The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, July 29, 1757, Page 4

Lady, on the Liscrries of the B ation. . _W‘HAT’a the {pring or the fweet fmelling rofe, V¥ What's the fummer with all its gay train, Or the plenty of autumn to thofe, 4 Who have barter'd their freedom for gain ? Let the love of our king's royal right, To the love of our country. fucceed, Let friendfhip- and honour unite, And flourith on both fides the:Tweed. No fweetnefs the fenfes can chear, Which corruption and bribery bind 3 " No calmnefs the gloom e’er can clear, For honoui’s the fun of the mind. Let Virtue dittioguith the brave, Place riches in loweft degree, He’s pooreft who can be a flave, 7 And richeft who dares to be free. Let us think how our anceftors rofe, Let us think how our anceftors fell. *Tis the rights defended, this thofe They bougbt with their blood which we fell. : L ONDON, April 16. Yefterday at a Ceurt of Common Council at Guildhall, Mr. Deputy HopcEs opened the Bafinefs of the Court with the following SreecH. ISTORY the Key of Kngavledge, and Experience the TouchRone of Truth, bawe conviriced us that this Coun- #ry owes the Prefervation of its moff excellent Confli- tution to the frequent Fealoufics, Fears and Apprebenfions of “the People. : W henever the Face of Public Affairs bawe born a dija- gréable or dangerous Afpedt 5 whenever the People bhave been injured by the Condult of thofe awho have underiaken the Dire&tion and Management of their Pablic Affairs, they bave always by a wigorous and timely Oppofition impeded the im- pending Danger 5 and when they bave been profperous and flourifhing, when thofe in Power bave dome or attempted any material Service to their Country, the People bave been al- ways equally ready to acknowledge and reward. § Inflances of this kind are {0 frequent in our Hiftory, that it is needlefs to defeend to Particulars, and it wonld be taking up your Time unneceffarily to enter into a Defence of this Con- dult : As Applications to punifb, when necefJary, are intended to deter, Jo Thanks and Rewards do conauce to excite and create Emulation 5 both abfolutely neceffary to Jupport the principal Ends and Defign of Government, the Happinels of Saciety ; and in all Cafes of this Sort it bas been cuflomary for this Corporation asthe Metropolis, to fet the Example. Not long fince, too late to be forgot, this Country awas on the Brink of Ruin, bro't Jo by the Mifiakes or Defigns of thofe who bad undertaken the Dire&ion of National dffairs ; on this melancholly Oceafion this Court did prefent an Ad. drefs of Condolance 1o the King 5 bis Majsfly received them with Candour, and with the Affetion of a Parent regarded their Conplaints ; a Change of Men foon Jollowed ; and il thop ol a Ghange of Meafurcs, as vewived the fink- . %, cad raifed a finking Land : Our Coaniey Biatarnia, alisfl expiring, railed ber dying Head, Jaw Virtue ad lutegrity {who bad ling deferted ber) offer theix 27 jiance in the Perfons of Mr. Pitt and Mr. Legge, checrfuidy acceptod Cheir friendly. Aid, at once forgot paft Misfortunes, #ho’ we'y great, and fuffered them to be buried in future Hoper ; /e Confequence of which was, Public Spivit wnd Dveoninmy » sntuved once soveto appear in our Affem- Blics ; Commence put om anew Garmint, Foreign Mercenaries retived from our Country, and the Sons of Freedom began to Jirbifp their own Arms 5 Placemon, Penfioners, Jobbers, and Agents, the corrupt Sons of bad Addminiflration, bung down their Heads, {narled and retired into Corners ; and every " Alpe@ foretold better Times 5 but fee the Uncertainty of bu- man Ewvents ! ave bad no Jooner pleafed ourfelves with this Ray of Profperity, but Britannia’s Props are taken away, and svery one fears the Danger of a Relapfe, by baving loft thofe wha fo well adminifired, and underflood her Conflitution. The Appointing and Removal of Minifiers, being the Az of Sacred Power and Suvereign Authority, Duty, as well as Wi lzretion, requires 1 fhould be filent on that Head ; but as a Subjeét of Britain, I can lament the Lofs of fuch Patriots and Protefors ; as an Englifman 1 bave a Right to acknowlege and thank. ~We bawe all that Right, Wildim as avell as ¢ Policy dic2ate the Exercife of it on the prefent Occafion, 1 therefore beg leae to propofe a Rucfiion to prefent the Free- dom of this City o the Hon. William Piie, E/g; and the Hon. Henry Legge, Efg;in Gold Boxes, 1 Gentlemen who bave fo glovioufly led the Van, in our late excellent, but fhart L ijlinion. It bas been cuffomary for this Court to givk s vedion of this City to thofe wwho hawe eminently feryed, and-we fpoll furcly do it to thele Gentlenen wha hawve ferved theiv Couniry @ If we cannot appoint Men or promote their Caoti wance, ae can and ought to fanélify their Meafures, W2y Jo evidently tending to the Good of our Country. "Verses wrorz by a youny } t The Queflion propas’d, and the Freedom of the City pre- Jentod vo 'thefe Gemvlemen in Gold Boxes, were meutioned in our laff. April 19, By a Letter from Leipfic, dated April the 6¢th, we are informed that on the Monday before, a Nuamber of Saxon Grenadiers, who had Oxders to fepa- rate into Parties, that they might be incorporated into the Pruflian Regiments, ket Place, and began to fhout,Long liwe theKing of Poland ! This produced a great deal of Confufien, but not much Bicudfhed ; the Pruflian Officers atted with as mauch " Cooinefs asif it had been a Fire, and taking the proper Steps to inveft them, and cut off all Power of Retreat, before they began the Attack, quickly obliged them to fubmit, and having put a Dozep of the Ringieaders under “Song Guard, divided the re and putthem off in fepa- artics, agreeable to their former Orders, fo thatin fuddenly mutinied, feized the Mar- - a few Hours every Thing was as qniet as if nothing had happened. : The Amfler;iam Gagette informs us, that the Duke of Cumberland’s going over to command the Army of Ob- fervation on the Frontiers of Hawover, is owing to the reiterated Inftances of the King of Pruffia. Letters from Broffels fayy that the French have threa- tened the Garrifon of Gueldres to grant them no Capita- lations if they do not furrender the Place immediately. It is faid that the four French Men of War and two Frigateslately failed from Toulon, are gone to Turkey, to intercept our Merchantmen expected from thence. A confiderable Train of Artillery,and a Number of Troops, are ordered to be aflembled at or near Plymouth and Corke, for Embarking at a fhort Notice; and are generally believed to be deftined for the Mediterranean. April 26. His Majelty in Council has ordered the Embargo upon all Ships and Veflels going from any of the Ports of Ireland, laden with Beef and Pork, to beta- ken off. The Lightfoot, Capt. Vane, from Virginia, taken by a Bayonne Privateer, has been taken ky the Duke of Bed- . ford Privateer, and carried to Dublin. The Right Hon. Henry Fox will this Week be decla- red Chancellor of the Exchequer ; and the Right Hon. the Earl of Egremont, Secretary of State. Three Ships of a quite néw Fabrick as to Timber, are fetting up at Deptford, Woolwich, and Chatham Yards, to carry 28 Guns each ; andas the utmoft Difpatch will be made, it is expected they will be launched in three or four Months. ; On the 10th Inft. the John and Bella, of Whitehaven, Capt. Green, with Tobacco, arrived at that Place in 8 Days from Haver de Grace, where he was not permit- ted to go on thore ; buta Prieft who came on board, in- formed him, that great Preparations were making ip all the Portg of France, in order to make an Attack upon Virginia, of which he faid they did not doubt but they fhould make a Conqueft, and that then the Reft of our American Pofleflions would become an eafy Prey. April 28. The Landgrave of Hefle, fteadily perfifts to refufe a Paffage for the French thro’ hie Territories. Letters from Spain advife, that fince the Change made in our late Miniftry, frequent Conferences and Councils have been held ; that the Court had ordered 30,000 Mafkets, and a great Number of Swords and ' Bayonets, to be made for the Recruits ; that two Ships were launch- ed at Ferrol, and that {everal others were on the Stocks. May 12. Letters are arrived in town from Captain Fofter, of the Antigallican privateer, giving an account, that his fhip and prize were furrendered into his hands : that foon after he was acquainted that two 74 gun French fhips of war were way-laying him and his prize, of which he took an opportunity to acquaint Admiral Saunders, who promifed to detach a part of his {quadron to engage the faid fhips ; and, when thefe Letters came away, a cannonading was heard off Cadiz, fuppofed ta be between part of Admiral Saunders’sfquadron& the 2 French thips, PeTErssurcH (i Ruffia) March 25. Sir Charles Hanbary Williams, Envoy Extraordinary from the King of Great. Britain, has reczived his Letters of Recall. The Fleet fitted out at Cronftadt, is alually ready to fet fail, and when joined by the Squadron from Revel, will confift of 30 Ships of War, including Frigates and Bomb Veflels. Vienna (the Capital of Germany) April 5. The Army in Bohemia under Prince Charles of Lorrain and Marfhal Brown will be compofed of 73,608 Men, viz. 53,608 Infantry, and zo,000 Cavalry, That in Moravia, com- manded by Count Leopolde dzDaun, will confilt of 70,192 Men, viz. 49,610 Foot, and 20,582 Horfe. Befides which there will bea flying Camp, deftined for the Block- ade of Fortrefles, under the Ccunt de Nadafti, confifting of 15,880 Foot, and 400 Horfe Total 163,680 Men, We expe& eighteen Squadrons from Poland, which are not included in this Number. Brussers.April 21. Welearn from Wefel, ThattheCount de Maillebois has been detached by the Prirce de Soubize with a Body of 3000 French and 400 Auftrians, towards the County of Ritiberg, in order to diflodge the Pruflians who are living there at Difcretion. WiTTENBERG (in Germany) dpril 13. -Some Detach- meats of Pruffian Troops having been fent in Purfuit of the Saxons who lately deferted, brought ona Skirmifh between them, in which about 5o of the Deferters were killed, and the Remainder owed their Efcape to the def- perate Defence, they made, crying out all the while to the Pruffians, that they would neither give or receive any Quarter, : Osnatura, (a'City in Girmany, 75 Miles Weft of Ha- nower) April 15. The Advices that have been received at Hanover, lcave no Room to doubt that the Defign of the French is to march into that Eletorate, the neceffary Preparations are making there for a vigorous Defence. The Pruffian Regiments that are to join the Army of Obfervation, are upon the fall March. Leipsic (a City in Germany, 42 Miles N. W. of Dref- den) April 15. A Courier lately arrived at the King’s Head Quarters, has brought Advice, that the French threaten to take Pofleflion of the Principality of Ealt Friefland, in the fame Manner as they have done of the Dachy of Cleves. 1f this Advice is well grounded, the Pruffian Troops will likewie retire from that Principality, and join the Army of Obfervation. i Paris (the Capital of France) April 19. People begin to believe, that the grand Expedition with which the Englith have threatned us a long Time, is to make a Defcent on the Ifle Royzl, with the View of making themfelves Mafter of Lovifbarg, as tffey did in 1745 ; but from.the prefent Condigion of that Place, we are in no +Fear of any Proje& of fra* Kind. t Acdvertifements. i L Fuly 26. ’ HIS Day is publift’d a Notification, to whom it may concern, That the Superiour Court' of JFudicaturs, which by Law, fbould be held at Portfimouth, in and Jor the Province of New HAmPSHIRE, on the firf! ‘7“7 : in Auguft next, will be adjourned to Tuelday the zoth Da of September enfuing. » 5 ’ e RSEE LS e e e e et OTICE is hereby given fo all Perfons who may have FLAX SEED to difpofe of this Seafon, That Thomas Durant will give Forty five Skillings Old Tenor per Bufhel for any Quantity well cleared, deliver'd him in Portfmouth, ¥ Fobn Harmon from Bofton, Staymaker, At the Woufe of Fobn Knight's Efq; near the Long Wharfe,. Makes Stays in the beft Manner. Province of New-HamrsHirE, LL Perfons who have any ; Claim on the Eftate of Danie/ Crockford, late of Portfmouth, in faid Province, Barber, deceafed, Inteftace; are hereby defired to fend the fame to Jabella Craclfm; Widow,” Reli® of faid deceafed, Adéniniftratrix of faid Eftate, in orderto a Settlement thereof : And fuch as are Indebted to faid Eftate, are defir’d to pay the fame to fzid’ ' Adminiftratrix as foon as may be. Portfmouth, July 18. 1757. ¥ 2 IsaBerra Crockroro. e s e IO be SOLD by Samuel Griffich of Port{fmouth, Goldfmith, for One Hundred Dol- lars, oran Equivalentin New- Hampfhire or Rhode Iland Money, an active, firong, healthy NEGRO BOY, who has been in the Country three Years, fpeaks good Eaglith, and is about twelve or thirteen Years of Age. e S— —————— ————— —— ——— ————tl] ANY Perfon having O/d Pewter to difpofe of, may have Fifteen Shillings Old T'esior per Pound of Fames Gooch, next Door but one below the Post-Orrice in Portfmouth. Likewife all Shop-keepers - and Country Traders may be fupplied with New Pewter for Old cheaper than they can get in Bofton, by faidGasch, - Poitfmouth, July z1. 1757. . r——————— . o et e B el WHcreas it is thought neceflary by a Number of Gentlemen, for a public Advaa- tage, That there Tiou!d be a weekly Carrier of Lertters, Pacquets, &c. to let out every Friduy froin Porljmouth,and to ride through the following Towns, v.z. 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