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DESCRIPTION of the RURAL
FAMILY.
rp [eyes;
X HEY 'wake from sleep with cheerful
Get up before the fun doth rife,
To milk th' impatient cows ;—
The crane doth the dish-kettle bear.
While they the breakfaft do prepare.
And pay the Lord their vows.
The aged fire takes up the book,
And o'er the page he caffs a look,
His fpe&acles puts on;
A chapter reads, the book puts by.
Invokes the power that wakes the day,
To guide their Reps along.
This done, their food they fwatlow down,
And Jane begins to mend her gown,
And John the beetle takes ;
To different bufinefs' all do go,
Till Bet. to dinner, cries halloo !
When each his work forfakesi
With gladsome steps they travel home,
Wipe off the sweat and drink feme rum,
And when the pudding's blefs'd ;
They eat their villuab in a jerk,
Then thank their God, and out to work,
Without their needful rest..
The various labors of P—M —
By night's approach hath tired them,.
So, when the fun has set;
One leaves his rake, and one his hoe,
And from the fields they freely go,
Without the least regret.
Belinda goes to milk the cows,
While Salt) fiveeps the litter'd house.
And Polly crumbs the bread ;
Their flippers eat, and after that,.
The ev'ning's spent in fecial chat,
Till they prepare for bed.
The Farmer flreps with honest Joan,
But Poll, Ihe must lie alone,
Because she hath a spleen
That heryoung Roger 'll come to night.
She looks—and hopes—but isnot right.
And sleep concludes the sane.
RUSTICUS.
How evil came into the world, for
what region itis that life is overspread
mth fach boundless varieties of misery,
that the only thinking being of this globe
is doomed to think merely to be wretched,
and tc pass his time from youth to age in
fearing or in Offering calamities>is a quef.
tion which philosophers have long a±ed,
and which philofopherscould never an
swer.
A Rate of innocence and ' happiness is
so remote from all that we have ever fcen,
that, though we can easily conceive it pos
sible, and may therefore hope to attain it,
yet our 'peculations upon it Quft be gen
eral and confuted. We can difeover, that
where there is dniverfal innocence there
will probably be universal happiness ; for
why Should afflictions be permitted to in
feft beings who are not in danger of cor
ruption from blessings, and where there
to no use of terror, nor cause of punish
ment ? but in a world like our's where
Our senses arfiult us, and our hearts be
tray us, we Should pass on from crime to
Crime, heedless and remorseless, if misery
did not Hand in our way, and our own
pains admonish th of our folly.
Almost all the moral good which is left
among us, is the apparent effed of physi
cal evil.- GeSdnefs is divided by divines,
into soberness, righteousness, and godli
nefir. Let it be examined how each of
the duties would be praftifed if there were
no physical evil to enforce it.
Sobriety, or temperance,, is nothing
bet the forbearance of pleafarc ; end if
MORAL GOOD, the apparent effia of
Religion informs us, that miler, and
fin were produced together.—The de
pravity of the human will' was followed by
a disorder of the harmony of nature; and
by that providence which often places
antidotes in the neighborhood of poi
sons, it was checked by misery, left it
Should fweft to universal and unlimited
dominion.
* Allowing the aft ^Bundling.
PHYSICAL EVIL.
pleafare were not followed by pain, who
would forbear it ? we fee every hour,,
those in whom the desire of prefect indul
gence overpower# all the sense of past and
future misery. In a remission of the gout
the drunkard returns to his wine, and the
glutton to his fcaft ; and if neither dis
ease nor poverty were felt or dreaded
every one would fink down in idle fenfo
ality, without any care of others or of
himfelf ; to eat and drink, and lie down
to sleep, would be the whole business of
mankind.
Righteousness, or the System of facial
duty, may be subdivided into justice and
charity. Os justice, one of the Heathen
sages has (hewn with great acuteness, that
it was impressed upon mankind only by the
inconveniences which injustice had pro
daced—" la the firft ages," fays he,
" men a&ed without any rule, by the im
pulse of desire, and pradifed injugice
upon others, and fuffered it from oth
ers in their turn ; But in time it was
discovered that the pain of {offering
wrong was greater than the pleasure o.
doing it; and mankind, by a general
comped, submitted to the reftraintof laws
.nd ialigned^ the pleasure to elcape the
pain."
Os charity, it is fdperflucos to observe,
feioufnefs that we have the fame nature
with the fufferer, that we are in dan
ger of the fame distresses, and may
:Sometimes want to implore the fame al
finance.
hood is led on from hope to hope, and
from prejed to proja& ; the diffcldunch
of pleafute, the inebriation of fuccefe the
ardor of expectation, and the vehemence
of competition, chain down the mind a
like to the prefect feene ; nor is it remem
bered how soon this miftof trifles mast be
the rivulet of life be loft forever in the
gulph of eternity. To this consideration
scarce any ran it awakened but by some
pressing resistless evu. The death of
those from whom he derived his pleaf
urea, or to whom he destined his posses
fions ; some disease which shews him the
vanity of all external acquisitions, or
the gloom of age which intercepts hie
prefpeas of long enjoyment, forces him
to fix his hopes upon some other state ;
and when he bar contended with the
tempests of life till his strength fails
him, he flies at left to the flicker of relig
ion.
that it could have no place if there were
no want :. For of a virtue which could not
be praftifed, the omission could not be
culpable. Evil is not only the fubjetl,
but the efficient of charity ; we are in
cited to the relief of raifery by the con-
That misery does not make all virtu
ous, experience too certainly informs us ;
but it is no left certain, that of what vir
tue there is, misery produces far the
greater part. Physical evil may be there
fore endured with patience, Since it is the
cause of moral good ; and patience itfelf
is one virtue, by which we are prepared
for that Rate in which evil Shall be no
more.
From the EAGLE&
From the Shop of Messrs. COLON &f
SPONDEE.
Meffis. COLON & SPONDEE
REGRET that their ignorance of
the Jacobin style forbids them to forward,
by some citizen veflel, a card to citizen
Robersp l erre, on the fubjea of his late
Decree and report on the inanition of
National Festivals. Could they write the
Godliners, or piety, is the elevation of
the mind towards he Supreme Being, and
the extention of our thoughts to another
rife. The other life is future, and the
Supreme Being is invifibie. None would
have recourse to the invisible power, but
hat all other objeds had eluded their
hopes ; none would fix their attention up
>n the future, but that they are difcon
cented with the present. If the senses
were seized with perpetual pleasure, they
would always keep their mind in fub
jedion. Reason has no authority over
us, but by its power to warn usagainft
evil.
Io childhood, while our minds are ye
unoccupied, religion is impressed ^h
.hem ; and the fill years of almatt all
who have been well educated are fluffed
in the regular difeharge of the duties of pi
ety : But as we advance forward into the
crouds of life, innumerable delights so
licit our inclinations, and innumerable
cares diftraa our attention ; the time of
youth is puffed by noisy frolicks ; man-
scattered, and the bubbles that float upon
language of Danton and Marat, thcywould
express their surprise, that Roberfpierre
(houid so far depart from the principles
and practice of his predecessors, as to ac
knowledge that, " succoring the unfortu
nate, refpefting the weakness of men, de-i
fending the oppressed, doing good to all,
& injuring none," were the new duties of
Frenchmen. After firft begging the par
don of ail France,for such an unfalhionable
mode of thinking,Meffrs. Colon & Spon
dee are decidedly of opinion that it was,
on tie whole a little unlucky that this de
cree was not " unanimously" passed before
the loth of August and ad of September ;
before it was the mode at Paris, for pikes
to be literally beaded, and for men inßead
of lamps to be dangling from the Lanterne.
If citizen Roberfpierre had, ptradventure,
proposed this decree at an earlier period,
certain " weak and oppressed" individu
als, known among Frenchmen, by thefr
rtliar and endearing names of Louis Ca
'pet, Antoniette, and Elizabeth, might
possibly have worn foft muffin round their
necks, rather than the coarse cravats of the
guillotine. The royal infants, if that fro
fane phrase may be permitted and pardon
ed by the Convention, might have been
at some of the municipality schools, con
ning over the speeches of Santerre and
Marat, to perfed them in their native lan
guage, and to ir.ftil into their tender minds
the firft principles of mercy. They might
have walked and played in the Thuilleries,
rather than have wept and groaned at the
Temple; even Roberfpierre himfelt might
have read and expounded the donftituaon
of 1789, to Monl. the Dauphin ; modifi
ed monarchy might have been the govern
ment of France, and some two or three
thousands of saucy Swiss, who had the loy
al audacity to light for their foverelgn,
might now guard his palace, ir.ftead ot
Gaining it with their blood, for lack of a
decree.
WANTED immediately an apprentice
to the Houje-Carpenter's bufaefs,
a likely affiue boy, 14 or 15 years of age,
for further particulars enquire of
f JAMES WYMAN.
N. B. Houft and Sleigh painting done by
said Wyman, in the mateft manner, and on
reasonable terms.
Keene, 'July zf, 1794.
r^TRA YED or ffofrom Capt. J. Al-
O exander's paflure, in Winchefer, on
the night of the 14th inf. a Mare, about >4
and a half bands bigb,. nine years old, and of
a red, roan colour. Whoever quill return
said Mare, /ball be bandfomel, rewarded.
JONATHAN WIRE.
Winchester, Jul, 16tb, 1794.
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' ELISHA KINGSBERT.
1 &M 7«b to 1794.
But, Meffr,. Colon & Spondee, cannot
help entertaining the molt flattering pre
sages of the future clemency of the relent
ing Roberfpierre. They already beheld
the Sans Culottes of the suburbs of St. An
toine, the fifhwomen of the Seine,the fing
ers of ca ira, the pikemeiiof Paris, and
the deputies to the Convention, guided
by the mild beams of this new star in the
east, boldly exploring the new and untried
paths of mercy. Fired by the fight, Meflirs.
Colon & Spondee feel the enthusiastic fit
approaching ; they can no longer Smother
their sensations, and they ihout aloud huz
za ! and tantarra ! a Counter Revolu
tion in France !! Having extirpated, or
expatriated all the royal family ; having
wrenched ribbons from the knees, & Ilara
from the left breads of nobility ; having
crowded the clergy out of their pulpits, &
coined their church bells to pay the fune
ral charges of Christianity ; having fuffo
cated.all the patriotism and three fourths
of the eloquence of the kingdom, with the
lame cords which bound Briffot, Vergin
aud and La Source ; having done all this,
and more, the sovereignty of the people
now determines in the language of Shake!-
peare's Richard, that
“ Grim visaged War fallf mootb bis wrin
bled front,
«' And fern alarums change to merry meet-
For Roberfpierre has decreed, that bloody
pikes become olive branches, that the Ja
cobin Club dwindle into a knot of merry
fellows, and the acute guillotine be tranf
formed to a tickling feather ! C.
Notice.
Duty on Carriages for the con
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of the Duties on Carriages, will be re
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Infpe&ion.
DISTRICT of NE^-HAMP SHIRE.
Supervisor's Office, July rift, 1794,
Duty on licences for retailing;
Wines, or foreign distilled
Spiritous Liquors.
ALL persons within the County of
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ers of either of the articles abovemention
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Attendance for the above purposes,
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of September next, (Sundays excepted)
from a to iz o'clock, A. M. and from.
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after the 30th day of September next—
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