The American herald of liberty — Exeter, N.H., 1793-11-12 00:00:00, page 1

Although i am not by
profefflon an Apofile and
Bishop of C hrift, I hope there
toil! not be denied tomie, the tauf
faction of feeling interested in the
fuceefs pf the great Evangelical er
(apd.—^The’cffice of Clergyman in-
VOlveS duties private, and duties pub :
Jic ; on.fame of the last, I propose
to hazard-a few remarks.
The Rev, Clergyman complains
that the people of his charge are
Wapt^on the Sabbath, ro absent
themlelves from public worlhip; and,
of thp few who attend, too many are
inattentive, and fame deep.
The layman fays, our parson
gives us nothing new, he travels on
the'fathe dull round, he detains us
too long so that in the place of
worship, infiead of being animated
with the. ardor of devotion, we arE
, accustomed to be tired, .and with our
selves away.
The preacher and the hearer, each
wrapped up in his own excuses—
thinks the other, alone in fault. To
Complain, ise^fy, to discover the cause
of the mifehiefis more difficult.
When Ministers preached by hour
glades, long prayers, and long ler
mons were expected. But how the
Fafte is different, and short fermions
and.(hurt prayers, cdy, wilLbe heard.
Which railc is preferable I will not
fay ; f cannot, however, forget, that;
m holy? writ, ft is hinted, that,
“no tnaq.is Jieard for.his much foe a-
ÜBg.” . / ;
Should Sc. Paul, at this day, come
among m, preaching—upon obier*
ving this difpolkion, what would he
fay ? -\ If you cannot bear strong
meat, I will fegd you wkh/ milk—
with short fermcns, infiead of long 7
lam become all things to men, if
By any means, 1 may save feme?
The greatest part: of a preacher’s
audience is eompoled* generally, of
young people । thefehave not patience'
to hear long dilcourfe^ especially on
grave, and-distant fubje&s,—-Their
minds, however; are tender, their hab
fts scarcely formed, their dispositions,
easily improved, and made better. If
they be virtuous youth, they will,
when advanced in age, be found,
generally, in the way of their duty.
On tfiefe, the faithful preacher, keeps
a m off vigilant eye ; and by engaging
their attention, fends home to their
hearts, his pathetic and animated ex-?
horcations.
After an audience is fatigutd, whe
ther placed around rhe puipici or a
round the bar, the orator has loft the
happy mo i ent of cloftng hisharrangue
with elegance and fuceefs.
Desire of novelty is a principle, or.
passion, in our nature, of which the
fkilful orator never forgets to avail
himfelf* There is scarcely a news
paper, or a novel, which we are not
□ persuaded to read once ; and yet, it
is difficult to name a book of ever
so much value, which the bulk of
mankind can have patience to read
twice. A play ora public exhibition,
Alfter it has been seen once, has loft
the power of pleasing. When an
Orator begins to repeat - what he has
already once faid/how fqddcoly will
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To attract ro che preacher the at
tention of his audience, is the firft
objf.6t of the orator, but to announce
to his hearers the fame fubjtdl, is the
dire# method to refute i f . To name
in ihr afternoon the texr^hich prece
ded the morning difcourfe,is to expel
from us all expectation of novelty,
and 4 to place around us, the melas^
chokyprofpe^ of hearing th? fame
thing, over and over again. After
the worthy parson has travelled over*
alone, the heads of his morning difi
course ; he has, upon looking around,
the mortification, to -find generally*
that his hearers have fallen a deep by
the way.
The bible is a 'magazine of rich
fubjedts fitted to every person, event
and circumfianceof life. To this, the
orator may always have access, where
ver he wishes to attack, and carry ei
ther our reason, or our palfions. Al
though, in one text, there may be im
valved, many doctrines ; yet, to set
them all ou? under the fame text, is
neither neefiary or expedient. Omhr
tLg all other doctrines, let the .prior
ci pa! ones be chosen only* and’ no
more than can be fully difeufled in
halt an hour. .
A HEARER.
1, ,»i—
--. The COLVMBI^iN CENTINEL.
MR. RUSSEL,
E von fhohvd tf^v? a v‘acant*cdrn-
an audience, without seeming to know
why, begin to yawn, and give, in
voluntarily tokens of uneasiness at
hea;ino any thing further.
er, in rearing rhe' Cfntinel, please
to fill it up with /he fbUdwing. Yod
knew the immortal pne t lays,- th a t
“ ail the World's a Staye and he de
mbnftrsres it—^Whether the following
partakes of ahy. of his m<r:t, F ifian
not pfetend tufty ; all I know is
that 1 have been pleased with it my
ftlf—-and if it should pleffe^ahy ' of
your readers, f fin 11 think my felt Well
fatibfitd for tranferibing. it. Yours,
The world is a Theatre; mankind
are the commedianS, chance compo
les the piece, and fortune distributes
the parts; theologists and politicians
govern the mathihes > and philoso
pher's are the fpe^ators. The rich
take their places in the pit and upper
boxes, the powerful- in the front and
sides, and the galleries are for the
poor. The womeri distribute fruit
and refrelhmeots, and the unfortunate
fnuff the candles. Folly composes
the overture, and time draws the cur
tain. The title of the piece is Muti
dusvult decipiferga decipiatwr^ “ If the
world will be deceived, let it be so.”
The opening of the farce begins with
sighs-and tears : The firft aift abounds
with the chimerical-projeds of men :
frantic teftify their applause with .
re echoed bravces* whilst the sagacious i
bfjng their catcalls into play to damn*
the performance. At going in, a fort
of money is paid called trouble y and
in exchange a ticker is given,Xubfcri- .
bed utteafinefsfin order to obtain a
place. The variety of obje&s which
appear, for a Ihort time diven she ‘
fpedtators; but tbe unravClfing of the
plot and intrigues, well or ill-cOn
certed, force the risible muscles of
the philofophersT We fee giants-who
THE UNIFERS AL FARCE DISPLAYED,
T U E S D A Y, November 12, 1793.
BOOK-WORM.
presently become pigmies, & dwarfs
who imperceptibly attain a mdqftrous
height. There we fee men exerting
all, their efforts in the pursuit of the
moll eligible plans guided by pru
dence, Snd armed with precaution,
who are never the less circumvened in
all their pursuits, and fruftra.ted in all
their endeavours ; whilst here we ob
serve a group of indolent*/ careless
fellows, who attain the highest fum
mir of mundane felicity* Such is
the farce of this world and he who
would chufe to divert himfelf with it
at his leisure, Ihoutd take his place
in some obfeure corner,, where he
may unobserved be a • fpectacor of
the whole performance, and in fafety
laugh at it as it deserves.
•1 . - . HON ESTUS,
ENGLAND.
lOndon, A Ccording to advices
Aug. 20 / jk from Vienna,- of the
24« h paft,-the Cabinets of the Allied
Courts are busily employed in a plan,
the execution and‘ adopuop 6f which
is to be the only and indifpcnfable ba
sis of a future peace with the French,
A form of Government will be pre
scribed to the French nation ; namely,"
it will be 6Hi prtfented to the accep
tance of the French Princes, and : re
’fpe&able Chiefs of the Counter revo
lution,.who will be allowed to make
their obftrvarious upon the fame ; and
afterwards it will be laid before the
Neutral Power of Europe, who are
to be/mviied to a guar an fee of the
Arne j and then, and not before, it
will be communicated to the French
Nation, accompanied by a mahifefto,
lignifying, “ That on their acceptance
of that form of Government depen
ded the peace arid happiness df their
unfortunate country ; that th? accep
tance and execution of this form of
Government will be the only means
of determining-rhe Combined Powers
to permit France to remain an inde
pendent and felfexifting State; and
that, in case of a refufal, the whole
French Na ion will be declared the
enemy of all civilized Nations, and
treated as such ; and in order to in
demnify the Combined Powtrsfor the
expenses of the War, that country
will be divided amorgft them.
The following refoiutions, it is also
said, have been made by the Conven
tion.
That all the Bourbon family (hall
immediately be banilhedfrom France,
except the two children.
That a'numerous army (ball im
mediately be encamped between Va
lenciennes and Paiis.
Thiat the natives of all nations which
are at war with France,-(hall be arres
ted. An exception it was believed,
would be made io favour of those
who have resided three years in
France.
That an Appeal Oiall be immedate
lymade to the People of England ;
which appeal is to contain animadver
sions on the condutft of the Admin
istration in provoking hoftiiicieS. The
object of the was, the loss that has
been, and will be fuftarfled *by Great
Britain, the pledge which the British
Adminiftratipn is alledged ; to have
given tp Austria and PrOffia* relative
to the difmembetment of Francej.
and finally, an energetic ftacementof
European Intelligence.
FRANCE.
Letter from the Minifl er of Foreign .Affaire to tie- J 1
Committee of fu blit welfare t
** Parie, AuguU 6, *793* | I
“The, Houle of Aurtria hss just oftered a
new affront to the French Republic to re
venge, and to all Europe a jiew crime topa>
nifh. At all times, and among all Nation^,
the Ministers of Foreign Ppiyers have biea
refpeded ; and their inviolability depended | |l
On the guarantee, of the Right of Nations. It j |l
was reserved to the Honfe of Aoftria to vio-n
late in this refped the Right of Nations, and
to cause a band of robbers io penetrate into 4 i ’ 1
Neutral and Independent Nation,and to feizt i” I
by force the Mmifters of the French Repub* f
lie. . ;
“ The Citizens Seatonville and Maret, th^ f I
firrt.Ambaffador to Cohltantinople, the second ' -I
Mipider Plenipotentiary to Naples, having
been obliged topafs through SwjfTerland, * to ]
arrive by Venice at their refpe&ive Ports,’
had reached Croire, the principal City’of the I
Grifons, a country allied to the Helvetic Bo- 1
dy, when they were informed, that the GeJ
vernment of Milan was acquainted wi& their
journey, a«d that, measures had beenltakeb
to arrest them, These rumours increased as ’ I
they entered the Country of Chiafen^, a Dis- I
trid depending on the Gnfons:—They thc^t
it proper to halt, and wrote from Vico So- jR
prane to rhe Chiefs of theLcague,to acquaint- x / ‘
them with the dangers that threatened them 1
and demanded, if ihey could bn a free and:
fafe pafffge. The Chiefs declared, that rial
thing oug^hx to oppoTe -the free passage of aj
i Frenchmen through' ^’neutral territory • b J
that they could not, however, answer for t< I
eventual conferences. They at the fade I
, time font orders to those who were bn tfc I
- route of Chiavene bed de la Vaftoline, Icf I
» proted them on their journey, end to
them an effort if aecdTary. ’T
/ I
Cuftine, alike fcurriilous to his en
emies and his colleagues, at hft at
tacked the Convention, whom he‘cal
led brawlers^ and in want di Hal or
like himfelf; and he was therefore
soon deferred,when he Was fourrd de
fected by fortune.
Wimpfer, who never enjoyed full
confidence like leveral of his prede
ceffbrs, that is tiken from him. Bi
ron, who.was of the high Nobility,,a
quondam Orleanke* and looking for
large inheritances, wasibpUght to be
too dilatory* against the insurgents,
not to’ have a fellow-feeling for,
•them. . . z 1
The French excuse their v^rfatility
refpe&ingv their Genearls in the fol
lowing, manner :
De Bouille, they fay,/ planned the
flight of the King. Luckner was a
foreigner, and was supposed- to love
money, without loving liberty. Ro
chambeau’s good qualities were in
esteem, but doubting his own.popu
larity, he resigned of his own motion.
La Fayette carried his .politics and
intrigues into the army, and they
were at last thought of the wrong
fort. Dumourier, like de Bouille
and La Fayette turned himfelf off;
and after firft dilplacjng Laßourdon
naye, and bringing Miranda into
queflion, he led Valence; E^alite,
and others, into an avowed conlpira
cy- . " .
the total ruin in which the cause of
liberty will be involved, Ihould the
intensions of the Combined Powers
be fuffered to be carried into execu
tion, are Included in this appeal.
Servan had a heavy charge to an]
Twer, in the defencclefs state of tha
frontier towards Spain.
Kellerman, though still in command]
is known only as a foldfer, and hal
not fufiicient talents to save him]
Ihould any suspicions prevail refpedtl
ing his patriotism. Wefterman was r
proved to be a marauding adventurer,
both in Flanders and La Vendee^
FRENCH GENERALS.
■ [Numb. 19