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Newhampfhire
Becomes the gibbet and adorns the
string. Pomfret.
IS my father so unnatural as to with
to have his son hanged ? let him
bring him up in idleqefs, and without
putting him to any trade. Let him par
ticularly inure him to spend the Lord's
day in play and diversion, instead of at
tending on public worship ; and instead
ofinftrafling him, on that day, in the
principles of the Christian religion, let
him rob a neighbouring hen roost
while the proprietor of it is gone to di
vine service.
Aftoaifhing it is to fee so many of
our young people growing up without
being apprenticed to any business for
procuring him a future livelihood !
The Jews had a proverb, " that who
soever was not bred to a trade,' was
bred for the gallows." Every muffid
man is commanded by the korafl to learn
some handicraft orother : and to this
precept even the family of the grand
fignior so far conform, as to /earn as
much about the mechanism of a watch
as to be able to take it in pieces, and to
put it together again. Are Christians
the only people in the world, that are
to live in idleness, when one of the in
jundions of the decalogue is to labour
fix days in the week ; and an inspired
apofile has commanded us to work, un
^r the c^prefs penalty of net caving,
in default of it ? "This we com
manded you," fays he, " that if any
would not work, neither should he eat."
" Train up a child," fays king Solo
mon, "in the way that he fauld go ;
and when he is old, he will not depart
from it." But if you intend him for
the gallows, train him up in the w.y
that he would go ; and before he is old,
he will probably be hanged. In the
age of vanity, restrain him not from the
follies and allurements ofit. In the
age of learning and inftruftion, give
him neither. As to catechifing him, it
is'an old fafhioned, puritanical, useless
formality. Never heed it—give him
full scope in vice and immorality, ac
cording to the pious counsel of the De
ifc, let his mind be unhappily biased
by the influence of a religious education.
Mases indeed, after faying to the chil
dren of ffrael, "thou (halt love the Lord
thy Godwith all thy heart, and with
all thy foul, and with all thy might."
thought proper to subjoin, " and those
worm's which I command thee this day,
thcu (halt tench them diligently unto
thy children." But we know that Mo
ses did not intend those children to be
trained up for the gallows. His advice
therefore is not in point. Mine, which
is immediately dueled to the object in
view, must consequently be very differ
ent. And paramount to any ocher di
rection that I can possibly give, 1 would
particularly advise, as an essential
part of the coprfe of this education, by
which a child, when he arrives to man
hood, is intended to make so exalted a
figure, that his parents should fuller him
every sabbath day, during summer-and
autumn, to patrol about the neighbour
hood, and to steal as much fruit as he
can carry off. To encourage him
more in this branch of his education,
in case the poor scrupulous lad faould
ihow any compunctions of conscience a
boutit, t would have his mother par
take of the stolen fruit ; and to eat it
with keener appetite than the does any
of her own, er her husband's lawfully
acquired efculents. —For his farther en
couragement, both his parents Ihould
always, take his part, whenever the pro-
. FRIDAY, May 20, 1791.]-
THE CHILD TRAINED UP FOR
THE GALLOWS.
B, the late Governor Livbigfion;
Quo feme! est imbuta recent, fervabit
odorem tefta diu. Hor.
EXETER, (New-Hamfe/hire) Printed and Published by HENRY RANLET, at Nine Shillings per annum.
prietor of the stolen fruit prefers to them
his complaint against him ; and by all
means refufe to chaflife him for his
thievery. They (hould fay, " where is
the harm of taking a little fruit ? The
gentleman does not want it all for his
own use. He doubtless raised part of it
for poor people." This will greatly
frasoth his w y tl more executive, and
more profitable robberies. He will soon
persuade himfclf, that many rich men
have more wealth than they really want,
as they owe part of their affluence to the
poor upon the principle of charity, why
fhoqld # not the poor take their share
without the formality of asking confentr
He will now become a thief in good ear
ned ; and finding it easier, at !eaft as
he imagines to fupporthimfelf by theft,
than by industry, he will continue the
practice until he is detected, apprehend
ed, convicted, condemned, ar.d gibbet
red. Then he will have exactly accom
plished the defined end of his educati
on ; ar.d proved himfeL to have been
an apt scholar. Under the gallows,
and in his iatt dying speech, he will
fay, " had my father whipped me for
breaking the sabbath, and had not ray
mother encouraged me to rob orchards
and gardens, and hen-roosts on the holy
day, 1 should not have been brought to
this ignominious punishment. But they
have been the canfe, by encouraging me
in my early youth, in the ways of fin,
of chis my awful catastrophe, and proba
bly of the eternal ruin of my immortal
foal." Parents ! believe and tremble,
and resolve to educate your children in
opposition to the gallows.
Copy of a letter from f, S. Est. Mt P.
for 11. to Sir I^. C. dated Kent Church
Court, September 1757.
" A BOUT ten years ago, at the age
{( of 46, I was attacked with a
flight ft of the gout. The next year
in December, I irad it more severely in
bo.h hands and feet, and was laid up
ten weeks. From that,ime and at that
season the gout returned with increasing
violence, so that the last fit which began
in December 1783, lasted me five
months. For which the greateit part
of the time I had no use of my hands,
feet, and knees. During this fit, a gen
tleman who I thought had fallen a mar
tyr to the gout, called upon me, and to
my great afionifhment. appeared quite
hearty and strong, and informed me had
been so for three years, and that he'
came purposely to give me an account
of his remedy, the Brimflone water.
I had the plc'alurq of feeing the gen
tleman again last week, and he conti
nues to enjoy perfect health. He told
me he knew a gentleman who was so
great a cripple as to be confined 10 his
house for tome years, and was covered
with chalkitines, who by a regular and
constant use of the water, was now able
to walk freely, and the chalkrtones had
ina great me^fure subsided.
In the month of May, 1784, I began
the brimstone water, (after having con
futed many physicians, who all agreed
it was impossible the brimstone water
could do any harm) and continued it
without miffing a single day for twelve
m nths,during which time, and in cold
weather I had some mementors of the
gout which never confined me, or pre
vented my using exercise, which I did
very freely.
On the approach of warm weather at
the beginning of June, I ventured to
leave off the water for a few months,
and have begun it about four days, and
will continue it 'till next summer.
When 1 firft began the water, I was
sensible it promoted urine, perspiration,
and a lax habit : After I had used it
three or four months, a very copious
From the Morning Post,
Printed in New-York.
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discharge came from under my arms, so
as frequently to make it necessary to
change rhv linen twice a day ; this con
tinued foil three months during which
time 1 was in perfect health and good
spirits, and have the happiaefs to con
tinue so.
I never made any alteration in my
bring, being not, as 1 flatter myfelf
df.leered from so horrid a disorder ; my
contiitut; >n b as perfect as ever it was.
I hope your friend will try so simple
and innocent a remedy, with the fame
success as i have experienced."
1 am, &C. J. S.
The R ECIP E.
TO one pound of brimstone finely
powdered and put into a stone or earth
en jar, add one gallon of boiling water,
let it ftand'four or five days, Birring it
well two or three times a day ; at the
end of the fourth day, draw it off fine
for use, drink half a pint every morning,
at least half an hour before breakfaft ;
let th^ jar be flopped close when you are
not stirring the brimilone.
Extract jrom a late publication, tranjiated
from the French.
" COME hundred of Negroes were
J spread upon the deck, all of whom
had their feet in irons. Their hands
were disengaged, because it was the
hour in which their miserable nourish
ment was deftribuced to them.—There
did I fee grief express itfelf in all its
varied forms ; some deluged the planks
with their tears ; others fiercely demand
ed vengeance from heaven ; and others
with motionless eyes, looked towards
their native land which they could no
longer perceive. On one fide a husband
Attained his fainting wife, whose weep
ing infant in vain fucked the breasts
which were dried up with Offerings ; on
another, a son, driven to raging mad
ness, tore out his teeth with gnawing
the chains which crushed his father's
limbs. Around us were planted armed
murderers, with smiles on their lips and
audacity on their fronts.
“ Nothing was wanting to complete
this feene but an instance of that dumb
ferocity, that last courage of despair,
of which man is capable, when his foul
has become Reeled beneath the torments,
of justice : A female negro gave us this
example. She was pregnant and the
pains of labour seized her ; by a gesture
she gave intimation of it to our guards ;
they removed her from the croud and
placed her on a fail on the after-part
of the vessel ; without uttering a single
cry, without a moan, without ffiedding
a tear, she delivered herfelf. Scarcely
did she perceive her infant when she
seized it, gazed on it with a fierce eye,
looked around her, saw herfelf little ob
served ; crawled to the edge of the ship;
gave her son the firft and last kiss, and
precipitated herfelf with him in the
waves. Then the alarms of disappoint
ed avarice took the place of humanity.
Urban swore, stormed, threatened the
guards. They slacked sail—some sail
ors threw themselves into the sea—Use
less efforts ! the irons of the poor Ne
gro woman had plunged her beyond
their reach ; they took up the infant but
it was dead !"
MR. WELD,,
LAST Saturday I went with several
gentlemen, who viewed, and mea
sured the rock from which Lt. Joseph
Shaw fell and-was remarkably preserv
ed from a sudden death : And as I doubt
no: but you will give it a place in yowr
PICTURE or SLAVERY.
Intrepidity of a Negro Woman.
From the Hampshire Chronicle
Gazetteer.
[Numb. 42 of Volume—§
paper for your readers, T beg leave to
fend you an account of it for publicati
on.
On the morning of the 19^ of Fe
bruary last, M r . Shaw had taken a
- on the top of a very high moun
tain, for the purpose of waylaying a
fox which he expelled, as the hound,
were then in rhe weeds, and at no great
distance. He had not waited long be
fore the fox came in view cn a crag of
the rock feme distance below him ; he
fired, and the fox dropped from the rock
on which he stood, and fell dire&lv ro .,t
ofhis fight down the mountain. The
snow was exceedingly hard and smooth,
occasioned by a considerable rain uhich
had fallen a few days before, and after
wards froze very hard. A confiJeribie
quantity of water had made its way
from under the snow, a few fee:
from the verge of the precipice, and
there frozen to a fmooth,folid ice, which
added to the hideousness of the place ;
a light snow, which was then falling
made it impossible to distinguish be
tween the encrusted snow and the ice :
Thus circumflanced Mr, Shaw ventured
to the extremity of the ledge to fee
what had become of his fox ; when he
had got within a few feet of the fom
mit of the rock, he stepped upon the ice,
and his feet flipping up, he fell ioftan
tanioufly down the precipice. A line
drawn from the place where he flipped
off the rock, to where he firft struck,
which was another rock, measures firry
two feet aud an half ; he then fell tis y.
seven feet agd an half further, before he
struck again, and from thence he. Aid
twenty-five feet and seven inches to .he
verge of another ledge, or benching of
the mountain, where he providentially
flopped by catching hold of a small pine
bush not larger than a man's finger.
When he flopped, he lay, with his head
so far over the rock that he could look
down the ledge,where,if he had fallen a
gain he must have decended seventy or
eighty feet further, and probably .have
been dashed in pieces. As soon as he
was able he called for help, and two
young men who were hunting, and were
at the foot of the mountain, though they
exerted themselves co the utmost of their
power for his assistance, could not by a
ny means get within several hundred
feet of him. After some time had elan
fed, his brother,Mr. James Shaw, hear
ing him calling for help, though at the
distance of near a mile, came to his as
sistance ; after two hours incredible toil,
he at length got within five and twenty
feet of him and found it impossible to
proceed any nigher. Mr. Shaw, find
ing no way to be assisted, found it ne
cessary to extricate himfelf from his de
plorable situation ; he therefore, not
without great danger, found means to
get into his hand a dry small flick, the
end of which he (harpened with his knife,
and then by cutting holes into the snow
and ice, drew himfelf on his belly to his
brother. One thing ( had like to have
forgotten to mention ;—When Mr.
Shaw had laid in the situation I have
described near half an hour, and was
endeavouring 10 fhift himfelf into an
easy pbfture, he found his fox dead and
lying under him, which be threw down
to the men who were waiting for them
at the foot of the ledge. Though the
two brothers were now together, they
found it very difficult to get off the
mountain, which however they effeded
in about four hours : And notwithstand
ing Mr. Shaw had fallen so far and was
very much bruised in his fall, yet he
walked home to his own house, and is
now nearly recovered.
The above circumfances are well av~
thenticated.
Monfon, March 28, 1791.;