The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, July 29, 1757, Page 1

“fié fiIfikfl? ]\&fifl?-iEthzggfiZ&bqg\ ABREESEESEIEERESEDIERERRIRRLRRR | | Friday, July 29. 1757. \With the Frefbeft Advices e 5 e 7o the Prorre of ENGLAND. Do thou, great LIBERTY, inlpire our Souls, And make our Lives in thy Poffiffion bappy, ' Or our Deoths glorious in thy jull Defence. 5’ all the Annals of this Kingdom there does not appear 42 Time, when the Circamftances of the Nation were at . a more cangerous Crifis, than at prefent ; when were " your {uture Honour or Dihonour, . Profperity or Adver- fity, Freedom or Slavery 'in a more critical fufpence, or hang in & more doabtful fcale, than at this Time ; and which of * the two fhail preponderate, will be determined according as you, (halt or fhall not exert yourfelves at this important ]uxgéldre. ; 23 : sue Fate mult now be fix’d by your Spirit ; and believe ame, if you nez'sét the prefent Opportunity, you are never iikely to have another. hat Conteft is, Whether Vice or Virtue, Corruption or Intleprity, (all take the Steerage, and have the Diretion of - somr Affairs ; and confequently, as the one or the other fhall #revail, your Fate, f&ggofperity or Adverfity will be irre- oitably fix'd. o Fi *Tlve Spirit, which you fo lately and fo ltdably exerted, pet rid of and procure Juftice on a mof corrupt Admi- ation, will, if continued, again conquer all their corrupt Oppofition, and make you @ happy People. You have fo lately experienced your Power, and feen the happy Effe&ts of exerting a proper Spirit, that I cannot doubt but you will * " petfevere : And though the Continuance of the Adminiftra- v tion, ‘procured by the generous Exertion of your Spirit, was but very thort ; yet, it was fufficient to convince you, *that there are Men who are; not only able to retrieve your Af- \ fairs and condu& them happily, but who will be fedfaftly jut and true to your Interefts. Was not their Integrity to you, the Caufe of the fhortnefs of their Adminiftration ? Having 3t lait found fuch rare Jewels of Integrity, wili ye v tiently fuffer them to be torn from you by the Tribe of rraption ? Will ye be compell’d to return again to the ymit, and again to wallow in the Mire ? Beheld the vaft and ftriking Difference between Integrity d Corraption ! Firlt, caft your Eyes on Him, whom you, . your great Detriment, have juft been deprived of, who, was fo {enfible of the heavy Burthens you bear, and fo defir- _ ous of leffening them, thac he offer'd © give you his Time and Labour, and ferve you without any Salary at all : Then surn yeor Byes.on Qre. who itis faid has ajreadv, O"'".i‘ahnut 5 have, the moit lucrative Appointment in the Kingdom, d yet thinks the Profits of it too little for him, and there- e has, befides, dcfired and obtained a Reveifionary Grant Fwo Thoufand Poundsa Year. What a Contraft, O my " _suntrymen ! does here prefent itfelf to you ? Is there not as,great a Difimilicude between thefe two Men, as between a0 innocent and ufeful Lamb, who clothes you with his Skin, and feeds you with his Flefh ; and a fly rapacious Fox, that tobs your Henroofts, and devours your Provifions ? Under Men of fuch avaritious Minds, {o ‘rapacious for themfelves, and fo regardlefs for your Iuterefts, muft ye not ! ¢ expe@ that your Burthens, already too heavy, will be in- | 1 AR LR creafed, and that you muft foon make Brick without Straw ? Were ye to continue any Time under fuch Men, how would . your Debt and Difrefles increale | How would your Credit - 272 your Fortunes fall ! _iuce, by a long Series of Profufion and Coyruption, your ~mumftavces are fo far reduced, that the neceflary Supplies Government are not, without great Difficulty, raifed ; 4 ye be content to have them utterly ruined by a Conti- ce of the fame profufe and corrupt Meafures ? Can ye ik it confiltent with your Duty to'your King, Yourfelves, .. your Pofterity, to {uffer fuch corrupt and avaritious Men opprefs them ail ? No ; you will, I doubt not, humbly » your diftreffed Circomftances before the Throne, and in- .«m his facred Majefty of 'the utter Impoffibility of your | .fifting longer under the Management or Influence of fuch }4en, as have abufed his Royal Confidence, and brought you snd your Affairs into the moit defperate Situation ; and you « will'implore his facred Majefly, to truft'the Reins of Power sininto the Hands of Thefe who were proceeding to ob- . Lu.ir. Jufktice on them, who had been wanting in their Duty to i4im and their Country ; into the Hands of Thofe, who were, by wife and frugal Meafures, endeavouring to fupport your, Credit, and retrieve your Honour ; into the Hands of “Thofe, whom He has try’d and found, not only highly ca- pable of conduling the Affairs of the Nation happily, at this dangerous Crifis, but thoroughly juft and true to' His and Your Interefts. * I.am your faithful Servant, BRITANNICUS, < From the BosTon GAZETTE. 7o the PrinTERS, &c. HE fatal Accidents, which have very frequently fol- lowed upon Perfons taking Shelter -under Trees in Thunder forms, might, one would think, have been a fuf- . ficient Intimation of the Danger of {uch a Praftice, and a fuf- ficient Warning to avoid it. _ But the late unfortunate' Death ,of ayoung Man at Plainfield, as mentioned in the Papers, is a melancholly Pyoof, that the Intimation has not been uni- verfally taken, ngr the Warning duly attended to. Indeed, the Danger arifinf; from this Quarter issmore evident to fuch as are acquainted \yith the modern DifCqueries in Eleéricity, than to others. Jch Perfons know, Yhat the Matter ‘of e Chiigii v b ac tbe Opcrations RS Ny of both aré fubje& to the fame Laws, and that their Efedls differ, not in Kind, but in Degree only. The Matter of Eledricity is attracted by all Non eleCtric Bodies, bat moft ftrongly by Metals and Water ; "and wherever it finds thefe to condult it, it dire&s its Courfe along them, preferable to all others : It impregnates thofe Bodies throughout, and fur- rounds them with an eleétric Atmolphere, extending to fome Diftance. If another non-eleftric Body, not equally im- preguated with Ele&ricity, be brought within the Atmof- phere of the firft, and within a certain Diftance from it, cailed the firiking Diflance ; Part of the Electricity of the firft will be difcharged upon the fecond, and the- Difcharge will be accompanied with a Flath of Light, a cracking Noife, and, if the fecond Budy bean Anim¥, 2 {iwinful Senfation. Thus in making eleftric Experiments, a {32z metallin Body is ufed to conduli the eleftric Matter to whatever Diftance is requi- fite ; and ifa Perfon bring his Finger near this Condutior, the Ele@ricity will jamp from the Conducior to his Finger, with a Flafh, a Noife, and a Senfation, as if his Finger had received a Blow. Thefe are the Effects, when the fecond Body is blunt, or terminated by a broad Surface ; but if it be /barp-pointed, the Elefricity is difcharged in a filent, im- perceptibie Manner. In the Cafe we have now put, the eleétric Shock is inconfiderable ; but if an Animal be fituated in a Line between two non eledirics, fo that a large Stream of the eleéiric Matier, “in dariing fiom one to the other, which it does with inconceivable Quicknefs, maft pafs at once thro’ his Body, the Shock is extremely violent ; and it may be increafed to that Degree as to caufe immediate Death. Such are the Effe@s of Ele€lricity : Thofe of Lightning are altogether fimilar. - Clouds are non elefiric Bodies, which contain, and are [urrounded with, the Matter of Light- ning ; and Trees, and animal Budies, asthey contain a great Share of Watery Fluids, may be the Condustors of it. When a Cloud paffes at a proper Diftance over a Tree, the Matter of Lightning in it and around it, if not in too great Quantity, may be filently difcharged down to the Ground by Means of the pointed Leawes of the Tree ; in the fame Manner as it isby the pointed Wires, now fixed on the higher Parts of Buildings: But if the Quantity be too great for this, and the Cloud be fuddenly brought by the Wind within its friking Diflance from the Tree, the Matter of Lightning, being at- tracted by the broad Surfaces of the Leaves, will jamp with Violence upon them, and the whole o' it will make its Way in an Inflant thro}the Rody'ef the Tree to the Earth ; and this it does with a Force, whicit 1s frequently great enough to fhiver the Tree in Pieces. If, while the Lightning is run- ning down the Tree to the Earth, a Perfon fhould place himfelf very near the Tree, his Body being capable, as well as the Tree, of conduiting the Lighuiing, Partof it will jump off from the Tree, and wili rufh thro” his Pody in its Way tothe Earth ; and that, with a Violence preportional to the Quantity that is difcnarged at once. If this Quantity be very great, the Confequence will be fatal. .Hence it appears, how dangerous it muft be for any to place himfelf near a Tree, at a Time when it may be con- dulting, or ready to, conducl, alarge Stream of Lightning to the Earth. ’'Tis much fafer for a Perfon to flay out in the Rain, and fuffer him(elf tp be wet. His Danger is lefs at firlt, and it grows lefs and lels every. Moment,-as his Cloaths become wetter. And when they are thoro'ly wetted, the Matter of the Lightning, which 15 near enough to him to be attrated by him, will be conduéied filently down to the Earth by the Water in his Cloaths, without Injury 0 his Body. We cannot conclude, without giving the moft earneft Caution to all Perfons, who may be {urprifed abroad in a Thunder-ftorm, that they necver betake themielves to a Tree Sor Shelter. J W > ; L4 L To the PuBLisHER of the Niw HampsnIRE GAZETTE. The following Obferwation on Ecliples, are difir’d a Place in your next, to prewent any frightful Chimeras, which may ari‘e in the Minds of fuch as are unacquainted with fuch Fhanomena. Cripsus, informer Ages were eiicemed fad Prefagas of fome fatal Event, to the natura! or moral World ; either in their own Nature as productive thereof, or the Meflengers of fome fuperior Intelligence, relative thereto. And thefe theirSentiments,may pretty eafily be apollogized for,from the Rarity of fuch Phzznomena, and the Barbarity of the Times, which did not permit any natural Solution of them. But a long Series of Obfervations, together with the farprifing Pro- ficiency of the Moderns, in this,and ether Branches of Science, afford no Room for Doubt, or Sufpence, either as to the true Caufes of Eclipfes, or what Weight is to be given, thefe frightful Credenda, of the Antients. For the Maderne ( with Reafon) affert, That Eclipfes of the Moon, are notning more, or lefs, than a Privation of its borrow’d Light, by the Earth’s coming between the Sun and Meon ; (or the Moon’s paffing thro’ the Earth’s Shadow ) and that Eclipfes of the Sun, ( or with Propriety, of the Earth ) are occafioned by the Moon’s pafling between the Sun and Earth, fo as to caufe an Cécul- tation of the folar Difk, with refpet to the Inhabitants of this Earth. From whence, ’tis pretty evident, that no miraculous Interpofition is neceflary to produce Eclipfes of thefe * Kinds. * That the Darknefs, avhich sverfhadoned the Land of-Judah, and Parts adjacent, at the Grucifixion f$ our SavIOUR, did 3 oy 3 wot Nums. 43, CAZEETE % zflflfl@%&@fi@#fi#fi#fi@;&fiéfifi@%#flfi#&fifit 3 Foreign and - Domeflick. Pt St e . And from the regular, and determinable Periods, of their Appearances, ( which were unknown to the Antients) that they are nothing new or uncommon in their Nature : but mult agreeable to the prefent Laws, of the Earth, and Moon’s Motioas have hap- pened ever fince thefe Laws were fixt on them, by - their great CREATOR ; and muft continue to happen till they are {ufpended. Which we may rationally fuppofe was from the Mofaick Creation, and will be until their final Diffolution. Therefoce not to be efteemed ominous, or any greater Prefages ofap- proaching Events than 7ides,Vsciffitades of the Seafons &t any other periodical Phenomena depending on na- tural Caufes. - Eclipfes are by Atronomers called, Fartial, Total, Central, ov Hunular, acci\rding tothe different Apperances they make. A Partial, is when buat Part of the Luminary eclipfed is obfcured. A Zotal, when the whole. A Central of the Moon, is when the Moon’s Centre paffes thro” the Centre of the Earth’s Shadow. But a Central of the Sup, a- rifes from an apparent Tranfit of the Moon’s Centre over the Sun’s ; from whence it appears, that a Cen- tral Eclipfe of the Sunis cali’d thus from the Situa- tion of the Obferver : and confequently theré may be ( fince the appasrent Diameters of the Sun and Moon do but little differ from each other) and fre- quently is an Eclipfe of the Sun, Central and Total, to fome Parts of the Earth, in others, Partiz/, and in others none at all, altho’ the Sun be vifible at that Time. A Central Eclipfe of the Sun, doth potal- ways imply a Tetal, but frequently an. Annular, which happens when the Moon’s Diameter at the Time of the Eclipfe, appears lefs than the Sun’s, in which Cafe, the Sun will appear on all Sides, and in’ Form ofa Ring. Solar Ecliples, withrefpe&t to any one Part of the Earth, are a more rare and uncom- mon Spectacle, than Lunar: notwithflanding there happen more Solar Eclipfesin any given Number of Years than Lunar. The Reafon of which from what has been before obferved may very eafily be conceived of : for Eclipfes of the Moon arifing from areal Deficiency of Light in the Moon, are vifible in what ever Part of this Terraqueous Globe the Moon is vifible, at the Time of che Eclipfe ; and are the fame in Qubniity, the Tiune of théir Appeq: ces differing accurately acco o the diffi; Situation of the Places with re/peé to Longitade. Not thus Eclipfes of the Sun, in either of thele Re- gards ; for they not arifing from any Defe& of Light in the Sun but from a Stoppage of his Rays, with Regard to the Earth, by the Moon’s interven- ing, @ has been faid, are different in 7ime and Duan- tity in different Places ( either as to Longitude or Latitude) which Differences, arifing frum a s .apli- cated Series of Caufes, render the delermining the different Phafes, of their diverfified Appearances, extreamly difficult.-———Wh:ch leads me to Oblerve fomething of the Solar Eclipjes expetied in AvcusT: and which has been Predifled ¢ will be AnnuLAR, and the moff Remarkable {een by us” (i. e. I fuppofe theInhabitants of New England) ¢“ this Age.” From which Preditions I crave Leave to diffent ; for my Opinion, (which the "Reader may efteem as he pleafes) of this notable, and truly memorable Eclipfe, founded on Aftronomical Calculations ; is that it will begin at Portymouth New Hampfbire 26 minutes after 5 o'Clock on Sunday the 14th of Auguft Afternoen ; that the Middle will be at 31 Minutes after 6, when the Sun will appear fimilar to the Moon three or four Days after the Change, having his Horns pointed tn the North ; the Quantity eclipled ai the greatet Ob- fcuration, will be about 10 and 2 thirds of a Digit onthe Sun’s North Part, the Sun will fet at 56 Mi- nutes after 6, eclipfed between 6 und 7 Digits on his Eaitern or upper Limb ; that this Ecliple will not ap- pear (5 dnnularin New- England, but in many Flaces = to the Northward of it, and nearly {o at Qucbeck in Caneda ; alfo that this is the moft Remarkable Eclipfe fecn in New. England fince the 14th of Fuly 1748, 0. S. or will be, uuil the 5th of #uguf? 1766, when *tis probable feme of the ¢ Carious lnhabirants of Neaw- England may have an Opportusity of being careful in the Obfervation,” of {o rare, and uncom- mon a Phzqomenon, as the Son &rnuularly Eclipfed, TheMethad of obferving Se/ar Eclipfes unprejudicial to the Eye, is by Jooking through a” clear Piece of Window Glafs fmoaked on one Side, over a Candle or Lamp. Bat to determine with Accaracy, the Beginning, Ead, Qnantity eclipfed, at the greateft not arife, from a common Ecliple of the Sun, is pritty certain 5 fince it appearg by Calewlation, that the Mainy at that Lime, was at, or near, ber Oppofition, A, that an Ecliple of the Sun, continuing T'oral, in anyoue ' Place of the Earth, more than'8 or v0 Minutes, muft be miraculous : but from a'real Deficiéncy of Light in the Sun or Jome uncommon caliginows Clowds, ( fimilar to thofe, avbirh produced ive Darkaefs of Jigvye ) oubich intercepted the Rays, either of wwhic ) Conjos avere miva- culons, 4nd m3y felthe ths Pl i