The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, November 4, 1756, Page 2

: }Q\?‘ Name of the Lord." And that a Reverénd, Learned . and Orthodex Country Parfon of Surrey being prefent at % the Preaching of one of thefe Sermons, and greatly incenfed +, thereat, on the Sunday following preached a moft excellent - Sermon in his own Parifh Charch, from the firft and {econd Verfes of the fifth Chapter of Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah ; where are thefe Words, *Call to remembrance, ¢ O Lord, what is come upon us, confider and fee our ¢ Confufion. Our Inberitance is turned and our Houfes to the Aliens.’ After having, in the moft pathetick Manner, fhewn the Iniquity, Treachery, and Corruption of our Times, ard the = miferable Confequences that maft (without the Taterpofition of Providence) inevitably attend them, he concluded (al- L) 4 wo vy ‘o:/vg -~ ~ *3don) eyjIe of the Royal Pfalmift, in the ‘10gth Pfakn, viz. * Set thou ¢ an ungodly Man to rule over him, and let Satan fland ¢ at his Right Hand. When Sentence is given upon him let him be condemned and let his Prayer be turned into Sin. Office. and let the Stratiger fpoil his Labour: Let there be no Man to pity him. Let his Pofterity 'be deftroyed. And in the néxt Generation let his Name be clean put out. ‘Let the Wickednefs of his Fathers be had in Remem- braree in the Sight of the Lord. Let them alwaysbe . before the Lord, that he may root out the Memorial of . them from off the Earth.’ When our [mall Garrifon gave up at laf; Richelieu admir’d the Conquer’d as they pajt. Of the brawe Englih, Blakeney clos’d the Rear ;. A Sight of Pleafure, not umpmix’d with Fear, “ Give.the tremendusas Lion Rocm, be cries s 8 "No Ramparts noaw, no Walls betaween us xifes - L Q. NP O« N. July 21. The quantity of naval flores fallen into the cue- my's bands by our Iofs of Mahon 75 cenputed in value at up- awards of §00,000 /. And as all offenfiveimpliments of war are worth o the conqueror that flands in need of them, the clear double of \the original walue, the French have gained by this one article, in demmage to s and advantoge to themlelves, at leaft 1,500,000 L To avhich if awe add the artillery of the © fart, the ammunition expended, Te. . the Nation bas lofl by this one bloww, above tawo millicns 5 and this exclufive of the importance of the future poffi/fion o that lfland, the cncourage- 8 ment of the entmy in the beginning of a <war, the national S difbonour that is not 2o be eflimated, e, July 30 Admiral Byng arrived in Town early Yeficr- day Morning frcm Portfmouth ; and: ’tis faid he was at Kenfington this Day . to be examined before the Cabinet Council. It is alfo faid he will not be tried by a Court- Martial, but will be impeached by Parliameat. Aug. 2. Commiflions are appointed for the fale of the French Prizes.— A Party of 60 Horfe were fent to Portf- * mouth to bring up Admiral Byng, but after travelling a few Miles with him, ©rders came to carry him back. . Extra& of a Leitter from Falmouth, Augufl 7. ¢ As Trade is the Source from whence all the Bleflings of this Nation flow in general, and that of the Mediterra- nean the only Part for taking off the Produflions of this “ountry in particular, which are Tin, Fifb, and Hides ; and from the late Qowardice or Treachery, or rather both, LR R S T N N « & . N, _ b o~ ™~ $ b - §- - ) 3 Y L)) % 4 Q = 8 ;—. :. S g R, = -~ % o o sw < 'R N & » 2 g w & 3 ~ 8 b o~ A Y = Wy Jo * "XJI[[CL] 07 #4mids 0] 5} 0o 'SNOY “ we hear he to the Strangers,. ®_ lading to the Betrayers of our Couantry) with the Prayer: Let his Days be few, and let another take his Let the Extortioner confume all that he hath, . “fhewn in thofe Seas by a certain Admiral, the Prices offered” for thofe Commodities ‘are fo low, that the general Run" ~of the T'in Adventurers ‘are oblig'd to ftop their Works, - which has been the Occafion already of near Tensboufand ; of the Miners being cut of Employ, has brought many of |: ‘them to a Stare of Defperation, and in general are fo ex-x anerated»a%:infl the Author of their melancholy Fate, that ¥ as 'been hung in Effigy by them on every4Ball throughout the whole Coumiry, and on the Néws of his ' Arrival at Portfmouth, was carried in Proceflion with a Halter'about his Neck in the mc® ignominicus Manner through feveral Parithes, ard at laf, in Imitation of the # ancient Roman Punifhment for the Traitors of the Empire, they ty’d him to the Tail of a-Jack Afs, and dragg’d him for half an Hour round a large Circle on 2 Common, com- pofed of at leaft 15000 SpeQators, and after fix'd on his * Breaft this Motto, 7he Friend of Monficur Ragout, and the Tinners Scourgs, brac’d him on the Back of'‘the fame Afs,. in an ere&t Pofture, and carried to a Gallows ca the Sum- mit of a Hill erected for the Purpofe on a large Pile of Fu« el, where they burnt him, to their great Satisfattion; &, ~midft Ten thoufand Huzza’s; and other Acclamations of Joy. His Effigy has- alfo been carried round this Town, To day by a Multitude of Seamen and others, with a Hal- ter round his Neck, and this Infcription on his Breaft in Capital Gold Letters, THE BRITISH NAVY’sSCORN, - and will this Evening be hung and burnt to appeafle theig Wrath, and make them fome Atonement for his Crimes.*1, _ Auguft 17. We hear that Southern Rook, Angria's C! Port,- is taken by three Men of War belanging to the 1 Ind a Company flationed at Bombay. They run thd felves fo near the Fort, that the Bail from the Cannor the Fort, went moltly over thein, and they plied che ¢ rifon {o clofe wich their Small Arms, as to drive them & their Guns, and taking Advardllile of the Pannick the rifon was in, they carried the Fort Sword in Hand. The following is the belt Account we can give of the deplorable: Lofs of Minorca, our Evemies will tell the reft : "But we may fay of the prefent State of our Affairg, as the Prophet of o'd did of oid Ifrae!l ; O England, thou halt de- | ftroyed ‘thy felf. It was on or about the 18:h of April that the French: Forces landed on the Iflard of Minorea ; the good old- Genera! Blukeney held out St. Philip’s Fort till the 27th of June at Night, when the French attacked the Fort by Stormy, in fix different Piaces, which continued with'the uimoft Fury for the whole Day. The next Morning the , Freach Army being juft ‘ready to begin a general Storm, the Marfhal fent to the Governor for the lait Time, that if he fill refufed to capitulate, in Cafe of Conqueft, every Perfon in the Place fhou!d inevitably be put 10 the Sword. The good old General Blakeney defired 24 Hours to bury - his Dead 'in, take Care of the Wounded, and to call @ Council of War. Eight Hours only were allowed, in;- which all the Garrifon, almoft dead thro’ the Fatigue of’ having been upon the fevereft Duty for thirty Hours toge=" ther, infifted upon a Capitulation. infufficient at firft, that the Length of the Siege had not left Strength enough to man the Works without being more conftantly on Daty than could be fupported ; they had. ftood five Weeks after Byng's Defertion of them, without the leaft Signs of Relief or Intelligence of Encouragement, . | nor the leaft Hopes of Succour from the naval Supcrioric)g e e s shiy i kg it By sl B e oft | ’ - A \ L3 5 \ . >~ i y The Garrifon was (04 . !