The eagle — Hanover, N.H., 1799-01-01 00:00:00, page 4

For the EAGLE.
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THE HERMIT— No. 3 .
T\OKS the Hermit utter word, of
truth and foberneG ? I know
you would rejoice a: being able to give
a negative to such an unpleasant quest
ion ; btcaufe it firikea at the very root
of all your hopes of ftandihg high in
your country's opinion, or even, 1 be
lieve, in the opinion of your own ecu-,
faiences
You have flattered youtfelves, and 1
know you have endeavoured to Matter
your fellow citizens, that you have
b&n real patriots, pursuing the good of
your country. Yet all your mighty
aoife, upon close examination, becomes
"ii^e the bafalcfs fabric of a vi&oh
Which leaves not a wreck behind."
To fee your aspiring hopes at once de
ferred ; to fee your labours for years
in the school of diflimulation rendered
abortive ; and yourfelree exposed in
your native garb of contemptible felf
iihnefs, is whit you cannot endure
with rtfignatico, and in the bitterness
of your foul, you cry " Ye have taken
away my Gads, which 1 have made, and
what have I more ?"
Can any one open his mouth and fay,
that the picture which I have drawn is
too feverc, or unjustly repre fehred ?
Can you yourfehes; with all youref
frontery, deny the representation to be
truth / If you still poifefs hardness c
nough for- such a barefaced aferfion,
bring the picture again into full v^ew ;
and if year heart does not rtfpond, in
wardifyio the jiifthefs pfescry linea
mih, there drawn,! pretend no longer
to underhand the meaning of virtue
and vice.-
What is meant by the terms virtue,
patrjotiftn, and federalism, which al
most deafen our ears with their peip*t-
Baldin? Is it not Amply this, that
those who are real patriots do every
thing in their power to promote the
general good of their country ? If this
be the real meaning of those terms,then
what, in the name of common fiffife, ir
meant by those, who perpetually make
utebf them, and at the fame time o
pmfy, and to the knowledge of alltheir
acquaintance, prfflife such a line of
condua as leads direally to the ruin of
|he community.
I ilk you, whether your expenses are
not greater now than they have been in
years heretofore ? and whether they
have not increased as you have arisen
to public employment ? Whether your
dress is not more costly, your equipag
es more sumptuous, your buildings
more spacious and ornamented, your
living more luxurious, andthe dress
an<fc whole arrangement of your fami
lies more gorgeous ? If these citeum
ftange§ are true, whit is the language
they uttter ? It is this, that as you
have been favoured with the confidence
of your country, you have abused that
Confidence by hastening your country's ,
gain in the most direct and certain
method which you couid have adopts
ed. The poison which you are con
stantly adminiftcring, though flow, is
mot fare. It is what has deffroy
ed every government that ever yet met
with ruin, even from the firft founda
tion of time ; therefore the result is,
that you are preying upon the vitals of
that country, which has ncurifiied,
cherished, and promoted you to hon
our and traft. Whilst she has manifest
ed the foodnefs of the pelican towards
y% y° u are devouring her entrails,
and sapping her; firings of lift : '
Horrid as this view of your conduct
may appear, the firft dictate of a com
mon observation declares itto he just.
Declares that as you advanced luxu
ry, you are travelling the highroad to
corruption, infidelity, inability, and
finally to the loss of those manly vir
tues, which have ever been the guardi
an of liberty. You are not only
travelling in this road youHelves, but
are leading thousands after you, by
your examples, headlong to ruin.
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f 5 I am aware that you will endeavour
to screen yourselves under this pitiful
refuge, viz. that public employments
expose you to great expenfer, and to a
variety of company, whom you most
treat with attention in your dress and
x^ * "*"• 're
Does hot this very exeufe, filch you
make, involve in it a most barefaced ac
knowledgement of your own iniquity ?
Does it not at once declare that matters
have already arrived to such a pitch,
that you cannot appear in cbara<„
without praftifing the political crime or!
luxury, and rather than lose your pop
ularity, you will adopt those matures
which destroy you and your country
together ? Does it not likewit aban
don the ground of merit, upm which
you firft started, and rest your Popular
ity upon humouring and cheri,ing the
vices of the times ? Does ihis con
dud betoken fathers of our Country ;
protestors and guardians of me public
weal I Does it not rather flow a de
praved heart, capable of abandoning
the welfare of the public fonthe ad
vancement of private grandeur!?
Cluster of Moral Maxims.
IF you regret not my misfortunes,
fays Ovid, because I have merited
them ; do, at least, regret that I have
merited them.
The favours of a mercenary man are
but a snare; for he will never think
them (efficiently repaid.
Neglect of religion leads to neglect
,of our facial duties.
If there is no DEITY, oniphe im
pious exercise reason.
; Keep your foul in a condition al
ways to desire that there should be a
DEITY, and you will rarely doubt
that there is one.
A Melting ferraon being preach
4, ed in a country church, all the
congregation fell to weeping, exceptl
one man, who was alked, how he ctor
refrain. Why, said he, I belong to an
other parish.
TTExrv the 4th being told by his
111* *gardener that there were several
foots at Fontainbleau, where nothing
would grow,' replied, " Go plant a bed
of attornies ; for they will flourifli any
where."-
THE Proprietors of White
River Falls Bridge are hereby
warned to meet at the dwelling house
of Gen. Ebenezer Brewster, in Hano
ver, on Monday the Seventh day of
January next, at one of the clock in
the afternoon, for the purpose of eleft
iug the (landing officers of the corpo
ration, for making such alterations in
the by laws as fhsll be thought proper,
and tranfa&ing any other bufinef# that
may be necefftry.
RUFUS GRAVES, Clerk.
' Dec. 21, 1798.
Pocket Book Loft.
ON the fiftinftant, either on Han
over Plain, or between General
;Brewfter's and the mouth of White Riv
er, a POCKET BOOK, containing a
number of Notes and Receipts.—Who
ever finds it and will return it to thr.
Subscriber (hajj be entitled to a generous
rewaid. \
HOWARD PHELPS.
Lebraa, Dec. 24, 1798.
Take Notice.
THE Stfbfcriber hereby no-
A tifies all those who are indebted
to him for Newspapers, that he m&f fa.
’nediatel, heroe so feaj, and desires all
those who can get the #%, to pay
m%. ——He will take good Wheat at
if per bushel, and good Cor# at 1/9 per
bushel, at his house in Bath —at Jona
than Blake, Esquire's, in Landafr-Q
Capt^ femes WillianOT in Littleton —a{'
Nathan Whites, Esquire's, in LaiKetfeT
—and at Jeremiah fimes, Esquire's,
in Northumberland.^^^
The Law is costly, and he is loth to
put any of his good Cuftomen tb cost.
JOSHUA RICKER, ftrf-te.
:• ; &tb,oa.)9,rai. ; pc^
Perfans diffeofed to ex
change rags far books I
or blanks, writing-paper
or newspapers, may find
% %^W#*,
/WOffice. h IVov. 6.
%, Received,
And for SALE at this Office,
THE FARMER'S ALMANACK ;
Calculated on a NEW qI IMPROVED plan,
„I^Y For the year of our LORD,
- 1799-
Containing, besides the large
number of Agronomical Calculations, and the
Farmer's Calendar for every month in the
Year, as great a variety as any other Alma,
nac, of
New, tyefal, and Entertaining
Matter.
Among which are a
DIRECT TAX on HOUS
ES, LANDS, and SLAVES,
and a table or list of
THE DIFFERENT RATES of
STAMP DUTIES, &c. &c.
Lands for Sale.
The Subscribers offer for fale,l
LA N C ASTE R.
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PUBLIC notice is hereby given to the owners of Land in the Town of Lancaf
^ ter, in the County of Grafton, and State of ltfew-Hampibiie, who have not
raid their tax of four Cents on the Acre, assessed agreeably to an aft of the said
General Court, passed at their session, begun and holden at Concord on the fourth
Wednesday of November, A. D. 1796 ; and adverti fed for payment, by theSe
leaden, of said Lancaster, according to the tenor of said aft—that the taxes on
the following Lots and trails now remain unpaid—'Therefore, so much of the
y said Lots and trails of Land, as will pay the tax thereon, with incidental charges,
[ will be fold at public Vendue, to the high# bidder, by us the Subferibers, on the
+rtwenty.fecond day of January next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon of said
day, at the Ino of Stephen Willfon, one of che Subscribers, in said Lancaster; un
lefi prevented by previous payment.. > *
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yharles Howe, - 68 2 . 2 2 4 a
tael Hale, 1 22 4,5 24 4 §0 z
grael. Hale, jr. 70 % a 70 80 1 23 4 6 23 4 §0 2
jiteiel Hale, 71 2 71 80 1 18 4 3 27 4 50 2
Isaac Bali, < 73 z 73 80 2 4 4 11 4 50 z
William Daggett, c - . 72 80 § 26 4 §0 2
Elifhi Crolby; 67 1 67 80 2 1 4 2 26° 4 50 2
Luke LiuGola, 66 2 66 80 2 22 4 3 2§ 4 50 2
David Lawson, 65 2 65 80 1 ia 4 2 27 4 50 z
Silas Rice, 40 2 40 80 2 7 4 2 28 4 50 z
Thomas Carter; 41 2 41 go r 19 4 1 24 4 50 2
William Reed, 4 , 4 27 4
Nathaniel Smith, • 27 2 27'80 3 26 4 3 30 4 50 2
)aniel Searis, 47 2 47 80 3 10 4 50 2
faac.Wood, 31 2 31 80 2 131,1 16 4 50 2
Nathaniel Kichardfon, . —. 2 34 '<>34 5 0 2
ohn Wait, )v• 46 2 46' So 4 8 4 50 2
Benjamin Sawyer, 44 2 5 , 4 4 10 4
ohn Sawyer, < 14 4 5 2 3 4 5° 2
john Harriman, 50 2
pamuel Marble, 35 2 . 35 *° 5 9 4 5° 2 ~
Marble, -1 27 4 5 28 4 50 2
Jonathan Houghton, 48 1 48 So 7, 8 4 5 11 4 50 2
Jblu Rogers, ' 24 2 6 27 4 2 2 9 4 5° 2
Abler Holden, ' : , § !§ 4 50 2
W4M@ Prentice, 30 2 30 80
Silphen Eines, 50 2 d
Jfes Reed, 23 2 2 19 4 1 20 4 50 2
N:fhech Weare, 45 2 5 15 4
Jc in Tolford, ~ 14 2 14 Io 2 §4l 21 4 50 2
Jt eph Newmarch, 5 17 4
Nathaniel Barrel, 39 2 39 80 1 6 4 1 17 4 50 2
Ihniel Warner, 3$ 2 38 so 2 14 4 2 17 4 50 2
Divid Page, § it 4
Dfrid Page, ft ;: 5 2 5 4 4 2& . 4
Jonathan Grout, 2154
Join Warden, 602 60 80 2 21 4 8 23 4
Befrmin Man, . , , . ' 1 ... JL. &.4_& 3 z 4 s^' 2
,4fcs Rogers. 7 4 2 15 4 5° 2
John Duncan, ' 36 2 36 80 1 8 4, J X 4 5° 2
timothy Whitney, 37 2 37 So 6 26 4 50 2
lamer Nevins, 49 2 J;. ,
Benjamin Stephens, 61 2 61 80 so 2
Ephraim Shattuck, -)1
Reuben Stone, z Y te4°'" r ’
' k 'fooff by the proptie- 1
ft & > ^f^^ ,fr^CT
Silas Shattuck, „
w.i. s _ J , „ ATHANIEL wfy 0
ISTEPHEN WILLSON, }
TITUS O. BROWN. J
- Laacofler, December W, 1791. , 22
60,000 Acres of LAND
in the State of Vermont,
which are in e great variety of towns,
10 almost every part of the state, upon a
liberal credit.-—Their wi(h is to fell
to aa&alfalere, who will have an op
portunit, of examining the quality be
fore compleating a porcbafe, and, in so
large a quantity, cannot fail of being
accommodated — -The titles are indis
putable, and will be warranted by
unexceptionable vouchers.
^AL $ 0,
About 15000 Acres ir
the State of New-Hampshire,
near Connecticut River.——A compa
ny of fifteen or twenty who would be
come aftual fcttlers, in a new town,
might be advantageously interested ia
alarge trad without hazarding a loss.
Apply at Norwich in Vermont to,
. JASPER MURDOCK, or
MILLS OLCOTT.
Norwich, April 6th, lyffi 38