The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1795-03-27 00:00:00, page 3

der to do it they will assist in throw-;
§ ing the whole power of the nation in-j
to the hands of the people ; they pro-J
bably will not negotiate with the
Stadtholder. This officer therefore,
will protract the war to the great in
jury of his country for his own parti
cular benefit— But the Dutch may
have a peace with the French by the
facrifice of the Stadtholder and the
eftablifhmeot of a Democratic con
stitution.
Exlraff of a letter dated Amflerdam,
Jaguar, 7, 1795.
" We are here groaning under the
burdens of the WAR.. The French
are expected daily, being already in
Guelderland. May God give us soon
a desirable peace ; about which to
obtain, two commissioners sent from
the ftateito Paris, are employed."
. From PHILADELPHIA, March to.
AS many persons have doubted the
practicability of the decree of the
French Convention, ordering each de
partment to furnilh a vessel of the iine, #
we are happy in being able to lay be
fore out readers an authentic account
of the manner in which this extraordi
nary decree is carrying into execution.
Throughout the whole Republic are
immense forefts, which are foftered
with great care, for the purpose of
fopplying fuel and timber for the na
tion. In these forefts, the interior de
partments, which are riot furnifhed
with tea ports are at prelent engaged
in building the vessels they are requir
ed to provide. When finifhed, they
are to be propelled to the sea ports on
rollers, and there they are to be final
ly equipped for sea. The ftupendoub
efforts making in this refpea, have
never been equalled by any nation in
the world, and leave little doubt as to
the final issue of the war. (The in
formation here given, reft# on the au
thority of a gentlemen of the firft re
fpe&ability, who left France in the
month of November.)
SALEM, march 17.
Capt. Grant, in the brig Union, ar
rived yesterday at Marblehead, in 56
days from Lisbon. A few days be
fore he failed, a packet arrived from
England, with information of a French
fleet of 33 ships of the line, besides
frigates, being in the Englilh Chan
nel, arid capturing all the inward
bound merchantmen—and that Lord
Howe was preparing to go out to en
gage them. Capt. Grant heard no
thing at Lisbon of the capture of Am
sterdam. /
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FOR THE MIRROR.
Messrs. Printers,
I OBSERVED in the Mirror of last week
the old proverb, Curs Cow have Jhort tons, ~
Not being much versed in proverbs, I did not
immediately apprehend tbefore/ of it. Look
ing into an old book, I found the following
explanation, which, it you think it to con
vey the true meaning of the tent, you will please
to publish in the Mirror. P.Q
THE TEXT.
CURST COWS HAVE SHORT HORNS.
EXPLANATION.
iftly. This proverb is sarcastically applied
to such persons who, though they have malign
nit, in their hearts, have feeblenefs in their
hands, disabling them from wreaking their
malice on the persons tbs, bear ill mill to.
zdly. Alfa, under this ridiculous emblem
of Curs Coto, Inveterate Enemies are couch
ed whose barbarous /ft#/ are often frufrated
by the intervention of an overruling Providence,
ffliifliiniiiiiuiiiittiiio^
CONCORD, March 27,1795.
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Bimes for Newsmongers
We have not a word of "Important News"
pr LAST EVENINGS MAIL.
BOSTON, MARCH 25..
It is to be'lamcnted, that the vessel
I ate was adjourned before it arrived.
;The periods of etedion, cf pec third
of the Senators, expiring on the 3d
inst. it will be impossible to convey
information to the federal dates, in
which re-elections have been made, in
season for the new Senators co arrive
at Philadelphia, before June next ;
and until all the Senate have had in
formatiop of the arrival of the Trea
ty, it will not be discussed.
Mr. Bayard,=-This gentleman
appointed by the President, as Com
mercial Agent for profecucing appeals
in Greatbricaib, arrived in London,
December 13. This business is there
said to be of '' the utmost importance
to both countries."
Mr. Fitzfimons has advertised in a
Philadelphia paper, that another dis
patch vessel, was immediately to fail,
tor the British Weftindies, to stop at
Bermuda, on the business of the cap
tures last summer by the British.
,Guadeloupe and Marigalanie, are
declared by the British Weftindia
Commanders, to be in a state of siege.
The British have a confidetable na
vy in the Weftindies ; but few troops.
A gentleman arrived here from the
Isle of France, via Rhodeifland, where
he arrived in a small vessel, the <hip
he was in, being obliged, from want
of provisions, to put away for the
Weftindies, informs, that every thing
was tranquil in that island ; but that
provisions were very scarce, only one
of the many vessels which have failed
from the United States, for thence,
having arrived. The island was in a
complete state of defence ; and as the
whites were all united, they had but
little to fear. Three French frigates
were there, and the Englilh Eaftindia
men privateeri had returned to Cal
cutta, ^
THE FEDERAL FRIGATES
Will soon exhibit marks of forward
neb.—Since our lift, another vessel,
with live oak, has arrived here from
Georgia—another was difmafted in
the late storm, and has got into Rhode
ifland—the timber fafe. The keels of
those building at Philadelphia, and
Newyork, are laid.
POST-ROADS,
It is singular, but true, that eight
years ago, encouragement was barely
given for two Stages, and 12 horses,
on the great road between this town
and Newhaven, a distance of 170
miles—whereas at this time, there are
upwards of an hundred horses, and
twenty carriages employed.
r The number of different regular
Stages that run in thecourfe of a week,
from this town, are upwards of 20. —
Eight years ago there were but 3.
'The regular direct Post Road from
Wiffcaffet, in this Commonwealth, to
Sanbury, in Georgia, embraces sixty
four post towns, and a distance of
1513 miles. This, with the cross
roads eftablilhed, make near 10,000
miles out, over which mails are lent.
The Patriot will contemplate this cir
cumstance, with plealure.
FAYETTE.
The London Analytical Review
contains the following article relative
to M. La Fayette, by which it ap
pears that he has published "A state
ment of his own Conduct and Princi
ples." It cannot fail to prove inter
efting to Americans, and we there
. extrad it: .
^THE Marquis is represented as in
different about bis fate, and being
„now entirely detached from the solic
iting iriterefts and prejudices of the
4 ,pffions, his mind is said co have re
fumtd the serene dignity of its native
todepeodeufynd, th^beirig enab^
led to take an .impartial review of his
former condua, he has determined to
judge how far that has corresponded
with, or deviated from, the rules of
integrity and juffice.
" My character (Uys he) is become
a feathered Ihuttlecock, which both
parties bear to each other, in the wan
tonn& of play, deeming the fide dif
grac^ on which it should happen to
tail—#l Grange combination of un
fortunate circumstances not only ov
erpowered my most spirited and well
meaning efforts, in refitting the hor
rid despotism of licentiousness, but al
lo drew upon me the vengeance of a
society, whole principles, like thole
of religion, are degenerated from their
primitive purity, to the Ipecies of des
potism they affed to deleft, but yet
exercise io the humour of every whim
to those degrees that exalt capricious
ness from a state of ridiculous infigni
ficance, to the serious importance of
criminality.
66 The inftitutors of this society
were men of unblemilhed integrity,
and formed it upon principles so no
ble, in an hour of such imminent
danger, that the genius of France
deemed to have taken its residence
with them, and consequently the con
fidence of the people who considered
it as the idol of political principles.
" The apprehensions of danger a
bating, the gross and weak, indulging
the variety natural to them, picked
up principles for fashion lake, though
ignorant of their nature; Pleated
with the novelty, they strutted into
view, in all the coxcomb fopperies
that the extravagance of whim and
colours could afford, displaying them
selves with the anxious ambition of
deformed people, seemingly regard
less in what sense you noticed them,
provided they were but noticed.—
Mere profeffion, being then deemed
a fufficient qualification to entitle a
mao to become a member of this so
ciety, it loon began co swell up with
cumbersome combustibles, who tho°
considered as poor harmless exple
tives, were deemed a great acquificion
by some, who, through an over fod
nefs for themselves were ptoud to fee
the numeration table well filled, with
out well confideriog the power of
numbers, nor the infinite variety of
porpofes they were liable to produce,
nor yet how far weak men were lia
ble to be duped into wicked agen
cies."
After this attack upon the Jacobin
Club, the Marquis proceeds as follows:
"The vital Iparks of liberty, (phy
sically speaking) in its infant state, has
nothing so much to dread, as a super
abundance of idiotic phlegm, for tho'
it derives its corporeal strength there
from, yet when it forces its way into
the sacred presence-chamber of reafoo,
all the charming ftrudures, and feeoes
of order, are demolilhed, and a ful.
mination of chaotic diftradion ensues,
which transforms the whole of the
noble system into so dangerous a mon
ster, that its deftruaion becomes nec
essary to the honor and fafety of its
own former species.
^ Such was the monster which
lately broke loose from the chains ap
plied by reason, and rushed forth in
the open face ot day, turioufly over
curnihg ail things that bore any ap
pearance of refinance, and marked its
career with blood and deftruaion,
confounding the innocent with the
guilty in One promiscuous ruin.
" The legiflicive body, terrified at
the rudenefe of such desperate out
rageoufnefyfuffered itfelf to be die
rated into measures, which the nefef
fitof the moment oal, could juftify,
or rather apologize
^ “ It was my mtoortune to op^
the progress of such violence, with
the utmost Spirit I was matter 6f, and
my overthrow was the conft quedfce of ,
the contest. Reduced to the necessi
ty of yielding my neck to the mur
derer's knife, or of availing tnyfelf of
the alternative which the law of na
ture and reason afforded, I preferred
a fobmiffion to any law, rather than^
to the blind vengeance of a fury,
which was governed by no law. My
enemies rejoiced at my escape. It
gave persecution the important ap
pearance of vigilance, and also gave
their unjust or pretended fofpicions
an apparent juftific^tipn."
Whatever reasons the Marquis may
have to detest that party to whole re
tenement he fell a facrifice, yet he/
here declaims against the old govern
ment of France, with his accustomed
energy. ,
"In those ariftocraric days, the in
duftrioui hufbindman was not to en
joy the fruits of his honest labours,
and the insatiable wants of a despotic
government gaped for a large (hire
of his golden harvest. The refined
modes of aristocratic assiduity, were
ingeniously adapted to colled another
share, with all the aggravations of in
solence.-—Another share fell to sacer
dotal drones of all degrees, from the
haughty prelate, to his pampered em
inence the cardinal. A
" The herbs of the field, and what
was deemed refufe to the human ap
petite, were thought good enough for
peasants ; their nutrition supported
corporeal strength to a certain degree,
from which resistance was not to be
feared. To touch the fatted calf,
lamb, or capon, amounting to some
thing like sacrilege in him ; his bet
ters were ready for dinner—his rich
vineyard was barren to him—his char
itable eminence wanted more wine
than he could waste himfelf.
" To turn our eye;from this mretebed feme to
the court, me might fee a jhade of fearafitic Jhad
rws, or forms fwhofe nature it mas to glitter mitb
gaud, Colours, in thefunjbine of the ro,al smile, &
vanijh in the gloom of a frown ; a farcical air,
group —mere enigmas of entity —such asfancy ft
fents to us in the mummer, jeenes of distempered
dream, incefcntl, mocking each other,in the grace
ful antics of mods, boms, fajcinating Jmiles, and
curtefies, &c."
Such are still said to be the sentiments of
the Marquis, and no one can ruminate upon
his former actions, or his present fate, with
out feeling a degree of indignation against
that prince, who, contrary to every idea of
justice and humanity, fubjeds him to all rhe
rigours of an unmerited imprisonment.
CONCORD BRIDGE.
AT a meeting of the proprietors of
said Bridge, on the 9th instant, a fecund
assessment of FIVE DOLLARS was voted
on each share—the proprietors are accord
ly requested to pay the fame to the fubferib
er, on the firft day of April next, the time
appointed for receiving the fame.
SAMUEL GREEN, Treasurer.
March 26, 1795.
N. B. Payment of the firft assessment is re
quested of those, who are yet delinquent.
NEW LANDS..
, TO BE SOLD,I
AT PUBLIC AUCTION,
On WEDNESDAY, the 15th of April next,
At Gale's Tavern, in Concord,.
the following TRACTS of LAND, belong
ing to the estate of William Stark, late of
bunbarton, an absentee, deceased, viz.
1450 acres in Bartlett, being
the remainder of said Stark's Location dis
posed of, including 200 acres fold to said
Stark by Andrew MacMillan, Esq.
#ete^ of Archibald
Stark's Location.
300 acres, part of Samuel
Stark's Location.
XSOO acres, part of Joshua
Martin's Location.
.All of which will be fold, pursuant
to an a@ of the General Court, appointing
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