The American herald of liberty — Exeter, N.H., 1794-11-22 00:00:00, page 4

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Poet’s Corner.
.4W 0 BIN had taken tip iti abode in tht
Cathedral of Bridal, and for the /pace of
fifteen years, uiuall] perched on one of the
pinnacle) of the great organ- during the
y .-' : of Divine fervdct, accoutfanping the
-Joi^nitp with its barmoniout ftrams.and
Jatamt as to follow the verger to be fed.}
It conlinuid thus tilflaf winter 'when it
died. Ihe following beautiful linet dre.
the-prsdudion of bAMUEL LoVt, minor
Canon of the Cathedral.
^WEET focia! hire ! whose fefe hwmo
’ I oiduslayf, '
-'Swell iheglad song of ihy Creator’s praise, >
SO, art thou ccnfuous of approaching iIU ?
wiater’s florms, ihe pointcd blail ibat’
HU>? ■
thou the savage North’s uopitying
breath f • c
* Or crud ain't more hteArfaates of death?'
S Here, geode bird; a fireafyfam find,
No#, dread the chilling trod, nor boill’rous
wind :
No bdßdc tyrant of the feather'd race,
- Shall mare invade thee in this hallow'd
place;
Nor, While he fails the liquid air along.
Check the shrill number! of. thy cheerful
song. . *
No cautious gunner, whose unerring fight
Stopsrbe/wi/t eagle in hit rapid flight.
Shall here disturb my lovely lougUcr’s reftJ 5
Nor wound ths plumage of hij crimson
• breafL ■ {■
Thetr^nt fchodlboy,who, in wanton play, ;
With yUjd-line involves the treach’rdua!
/Jpray,
- In vain /Wl spread the wily /hare for thee,
^'Atfltft ftcure thy life and liberty. '
t Peice then* sweet warbler, to'thy flutter.
4ng heart, j
’ , Defy ti^^ge.of hawks and toils of art^
Nbw flZaita thy downy plumes, now gladh-
K --J •*^*day""; ' */' I r
•Thy tribute to each rising day ;
White cxwdabd^ willing voices
■•,■ | i '
T< / holy zeal Jehovah’s praise,
’&alt heat' the a-I >
। ChUa ike ^arm Hraiur, and Aid the (acred ’
u_- : A.- ~
Incmkh‘ tnc fo'emn chorus and inspire
‘ Each t^guc with mufic} iad feach heart
J wab ire.
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' £rdm a late Philadelphia Paper.
‘ ROBESPIERRE.
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^be following fitetcb,^ttdoicb we find
t a late Hamburgh ^hper 9 given |
ash tranJlationfrpmaPl^is print, *
contains, fame fa hints on the
^cbaraQer' of AO BESP^ER RE. ‘
incrrejimg ^detailsof bis\
figure?^ carriage^ are in- •
formed by one Wbahas fperfon
'vbdcfaiintunce with him) are lit
: ertgyAtue Seme particulars of
bis character, th o' exaggerated, [
r axs im d conjiderabledegteewell
rffadedu r
— - ■
E was aboutthirty->five j
’JU years old^five feet four.
-or five inches high. ’He car
ried gait|
was feebfe, quidk,apd rather
fwift. He often cieri^edl^s
anin voluntary
.of sows ;a I
motion wasaUo ob
servable in his fhoalders rand
neck, twhich he ’ convulsively j
movednow fofM?right & then
td IHt/ His ffiwwas- ele-:
his 'hiir'‘Always
dressed. His gloomy physi
ognomy difeovered nothing
jp^aFkable. hH^S^Mandy r
T wore»fpe&^
^yta^dn^qf-hist dim and feeble
eyes, the4yihl®ng and blink- j
ing of Which pbocb&!6d from
the fame cauif^d conWl
with themselves. ‘
• All his laboured jhapfodies
on virtue and freedom were
only deviled to panegyrize
himfelf. -Ambition was the
basts of his charader—to be
considered, as a man of learn*
ing, one of his wishes—a po
litical reputation his chief
aim. ?.? v : ' -;
Hefpoke with contempt of
Pitt, and thought,'ncverthe-
Jess, that nobody exceeded this
minister but himfelf. The
pretended in verves of the
Englilh Journals filled hisjp^l
with particular pkafure; his
accent and ex prefiipns difeov
ered thb gratification of <felf
love, when he publicly expa-1
Stated on this lubjed. He
learned with trarilpoft that ■
’^^rendhar^
^feffpierre^ troops,& heard
Jthe fopperies of the Duke of
Yor.k, as if they were eulogies
on himfelf: For being him
fblfa tyrant, he uled to weigh
every thing in the scale of ty
tahts.
Insolent and cowardly at
oncej he covered his» Ichemes
under athick-veil, marked out
his victims in the dark, and ‘
flruck often with boldness. if I
a'Member of the Convention '
^happened to make a motion i
^that displeased him, he lm me- j
diately turned pn that dide,
apd^xed his threatening loplss
jlpondhim- ,
Feeble and .vindidive j
bec/y^nfeM, chafteby tem
at the tribune,^and contrived
to reriderhis voice; naturally
and shrill, fofter, and hisj
provincial accentl'efs disagree- (
jable, (be was born at Arras, j
. county of Artois^ He had stud-i
ied die art of declamation,
and used it with confiderablei
success. The anithefis pre
vailed much in hisharrarigues,
and he also often made use of
irony. His style was far from:
uniform. His speeches were]
always composed of cant lan-j
guage,parables,vifionary hints,
and rhapsodies on virtue,
xrimes, and conspiracies. If
unprepared for the fubjeft,
he was but an indifferent or?
ator, arid deferyedjy much
below the middling clals :
when it was required to make I
a sudden impreflion, then
snatched he after his volatile
ideas, like a man, who asleep,
? purfues the j)hantbm ( of a
dream. His violent gesticu
lations and threatening looks
supplied his want of eloquence,
and produced feme times a l
wonderful effect on the com
mon dais of people.
*His logic was pretty just,
he was often refined in his
sophisms. He refuted with
clearnels, but his'Head was I
generally sterile, and the cir
cle of his ideas narrow, as it
generally happens with thole
who are too much occupied J
. • . 1 . ». fT •
pan aiialiin twice; endangered
"the'life of a^h^r deputy, |t
was again Robelpierre whom
j the aSafiin aimed at. Even
• j the shadows of the martyrs of
: j liberty frightened him did •
all in his power to leflen their
' influence and to ulurp the in
sense due to them.
To paipt him in one word,
Robespierre had not thegenius
J neceflary to create circum-
I fiances, but he knew how to
I seize and use ftich as a^ie
1 with dexterity.
• 1 Many may think him more
criminal, if jfdph a thing is
pdflible, than ever he was; a
■I few may doubt-es some par- j
j ‘ticular crimes alledged against
j him. His adherafits may Wll
I perfonifiM Corruption incor- 1
i ruptltde^ bfit if there is any ;
1 impartial (jitizen not cm
I convinced or his having been 1
the dilator, the tyrant oMis
I country, let \him tell us what
I name the man deserves, who
I wanted to make use of the
I jurisprudence of despots (one
j of his own e^preffions)
j whole favorite 2 principle it
I was, to throw Hkea fol tan, ,
' the head of fotne innocent' 1
I functionary at the feet of the j
1 multitude, difeontgntedby the j
j future of some of his own ill
| digested plans j—who did not
I hesitate a single moment, to
' facrificeimmaculateinnoeence
herlelf, for the execution of
his projedlsjaccording to him,
for the fake of liberty I—who
| perament, afld voluptuous out
of fancy; tH glances of,fair|
j women were . not the least
1 1 charms ■ for this fupreme' be?
; ing; he endeavored to please,
& ambition sometimes made
room for coquetry. He cauf-
I ed ladies to boartefted, for the
plealure of lettipg^ th^m free
again ; he made them’ weep,
that they might permit him to
wipe away ‘ their tears. He
exercised particularly his ma-
I gieal influence over the ten
der hearted visionaries in pat
riotism. Les dames of the
Hajle, and the fabric of his
Sovereignty w ! as partly found
ed Ori their influence.
I He flattered the priests as
I ufeful instruments for the ex
ecution of his projects, and
I®even his\ftile had something;
of the enigmatical and mystic,
h (a stile peculiar tothis clals of
men.) Craftinefs, next to
ambition, was the most strik
ing trait in his charader.
\ He was only environed by
such perlons as had much to
! reproach them lei ves with, be
cause a single word was iuf-1
ficient to' bring these to the;
block. He protected one sac-1
tion of the convention, arid
made the whole’tremble.
He transformed errors into
crimes, and crimes into d^rors.
When he was-attacked, liberty
herfelf was outraged. Had
L.' _ rr- • _ t J _ 1
One Prnny Rewdrd,
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< t Xi * » 1 * * '
-TJ AN away from the fubferiber
qJEV an apptcocKc boy named
Abraham Folsom, about feven
> ftcca years about five feet
(eveg- inches -high, had on when? he
went away algniy Ihort jacket and
,ov«halls—lhas i«dark brown hair.
^Whoever will take up said boy
and convey him to me the fub
feriber -dull'have the above re
ward and no charges paid, and all
perfans are forbid harboring or
trailing hkn-as they would avoid
the penalties of the law.
Winthrop Gilman.
Gilmanton, N«v. ^tb, 1794.
War Department,
Aug. 1, 1794.
IN FORMA TION is hereby giv^
en to all the Military Invalids of
ibe United States, that the fyms fa
which they arjjAtitlcd for their an
nual pension, wbicb will became due
ron the fifth ^ay of September, r y 94,’
will be paid an the fad da^ by the
Commissioners of Loans within the
States r^^faieh^ under the ujual
regulationsf
Applications of Executors or Afi
mifdftruitor^mufibeaccompainedwitb
legal evidenced of their refpebtive of
ficers, and also of the time of the fa
cfae offuckhrva^ s wbofe penfiotts
fay may clai m.
By command of the PreJi dent of
the United States,
H. Knox, Secretary of War,
_ RAGS.
/^(ASH, Wntmg-Paper, or
Books given for clean
cotton and linen RAGS at
this Office.
। delivered his intimate friends
to thejiauds bf the bangtpan,
if theybecamein the least op
posed to his baneful designs ;
»—who substituted his own
will to the orders of the peo
ple whdm no body flared
to contradift in his arbitrary
measures, without exposing
hii head to the guillotine ; —
What is < the name of this
man ?—Monfter !—or devise
a word more expressive of his
crimes, and wefhall willingly
fubferibe to it. Robespierre
did not consider, that liberty
is always carefully watching
thole, wfio design to place
themfelv|s above her, and that
no art can withstand her
j power. ’ /■
He ascribed the fate of his
predeceflbrs to want of cun
ning, and the fall of fb many
hypocrites in patriotism did
not at all intimidate him.
His chara&er was * long ago
painted in his own speeches
and actions t circumstances
have fully unmalked him,and
the infallible Robespierre, once
the tool of the people, is now
hovering ; among the gloomy
fliades .of thole abhorred ty
rants of mankind, who for one
moment's hope to enslave
their fellow creatures, are de
servedly condemned to the
imprecations of whole gener
ations.