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[VOL. L] AUGITST A— PRiibiT bD BY DANIEL STARNES & Co. WEST END OF BROAD-STREET, PROPOSALS B y DAN IF L STARNES & CO. t, tf Mirci>vh SttfrfHion a V’rrllj N'lCfufier IN THECiT\ OF AUGUSTA, TO BL ENTITLED Mirror of the limes. THK universal prom uGa Mon of ,1, an J Hie general diflribution or kuow l,d FJ objr&' of Hie <«rfl importance in ( verv country where liberty has left trace. | „tlnr foodlep*. under every government wh j c h coiTult* the happiness of Man » faicl the Great Lord Bacon power,united with virtue" it certainly j, liberty- Where ignorance reigns there y ; c , triumphs and oefpotifm governs. As „„„ becomes enlightened authority will be I l m ke & morality restored—Knowledge & { •itturare the bales of freedom—the one . joft.-uift' us in our rights, the other teaehes, tn our duties; the lirft flitws us how to con ftruA the bed pcffiUle form of government, j the lad requires us to obey it when confiruc- j ted It is therefore advantageous every where, | tbut in a Republic it is absolutely neceflary that correct intormation fliould be widely dilfufed and easily obtained : For ihtr-t tia t! t fnfit who govern. 7 hey never inten tionally choose bad leaders or approve wrong 1 meahire*, yet they are liable to error—give them true details and they will juege cor reiSUy —for on plum grounds the people al ways from opinions : whenever they mif takc their own ititerefts ’tis owing entirely to want of information in the many or want ofhoueflyin the/itr. But extnfive po'itt cal information is not to be acquired without much hhour, and few have leisure to study the iydems, compare the opinions and pe rulr the p ges of Locke, Sydney, Gibbon, Hume and Vattel. If an acquaintance with the true principles of government and duties i>l a ciiiz-n could lie ac-qu red only from finnr loiii s & diffufe trcatifes, it would be fi I.lam fought tr if fought, the plough, the 1 het, st»d rhe saw mail fland ftiil. Some cheaper and '-.ilier means of fatbfying curi odt; a'<i! procuring intern tion mud there ft re be lot k d for ; a .d where is intelligence ciitapucfs a.nd convenience united with more advantage, than in theciofclv printed col umn* et the humble News-paper ? Our cointrvtncu appear so well convinced of thr u'efulnefs of periodical prints and have so vtry 'literally encouraged then, that we derm i: unneerffary to insist on their merit, and almoli I elitate to request public patron age f r another News-paper establishment. We can promise little ciccpt what atten •ioc,honefty & industry can perform. The principles of our Paper, like our own, will be Republican, “ but the fame freedom of opin ion which we claim for ourselves, v, wifli ai others to enjoy.” Civil and Renjiutis liberty is the btrli right of evry man, and hr who will not extend the f ame indulgence to all parties, and all ledl, which he wishes for his own, is already or delcrves to be a Have, lofupport Religion and morality will Or our pride— to encourage literature our endeavur—no communications calculated to do either will be refufed ; no hint will be ■tglriHed, In a free country it is ncceflitry ' at the law fliould be neither vague nor unknown, all public adh of the State Ivg- , ™ ure , w i l therefore be published as they Wctohand. MIRROR OF THE TIMES will be d ?cn t(l all w ’ho canvass public measure with '•ftcnry,and in examining the conduct of '■ t'cials, as cflictrs of government—it Party but my Country, A 'o Truth." J CONDITIONS. 1 Die MIRROR OF THE TIMES will be puhbflicd every Monday, on a royal T. C | C « olaiiexccllent < i tla i* t y» and g° od ihe price to fubferbers will be three dr,i,rrs *nnum, paid half yearly in SUvai cc, 1 hi. The price for advertising will be fifty rem* per fqnarc for the firfl insertion t.urty leven and a half for each cou "l'uation. 1 L ' c P*P« r W HI be delivered to Town raueribtri at their place* of abode and hose for the country will he done up Office U aDd deiivered at H'-c Poft notice. perlon having anv He mandi aoainlt the Lftate of Da- Acwtofn Eeq. late of War* Z'T" y deccal '«b *rc re. . ‘ica lo render in iheir ac " r, s, and thoie indebted are 'willy solicited to make ini- i ,tGlate payment, MAHY NkAVSOM, adm’r 31 I "** . Le( r-hkinsjor Sale, j (jjJ' •’ p * er,on wilhing to pur. n a y lurnifhed with < tr A L' oul-n d five hundred j 'o f , te *’fkins, by applying! lal lj,V|r ’ghon Esquire in I b c » f 0n > ‘'here they may | S t i 5 J the Subscriber at I cvv ’■ -"Tvtnnd. 1 j. *■ - Y HAMMOm ; *** i 1 i*o9. } MIRROR OF THE TIMES. LITERARY ASSOCIATION I Natos pater, nova bel’a moventes [ Ad pornaut pulchra pro liberate vocabit, Infelix ; utcuaque ferent ea facta minores Viturt amor fatrim, laudumque immenfa iu pido. The love of country is the most I pleasing and strongest passion that agitates the human mind. The exile, tho’ banished his native land for crimes perhaps ho never com mitted, still sighs whenever he calls it to his recollection, & wishes Ito return. He cannot entirely for j get the spot where he first drew i the breath of life, nor those scenes of his youth which were the hap I piest, because devoid of care ; and j although prosperity attend him in a foreign land, be cannot feel him. self perfectly happy, Historv gives us many instances of meu sacrific ing to this passion everything most dear to them. The patriotic Bru tus executed his own children for conspiring against thsir country, and endeavoring to place the ex_ pe!led Earquin upon the throne. Hi 6 paterual feelings did not ies train him hour performing an act of public justice. The happiness and welfare of his country was hi* first and only confederation. This pallion, lo itrongly im planted in the heart, h#s been great utility to man Kind in all ages of the world. Had it not been for this, Rome would have been enslaved. And, would thole men who gained our inde. pendence have Dorn the many pi ivations and hardiiiips they did—would they have expoled themlelves to dangers and pe nls innumerable to prelerve and give liberty to a country lor which they had no ejection ? Were u not for this pallion, how many countries would be uninhabited ? No man voiunta rily seeks as his rehdence anv country whose climate is unheal thy and foil Iterile. The love of money might induce him to remain there for forne time ; but he never, unlels boro in it, would make it a permanent re hdence. The native, on the other hand, has ail Ins hopes centered in it—he thinks it iu, perior to any other. It may be prejudice, but it is amiable. The poet Goidlmith has beauti fully descrioed this love of one’s country. " Dear i$ that flied to which his foul con forms “ And dear that hill which lifi* him to the fiornis; “ And, as a child, when fearing founds mo lest, “ Clings close and dofer to the mother’s bread, ; “So the loud torrent and the whirlwind’s roar “ But bind him to his native mountains more.” This love of country, wh'ch is correfctly called pauiotilrn, like religion, however, has been but 100 often made a veil under which the foulelt deeds have been performed. We hear in. fiances of men in free Itaces de i ceivtng the people and depriv ing them of the beared rights, by this plausible pretext. Fraud i however, cannot easny be con -1 ceaieda If we firtctly obletve ' the condutt of these men, we ; may detect them. Their con vet fations always consilts of pa. , trioticexpression*-.they pretend ; great love for the people--they ; make it a point to attend ail public meetings. If any one S should express fentttnents dif_ ferent from their own, he is im mediately denounced as an ene my to his country; lor, by at “ HOLD THE MIRROR UP TO NATURE.”— ShakcipCOrC. taching suspicion on others, they avoid it themselves- There are the men whom Hamlet, in the play, fays “ can smile, and smile, and still be villains ;”and thele are the men whose conduct j fliould be carefully oblervcd. I It is impossible to give a true definition of patriottlm. It is, j “ Like wit-much talked of, not to be de fil’d : He that pretend* to moll too has least ill are in it.” From a late Edinburgh Review. FRENCH GENERALS. Mod of the Generals of Di vision, Marshals of the Kmpirg, others who hold the prin - cipal commands, fufliciently prove that war is an expert mental science, and that inili ta»y itnovvn is not. the preroga live of birth, but the harvell of toil, or the bounty of fortune. Bejfnres, originally a coin mon loidic-r, became, in 1 796, a capt. of infantry in the aimv of Italy. y Brune a printer at the com mencement of the revolution, a member of the Club of Cor. deliers, commenced his military career in 1792. Angerceu, a private in the Neapolitan service in 1787, became loon after a fencing mailer at Naples ; in 1792 en tered as a volunteer in the ar my of Italy ; and in 1794 was a general of brigade in the ar my of the Pyreneens. Bcmadoite at the commence ment of the revolution, was fer_ jeant in the regiment of royal maiines; in 1794 a general of divilion. Jourdan enlifled in 1778 but left the lervice 1784 • was a thop_keeper at the commence ment of the revolution. Kellerman began his career as a fun pie huiiar in the regiment of Conflans Zasnes, originally a common loidtei became m 1798 adju tant of division in the national guards of Palis. Massena, a fubaitern in the Sardinian iei vice at the begin ning of the revolution in 1793, became a general of bngadc, M orticr, a captain ot a vo lunteer company in his native piovice, at the lame time. Ary, a buliar, and adjutant genetal in 1795, alter palling through all the inferior gtadse. Lejebvrc , son ot a miller of Allace, became a sergeant in the regiment of French guards before the revolution. Pcrigon, after ading as a jultice of the peace of Mon tcach, engaged in the army, and pafied rapidly thro’ all the (übalietn grades, and in 1794 commanded the army of the Eaitern Pyrenees. Boult was a fubaitern be fore the revolution, in a regi 1 ment ot infantry, 6c an adjutant (general in 1795. M urat, (ervedoriginally in the! conttiiuuonal guard of Louis ! XVI. became afterwards an j officer in the 12th regiment of chaffeurs a cheval 6cc. Junoty began his, career in 179a, as a grenadier in one of me volunteer battalions com manded by Gen. Dille; and, in 1796, was one of the aids.de camp of lionaparte- 1 From the Centincl of freedom. nfwakk, (n. j.) Confederation of the Rhine. — ! f his confederation has been re. j cently foimrd by several Ger. man Oates—and as it has now ' become very important in the ! (cale of affairs on the continent, i an d will probably become more j so from the large acqutlition ot i Arengih it will receive in the prelent war, we lay a short ac. count of it before our readers. Several German flaies. situate between the Rhine & the Mayne I leparated themftlves from the i Germanic body, and ado- I ciated as confederate ItaWis of j the Rhine, under the protection i of the French empire, in the year 1806* The lnftrument of confederation was signed at Pa ris, on the nth July, the fame year. The contracting par ties were the emperor of the ! t tench on the one part, and 1 on the other the kings of Bava J ria and Wineinberg, (made kings by Bonaparte, the year before) the archduke of RatiL bon, as prince pinnate, the grand dukes of Baden, Berg, Hefle, Darmfiadt, Nassau Wetl bourgh, and Nalfau-Ufingen, the princes of ’ Hobenzolicrn, Hichingen and Seigmaringen, Salm balm, Salrn Kyrburg, I lenburg, Birdetn and Lichten fiein, the duke of Ahremberg, and the prince of Levn, They declared that they would admit other German princes and Rates in all cases where their union with the confederation might bc found confident with the general interelt; and thus virtu ally annihilated the inconfider. able pan that was left of the German empire. This indu ced Francis 11. last emperor of Germany, and I. of Auflria, formally to abdicate the Ger man empire, by his proclama tion of the6th of Augult igo6. It was then expeded that a lim. liar confederation would be for med north of the Mayne, un der the protection of either Pru flia or Huffia ; but the king of Pruflia having declared war agamlt France in Oft. 1806, and having been (truck nerve, lets at the battle of Jena, 14th of the lame month, leveral oth er German Uates flattened to join the confederation of the Rhine, as Lippe Uutmold, Schaumburg, Bukeburg, Saxe- Weimar, Saxe-Goiha, Saxe- Cobourg, and the newly crea ted kingdom of Saxony, du„ chy of Wariaw, and iotue oth er acquiliuons) the king of which is the late elector of Sax ony. By Ihe peace of Tillit, J in 1807, which erects the Piul itan provinces on the right bank of the Elbe and the pof leflions of Hefle-Caffel, Or ange-Fulda, and other petty Geiman dates into a new king. i dom, called Weltphaha, (over which is placed Jerome Bona -1 pare)“*the confederation of the j Rhine is extended to the Bank of the Elbe ; and Pruflia has ; since (in 1808) joined the con-" i federation. By this federal j coinpaCt an union of several : dates has taken place, embra -1 cing a population double that ! of the U. Slates of America, forming a complete barrier to France on the German fide, | and ripping up completely the MONDAY, September n, 1309. Germanic empire leaving Fran cis nothing but the hereditary dates. It is a Uupcndous fabric erefled by the mighty genius of Napoleon, and will do more to fublerve his purposes in subjugating Europe, than an alliance with the molt powerful kingdom on the continent. 11 may be said wish certainty, to this confederation «he houle of Aultria owes i-s downfall. In a little t'me Francis will be dethroned and driven from his hereditary polfdfions; every thing which will be left to hmi he will hold by the precarious tenure of Napoleon’s bounty; and willing would he then ac. cept of a hie eltate in the small poirefliona which the house of Hapsburg once poffefTed in the canton of Berne, But the fa tal decree has betn proclaimed; Napoleon has laid he fhoula ceale to reign, and with his reign ends a rctiiog place for him on the continent. foreign Intelligence , BOSTON August 16. Extraft of a letter from Hali . Jax, Augujl 8. <c By the arrival of the frigate Jamaica, and the ship Bee ho n En gland, we have received Loudon papers to July 5. “ The French army near Vien na still continued inactive. The Russian force which is said to be approaching consists of only 40‘- 000. The Russians will strengthen Austria to this amount, if it is true thry have declared war against France. “ The Austrians occupy the bank of the Danube, opposite to I'resburg, and above and below Vienna—and frequently annoy the enemy. “ There are some hints of over* tures for peace between the em*- perort of Austria & French. Baron Von Vincent is said to be gone to Vienna ; and Bonaparte has sent counts Bergen and Zenger dotf to Walveusdotf, where the emperor of Austria resides. The Monitor says, “this circumstance has given rise to reports of peace.” “ Bavaria and Wirtemberg are over-run by insurgents & Switzer land is said ‘o be tu commotion.” Extrult of another letter , Au • gujl 8. “Isent letters the day before yesterday by lieutenant By n ,, 0 f the armed schoonei Jjfean. b ’ “ Admiral Cochrane is coming here trout ihe West-Indie s , Wlt b his squadron. It is said Je will be expected in about a fortnight ” August 9.—“ The Lady Pellew has just arrived lrom Falmouth 29 days. 1 have yet only seen a Lon don paper of Jul> 6, th c £ n| , lish Chronicle. Ii says, “We stop the press to state that intelligence to tl»e 30th ult. irom Corunna, an nounces the entire evacuation of Gallicia, by the armies under Nev and buult, whose united forces have been reduced to 12,000 They, earned with them 6(X)0 sick and wounded. Thus the port of f errol is again delivered from the enemy.” Au S mt 9, „t night.-" Sine., writing this morning, i have seen a London paper, the Evening Mail of July T ihe “ postcript” says, “ setters from Heligoland of tho 2d in»l. were received yesterday. It was reported, and believed, there, at that date, that a further uaitie had taken place between the two grand armies near the Danube in wnich the French were defeated with great loss. “ The new expedition preparing in England was expected to sail (or to be reauy to sail) about the l>th or 16<h uit. It it stated to c*n»i»t of near 33,000 men. __ [No. 48.]