The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1793-05-27 00:00:00, page 4

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Forces retreated to take Advant
age of the Ground : On the ißth
'the French gave Battle with great
Spirit—The combined Forces, re
ceived them with Firmness, and
the contest for eleven Houts was
hound go whittling o'er the plain ;
. driving his numerous flocks to fer
tile fields, whilst the shrill lark
Sword, while the Queen called
out " don't hurt my good People,
don't hurt my dear Subjeds," and
with u Whisper Grid, give 'em a
cut, stash away.
tunes sweetly her matin song, and
sweet Philomel lulls ev'ry care to
reft —Cares did I fay ? He is free
from all the caret which those in
the city experience. No dunning
creditor e'er flops him in his course,
but jocundly he passes the cheerful
day, whilst under the shady tree
his frugal repast revives his droop
ing frame, whilst yonder rivulet ir
gentle murmurs gliding down the
mossy bank, affords him lymphat
ic, cryftaline ftpeams to assuage
his thirst, and then when Sol in his
rof, vestments, tinges the weftern
skies, the nocturnal breeze is waft
ed round his frame, whilst he is re
dining under the shady bower, and
ambrosial zephyrs lull him to re
pose. His foft (lumbers are never
interrupted by the dread of veffeh
loft at sea, or debts that are irre
coverable,_
WHEN Mibifter# or Kings talk
of loving the People, they are to
be looked upon as Mountebanks,
who tell the gaping Fools that
they build the Stages, and live for
the people's Good. When old
Queen Bels rode behind the Lord
Chancellor to Sc. Paul's, the Peo
ple crowded her so much, that the
Chancellor beat them off with his
A RURAL retirement is the
happiest. Free from all the
hurry and bustle of the city, there,
the hufbindman reaps those boun
ties which the God of Nature so
lavishly bestows upon him. He
has no vessels which Neptune in
an angry frame may hurry down]
the whirlpool of deftruftion. No
clinging, fawning sycophants dis-l
grace his humble cot; but the fin-I
cerity of an honest heart is wafted
from the lips of content to the God
of Creation, whenever he mows
the tender grass, or plucks the cornl
from the bending stalk. See him]
as soon as dawn with his favorite
On the Plealures of Rural\
Retirement.
" Otium et oppidit laudat rura fui."-
Horace.
OYOU, whofeTives on land are pafs'd,
And keep from dang'rous jeas aloof;
Who carelejs life* to the blast,
Or, beating rains upon the roof ;
You little heed how seamen fare—
Condemn'd the angry form to bear.
Sometimes, mobile breakers vex the tide.
He takes bis Ration on the deck ;
And now, lafb'do'er the vessel's fde,
He clears away the cumb'ring wreck :
Yet, while the billows o'er him foam,
The Ocean is his only home !
Still frefar blows the mid-night gale ! \
" All bands, reef topsails, are the cries ;
And, while clouds the Heavens veil,
Aloft to reef the fail—beflies !
In forms Jo rending, doom'd to raom,
The Ocean is the seaman's home!
A NEW SONG.
THE PIERIDES.
% 793-
" The French will undoubted
ly stand their Ground, and finally
heat their combined Enemies
They adopt the American Policy
during the War, in almost all their
Measures of the Revolution."
to be minus two millions Sterling-—
By the London Gazette you will fee
that the Infedion has reached Liv
erpool, Briflol, and several other
Places —to the irretrievable De
ftrudion of many small Houles.
As Meffis, Lane, Son and Fra
zier have very considerable Con
nedions in America, I (hall submit
co you the Propriety of publish
ing the following Advertisement,
which appeared in the Papers of
this Day, viz. " All Persons hold
ing Bills or Notes, drawn, accept
ed, or endorsed by the House of
Lane, Son, and Frazier ; and
all Persons having Demands on the
said House, are requested to fend
the full Particulars of such Bills,
Notes, and Demands refpe&ively,
to A. and J. Weston, No. 31,
Fenchurch-Street."\
" Rely on my Assiduity to give
you correct Information. Opin
ons and Conjectures I (hall be
sparing of."-
BOSTON, May 13. The French
have now in actual Service, fix
hundred thousand Men, besides the
National Guards of each City.
Extract of a Letter written b, a
Citizen belonging to this Common
wealth, to bit Friend in Boftori,
dated at Paris, 12th of March
in Proportion to the Dangers which
surround them.
“ Business here has fuffered a
great Derangement from the al
most innumerable Bankruptcies,
chat daily take Place. The Hous
es here which have failed are Paid
[only retreated to their firft Position.
IThe Slaughter must have bee
Iconfiderable on both Sides. I will
[not mention numbers, as I really
[fuppofe they have not yet been
rightly afeertained. The latter
I was on the 22d of March, between
[the advance Guard of the Auftri
|an and French Armies, near Lou-
Ivain — The Accounts of it were
[received here, on the 26th-=and
[were contradicted in the Morning
\Cbronicle of the 27th, and in fev
[eral other Papers: On the 29' h
[the Accounts were renewed ; and
lon the 30th it was published here
by Authority. So the Event may
be relied on—the loss on each fide
is, as usual variously reported ; the
highest make the killed amount to
above 5000, on both Sides.
166I 66 We have much Intelligence
here of Riots, Plots of connter-
Revolutions, and Infurredions in
France ; many of them too ridicu-
Ilous to deceive even a Dupe to the
famous bottle conjurer's Scheme.
I believe there has been some Dis
contents at Lyons, arising in Brita
ny, and in a few other Places ; but
they excite but little Apprehen
sion in the Convention ; whose
Intrepidity and Firmness increase
doubtful. At length Vidory de
clared in Favour of the Austrians
I have seen the Austrian officia
Accounts of this Action. That
ofthe Prince Saxe-Cobourg is
the coolest, and most impartial- —
by that you will fee, the French
By the King, —A Proclamation
for a general Fast.
GEORGE R.
WE, taking into our most seri
ous Consideration the just and ne
cessary War in which we are en.
gaged with France, and putting
our trust in Almighty God that he
will vouchfafe a special Blessing on
our Arms both by Sea and Land,
having resolved, and do, by and
with the Advice of our Privy
Council, hereby command, that a
publick Fast and Humiliation be
observed throughout that Part of
our Kingdom of Great Britain call
ed England, our Dominion of
Wales, and Town of Berwick, up
on Tweed, on Friday the 19th of
April next ; that so both we and
our People may humble ourselves
before Almighty God, in order to
obtain pardon of our Sins ; and
may, in the most devout and Sol
emn Manner, fend upour Prayers
and Supplications to the divine
Majesty, for averting those heavy
Judgments, which our manifold
Sins and Provocations have most
justly deserved, and imploring his
Blessing and Assistance on our
Arms, and for restoring and per
petuating Peace, Safety and Prof,
perity to us, and our Kingdoms :
And we do ftridly charge and
command, that the laid publick
Fast be reverently and devoutly
observed by all our loving Sub
jefts in England, our Dominion of
Wales, and Town of Berwick upon
Tweed,as they tender theFavour of
Almighty God, and would avoid
his Wrath and Indignation ; and
upon Pain of such Punishment as
we may justly ioflia on all such as
contemn and negled the. Performs
ance of so religious and necessary
a Duty. And for the better and
more orderly solemnizing the fame,
we have given Diredions to the
most Reverend the Archbishops,
and' the Right Reverend the Bifh,
ops of England, to compose a Form
of Prayer suitable to this Occasion,
to be used in all Churches, Chap
els, and Places of poblick Wor
ship, and to take care the fame be
timely dispersed throughout their
refpeaive Dioceses. Given, &c.
the if March, 1793. .
Apprentice wanted.
117 ANTED immediately, a
VV healthy adive Boy, of good Charaßer,
fatten or seventeen Years of Age,, to ferue
as an Apprentice to the Tanner's Business—
Terms ma, he known by applying at Russell's
Printing Office. . Ma, fr 2^~ra
66 Marcb 28.— The Report 0
the Day is, that on the 22d Inst.
the grand Army of Dumourier
was entirely defeated by the Prus
sians and Austrians, with ver,
great Slaughter,and that they have
repossessed themselves of the Bel
gic Provinces.
Marcb 30.— The entire Defeat
of Dumourie r is contradided ;
he was worsted on the 18th, but
is since strongly fortified near
Brussels,"
[As an Article rather ofthe curious Class
than otherwise, we extract the following
Eoglifh State Paper.
Extracts of Letters from a Gentle
man of Reputation in London
to bis Friend in tbis Town, dated
March 28, and 30.
JAMESHOGG.
Note.—Four excellent Lots
of unimproved Land, in thejouth Part of Pre
teftwortb, will be fold a Pennyworth, if ap
plied for immediately. v 1 )
Note. —Pasturing to let up
on reasonable Terms, by the Subferiber
at Weare. JAMES HOGG.
Weare, Ma, 6, 1793, 3Qh°fii
Also, at the fame Time will
bejold, three PEWS in thenorth Weare
Meeting Houje; and a FARM in Newton
don, containing about 50 Acres of fine Land,
near the Meeting Houje, and a good Hosfe and
a well fuijbed Barn ; the Whole in good Or
der—being the fame that Ephraim Gile
formerly lived on.
The Whole of the above will
pofitivel, be fold, at Time and Place, unlejs
previously fold at private Sale.
Any Person inclininglo treat
for the above, at private Sale, may know the
Terms, by applying to the Subscriber, on the
Premises, or to Major Caleb Stark; at
Dunbarton. .4 jatisfaaor, Title will be
given.
TO be fold, by Publick Auc
tion, on the 20th of June next, at ten
of the Clock in the Forenoon, on the Premises,
A FARM,
Situated in Weare, containing about 180
Acres of Land, equal in Quality to any in the
State ; with a good House, two large Barns,
a new Cyder Mill with Shed, and other out
Buildings ; all in thorough Repair. A fine
Well of Water, and a beautifulyoung Orch
ard, capable ts making from zo. to 30 Barrels
of Cyder—The whole enclosed with good Fenc
es, among which is nearly five hundred Rods
of good Stonewall; the Whole und^rgood Cul
tivation, and extremely well calculated for a
Settlement.\
A good BARGAIN.
TO be fold, a convenient and
good Place for a Trader, or Tradesman,
about 20 Rods below Sandbornton Bridge,
and within 4 Rods of Morrison's Grist
and Saw Mills, Jo called ; a convenient dwel
ling House, a small Barn, and a Shoemaker's
Shop, thereon. A generous Credit will be
given for Part of tbe Payment. For further
Intelligence apply to
NATHANIEL LADD, of
Sandbornton.
Sandbornton, May igb, 1,93° 3°13'3
INFORMS bis Customers and
the Publick, that he has removed from the
Main Street, to bis House, about one bundrtit:
Rods north of the Meeting Houje, on Bofcaw
en Road ; where he will readily answer their
Commands in the Line of bis Bufinefs —and'b&
begs leave to tender them bis grateful Thanks
for pas Favours, and hopes a Continuance.^
Well made Shoes, by IVbolre,
sale and Retail, for Sale.
Concord, Ma, 20, 1793. Bolrf3.fi
Tbe above Articles will be
fold as low as at any Store in Boston.
Confant Attendance given,
and every Favour gratefully acknowledged.
Pot and Pearl Afoes, Bees
Wax, Beef, Tallow, Flax Seed, Oak ^oards,
Ox Horns and Tips received in Payment.
Haverhill, May 8, 1793. 29|8w
ALLUM, Barwood,
Copperas, , — Nicaragua,
Logwood, Aqua Fortis,
Redwood, Ifnglafs,
Fuftick, Cream Tartar,
Cochineal, Gum Arabic,
Oil Vitriol, Virdigreafe,
Roman ditto. Argall,
Ground Camwood, Spirits Vitriol,
- Redwood, French and Spanifb
Saunders, fata Indigo.
—■—— Madder,
With a general Aflortment
of PAINTS and GROCER IES.
Where he has for SALE, a large and
/ fresh Aflortment of
DRUGS and MEDICINES;
JOSEPH CLEASBY,
Cloth Shoemaker,
Begs leave to acquaint the Publick he has
opened a SHOP in Haverhill,
PUBLICK. AUCTION.
ALSO —'
DYE STUFFS, viz.
William D. Doak