The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, April 15, 1757, Page 1

< Friday, April 15. 1757, | ' "TheuNew-Hampfbire B EESESEENTEOBERIUUIT I IRE LR || The Vircinia Cextiner. No. XVII, w——How far is galiant Mifchicf overcome, The Old muft yield to neww and modern Rome ; Mix lls pafi, prefent, future, in one 422, One bigh, one brawe, one great, one glorious Fall, Which Hell and 1 may envy OLpHaM. " bave, in a former Alarm, given you fome Spe- e : OUNTRYMEN and Fellow Proteftants ! I § cimens of the bloody Genius of Popery,—of even Frenchified Papery ; which, notwithftand- ing the pretended IHumanity and Politencfs of that Nation, is fill found to be a bloody favage Harpy. As I have now fome new authentic Materials for a- . pother Alarm ; and as nothing can make you more fenfible or tenacious of your invaluable Privileges as & free People under a Briti> Government, or more Zealous againft the Incroachments of French Tyranny, “Wwhich has been advancing toward you for fome Time with fuch formidable gigantic Strides, than to view the Oppreflions, Perfecutions, Toitures and Death, under fi/lgich the thin Remains of your Fellow Proteftants in France now_groan 3 I fhall give you a Sketch of their ~tragical Hiftory, founded upon very good Authog- ties *. I fhall trace this Perfecation. no farther back than the Year 1724, when Leavis XV. the prefeat King of France, publithed the foilowing fanguinary Edi&, at once expreflive of the Spirit of the Tyrant and his Minifters, and the Genius of his Religion. 24 “4¢ With the Advice of our Council, and of our own fpecial Grace, full Power and royal Authority, we have required and commanded, and by thefe Prefents figned with our own Hand, do require and command, and our Will and Pleafure is, L. ¢ That the Roman-Catholic and Apoftolic Reli- ,Igion alone be exercifed in our Realms, Dominions and Countries ; and we forbid -all cur Subjects, of what State, Quality‘and Condition foever, to prattife any execept. id Cathelic Beligloawcs toaling & for that End in any Place, and on any Pretence what- foever, under Pain of being condemned to the Gallies for Life, if they are Men ; and if Women, of being ,fi'r’n, and confined for ever in fuch Places as our i éxdges fhall think expedient; with Confifcation of oods in either Cafe, and under Pain of Death, to thofe who fhall affemble in Arms, II, * Being informed, that there have {prung up, fld flill are fpringing up daily, in our Reaim, a greac umber. of Preachers, whofe fole Bafine(s it is to ftir up the People to Rebellion 1, and to diffuade them from the Pratice of the Roman. Catholic and Apoft- olic Religion, we dg command that all Preachers, who fhall cali Affemblies, preach in them, or difcharge any other Funétion, Be PuT TO DEATH ; the Punifhment appointed by the Deciaration of July 1686, for Mi- nilters'of the pretended reformed Religion ; which we would not, for the future, have any one efteem a mere Threatning, which witl not be putin Execution. We do likewife forbid our Subjets to receive the faid Minifters or Preachers, to conceal, aid, or aflift them, »or have dire@tly or indireflly any Intercourfe or Correfpoadence with them : We farther enjoin all thofe, who fhall know any of the faid Preachers, { 'to injorm againft them to the Officers of the re- fpeQive Places ; the whole under Pain, in Cafe of Trefpafs, of being condemned to the Gallies for Life,if Men ; 48d if Women, of being fhora, and fhut up the Remainder of their Days, in fuch Piaces as our Judges fhall think expedient; and whether Men or Women, under Pain of Confifcation. Given at Verfailles, the 14th of May, 1724°" . 'This is the cruel Edi&t,which has been carryingin- to Execution in France ahove 30 Years, and is now “infull Force. Ifany of my Readersfhould need an i2x- % For thefe 1 muft refer the Reader to two Difcour- [esiom this Subje? by the Rewerend Mr. Gibbons, a (xwortiyy Minifter in. London ; Edit, 1755. v A Yo preach the Gojpel peaceably, to expofe the Non- | Jenfe and dalatry of Popery, and inculcate the Principles *of religions Liberty and true Free thinking, is, in the Style ¢ of the Evench King, * to flir up the People to Rebellion.” | Shere is abundant Ewidence, that the Protefiants there | are Jofar frombeing mutinous and yebellious, that they Y hawe givven the moft incontefiible Proofs of their Loyalty intheir public Difcourfes, and by their peaceable Beba- idur even in Seafons awhen it was in their. Power to revenge themfelves ; which foows that their- Religion is their only Crimi, g LTS 1 ot ofBosToly, April 9. Entred In, Chace from Rhode- Wfland, Taylor and Bartram\Gom Conme&icat, French Sfrom thus : Faly 26, 1754. N’UMB.28‘.i GAZBET TN FBLVTTVILBIBRLOI VISP IBDLALRTLIR Foreign and Domeftick. \ plication of any of theSpecies of Punithments denounced init, I congratalate them upon their happy Ignorance. Had they lived under a FrenchGovernment, they miight have been inflruéted in thefe Arts of Torture, by the painful Leffons of Experience. To excite their Com- paffion for their fuffering Brethren, and enflame their Patriot-Refentments, I fhall only initiate him into the Myfery of Confinement to the Gallies. A Galley is a low decked Veffel, generidos from 120 to 132 Feet leng, about 48 broad, and fi"decp. They are navi- gated with Qars, and much ufed in the Mediterranean Sea. The Galley Slaves are chained to thefe Oars, their Shirts being ftripped down to the Wafte, and expofed to all Weathers. The Chains fometimes corrode and wear away-the Flefh to the very Bone, and occafion Gangreens. To this Kiad of Confine- ment are the unhappy Proteftants condemned during Life, in Company with the moft notoriousiMalefactors, who, having efcaped the Sentence of Death, are con- demned to the fame Punilhment, though fome of the latter have more Favar thown them, and are confin- ed only for a Time, and then difmiffed. The following Extralls from the Letters of fome of the Sufferers, or Perfons of good Intelligence and Veracity, will thew with what unrelenting Rigor the above Edi& is ftill executed. A Protefant Minifter of Lower Languedsc writes *“Aboat Fuly 5th, a religious Affembly returning Home, the Garrnifon fell upon them, fired, put them to flight, and f{eized three Men and five Women. Another Afembiy haviog broke up, were attacked by a Party of Dragoons, who fired among them, wounded one Man, and ended his Life with their Bayonets. Forty-five were taken Prifo- ners.——Other Accounts of the Affembly inform us, that five or fix were killed on the Spot, and 14 0r 15 wounded.— Towards the latter End of the fame Month, an Aflembly was furprized by a Party of D.agoons, who fired upon them, and feized {everal of both Sexes, who remain in Prifan.——The 17th In- flant, an Officer and five Gentlemen were taken up, for what Reafon we cannot yet certainly know, Some fay it is for holding religious Aflemblies, and others, for performing Baptifms and Marsiages.”” = Another Proteftant Minifter writes thus: Auguf 8, 1754 — I am {vell acquainted with the Affairs of curChurches,’ and the feveral unjuft and cruel Methods which are daily ufed to deftroy them. Never before have they been fo artfully attacked ; they are befer on every Side, and ravaged from every Quarter: and it will be impofiible to bear up under this heavy Calamity, un- lefs fuftained and dpheld by God himfelf The Provinces of this Part of the Kingdom, where the Proteftant Religion has moft flourithed, are crowded Troops, as I imagine, to extripate all the Proteftants, if poffible ; for they are to quarter here fome Time. On the 4th Inftant they made a general Sally. They plundered not only the Houfes in the Couatry, but even thofe in the City did not efcape their Fury. A Minifter, who had taken that” Office upon him no more than two Years, had the Houie furrounded where he was ; and attempting to efcape, was fhot by a Fuz:e, and was arrefted, as was all the Family wherehewas. He was carried Prifoner to Montpellicr, where he muft fuffer, as moft of his Predeceflors have done before him. Myfelf muft have fhared the fame Fate, had it not been for the “kind Proteétion of a Catholic Friend : For I had no fooner left my Houfe, than it was furronnded, with a numerousDetachment, which made the moft exa& Search for me. Since this fatal Time, my Day. is turned into Night ; and my People, feeing it impoflible for me to elude their - diligent Search, advife me to retire for fome Time into Sawirzerland, there to wait for more quiet and peaceable Days. We have great Reafon to fear our enemies will exert all their Power to moleft them (the Minifters and others that baptife, &c. in defert Places) fince the Bithop of 4/ais has fent a Letter for that Purpofeto all the Cusates of his Diocefe.* The following is an Account of Mr., P ¢, drawa up by himfelf. ¢ On . the Parith Curate’s ta- king my Child by Force, and baptifing it according to the Rites of the Church of Rome during my Abfence, on my Return Home, I expreffed my Refentment, and reproved the Curate, who thereupon complained of me to the Deputy, and a Warrant was granted a- - gainlt me. I was accufed, and though inaocent, con- demned to Death; as acceflary to the Miirder of a Woman found dead in P‘rifon. I appealed to the Parliment of 7Tbouloufe, and thereby was acquitted, and difcharged from Imprifonment ; but after fomre Time was-again orderéd to be arrefted ; buta Friend gave me private Intelligence. I immediately em- braced the favourable Opportunity, left my Family the very fame Day, and fled for Refuge to this happy He [of Great Britain] where, by the kind Provi- dence of God, I am fately arrived.” ! find I muft ‘eclerve iome addicional Articles of Inceiligence for my next, for Wantof ilcom.—T hele may ferve asa Specimea of the favage Genius of Popery and a French Government. Can a Proteftant, cau a Briten or Virginian, vead fuch Accounts as thele without Indignation ? Can we behold the Incraach- mentsof fuch a Government, with a guantum fufficit of Indian Barbarity, without Herror ¢ And mutt not our Refentment fire us dnto Seldiers, to repel this dire Apollyon from our Borders ? ] ot Ot 208 30t 0 J04 J08 Y04 J04 X0 10+ 20+ J0k 10+ J0¢ J0% 10+ 0+ J0¢ 0% L O N D O:N. Fan. 18. Private letters from Paris fay, that Da- miens the villain that ftabbed the French King, has declared that there are twenty more engaged wich him in the fame defign, whofe names, he protefts, no racks nor tortures fhall ever force him to revéal. Yefterday fcveral balf pay officers, made their ap- plication to the War office, for being admiteed into full pay, and employed in the fervice, purfuant to his Majefty’s directions given for that purpofe, in order * to compleat the commands of the addition land- forces to be fent toNorth-America, to a& againft the French there, under the command of the Right Honourable the Earl of Louden. : An exa® Copy of a Letter from Capt. Thomag Harri{fon, Commander of the Otter Sloop of War, ta his Father Rear Admiral Harrifon, at Plymouth, dat ed Mounts-Bay, January 11. 1757, ) Honcured Sir, Hawe_the pleafure to acquaint you.of my arriwai-a Ilhm‘:-bay laft night, baving on board 106 French Prifoners, all- I am able to flow ; the remainder, which 1 hawve been fo lucky as to take, 1 bawe fent in other Sips, wix. in the Bofcawen privateer of Guerafey 60, and in the Tygrefs priwateer of Biddeford 60 ; the latter privateer, 1 retook in lat. 4G, 28, 100 leagues to the aweflward, the 4th inll. after engaging the privateer and ber prize for about twwo oosrs 5 bath of thim aere Juperiour to me both in men and guns. On the 28th of Dicember.in lat. 46, 30, 1 took together avith Bofcaun privateer, a French man of war, of 12 fix pounders, bad ports for 26, and had 135 men, bound to the Miffifipps, laden with provifions, arms, and bale-goods on the King's account, after an engagement of three or four bours, in awhich 1 awas_jo fortunate as not to lofe one man, but had Sour much wsounded, one of whom is fince ‘dead, and_fe-' weral flightly. On the z.qth 1 gave chace to a [now, and at night came up avith ber 5 tbe came from Nantz, and was bound to Martineco : The man Y avar Iloft company with in chafe of the fuow, and the fmow in chafe of the tavo privateers. The men tn the Biddeford privateer, as 1 had no men toput on board ber only an offi- cer, confined bim, and carried ber into Biddeford, where 1 hawe +fent an exprefs to fecure them all; and acquaint- ed their Lordfbips thereaith ; the French wwbho were on board ber awere all in irons in the bold. 1ilof} fight of ber in the night yeflerday in fight of Scilly. The man of awar I'm in no fear of being in company with the pri-, wateer, but am a liitle in doubt about the. fnow.' No lefs than fixteen French. privateers have been taken within three months paft. Extrad of a Letter from Fortfmouth, fan. 2. *Things remain juft in the fame fituation wigh re- fpe@ to Admiral Byng’s fentence—The Secretary of State two days ago fent to Admiral Smith two letters to Mr. Byng, one-from the Duke de Richelieu, the other from M. Voltaire, which were delivered to him accordingly. The contents are varioufly "reported, indeed quite oppofitely ; fome tell you they are re- fleQling ; and others, that they are confolatory. ¢ Vice Admiral Weft pat back to St. Helen’s, where he remains with thirteen suen of War, twelve of the line.” Fan. z7. Letters arrived yefterday from Lifbon advife, that they lately had violent ftorms of thunder and lightning, attended with fome few Thocks of an earthquake ; one of the florms of thunder and light- ning fplit the main-maft of an Englifh man of war into a great many pieces, whica was to have failed for. England the zoth of January with the trade. o tird ‘ Jan. ew York, Simogton, Crocker, Adams, Prince, Fuiler, Dawis Ripley & Garrett from N, Carolina, Lobdell from § Carolina, Toxer from Cadiz,\Lilly from Lifben. Clear'd,Fhggin: &3 Froemaw for Conne@icut, Junkins for Halifav.