The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1794-03-10 00:00:00, page 4

S^ AT OF THE MUSES.
from the EAGLE, &c.
MR. DUNHAM,
The qualifications necessary to constitute one
;of that happy species of animals called
POETS, are ragged elbows, and em„ I
pockets. 4 —Thofe enviable requisites, I am at
present bleft with—You will not therefore,
good Mr. Editor, have the impudence to
deny one, so happily circumstanced for a
rhymester, a feat upon the banks of your
mill ; but cheerfully receive, the follow
ing fugitive stanzas, though perhaps they
cost too little sweat of head and midnight
tallow, in their composition.
MARCUS.
Mufo amicus triftitiam et metus
Tradum ------
..;..• port are in mentis. #
AINCE now the tuneful Sifters deign,
) So often woo'd, to greet my lyre,
I'll give the winds all care and pain,
Bleft in my bottle, friend and fire.
No cares Jhall vex nor fears control
My peaceful heart and tranquil foul.
Indifferent 1 bow parties dance-
How Genet foams or Wilcox /crawls^
Wbat capers now are cut in France—
What hairbrain'dfpouterfands or falls-
Blow high —blow low—it matters not
To me, bow fa&ions flora, a groat.
Why need the bustling world's frange din
✓tyright the Pauper, or bis muse;
Since jure, though little be may win,
Who nothing owns, can nothing loje ;
A worst, remain in ftatu quo,
Like me, and scrawl an ode or so.
Now royalty's gay bloffms blight—-
Alas, ! and man, a courtier fobs ;
Yet, //—whatever is, is right,
Why rail at jacobins and mobs=
Seoul at Ca-ira's frantic flrain,
And d- 4 equality and Paine ?
The sage, though difcard's comets blaze,
AM giddy fabjeas spurn at laws ;
Kings bleed, and feuds a nation craze,,
With calmmfsview) one natural cauje, ~
No trivial objeat turn bis ty.
Norymall clouds gloom his genially.
Be flow (fays one wdl known by fame)
c fojudge the parties of the day; , . v \
^[or raJfypraije —nor rashly blame, '^ ;';
flhffbe dff rent aßors in the fray.
ffahftate tonvdlfans loftfo long,
Fefyfaes, are wboll)rrgbt, or wrong.
Go,fee half Europe by the ears,
^nd Gullit's topjy-turvy /la, : f
Sink peers to dirt —raise dirt to peers-*-
And term the inversion, rights 0/ man.
Where now mo pdl&'icihvrur
But theft 'who pleadwith ctufandgun.
Men long enslaved, wherfOYCe released,
'Willdancealittbin their glee-; J
Andphendhecar off ate the, seize,
They're apt to^ride and drive too free ;—
And Gallia's.genius fad complains,
That Phaetons bold whip and reins.
So Fortune'(windbiill whirli, and must;
Some e'er wiltride, jome trudge on foot ;
Rogues rule, while bonify in dust,
Mudfweat, and pa, thojerogues to bootc
While all the flatterer hope, can fay,
Is—"every dog will have his day."
This offi,U tfib§ mufu fyiew.
More taught by nature than by book,
She lipp'd—man's rights however few,
He'll get enough, bybook or.crook;
And Sylvia^binksdMmapt to bt, _ fr ..
Even when in chains, byfar ttofree, f
Hop oft y,saa untimely brave, ..'
How often timerovfty cool •, ,
How oft a tyrant, or a save, ^ . f
Howoftatnadtnan, OKa fool.<
Np decent medium keeps himflill,,
.Hfeifflffl^
Yet Louis faps&@ip bis tomb,
Nor art nor arm, pan call backfae3 , : ,... ,^
Tbedwarria%rs ton, avert, the fam,
Of)&d',monarch, wife too late, J r %
Uhb4,tyl^t& a?%
Oppreft^ ffopmour band.
For Raffias Empress little beeds,
The mus, rules of wrong or right;
Katefill can manage court intrigues,
Or, if?tte %fertsght : f 1 '-
Like mad Be&nain her car, 4 !
Cry— havock h sober dogs of «uxtr.
0 ! when will peace from heaven defand,
The ruffiangod of war control,
kPjtbfmfofopliwe wand extend,
And tyreart from pole to pole!
Hu/bthk serial alarms, /,
Theh ^ft
Now'bis tyngs ? ft
below.,
Ncr re^ a^orffify, & ,
±ut it?tbsgenerous Fowl Mill quaff, Ii e
Which reason dips in friendship'sfream;
Chat,fadj,plead,fog v joke and laugb— , .
And cbahge at Humour's beck the theme.,
And feme difcufs—aird some refufe
As fats the— Bottle or the Muse.
While I, with open elbows play,
And try betimes my lyre to mould,
For jolly ode—or love-fck lay,
At which, MatILDA, do not (cold;
An eye, like tbsne, my foul allures,
Or lip,you witch ! that tafies like,ours !
Hilarity. ,
BOSTON-RECENT ANECDOTES.
PRINCE Edward in travelling
from Canada to this place, alight
ed at a tavern in Vermont, on the top
of one of the Green Mountains—Ad
miring the profpe&, and talking with
the Landlady, who was a woman of
taste and reading, he put his hand on
a Bible which was on the desk, and
asked the lady what book it was?
Her reply was, that it was the Bible.
" The Bible, madam, said his high
ness—Do you make much use of that
book in this country ?—Oh yes, Sir,
said the Lady, it is a favourite work
with us. But, said Edward, do you
read no other books r" Obyes, Sir,
replied the 'lad, archly, when we wifo
to amuse ourselves we read Peter
Pindar?' The reply and the man
ner it Was spoken in, struck the Prince
ardumb as an opfter.
AT another place, in Vermont aforefaid, the
Prince called on a Green mountain Taylor,
and being enamoured with his faif spouse,
(forfeme Princes, you mult know, have pas
sions, as well as men) he extorted from her
lips, a KISS ; and turning to her husband,
asked him, How he felt, to fee his wife kissed
by a Prince ?—The taylor, forgetting " the
refped due to Princes," and too ungrateful
for the honour done him, very briskly applied
his foot, to Mr. NED's pofteriours ; and then
alked him, How it made a Prince feel to have
his breech kicked by a taylor?
AN illiterate coxcomb, going one day
to his taylot's after a pair of breeches,
reprimanded him 4or not putting a
Fop iota them. "A Fop!" exclaim
ed the taylor, " put them bti, and
your complaint will be remedied."
. „ .^/• & 4#^=.^_
QFrom the Merry Storyteller.
SAYS, Sir John to bis lady, as together they
fa, [what?
My dear, jhall we sup firft, or do, you know
With an innocentjmile, reply'd the good lady ;
Sir fobn, what you pleaje —but supper's not
.ready!
FOR.THE MIRROUR.
Inftahce of Benevolence.
SIR Philip Sidney, in a battle against the
Spaniards, before Zutphen, on the zzd
5ept.,1586, after having two horses killed,
was greatly wounded, as he was mounting,
the third, by a mulketfe r > which broke his
thigh bone. / The horse he rode being very
mettlesome, then forced him to forfake the
field, though not his back ; when passing a
long by the rest of the army, where his uncle,
the general was, and tying thirsty with ex
hffl of bleeding, he called for dfihk, which
w^s presently brought him, but as he was
putting the bottle to his mouh, he faw fi
wounded soldier carried along, who with
ghastly look, fixed his eyes oh'tte bottle—'
which Sir Philip perceiving, tookftfrom his
lips before bf had rafted it, and delivered it to
the poor man, trying. “ Thy p^fyis yet
greater than mine,,", and then having dr^nfc
after him, was fodn carried out, where he
died of his wound. Iris remarkable that in
England, the public .rare so kffiia^d 'atihe
loss of this benevolent ^gentleman, that for
several months, it was thought indecent for
any gentleman to appear Splendidly dressed.
[Mod. Die. Arts ® Schnees.]
''T^M^ n^'ll Th, H*■!.»■nil i o^'i- #■-
Foreign Intelligence. ^.
/ ^^^_±= ^
ORAVENHAO£% DEC 4 to Letter
from Bruifels, of ih£§thfoft. ^rife
that several bloody fleirmifhes had
!<%; place MlcfWui^and Mfefc
wick, where „o men of Ltt&fy
free corpa, were Men prif&tertibe ift
„a Mifo&totata^
Ypres and Menin, nothing took place
bMfcJighfe fkirmiffi% : which were'
viewed as fy^re-runner of a serious
attack soon fakeo .by the French ; as
'they had'ilr&dy retaken the post of
Faperingen, and chat their army daily
received considerable reinforcements.
;-- . .--•-. - ^^ ^..^^ r # .. _
Switzerland.,
frisburg, nov. 20.—A general
requisition has been ordered here, in
consequence of which 28,000 Ger
mans will rife in arms and take the
field. The diftria of Baden fornifhes
6000 ; Furftenburg, 6000 ; Brifgaw
and Schwartxfelt 16000, and the city
of Fribourg 522, including 160 volun
teertiflemen. The inhabitants of the
district of Schwartzfelt carry large
carbines, with which they fuccefifully
kill their antagonists at the distance
of between 5 and 600 yards.
They will probably hunt in the
sorest of Wantzenan, whither avast
number of fugitive Sans Culottes are
said to have retreated for fhelrer.
Brumath, nov. 17.—Intelligence
has been this moment received from
the head quarters of the Imperial
General Wurmfer, that a detachment
of his army has cut off a French post,
killed about 1,0 men, took 56 pris
oners, and several baggage waggons.
The greareft difeord is said to pre
vail at Strasbourg. The inhabitants
wish to surrender. Their project has,
however, been prevented by the eom
miffioners of the Convention, who
have already caused 220 persons to
fuffer by the guillotine, and their
property to be confifeated. The
French army of the Rhine now con
lifts of 80,000 men, and daily receives
farther reinforcements.
The brother-in-law of Gen. Wurm
fer has been apprehended at Siraf
bourg, and conveyed to Paris as a
prisoner of state.
Domeflic Occurrences.
Good News for the French !
Virginia.
NORFOLK, Reb. 12.
ON Saturday last arrived in Hampton
Roads, the French Friga e Charant,
of 40 guns, from Rochtort, and on Monday
the remainder of the French fleet, consisting
of thefoilowing veffrls, viz. Le Tigre, of 80
guns ; Le Jean Bart, of 74 guns; La Con
corde, of 40 guns ; Le Semillante, of 40;
Le Papilou, brig ; and a Corvette. They
failed from France on the 26th Dec. last, in
company with two more ships of the line,
who may be daily expe&ed here, or at New
york.
They have brought out the new minister
appointed to succeed Mr. Genet, and also
confills for the different diftrids of the Unit
ed States.
On their passage, they have taken 4 prizes,
viz. a frigate & a sloop of war from the Eaft
indies, who were dispatched express with the
news bf the capture of Pondicherry, and had
ori boaid thb treafufe & trophies taken there;
they also captured a Blip in company with
the above, who had on boar^, (betides other
droperty) 87,000 dollars ; they were sent to
[Francfe under fufficient convoy. The fourth
was a merchantman, taken near this coast,
'whole arrival is hotitylooked for.
Th^ Iriformatioh'deceived ty this fleet is,
that the ihternal^ffairs of France are now in
a regular and prosperous train ; that the
army of the Ryrerines, after several fuccefsful
] battles, had ^tered,pai%
Ithe fotiole of Citatoriia, except. Barcelona {
that so rapid were the successes of the French
armssn" that quarter, ^^s* little doubt
but itirit by this so the cotte
,was perforating i'rith^ e^h^^ of Madrid ;
(that the batteries ralfedfag^inft Toulon had
Ifucceede'd mfutting'off/^e communication
between me inner and oUter'lWfbours, Whicfr
had reduced the town to the greatest distress
for provision, the vamlon was on an allow
ance of 4 cz. of bread per diem ; that Toun
lon had twite < ffered to capitulate, but the
!ConventibnbaYing paffea a,decree formats
total deftruaion, the Republican General
vm det^tmined they ffibuld surrender at dis-
Icretion,; that the Prussian army irt.Alface
(me^fewim frdng &,pofitidrri had given
lup the design ofi befiegtog Strasbourg, had
recfcYfed the Rhine, and totally quitted the
tenutories of the Republick ; that in Auf
t#i Flanders, CoUrfray, Menin, and Nieu
<fort ito id poffefliorc^-ihe Republican
troops, and Oftend dose besieged ; that the
Convention had decreed the seizure of all
goods and merchandize the manufacture of .
her enemies, and placed them in the publick
stores, paying the former owners for them ;
and also that no more should be admitted in
to France from those countries during the
war ; that the cruizing Ligates on the coast
rof France had been particularly fuccefsful ;
and that the Republick, in spite of the perfidy
of the Toulonefe, will have ready for sea by
the last of February a fleet of go fail of the
line well manned. We also underhand that
M. Bompard is under arrest at Paris.
Liberty cf the press in Poland, annihilated.
The refpeaable Editor of the Gazette de
Varfovie announced in his paper of the 28th
September, that he is obliged to close his la
bours. It is not compatible with the pure
and wife government eftabliflied by the Em
press of Russia in Poland that a free newspa
per should exist in that devoted country. A
resolution has therefore been made to grant
an exclusive right to one chbfen person to
print and publish periodical papers in what
ever language he Ihall chufe : And the rea
son for this monopoly is, " That the crowd
of writing, of all kinds, the authors of which
seeking to anticipate each oher, and even
anticipating fads and time itfelf, continually
deceive the publick, by notices of events of
ten falfe, and sometimes contrary to the
maxims of a wife government."
To remedy this defied, one unsullied jour
nal only is to be-permitted, under the imme
diate infpedion of her imperial Majesty's
Ministers, and (his journal is no doubt to
take the title of the True Pole.—From this
moment, therefore, we shall hear only of the
wisdom of the Government of Poland, and of
the happiness of the people.
Attention !
GENERAL ORDERS.
Given at Exeter, fan. 1794.
THE Commander in Chief recommends,
That the noncommissioned officers and
soldiers of the infantry, uniform themselves
in the following manner, viz. With white
frocks and overalls, with a fringe the colour
of the facing of the division to which they
belong.
That the light infantry uniform themselves
with short dark blue coats, with facings and
trimmings of the fame colour of the division
to which they refpedively belong, with white
waistcoats and overalls, with half gaters, and
caps in a fugarloaf form.
That the uniforms for the music be short
scarlet coats, with buff facingy^whtte'birt
tons, white waistcoats and overalls, half gat
ers and caps.
And the adjutant general is hereby direct
ed to issue the foregoing orders to the several
commanding officers of divisions, as foori as
may be, and that they issue their orders to
the commanding officers of brigades accord
ingly. By order of his Excellency the Governour.
Michael M'Clary, Adj. General.
A FARM for sale,
TN the fathers, art of Weare, in the county of
Hi/jborowgb, containing.
Between 50 and 60 acres of Land,
which is Excellent—the mos of it under good im
prove went — with buildings—and
A good young Orchard thereon.
, so—. 'Q
Alfo—2oo acres in Andover,
in said county —on one lot of thicb itdlarge be
ginning for improvements made.
An, perjou, inclining to purchase; may have
good and reasonable terms, by ajplyingto tbefeb
feribet, living in said Weare. /
PETER WEARE.
I Weare, Feb. 12, 1794. ^ 69
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
fanuar, 30^ 1794,.
INFORMATION it hereby given .
)4to all the ^icary invalids of thd
United States, that the fams to which
the, are entitled for firmontbt dflhteir
lannual pension, from the fourth day
of ^September 1793 and which riiil
become due oh the sth day bf March
11794, will be ^aidon the said day by
Ithe Commiffidners^of the Loans with
in the ftatei refpeaivdy, under the
usual regulations.
Applici@ rind ad
tyniftrators^uft be accompanied with
legal evidence of their refpedive offic
es, arid also of the time the invalids
died, whole pension they may claim.
By commandroLthe President of the
I United Stated.^ H. KNOX,
t fpteoftwo- menthsf
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