The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1793-09-02 00:00:00, page 4

Typographical Anecdote.
FYTRACT.
WHEN Wood was hustling
his base halfpence into the
pockets of the deluded people of
Ireland, he had silenced every
press. It was then that a patriotic
Printer of London was invited to
remove thither, and maintain a
ftrid impartiality. The effed an
fared the benevolent design ; for
Draper, in tbefe new (beets, des
troyed Wood and his half-pence
together. Before this dispute war
well terminated, a new contest a
rose between the lineal defendants
of Peter, and the humble follow
ers of Martin, and, like all other
family quarrek, involved the whole
country in flames—'twas Huzza
Peter I and Huzza, Martin I A
this crisis the printer refufed to
publish for either fide : but he war
soon driven from his neutrality :
'he then avowed his usual impar
tiality ; but only one fide publish
ed, the other deemed it a pollu
tion of their purity, to make a
Newspaper the theatre of difcufr
fion, and were consequently dif
pteafed with his interference in a
matter which was between God &
fa two brothers.
I. The printer, who was a man of
£ wit, convince the impossibility of
THE dress of the beau it mere bard to reduce,
To the laws of reason or sense ;
Let us try then for once what averse will pro
duce,
To cbaje the absurdities hence.
To begin with the Jkull, tho' there's nothing in
that, I
With powder 'tis strangely befpread: l
An umbrella is scarce the fee of the hat,
Which is five times too big for the head.
The coat is all buttons, its cape is all black.
The breeches full as tight as the fan ;
A tailof ayard long depends on the back,
Which would make e'en an Anchoret grin.
While dangles the cane from the lilly white
band,
And the buckles quite confer the fooe ;
The neck is fed up in a fine ragged band,
And the visage with rouge is made new.
Away then fir fowling with nonsense like this,|
And adopt a more rational plan ;
While you dress like a pupet & paint like a mifs,|
We cannot believe it a man.|
GIVE Chloe a bujhel of horse hair and,
wool,
Os paste and pomatum a pound ;
Ton yards ofgay ribband to deck herfweet
fail,
FASHION.
TOO monfirous large, the railer cries,
Our Ladies' Heads ; when Hats do rife.
But if Dame Fashion dares to change,
^d into Lib, jut !o range;.
They hardly emulate a pin !
Fajhion I fear iwill ne'er do right,
Till Ladies' Heads foe takes off, quite —
For broad or narrow, high or low.
Thefnading race their teeth vdill jhow.
And gauze to encompajs it round,
Os all the bright colours the rainbow displays,
Be tbofe ribbands which hang on her head, l
Be her flounces adapted to make the folks gaze,\
And about the whole work be they spread.
Let her flaps fly behind for a yard at the leafl &
Let her curls meet just under her chin ;
Let these curls be fupperted to keep up the jef,
With an hundred instead of one pin.
Let the gown be tuck'd up at the hip on eacb\
fide,
Shoe heels too high for to walk or to jump ; |
And to deck the fuseet creature complete for a\
bride,
Let the cork cutter make her a r—p..
Thus jinijb'din taste while on Chloe you gaze,
You may take the deer charmer for life :
But never undress her— for, out of her flays,
You'll find you have loft half your wife.
A RECEIPT FOR THE LADIES.
• THE PIERRIDES.
HILARITY.
FOR THE BEAU.
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[fathers, who allowed such large Hi
laries, and erefted such magnificent
[buildings as those are, pointing to
[three that I had not observed be
[fore, which appeared to be equal
[to any palaces in Europe, the very
[fight of which filled me with hor
[rour, and caused me to ejaculate in
[the following manner : O Ameri
ca I this great and populous city
[which thou prideft thyfelf on, will
cause thy ruin—the very fight of
these magnificent buildings carries
with every republican the idea of
subordination—that liberty and e
quality which our forefathers ar
dently struggled for, is entirely
I preponderated by ostentation, in^
Office' and corruption. Thou art
(tiled wife among the nations, and
thy manners are candid and plainl
among the bulk of thy people—/
Why then wilt thou let a few de
(igning and ambitious men deprive
you of that inestimable jewel that
has cost your country oceans of
blood—Learn, America, before it
is too late, thy interest—hinder the
yoke from being placed on thy
children's necks, for power is much
eaficr assumed than curtailed.■■■■
The man heard me with a deep
sigh, and disappeared with this an
swer : Go blow the trumpet, found
the alarm, for without great exer
tions her fall is near. I was so
much affefted with wha;he said,
that 1 awoke."
cry, and soldiers in the army, prob
ably afr firft, byway of derision.
It is natural to enquire why these
men wear no breeches ? is it a mat
ter of choice or necessity ? That it
is a matter of choice, is not to be
foppofed. France is an old and
civilized country. Its court was
remarkable for all the convenien
cies, elegancies and luxuries of life.
The poorer fort, and those in the
more distant parts of the kingdom,
would have followed the falhion of
From the Newyork Journal.
Cursor, thoughts on FRENCH
Affairs.
On the Sans Culottes, or men without
OF the Sana Culottes we fre
quently hear in the accounts
from Fiance. It is a name given
Ipleafing all in such unhappy dis
putes, advertised that he Ihould
\print hit next paper a blank—al
Ireland was inflamed with a curiol
rty to fee it: the printer sent his
[paper as usual to his customers, bur
lit was blank all to the title, " The
[Hibernian Gazette." Men of
Ifenfe felt their country wounded by
[the ball ; partizans saw in the
[blank, scandal that the printer was
lafraid to print : and among the
whole mass of that people there
was none approved it but prudes,
who construed it as a compliment
to their vefalifm ; and dishonest
men, that f^w a flop to th'e regif
cracy of bad anions. -
The patrons of the press, con
vinced from the experiment, that
no line of conduct, however regu
lated, would please, remounted the
Printer on his hobby, A free
pr ess, and bid him drive on, re
gardlefs of the malice or revenge
of party.
o certain inhabitants of that coun-
breeches.
painful labour has been ever extort
ed from them to carry on ambi
tious wars, to furnish sumptuous ta
bles and costly apparel for the
King, royal family, nobility and
clergy. % When this expensive es
tablifhed enormity is lopped off
equal liberty extended to all, anc
peace restored, no doubt they wil
all wear breeches.
The small circumstance may
give us some idea of the wretched
ness slavery brings upon men. Up
on the fioeft foil, and in the most
salutary climate, the bulk of the
people are starved in order that a
few may gratify their pride and
roll in luxury. With what cruel
insults too are they repaid.! their
rulers firft deprive them of the
means, and then ridicule them ;
like Pharaoh's talkmafters, who re
fufed the Israelites straw, and (till
required the usual tale of bricks.
The want of breeches, however,
is immaterial as to the success of the
revolution. The Americans want
ed what is worse, (hoes and flock
ings. They wore them out in
marching after their enemy, as the
French, lift campaign, tore what
few breeches they had in pursuing
the Austrians and Prussians. The
fans culottes may not appear so well
upon a parade day, but they are
formidable in the field. Their bu
siness is not (how but reality. The
breeches of their enemy do not
serve to flop the point of a bayo
net, and the french seldom turn
cheir backs, except when they in
tentionally (how their posteriors to
provoke to action the heavy Ger-
Imans. It is a common faying
with the English, and in the days
of ignorance believed in this coun
try, that one Englishman is a
match for three Frenchmen ! but
experience will ever prove it falfe.
The faying was invented, and is
found necessary to be inculcated, in
order to inspire cowards with con
fidence.
.I venture it here only as a con
judure that Edmund Burke, when
he (aw in France the" delightful
vision" of Antonietta, might have
seen on his tour, the vision of a
fans culotte ; and fuppofiog it to
be meat byway of in(ult to an En
glishman, as much as to fay, come
and he has been ranging
ever since.
I Some particular advantages of
the want of breeches might be
mentioned, and it might be shown,
from the examples of the ancient
Romani, the Highlanders and the
savages, that they are by no means
a necessary apparatus for war ; but
the reader will not judge the fub
jed important enough to be pur
sued farther. May all the French
have breeches to put on ; 6r in
other words, may they speedily ac
complilh the defection of tyran
ny. 1
• From the EAGLE, &c,
Present state of the town of Jagbag.,
From the annals of A. D. 1787.
OUR parson, who before ought
to have the firft notice, is a
very clever, bulky gentleman. He
those around the court, had they
been able. Whence 'then, came
the necessity of omiting this neces
sary .part of covering ? Certainly
from the poverty entailed on them
by oppression. The product of
We have fix schoolhouses, three
of which have paper windows, and
one that has feme glass, We have
five physicians, and they have three
apprentices, each ; all of whom e
vince their anatomical skill, by an
atomifing each other's characters.
that keep taste and China tea cups,
and take in for pay tobacco, and
tow cloth at nine pence a yard.
We have four grist mills, when
they are not out of repair ; and 4
blacksmiths, when they have any
coal.
We have seven taverns, and
retailers of Newengland rum, and
two old women that fell ginger
bread. We have two merchants
As to manners and customs —
how much time is improved in
town quarrels, how much at ta-.
verns, and horse fwappings ; how
little is wafted at publick worship,
efpeciall, in cool weather ; how
attentive the girls are at all raifings
of houses, barns, saw mills, and
horse feds, and many other inter
esting matters—they more proper
ly belong to another chapter.
• Anew paper, publifad at Hanover.—*
The Editor a man of ftience and quit.
,We ba<ve no account of this town in ge
ographies or gazetteers ; but it isfappofed to
Lftuated in fomepart of Newengtad.
and all.
assembly, for the informal^
his " constituents." Except
he would deep, and then n&tekes
his feat in the boufo }
We come next to the military.
We have nineteen men in tou|n.
that are called Captain, thirty folur
Lieutenants, and fifty Corporal^.
The whole train band consists 01
about an hundred and twenty, boy
Os officers in the civil line we
have few. The justice of the peace,
who is the highest, is a man of ex
traordinary parts, especially belly
parts. He has seen Burn's Justice
—has read Pilgrim's Progress—&
owns a hiftory of the Indian jwars.
Our representative is notted for
economy.^ While other members
are fating, he is busy in the mar
ket, and is looking up newspapers
which contain the doings & ^
eats as hearty a (upper as any body
in town, and prays in the fame
form of found w^Wthat he prayed
in fifteen years ago, and that his
father prayed in before him. We
have two laypreachers of different
creeds, who have their 2,5 & their
downs ; who change sentiments a
bout once in a season, and, I be
lieve, on the whole, are like chips
io porridge, that do neither good
nor hurt. In the Church, too sa
cred to be treated with humour, are
many members, which you may
know from infidels by these two
pious diftindions ; about once in
a twelvemonth they appear at the
communion ; and if you speak
(lightly of any church member
they will be very angry. So fear
ful they are of caftiog their pearls
before swine, that they never did
courfe on religious topicks, except
at a certain fort of houses, which
are made for the comfort of wea/ry
pilgrims, and this when they have
imbibed a good (hare of the
Spirit. We have many feftarfes,
some all-to-heaveners, and fame
haggonians——exactly refembFing
the animals after which they, are
denominated.(