The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, November 18, 1756, Page 1

November 1 8. P TR0, = gReBS8 SRR ITHIGVEDS "Wish the Frefbeft Advice: B R . To the Pusrasuer of the New Hampsuire Gazerre, .. Thurf{day, arprizing, to confider the Prevalence of . in a Country where the moft fuperior fs are enjoyed, for the obtaining Knowlege, ‘ yational Acquirments are become remark- ably and eafly. It muft be coniefled, by every éné, who has any tolerable Acquaintance with the Situation " of Affairs in our Country Towns, that nothing is {o univer- “ fally negleQed as the Education of Children: It is true, our Legiflators have made a fufficient Prov:fion, for-the Encouragement of Learning ; and the greateft Part of our ' Towns are a&tually furnithed with Schools, fo that even the pooreft Children among us, may in the Compals of thofe Years, they ufually trifie away, in a perpetual Round of .. Idlenefs and Play, make cc.r:fiderabie' Improvements, and /! a3quire a feafonable Acquaintance, with the Concerns both of this'and a future Worid— But all thefe Advantages are entirely loft, through the Careleflnefs, or Indifcretion of . «Parents, who are induced by {fome prefent profitable Con- fideration, to bring up thigik fender Off:pring, in cheap and . inexpenfive Ignorance, and thereby not only deprive them - of thofe lafting Benefits, which commonly flow from a vir- *. tuous and learned Education ; but do an irreparable I<jury " to the World, by obftru&ing the Improvement of Perions, who might reafonably be expetted in advacced Years, to become ufeful Members of Society. I am certain, that great Numbers of Children, inflead of being fent to School, are permitted to trifle at Home, to rove up and down the Streets, in fearch of mifchievous Adventures ; or conftantly *¢« exercifed in fome hard and laborious Employment, 'till the happy Seafon for gaining Knowlege is over— They now enter upon the Stage of Altion.unfurnifhed with every Sci. ence but that of getting Moaey, and have fcarce any other " Views, but to increafe their Patrrmony. Thefe Perfons are commonly Strangers to all Generofity, to 2il noble and en- .« larged Sentiments; they feldom feel the foft movings of batbpaflion, and are utterly regardlefs of all the f Qg'ankind, as they {iand unconneéted with their te Inteseft.— We fhall generally perceive, thefe g€ endowed with a prodigious Stock of Arrogance and Pride-; we fhall find them the greateft Extortioners, and . thé moft {evere Oppreflors of the Poor ; and thoagh they , 1gfufe to part with any of their Eftates, in the Defence of our invaluable Liberties, either facred, or civil ; yet they prove without Exception the moft liberal Dealers of Dam- nation, to all who differ from them in thejr religious Senti- 3 4 5 /ot Foreign and Domeflick. B £ ments, or Notions of Government. In fhort, it is almoft ?; impofiible but that fuch Confequences as thefe thould follow -2 from a narrow and lordid Education : People that have no o Acquaintance with any thing beyond the narrow Limits of @ the Family or Parith where they were born, are naturally led, to draw all their Notions and Ideas from thefe familiar K Objedls, their Meafures of human A&ions, their Concepti- "g- on ef Vice and Virtue, are all borrowed from hence ; and when they have a Profpe& of any Perfons, or Things, dif- & fering from thofe which farround them, they are prefently o difgufted, conceive an iil Opinion of them, and look upon'5 every Body, except their own ignorant and rough Compa- nioss, with a fovereign Scorn and Contempt. — Nothing b= is more evident, than that the future Conduét of a Child, in 8 a great Meafure depends upon the firft Impreflions it re- ceives ; how careful then, {hould thofe be who have fuch impoitént Concerns committed to théir Trufl, early to in- fiili the Principles of Virtue and Honour, into tender Minds. 1 prefume that all Meannefs of Spirit, all Narrownefs in cenfuring the Sentiments and Conduct of others, and what. ever has the remoteft Appearance, of Revenge or fordid 3 Avarice, ought from their earlieft Infancy, to be feverely o infpefled and condemned ; while Generofity, and every o Thing nob e and difinterefted fhould be encounraged, and , even rewarded. Young Minds ought to be led into thi Temper, fiom a Cocfideration of the gracious and diffufive Manifeftations of the bountiful Author of Nature, who con- ft :ntly {uftains, enlivens, and recreates, the whole Crea- tion, by his kind and undiftinguifhing Influences. 2 Fiom the LONDON-GAZETTE. Kenfington, Aug. 20. This Day the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor,” Aldermen and Commons of the City of London, in Comamen Council affimbled, avaited on bis MaJESTY ;3 and be ing introdced to bis MaJESTY by his Grace the Duke of Grafton, Lord Chamberlain of bis MajEsTY s Houfbold, Sir William Mareton, the Recorder, made their Compliments in the Jollow:ing ADDRESS. To the KING's moft Excellent MajesTY, uef rther Prorogued 1 o =X @ ince ENERAL AsseEMBLY of this Prov The bumble AvppRrEss of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and D Commons of the City of London, in Common Council affembled. 2 Moft Gracious Sovereign, b E your MaJESTY's moft dutiful and loyal Subjeéts, {y p the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of London, in Common Council affimbled, humbly beg Leawe to approach your SacrED Preson, and with Hearts Jull of Gratitude for your Majgstx's Paternal Care of the : true