The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1794-01-06 00:00:00, page 4

THE Bishop of Durham had a
slovenly custom of keeping one
[ band always in his breeches § and
I * being one day to tiring a bill into
;I the house of peers, relating to a
provision for officers' widows, he
[ came with the papers in one hand,
& the other, as usual, in his breech
} es. 1 have (otaething, laid be, in
my hand, my Lords, for the beoe-
I fit of the officers' widows. The
Deke of Wharton, immediately
'interrupting him, diked in wbicb
^t^^rd^^
[ ^4 Monster.
Dr.FRANKLIN ^tei, &
L being with gp^typf hit friends,
[ caught in b&i wether upon one
of the Weflindia idands, he took
fheher in.a publick house, kept bv
I a foreigner : upon their defirty
fc'fy more wood might be brought
, to the fire, the brpte ordered his
{:ri^
and fetch it ! while a young, ftui
[ dy Negro wench his tee, flood
by, doing nothing! Upon being
~^lked whyhe did not fend thegi(
£ rather.than his wife ? He replied,
f "That wench is worth Sol, and if
[fhe should catch cold, and die, it
f would be a great loss to me • ,bui
Lif @, wife-dto, 1 can g^^pth^
' and perhaps money imp the bar-
THEfarref flow' rets bring.
In all fair vernal bloom ;
Aid let thefacets offering
Adorn great frdrillin's tomb.
The patriot's toil is done ;
At length Eis labours cease ;
The unfading crown is won ;
His fan defends in peace.
The font of frience grieve \
Thepatriot heaves a fgb,
And scarcely will believe,
r That so much worth case die.
No—deatblcfs is that name,
Which ages /ball admire ;
And Ftauklin'sfplendid fame,
Shall but with time expire.
While rapid lightnings' Ji,,
, While awful thunders roll,
While meteors gild thefa,
And dart from pole to pale—
_ Mankind fall fall admire,
When Franklin's name t hey hear,
" Who fetch'd celeflial fire,
" And broke th' opprfor'sfpear."
^ 'Through every future age,
While bif'ry bolds the pen.
She'll rank our virtuousfage
Among the firft of men ;
And when fa counts her font.
Who earn'd immortal fame,
Will, next to Washington's,
Record odr Franklin's name.
" Vow, and pay unto the Lord lby
Fan." An Indian heard him
very attentively, and stepping up
to the Parson, thus accosted him—
" I vow I'll go home wish you,
Mr, Minister." " You must go
then," replied the parfoo. The
Indian afterwards wwfd to have
(upper, and then to stay all night.
" You may," replied the Clergy
man : " but 1 low you mail go to
the morning."
A CLERGYMAN took for his
text the following words :—•
ELEGIAC ODE:
On the death of Dr. FRANKLIN.
(Tune, " Return enraptured hours.")
PIERIDES.
hilarity.
^MISCELLANY. r '
?:&: r -==r—^^
FROM THE EAGLE,
“ And David, danced before the LORD with
all bis might."
TRANCE, then, ye who with to
become great in the world ;
I for ano lefa personage than the
King of Israel, a "man after God's
/own heart," was among the fitft,
,hat we read of, who introduced
this polite exercise. But, perhaps,
it may be enquired, in what man
ner, or from what motives did the
Je with monarch d.nee ? Did he
dance in order to exhibit to his
court a specimen of his activity
land politeness ? Or was it in a tran-
sport of religious fervor ? If the
latter, doubtless our modern po
lite circles will not admit him in
[to their fraternity, or bestow on
him the charaaer of a polite king ;
for such has been the improvements
of the prefentday, that those bur
theofome rest taints, which religion
has imposed on " flaviffi minds'*
are chiefly laid aside. But, flop a
moment. David was said to be
h finger, and doubtless much rest
ped was paid to mafic in his time;
for we find that musical inftru
@W, of various kinds, were
then in use ; this in our polite age,
will doubtless operate as a farther
proof, that David was not a po
lite king. For, how can a society
of gentlemen and ladies, of taste,
be so far loft to all sense of polite
ness, as to spend an evening in the
tasteless, unfashionable exercise of
music ! Why, dear me, music is so
far from being fashionable and po
lite, that any hired servant, or milk
maid, forfooth may sing as well as
any gentleman or lady io the town.
Betides, singing is a part of pub
lick worship, and carries with it an
air of devotion, and that, as I said
before, is intolerable in a polite
company. But look'e, polite gen
tlemen and ladies, while we are
(peaking of music, let us fee, was
not this an art, which formerly had
some reputation in the world ?
iDoes not ancient fable represent it
las an object of some confequerice ?
Say, did not Lycurgus, Socrates,
land Montefquietf confider it as an
liofyument of rcfinement, )@) an
laid to virtue ? —But how fit mu
jfic may be an aid to virtue is not a
question of any consequence among
Ipolite people ; besides, those an
-Icientfavages were not men of fafh
lion— they were not men of spunk.
IThey (pent their lives in treating
fop intehauil improvement ; and
we do not learn Ihateither of them
attended affembliei, or knew how
to step amipu% with gracefolnefe,
land ease. What though Lycurgus
I formed a natiorito politics and war,
land Montesquieu investigated the
fowl of nature and nations ; yet
what have we to do with fefe ?
IThey teach us not how to makea
; gracefulbow, or the etiquette, and
llcußom of folrettede,.^^
, R%|, y,Soften-
I tiemen & ladies, <&©& fadom,;
drejoice, that you have 'thrown off
ilthe refttaints of fyftem.;,nd, ,while
few “consume the midnight oil”
|oy<rmiddy volumes of JEMW
irate,„u ft tavechofen the be.
ter part," to keep your heads clear
of that old fashioned thing, called
knowledge.;•;
And you, ye wormi of the
book, who (pent nights, and days
to croud your brains with ideas,
offer %pur oblations at the shrine
of literary flavery,but approach not
the altar of policenefs.
The following proceedings were bqd in the
National Convention on the 2if Sept, and
are translated from an authentic Paris pa-
P er:
Barrere, in the name of the com
mittee of Publick Safety, after a lengthy
report, in which he (hewed the utility of
a navigation aft, proposed the following
important decree, which was unanimous
ly agreed to:'.
NAVIGATION ACT.,,
Art. I. The treaties of navigation and
commerce exiting between France and
the powers with which (he is at peace,
shall be executed agreeably to their true
farm and tenor, any thing in this decree
to the contrary notwithstanding.
2. After the firft of January, 1794, no
vessel ihall be considered as French, nor
enjoy the rights and privileges of French
veffels,unlefs (he has been built in France,
or in other colonies, or other French pos
sessions ; or unless she be legally con
demned as a good prize taken from the
enemy, or confiscated for breach of the
laws of the republick ; unless the entire
ly belongs to Frenchmen, and unless the
officers and three fourths of the crew are
French.,
3. No foreign produce, goods or mer
chandize shall be imported into France,
or the colonies and possessions of France,
except diredly in French vessels belong
ing to the inhabitants of the country
where those articles are produced, or from
the common ports of sale and firft expor
tation ; the officers and three fourths of
the foreign trew belonging to the nation
of which the vessel bears the colours ; all
under the penalty of confifeation of both
vessel and cargo, of forfeiting 3000 livres,
recoverableon the proprietor, corifigoee,
or agent of the vessel and cargo, Captain
or Mate.
4. Foreign vessels can transport from
one French port to another French port,
Op produce, goods or merchandize of the
growth, produce or manufacture of
France, the colonies or possessions of
France, under the penalties appointed by
article s.
5. The impost system (hall be new
modelled, agreeable to the provisions of
the navigation aft, arid the decree which
abolishes the impost between Fiance and
her colonies..
6. This decree shall, without delay, be
solemnly proclaimed in all the ports anc
maritime towns of the Republick—anc
communicated by the Minister for for
eign affairs, to the powers with which
France is at peace. —^
Maflaebufem.
boston, dec. 18—As the Republick of
France is the fubjed ot every conversa
tion, it may not be uninteresting to give
the following geographical sketches con
cerning it ; as from the numbers contain
ed in the French cities, when compared
with American/ a judgement may bp
formed, by those who have potvifited Eu
rope, of their importance.
According to Mr. Nectar's estimate,
France contains 24,800,060 inhabitants ;
its extent in areas, of square miles is
157,924. It has 400 cities, ifoo smaller
towns, and 100,000 villages, .1 Thei fofc
lowing is the population of a number of
the cities, viz: — —
Mar^iH,S'o^ocf^ —TOn
Z^ooo—^mfrxj 43,500—6'4/4/3 6,500—
Abbeville 19,009—% fentin 10,500—
dueb 7,500— Pau 9,000—^02^,25,500
— BourdieuX 84,000— Bayonet 11,000—
Bourges toficoo—Rbams fyoo^^
12,000—Trow 32,000— Digoh 20,300—
ra<*g^=Gri ? .& 24,300— La Rock-
Iclh 16,000—Roebfort 26,000—L% 67,006
-^Dunkirk ±7,ooo—Mirras 21 ,500 — Doufy
%% Liwg«%,°9, %¥lTO3{f° ;
I^-L)on 160,066, Etienne ±7,000, Mere
&COO— Sedan 17,500, sW##4,»fyxp,
-€&,;d& fyboo, fet^fyodo
lins 16,§C0, JVe-CTrJ 14,000, Nancy 34,000
—Lunneyville 16,500 — Bar-le-Duc 10,8001
—Orleans 39,^00— Blois IZ,?OO Paris
6&o,ooo=—Perjailles 60,000 — —Perpignan
1 5,200 — Poitiers 17,300— Rentes 35 ,500
—L'Orient 16,500 — Si. Malo 17,500—
Nantes 57,000 — Bref 30,600 —Clermont
24,000 — Riom 14,800 — Rouen 72,500—
Caen 32,000 — -Alencon 13,000— -Dieppe
17,000 —Soiffans 7,560— Strajbourg 46,000
Colmar 12,506 Tours 23,600— Angers
30,000 —-—Le Mans 13,500 — Valenciennes
19,500— -Cambrai 45,000 Island of
Corsica, Baflia 6oo=Ajaccro 4000 — Corto
3 0 °°-
They have gone through the
process prescribed in the sh sec
tion of the a& of Congress, palled
the sth day of August 1790, (the
particulars whereof, will be foubd
in book A. lodged with the papers
of this office, in treasury depart
ment,) and find, that there is due,
including interest to the 3 Ift day
of December, 1789, to the state cfe
Newhamplhire—Seventy five
thoufind and fifty five dollars.
Massachusetts—One million,
two hundred forty eight thousand,
eight hundred and one dollar.
Rhodeidand—-Two hundered
ninety one thousand, fix hundred
and eleven dollars.
HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES, ^
FRIDAY, DEC. 6.
The Cemmiffioners appointed to execute tbefev
,eral ads of Congress, to provide more effic
tually for thefettlement of accounts between /
the United States and the individual States)
REPORT,
"'THAT they have maturely
considered the claimeot the sever
al flatea against the United States, ;
and the charges of the United :
States against the individual Stater. .
Connedicut— Six hundred and
nineteen thousand, nine hundred
and twenty one dollars.
Ne wjer fey— Forty nine thoufand ^
god thirty dollars.
Southcarolina—One million, 4
two hundred & five thousand nine
hundred and twenty eight dollars. r
Georgia-—Nineteen thoufa^d,
nine hundred and 88 dollars. ,
And that there is due, including^
interest co the gift day of Decem-.
ber, 1789, from the state of
Newyork—Two millions levi
ty four thousand, eight hundred*
forty fix dollars.;?; ^'^
, Pennfy lvania—Sevefy
find, (evfo hundred and nine dol
lars. •
Delaware—Six hundred and"
twelve thousand, four hundred and
twenty eight dollars.
Maryland—One hundred and
fifty one thousand; fit hundred tai
forty doW;&sf;k
Vifgmia— One lito&ed thou- .
sand, eight hundred;pnd fevemy
toifte dollars.
Nprforolfart^
ppp 4)9^4, and eighty twp&jl-
Which several fams, they, by ,
virtue of the authority to them del
egated, declare to be the final and
coDClufiye balances due to, and
from the several flares.
Office bf the Commiffiohers of accounts,
rt&jr JOHN KEAN,
fyQbQBURY LANGDON.
I certify the above to be a true ccy>y
from the original.;
B. DANDRIDGE, Secretary^ the
frtfdentot the United States.§
CONGRESS.