The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1794-02-17 00:00:00, page 1

k D. IV. <was last quick reading in ,cur paper
c< An Ovation," in praift of Rum, by Tom
Toper, and in reply quill be much obliged to you
to publijh the following very ferioue
OBSERVATIONS.
\|o vices are so incurable as those
IN which men are apt to glory in.
Ongwou'd wonder how dtunkenne fs
™°& Ihave the good luck to be of this
Leffler. Aoarchafis being invited to
a match of drinking, at Corinth, de
manded the , prize, because he got
drunk firft.
I was the other day hearing the fto
fy of Jeremy Jug, who was reckon
ing up how much liquor had passed
through his gullet the daft thirty years
of his life ; which according co his
computation, amounted to twenty five
hogsheads of New-England Rum!
this he computed to have cost him
twelve hundred and fifty dollars, be
sides the time (pent in earning it,
Which is about one thousand dollars
mor% la addition to this, he had
incurred physician's bills for wounds,
bruited, and other consequent attend
ants on drunkenness, amounting to
two hundred dollars: in the whole,
to iwo Thousand four hundred and
fifty dollars ! Asa compilation for
thisium he had the p'eafure of getting
Quik,more than ten thousand differ
ent times ; in the course of which,
he had several times run the rifque of
birfih hid his thins broke, his body
bruited, his clothes loft or torn g
pieces, and his pockets picked. Lafk
edJery what age he was of ? He re
plied, It is 55 years fincelfirft began
my whence, thefoft 48 of which, I
am gl&j to be able to fay, were not
entity,toft ; the remainder my con
fcieoce :0b me," has for the greatest
part, been a state of deliberate, felf
ty^ingKjwder ! and affords a re
ft&ton ^mofttoo great foe a mortal
to Support! :t
Here is a picture drawn from the
Asa and inch another may I neveri
have the misfortune to behold. A;
man almost 60 years of age, whose
bead was filtered with, hoary locks
and his cheeks furrowed with age, ut
tering truths that made him appear
Rvea wotfe ghan £frute te& My
horrounfor hit fitultioA was, howev
er, considerably abated, on perceiving
.the tay of light that was dawning up
on his mind—he appeared to be fen-;
fible of hit fituatio%and desirous to
exchange it far a better. 10
However highly thisrebfs of peo
ple mzyihinkJof dtemfeWts, they
may be assured, thata drunkard is a
greatermonfter, than anyin creation /
ahd iqdeeduthere is-ro chanter that
.appears more despicable and: deform
ed.
Benefits, having frit up for a share
tin the Roman Empire, arid being de- |
feared, hanged him feito :Wheo seen
by the army, notwrthftandmg he had
I been brave, the common jest was that
1 theniring they f^wl, hanging before
Athem AtoMd tree, vias not a man but
,/).a cofy^b^^
ao^lo^^
iftfc^Ci^
% #fevenipg faamfonyfelf, I,opkj
S^ffllg^7^
fent@ent in which, ga, rife co ^fe
refleaions, which to lay before?
[Vol. IL— Num. 6 9 .]
FOR THE MIRROUR.
mr. russell Your Correspondent
CONCORD
he pretends he never made love to
her! Ridiculous fubrerfuge! He stole
into her heart by the help of those
silent tender observances which are
the surest batteries when there is time
to pay them off. 1 If any man had
thus obtained my fitter's, heart, left
her a prey to disappointment, and
then said he meant nothing, my (word
Ihould have taught him his conduct
was hot less difhonourable than if he
had knelt at her feet, and (worn a
million of oaths."
Let me now ask you, ye single
men, if ye do not at this moment
know too many of our helplef, sex,
whom you have reducedto this most
painful of all difoppoiotments ? And
can you acquit yourselves of dishon
ourable proceedings; ye, who have
by a thousand little attentions, by ar
dent looks, and those various methods
you have used to insinuate yourselves
into the bosom of sensibility and ten
derness ? Can you lay your hands to
your hearts and acquit yourselves by
laying, “ you mean nothing ; you
had no thoughts of matrimony ? and
that it is unreasonable the world
Should form such conjectures, as noth
ing was farther from your intentions:
And that it is very hard a man cannot
enjoy the lociety of an agreeable wo
man, but a report must be propagat
ed that an union must take place."
It is, I allow, a very great hard
ship ; but the weight falls on the
deluded and too credulous fair one ;
while you can rear your heads trium
phantly, and fay, " you meant noth
ing/' For in this, as in other cases,
the world judge from appearances—
When, therefore, a man is seen forev
er at the fide of an agreeable woman,
who is every way fuirable to him
when he takes ©very opportunity, of
expressing his partiality, though not
in direct terms, yet in such as are
nevertheless intelligible ; when this
man Ihall take every opportunity of
evincing his partirty to the lady her
felf; such as the tender glance repeat
ed—-—the frequent sigh- contriv
ing always to be near her in compa
ny.—— pressing her hand when un
obferved—=and an hundred other
ways, which trifling as they may' seem
in the relation, when used by a man
@laUk appearances amiable and in
earnest, steal into the bosom of an un
fufpefting woman ; c;n this man in'
Honour exculpate himfelf, who thus
defrauds a woman of her heart, algho'
t&'word lovedtver passed httity?|
-T-— Weigh tyll in. jour mipdfi y'e
men ot honour, ye men of ft&g,
the distress which fills the female bo-|
fom, tftef'fo# a'fe@dipn of the
heict.^a ^&?fy^
ra&waMr tel^ w.wtew
®^^ Weff ^ ,@,
fdualLthetenmguiffi LwnM^
Wta&&fa%t m Y belptefc&l
froarioWute fyl^^^
the young men, that they may fee
them : And, beciufe some of them
may not have read the fentimeot I al
lude to, and others puffed it unnotic
ed, I will tranferibe the passage.
George Hargrave haV discovered
that a gentleman had gained the af
fedrons of his sister, without absolute
ly declaring himfelf to her. to ari{
fwer to a question put him, (hit it
w&vbelieved Ibe gentleman had nev
er addressed her he lays, " So!
M ON D AY, FEBRUARY 17; 1794. .
BY E. RUSSELL.
my foul was foftened by the severest
stroke of affliffion it had ever fuftrin
ed; when grief had left it unprotect
ed nod defeocelefe, it became a prey
to love, and canfequenriy to a dis
tress of a fill deeper tinctures lam
now arrived at an age when men no
longer betray, or women believe ;
but like.the hardy veteran, who feels
his wounds frnart when he recounts
his former dangers, the arrow rankles
in my bosom, at the recolkaion of
fufferiog, which ought, long firice, to
have been forgotten. O! Ye mean
ers cf nothing, take yourselves to
talk ; whatever you may thick, your
condua is very reprehensible :
How base! How ungenerous !' To
play with the affedions of a deferring
objeft, whose only weakness, is, per
haps, her attachment to you! How
many of you who purfoe this, will
view your own picture ! May it have
weight with you ! Reflect on the an
guish many a heart of sensibility is
fighiog under ; reflect that the im
pressions you have made, have been
owing to the amiable light you have
appeared in! Be still men of honour
• and repair, while you have op
portunity, the ravages you have made
in the female breast.
This advice, may, perhaps be treat
ed with contempt by those to whom
it is addressed; yet it is the natural
happiness of the sex I am at, which
you must be sensible can never be ef
fe&ed, while so much insincerity is
pra(ftifed on the man's part: but let
them be just, and make no doubt of
their being happy.
Your ioferting the above among
your very entertaining essays ; will
oblige your friend.
CLAI !±.
Court Intelligence.
His Excellency Governor Bart
lett's Letter
To the L EGISLATURE.
Gentlemen of the Legifoture,
„ FTFR having served the public
A for a number of years past, ac
cording to the best of my abilities, in
the various offices to which I have
had the honour to be appointed, I
think it proper, before your adjourn
ment, to lignify co you, and through
you to my fellow citizens at large,
that I now find myfelf so far advanc
ed in life, that it will be expedient for
me, at the close of the present year,
to retire from the cares and fatigues
of public bufioefs, to the repose of a
private life,
With a grateful sense of the repeat
ed marks of trust and confidence, that
my fellow citizens, have reposed in
me, and with my best wishes for the
future peace and prosperity of the
state,
lam, Gentlemen,,
your most obedient,
•and very humble fervanr,
JOSIAH BARTLETT.
Exeter, J„b 29, 1794.
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Ne^amffl Legislature.
In the HOUSED REPRESENTATIVES,
/C b3aWTTCiJi # y&N.3O. ;,'....
A BILL ,'teller the annual meet-
CT^S,^ o ,^ !°
tetyramo^fa frfcopai fac^x,^
Claremoffiandft billM&prelrert the
teptrig bf Ify tfwto-tf gen-
The convention proceeded to con
fider of the return from the county
of Rockingham, as far as Newmar
ket, when they adjourned.
Jan. 31. The Senate and House
being again, met in convention, pro
ceeded to the examination of invento
ries, and after remarlzs made on those
returned from Rockingham, the con
vention rose, with leave to fit again,
and the speaker resumed the chair, the
chairman reported progress, and the
Senate withdrew.
p. m. The Senate and House met
again in convention of the whole, and
proceeded to examine and remark on
the inventories returned from the
county of Strafford, and after exam
ining the whole of Strafford returns,
adjourned to nine o'clock to morrow
morning.
CoTigrefinal Regifler.
THIRD CONGRESS-FIIHST session.
In the HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES.
JAN. 15, 1794.
AMeffage was received from the
President of the United Seated
communicating a letter from M^.
Genet, Minister Plenipotentiary of the
French Republick to the U. Statei,
dated the 20th of December, 1793 ;
and a copy of the proceedings of the
Legislature of Southcarolina. The
letter was read —it states that the
Minister had not authorifed the enroll
ing, forming and equipping of an arm
ed force in any part of the territory of
the United Sates, but that pursuant
to authority and inftruaions from the
Executive Council of the French Re
publick, he had delivered commissions
to sundry Republican citizens in the
state of Southcarolina, who had de
termined to expatriate themfelves—
thefe perlons were to go to join the
people called Savages, to fight under
the orders of the French Republick,
against their enemies, the English and
Spanish.
The proceedings of the Legidature
of Southcarblina, relative to this bust
nefs were then read, by which it ap.
pears that a number of persona in that
state had accepted commissions from
Mr. Genet, that they had proceeded
to enlist sundry persons—these, when
embodied, were to rendezvous in
Georgia, and to aft on the Spanish
settlements on the frontier, or other
wise i^ conjunaion with a French
fleet, in case such fleet should appear
on the southern coafh
Jan. 16.— The resolution received
from the Senate yesterday. proposing
an amendment to the Constitution of
'^United States; was read the second
ti^e,jnd made the order of the day
for Monday next.
.=— —r-" fa
Jan. 17. —Mr. Cole presented the
petition of John Bryan, a soldier in
th© late American army, praying com
penfition of ferviceM&red to the
Secretary at War.
powder sin private haufes io Ports
mouth—were read for a firft time,
arid puffed to a second reading.
The Senate and house being again
met ii convention, agreeable to ad
journment; proceeded to the examin
ation cf inventories, and determined
on those from the county of Graf
con. ^
[Price fs.frr ann.]
NEWHAM.