The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1793-07-22 00:00:00, page 4

THE PIERRIDES.
[From the Virginia Gazette, %]
Mr. Printer,
By inferring the following Thoughts
-of a very eminent Author, of the present
Century, on the Dodrine of felf Mortifi
cation, which has been so much inculcat
ed, by Enthusiasts of all Ages, and all
Se&s of Religion, you will much oblige
CHRISTOPHILUS.
Afalfe Doarinefont out into the World, like
' a Bomb discharged among# a Cr&wd, bursts
into innumerable Pieces, eves, one of n^bich
carries Mifebief<with it in its Flight.
“ M, Yoke is eajy and my Burden light."
HOW easy is dur, oke ! how light our load!
Did nue not ftri^e to mend the la^ws of
God;
For bis o^n Cake no duty be can aJk,
The common welfare is our only tajk .%
For this sole end, bis precepts bind and just,
Forbid intermperance, murder, theft and luff ;
With every a& injurious to our own
Or others good,for such are crimes alone :
For this are peace, love, charity, enjoin'd,
With all that can fecurc and bless mankind.
Thus is the publick fafety virtue's eaufe,
And bappirttfs the end of all our laws ;
Forfuch by nature is tee human frame,
Out duty, and our interest, are the fame.
But held, cries out some Puritan divine,
Whoje well fluff d cheeks with erf and plenty
Jhine,
Is this too faft, to mortify, refrain,
And work valuation out with fear and pain ?
We own the rigid lessens of their Jcbools
Are widely diffrent fem Christ's easy rules,
Virtue with them is only to abfain
From all that nature afa, and covet pain ;
Pleafire and vice, are ever near akin,
And if we thirst, cold Water is afin:
Heaven's path is rough and intricate, they jay,
Yet all are damn'd that trip,or mis way ;
God is a being cruel and Severe,
And man a wretch,by his command plac'd here
In junfeiqe,for a white to turn,
Only to dry, and make him ft to burn.
Mistaken man ! so pioujly severe,
Thro' craft mifending, or mijled by fear ;
How little they, God's counjel comprehend,
Our univerjal Parent, guardian Friend !
Oh ! would mankind but make their truths
their guide,
And force the helm from prejudice and pride ;
Were once theft maxims fix'd that God's our
friend, ,
Virtue our good, and happiness our end;
How jeon muff reajon o'er the world prevails
And errour, fraud, and juperftition fail ;
None would hereafter then withgroundlefsfear,
Describe the Almighty cruel and fdvere,
Predeflinating jome without pretence,
To Heaven, and some to Hell for no offence ;
Infliaing endless pains,for transient crimes,
And favouring feßs, or nations, men or times.
To please him none would foolishly forbear,
Or food, or rest, or itch in farts of hair,
Or deem it merit to beleive or teach
What reajon contradias within its reach ;
None would fierce zeal for piety mistake.
Or malice, for whatevertenet's fake,
Or think salvation to one fed confin'd,
And Heaven too narrow to contain mankind.
THE infernal King, enrag'd to find
His Angels from their Thrones were
burl'd,
To wreak bis Vengeance on Mankind,>
Let Monarchs looje to plague the World.
Soon as the Devil's Vicegerents came,
Millions on millions round them fell ;
They call'd the wide Deftruaion Fame,
Well pleas'd to do the Work of Hell.
Their Minions, spread to Europe's Verge,
Wide through the Land defrußive roam ;
Till France, who long had felt the Scourge,
Rose to revenge, and jent them home.
HILARITY.
ANECDC)rE -
OF THE LATE MR. WESLEY.
IN the course of his voyage to
America. Mr. Wesley hear
ing an unusual noise in the cabin
of Gen. Oglethorpe (the Gov
ernor of Georgia, with whom be
failed, he stepped in to inquire the
eaufe of it.—" Mr. Wesley,
you must excuse me ; I have met
with a provocation too great for a
man to bear : you mutt know the
. only wine I drink is Cyprus wine,
as it agrees with me the best of
any ; I therefore provided myfelt
with several dozens of it ; and this
villain, Grimaldi (his foreign fer
vant, who was almost dead with
fear) has drank the whole of it. But
I will be revenged on him; I have
ordered him to be tied hand and
foot, and to be carried to the man
of war that fails with us. The ras
cal (hoold have taken care how he
ufegl me fo—for I never forgive."
" Then I hope, fir, said Mr. Wes
ley, looking calmly at him,„# ne
ver fa., —The General was quite
confounded at the reproof; and,
putting his hand into his pocket,
took out a bunch of keys, which
he threw at Grimaldi, faying,—
" There, villain! take my keys,
and behave better for the future."
COLONEL Bond, who had
been one of king Charles the firft's
judges, died a day or two before
Cromwell, and it was ftronglyre
ported every where, that the pro
te&or was dead ; " No," said a
gentleman, who knew better, “ be
has only given Bond to tbe devil for
bis future appearance."
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tion to emigrate, and as we were assured
that the army expressed a strong indigna
tion against the affaffins/as well as an at
tachment to the reeftabliihment of peace
'and good order, we repaired at daybreak
to the camp. There, however, amidst
reiterated protestation of attachment to
the principles that determined us, we
remarked a mute and fallen agitation,
which made { us judge that strange diffen
tions of opinion prevailed. I addressed
each corps, and from each corps received
a reply tantamount to that made on the
preceding day.-
" Wishing, however, after the remarks
we had made, to repair to the head-quar
ters at S. Amand, we learned the corps of
artillery formed the design of conveying
their great park to Valenciennes; and
that the plot of the fadious men who mis
led them, was, to seize on us, to convey
us thither,& to make a merit of facrificing
bs to the vengeance of our tyrants.—We
had only one expedient left that of repair
ing to the Imperial army, which we ought
to regard as our ally, after the frank and
noble proclamation of the general and
chief by whom it is commanded.
" Several corps of artillery have al
ready joined us : Several bands vs infan
try have done the fame: and as soon as
the Imperialists shall have entered the ter
ritory of France, not as vanquishers, and
willing to didate laws, but as glorious
allies, who come to aid us in the reeftab
lifting the constitution, which can alone
stay the progress of the crimes and calam
ities that menace France : Many other
corps will repair to unite themselves to
their brothers in arms.
" I know the disposition of the army,
and more especially that of the troops
of the line. Their principles are, at the
bottom, pure.—They may for a moment
allow themselves to behurried awaj by
the exaggerated opinions inculcated to
them ; but as the invincible courage they
have displayed during the present war,
must necessarily be accompanied by the de
fire of possessing the laws they cannot find,
unless in the constitution, which will de
ftroy the odious tyranny of anarchists.
they will be jealous of the publick esteem.
They will blush at having, even for a mo
ment, been capable of annexing their col
ours to those of criminal licentiousness
They will rally beside the brave troops
who have only accompanied me in my
momentary retreat to rteenter France
within two days at fartheft, and put an
end to the vile disorders which cover all
France with mourning and terror.
“ I swear in the name of my compan
ions, that we will not lay down our arms
until we shall have succeeded in our en
terprize : and our sole design is to reef
tablifh the constitution and conftitutioha 1
royalty—That no refehtment, nor thirst
after vengeance, no ambitious motive,
sways our purposes ; that no foreign pow
er shall influence opr opinion , that
whereever anarchy ihall cease at the ap
pearance of our arms, and those of tfc
combined armies, we will condud our
selves as friends and brothers ; that
whenever we shall meet with refiftance.we
(hall know how to feted the culpable, and
spare the peaceable inhabitants, the vi&-
ims of the infamous wiles of the Jacobins
of Paris, from whom have arisen the hor
rors and calamities, of the war : That we
(hall in no way dread the poignards, of
Marat and the Jacobins ; that we will de
stroy the manufacturers of these poig
nards, as well as that of the fcandalots
writing by which an attempt is made to
pervert the noble and generous charader
of the French nation ; and, finally, in the
name of my companions in arms, I re
peat the oath that we will live and die
free.
" The General in Chief of the French
army.
DUMOURIER."'
" Italy.
TURIN,) T* HE unufual inclemen
April 23.) I c, of tbe feajon bas
bitberto prevailed us from ailing with
vigour. Our troops were, on this
account, obliged to quit tbe Heights
of Rons which tbe French have ren
dered themselves ma/lers of; on which
octafion a great number of soldiers of
tbe regiment of Aofla were buried in
tbe fnew, and carried off by burri
capes.
Last week a serious engagement
took place about nice, in which 150
men of tbe regiment of Sardinia, ant
one officer, were cut in pieces, am
five men wounded by tbe Freneb.—
Tbe loss of tbe French is certainly
considerable ; tbe nephew of General
Biron w^s wounded, and is fence re
ported to have died of bis wounds.
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Germany.
SPIRE, Ma, 3.—Last Tuefda,
an engagement took place under tbe
cannon of Landau, wbitber some
Prussian Hussars bad too far pene
trated, between tbe French and Pruj
fians, when a great number of men
were cut in pieces on both fdes, and
tbe French finally driven bach into
tbe fortrefs.
Tbe bead quarters of General Cuf
tine are fill at Weiffenbourg. The
arm, under bis command; wbicb is
reckoned to be 50,000 strong, bolds
a most advantageous portion. It is
encamped between Weiffenbourg and
Lauterbourg, ftrongl, entrenched, and
their works ma, be deemed a mafler
piece of military arcbiteElure. On
one fide of tbe camp is tbe Rhine, on
tbe other a Vast bufo, beatb, which
reaches to the Vojgefan mountains
Tbe French arm,, thus surrounded,
bas before it tbe fortrefs of Landau,
with a strong garrison.
As long as General Cufline can
maintain bis present portion, it will
be impossible for tbe Aufttian and
Prussian armies, Rationed rigbt and
left within tbe distance of half an
hour's march from Landau, to per
form an, important exploit.
France.
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
Ma, 11.— A letter from Talien,
Commissioner in the department, of
Indre et Loire, and Loire et Cb,r,
dated Tours, Ma, 10, Stated that
falfe and alarming news was daily
spreading by tbe enemies of tbe Re
publick refpeaing tbe successes of tbe
infurgekts ; and that ^etineau, an
agent ,f Dumourier, bad, aftft eta
example of bis patron, betrayed tbe
interests of bis country, b, opposing
refifleuce, though be bad 3000 men
under bis command, to the forces ofc
tbe rebels. It was even said be bad\
induced bis soldiers to fl, before them.
lallien added, that Loudun was ro-1
acuated ; that- tbe enemy would per-{
baps be in possession of it that day
and that there were only ver, fe&
troops to oppo/e them. It was boW
ever hoped that a imall arm, cou&,
be colleßed until tbe new battalions, §
f° l° n g promised, fbould arrive.
Letter from Citizen Devauliverd fr
to citizen T^lie% dated Chin
or, May 8.~
" We have ford the noise of can
non all this morning, which makes
us pre/ume tbat Ligonier is engagech
I pope that be will be more coura
geous and less a traitor than ^utii
neau, the cidevant Adjutant of Du
mourier, who, inflead of fighting as
be promised before me, Surrendered
with 3000 men all armed, whom be
had in tbe town of Thenars. Tbe
brave Marjeilleje alone merit praise.
Tbe, tore down tbe white flag which
bad been bailed ; combated like true
Republicans, and though reduced at
length to she number of fix Still
fought till every man of them was
cut to pieces, Tbe, formed tbem-,
selves into afauare. and when their
cratridges friled,tbe, fell furioujl, on
tbe infurgetas with tbeir fixed bayo
nets. Had all tbe rest of tbe troops
at Thouars followed tbeir example,
it would have been filled free."
1 Tbe Convention after bearing a
report from tbe Committee of Publick ,
Safety, decreed, that of tbe 21,000
men, making part of the levy of
300,000 decreed on tbe 24.1 b of Feb
ruary, and now afrmbled at Grenole,
8 battalions should be immediately
organized to march against tbe tn
furgents. A
A letter from tbe Council General
of tbe Department of l' Aude, dated
Carcaffone, April 29, fated, that tbe
invasion of tbe Spaniards into tbe
French territories was to be aferibed
to the Executive Council, who had
left that part of tbe frontier deffi,
, tute of arms, artillery, and pro^t
'fans. It added, that three depart
ments bad rai fed 16,000 men more
than tbeir quota, who w /bed to com
!bat, and' wanted only arms.
,to this letter was faJoined a re
,quiftion made by Gen. Servan, for co ,
, f«ppl, of arms.
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I Nortbearolina.
, WILMINGTON, June 13.
Last evening a Britiffrveffel, with
, 1300 dollars on board, was sens ire
here, a prize to a final! vessel, fit
ted out here a few days fince.—'
The owner of this pretended pri-.
vateer, failed from this port, with
American papers to Cbarleffon, in
order to have them exchanged for
a French commission, byt was re
fufed, and, failing in with a French
man, he gave the command of his
vessel to him ; and now to excuse
himfelf, fays he fold her to the
present commander. The magif- ,
trates and naval officers have ar
rested the Frenchman, and he is
bailed for appearance at the Fede
* Court.
PHILADELPHIA, June 29.
The militia guard, which had been
put on board the prize ship Will
iam, was on Tuefday lqft remov
ed, and the vessel delivered up to
the captors ; the President of rhe
United States having; it is said,
tyrevioufly decided the question tek
Native to her capture. :