fee what a corn-,
pleat righteousness you will fix yourfelf with,
and what a wonderful song you will have to
sing in heaven —Should you be fobappy as to
enter there by your mighty works, your song
must be this Oh ! happy me— righteous
me—worthy roe—glorious me —I have fafe
ly arrived to the heavenly Jerufatem, by a
righteousness of my own .manufacturing—l
stand in no need of the righteousness of Jesus,
I have a fufficiency of my own—l have be
lieved—l have obeyed, and have obtained an
heavenly inheritance thereby.—;Oh ! great
and mighty ME !—; —Bdt suppose the King
Should come to view his guest, and fay unto
you, friend, how comest thou in hither, not
having on the wedding garment—Should you
not be speechless—Should you not stand a
mazed —should you not be ashamed of your
filthy rags—when you should hear this glo
rious song, ecchoing through heaven—wor
thy is the lamb that was slain— glory be to
Jesus who has died, that we poor unworthy
helpless creatures, who had no right of our
own, might live, not unto us, but unto thy
name—be the glory, thou blessed lamb of
God—it is by thy righteousness, thy blood,
thy death, refurredion, ascension, and con
tinual intercession, that we are saved, and
not by works of righteousness of our own,
but according to thy mercy, haft thou saved
us—this will be the eternity of ages.—
Now Mr. V. take the advice of a triend, and
drop all your expectations of obtaining heav
en by your own obedience or good works, as
you call them, and depend wholly on the
works of Jesus, for salvation, and then you
will be admitted to join in that never ceaflng
song—worthy is the lamb that was slain, and
haft redeemed us unto God, out of every kin
dred, nation, tongue and people.
This is the song which will be sung by
those who are saved in the way you fay I have
/ found out, which you fay is wholly by Christ
without our belief or obedience. Surely
Christ is the way I ever wish to rely on, since
he is the way, the truth and the life, though
you aledge this to be the broad road which
leadeth to destruction, described in the 7th
of Matthew by our Saviour. Then you as
sert the good works of men, or a life of faith,
repentance and obedience, to be the straight
and narrow way described by him in the next
verse. I think, Mr. V. you have the scrip
ture wrong end upwards, firft you fay that
Christ is the broad road to deftrudion, or to
heli, then you aledge the faith, repentance
and obedience of men, to be the straight and
narrow way leading to life, or heaven—what
are you about ? what do you think of your
felf ? Surely you must be in a phrenzy, or
you could not be so stupidly blasphemous, io
endeavoring to upset the whole plan of sal
vation by chrift—drop your pen and get your
head more regulated before you attempt to
write any farther on the great plan of man's
salvation. And after you have got well set- ,
tied in your mind, confider that according to
the plan in which you have hitherto appear
ed in the print, it Bands you in hand to be
very careful, for if you offend in one point,
according to your plan you are guilty of the
whole, and incur the curse on yourfelf; for
cursed is every one who continueth not in
all things which are written in the bqok of
the law to do them -Drop your ignoble
scheme, and conclude with the scripture,
'^ that by the deeds of the law no flefh living
can be juftified—for no mere man fi rice the
fall is able to keep the laws of God, but daily
doth break them in thought, word and deed
—therefore rely on Jesus for salvation, far
he faith, that no man cometh to the Father
but by me, and fays, ye have not chosen me
but I have chosen you. ,
Now to conclude, as Religion is a practi
cal thing, and beautifully calculated for the
good of mankind, and extends no farther
than this life, we should all do well to adhere
to it, and live in love one with another, be
sociable and friendly, defraud not one anoth
er, take no advantage, dojuftly to every ohe,
and so fulfil the law of Christ, for the law is
fulfilled in one word, even in this, thou (halt
love thy neighbor as thyfelf, and the divine
Jesus fays, herein is my Father glorified,
that ye bear much fruit, and the fruit of the
fpirlt, the manifestation of which is given to
all men to profit withal is love, peace, joy,
&c. So far as we thus live agreeable to the
rules laid down in the scripture, and follow
the dictates of the spirit, so far we are deliv
ered from guilt, condemnation, horror of
conference, hell and damnation, which are ,
the horrid effe&s of a contrary conduct, and
which torment every rational creature has in
his own breast, which has an entire end at
death, then the spirit which has ever been
^friving to influence the creature to do juftl%
love mercy and walk humbly with God, re
turns to the arms of its beloved Jesus, from
whence it proceeded, and there will he hap
py with him to eternity. v
ft FREE THINKER. &
^ I find, Mr. Veriras, that it is the gen
* eral opinion of those perfons<who take rhe
Mirror, that it is heft for us not to write
^fy more on those fobj^but take fam
other method for a living ; and for my part,
1 I do not much differ from them in opinion ;
and am determined to stop here, uulefs you
proceed further, and 1 suppose it best for you
not—for it appears to me you grow worse
and worse, like something elfel have heard
of. F.T.
CONCORD^uIy 10, 179;.
the TREATY We Shall give an ab
ftrad of it next week.
SUDDEN DEATH.
Died, at Newchefter, latt week, Dr. Silas
Barnard, of Newandover. He went from
home, to visit a patient in Newchefter, as
well as usual, called at the house, complain
ed that he felt unwel, and laid himfelf down,
and died without any appearance of pain—
He has left a kind and tender wife to bemoan
his death.
CORRECTION.
Messrs. Printers,
By giving the following a place in the Fed
eral Mirror, you will oblige a num
ber of your Customers.
WE find in the lift of the Representatives to
the Genera, Court of Newhampfhire, Mr.
Robert Tibbets inserted as member for Chi
chefter and Pittsfield—but as said towns are
not classed together, we would inform the
public that Cbichefter had no voice in his
election.
Latest from Europe.
BOSTON, Jul, 8. The lareft news
from Europe, is by an arrival on Mon
day, from London, at Marblehead,
letters are to May 31.
Verbal accounts state, that the ex
pedations of a general peace were in
creafiog—That tranquility had been
reftoted at Paris ; and that the Tail
of Robespierre, as the conspirators are
termed, was docked (bort.
ALGERINES.
There are several accounts from Eu
rope, which mention, that a peace had
been concluded between Portugal and
Algiers, on the mediation of Eng
landland Spain ; and that the Alge
rine croifers were out, and had cap
tured several Americans.
NEW SPICE ISLAND.
Capt. Page, in the Ship Halcyon, ex
ploring a passage fromßotany Bay for
China, discovered a new Spice island,
in the neighborhood of new Guinea,
which he took possession of in the
name of the United States of Amer
ica.
EVENTS ^FRANCE.
0 The riots in Paris, on the 20th
and 21st April, were of the most se
rious and alarming nature ; and ap
peared to be well cogitated and fyf
temifed. The tedions had been tam
pered wish, and the watch word was
to have been, " Bread and the Couffi
tutiou of 1793-" The deftru&ion of
the Moderate party was the firft ob
j*4—-The annihilation of the Con
vention,and all the coriftituted autho
rities under it; and an assembly of
the primary affcmblies were to follow
—ihe passes of the rivers, the tele
graphe and the cannon were to be
seized to efftd the revolt. The Con
vention continued firm for a while,
and with Andre Dumont in the chair
supported its dignity agaioft the mob
of affailanti. The left tribunes were
in continual uproar, and threatened
the assembly by a variety of menaces.
The Convention were finally driven
from the hall— but the fedions hav
, iog assembled in arms, assailed qty
hall, and drove the malevolent from
ir. Boiffy d'Anglas, having taken
the chair, announced the defeat of the
fa&k>ui,witb the capture of several
of thechiefa. The Convention was
again attacked ; and a citizen having
foatched off the hat of one who had
the fadious watch-words written on
it,,he was pursued irito the hall, and
adually (hot near the President of the
Convention. The Reprefeotative of
the People, Fertaud, ran to his assist :
ance, but was killed by the mob, in
one of the corridors. His head was
brought into the Convention on a
pike. The hall was instantly filled
with armed men, when Romme, Du
roi, Goujon, Duquefnoi, Boarbone,
and others of the Jacobins, made, a
midst applauses, various motions to
effefl the revolution, and to retal the
deputies exited to Ham and Guinne,
which passed. The military, headed
by Legendre, again assailed the hall,
and drove the factious out of the win
dows. After this, the decrees of the
fadion were declared null, and the
president thanked the military citi
zens who had saved the Convention,
and desired them to retire to their
battalions ; which they immediately
did. After order was completely re
stored, Bourbotte, Duquefooi, and
Duroi, were ordered to be apprehend
ed. The following is a continuation
of the events.
London, MAY 30. The circumflances men
tioned in our paper of fburfday of the assassin of
Ferraud, the Dpty to toe National Contention,
having been refoued by the mob on hu may to the
place of execution, it confirmed by fubjequent ac
counts, which give some further particulars of
•what happened on that occasion. It appears that
a blacksmith's boy mas the person mho carried
Ferrand's bead about on a pike —tn cons queries of
mbich be mas ordered for execution. As the mili
tary mere conducting brc to the Place de Greve,
to be executed, a number of men and women re)cu
ed him, and carried him tf to Fauxbourg St. An
toine. Immediately the United Committees order
ed an armed force to disarm tbe Fauxbourg, and
for this purfeofefeveral regiments of the line united
themselves to the National Guaras of Paris. The
armed force lent into the Fauxbourg St. Antoine,
found no refinance till they arrived at the Barre
re du Trone—but the appearance of the military
having colleßed the inhabitants of this dtfrifi,
the, attacked some of the advanced guard, & took
from them one or two pieces of cannon.
The guard then thought it prudent to adopt mea
sures of defence; they unpaved the principal street
which cut off their own means of retreat, ^ mere
much expojed to, dme firing from the windows and
tops of boufes. The riot continued through the
whole da, of the 23d. but me have reason to be
beve tto on the z§thlfe government bad over
come the injurgents.
NATIONAL CONVENTION, May 25.
Laporte, in the name oj the United Committees,
'faid, "the boldness of the fafhon is jueb, that ev
ery a£l of lenity on,our part is a crime ; your com
mittees charge me, (lays be) to pre,ent you with
this decree :"
The National Convention, considering that the
mol contents of the Fauxbourg St. Antoine, have,
on the 22d, 23d, and 24th of this month, march
ed against the National Representatives, & point
edtbeir cannon against them ; that the, threaten
"to proceed to fill further exteffa—ibat a National;
Representative has been assassinated b, them ; that
this assassin, condemned to death, has been rejeued
by force from the place where his punishment ought
to have been infliaed. Decree,
I. That the inhabitants of the Fauxbourgh
St. Antoine Jhall deliver up the afl sos of the
Repref entalive Ferraud, and particularl, him
who was yefterda, rejeued from the Jword of the
law.
11. The, fall be required.to delive up their
cannon.
111. In caje ofrefujal, the Fauxbourg St. An
toine fall be declared in a fate of rebellion, and
all the jeaions /hall march againf it, and from
that time the difribution oj articles of Jubfifence
Jhall not take place in that Fauxbourg.
IF. This decree fall be printed,published, and
'proclaimed all Over parts.
The committee of government fall be charged
with the execution of the decree. r,'
Tbeprotyal was adopted unanimous, amidst
the loudef applaujes. iff
Giniffibux moved, that the women who may be
found in public places fall be required immeatae
l, to return home, on pain of arrf,
Claused and Dumont propojea the adoption of a
military commsfoil, which fall be immediately
organized. Every perjon dij covered as a pal,e
patrole, or debauching the troops,fall be inf anil,
(hot. The proportion was adopted.
?The FRENCH unfortunate
From the London Gazete, May 23.
A letter from Lt. Gent Dundasite the Duke of
York, has just been received by exprejs, dated
, " Diepholtx, May 9. We havejuft heard
that the Austrians have been fec^ffal, though not
without losing 6 Or 700 men in driving the french
from tie poll of Mombacb, near Majence, and bn
the heights ; before which place the, will sfablif
part of tfir arm,." < '
London, May 2§, Within theje three days,
we have been informed, that the Emperor has ac
cepted of the ban offered to bim b, this countr,,
n^rikh itfab as to enable bim to continue with
vigor the was for at leaf two campaigns % that
this army has opened the prejent one witb brillian-
cj and fuccefi ; and that a! Fisnna, as, in confor
mity ,0 the court at St. James's, the converjatics
turns wholly on the continuance ts the war, for
which the greats preparations have been made.
May 27. Peace, between the French and the
Duke of Wurtemburgh and the Landgrave of Hej -
fe Caffel, is on the eve of being concluded ; and the
Landgrave bas also, like the former, fgnifad bis
intention to the Emperor on this bead.
may 28. The Dutch Republic has con
cluded a Treaty of Alliance, offenfive asd
defenfive, withferance. It was signed at the
Hague, on the 15th instant. the treaty con
lifts of 23 articles, to which are added eight
separate articles, relating solely to the port of
Flushing.
A letter from Paris of the sth inst. states,
that Bafrere, Collet d'Herbois, and Billaud
de Varenries, after a short stay in the Hle of
Oleron, had failed for Guyenne, in South-
America.
According to a Paris paper of the 14th inst.
the French claim the honor of the victory be
fore Mentz. The Austrians have not made
any new attempt to cross the Rhine, though
all their movements fliew that they are de
termined to do so. General Pichegru ar
rived on the 30th of April, at the French
head quarters on the Rhine.
Hague, may 17, —On Friday night the
Secret Committee of the States General as
sembled, and fat till midnight. Yesterday a
profound silence wag observed on the fubjeft
of their deliberations. The States General
were convoked in the morning. The peo
ple were then informed of the conclusion of
a treaty of alliance between the two Repub
lics.
It was signed, on the part of the French
Republic, by Reubell and Syeyes, and, on the
part of the Dutch, by Paulus Leftevenon,
Eattias Pohs, and Huber. As soon as it was
known, there were public rejoicings, and at
night public illuminations and other demon
strations ofjoy, Repeated acclamations were
heard, of " Long live the two Republics, one
and indivisible !"
London, may 30. On the 27th, Mr.
Wilberforce made a motion for facilitating
the negociation of a peace with France.—
The minority on this question amounted to
eighty eight.
Mr. Pitt stated, in the debate, that the
provisions destined for the Brest fleet, were
unfhipped, and the magazines for the armies
stripped, to relieve the extreme nectffi ties of °
the people. [The Times, a minifer.al paper.)
More News about PEACE.
VERY IMPORTANT—if true.
From the Gazette of the United States, of June 27.
Translated from the Courier Francois of this
merning. To the Editor.
BALTIMORE, JUNE 24.
Citizen,
I now inform you that I have received a
letter from my brother, a merchant at St.
Malo, which informs me of the demands
;made by the Committee of Safety, on the
; English Envoys, who are come to treat of
peace. You may, if you think proper, pub
lish in your paper the substance of these de
mands, which I enclose.
Health and Fraternity. P. FRENIER.
The letter is dated the 23d Floreal,(May 12 )
On the demand made by the Envoys of the
Court of London, now in Paris treating of
Peace ; France consents to give a peace to
England on the following conditions :—
ill:.. The evacuation ; firft of the Islands
of Jersey and Guernsey.
2d. Our possessions of the Antilles, those
taken in the present and preceding war.
3d. The Hland of Corsica.
4th Our possessions in the Eaftindies.
& sth. Our ancient pofleffions in Northame
rica, Canada, Newfoundland, and Acadie,
(Novafcotia.)
To pay the damages done at Toulon, ac
cording to estimation.
To restore in kind, all the vessels taken
during the present war, and an equal num
ber of Blips of the English navy, to those
burnt at Toulon—To pay the expences of
the war, amounting to ,100 millions in spe
cie—leaving it, however, optional to Eng
land, to pay part in specie, p^t in corn -flour,
and other articles ot the firft necessity.
To abandon forever to the diferetion of
France, the Ele&orate of Hanover, and the
Bifhoprick of Oznaburg.,
, TQ restore all the vessels taken at St. Do
mingo, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and To
bago—or to pay their value. .*
[ To deliver up all the Emigrants in Eng
land, as well as in Europe, and other parts
of the world-=and to dired the British com
manders to prevent the escape of those vaga
, bonds.
And to insure the treaty, England Shall^
deliver to France one of her nearest strong
holds, in which the Republic fhali put a gar
tifon, which Shall not evacuate it till after an f
entire execution of the treaty.
P. S. The places taken by the English in
the former war, are-Grenada, and the Gre
nadines, St. Kitts, St, Vincent, Dominique
and Montserrat.