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fVOL. !•] , r , printed BY DANIEL STARNES & Co. WEST END OF BRO AD-STREET, l (ri ' ■* " proposals, ,r BAN IH stashes & co. hl lk the city OF AUGUSTA, T 0 BE ENTITLED Mirror of the 1 imes. THF universal promulgation of . f i the general dcttribution of know- Wb ’ nbiea* of the firft importance in liberty ha. left traces r'lL footfleps, under every government confult* the happinef. of Man.- **" c i a**” said the Great I.ord Bacon united with virtue” it certainly ' ■J® |V ’ WheTe ignorance re : gns there •;« triumph* and dcfpotifm governs. A. £become, enlightened authority will be Lrd h mrralityrefiored.-Knowledge k are the bases bf freedom—the one J lnl d.u«m our rights, the other teaches «ocr efuties; the ftrft thews, us how to Iftnidl the best poflible form of gevern gtnt the lad requires us to oVey it when con- Irucfci It is therefore advaatageous every Jihjre, but is »By MU it isalfo’utely re ttffirr, that corrtd information fliou'd be indcly'diffufed and easily obtained: For fa, tij the pnph who govern. 7bty never ktentionaliy chocfe bad leaders or approve wot measures, yet they are liable to error ..pvt them true details and they will judge errredlly—for on phi* groundi the people al itpform jujl opinions , whenever they mis- Uketheir own irtereft 'tis owing entirely to tint of information in the many or want of bonefty in the feiv. But etttcnfn/e political in fcrmaton is net to be acquired without much bbcur, and few have leisure to fudy the ftilenti,compare the opinions, & peruse the ! pages of Locke, Sydney, Gibbon, Hume & j Vittel. If an acquaintance with the true jhnciplesof government & duties of a citizen wild be acquired only from huge folios Idiffufetreatifes, it wculd he feMom fought, wif fought, the plough, the hatchet, and J tefiwmuftftand dill. Some cheaper and filler means of fathfying curiosity and , Eucurinr information must therefore be ' iked for; and where is intelligence, thipnefs and convenience united with more advantage, than in the c’ofcly printed col umn of the humble News-paper ? Our nuntrymeo appear so well convinced «f j tM uftfulnefs of periodical prints, and have j liberally enconr ged them, that we ! ktm it unneciJary to insist on their merit, lad almost hesitate to reciucft public pat wnige for another News-paper cftablifh- j •rat We tan promise little except what atten- ! Km, honesty k industry can perform. The I jnnciple. of our Paper, like our own, will be ! lepubltcan, “ but the fame freedom of opin- i im which we claim for ou-felves, we will) I Vi others t° enjoy.** Civil an d Reli/tous Jeny is the birh right of evry man, and hwhowill not extend the fame indu'eence I bill parties, and all fed, which he wiflies ! Dr his own, is already or dderves to be a : we. i ofupport Religion and morality will hour pride— to encourage literature our wovor-no communication* calculated to iS™" 1 * no hint will be f.ft ln * free country it i 8 necessary <hould be neither vagne nor .Upubhcaa, of the sSJ leg" «®otoUd. ther£forc be pub,iflied a * the r •Sfn*l/ IR J 0R 0F THE TIMES will be teens. 'j b ° canv *b P u b’ic measure with 'Ur\Ju lR eaaminin g the condudl of •illkr * ’ efticers of government—it CONDITIONS. l S IR . ROR 0F THE ™ES will be gibed every Monday, on a royal Typt° 40 ** te llent quality, and good l iT Cetofubfcrber » w!U be three J*ts per annum, paid half yearly in price f for “dvertifing wHI be fifty r? Mrt *° r the insertion hS CVena ° daha,ffor^bcon- *V*Sr£! erWi ! bc de,ivered to Town I thofe t!V C,r Placeß Rf abode b * °/ the c ®untry will be done „ Office. k * * Dd dellVered at the P„P ft * eiJomfnat Mns m pne- Ipis. r Lhuich in particular, PROSPECTUS J> a Publication, Hi,! BE Entitled the vicious repository. c BY W.A.mND °' ln> (But. of Columbia J <f E w^‘° r be 8» leave to l °r lhe atteni *on Socir l^C Method ®niy baca.nl ~ n. p articularj not 10 give t. K a lhou B hl Pro b“8 ‘ bec»a| e d !h ,ded Charac ' ■' hiv ' »o religious ve- MIRROR OF THE TIMES hide of the kind, nor have they had since lhe discontinuance of their Magazine, which was pub lished some years ago. Both the Prelbyterians and Episcopalians have under their patronage monthly publications devoted to the fame fubjeQs proposed to be embraced by this work. The Edito-, however* flatters : himfeif that this publication will poflefs some advantages over j those that are only iflued month- j ly, in furnilhing early religious j intelligence, and he hopes it will afford greater fatisfattion to readers in general, as in such works the fame fubje6ts and ac counts are continued in a series of numbers. But since this wotk is to be devoted to the interelt of reli gion, both in its doctrine and experience, and will likewile in clude the lubjett of morality, we think it entitled to the grea ter attention; and we vvifli it to be diltinfcily uuderflood, that as ! it has for its object the diffufion of religious information, the j fuSjett of politics will not be j introduced. In the scripture sense of the term, religion embraces not on ly what we are to believe, but more elpecially what we mult experience of its great truths in our hearts. Morality implies, not only that men Ihould do no harm, but that they lliouid be 1 attively and zealously engaged ! in abts of benevolence & works of righteoulnels. It would then appear that religion consists in what we believe Sc experience, and morality in that faith and experience reduced into prac. tice. True religion and mor aiity go hand in hand, and mu tualiy support each other.— Where there is not morality, there cannot be religion, and we are dilpofed io think likewise there cannot be genuine moial ity without religion. Instead then of drawing our ideas of morality from principles foun ded on natural right, let us look to a higher source—to religion —and -to that religion tsught by our Lord Jesus Chritt— Religion alone has poiver to perluade with celerity, because it 'xcites paflion while it in forms the understanding—be cause it alone has the means of renderng obvious what itrecom. mends—because it speaks in the name of God, and it is easy to inlpire refped for him whose power is every where evident to the eyes of the Ample and difeerning—to the eyes of chil dren and men of mature under fianding. It will be expefled that the religious part of the commuuity in particular will patronize a publication of this kind. I claims the atiention of religious denominations of all deicrip. lions, not only as fubferibers, but as contributors ofeflays and communications, on the sub- i Jetts it proposes to embrace.— Almost every political publica tion has met with generous pat ronage—and to such, religious characters have not failed to contribute their part. But while they have thus aided in diffufing political information, they will not (urely reflect ou their pro iefiion, by withholding from this their influence and support. “ HOLD THE MIRROR UP TO NATURE.” Sha\cspcarc. But we think this work forci- I bly recommended itfelf to the attention of the enlightened po litician. That man does not deserve the name of politician, who is unconscious of the in fluence of religion and morality upon the good government and happiness of society—weak, in , deed, are the redraints of hu ' man laws and honor, unaided J by the obligations and precepts of religion, upon the ambition ! and avarice of wicked men.— j Without the influence cf rcligi ; on, thele paflions may he ex. peCted lo triumph over the law { and every principle of jufiice. The “ Religious Repository” will be a collection of original i and well feleCted pieces on rcli* gicn and morality, and will serve likewise to recoid the revivals of religion, particularly at camp meetings, and also to prelerve a short account of the lives, layings and deaihs of eminent. | iy pious characters ; and thus ■ Inal! we 44 gather up the frag, i ments, & nothing will be loft*-” In addition it will contain fe. j left and original pieces of na tural hdlory, together with in. ftructive and pleasing anecdotes. The Editor has already enga. , ged the afliftance of his friends, ; as well of the rniniftry ds others ; and he particularly requefl the 1 travelling and local preachers • of the connexion, to forward to him, from time to time, such | communications as may be ern. biaced within the general ob jects of Lhe work. CONDITIONS* This work will be puhliflied weekly., on a half sheet, in an oftavo form, on good paper with a new and handlome type. SubJcribcrs in the town and city will be served by a carrier, and thole at a diltance will receive it by mail, they paying poflage but any other modefuggeft ed by fubferibers, will be adop. ted, provided it does not occa. Aon expence to the publilher. The price to fubferibers will be two dollars per annum, pay able hall yearly by thole in the diflrift, and by those at a dis. tance in advance. Any person fending five dollars fhaii have three copies. 1 here will occafionaßy be aded in the course of the year (without charge) as many half (heels as will incrcafe the work to a volume of at lead 500 pa ges. The paper shall begin on the ill of November, provided a fufficient number of fubferibers are obtained to jufiify the Edi tor in commencing the publica. lion. We, whose names are underwrit ten, testify, that we know William A. Rind, to be an acceptable and worthy member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and feel no he sitatian in recommending the above proposed publication to the pat i ronage of our societies in general, and to those of them in Boston, N. York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Charleston, in particular. Thomas Sargent, Joshua Wells. TO RENT. A STORE in the central part of Broad-street—Enquire el the Printers. October 17. \ RAINBOW, No. IV. FRENCH REVOLUTION; ! And Emperorship of Bonaparte. THF. intelliprence that Bona parte had founded his imnerial *hrone, on the ruins of republican France, has excited verv opposite sensations, among the political sects, cl different civiliy.ed nati | ons ; of jov and triumph with the ! advocate? of despotism ; of j naMon & reject, among the friends ! oflihertv, if not unpleasant sensa tions of doubt and despair, with j respect to the crencrai practacabiL i ifv of mild and economical pcliM csl institutions. The first maybe ) supposed to have felt that kind of ■ troubled pleasure, if pleasure it i can be called, which Milton dis- i i cribea the arch-fiend to have en- | ! joved, when be seduced the mo- 1 ; ther of mankind ; or that still | more horrid sentiment of malici. j I ous satisfaction, which the same poet attributes to death, when he ! \va3 made acqur.inted with the ' numberleaa victims, which the ■ success of his infernal father would j i furnish bis devouring jaws : thev « I “ grin horribly, a ghastly smile.” They are much better pleased that the French revolution has com menced, p*cgressed and termina ted as it cf bears to have done, than if cuch a revolution hr.d never ta ken place, and the ancient despo tism had remained unshaken.- They consider the experiment and its failure as the last link in the long chain of proofs, which tend to establish unalterably and incon troverlihly, this great and impnr : tant political axiom— the insecu rity AND INSTABILITY Ol' REPUB licam institutions. They de clare that tve have now before our -yea the fairest experiment, the grandest tfart, and the ablest con ducted attempt towards the esta blishment cf representative de mociacy, in a highly enlightened nation, that has ever been made : And that it 3 failure is a confirma tion of the universal testimony of all antiquity, and the experience of modern times, that mankind J are ao radically and irremediably j prone to vice and corruption as to 1 render them unfit, and in fact,, incapable of governing themselves, but require the chasteuiug hand of a Trader to secure their happiness. I hey contend, whatever doubts may have been heretofore enter tamed, with respect to the proba bility cf a gradual emancipation of the human race, from civil and : religious tyranny, in proportion as they become the : subject cl tneir political and social lights, that noxv% such doubt* must be thonged imu certainties of their imn' ciicabiiitv ; what prrpbecy, is now history ; what was once conjecture is nmv expe rience ; what was once theory, is now practice. The example ol antiquity it is no longer necessary, say they, to produce ; they ait willing to rest lhe force of the ar gument cn the f rench experiment : external violence had no agency in the destruction of French liber ty ; like Home of old. she lost her liberty at the period when she nad triumphed over all her enemies ; but the French revolution a | monster, generated in vice and de pravity, *which, for lack of other victims, has at length devoured i ls ! own abortive offspring. The des trvetien of this monster and its offspring produces the return of i social order, tranquillity and hap i pincss, which can only be secured by monarchy. Emperor Napole on ha 3 awakened the dreaming philosopher, and rent the veil from the eyes of the visionary specula tor. With better success than Ca nute, when he addressed the sur ges that lolled at his feet, he lias issued his mandate to the rising flood of liberty & emancipation— •* so Jar shaft thou go—~und no J ae ther /” Such is an abstract of what * i MONDAY, Novcmober 14, 1808. !■ II ■ ■ ■ II MlL..].nil n — l I imagine to be the feeling* and opinions of the advocates of des* potie nover. Far doferent are those enter tained hv the friend of liberty.— The freedom of another hemi*. phere seemed to dawn, and gleam upon his delighted soul, like the all-cheering luminary of day ; but the vice of man has overshadowed the scene ; his fancies have fleeted from before him, as the unreal shades of deceptive twilight; the long night of despotism succeeds. He looks back with regret to the beautiful visions which he indul ged, at a period when he could hail a French, a Batavian, an Hcl , vitian, a Ligurian, a Cisalpine, a Roman, and a Parthenopean Re public, as inhabiting, like Ameri ca, “ the modest mansion of rrpre s sentative democracy. In ihe bit* " terness of his soul he curves the bloody tyrant who has directed s the master energies of his mind to [ the destruction of those fitir la ! bries. Bonaparte might have J ranked with th* Scipios and Cato* * of antiquity : he is now associated I with the despots of modern Eu* j rope ; hts venerated name would j have gone down the stream oi I time, ’till time shall be no more, and unlading laurels have incir. cled his immortal brow ; it will now descend, with accumulating disgrace, to the latest posterity j ano infamy, eternal, cvcilasung, will be inseparably connected with his name, but n.e ti tend of liber ty, indigi-ani at the usurpation of bonapane, & lamenting the event as ft permanent aud irremidable destruction of the freedom of France, although he does honor to ihe gcncrossiiy and ardor of hi* republican feelings, yet falls into the errors of slaves and tyrants, when he believes that the Organic Senatus Consulium is the grave of French liberty. Though his feelings and actions are perfectly dissimilar, ycl he seems tobv.rtve, with them, that it is a late, which even American fietdom wifi one day experience, whtu age ha* ri pened it ior the repose of despo tism, and time tor the sleep of death. Hut these opinions and ! feeling*, »f I ma y judge lrom u.jr own experience, will, in a great mcasuic subsiue , aud our con tempt lor the worn out, common place, oidinary diictuon, which Bonaparte’* ambition has taken, will in some degree, be diminish ed, upon cooler and more mature reflection. We shall be leu wo cu quire whether theelevatiuu or i>o uaparte is really so ptiinaucuiiy inauspicious to liberty, aud cus astrrou* to Fiance, us the noneat indignation ul our hist imp* c.*i. ens uouid persuade us to butcve. In this inquiry, two ptomiueut points seem to present meinscive* ior considtiatiou. jtirst j Las me 1 nch revolution actuady cr.dcu l btcoiidi if it has ended, w<'»alwill France, in particular, and tot gen eral cause ot liberty aud o* man kind, lose or ga«u by it t T he most ancient aud general division of the u kinds of governments, is into monarchical, anstocratical and detuooraucal.— But this division oues not appear to discriminate with suthetent pre cision between the most usual sys tems oi tuie established among men. i speak in general terms ; I do not descend to the particular and numberless modifications and mixtures, of which they are all susceptible, i shall adopt, there fore, as a first and general divisi on, one that appears liable to few er objections, viz: Despo ism Limited Monarchy—and, Rrprc sentaiive democracy, it cauuot be denied by the most enthusiastic philauthropuisi, that there ai e ma ny nations, vrhuse moral aua poli tical condition wui not admit of any other species oi government than the tusi —mat is absolute aud unqualified despotism. Ouch are most or tuc mum*# of A*ia aud «r [\'o. V.]