The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1793-05-13 00:00:00, page 4

THE fame Jefferies after
wards on the Bench, told an old
Fellow with a long Beard, that he
supposed he had a Conscience as
long as his Beard. Does your
Lordship, replied the old Man,
measure Consciences by Beards ?
If so, your Lordship has no Con
science at all.
A FRENCH Gentleman total
ly unacquainted with our Lan
guage, being introduced to a
Circle of young Ladies and
Gentlemen in- a country town,
after the usual Compliments
had passed, he seated himfelf
beside a beautiful young La
dy; and, being deprived of
the Satisfaction of conversing
DURING the late Eledion
for Westminster, divers Con
stables with their Watchmen,
were fat at several Places, to
hinder the Concourse of Peo
ple from flocking there with
out some necessary Occasion;
amongst others, one Gentle
man, being somewhat in the
Garb of a serving Man, was
examined what Lord he be
longed unto ? To which he
readily replied, To the Lord
Jehovah 1-—Which Word,
eing beyond the Constable's
Understanding, he asked his
Watchmen, if they knew any
such Lord^ffliey replied, No.
However, th&Conftable being
unwilling to give distaste, said,
Well, let him pass, notwith
flanding, I believe it to be some
Scotch Lord or other !
WHEN the Lord Jefferies
before he was a Judge, was
pleading at the Bar once, a coun
try Fellow giving Evidence against
his Client, pushed the Matter very
home on the Side he (wore of.—
Jefferies, after his usual Way,
called out to the Fellow, Hark,
you Fellow, in the leather Doublet,
what have you for swearing? To
which the Countryman smartly re
plied, Faith, Sir, if you had no
more for lying than I have for
(wearing, you might e'en wear a
leather Doublet too^
ELEGY.
HE pkafnggales thatgentleJummer yields
l^mid the gay profusion of hit fore,
The smiles of nature, and of verdant.fields,
[Aris all, alas ! hut blessings of an hour.
^How vast the beauties the, around dijplay,
' Till dreary winter re-afomes bis reign,
And sternly bids them vanish and decay,
And leave no traces on the pensive plain.
The gilded cowjlip on the enamel'd mead,
Dijplay' bisyoutbful glories to the view ;
Butfoon be droops his solitary head,
And yields his Virtue to the evening's dm.
Alas ! how transient is the dream of life,
And every heartfelt comfort we enjoy,
Andfraught with care,folicitude and Jirife,
Each hour attempts our blessings to destroy.
All human sanes arefubjed to decay,
And time averts an all-prevailing power;
Expanding beauties to the morning's ray,
We bloom to wither, as the tender flower.
Not so the foal, its views sublime and pure,
Where faith, and hope, and charity unite,
Shall rije anddwell eternally secure,
In heaven's unfading manfans of delight.
THE PIERIDES.
hilarity.
THE late General Ethan Allen
had a high Opinion of himfelf and
his fix Brothers, and took Occasion
to observe, that there never were
seven such born of any Woman—
You mistake, Sir, said a Scotch Of
ficer, Mary Magdalen was de
livered of seven exaal, like ,ou. ,
with her, his Countenance,
however, expressed the Senti
ments of his Heart, he seizing
her Hand, she requested him
to be easy ; which he mistak
ing for the French Word, ba
ifa, [kifs me] began kissing
her to the great Mirth of the
whole Company. The Con
sequence, however, was, that
the Ladies came to a unani^
mous Determination, always
to fay, " be eaf," to a French
man.
[From tbe frft Page.)
A man, afer completing his plan
of behaviour, should resolutely de
termine to regulate his actions by
it. He ought so firmly to em
brace it as to feel mortified and
chagrined if he deviate from its
principles. When this is the case,
a commendable pride of resolution
is rallied, which checks, ficklenefs,
and casts off flothfulnefs. If a
man of firmnefs to day, seriously
prescribe to himfelf, for instance,
a method of study, for a month,
and imposes on himfelf a particular
talk, for each day, he will not, to
morrow, permit indolence so far to
take afeendency as to cheat him
out of it : But if the student have
no premeditated course of study, he
trusts entirely to the disposition of
the moment, which, through the
laziness of the mind, is generally
too indulgent^ When one has
faithfully accomplished what his
little perfdnal scheme required, he
feels a rational fatisfadion in the
refleaion, and if he gain an hour
for amusement, he enjoys it with a
high selifh ; whereas if he have
no system, he is puzzled to know
when he has performed his duty,
and has a poor sickly palate for the
recreation of a leisure interval.
“ CT-O ui who are acquainted
1 with the adual Resources
of France and with the Spirit and
Unanimity that now prevails thro'
the whole Country, the Idea of
conqueringit appears insanity ; but
while the momentary Excesses of
an outraged and justly exasperated
Multitude, are at prefenc so mali
cioufty dwelt on, in Order to de
preciate the generous universal
Principle, on which the Nation ad,
let us refer our Readers to the sav
age Horrours now daily exercised
on the Frontiers, without a Shadow
of Interest or Provocation, by the
disciplined Armies of Prussia and
AnJiria, under the Command of
that humlne, experienced, and phi
losophic General, the Duke of
Brunswick the valiant Brother of
England.
LONDON, February 14.
News !
our royal George, and in Order to
give some Idea of the Tenderness
and Compassion of the French Ar.
(iftocracy, we shall relate the fol
lowinging Anecdote, the Veracity
of which is generally acknowledg
ed throughout Paris, and we our
selves heard it triumphantly re
corded by a young French aristo
crat, who occasionally assisted at
the Ceremony.
" For a considerable Time be
fore the tenth of Au_,jft, the Roy
alists assumed a very imperious
Tone, their numbers were truly'
formidable, and they announced,
without reserve, their hopes, which
with them amounted to a Certain
ty, of a counter Revolution, and
their Pastimes were adapted to
the sanguine expectations they in
dulged.
™ There has been a Machine
lately invented in France for the
Execution of Criminals, called a
Guillotine, after the Name of its
Inventor, and it is so contrived, as
'on dropping, instantaneously to
fever the Head from the Body.
In the aristocratic Families, and
chiefly among those conceded
with the Queen, it was the Cuf
com every Day, as soon as Dinner
was finifhed, to have one of those
Guillotines in Miniature, brought
in with the Defart. Around it
were fixed Figures representing
some of the Principal and most
obnoxious Patriots, Messrs. D'Or
leans, Condorcet, Brissot,
&c. About the Neck of each,
was a small Phial containing a
crimson coloured liquid Perfume.
A Magistrate (one of the Party)
was appointed to try the Crimi
nals, and immediately on Sentence
being pronounced, by an ingenious
mechanical Process, down dropped
the Guillotine, the Head was at
once chopped off, and the Blood
flowed, when the Company in gen
eral, and particularly the Ladies,
eagerly and joyfully steeped their
Handkerchiefs in it, and applying
it to their Noses, in Extacy ex
claimed, 66 Ab ! qu'il est donx, le
fang des patriotes I" "Ah ! how
sweet is this patriot Blood !" for
amongst them, as with our fine
Gentry in London, the word Patri
ot is an Epithet of Mockery and
Derision.
the Block, and it cannot be sup
posed there would have been much
pains bestowed on the Formation
of Tribunals, for Trial."
A Description of the Guillotine,
or fatal Machine, by which the
late King of France fuffered, and
which takes its Name from the
Person who brought it into use,
has been intluftrioufly handed the
Publick, both through British and
American Papers, with an appa
rent Intention of heightening the
Horrour of the Ast —but note
well, the Origin of the Construc
tion of it, and the Intention of the
Machine by the original Projec
tors, have been at industriously
concealed. It is with pleasure, by
the Help of a patriotic Correspond
66 From the above well known
FaR, we leave our Readers to con
clude, what the Result would have
been, if Viftory had inclined to
their Side. Eleven thousand Vic
tims were already predestined to
ent, (and to vindicate the Ways of
God to Man) that we do, this Day,
undeceive the Publick, with re
fpeft to this novel Piece of Me
chanism, by averting from good
Authority, that the Guillotine was
conftruded by the Aristocrats at
Paris, that Louis infpedted it
with pleasure, and that it was in
tended to be used by the redoubt
able Duke of Brunswick, in the be
heading of all the Convention of
France, and others who should not
have been murdered by the Sword,
and other means of Affaffmation,
of the Host who should oppose his
all conquering manifefto. —What a
Change is here ! Louis dug a Pit
for tens of thousands—and by the
Direction, no doubt, of the uner
ring Hand of God—be alone, fell
into it ! Where, Reader, is your
Horrour now ! Change it into the
other Scale—cries the still Voice of
Conscience—turn your Face from
Monarchs —support the Rights of
Man and of human Nature.
" Koenigflain has surrender
ed. The Garrison, to the Amount
of 421 Men & 14 Officers, march
ed out with Drums beating, and
laid down their Arms at 300 Paces
distant from the Citadel. They left
there their Equipages and 14 Piec
esof Cannon. The King treats this
Body of Men with great Tender
nets. He has ordered them a Sup
ply of Hats, Stockings, Shoes, &
Money, of which they were entire
ly destitute ; and has informed
them, that upon any Exchange of
Prisoners taking Place, they shall
be firft released. The Command
er of the Garrison, M. de Muni
er, made no Secret of the Man
ner in which he carried on his Cor
respondence with General Cus
tine, during the Blockade: ft
was by writing upon Linen, which
was made up in head dresses for the
women, who were fuffered to pass
backward and forward, and who
served both as Spies and Messen
gers."
The People at Amflerdam and
Rotterdam are in the utmost Con
fufion, They have packed up all
their valuable Moveables, and are
preparing themselves for Flight,
but scarcely know which Way to
betake themselves. Several have
endeavoured to obtain a Passage by
the Packets, but there was no
Room—others hired Vessels which
are to be in constant Readiness to
fail.—An universal Panick prevails
every where.—The whole Country
towards the Sea is defencelefs ; the
Troops have marched to the Fron
tiers ; and if the Enemy should
advance, they can meet with no
Opposition from that Quarter.
LONDON, March 23.
Extrafl of a Letter from an Officer
in the Arm, of bis Prussian Ma
jeft, at Frankfort, dated March
10, 1793.
Holland.
HAGUE, March B.—lntelligence,
is received here, that an advanced
Corps under Archduke Charles,
is in Possession of Tongres : That
the Austrian Army has taken
Liege: That Rnremende has been
taken by Prince Frederick of
Brnnfwick : And that the French
have evacuated Fort St. Michael.