The Republican ledger — Portsmouth, N.H., 1799-09-19 00:00:00, page 4

poetical Departmentl
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& many of our friends in the country, for want of
mental or bodily empsgmerf, may be persecuted
with the Bine Devils ; we beg leave to recom
mend durafa prefix of the following.
THE BLUE DEVILS.
Bt PETER PINDER, ESQ.
MAN may be happy if he will :"
I've laid it often, and 1 think so Hill :
Doctrine to make the millions Rare !
Know then each mortal is an actual Jove;
Can brew what weather he shall molt approve.
Or wind, or calm, or foul, or fair.
But here's the mifehief—man's an ass, I fay :
For fond of thunder, ligbt'uing, norm and rain :
He hides the charming cheerful ray
That Spreads a smile o'er hill and plain !
Dark, lie must court the ikull, and spade, and
shroud.
The midre^^f hit his foul must be a cloud.
Who told him that he mnft be curs'd on earth.
The God of nature ?i.No fucirthin^
Heaven whifper'd him the moment of nis birth,
" Don't cry, my lad, but dance and sing :
" Don't be too wife, and be an ape ;+.
“ In colors let your foul be drefs'd, not crape.-
“ Ruses shall smooth life's journey, and %lorn ;
" Yet mill, me=if thro' want of grace,
«' Thou mean'll to fling the blessing in my face,
“ Thou haft full leave to tread upon a thorn."
Yet some there are, of men I think the worst ;
Poor imps !—Unhappy, if they can't be curite
For ever brooding over mis'ry's eggs,
As tho' life's pleasures were a deadly tin.
Muling for ever for a gin"
To catch their happindi by the legs;
Even at a dinner, some will be unbleft,
, However good tte viands, and well drefs'd !
They always come to table with a Scowl,
Squint with a face of verjuice o'er each dish,
Fault the poor flefh, and quarrel with the fifh,
.Curse Cook and Wife, and, loathing, eat and
growl.
A cart load, to, their stomach's deal,
• Yet (wear they canot make a meal,
Ilike not the blue-devil-hunting crew!
I hate to drop the difeontented jaw !
0 let me nature's simple futile pursue,
And pick e'en pleasure from a draw !
tote simr. JIM 3'
THE spirit of the Times, as it regards
religion, can scarcely be mistaken by a
nv one, who soberly considers obvious fa&s
font have been mentioned, and plain language
which fhhll now be produced— -Verbal pro
fafions have often deceived, but adions are
juitly confideted as the touch-stone of prin
ciples. And when principles become gene
' ral, they assume also, a corresponding general
tone.
From the condud then, let us turn our at
tention to the language of Protestants of our
own times ; indicative of this spirit. Thus
doing we may discover its agreement with
that condua, and withthe spirit of the Ro
man Catholics ; once warmly and zealously
opposed.
It may be presumed that we shall not in
jure these latter, by taking as a specimen of
their spirit, the studied language of one of
their preachers here : a man of talents, who
was bred a Protestant, and has studied and
written on the once warm controyerfy.*—
And again, that we shall not misrepresent the
prevailing religious spirit of modern protest
ants, if we take, as its organ, the voice, not
of obscure people, but of the leading men,
men of genius, teachers, speakers of the firft
eminence, forming, diffufing and increasing
the public sentiment, spirit and taste ; ap
plauded, admired, and echoed far and wide.
And to prevent mistakes or mifeonftruaions,
let it be remarked here, that we speak of
these latt, and referto them, not in the lead
meddling with their politics, but as the liv,
ing index of prevailing religious sentiment.—
C We make no remark on them in any other
view ; disavowing altogether the taking any
part in politics ; and very cheerfully leaving
the care of the state in the good hands of our
Tilers, G >d's ministers for good ; where be
has placed it ; and all party spirit to the con
tenders for honour and pre-eminence in this
world.—This being pr^mifed, let the two
religious dialects of the-two grand religious
divisions of the world, be for once put toge
ther, for the Like of a more easy comparison;
and let us mark, the result—We may then
fee whether one vocabulary might not serve
for both. Let us firft then attend to the voice
of the Papists uttered in the
CATHOLIC SERMON. ~
"They," (fays the author, (peaking of
the French,) " began their attack on the
church by degrading her ministers iff the eyes
of the populace, by stripping them of those
disl motive garments of their order, which for
ages bad rendered them refpeanble to the faith
ful." “ Thousands of these holy men,"&c.
« priefts"-—-" Ministers of the altar"=—
"Thousands and ten thousands have been
<< banifhed,"&c.—" They have Gripped the
churches of the holy ve&ls, vestments," &c.
" and converted them to common ufes"—
"Same fanatics have lately very much exult
ed over the criisfortunes of the Pope, as if the
fall of Antichrist were near at hand—We
catholics despise such ranting ftuff—ftrangc
W Mrhtoycr of Beftsn.
I that they do not clearly fee, that all these
I things instead of being signs of the overthrow
I of antichrift already established, are the pre
diaed forerunners flit approaching reign !—
Pope rius the sixth is the fuccelfor of St. Pe
ter, the prince of the apostles, he is the Vicar
of Jesus Christ on earth, and the visible head
of his church"——Whatever may be his
fate—l—" Yet" [I forbear to quote the
profane appeal to God's truth]- "He
will have a successor, even to the end of ages"
---“ The bark of St. Peter, with his succes
sors at the helm, will fail triumphantly down
the flream of time"- " When our clergy
with the Pope at their head, are victims, &c.
And when even dissenting ministers whom
I could name, own that they fliould be in
capable of the fame courage ; is it not carry
ing insult ahd outrage to the extreme, to
persist in calling antiebriflian the church which
performs such winders, against all antichrif
tian doarines ?—I really flattered myfelt
that this canting fyfe was out of date,^//^
among the ministers of Boston, and its vicin
ity."! ——Again ^--Ybu as Catholics, have
a motive yet more powerful ; which is, that
they have profaned & destroyed your churches,
&c. and have carried their audacity so far as
to lay their sacrilegious, polluted hands on the
Lord's anointed, the common father of all
the faithful —-—Oppofitioh to her is the
common cause of the human race if is the
cause of alt religion and virtue against Deism,
Atheism, and every species of immorality :
it is your cause ; it is my cause ; it is every
honest man's cause—•--Fly then to the stand
ard, &c.".
Thus far the catholic preacher. Let us
now hear and compare the language of mod
ern Protestants, in
ORATIONS END SERMONS.
In France, &c. the clergy have been de
prived of their livings-^-twenty-four thou
sand ministers of the g^pel have been deprived
[Mr. Thayer's holy ten thoufands.] "We have
not in this country persecuted the pious teachers
of the gospel, we have not driven them from
these jacreh defts."—" The fame malignant
spirit is visibly at work to destroy the clergy
in these United States." [By the way, Christ's
ministers cannot be deJiro,ed.] ——“ In Hol-,
land"---" Ministers were not permitted to
wear a band or other dijlinaive ornaments,
[Mr. Thayer's holy veftments,] without the
walls of a church"—" The altarsof religion
have been overturned---The venerable lent
pies ts the Deity facrificed #»<tre fotly of the
popular fuperltition---[in France this is said
to have been done}--Here no mad fanatic, of
liberty has dared to denounce the altars of the
Almighty !"—" If the new philosophy pre
vail, America must drink the cup of Baby
lon, and become a limb of the beast" —"Dan
iel's fourth beast is dying-infidelity, war and
liforganization are the plagues by which it is
consuming, all wife people will withdraw
their embraces, both from the dying body,
and the disease by which it perifheth"---" ap
proach not the raging dying monster, his
contagion is the fling of death-^The call is,
come out of the infidel antichriftian world.
“ Voltaite is the great antichrift"^-" If be
ing drunk with the blood of Saints, if for
bidding to marry, or abolilhing the ordinance
itielf, if blaspheming God, and deceiving
those who dwell on the earth, if changing
times and laws, constitute a charaaer, is it
not visible I" —“ Those who have—revolu
tionized the univerfe,have exalted themselves
above kings, in scripture called gods"
" They have as God, direded in the temple
of God"---" have they not a claim to have it
acknowledged, that they as God fit in the
temple of G°d, Showing themselves that they
are God " —•" The, Jhallfall"^--! omit the
profane appeal, made to confirm this, as I
did Mr. Thayer's---" The contest is desira
ble—The most obffinate war with Antichrist
is fater than peace-.-peace may introduce
their unexampled atheifm--^Should martial
music rouse—-rise—cursed be he that keep
eth back his sword from blood—-let him that
hat none, fell his coat and buy one— —Go
then, be the fuldiers of God—Go and cun- &
quer—then shall there be a new song in hei
ven—Babylon is fallen—is fallen."-^" Turn
to Italy. All is fad and diffolute---Piinces
and Kings are fled—The palace is solitary."
Thus far sermons and orations: and the
last quoted is the oration of a clergyman :
making the French, or certain leading infi
dels, to be antichrift ; and bemoaning Italy,
where the palace, yea even the papal palace is
solitary! How like the language ;." alas,
alas, that great city ["---But a voice of com
fort seems now to mingle with lamentation
---Attend toa piece published later ftill,—
“ Suwarrow the brave," fays the writer, "is
building up",--Adminiftering regularity for
confufion to the nations of Italy--,With to
moderate joy we now fee the „ts order,
bursting through th, .clouds of anarchy,' and
difpenffng rays of benignity upon a world
long darkened by fadion§ j
ttbelieve thb ftfleb become obfotetc, and pretty much out
of #te.«ms continuance of It in the present fihioQlc way
of thinking of the po^ Church, would be coni irate!l
t I just observe that I have sometimes put the empiufa an the
words that fecmedgnoß taxable in the quotations.
, It Is now fold that suwarrow has demanded Me hp, rad that
feu in torn , and it seems to be well understood that to •&&
to > included In the prepared building up—Arc we then to think
of the P&pe as now peeping forth from behind a hiaek cloud t-
But notwithstanding his former flaming scorching rays, this foa
rural yet oMeured ; yea, to foffet a ©SuQui eciipfe 1
I have given the fubftar.ee only, and part-i
ly in quotations, of the modern doarines,l
with which the pulpits and rostrums resound,
and the presses groan—ls 1 should apologize
for the length, I might be told that the quo
tations are the best part of this number, but
the (ketch, whether long er short, (for it is
no more than a (ketch,) ray fuffice to (hew,
the modern agreement---] hat the Romifh
Priests (confideted by the firft reformers as
locusts from the bottomless pit) are pious
ministers, of the gospel, the persecuted sons
of God---That their idolatrous places of wor-
Ihip are the sacred temples of the Almighty,
that their seducing clergy were (according to
their claim,) the Prints of God, his ministers
in these (now profaned) temples, to wait at
his altars, overthrown by antichrift. That
the diJlinaive ornaments of the clergy, are ei
ther holy, or at least valuable as procuring
refpe& to the wearers, and should be kept in
violable-^-According to this new view of the
Things pertaining to the Romifh religion, it
mult be a good thing that they be kept up ;
of ecurfe, that Pope Pius the sixth should be
restored to his solitary palace, and have a suc
cessor, as Mr. Thayer so solemnly promises
upon him that he will have, to the end of
ages !-— But all this and more, cannot change
the burden of Babylon, which a certain pro
phet long since saw ; who faid,---" Babylon
" the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of Chal
" dees excellency, (hall be as when God o
" verthrew Sodom and Gomorrah"^--" And
" her time is near to come, and her days (hall
•' not be piolonged"---And thus speaks ano
ther ; " She Ihall be utterly burnt with fire;
" for strong is the Lord God who judgeth
"her." I.
A New-York paper of the 4th iaft. contains the
following obfervatiora upon the German ac
count of the
MURDER at RASTADT.
A TRANSLATION of letters putpof
ing to have been written by Col. Barbac
zy, commander of the regiment of Hussars
of Sheckler,addrefled to theArchdukeCharles,
concerning the murder of the French Am
bassadors have been publish-d here in the To
ry papers.
They are of an old date and were written
on the Ift of May, a few days after the at
trocious deed had been perpetrated. There
is a striking similarity in the language of
those letters and that of the royalitts of this
country, on that fubje&. They are evident
ly laboured, to cast the odium of the crime
upon the (houlders of Jean Derby and the
Dircaory. Th^ Colonel endeavors to prove
that the assassins were Frenchmen hired by
Jean Derby for the iniquitous purpose of
murdering his his two companions, and that
although they were pressed to accept an es
cort, on leaving Raftadt, yet j. Derby and
the Secretary of Legation opposed with ve
hemence and finally succeeded in purfuading
Bonnier and Robeijot to agree in refuling
the proffered efcoft. He also pretends that
two Frenchmen were taken prisoners by
some armed peasants, and on one of them
was found a note from Jean Derby, mention
ing that they should leave Raltadt in an
hour from the time it was written and that
there would be lights in the carriages, be
longing to his colleagues.
Those documents bear strong marks of
forgery e and when we Confider their dates
and the total silence observed until now con
cerning them, we have wronger grounds for
harbouring such an opinion. We were in
formed in the German papers some time
since, #iat the military commission appoint
ed to examine into this important affair, had
made their report to the Archduke, bu| for
the nature of that report no mention was
made.
That it was unfatisfadory to the Empe
ror and his friends may be jpllly supposed,
for if the guilt of the crime could be traced
to the French government, no man can
doubt that the Imperial Chief, would hesi
tate a moment in publishing his proofs of,-
On the contrary, we have lately seen his in
vitation to the diet to enter into an^xamina
tion of the murder. In that State paper, he
profeffes his detestation of the crime and his
readiness to assist in tracing out the guilty.
He did not attempt in any wife to criminate
the French government or any of its agents,
but complained much of the proclamations
and accusations of the Dire&ory against him
and his cabinet.,
If the assertions of the author of those let
ters were true, and that he had in his custody
some of the assassins, why such silence, why
such secrecy for a length of time. No mo
tive can be pointed out, in the lead likely, ,
that could induce Jean Derby or the Dire#
ory to plan or execute such an abominable
deed, If the charges on his head are groun
ded upon as little truth as the Colonel s ac
cusation that it was the French government
that caused a mob in Rome to assassinate een.
Duphot, one of their bravest officers. And
that the French murdered their own sick and
wounded soldiery in the hospitals at* Verona,
he will obtain very few real believers even
among the most blind and prejudiced ene
mies of the French nation or its government.
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Portsmouth MUSEUM,
In Demarara Street,
IS NOW OPENED.
THE production of Nature is as
surprising as inttrudive; and 2000 different IN
SECTS, with a variety of Butter-flies, each of
them eloathed in a rich dress :—upwards of 100
SNAKES, each differing in their species, may be
ten : and it will convince the beholders that those
beings had a creator, who gave them once an ex
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The Museum will be open every day in
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in the morning, Admittance Twenty Cents,
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Officers of the Navy and Army, and to Students of
Universities and Colleges.
Additions to the Museum since the tft SeptMber,
, have been, viz.
A Pipe with 4 tubes, used by the naffves
of Sennegal, presented by Capt. Commeray. A
Flying Squirrel, and a Sea Tree, by Major
Boyd. ,The LAVA of the Burning Mountain of
Montserrat, by Mr. Edward John Fiercer A
curious Swallow's Nest, by Cept, M'Clintock.
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