The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, November 18, 1756, Page 2

P ol Sl B R true Interefls of your People, to expre)s our Sorvow and Appre- benfions for the Dilguictudes wwhich our late Loffes and Dijap- pointments mufl create in your Ma JesTY’s Royal Mind. The Lofs of 1he important Fortrejs of Saint Philip and lfland of Minorca (Poffiffions of the utmofi Conlcquence to the Com- werce and Nawal Strength of Great- Britain) without any Attempt, by timely and effeliual Succours, to prevent or defeat an Attack, after fuch early Notice of the Enemy’s Intentions, and when your Ma jesTY's Nawy awas fo evidently Superiour 20 theirs, will, we fear, be an indelible Reproach on the Hon- our of the Briti(h Nation. Nor can we belp expreffing our Apprebenfions for the great Danger of your MaJESTY's Poffiffions in America, by the Mijmanagcments and Delays which have attended the Defence of thofe invaluable Colonies,the Objelt of the prefent War, and vhe principal Source of the Wealth and Strength of thefe King- doms. Permit us, at the Jame Time, Royal Sir, to lament the wvant of a conflitutional and well regulated Militia, the moft natural and certain Defence, under Divine Providence, of your MajesTY's Sacred Perfon and Government, againfl all Inwaders whatfoevir, as thereby your MaJEsTY's Fleets and Armies may be more fecurely employed abroad, to the Annoyance of your M aJBsTY s Encmies ; your faithful and loyal Subjelis being ready and avilling, whenever called upon by your Nia- JESTY, t0 fbed the laff Drop of their Bleod in your Service. As your MAJESTY s Reign bhas ever been difiinguifioed by a Lowe of Liberty and Fuliice, ae cannot doubt of your Ma- JESTY's direfling the Authors of our late Lofles and Difap- pointmients, to be enquired into and purijPed, that your NMa- JESTY's Anowwn Intemtions of proteliing and defending your Subjelds in their Rights and Poffi[fions may be faithjully ard wigoroufly carried into Execution, and that the lavge Supplics, o neccflarily call’d for, and fo chearfully granted, may be re- ligioufly applied to the Defence of thefe Kingdoms and Colonies, and their Commerce, and to the difireffing our inveterate and perfidious Enemies, as the only_fure means of obtaining a lafiing and bonourable Peace. And awe do, with the utmoft Sincerity of Heart, affure your MajesTY, that your loyal City of London awill, at all limes, readily and chearfully contribute to whatever may be necffary Jor the Defence of your MaJESTY and your illuflrious Family, and towards the Atiainment of thefe great and difirable Ends. To which Appress his MajEsTY was plealed to return this moft gracicus Anfwer. Thank you for theje Profe/fions of your Duty to me. My Concern for the Lofs of my Wfland of MINORCA, is great and fincere. My utmofi Care and Vigilance bawe been and fball be exerted to maintain the Honour of the Nation, and 2be Commerce of my Subjells. The Events of War are uncer- tain ; but nothing fhall be awanting, on my Part, towards car- rying it on awith Vigour, in order to a Jafe and bonourable Peacey and for recovering and fecuring, by the Bliffing of GOD, the Poffic[fions and Rights of my Crown. 1 will not fail to do “Juflice upon any Perfons wha flall bawe been awanting in their Duty to me, and their Country ; to enforce Obedience and Difcipline in my Fleets and Armics,and to fupport the Authority and Refpelt due to my Goveriment. They were received very gracioufly, and had the Honour to kifs his MajesTy's FHand. To the KING’s Most Exceirent MEjJESTY. T ke humble ADDRESs of the Gentlemen, Clergy, Mexchants, and other principal Inbabitants of the City of Brisror. " | "HERE is nothing fo reafonable, or fo juft, as thedefire "« univerfally exprefled by the nation, that a clear and ~ full account may be obtained,of the immenfe fapps given by their reprefentatives in, and raifed upon the people, fince the laft feflions of parliament. The motives on which, and ’ the ends for which, thole vaft fums, in our prefent circum- ftances efpecially, were fo readily voted, and fo chearfully - paid, were fufficiently divulged, and therefore the mamner , in which they have been applied, ought to be no fecret,* The Arcana Imperii are well fuited to defpotic govern- ments, but are inconfiftent with, and dangerous to the liber- * ties of a free people. Befides, it is no way reconcileable to the nature of our conftitution, which is founded on reafon and equity, the liberty of the fubjelts perfons, and the fecurity of their properties. T ; We find fome additional reafons to firepms ple’s claim, which we could wifh, thou it, that they had rather wanted. Thefé@ confift in difappointments and loffes. I former, we had felt fomething of them bi rienced them abundantly in the laft war, ; on Carthagena, our invafion of Cuba, our Defcent upen .-} Bretogne, and many others. However, we muft allow | our prefent difappointment to be of quite a new fpecies,and yet much more gailing and provoking than ail the reft put together.— For notwithftanding all our liberal grants, and the known fangaine expeflations of thofe who gave, at" leait of thofe who paid them,—~we have attempted nothing. Our lofies are to the full as wonderful, and rather more affe@ting, In the Weft Indies our enemy has a confefled ° fuperiority, which has been augmented by the capturevof ’ almoft the fingle fhip of force we had then cruizing in thofe feas. In North America our colonies have been ranfack’d for many months, by the moft barbarous nations, almoft without defence, though our publick papers daily pablifh'd their diftrefles in hopes of haftening their relief. Ve have been deprived of Minorca in a manner which doesas little . honour to the French as to us. OQur navy has been dif- . graced in the Mediterranean. His Sardinian Majefty is {aid to have acceded to the treaty between the courts of Vienna and Verfailles, and we know not how foon fome other court may follow the example—If this; inftead of a public, were a private cafe, on fuch fuggeftions as thefe,— a court of equity would beyond a quellion, deccree am | account, : ’ St. Chriflophers, September 22. On 'Monday arrived the Snow Lucrotia, Captain James Fleming from London : She was attacked on Wednefday. lat, 18 or 2o Leagues to the Southward of St. Vincent, by a French Privateer of 8 or 10 carriage Guns, and about 100 Men, whom fhe continued to engage for an Hour and" three Quarters, and who kept her Company al ' ftood in for St. Vincents in the Morning. “F and Mr. James Akers, who was a Paffenger, were'W in the Engagement. - Extratt of a Letter from Antigua, dated Sept. 16, ¢ 1 think I was lucky in getting your Order to the: Owners of the Joram accc%ted ; for the Day after we had - a certain Account of her being taken by a Dutch Sloop, (the only Remains of the poor Joram) which fhe had juft taken before ; the People of whom faw her en‘gaginssgil . "