The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, January 14, 1757, Page 1

Friday, ]anuafy . .1757. THE " Naw-Hampfbire @m }v BEEINISRIISIRESEPEeRARSS With the Frefbeff Advices Ty the Punrisuer of the New-Hampsuire GAZETTE. fome Obfervations on Money ; the manifeft Defign of which is to bring Paper Money intq Difcredit, and deftroy it’s-Cur- rency, that we may have a Silver Medium as the Maffachufetts have : it may gratify fome of your Readers, and perhaps prevent the mifchievous fffedts of fuch falfe Reafoninps, to give the following Anfwer to that weak Piece a Ftucein your Gazette, That Writer makes a great Cry that our Paper Money is remark- ebly depreciated, and that Silver iauft be the Stagdard.—— Pray how is it depreciated ? Has the Government ever made Bil's worfe than they were when fi.ft put out ? Does not our Money pay Taxes row as well as ever it did ? And will it not asiwer as well for any Debt 2 The Law has fix'd our Paper by the very Standard which that Writer defires ;. 1t has proportion’d it’s Value to Silver : a fifteen fhilling Bill of thelaft Emifiion is by Law to pafs equal to a Dollar ; and it People will give more for Doliars, that is their own Fault, and not the Fault of the Government, or of the Money. : But what have we todo. with Dollars ? They are only made a Merchandize among us.« Silver is not Money bere. And why fhould the Rife of Dollarsfink our Money, any more than the Rifing of the Price of Becf, Cown, ot Boards, &c? : 2 For my Part, I cannot fee how Paper Money is depreciated : Fif- ‘teen Thillings is fill fifteen fhillings, and fix Pence is fix Pence ; only Coppers indeed have lately got to eight Pence for fome Reafon beft known to them that had a hand in raifing them. Bat I can buy Beef now as cheap as I could 3 or'4 Years ago, and many other things might be mentianed which are not raifed near fo high in Propertion as Silver : and if every Body would agree to keep Peoplc from raifing a‘ S you have publifh'd, in your Paper of the z4ti1 of December, the Price of Dollars, Goods, Provifions, Labour, &c. Paper Money would be as good asany. . . i ; S _ The Face of our Bills is not alter’d ; they were made equal te {o uch Silver as they mention, and every Body ought to take them fo. g: is a Pity we fhould have any thing to do with Silver in any other fhape than joft to mention it in the Face of our Bills, that we may know how to call ‘theu - and it is-a Pity any Difference fhoald be made betwixt our Money and Sterling Bills, but only as the Govern- mentsaealready proportioned tiiem. If the Merchants would not raife Ster!{ng Bills, nor any of the Goods which they import, in fuch an ex- travagant manner as they do ; if Shop keepers and other Traders would not give fuch an extrivagant Brice for Goods and Dollars ; and if falary Mca of all forts; Farmers, and Laboarers, could be kept from rifiog in their Demaads, we fhould ‘have no Complaint about Money’s being worfe. : . Liet them who are {a fond of a Silver Currency lock upon the Town of Bofian, and fee what they bave got by.their boneft Medium. See how their Trade has {uffered by making Money fcarce. It is now fo valuable that People there find it hard to get it, and as hard to parc with it ; 4nd fo Multitudes are broke, and daily breaking. Befides ; this Province would lofe a great deal by making Paper Money better, as lome call it: for every Perfon mult pay the fame pumber of Pounds for his Taxes if the Money were made better, as he does now, and then they would be forc’d to do a great deal more La- boir to get the fame Money. Particular Men too, who keep a great deal of Money by them; might double their Eftates, if the Value of Money was to be raifed : and at the fame Time poor Debtors would be forc’d to pay double to what they may now come off with, in dil- charging their Debts. % d gt Therefore notwithftanding all the Clamor about the Fall of Movcey, I will not be made to believe ic bas really fallen. What bave we to do with the Money of oiher Provinces and Nations,? Why can’t we rade wholly among ouifelves, and keep our own Money carrent, and value itas we are obliged tody Law. And as to the rifing of the Pri. ¢es of Things, we muft make a fatther Law, which fhall lay a heavy Pcnalty vpon any Man that thal! raifc his Goods or Labour or Provi- fioas to an extravagant Price, or give more for a Dollar than fifteen Shillings. Bac if this will not. an{wer, then as one rifes another muft rife, and every Body muft look to himfelf, and fo this will make a Bal- lance uponthe whole, and our Money will reinain as good as ever. ! Privato. Publicus, v To the Printer. 4 Lrroven I can pretend to fcarce any acquaintance with the A world. yet [ have obferved fome perfons, who inftead of en- deavouring to pleafe, are remarkable for di/ob/iging upon every ‘ occafion— People from fotne trifling and inconfiderable advan- tages of education, are oftentimes led to entertain an over-fond opinion f their own merit, and fancy themfelves of fuch importance, that they become difpofed to look upon their neighbours with a prevail- ing fcorn and contempt Sewventia was born in the country, where fhe pafled the younger part of her life, unfavoured with any education : “{_up:rior to the reft of her female parifhoners, fhe was never endowed g3 To morroww will be ready for the Subjeribers the Rev. Mr, Langdon’) Sermiont preach’d at the Opdmation of the Rew. Mr, Ma Cliptack, "Nums. 15, FEPTEVER S gw&mmaé&aa;fi " Foreign and Domeflick. T . with too great a* profufion of good nature, and efteemed it at certain feafons meritorious to affront her companions.— At the age of fourteen fhe was carried to Boflon, from whence fhe quickly returned, farnifhed - with a thoufand airs of greatnefs and diftin€lion, but unimproved in every thing ingenious and truly ornamental ; from this time fhe became un/uferably baughty, avd never failed in all public affemblies to exercife, the tyrant over her former affociates ; whenever fhe accidentally meets them, fhe fcarcely condefcends to afford them a-look ; and never pafles the common forms of civility without fome intimations of her fancled fuperiority— Among thofe whom at prefent the embraces for compa- nions, but few have the happinefs of pleafing her an hour, fhe per- petually takes exceptions at all vivacity, and innocent freedoms in con- verfation, and whoever exceeds thofe narrow limits of politenefs her ftarched imagination has eRablithed, are certain of incurring, her high- eft difpieafure—Tho’ fhe has received almoft every idea, from a few . domettic and furrounding objects, yer fhe aflumes the prerogative of T diQtating others, and wili with the utmoft freedom cenfure the moft §$ knowing and polite ; I have heard her criticife even upon the perfor- O mances of {cholzrs, and enter warmly into the merit of their profoundeft &4 difputations. ~She pretends to extreme nicety in the reception of ad- ¢ drefles from the other fex— The Ruffick offends her with his clownifh O | behaviour—the Sailor offers violence to her delicate ears—a Soldicr vat - will by no menns agree with her conftitation, becaufe his converfation ;| o8 favours too much of obftinacy and inflexible refolution ; becaufe he © | often entertains her with the relation of feiges and battles, intermingled "2 | with all the horrors of expiration, and blood. fhed ! — She has fome- | where pick’d up this proverb, 4 meer fcholar is a meer afs ; and from B [ this confideration fhe has been induced to lay afide all favourable con- ; eeptions of this fett of men, fhe fancies them unpolite, and conftantly &=, affirms that they contraét a fort of difagreable ruft from their books 2 and litterary performances—fhe has taken occafion from hence to de- ~ fpife the learned in every profeflion—The Divire is tdo rigid, the O Lawyer too fubtle, and the Phyfician too pedantick to be endured— I have often attended her to places of diverfion, and endeavoured to partake with fome agreablé companions, the innocent amufements of Qur country, but am thrd’ her uneafinefs and folicitations forever dif- appointed—The company either treat her with too much freedom,or &5 | forbear to take futable notice of het— /oe wery frequently quarrels with what we unanimoufly choofe for our diverfion, fhe then falls immedi- ately into a gloomy failennefs, or retires with the moft uncomplaifant precipitation, by which means the never fails td difconcert the whole. company, or to draw their contempt and ridicule upon her : If I fol- low her to places of retirement, I am received with a ¢0/2, JSormal, fiiff civility; and eatertained during my ftay, with i/ narured and envious refleCtions, upon every perfon in the neighbourhood ; I am certain to hear at large the charatier of ewery female, with an endless detail of their 7O | particular wices—I1f ever 1 mention a lady with any favourable ex- :é ! L | 4 preffions, I am fure to be rallied upon my want both of judgment and fancy. ; ‘Thus her awholy /ife appears to be one continued fene of reftle/s un- éafinefs, her conftant employment is te communicate di/agreable _fenfa- 8 : tions, to all aronnd her, and her capital virtue an obflinate refufal apon . every occafion ta be pleafed. : b ; ‘Dicite non temmere divos. Vire. E T is enough to fill a confiderate mind with the deepeft horror to fee = with what irreverence and inattention many people attend facred ¢, | worthip ; they feem to rufh into the divine prefence, with the famé . lightnels and airy appearance they carryto fhows, and places of diver- » ¢ fion— Even ia their addreffes to the fupreme Majefty of heaven, when Pr | their minds oaght to be filled with the profoundeft {folemnity, and the @ & moft awfal conceptions, how often do their ejies rove unguarded, and : wander from one gay obje¢t to another, till their hearts become ! tn all ferious impreflions, till fome pleafing amufement fteals upon the ‘S - fancy, and warmly engages all their devotion. : ; I fhall add no more at prefent, bat refer this queftion to the judg- ment of fober thinking men, Whether thefe diforders do not in a great meafure proceed from both {exes being permitted to mingle in our pubic affemblies promifcuouily ? HALIFAX, in Nova-Scoria, Dec. 27. 3 Laft Night the Pilot Boat arriv’d from Lawrence-Town, with 13 ™ Men, freze in their Hands and Feet, and the Serjeant froze to Dokt oy They went from hence to relieve the Party there. PHILADELPHI1A4, Deceniber 16. Monday laft arrived here the Ship Carolina, Capt. Doncan, f.o! London, but laft from Portfmonth, in 7 Weeks Paflage. There are . late Papers by this Veflel. ‘General Blakeney wa: not arrived ; & * daily expeéted. Admiral Byng's ‘Trial bad not come on, but ./ was generally believed he would be thot. The Accoun: of the Lok - of Ofwego had got to Englaud before the fhip failed, which thocked’ the People much, but it had nbt been publifhed in the Gazette. Ina Lerter from Dublin, dated the 28th of September, it is f2'd, ,Thzt 1 [ wd’ et | = |