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merious flocks and herds, and larger
heaps of (hinirig metal, than they know
how to use. These things are what men
call property : And whenone poffefts
them in abundance far beyond bis
wants, or beyond the possessions of his
neighbours, he is called rich —-and
rich let him be calted. The grand things
on which life and happiaefs depend,
-God has not trusted to the disposal of
men, nor allowed them to appropriate ;
he keeps them constantly in his own
hands, and distributes them with equal
in Zion : Uuto thee (ball the vow be per
formed. Thou makeft the outgoings of
' the morning & of the evening to rejoice:
Thdu vifiteft the earth and watered it.
Thou greatly enriched it from thy foun
tains. Thou blcffeth the springing
thereof. Thou crowned the year with
thv goodness ;—thy paths drop fat
nefa. They drop upon the pastures of
the wilderness, and the little hills re
joice on every tide. The pastures are
clothed with flocks; the valleys are co
vered with corn. They Ihout for joy
and sing."
Harvest is Heaven's reward to
,unban industry. God has endued us
with certain powers, which we are to
'employ within our appointed sphere,
He supplies our wants, not by ah imme
diate providence, bet by Succeeding the
labours of our hands. According to the
ordinary course of his providence," he
becometh poor who dealeth with a flack
hand ; but the hand of the diligent ma
keth rich." Varibus are the circurn
ftances under which he places mankind ;
but in regard of his blessing on their
prudent labours, he treats all with an
equal hand. This is what no man can
engross to the prejudice of his neigh
bours : Every man may have it if he
Wilh
There are some left important things
which God permits men to appropriate,
and some to possess in a greater measure,
than others. Some claim an executive
territory, and call lands their ban,
which they cannot occupy and have ne
ver seen, and perhaps their sons will not
fee after them. Some have more nu-
WHEN we fee the fruits of the
earth brought to maturity,
and provision made for our
support through another year, how just,
I had almost said how natural it is, to
direct our grateful thoughts to that;
Being on whom we constantly depend,
and from whose unceasing bounty we de
rive all our supplies. Our own pru-
dence and industry must do their part;
bat he alone succeeds our lebours. Thte
friendly, showers and the quickening
fun beams are not under ,our command.
Hail-storms and Tornadoes, mildews
knowledgement, that the harvest was
his gift. He daily loads us with bene
fits ; but the bounty of harvest is too
rich a blessing to be daily bellowed. This
comes only in its appointed weeks.
Should it then be withheld, distress and
mortality must ensue. Such a blessing,
so evidently divine, so necessary to our
subsistence, fhoald be received with
thanksgiving and joy. With what a
flow of gratitude, the Pfamlift utters
the feelings of his heart, on such an ac
cafion. " Praise waiteth for t'nee,O God
and destroying infeds, are not fubjed
to our will. Harvell calls open us to
refled, hew inefficient we are th bring
to perfection our own designs and to pre
vent any of those numerous evils which
might defeat them. In the ancient divine
law parii&lar feftivals were inflituted &
observed as teftimoaies of grati ude for
thole annual blessings. The firft fruits
were offered to God in thankful ac-
FRIDAY, August 19, 1791.]
On HARVEST—No. IT.
EXET E R, (slew-Hampshire) Printed and Published by HENRY RANLET, at Nine Shillings per annum.
From the American Mercurys
REFLECTIONS
WHEN Monfeur Le Noir
teas Lieutenant of the Police in
Paris be married bis daughter
to a gentleman of merit and
fortune: Previous to the nup
tials M Le Noir ordered bis
wig maker to make him a most
elegant wig, which be did, and
fentit home by one of his jour
\rieymen. The magi flrate bap^
;pened to be busy when the boy
;came; and told him to leave the
I box. M. Le Noir bad tbe box
brought to him as soon as the
burry of his buftnefs was over,
when lo ! inflead of a senatorial
periwig, he found a dead child.
The wig^maker was immediate
ly sent for, and feeing the mis
take, explained tbe matter, by
telling tbe magiflrate that bis
wife bad been brought to bea
two days before, that tbe child
A GENTLEMAN living
in Jamaica net long ago,
bad a wife not of the most a
greeable humour in the world;
however, as an indulgent hus
band, he bad bought her affine
pad, whiebjoon after gave her
a fall that broke her neck. A
mother gentleman in the fame
neighbourhood; blessed likewise
with a termagant Ipoufe, a/ked
the widowerer if he would Jell
The air as liberally refreshes, and the
winds as kindly fan the peasant, as the
prince. However poor ohe may be in
regard of those trifles in which property
confitls ; (for trifles they are fcl ras
the, exceed real ofe) yet he has as
large a (hare in the great' bounties of
providence, as sure a profped of heaven's
blessing on his labour, as high encou
ragement to industry in his calling, as
the wealthiest poffeffof on the globe.
While harvest calls tb industry, it
inculcates frugality. Blessings bellow
ed by a divine hand,are to be used in o
bedience to the divine will. Bounties,on
tyhich human support depends,ought not
to be consumed in the gratification of
forbidden lusts. Those precious fruits,
which are dele out to us at an appointed
season, arid which, .at no other season,
can be procured by the art orindultry of
man, ihould not be applied to ulelefs
purposes, or wafted in guilty indulgence.
The Wretch, who by a prodigal mifpence
of the blessings of ore hearveft, reduces
himlelf to want before the return of ano
ther, Bands charged not only with im
prudence and ingratitude, but with a
kind of sacrilege.
bounty. Rain, ai r and funfoine are a
like free to all; - The fhewers fall as
bountifully, and the fun fends as lively
beams on the poor man s field or garden,
as on the rich man's manor.,
bis wife's pad, for be bad a
great fancy for it,and be would
give him what be would for it.
No; laid the other, I don't care
to tell it, for I am not lure
that Iftan't marry again.
ANECDOTES.
«WT H E
o<^z£^, * < "°l!rjß|„r
in the last page of his " divine rhap
sody" he thus describes himfelf—and
your Royal Highness is intreated to ob
serve the exemplary medefty of so great
a man. When public obj dts fill his
“ dilinterefted" mind, it soars like an
infernal fury; and scatters vengeance
and miferv over " disobedient" nations
—when he retires within himfelf, we dis
cern only the humanity of a Christian,
and a gentleness and baffilulnefs truly
sentimental.
" 1," the great man fays, " have lit
tle to recommend my opinions, but long
observation. and much impartiality,"—
My Lord Mansfield, who Hill polTcffes
his mental faculties in great vigor, pro
nounces the French Revolution, an event
in hittory totally new, to which no For
mer fads and incidents can apply.
Here is, long observation against long
observation ; but I shall presently fthte
the circumstance which may induce Mr.
Burke to give the preference to himfelf.
On the fobjed of his " impartiality,"
there can be no doubt. Has any man
converted with, or heard this orator, and
supposed him capable of harbouring pre-
Judice?
" They came from ohe, who has been
nb tool of power,no flatterer of greatness,
and who, in his latt acts, does not wilh
to belie the tenor of his life."
ft must give your Royal Highness
pleasure, to learn from the authority of
this great man himfelf, that the opini
on of his implicit devotion' to a late
Marquis, for good and fubflantial con
siderations, is groundless ; that he pur
chased his vilia and estate at Baconsfield
with the accumulations of his own pa
trimony ; that he represents a borough
in Parliament, by the free, uninfluenced
election of the burgeffs ; and, though
while in office, he offered incense of ad
oration at the Ihrine of Royalty, he con
scientiously balanced it out of office, by
pronouncing on the melancholy and af
fliaing indisposition of your Royal Fa
ther, " that the Almighty had hurled
him from his Throne." He remarks on
the proceedings of the Revolution Socie
ty, "that the misfortunes of Kings make
a delicious repast to some fort of palates."
—The repast suits not the palate of Mr.
Burke, unlcfs it be simulated by difap-
On the French Revolution, or rather on
the general Liberty of Mankind, having
already had so rapid and extensive a cir
cularion in this country :—the poifoneus
doarinet, contained in that pamphlet,
having (fa the accommodation of thoge
who could not afford to become whole
sale purchasers) been jo inauftrieujly re
tailed o t in periodical doses, like morn
ing drams, to taint and defiro, the jound
Constitution of America ; —lVe thought
it not amiis to present our Reaaers
with the following account of the " su
blime and beautiful" author, ixtraded
from the,
" Lemons to a Young Prince,"
I VIEW Mr. Burke, not as the Morn
ing Star, dropping gentle and bene
ficent dew ; n^t as a regular planet, in
that wonderful 6 flem, the daily blessings
of which we participate ; but a blazing
eccentric comet, o f mystic and menacing
omen: and my eye is led to survey it
fiom the tail.
was dead, and that the persons
charged to interr the infant
bad confounded the two boxes,
and buried the one that bad the
wig in it. M. le Noir laugh
ed heartily, and bad the wig
exhumed and the child con/igned
in its proper place.
MR. BURKE'S LIBEL
[Numb. 7 of Volume 6.
Gazetteer.
1 would impress these hints the more
carefully on your Royal Highness, as I
understand the alternate councils of Cum
berland and the little White house (on
the late re-eHablifhment of which, 1 con
gratulate your Royal Highness) difeover
a reluctance and timidity, reflecting thii
admirable and expedient religion. If
any future event Ihould give the power,
I ihould advise its avowal ; and if the
sacred bench would admitof a preaching
prelate, that Mr. Burke be seated bn i r j
reserving an annual portion of every par
liamentary season for the impeachment.
In the prosecution of Mr. Halting#,
the conduct of this great and good mad
is equally admirable with his eppofitioa
to the American wat. The House of
Commons Hated a certain number of
propofi ions, refering to adt, which, in
Mr. Hallingi, Were or were not,violations
of law, or violations of a fpecified trust.
But of what advan age would determin
ations on such questions have been to the
learning of the country ? The hirtory
and antiquity of bindofian ; the various
politics of its Rates ! its ancient,complex,
and extenfize mythology ; the doctrines,
rites, and ceremony of its religion ; is
population, ranks, carts, customs, and
manners ; have been minutely detailed
—and the wildom and knowledge of
ages have been compressed into a morn
ing entertainment ; have been arranged
into speeches, which have contributed
greatly to the improvement of the attend
ing audience ; and by the indurtry and
panegyrics of newspaper reporters, have
been diffufed through the nation, to its
great advantage.
pointment, or by fame flrong obfta^
to the attainment of his withes. This, '
am sure, your ; oval Highneh will think
a Efficient cause and, to tie his cwu
phrafe,not to belie the tenor of bis life.
" They come from one; almost <he
whole of whose public life has be en a
Ilruggle for the liberty es others ; 'rem
one, in whose breast no anger durable
or vehement has ever been kindled, hue
by what be confider, ^s tyranny : and
who snatches from his (hare in the en
deavours, which are uled by good men to
diferedit opulent opprt ffion, the hours he
has employed on your affairs ; and who,
in so doing, persuades h<mfelf he has net
departed from his usual office ”
Your Royal Highnefswill here admire
the model! address, with which the great
orator mingles the distinguished parts he
has aded, in opposition to the American
car, and in the impeachment of Mr.
Hastings., To place htfe great adbona
in a true light, your Royal Highneh m ft
be informed, that the Declaratory 811,
the very brand which let America on
fire, was fabricated in councils of which
this orator participated. But you will
take with you, the moment Mr. B.rka
was difmiffed;and the war he conductedj
he execrated him as a traitor o the con-
Hitution ; and pledged his hotour and
character to impeach him. When events
indicated the advantage of a coalition
with that minister, the wonderful placa
bility of our author's natur'e was display
ed. He passed inflan.lv, from mortal
hatred, to the molt enrhufi d ftic friend
(hip, and from bitter reproach, to fob
lime panegyric. lam ler,Gb|e, if such
apparent contradiction, and such dere
liction of all principle, were fairly char
geable on a philosopher,Mr.Btike would
annex to bis name the most infamous
epithets. But a Chriftiah, a believer of
thole doctrines which so amicably blend
high chuich tories wih the votaries of
the church of Rome; has advantage
which morales cannot enjoy. By rites,
ceremonies, and external atonements,
conference may be set on a pivot, like 3
weather-vane, to turn with the airy cur
rent of ielf-ihtereft.
The placability and mercy of our au
thor appear in this traaUftioD, but with