The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1794-08-04 00:00:00, page 4

SEAT OF THEMUSES.
TOR THE MIRROUR.
A CONTRAST' On Predestination,'
as held up in the Mirroar No. go.
MR. RUSSELL, 7
B, infating the following lines in jour Mirrour,
jou will oblige those who^ifo „]„} 0 „ „
sides—at baft,our, th. A Customer.
A LL things will succeed,
As they are decreed,
By him. who wifely doth rule us ;.
Or praying arid preaching,
And all such like teaching,
Is nought but a plan to befool us.
Itis not blind fate,
Guides us this way or that,
v 4 the coachman with bits guides bis hor/es;
But man goes astray,
In his own chosen way,
When he follows his'own vicious courses.
, ' Man freely doth will,
To move or fit still,
As best suits his own inclination ; '
This righteous decree,
That man fall be free.
Is implied in Predestination.
In the well order'd plan,
Is the creature call'd man,
Whom God with design did create :
Man his own rank disdains,
And proudly complains.
That nothing will alter his state.
When fcoffers arise,.
Let preachers be wife,
And boldly urge Predestination;
Nor for a few pence,
Charge God with nonsense,
Who predeftinates heirs of Salvation.
May they preach up free grace,
And call all to embrace
Glad news in a free Proclamation ;
And all who rebel
Must fink down to Hell,
, On the plan of Predestination,
If Oppofers of God's benevolent plan,
^ . Might justly be stiled, The haters of man,
By reason and conscience unbribed ;
The feature would of its^ Non" been
bereft,
" Mfcntbrqos" folus had only been left,
If truth undifguis'd had subscribed.
¥ THEOPHILUS.
, OCCASIONAL ADDRESS,
Spoken by Miss Harrison, atthe Theatre
in Boston, on the Evening of the Benefit
for the unfortunate Americans, captives
in Algiers.
A S on the parching bosom of the plain
ml Defend the genial Jhowets of kindly rain,
As the blue tint of Heaven withfragrant breeze
Dispels the pallidf„6re of difcafe.
So thro' the wounded mind, and thrilling jtn,e.
Flows thefwest balm of Weft Benevolence :
To the, loft wretch, by daily tortures torn,
Wha^wakes to weep, and only lives to mourn,
Can with electric touch new powers impart,
And warm to infant life the feafod heart;
Bid the rais'd eye unwonted language speak,
And drops of tranfprt bathe tbs red'ning cheek;
With looks, that ble,s, the having band regard,
And give to feeling worth a rich reward.
< That rich reward be yours—ou^o/e bofomJhare
TheJufferer's wrong, and feel bis patient tear ;
Who, whileyour PoweWsgenerous heart expands, l
While pity pleads, and facial right commands.
From your full fores the liberal boon afford,
And with the wretched Jhare the plenteous board :;
With him who once in fortune's fplen^r Jbone,
And call'd the hospitable roof bis own, ' ' .;
Saw bis lov'd offspring climb his parent knee,
And weep to hear the tale of misery ;
Perhaps, by valor's glorious fervor led,
In fields of fame the fetter'd exile bled;:
And with your patriot Hero, bravely rose :
The Scourge of jour's, and facfed Freedoms foes.
Then if that Patriot Hero claims jour love,
While distant realms bis deathless deeds approve,
Ifftill he fines his grateful country's boast,
The central Sunghat lights her brilliant coast.
From the dark dungeon of supreme despair
His bleeding friends, his ,ri,pil'd comrades, bear.
Let not that arm the grinding fetter feel,
Which dauntlejsFreedom brac'd with nervesof fleel.
Let not the villain-tcourge disgrace the brave,
Nor free Columbians wear the ftam, of Slave.
Andjou,ye Civic Band ! whose peaceful days
Declaim the tro,hied field and warrior's praise,
Whose jocial virtue, gentler cares beflow l
On the iff plainings of doimfic woe! {
'lf^er the J, ellof powerful charms could move,
While fond enchantment melts the foul to love,
Bids the fix'd eye's ex,reffive glance impart
T^ff/T^'^-
With kindred fouls regard the Lover s prayer,
Whom fiercer pangs than cruel abfenee tear ;
And while the chafe Almeria's fancied fghs
Calldbe bright tear drop from rfylefys, ^,
"Let real woes one liquid gem receive, ft
% real want the boon of Bountygive ;
Since e'en your pleasures from a kind pretend; ^ 1
To deal the blefogs of BENEVOLENCE.'
[Hilarity.
Doctor DOUBLEFACE,
^ ^ fa n °f ^ Dead Horse kicking the Blind]
Man's eyes sut, {direct from Ireland);
CURES hypocritical disorders of the stom
ach and legs—old ulcerated wounds in the
mind, and other limb;—various dircafes in
the eyes—cuts corns—Scarifies the teeth—
kills worms in adults—extracts old fangs—
falivates the heart—puts the constitution in
a course of phyfic-confounds and enervates
the whole frame-— tells odd stories while per
forming the cures, and tranfa&s various oth
er forts of mercantile purgations, on the very
Ihorteft notice.
Dr. Doubleface is old and experienced
—He is not a quack pretended—But he is a
good phyfician—for, No Cure, No pay—He
assures those who will honor him with their
custom, that unless he cures their diseases,
both of the head and heart, he will adthe
part of the good physician, and will not re
ceive their money—And he will not turn out
like some of his Brother Pretenders, viz. try
to cure,' acknowledge he can't do any good,
and then call for Pay—No, no, no—He will
make no promises but what he will-flick to —
and always tells the truth.
N. B. It will be absolutely necessary for
him to treat some of his patients with negle&,
others with disdain and contempt, in crder
that his Medicines may have a proper effed,
and they set a due value on his performances.
But this will be, as he finds their constitu
tions, and the wind and weather.
SIR RICHARD STEEL, haying one day
invited to his house a great number of persons
of the firft quality, they were surprised at the
number of liveries which surrounded the ta
ble ; and after dinner, when wine and mirth
had set them free from the observation of rig
id ceremony, one of them enquired of Sir
Richard, how such an expensive train of do
meftics could be consistent with his fortune ?
Sir Richard very frankly confeffed that they
were fellows, of whom he would very willing
ly be rid ; and being then asked, why he did
not difeharge them ? he declared that they
were bailiffs, who bad introduced tbemjelves with
an execution ; and whom, since be could not fend
them away, be bad thought it convenient to embel
life with liveries, that they might do him credit
while they flaid. His friends were diverted
with the expedient, and by paying the debt,
discharged their attendance ; having obliged
Sir Richard to promise that they should never
again find him graced with a retinue of the
fame kind.
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[At reading the following, some, we sup
pose, will turn up for nojes, while others, we
know, will LAUGH.] .
/ THE IMPOSTOR DETECTED.
I A FACT.
N farmer times there liv'd an ancient dame,
she lady Birk, was her honour'd name,
Who Jhone for wisdom, andjor matchiefs worth,
The envy, pride, and glory of the North.
When Jballow brains were rack'd with /mall af
fairs,
To lady Birky every clown repairs;
And while the Bumpkins wonder'd at her jenfe,
Sbe gave advices— but Jbefpar'd her pence.
An antique cafle was this lady's ball,
Both large and lofty, tbs th' eflats wasfmall;
Before it lay a wide extended green,
To wbicb an entry let from Aberdeen :
Upon this lane a beggar, blind and old,
For many a year bis doleful tale bad told ;=
His belplefscafe had touch'deach feeling mind.
And few refus'd a pittance to the blind.
At Birky castle, wbatfa'er the fare,
Poor blind M' Alpin always bqd a /bare —
To him was given, as a lujeious treat;
What e'er the lady deem'd unfit to eat ;
When coals were brought, for him foe pick'd the
stones, f ;
And kill'd no mutton, but be got the bones.
At laft,fome bow, a strong suspicion rose,
That Donald's eyes could tipen —if be cboje;
Alt bo' the lady's charity was great,
Her consciencejcrupled to protea a cheat.
At length, refold'd the mif'ry to unfold,
She form'd a scheme as politic as bold :
She fitly wander'd to the spot alone,
Where this old beggar madefis daily moan ;
To every point Jbe turn'd her chary eyes,
And found there was no danger of Jarpri/c ;
Tben fooping tfirfdto M'Afin's view,
Her vivid B-tt-cks, naked as they grew
The rogue aftoni/b'd at foflrange a fight.
Forgot bistrade and laugh'd with all bis might.
You've fan, cries foe, what man ne'er jaw before,
And de'il take him that ever fees it more.
EPIGRAM—On the Sale of, a Wife.
WHEN Jack to a chapman difposd of bis wife.
The woman, quetb be, was the plague ofm, lirofi
And 'tis prudent and wife, fay the/ages of old,
When metals are baje to trdn/mute them to gold.
,APHORISM.^ — IT is the chara&eriftic of
I little minds to be frequently complaining,
but magnanimity encounters misfortunes
with firmnefs. While the former trouble
J mankind with thrir querulousness, thelatter
3 brooks the current of adversity with that
I caimnefs which towers far above the voter.
Curious Hiflorical Scrap.J
(From a London paper.)
MR. C——assuming the name of Jones,
some years since purchased a final! piece of
land, and built on it a neatHaufe on the edge
of a common in Wiltshire : here be long re
sided, unknowing, and almost unknown by
the neighbourhood. Various corjje&uret
were formed refpeding this solitary and sin
gular stranger ; at length a clergyman took
some notice of him, and occasionally invited
him,to his house, he found him possessed of
intelligence and manners, which evidently
indicated hisorigin to have been in the high
est Rations of lite.—Returning one day from
a visit at this clergyman's he passed the house
of a farmer, at the door of which was the
daughter employed at the warning tub. He
looked at the girl a moment, and thus accost
ed her-" My girl, would you like to be mar
ried ?"—" Sir !" exclaimed the girl/ " I
asked you, young woman, whether you
would with to be married ? because if you
would, I will." —" Lord, Sir ! these are
strange qu^ftions from a man I never saw in
my life before,"—" Very likely," replied
Mr. Jones f but, however, I am serious, and
will leave you till ten o'clock to morrow to
confider of it : I will then call on you again,
and if I rive your and your father's content,
will be married the following day."
He kept his appointment, and Meeting
with the father, he thus addressed him :—
''Sir, I have seen your daughter; I should
like her for a wife ; and I am come to ask
your consent." " This prdpofal," answer
ed the old man, " is very extraordinary from
a perfect stranger : pray, Sir, who are you
and what are you ?" " Sir," replied Mr.
Jones, "you have a great right to ask these
questions : my name is [ones, the new house
on the edge of the common is mine, and if it
be necessary, I can purchase your House and
farm, and half the neighbourhood."
Another hour's conversation brought all
parties into one mind, and the friendly cler
gyman aforementioned uni ed the happy pair.
Three or four years they lived in this retire
ment, and were blessed with two children.
Mr. Jones employed a great part of his time
in improving his wife's mind, but never dif
clofyd his own origin. At length, upon tak
ing a journey of ^eafure with her, while re
marking the beauties of the country, he no
ticed and named the different gentlemen's
feats as they passed, and coming to a very
magnificent one, " this my dear," laid he,
"is B House, the feat of the Earl of E.
and if you please we will go in and aft leave
to look at it ; it is an elegant House, and wiH
probably amuse you."
The nobleman who possessed this mansion
was lately dead ; he once had a nephew, who,
in the gaieties of his youth,had incurred some
debts, on account of which he had retired
from fafhionable life on 2001. per annum ;
and had not been beard of for some years.
This nephew was the indentical Mr. Jones,
the hero of our story, who now took posses
sion of the House, title, and estate, and is the
present Earl of E !'-
The Ravi/bers puni/bed.
A TRUE STORY.
AMONG the many interesting passages
we met with in the annals of the anci
ents, none have been so repeatedly read and
admired by the fair sex, as the condud of
Lucretia ; but the following piece of mod
ern hiftory will perhaps place the heroine of
it in as high degree of eminence as that of
Lucretia.
In the army of the Duke of Anjou, while
he was marching to the alfiftance of the
confederates against the Spaniards, was one
Capt. Font. This officer was quartered-in
the village of Becoart, at the house of a rich
farmer, who had three beautiful daughters.
The eldest endeavoured to provide for her
guest in a manner suitable to his rank. Af
ter a few days the officer found himfelf smit
ten with her charms, which he resolved foee
dily to possess, and for this purpose invited
her and her father to sup with him.
In the midst of the repast, with an air of
pleasantry,the officer demanded of the father
his daughter in marriage. The country
man who was a person of sense, knew what
was meant, and therefore apologized for his:
refufal, by reminding the Captain of the dif
ference of fortune between him and his
daughters. Pont immediately flew into a
rage turned the father out of the hall, and,
after having forced his daughter, delivered
her up to the further brutality of some sub
alterns, who came to second his deigns. Af
ter this, they forced her to set down at the
table with them^
!This unfortunate girl, though but sixteen
years of age, had sense and rofolution above
, the generality of the more aged part of the
sex. Tears she now considered as useless,
and therefore turned all her thoughts on re
venge. She effected an air of gaiety and
seemed to listen with a kind of famfadion to
their infamous difeourfe. It was not long
I before the Captain turned to one of his com
rades to whiter him in the ear, the seized
this favourable opportunity and hatching
up one of the table knives, fixed it in his
heart: And overturning the table, while
every one was crouding round the officer,
&e got away to her father, to whom the relat
ed what had happened and intreated him
immediately so escape with her two sisters.
As for herfelf, life was now become so)
great a burden, that ¥he despised the favours
able opportunity Os escaping from the pun
ishments which threatened her. She calm
ly waived the approach ofher ravishers, who
soon bound her to a tree and killed her by
repeated difeharges from their fufees. Be
fore ihe expired the spoke to them :--" Pro
ceed barbarians ! after the violence I have
received from your brutality, which renders
me Unworthy of life, 1 receive from your
hands as a present the death you now give
me; heaven, who has just now revenged
my injuries by the death ofyour chief will
not fuffer the last feene of horror to pass with
impunity.
==^— _—-_=___== —=———-
ALL persons who have demands
against, or who are indebted to.
Deacon William Terrill, of Canterbu
ry, who is non compos mentis, are here
by Quested to present their demands,
and pay the balances due, co the fub
fcnbers, Appointed by the Hon. the
Judge of Probate of Wills, &c. for
the County of Rockingham) Guardi
ans to the fid William.
And all persons are likewise cau
tioned against trading with the said
William Terrill.
ABIEL FOSTER,
LEAVIT CLOUGH.
Canterbury, 14th July, 179, 92
STRAY COW.
STRAYED from the pasture of the
fubferiber in Bow, the 19th inst.
a orindle COW, 5 or 6 years old.—
W hoever will return, or give inform
ation of, said cow, Ihall be handsome,
ly rewarded, by
RICHARD CLEMENT.
Bow, July 24, 1794. 92
Public Vendue.
TO BE SOLD,-
At PUBLIC VENDUE,
on the 20th day of August next,
A certain Tra& of L AND,
CONTAINING about 60 acres—
wichao elegant Dwelling House,
Barn, Store, and Potaffi, with three
good Kettles, in good order tor bufi
nels—pleafantly situated in Weare,
either for a Trader, Doctor, or At
torney —formerly occupied by Wm.
Caldwell, of said Weare—together
with a quantity of coarse CLOTHS,
and other articles Conditions of
sale to be seen at time and place.
92 SAMUEL B. TOBIE.
Pleasant Situation.[
TO BE SOLD,
A good LOT of LA ND,
CONTAINING fen Acres—under good im
provement* —has a convenient Dwelling
House and Barn,, good Well of Water, and ax
excellent Orchard, thereon—Pkafantl, faated me
the ecffJe of Merrimac river, about a mile from
Concord Meeting Hoeft, — A good stand for a
Tanner, or any mechanic.*——For farther par
ticulars, enquire of the Printer. r
WANTED IMMEDIATELY,
Two Tboufand Yards of yard wide
Tow Cloth,
:For which CASH orFLAX will be given, by
WILLIAM DUNCAN.
Concord,,uly 19, 1794. 91
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CASH to be fold for OLD RAGS
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b^% Price ^f&Pßperfe 7 Shillingsa
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ALMANACK.
Aug. r. Q f.lr. Q f ®'s place|full sea.
4 Mond. 4 frit 22 secrets. |
5 Tues. 8 Morn, thighs. 6
6 Wedn. 456 8 0 2 thighs. ,
# 7Thurf. +57 8 0 „, thighs. 8 26
8 Friday. 458 8 15: knees. 9 18 (
I gSaturd. 5 0 7 2 §1 knees. j o ,11
1 leSunday. $ 17 3<2 legs. n 4