The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1795-03-20 00:00:00, page 2

Haven, arid Georgetown in Mary
land, the sum of fifty dollars each.
To the naval officer of the diftri&
of Portsmouth, the sum of one hun
dred and fifty dollars ;
To the naval officeri of the diftrids
of Newburyport, Salqm, Newport,
Providence, Wilmington in Northca
rolina, and Savannah, the sum of one
hundred dollari each;
To the surveyor of the port of Sa
lem, two hundreddollars;
the furveyori of Portsmouth,
Newburyport, Bristol, Warren, East-
Greenwich, Saint Mary's, Suffolk,
Smithfield, Richmond, Petelfburg;
Frederickfburg, Wilmington, Beau
fort, and Swanfborough, the sum of
one hundred and fifty dollars each ;
To the furveyori of Newport and
Providence, one hundred ahd thirty
dollars each ;
To the furveyor# of Gloucester,
Beverly, Newhaven, Middletown,
Albany, Hodfon, Little Egg Har
bour, Lewellenfburg, one hundred &
twenty dollars each ;
And to the furveyori of Ipswich,
Portland, North Kingston, Pawhfr
tuck, Patoxet, Newlondon, Stoning
ton, Town Creek, Bermuda-Hundred,
Weft Point, Urbanna, Portroyal, A
lexandfia, Windsor, Hertford, Ply
mouth, Skewarky, Murfrefboroug,
Bennet's-Creek, Winton, Nixonton,
Newbiggen-Creek, Pafquotank-Riv
er, Indian-Town, Currituck-Inlet,
Savannah and Newbrunfwick in New
jerfey, the sum of one hundred dol
lars each. 'r
Sec. 3. &be it farther enabled,
That from and after the lift day of
Match next, in lieu of the sum here
tofore eftablilhed by law, there shall
be paid to each iafpedor, for ever,
day he shall be actually employed io
aid of the customs, a sum not exceed
ing one dollar and sixty fix cents ; and
that instead of the sum heretofore es
tablished by law, to be paid for the
weighing of every one hundred and
twelve pounds, in the diftrias of Penn
sylvania, Newyork, Boston, Balti
more and Norfolk, there shall be paid
one cent and a half.
Sec. 4. And be it farther enabled,
That from and after the last day of
March next, it shall be the duty of
the feyeral collectors, naval officers,
and furveyori, to keep accurate ac
counts of their official emoluments
and expenditures, and the fame to
fanfmit, annually, on the last day of
December, to the Comptroller of the
Treasury, who shall annually lay an
6bftra& of the fame before Coogrefs.
Approved, Feb. 14, ffyft
George WaJhington.
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, Miscellany. l
From a Philadelphia ppptf.
:HORROR!.
fipHE blood which has been shed
in the cQurfe of the French re
volution, and shed unjustly, naturally
indisposes the mind of sensibility to
wards 3t^ foot difficult,
however, to epologt^orthofe ex
cesses: but even taking them as they
are, upon reßeaion, it will be found,
that at this moment, the sum 0%
man happiness if graterjn France
than even in England. We hear of
~ head that fall, by the guillotine
in France with every circumstance or I
exaggeration ; but thousands in Eng
into eternity for deeds that inice & 1
humanity not bro 1
" During the wife dilute atty
Falkl^n^'s maty, which were in value
to this country below rhe power of
figures, a workman in London was
returning one evening to his family
with his weekly wages. He was ap
prehended by a prefyang, and call
into the hold of a tender. His land
lord, and some other creditors, heard
of what they bailed his elopement.—
They seized on his furniture, [O, IN
HUMANITY,] and his arise and child
were turned to the door. Withina
few days after, the mother was deliv
ered of a second child, in a garret.—
When weakness permitted her to rife,
the left her two naked children, and
wandered into the ftreeti as a com
mon beggar. Instead of obtaining as
sistance, she was reproached as a vag
abond. In despair, she went into a
shop, and attempted to carry off a
small piece of linen.— She was seized,
tried, and condemned to be hanged.
In her defence, the woman said that
she had lived creditably and happy,
till a preffgang robbed her of her life
band, and in him of ill means to fop
port herfelf and her family pod at
tempting to clothe her new born in
fant, (hr perhaps did wrong, as Hie
did not, at that time, know what she
did. The parish officers, and other
witnesses, bore testimony to the truth
of her averment, but all to no pur
pose. She was ordered for Tyburn.
[O/ BARBARITY! BARBARCT].
Though her milk,if she had any,muft
have been fermented into poison, it
teems that nobody condescended to
seek a nurse for her child—
The bangman dragged her in
fant from her breast when be
ftraigbtened the cord about her
neck.
[Ye Gods ! is there not some chosen curse,
some hidden thunder in the fores of heaven,
red with uncommon wrath,preferv'd to blast
fuel ci<uili%'d Barbariarn !}
nation in the House of Commons.—
^Never, said he, was there a fouler
murder committed against the law,
than that of this by the law." These
were the fruits of what Englishmen
call their ineflimable privilege of a trial
by jury.
" It would not be difficult to fill a
large volume with decisions of this
damp, though there has not yet per
haps occurred any single case, which
was, in all its circumstances, so abso
lutely infernal. In this introduction,
we have seen a sketch of the hiftory
of certain monarchs and mioifters,
some of whom at this day, are held
up as the political favioure of Britain.
The reader may compare the wanton
daughter of multitudes, the profligate
expenditure of millions, with the guilt,
as it was termed, of Mary Jones. —
He will then judge which of the two
deserved a halter.
"The particulars in this note, are
extraded from a letter to Charles
Jenkinfon, Esq. secretary at war, by
Mr. John Clark, translator of the
Caledonian Bards. The letter was
printed at Edinburgh in 1780.",
The Gangway to Hort.
Sir C. Turner, on the 24th of March
1783, said, in the Bririfh House of
CoMpons, "They now few plainly,
that delinquency was the high road to
? ":T°' f ; and j f , Lading man
hVwLld'enVute'himf^ ^rage
^t^ i
10 commit political crimes, was the
fore road rotates, pensions, honor and
ribbands „/,., I
Infidels not without Faith,\
tution, recommends to that peifecut
cd people, the policy of making an
alliance with the Turks.—" The
Turks, fays that great philosopher,
are faithful to (heir engagements,—a
Chriflian power adherei ro a treaty 00
longer thari it suits its interest or con
veniences." V
DEMOCRATIC SOCIETIES.
From the Gazette,, the United States.
— - 4.
mr. fenno, -The members of out De
mocratic Society have grown idle, and their
president fa wealth, and fat of late, tbat the,
do no business at all-In short, we may as well
have no democrats as to have the press so ne-;
gleded by them, as at present ; this has in
duced me to leave the society, and let up bus
iness in the fame line by myfelf.
( I fend you therefore a specimen of my ware
—lt is a fhprt firing of Refutations, viz.
Ref,toed, That Mr. Jay is highly repre
hensible for not fending the Treaty by a bal
loon, which, with a fair wind, might have
arrived in 10 days at fartheft.
Refolded UnanimouJly, That after ten days
further grace, the several Democratic Socie
ties shall proceed to difeufs the Treaty, para
graph by paragraph, whether the fame ar
rive or not—and that none Jhalt be permit
ted to complain of the conferences,' after
this fair and fuffiefent allowance of time.'
Revived,ram;con. That there being but
one member in this newly organized branch
of the Democratic Society, he shall, after
figging the fame as President, be a commit
ted to publish these resolutions.
TIM. SOLUS, P.C.S,
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POLITICAL SERMONS.
Philadelphia, Feb. 24.
Extroa fram a Sermon preached ,* Tbarfday last
in Pintfret Meeting House, by the Rew. Dr.
A MONG the favorable circumstances ac
companying the establishment .of the
federal system, I cannot omit to mention the
preservation of the life of the worthiest of our
citizens, and his acceptance of the chief ma
gistracy, to whom America had before owed
so many obligations, and who has, in so un
common a degree, united in his favor the
public sentiment and fuffrage. His acknowl
edged talents, his difintertfted^parriotifm,
and his eminent services to his country, gave
weight to his opinion in the public councils,
contributed, in no small degree, tp the adop
tion of the constitution, and had greatly pro
moted the stability, the tranquility, and the
energy of its operation.
The goodness of God, in his providence
over nations, often appears in the characters
which he prepares for their fafety and de
fence—David, he raised up for the glory,
Cyrus, he anointed for the restoration of his
ancient and ch fen people. I confefs, I re-,
cognize in this illustrious Citizen, the im
mediate hand of Heaven. Hardly can l im
agine talents more fitted to our situation,
both in war and in peace, than those which
distinguish and adorn his chamber. Dpi
depreciate by this merited eulogy, the talents
of his fellow citizens ? No—but where have
we seen foch an assemblage of caution and
intrepidity, of patience and enterprize, of
modesty and firmnefs, of cool and penetrat
ingjudgment, and prompt decision, of love
of the people, yet superiority to popular cla
mour, and finally, of that felicity which the
Romans so much valued in a General—a
Christian will call it tte smiles of divine provi
dence that seem to render auspicious all his
undertakings.
Will envy dash back these honest praises in
our face, by faying that other citizens might
have been found of equal talents? Be it so,
—But they have not been found. What
though Rome might have possessed other
senators besides Fabius, who could have van
quished Hannibal? Or besides FabricuS,
who could have disdained the bribes of Pyrr
hus ? Shall Fabius or Fabricus therefore be
robbed of the glory, with which they have
been crowned by the consent of ages ? I es
teem it one of our chief merits, and I count
it one of the noblest arts of patrictifm in
Washington, to forfake the summit of fame
on which be~was placed, to accept the dubi
ous helm of goveenment, and, for /be good
of his country, to put to risk a fame which
hiftory assured to him, untarnished and im
m°rtaL:„ . . ,J L
The following image of ourwortby chief
^^ d ^ ivered ?^^^ difc ° urfe>
is sublime and expressive : ''Do we not owe
to the mercy of God, (aid she preacher, the
prudence and firmnefs difehyed in the most
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THANKSGIVING SERMON.
—
A SERMON delivered on the Day of An
nual Thanksgiving, November 20, 1794.
BY DAVID OSGOOD, A. M.
Pastor of a Church in Medford, MaffachuJetts. T,
psalm, oxl, 4.
He bath made bis wonderful works to be renum
bered.
THE works of God are tffually diftto
guifhed into those of creation, and
those of providence. By the former, we uo
derftand the stretching forth and garnishing
the heavens, the forming and replenilhing
of the earth, and the originating of the pre
sent order and course of nature. By the lat
ter, are meant the continued preservation,
the upholding ahd governing of all these
things , and the superintending of aH events
both in the natural and moral world. All
these are great and wonderful works, worth,
to be'had in conftan: remembrance by every
rational foeftator. They make God to be
remembered ; nay, they are so many memo
rial's of him/witneffing his eternal power and
Godhead, his overflowing benignity, and hit
care of, and kindrefs towards his creatures.
They who have any taste for intellectual
and moral pleasures, who are capable of rel
ishing what is grand and sublime, will delight
in prying into,and tontemplaling those great
and wonderful works of creation and provfo
dence, To this pprpnfe it is observed in the
cont^xtrfhat the works of the Lord being
great, honorable and glorious, they will be
fought out or investigated by all them who
have pleasure therein. By these works tfe
Psalmist has special reference to the more fifc
nal dispensations of Providence in his dealing
with his covenant people, the descendants of
Abraham his friend. In these difpenfittioms
he set before them the most striking illuftr 1-
tians of his character & glorious perfections.
They often saw him on one occasion and an
other, triumphing over the falfe gods of the
heathen around them, executing judgment
upon their vain idols, and confounding their
stupid worfhjppers. They saw his infinity
power displayed in an almost continued series
of miraculous operations ; his justice in the
exemplary puniffiment of cruel oppressors ;
his mercy in numberless affediog instances
towards them selves ; and his truth and faith
fuinefs in the exa& fulfilments of his promis
es arid prediaions. These things were in
tended to make lasting impressions on their
minds—such as might not be easily or speed
ily effaced. The wonderful works of Prov
idence are wrought for this very purpose,/
that by beholding them, men may be so as-j
feded, as to have God continually in theirs
thoughts, and thereby be led to fear an<ji
serve him.l
The text may teach us, that the more sty
nal mercies of heaven towards us, and theft
more remarkable deliverances which at am,
time, have been wrought in our favor, ou^bt
to be gratefully remembered, and thankful
ly acknowledged by us. These things are
some of the chief beauties and most brilli ant
pages in that book of Providence, whic h it
highly concerns us daily to read and ftt,dy.
This book indeed contains the whole hiftlory
of God's dealings with mankind, from tyge
to age ; in which he displays his moral per
fe&jons to the view of his rational offspring.
—The clear light of eternity will show eve^ry
part of this volume to be full of meaning ; aibd
such an explanation will be then given to
those passages, which are now esteemed dank
and mysterious, as will induce enraptured
faints, with aftoniffiment to exclaim, O &
depth of the wisdom and knowledge of God! But
while wedwell in this land of shadows arid
obfeurity, we fee only but a small propor
tion of what God does ; and having fu^h
limited views of his dispensations, it is no
wonder if we be unable to comprehend the
meaning of particular events.
There are many, however, which contain
such striking illustrations of the divine a (tri
butes, especially of the divine mercy & good
ness, that we can be at no loss about them.
Not a few of these have fallen within our own
observation; and many others our ears nave
heard, and our fathers have told us. God
expeas and requires, that we gather them up
as treasure, and carefully preserve them ip
our memories. They are in themselves t me
morable; and he hath done them, that they
&ght be remembered by us. Os course, he
p highly offended when men forget his works
and the wonders which he hath shewed them.
Such behaviour refle&s upon the Di+ine Ma-
Jefty, as though his methods, governing the
world,, and his dealings with his creatures,
were not worthy of our attention.
The misery and deftfu&ion of men are, ia
fame instances, attributed to their not regard,
ing the work of the L or d,nofconfining the
o^tio, of hisQ. And it is fy.,
that the frequent review of the more striking,
to ,so, in the beiief,',d to so us
the wea'knefeiod dTk'nefi of their m^ds.