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[VOL. I.] 'Jf^STA- PRINTED BY DANIEL STARNES & Co. WEST END OF BROAD-STREET. PROPOSALS gy DANIEL STARNES Si CO. - h Suit,fit!*. * w'ltjNw't+r. f ‘ uixHE CITY OF AUGUSTA, TO BE ENTITLED Mirror of the limes. THF. universal promulgation of mith and the genera! deftribution of know -2?« ohietfts of the firft importance m JS’-ouDtry where liberty ha. left traces (her footfteps, under every go™™* „hich confult* the happmefs of M»n— faid the Great Lord Bacon united with virtue" it certainly i, liberty. Where ignorance reigns there lice triumphs and despotism governs. A. Bto become, enlightened authority w, 11 be iimited & moralitv reflored.-Knowledge Sc Tirtae are the bases of freedom—the one ini'rudls as in our rights, the other teaches a, out duties; the fir ft IW* us how to conftruA the befl pollible form of govern meut. the last requires us to obey it when con -ocoded. It is therefore advantageous every where, but in a public it is absolutely r.e sefury, that corrett information flu-uld he widely diffufed and caCly obtained s For Utrt til the fttflt wiio govern. Tiny never intentionally choefe bad leaders or approve wrong measures, yet they are liable to error —give them true details nnd they will judge correctly—for on plain grounds the people al wayiform just opinions ; whenever they mif tsketheir own interest ‘tit owing entirely to want of information in the many or want of honesty in the ftw. But extenHit political in formaton is not to be acquired without much labour, and few have, kifure to fludy the fyftems,compare the opinions, & perule the pages of Locke, Sydney, Gibbon, Hume & Vattcl. If an acquaintance with the true principlesof government & duties of a citizen could be acquired cniy from huge folios k diffufetrcatifes.it would be fcldom fought or if fought, the plough, the hatchet, and the law mult ftana Bill. Some cheaper and easier means of fatisfying curioiity and procuring information mult therefore he looked for; and where is intelligence cheapuefs and convenience united with more advantage, than in the clofdy printed col umns ct the huuible News-paper ? Our countrymen appear so well conviuccd of the uftfulnefsof periodica! prints, and have so wry liberally encoar. ged them, that we dom it unneceflary to it (iff on their me r «t wda'moft hesitate to request public pat tonage for another News-paper eftablifh u;. - F .uiiine little except wliat atten tion, lioneftv & imluftry can perform. The principles of our Paper, like our own, will be Republican, “ but the lame freedom ©fonin iru which we claim for ourselves, we with » other,to enjoy.” Civil and Rcliriou, L er:y .. the btrh right of CV ry man, and ■av/ o will not extend the fame indulgence to all parties, and all fetft, which he withe* fj Ins own, u already or deserves to be a 1° support Religion and morality will courppoe-to encourage literature our communications calculated to ™^ w, lbc refuted; no hint will be ,J,'' J : ln a free country ; t i, ncceffary if ln 'kr be neitllcr va g»e nor i'kture w -l* . publ ' Cadh State ,c ? - ref °' Cl)epUbiiihed * ithc y The MipRORoF THE TIMES will be dtcencvV-d Ca ' iVl (* ?" h,,c measure with indivi duals d a" ,he of •ill ltn. w-1- v CfrS ° f B'' Verr, ment—it ** U, Truth- n CeUn, ’ y> A * ( CONDITIONS. Mlifl 1 d R ° R OFTHE ti MES will be pH! flied every Monday, on a royal 1 T ypf 80 cxccllem quality, aud good "fo!*?,!!! t 0 fabfctber * wi,i be three advance? Um ’ ? aid balf yearly in "am* J?f f ° r ?< , Wbn « win be fifty &t rtv L qUarC i° r t?,e insertion tisiiS IDd 3 hl!f for each £ ubf*H er Ws l! be delivered to Town tfaofe for th“ ‘ le ' r p ' aCC * 0t aboflc a ' ,d iu tILl he e l f "’ , .7 wJ J'be dene up Office. * * nU de ivertd at the Pott- Cents Cash Wn |, llnir ' d Lr(,, r .l l : bjr the Snbtcri to. Fur,'. ,lc li*ered at »!, • J,ard — A i“ Pr “ e "> for Goat. M„ .. M ' WILDE & Co. Kjvp N 9 T I CE * w>*Z ot> u** h v Utc 1 £,ia| > r,or Court ,rr!°," orab!e the Infp. Te *osell , 0 umb,a county for land , , !rte a,)d acres S ai «'' COU, "y®f Richmond, ** : e of j . » i ,a,t °f the real es- V|lJ <«r Su ! art deceased, attd ‘’•d.trjj ' ot the heiri a:»d U.VCHUDER, aj m * r . Itri9m MIRROR OF THE TIMES. -i- - - VIENNA, April 12. Before his imperial majesty left his capital, he was pleased to issue the following PROCLAMATION. “ Francis I. by the grace of God f Emperor of Austria, £?c. Peopl* of Austria ! I leave my capital to join the brave de fenders of the country, alfem bled on die frontiers for the pro tection of ihe Rate, “ For these three years past, j I have made the uirnolt exer_ j lions to piocure you, my be- ; loved fubjc6ls, the blellings of permanent peace. No lacnfice, j any ways confident with your j welfare, and with the indepen. j dence of I be Hate, however pain ful, have I Ipared to fecuie your | tranquility and welfare, by a friendly underdanaing with the emperor of the French. 14 But all my endeavors prov_ ed fruitlefs. The Austrian mo narchy was also to fubtnit to the boundiefs ambition of the em peror Napoleon; and in the lame manner he drives to sub due Spain, insults the facted head of the church, appropri ates to himfelf the provinces of Italy, and parcels out the Ger. man dominions. Auflria was to do homage to the great em. pire, the formation of which he has loudly announced. “ I have adopted ail necefTa ry measures to alLert the inde pendence of the state. Not only have ye aulwercci rny rail, h** l wf your native coun try has prompted you to anti cipate it. Accept my cordial thanks; they will be repeated by my pofierity and yours Self defence, not invasion, was our aim. But the conqueror will not allow the sovereign of his people Itrong in their mutual confidence, to polfels fufheient means to oppole his ambitious views. He declared hitniell hol me to Aultria, unless she should rehnquifh her measures of de fence, and prolfrate her fell dif ai med at hss feet. The dilgrace ful propolal was rejected, and now his holts are advancing a~ gamft us, arrayed for battle. I confide in God—in the J valor of my armies, in the he roic conduct of my brother who leads them on to glory, in you my beloved people. Our ex ertions for this war arc great ; but luch they rnufi be in older to attain more securely the im portant end of (elf prefervaiion. “ What you have hitherto done is the most unqueUtonable pledge for the powerful aihfi ance which I am to receive liorn you. They who bear no arms, will also fhate in the protection of their country. Unanimity, order, obedience, aciivity and confidence, conltitute the leal ft length of a nation. You have evinced them, and to this alone is it owing, that we Ifatt with a fairer prolpefct of fuccels, than we ever did. Fortunate events will not unnerve your ener gy, nor dilaltrous occurrences, fhouid any happen, ihake your firm relolve. Perfeverant vaior overcomes all dangers, enhau ches every advantage, and !up_ ; plies all lofi’es. Our caule is jutt, Providence does not for forlake thole who do not foiiake them, lelves. j 44 1 depend on your love, ; “ HOLD THE MIRROR UP TO NATURE.” Shakespeare. your tried fidelity to your princt and country. Depend ye 01 the paternal solicitude of you monarch who founds aii hi.> happiness art yours. 4 * Francis.” PROCLAMATION BY DaVOUST. '1 o the army of the Ki ine Hemau, April 22. “ Soldiers—His M ijestv the Ktn prrtT of Austria has rommertced hostilities on the Bth inst. This was | announced by his Generals in Chief jon the «ti>. They have taken up , arms. The orders of the day deli ! re red to the Austrian armies art 1 merely the effusions of scurrility, i This is not the way to anack the j soldiers of the Emperor Napoleon, i They threaten to overwhelm us j with defeat and disgrace upon the plains of Ulm and Marengo.— i Pour conduct will show what right they have to make use of these threats. Soldiers, our beloved Sovereign, when lie was Firs.. Con sul, offered peace, tire Kmperor of Austria reiused it——Marengo com pelled him io accept of tern-6. The English broke the treaty ol Amiens. Our Sovereign had col lected his armies on t he French coast, and the Emperor of Austria availed himself of iliat juncture, and without any previous declar ation of war, violated the territory of our allies, aud threatened ours. Lim compelled the cucinv of our Sovereign again to make peace. — In the present instance the Empe ror of Austria has threatened tne territory of our allies, without the least appearance of any difference between the two powers, and con ceiving himself in a situation to undeitakc Imstiities, has actually commenced war. The directors rr tnc xvustrian caoinet navt » ry great interest in the result of fiittr libellous scurilitics. Woe be to those who may dare to dis tinmate iliem, and oy these means excite disturbance \ the pYumpt ex ecution of military law will be the inevitable consequence. “ bolditrs- in spite of these li bellous reproaches, Germany |, rtS done hoijoor ti your discipline and good conduct. You do not m.ikc war ; gainst tiie inhabitants ; tho e unfortunate sacrifices to the views ot the House ol Austria, whose ambition has stained so many pa ges o! history with blood, & whose ignorance has again excited such agnation among the nations. “ A soidier of Napoleon must not only be tree irom censure, but without tear, if there are any ol a contrary chara'-ierin our and who shall so lar transgress a_ gainst tne fundatnantals of all dis cipline a* to dishonour his cloth by plunder or disobedience punisii irietn half speedily follow. The results of tins war are certain. We shall be supported by tha Emperor Alexander, who is faithful to Ins engagement in peace or war. VVstu his armies, whom you highly respect; with the confederate Sovereigns whose wish is that we should avenge ilieir cause, and secure them in future against the ambition of our eter nal enemy ; and lastly, through tlie justice of our cause, vict »ry must be ours. Your courage, and the genius of your Sovereign, when you see him in the midst til you, will be the most infallible assurance of vour triumph. 1 lie Marshal Duke of Auerstadt. LONDON, May l. Bonaparte, before lie set off 1 to join the army iflued a decree, i containg the 3 following pro visions : 1 All Frenchmen who I have carried arms againil France since September 1, are ! declared to have inclined the punifhrnent ofdeath; 2. French men in the fe(vice of any for eign power arc to quit that fer, vice the instant hcltilities arise I 4 | between that power & fiance ; All Frenchmen recalled by his or other decrees, and con. tintre refractory and disobedient, are declared to have buffered ci. vil death, and their estates and eifehts are to be confiscated, May 2. Ihe flag of truce which laded from Dover for Calais on Friday, returned with the tide, not having been per. mitted to land her dispatches. 1 be 111aIter of Ihe vcffel was in. fonned that no dispatches would be received, unless accompanied by a mefiaiger. I lie Dutch papers contain an 1 account of the treaty of peace between this country and Tur key. It is laid to consist of twelve articles, of which the following is the fubfiance : 44 The properly which either may have in its poffefiion be. longing to the other, and all ships of private individuals un der embargo, fhail be immedi ately refloied. 44 From the moment of the signing of this treaty all hollili.. ties fiiall ccaie, and the prison ers of war on both sides fhail be restored within 31 days suc ceeding, without any ranfona. <s Mutual accommodations in regard to commerce, to be af forded in its fulicit extent —the tariff at Conitantinople to re main as it is. The nth article fays, that u as it has been at all times forbidden to ships of war to enter the Ca nal of Confiantinople, viz. the ,lr -m of die Dai dandles, or that of the Black Sea, ana as that ancient rule of the Ottoman empire mufi be henceforth ob fevved in time of peace by ail powers whatever, the Biiufh court promiic to conform (cits principle. Amsterdam, April *4. His majefly the emperor of France amved at Ludwigsburg on the night of the 15th dc 16th, and ptoceeded to Lnliengeii at 12 o’clock at noon. M. Duroc, marfhalof the palace was with him. His rnajelty has ordered the Bavar ian Hoops to take their ancient polition by Slrasburg, that the army may soon be in a condition to commence offen. five operations with the grealelt effeH. The French head quar ters are to be removed from Do. nauwerth to IngolcUtadi, arid 10 proceed forwards. The Austrians appear, since they have eroded the Inn, to have daily foruhtd them lei ves, and to be delirous to advance slowly. some blow cannot fail to be (buck before long. No thing of the kind had taken place on the departure of the iafi cou riers, becaule the allied troops had received orders to retreat on the approach of the enemy. April 25. —The following cir. cutnflances are extracted Irom (he French papers: 44 The emperor of Austria has in his train icoo horses, which j are to relieve the lofle* his 0111- cers may fuiiain. 44 The whole force between Liniz, Bannau, and Salzberg, ; has been estimated at 150,0001 men ; but this is doubilels an exaggeration.” Pams, April to. 44 On the 8;h April, intelli gence was received at Munich, 1 that preparations were made by the Auttrianx tor Palling over the Inn, and that a budge of I [No.. XXXVIII.] MONDAY, July 3, 1809. boats was already made between Biannauand Scharding. “ On the 9th the Andrian charge d‘aflairs at Munich de*. manded of the minilter ofihe emperor Napoleon an imeiview for M. Wratiflaw, field oHicer of the archduke, who brought over the letter. * M. Wrattflaw had at the fame time delivered a letter to the king of Bavaii.?, soliciting his majelty to attend to the wishes of the Bavaiian people, who as the AullrLn princes affirm, behold in them ! only their deliverers* I “On the lith, particular in telligence was received of the pafluge of the Auflrians, who had come near enough to be (a. luted by the centinels, but had however not fired upon the J3a vaiian foidiJrs. They iifiied pretended proclamations to per fuadc the Germans to make common cause with them. The Bavarian troops retreated to the Lech. Ihe king of Bavaria went on the 1 uh with his atten dants to DiUcngcn.” The archduke Charles has if. sued the following address to the German nation : liis majelty the emperor of Au(tiia is forced to take up arnu, becaulie the Fiench em peror will not tolerate the ex illence of a lt«te which does not acknowledge his lupremacy of power, nor Itoop to become fubferviem to his views of cott oned : \ieca>'{“ !•>/» raq.;,., »u»4 Aultna fhdil renounce her in. dependence, unbend her enerl gics and lurrender at the con queior’s uiferetion ; becaulethc armies of the emperor of France and of his dependent allies, ad vance again!! Aultiia with hos. tile views. “ The forces of Aufiria have nfen for feif defence and lelf prelervanon, at the nod of their monarch. l am j caciing them onaga;n(tihe enemy, to prevent the certain attack he prepared againlt us. We pals the frontiers, not as conquerors ; not as enemies of Germany ; not to deltroy Ger man inltuutions, lawr, customs and manneis, and impol'e for. eign ones; not to appropriate to ourlelves the property of Germany, or to facrifice her children in djftant wars, carried on to dcltroy and subjugate for eign nations. No, we fight to alien the independence of the Austrian monarchy, and to re. (lore to Germany the indepenl dence and national honors which are due to her. “ The lame prelenfion* which now threaten u, have already proved fatal to Germany. Our alhltance is her lalt effort to be saved. Our cause is that of Ger many. United with Austria, Germany was independent and hippy : it is only through the 1 abidance o! Aultria that Ger. many can receive happinefsand independence. “ Germans !—Confider your dell ruction. Accept i e aid we oiter, us for your laivaton. We demand iroin you no exertions, bur such as the war foe our common caute requires. Your property j a,l(i your domeltic peace are I by the dilcipline of our I troops. The Aultrian armies I will not oppress or rob you ;