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NEWHAMPSHERE PRINTFD AND PUBLISHED BY E. RUSSELL AND M. DAVIS, AT CONCORD.
r[VOLUME IV.
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ATTENTION!
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Briti/b War Miscellany.
► [The following is a copy of a HANDBILL,
which has /been distributed amongst the
' Britiffi Soldiery.]
BROTHERS & FELLOECITIZENS!
U7 Ethe people of Great-
VV britain, your friends,
your countrymen, your fellew
creatures, desire you for one
minute to lay aside the bayonet
and musket, and behave like
men. Sheathe the sword of
murder ! Cease to be the affaf
r fins of your kind! embrace us
as your brethren ! and let the
tranquility of reason succeed the
hurricane of war.
We require you to confider
us as your friends, and then you
will listen with attention. Our
• country is bleeding at every
pore ! already scourged by the
Furies of Ambition, she faints
I with the anguish and shrinks
" with horror, left the uplifted
„lash of tyranny should fall into
a wound ; already lacerated to
'the bone. Our provisions have
been transported to foreign
countries, and our hufoandmen
l&^have been seduced from the
■plough, to be beaten by their
officers, 'and flar've beneath a
" knapsack ; where the cottage
, once' welcomed the free peasant
to his evening's rest, the bar
racks now imprison the hungry
victim of military law. Our
bravest heroes languish beneath
% the scourge, are tortured by the
iron that pierces the tender foot,
and (hot like dogs to fatiare the
cruelty of their masters. The
freedomof nature is drilled in
to flaycry by tyranny and op
preflion; and the military ty
rants of the day ereeft their in
famous court-martials upon the
life and felicity of man.
Come then, you as well as the
people, have your fufferings, &
we are all brothers in distress,
why should we~ increase our
miseries by becoming foes. We
are all men; we all have feel
ing; we all have a country !—
Alas, why should those be hos
tile to one another, whose na
ture, country and misfortunes
are the fame. Nature and ne
cessity call upon us to enlist un
der the banner of LIBERTY;
and enrol ourselves as comrades
in the grand contest of reform.
It is the practice of tyrants to
Separate you from your brothers
r and your country ;to lock you
in the barracks from our con
versation, and to point your bay
onets at our bosoms before you
knew that we were foe^ Let
,this auspicious age be the last irt,
which military laws shall fever
CONCORD, FRIDAY, November 13, 1795.
man from man, and make the
Soldier the Murderer, rather
than the protector of the pea
sant. Let us shake hands, and
the union will be the origin of
LIBERTY; and LIBERTY will
give the soldier a home, where
friend and family (hall succeed
to a barrack and a tyrant. You
have fix pence a day for clothes,
food and expenses; and out of
this you have to find all things
necessary for the exiftance of
man ; you have nothing of your own; ev
en the common heritage of nature, pefaal
liberty, is not yours ; you ara tied up like
dogs, the lash sharpened with cruel, knots,
lays bare your very bones : the spike runs
through the sole of the foot, makes the sus
pended wretch writhe and howl with agony !;
These are the rewards of your loyalty ; and j
these the blessings which attend the fcrvice|
of a king. Let not the dignity of the man, I
or the honor of the soldier, be starved likea
beast; or whipt like a Have ; exercise your
reason ; put on the uniform of Liberty ; —
make use alone of (he arms of Juftice —and
let the soldier be united to the man.
The years of freedom approach—the hal
cyon epoch of liberty draws near—philoso
phy ereds the standard of happiness, and the
nations ofthe earth, unite beneath irs shade;
nature is preparing a feaft upon the ruins
of tyranny, and unites all the universe to
partake of the banquet. Will you soldiers
refufe her gifts, and turn ungrateful from
the feaft ! Will you defect the colours, be
neath which your brethren unanimoafly u
nite, and mutiny against the dilates of your
own hearts ! Is it your duty to obey your
tyfaht, or yourfelf ? Consult your own feel
ings—and do not violate the oath which
truth imprints upon the heart :—Unite with
the opprefled against the e„rrfa-j —and te.^
minate the career of oppreffioa.
Whether you shoot your fellow-creatures
under the impulse of private resentment, or
whether you obey the nod of a tyrant, and
massacre us by thaufands, the guilt is the fame,
you are convided of murder ! and nature her
felf accuses you at the bar of social juftice—
be murderers no longer,—follow no more
the starving pradice of military affaffins-Aet
soldiers protea the right of citizens —and citi
zens will avenge the wrongs of joldiers !
In short, if you with to fag and labor your
lives away without comfort, to linger in a
half starved existence, the slaves of cruelty
and the engines of murder and oppression —
if you with, when old age has stolen away
strength, to have your tottering limbs want
a bed to repose on, and to be whipt from
parish to parish as a vagrant, then kiss the
band that Jeourges you, and be the means of
enslaving the country that has nursed you in
its bosom, but if you with to enjoy the bless
ing of life and liberty to have a competency
prepared for your age, in return for the la
bours of your youth—if you have the least
regard for mankind or for yourselves— make
your mufquote the meats of peace, and your
/words, the just defence of your COUNTRY's
LIBERTY!
the PARNASSIAN FIELD.
ODE
on THANKSGIVING MORNING.
HARK ! 'tis the great Mefiah's voice,:
He calls, be fays, my fans rejoice ;
Let ftftal love and boly praije
Warm every breafl, —injpire your lays :
Tbejoys of barveft now appear ;
Goodness and mercy crown the year."
Awake my foul,—begin theferg ;
Let ballot'd fire new touch thy tongue :
The retro,pea invites the muse ; .
Wbo can the joyful taJk refsfo It
Heaven's watchful care has ,afdy kept
Th, life, th, health, wbette'er thufapt ;
=Awake-tbeu'fl been /^Maker's care,
Togaurd tby feetfrom ever, jhare.^
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7b, reafon'; whole, urn to explore
God's might, works, from /bore to (bore.
Reajox, the dignity of man,
Should spread ber wings, and try to ken
What ma, be knows of Gad on earth,
And rife to trace her heav'nly birth.
Friendfbip, blefs'd balm to beal our woes,
To Jivesten life, —and give repoje
To daily cares—to menial pain,—
Th, genial influence I retain.
Affimbled now with Friends, bow dear ?
Our bufbunds, wives, ear children here;
Brethren and fillers,—jee the throng,
O! let the view infptre the song.
Th, labours crown'd with good success,
TL, t.ble smiles with plenteoujnejs ;
With meats, and fruits of ever, kind,
Tophafe (by taste and chear thy mind.
Eat, friends ! and drink, but grant O I heaven,
None ma, abuse what thou haft given.
While Europe bleeds, —and horrid war
Roars ber loud thunder from afar ;
See ever, plain, bow thickly brew'd !
i What countless garments roll'd in blood !
I See—but with pity's eye and prayer,
I O ! Peace, be thou eftabb/b'd there.
i Peace, balmy peace is fill our lot.
This bluffing,Jure, can't be forgot.
But chief, my foul, repeat his praise
For gojpel blessings — Heavenly grace.
He gave bis fa —his only fon,'
Os all the church chief-corner-ftone:
For thee be died, and quanquifo'd bell.
And all the powers of darknefsfell.
O! now he lives and reigns above,
Bright Seraphs Jing bis woud'rous love.
Let Saints below now learn their fangs,
r#a, more—much more to us belongs ;
Flejb of our fejb, and bone of bone.
He died for man,—for man alone.
O ! may bis churches new arise,
A d loud Hofanna's rend the fits ;
Shake off,our dufl —mofi clearly /bine
In robes of rigbteoufnefs divine ;
Sav'd b, bis power from death and bell,
— Tv praid bis Name—with him to dwell.
I„: =Vro^p^^ Wf^i''Wwasr«Mw^^
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE
_ OMITTED LAST WEEK.
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Fall in the price of Grain.
LONDON, SEPT. 5.
There being no Court of Alderman held
at Guildhall yesterday, the Master & War
dens of the company of Bakers, waited on
the Lord Mayor at the mansion-house, re
fpeaing the assize of bread, when it appear
ed upon infpedion of the meal- weigher's
return from the corn-market on Monday,
that the average price of wheat was 82s. gd.
per quarter, which was 6s. Bd. cheaper than
the last return ; and flour was fold at yes.
per sack, having, been fold last week from
77 to 80s. per sack, and that there was no
foreign flour fold in, barrels, being of such
an indifferent quality, the trade could not
use it. His Lordlhip took the fame into
confederation, and after hearing the Master
and Wardens of the Baker's company, or
dered that the price of bread be lowered two
assizes, or four- pence in the peck, loaf, which
will reduce the price of the quartern loaf to
one Filling, to take place to-morrow.
Important Confeffin.
FRANKFORT, AUG. 18.
Our public prints contain the intelligence
from Vienna, that the State Criminal Rie
del confeffed, on his examination, tp have
twice attempted to have murdered the Em
peror, and that nothing but his own fears,
' and some unexpected circumstances, pre
vented rhe deed ; which he might have ac
complished with the greater facility; as he
hourly had free access to, the cabinet.
Prussian Intrigue.
BRITISH HEAD-QUARTERS.
DELMENHORST, AUG. #fi
Among the many low artifices, to which
Prussian Emissaries have resorted, in order
to inveigle Dutch deserters into that service,
the following is one of the meanest :
When a man arrived, a Prussian officer, with
an Orange cockade in his hat, immediately
accosted him, Commended bis fpiritand loy
.alty to his legitimate Prince—invited him to
FClifl'l'MMwmili nen ir.-aHi iWLYa»SMm»EMJaipt..o tooq. ^.mz_&#*&&<
enter his service, and be one of the brave fel
lows declined to return to Holland, and to
re-instate the Stadtbolder in his lawful dig
nity ; the next minute undeceived the poor
fellow, and, to his great forrmr,-he found
himfelf inlifted among the Fruliians, and
cruelly treated as such.
SCARCITY.
PARtS; SEPT. 2.
At Caen, such is the general scarcity, that
the people are in want of every thirg ; rye
bread is worth from 10 to 12 livres a pound §
meat seven livres ; a cabbage from five to fix
livres ; and other articles in proportion.—
The new rye fells this day (sth Fruaidor,)
at from 1000 to 1200 livres the quint?!.—
“ Why (lay the inhabitants,) do not the
Convention exertthe power with which they
are intruded, for repressing the cupidity of
the farmers ?"
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Excellent New HIDES.
to be sold.
And ready for delivery,
Several Thousand very large
and excellent HIDES,
allowed by good judges to be equal to any
ever imported into America—Said Hides
will be fold for one third Calh or Beef down
— the two thirds will be put on very lengthy
credit, with approved security. for coarse
Thick Leather Men's Shoes, or Country
Produce of any kind.
Hides delivered at. Concord or
Haverbill.
NATHANIEL LADD.
Concord, 6th Nov. 179;. 9
—to— tc.-.- _—»Qty-^ IWMWH—limn.— —F#
( Edward Prefcot's Efface,
THE fubferibers being appoint
ed Commissioners by the Honorable Judge
of Probate tor the Count, of Grafton, to re
ceive and examine the claims of the credit
ors to theeffide of EDWARD PRESCOT,
late of Thornton, in said County, deceased,
represented insolvent ;
Hereby give notice, that we
will attend on the business of our appoint
ment, on the last Monday in November, the
third Monday in December, and the ficond
Monday in January next, from one to four
o'clock in the afternoon, of each day, at the
dwelling house of Moses Foss in said Thorn
ton.
l% N s r F A ^, CONE> I^
WILLIAM SYMONS,) "°" CTS '\
Thornton, Oft. 29, 1795.9
N. B. All persons indebted to said eftafe
are hereby requested to make immediate
payment to
MARY PRESCOT, Administrator.
Benjamin Sanborn's Eflate.
THE Subferibers being ap
pointed Commissioners by the Hon.
Jedge of Probate, foe the county of Strafe
ford, to receive and examine the claims of
the creditors to the estate of BENJAMIN
SANBORN, late of Sandbornton, in said
county, Husbandman, deceased, intestate,
hereby give notice, that we will attend said
business on the firft Monday of November
next, and the five following months, from
two to fix o'clock, P. M. at the house of
Capt. J acob Tilton, innholder in said
Sandbornton.
JACOB TILTON, 7 Commif-
JERE. SANBORN, ffioners.
Sanbornton, O&. 24, 179;. S
H—f— —
Nathaniel Chandler's Ejiate.
WE the fubferibers being ap-
VV pointed, by the Honorable JOSEPH
BADGER, Esq Judgeof Probate, &c. for
the county of Strafford, Commissioners to
receive and examine the claims of the credit
ors to the estate of Nathaniel Chandler, late
of Newhampton, gentleman, deceased, in
testate, represented insolvent, which business
we wiil attend on the last Monday of this and
the four following months, from two to fix
o'clock in the afternoon, at the late dwelling~
house of said deceased, in Newhampton.
THOMAS SIMPSON, § Commission.
, JOHN MOONEY, irk
Newhampton, Oft. 13, 1795. 7
[number 160.]
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