The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, November 11, 1756, Page 1

§ *rThugfflaY : Nov;imbcr tre New Hamp/bzre 4 -fim‘mfl& e agweaaa&&w ¥ W ztb the Frefbeft Advices ‘ m%m&%%m or Britifh Freeholder. No. LIT. o g{_Pab@% d cvery SaTURDAY in England.) e From tbe Mon1TOR, ¢ Jpere wot, lift up thy woice like a trumpet, and- flwumy pnple their tranfgreffions, and the houfe of 74(05 tlmrfiw liaiah, ch. viii. v. 1. it To the MONITOR : » N the midft of the general mourning of thefe kmg doms for the lofies aiready felt, and for what muft infallibly follow, un'efs timely prevented by an al- teration of meafures, I am amazed to find no forrow, : no wuneifinefs, no repinings, no fore bodeings, no earnings for the publick {afety, amongh thofe, who recom- mend, appoint, and diredl the ©fficers and operations, by whofe mxlcondu& and pofillinimity- I bope, not treachery, ¢ {Minorca,) the fecurity of our Levant trade, isloft-to our * /9iB1 in commerce : and our moft valuable poffeflions in ica, without which neit her our flects could be mann’d, fior} our manufaclores can’ be employed, have feverely * grafo’d ander the enemy 's fword ; and, if not proml(ed to be'{ielded vp, are in a manner abandoned and almoft ru- inedty the dilazory meafures of thofe, who are entruited « with the means raifzd in thefe dominions for their prote&i- s on. And 1 even dread the effetis of that indifference with which the advices of our late misfortunes have been treated by fome of the m . r - Where’s their judument and wifdom, if they were igno- rant of the ufefulnefs and neceflicy of a Britith fettlement “in the Mediterranean to proteét our merchantmen, to an- \, ‘hOy our enemies, to ive. weight to our councils, and to " mmaintain an interet \Vnh the princes of Italy and the Otto- man Empire } or where’s their hopelty, if Mahon has been . Aderificed to any private interefl, orin confequence of a « private article of fome treaty not yer made known ? Had the m-—-y been ignorant of the eremy s intention, Hase aowance might have been made for deception : but ‘the French, contrary to their accullomed [ecrecy proclaim- éddwir refcluu'on to invade Minorca, fome months before ARy ‘provifion was pretended to be made torefilt them. ‘the' m y been cramp’d for money for fuch a fer- xee, it could not have been expefied from them : but the rliament had fupplied the Exchequer with a fum that ‘ nxeeedfd the greateft in any one year when England beat «i" the enemy ont of the feas, took Gibraltar and Minorca, and threaten’d to carry their arms to the walls of Paris. Had the parliament plann’d their operations, or interfered’ . in the ftationing of the fleets, marchinj ' grantmg commiflions ; who could have blme&hmfi y \ !al ndmg fo late, and fuch a weak fquadmn and rein- .‘}k ‘pasities in balls and mafquerades ¥ or for confuming the 1 their forces %mf Numz. 6. P . et Foreign and Dafre/fick. BB g et e na i) forcement to Mahon, under the command of men, wh bad never given proofs of their cordu@ and courage, i . preference to oflicers of experience, courage and fidelity wio cou'd have blamed them for keeping forty thoufan feamen in pay, cooped up in our harbours at home, to give ° the officers an opportunity to difplay their e&eminate ca- Sfrom Bar&adm‘, A&bat o n $ d 'a treafure of the nation in the importation of foreign forces frem Hefle and Hanover ; in an extraerdinary augmenta- tion of our national troops ; in the extravagan: parade of & incampments, and trains of artillery ? orin.the new. methOflz\ of {etiling exorbitant*penfions on their fellow labourers in = & S the works, which make a national and fpeedy enquiry, in- ?g to the caufes of our prefent difgrace and 'mifery, abfg-utely 32 nicoffary, to prevent a total annihilation of the Britify name? § But thould it turn pat; upon the moft impartial exami- ? nagon into-their condn@®, that the great officers of ffate ares the only men who have been intrufted with all.our money, § and invefted with all the power to defend our King and his &~ Britith dominions, where ever fituate : that-they have not < made ufe of thofe means put into their hands by the nation, r.t; B to anfwer the neceffary purpofes for which they were givengs e but have permitted the enemy to fufprize our territories, ‘,E our property, and our firong holds for want of relief, or a = § fufiicient firength by fea or land ; and that they have tri- § R fied away both their tiine and our money when they met ‘*':.g‘ in confultation ; $0 “Not for the fic kly patient’s * fake ; 3% Nor what to give, but what to take. N & & « 5 If it fhopld appear, that inftead of uniting in the firft £ principle of Britifh government, which is to fecure the li-» berty and property of the nation ; they agree only to keep & in power by facrificing every thing to their ambition and 3 avarice : that ‘they have endeavoured to lay a'reftraint up- on the King, by fowing jealovfies and mifreprefentations in the royal mind, in order to deprive him of the council of bis moft faithful noblés and gentry, and to compel him to acquiefce in and authorize the moft unconflitutional meafures : and that they under fiftitious reports of an inva- fion, have not only abandoned our colonies and' fortrefles to deftruttion, but have formed a defign to render 'their m-——— y abfolute, and to charge the government into an oligarchy by the aid of a powerful flanding army of natives, Heflians and Hanoverians ; it would become every true Briton to take fuch meafures, asthe conftitution of the na- tion might enable him, in his proper fiatlon, to prevent the fatal confequences of their corruption and afpirings, anc 1o bring them to a truie fenfe of their cnmes. s . e £ EORT of PISCATAQUA Edften from Rhbode-Iland, Mills from Sbeaplcat. ah Afmgm, Barbado:, r 841&, «?g@ued,}Out, Seaward for é‘ %“'«f GAZETTE,:: RS N Ringe for Autigua, Sherburne for Weft ~s \ /