The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1793-04-22 00:00:00, page 4

THE fIERIDES.
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'0 OLD MAIDS.
HOW blef aretbofethat early wed *
& Hymen's sacred Bunds,
Before their youthful Day\ are fled,
Svurit Hymen joins tbeir Hands.
The Maid that marriesyoung and gay,
, Forever takes Delight ;
In Pleafekdfoa, Spends the Day,
And Raptures crownthe Night.
She like a Plant by Watersfit,
'Shall dwellin Health and Peace :
Her Soul no fruitlefe Wife (ballfret $
But converts fill increase.
Bright as the Rose, and enter fair.
Her Nam and Face Jball Jbinet
And Fruits of mutual Love lappa?,
Like Clufers on the Fine.
Not so old Maids that lie alone:
What vain Desires they feel? i
Tbeir charms, tbeir hopes, together flows;
like chaff beforgith Gale. v
When young, the great command they /burn,
" Increase and multiply :"
But punifb'din tbe» edge, they burn,
They lahgttiJh,akdtbe, die. 1 - '''4 4
Tbe Lord delights in tbofe that wed, "^
His Heart agrees Awes quelle
But tbofe that Wie Ad Mgi,,Jhall lead.
Forever, APV" I -^^ h
MISER.
✓"CURIO'S rich Sideboardftldom Jees the Light, :
(J Cleants bis Kitchen, awl hisfelts are bright fr
Its Knives sty Forks all rang'd io efumßpvss,
No Hand m%fts, no Servants difeompofe;
A curious Jack hung up to please the Eye,
For ever fill ; wbofe fliers —never fly ;
His Plates unjalliedfining oh the Shelf;
For Curio Irefa Nothing but bimjelf.
hilarity.
A S Thomas nyas cudgeWdone day by his wife,
Hetook to his beds, and Be. ran for bis lift
Tom's three dearest friends came by in tbefquabble,
A^dferviddbim at oncefrom theJbrew ^tbe rabble;
Then Sutur'd to give bim jome wholejerne advice ;
But Tom is a felloes of honour so nicty
T^r«,i ake counjel, too veife to take learning,
That be sent to all three a challenge next morning.
Height?wit4 aUtbrtf, thrice he ventur'd bis life ;
—Teen went home, and was cudgell'd again by bis
{'wife.
AMONG those who were introduced to
Prince William Henry, on his late Visit
to the Province of Novafcotia, was Major -—-
whq was introduced as a refugee Officer, to
whom the Prince made the following Reply :
"Ah, Major, then you are one of my Fathet's
z,; Fqu
Rj^vvfyfrmmt^ an indented
apprentice Buy, turned ThomAsPa&^on;
of milling Size, light Hair; whoever will takeup
fail Boy audreturx bimta me,fall have the dhwe
Reward, and no Chargee paid, by me,
Weare, April 1% 1,9, ISRAEL STRAW'.
N. B. All Perseus are cautioned again# barbour
ing^r trifling said Bey, as they would avoid the
Penalty of the Law. \I. S. ,
ALL Persons indebted to the Estate of Moses
Clement, late f "Warner, dgeafed, are
desired so make Payment.—Tbofe who have De
mdnds againftfaid Efate, are requeued to exhibit
tbeir Accountsfor Settlement, to ~
THOMAS ANNIS, Adminifrator.
Warner, April ;tb,y§ty + 25 || jf.
NOT^f^ND.
qrHISh to notify all Persons not
l to purChafe^Note of Hand of £ls l.
m. d^ted Septem. 27th, 1792, payable in two
Months from Date, signed by theSubfertber,
to one Jonathan DusTEN,of Weare —Said
Note is not due. Wm, CALDWELL.
Weare, March 25.1793. „II 3 f -,
virtt: but^^^ federall
Rutersis infpe&ed with the Eye of an Eagle,
wemould net beiblfot to the Proceedings of
the Government immediately over us.—Had
the A& of CongreH,frfabli,ing an _ #
Militiathroughoutthe United States, been as
anetfuU in iteJU^tion as the Ad for regu
given,
The continental A& exempts from military
Duty a Number of Charadere, and leaves to
the several States to make such further Exemp
tions as they shall think proper ;—the Exemp
tion of Persons between the Age of 40 Ind 45
Years, which, by the Ad of Congress, were to
be enrolled, I presume will not generally be ob
jeded to ; but 10 extend it so far that the Du
ty should fall principally on a Class of Citizens
who can ill afford the Time or Expense, is sure
ly a Grievance. Why, for Instance, thould an
Exemption be made in Favour of a Man per
haps scarce 2 1 Years of Age, because his. Fa
ther was wealthy enough to pay for whatjs cal-'
led a liberal Education, and obtained for him
a Degree, as " Master of Arts I" One who
can defray the Expense of such an Education,
it may be supposed, can afford the Time, and
equip himfelf, much better than a Man who
has his daily Bread to procure by his Labour:
this poor Man, though he obtain from the
Seledmen a Certificate that he is unable to e
quip himfelf, must nevertheless give his Time
th the Publick, not withstanding the Wants of
his Family, ot pay a fine of NINE SHIL-'
LINGS, (three Times as much as the con
tinental A& requires) and if he has not a Cer
tifaate ofbis Poverty, although he appear on the
Parade, and is nbt completely equipt, he is liable
to the fame forfeiture ; " if he offend in one
Point; he is guilty of all :" the continental Aft
fob an uniform Militia, &c. requires for the'
fame Offence, only one sixth Part of that Sum.
If the Legislature wiffied to render the Militia
refpeaable, it appears to me the state Ad is'
poorly calculated to anfwerthat important pur
pose ; for in the Formation of Cavalry, ahd.
Artillery, it is enaded, that not more than one
eleventh Part of any Company of Infantry shall
enlist into those ; so that to form a Company,
of Artillery, for instance, there can be but fix
Men from a company of infantry, consequent-„
ly the Extent of Country, over which eleven
companies may fpread,muft be travelled when -
ever,they meet as a Company, should they
have Leave to form One ; now the continental
Aa provides that not more than one eleven th
Part ofa Regiment shall be so formed ; by this
any Tow#, if the Governour fee fit, may raise
such a Company, (if there is no other in the
Regiment) and by tbeir being easily assembled,
they may have frequent Opportunities of im
proving in Exercise, and Manoeuvres ; but the
state Aa seems to throw an effectual Bar in
the Way of forming such Companies, partic
ularly Artillery ; for few would be at the Ex
pense of a Sqit of Uniform, when the .company
Seldom paraded. Further the state A& requires
that the Commander of a company should call
forth his Men twice in a Year, (exclusive of
the battalion Muster) and, as much oftner as be
shall think bes ;fo that th is Captain or Com
manner of a Company,who perhaps has Noth
ing else to do, may call his industrious fellow
Citizens from their Employment whenever he
may be so disposed, sunder a Pretence of in
ftruaing them in military Discipline ; and if
they should not attend, exa& the enormous
Fine before mentioned ~ which he, with the
Subalterns, are to appropriate for defraying
the necessary Expenses of the Company ; they
being Judges what those nectary Expenses are.
Another Objedion to this Aft is the Power
the Officers have to punish by a heavy Fine, or
ride a wooden Horse, such Person as they in
their Wisdom shall thinkproper. In a stand
ing Army, severe Discipline may be necessary,
byt that, among free Citizens, it should be in
the Power of two Men (for in company Mas
ters there can be but thtee commissioned Offi
cers) to sentence a Man as good as themselves
to,Wat ignominious Punishment of riding a
wooden Horse, which; in other States, is the
Punishment of Thieves and Vagabonds, is not
consonant to the Spirit of Republicans. Per
haps those Officers may have a private Pique
againfta reputable Citizen, & under the Pre
tence of Difrefped to their Worships, shall in
flia this Disgrace on them : The Idea of cor
poreal Punishment inflided on Men not in ac
tual Service, is surely abherent to Americans.-
By the Aa of Congress the state Legislature
were to make such further Regulations as they
might think proper, according to the Rules of DiJ
cipline therein enabled; whether they have not
departed from those Rules of Discipline, and
which it the “ Supreme Law," may be made
a Question.
fating the Militia of this State, we ihouldhave
had Remarks and Observations in Abundance;
& Comparison of those two Ads will enable us
to determine to which a Preference Ihould be
FRANCE.
PARIS, Feb. 7.—Dumourier has re
ceived Orders to invade Holland. .
National Convention — Wednejda,, January 30.
IN the Seff on of the 30th of Jan. the for- ^
eign Minister informed the Aflembly, that
the Efforts of the executive Power to prevent
a Rupture between the French Repulick and
the British Government had proved frwitlefs.
In Consequence of the Execution of Louis
Capet, a general Mourning prevailed in En
gland, an Insult that could not be palliated ;
and as soon as the News of the Death of Lou
is reached London, the Minister of the Repub-^
lick was ordered to quit the Kingdom, The
-Minister for foreign Affairs then read the Note
from Lord Greenville to that Purport.
The Convention afterwards, on the Motion
of Boyer Toupe de, ordered the Commit
tee of general Defence to report on the Sub
je& in the Course of two Days, and the exec
utive Council to take such Measures as were
necessary for the Safety of the State.
ENGLAND.^
LONDON, Feb. 12.—The French Exec
utive Council are adinga new, extraordina
ry, black and scandalous part with refpea to
this country. The law of nations is in every
minute instance violated. The privet boats
that carried over M. Rheinard, and a part of
M. Chauvelins's baggage arid his horfe£are
detained in Calais harbour,
'Two vessels have failed this «# from Dover
to Calais ; but neither, though the weather
is favourable have yet returned. The num
ber now detained at Calais, are two Poftoffice.
packets, and three passage boats.,
The detention of our vessels, in the French,
ports appears not merely to be an embargo,
but contrary to the laws of nations, to amount
to an absolute seizure. Advices said to have
come by the way of Guern fey, state, that
French Soldiers are Rationed on board these
vessels, to superintend their cargoes, which are
not to be paid for, but to be considered as a
fair seizure. '';
The French Part of ^t. Domino will be the,
firft obfea of the Spaniards,, in fcirimpeQd
ing Wat with Franco ; there can be h,&ty
Doubt of their Success. • '
r iratY.
LEGHORN, Dec. 19. We have
further Accounts of the Departure of
the French Fleet from the Bay of Spe
ebia ; ten of them are ' gone tb Toulon,
where there are said to ^6O Tranl
port9, with 15,000 Troops on board,
waiting for them to convoy. Eleven
other French Ships of War, with (ome
bomb Ketches, ate gone to Gotfa, to
take in 400 Q Men. After thisthe Fleet
will unite again, and, it is (aid, will fail
to Sardinia.
I am not led to these Obferva^Mq
Difrefpea for the Rulers of cur Stale, or 'fl
of Attachment to state Governments ; I win
them ever to retain as much Power as is con
sistent with the Welfare of the great Whole ;
but hope the general Court at their next Ses
sion willfo amend the Militia A&, that tbofe
Parts of it which appear exceptionable, arid
must be a Source of Contention, if not Confit
fion, may be repealed. SIDNEY. 1
GERMANY.
HAMBURGH, 7 7-tHE flame which has
January 18. jit# some Time been
concealed in Sweden has at length burst forth.
The Duke Regent having byway of Precau
tion, augmented the Garrison cf Stockholm,a
Qu:>ircl teck Place between the Citizens and
the Soldiers, and Blows foilowing, Captain
Frfse, in his own Defence, unfortunately
wounded one of the Aggreffers with his Swerd.
The People demanded that the Officer should
be punished ; the Duke Regent refufed, and
a Mob assembled. Satisf^aiori was profiled
them, and they appeared calm, when a Pistol
was difeharged before the Apartment of the
Duke Regent, by which a Dragoon was
wounded. This took Place on rhe Evening
of the 7th Jan. and onite Bth, when the Let
ters came away, it was feared that those who
had openly announced their Intention of im
itating the Revolution in Fritnee would eke-
Cute their Designs. ..