The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1794-05-05 00:00:00, page 1

[Vol. ll.—Num. Bo.] MONDAY, MAY 5, 1794. [Price fyer ann.)
Os Marriage.—continued.
T OVE is the child of folly ; jt's
A- 4 the strongest of the passions, and
often fodnd in the weakest minds.
Young men are amorous, middle
aged affectionate, old men dotting.
There is a great difference between
a portion and fortune with your wife ;
if the be not virtuous, let her por
tion be never so great, (he is no for
tune to you.
A noble Roffia# being asked why
he had put away his wife, she being
beautiful and rich, put forth his foot
and (hewed his bufkini, Is not this
fiid he, 4 tadfeme and complete foot ?
jet no man but myfelf knows where it
pitches me.
It's not the luster of gold, the
sparkling of diamonds, and emeralds,
nor the fpleodor of the purple tincture
that adorns or embellishes a woman,
but gravity diferetion, humility and
modify;
A young Lacedemonian lass being
asked by an acquaintance of hers,
Whether foe bad yet embraced her huf
band? made answer. No, but he bad
embraced ber.'
And there is little or no use to be
made of a mirror, though in a frame
of gold, enchafed with all,the spark
ling variety of the richest gems, un-?
left it renders back the true similitude
of?he image it recieves : So there isj
nothing of profit in a great portion,
unlefc the conditions, temper and hu-;
tiM)ur of the wife be conformable to ]
difp finonlod inclination of the huf t
band, and that he fees the virtues of
bis own mind exactly reprefected in
hers.
Chufe such a wife as may fimpa
thize with you in your misfortunes,
foi marriage is just like a sea voyage,
he that enters into this ship, must;
look to meet with storms and tern
pefts.
I knew a gentlewoman, a very fan
taftical and conceited person, and one
who was not over kind to her huf;
band ; (he had a daughter of the
fame tone and temper with herfelf,
to whom her father had left a very
considerable portion ; 1 commended
a very worthy and sober person to the
mother to be a husband for the daugh
ter, but the did not like gentle
man; some time after there came a
vain under-headed fellow, a foitor to
the daughter ; the mother entertain
ed him withall kiodnefs § one day
the mother came to give me a visit,
and with great pleasure told me such
a person was a suitor to her daughter,
a have gentleman, of excellent parts,
and one that is the cream of the coun
trc and alked me how I liked him ;
fol, fan#, I answered, if he be the
m^tybe craw, as,on fa, be is, be
Ufa jitter for ,onr daughter to make )
6 fool of ; The gentlewoman riplied ;
so foe fall if it pleaje God „% 4
afoi And she was as good as her
word. : ,^^f r
(IWhen I read that ingenious epi
grain of dufomus of the eccho, it doth
me thinks graphically reprefenta talk-I
ative prating woman. "J
p^to made the ft^teof fo]
at Elis, with one foot upon the fell 1
hilfok to lignify two great du-.
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©Be stiiro#r
should accustom themselves to stay at
home.
Thales being asked by his mother
why he did not marry ; hid, Jt was
too foots ; some time after being folic
iced again by her to marry, said, //
was too late.
When I think of the cares, the
business, and the drudgery, of mar
ried life, I with myfelf a monk some
times, and under a vow of chastity ;
and that nature had provided for the
propagation of mankind without the
help of women.
The troubles of children are many
and great,the comforts few and small:
It's better to adopt children than be
get them ; he that adopts a fob, hath
the liberty to make choice out of ma
ny that are good and virtuous, and
which will please him ; he that be
gets one, runs the hazard whether he
will prove so or no.
Plato feeing a youth over-bold with
hi, father Tonng man, faith he, will
you undervalue him who is the cause
you overvalue ,ourfelf?
Every man is more obliged to
his Parents, than to ail the world be
sides , to other perlons he may owe
much, but to his parents he owes him
fell ; therefore if ingratitude to others
be hateful, that which is (hewo to pa
rents must certainly be the most hor
rid and detestable.
And let undutiful children be affur
j^ thaflf they be preserved from the
gallows, they are reserved to be tor
tured b, their own posterity.
If you be able to !ive of yourfelf,
and out of debt, and design to marry,
have a care you make not too great a
jointure out of your lands, efpecully
if you have children by a former
wife ; if you do, it will be more fatal
and calamitous to your family than
any debt.
Provide for your reli& a competent
estate, but riot so as to impoverish
your children, for that's to destroy a
quick hedge to m^ke a dead one.
If you have children, it's better to
leave them a competent estate with a
profeffion, than great riches without
it ; for in the one there is place for
industry ; but the other, like a lure,
will bring all birds of prey to devour
khem.
He that breeds his children well,
though he leaves them little, he gives
them much.
Have a regard to a good bi(hop to
fathfy your conscience; for an honest
lawyer to fettle your estate ; and mar
ry into a good family to keep up your
interest
Where man and wife are uniform
in ffi'&ffi there-fa the best mufick ;
there was such an harmony in affec
tion between Ulyfa and Penelope,
that rather than for fake hit dear Pene
lope, he refyfed im^o^ality at Calk
pa's hands.
Rubius Celer commanded to be en
graven on his monument that he liv
ed with Caja Ennia his wife, 43 years,
eight months, and that Sine querela,
without any difference, complaint,or
The ancients placed the statue of
Venus by that of Mercury, to figaify
that the pleasure, of matrimony chief
|lf,ofift in the sweetness of conver
IVtaffitefeff Juno, as
the goddess ot wediocK, never conie-
crated the gall with the other parts
of the facrifice, but having drawn it
forth they drift it behind the altar,
thereby implying, that all passionate
anger and bitterness of reproach,fhould
be terminated from the thresholds of
nuptial cohabitation.
King Philip of Macedon pulled and
bawled a woman to him by violence
against her will : Let me go, said she,
for when the candles are out, all women
are alike : A virtuous woman, when
the candle is taken away and her bo
dy not to be seen, her chastity, her
modesty, and her peculiar affedion to
her husband, ought then to shine with
the greatest luftre.
If you will be happy, never have
above one woman in your bed, one
friend in your bosom, and one faith in
your heart. ^
Methinks the zeal of that priest did
trespass upon his diferetion, when in a
wedding sermon he much commend
ed marriage, but compared the wom
an to a grave; For as ever, grave
I(faith he) hath a. Hie jacet, so when
you came to mart, ; Hie jacet the val
our of David ; Hie jacq the ftrengtb
of Sampson: Here the, foe all buried.
The poets have unhappily lepre
fented all the furies, under the notion
of women ; and exprefllv ordered,
that Erinnis should be feminti generis.
The ill temper of many women,
made Diogenes lay, that when he saw
a woman had banged herfelf upon a
tree, That it was the best bearing tree
that ever be saw in bis lift.
l ean have no kindness for these
morose cynicks, who fully the gioy
of the richest jewels in the cabinet of
nature,
I must confefs, I ever had a noble
affedion for that excellent sex, as
grerit instruments of good, and the
prettineffei of society, & ever thought
that of all follies in man, there is n^e
more excusable than that of love ;
but I find by myfelf, that passion will
grow old, and wear out in time.
Latest Foreign Intelligence.
France.
NATIONAL CONVENTION, fa. 7.
GEN. Weftermanh appeared at the bar,
and said, “ Citizen ReprefentativWs, a
wound which prevents me from all exercise
on horseback, is the motive of my journey to
Paris. I come to present to the convention
some remains of the sacerdotal spoils of the
Bilhop of Agra, so famous for the part which
headed in the late catholic and royal atm, —
I come also to aflure you, upon my head,
that ct that army, which was still 90,000 men
strong, while in the diftri& of Mans, not a
single combatant has remained. —Chiefs, of
ficers, soldiers, bishops, couhteffes, princess
es, & marchineffes, all perilled by the sword,
by the flames, or by the waves. # This dread
ful example is unprecedented in the annals
of hiftory ; and Europe, aftoniffied, will fee
that a Republic, which, like the Everlasting
Father, dilates its laws from the summit of
a sacred mountain, will he able to maintain
itfelf, and to reduce, like La Vendee, every
country which shall be foolifh enough to form
a plan of restoring Royalty to France.”
The president answered Weftermann, and
invited him to the honours of the fitting a
mong the representatives of the people, a
midst the loudest plaudits.
Foreign Trade of Frances .so
Jan. 8. The mihifter for foreign affairs
font to the convention the general view of the
foreign trade of France, during the whole
year of 179a, which he fays belongs to the
Revolution, there was & balance of between
tend 70 millions in favour of Franc, ^By
~,=_._ 'll torn 0
find we this balance increased, in 1792, to
224 millions ? The refultof our foreign pur
chases is estimated at 496 millions ; compar
ed with our exports, it is valued at 720 mill
ions. —• '-
Capture of Noirmoutier.
Barrere in the name of the committee of
Publick Welfare,—" Citizens, the commit
tee expe&s news, and the particulars' refped
ing the capture of Noirmoutier, which will
probably come to hand in the evening
" Our Colleague La Planche writes as
fellows on the 6th instant.
" I learn this moment the capture of Nor
moutier by the troops of the Republick. I
leave my Colleagues Prieur, of Marne, and
Thurieau to give you the details."
" Your Committee—said Barrere —is Con
stantly occupied with supplying the army ; it
ought to be fully provided in Spring all over
the Republick. Many military effects and
patriotic gifts are sent to the Commonalties I
The Republick is very liberal, yet the sold
iers are in want of every thing. Your com
mittee is of opinion, that all those objeds be
sent to the chief place of each diftrid, and
an inventory thereof transmitted to the com
mittee of supplies, which will forward the
fame where they shall be most wanted."—
Decreed.
Jan. 10. The Convention puffed a de
cree, granting different pensions to fuchfol
diers of the Republick, as should either be
wounded in combating for their country, or
I on account o' great infirmities be obliged to
I retire from the Service ; as also to the, widows
I of military men, who were either Gain in
battle, or had died after having rendered the
Republick long and meri tor us fergices
The Comptroller General of thg'Treafurv
laid before the Convention a
the extraordinary expenses for xTrc^ and
navy during the last month, ^hich amount
, ed to 276,264,333 livres, ^nd. whith vert
ordered to be paid out of the Naiiouari reaf
ury.
The Convention patted a long decree con
cerning the organization, ferwfe and inte
riour economy of he cavalry of the Repub
lick, with refpe& 10 which wefhall only men
tion, that in future, the cavalry is to consist
of 20,000 heavy horse, and 76,140 light
horse. Y
The Committees of Publick Safety info&
med the Convention, that they had just rtf
\ ceived dispatches from General Hoche, ftai
ing, that the troops of the Republick had
made themselves masters of Worms.——
Applauded.
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January 11.
Letter from the National Agent of the Dift+ia of
Cognac. “7^.11.
" Never had the National domains more
credit. Ever, one wishes to have a portion
of them at whatever price. Several have fold
their former property, in order to purchase.
The sales go on apace—last decade they tv
mounted to more than 800,000 livres. So
much already for more than two mulionsand
an half fold in our diftrid. Ai far as I
guess, I have not yet disposed of one hd^q:
'JANUARY 16.. .
Bourdon, of Oise—l demand, agreeably to,
a motion of order, that the decree which ban^
ilhes all foreigners from the bosom of the
convention be finally executed : There is still
in our bosom a n infamous man, who has be
trayed his country and his duties- a Luthe
ran priest, wi»o by unfair means, obtained a
decree to be sent as a coromidinner<ta Lan
dau, where he perfected the patriots, threw
into prison, and even carri• 'his barbarity so
far as to have every patriotic Col. put into
an iron cage. It is necessary that such a man,
who has so long polluted the National Con-)
ventfon, be expelled. His name is Dentzcl,
born at Durkheim, a principality with which
the Republic is at war.
"Danton moved the pro vifional %ff^
Dentzel, and that the denunciation against
him be referred to the committees of general
fafety and public welfare.
CT — -
JANUARY2I.
" Fort National (Cherbourg,) 16th Jan.
'' My last letters announced to the Con
vention the entry into this port of five rich
prizes, taken- from the Engliffi, and foretold
still more news. This morning there arriv
ed four more vessels richly laden. A large
American Anenteral the road immediately
nftPr * thr raronpe nt rantsired fhIDS 2re