The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, October 28, 1757, Page 1

) ? Zoon L e . ‘ L“‘\ — . —_— e gy . . FRIDAY, OcToser 28. 1757 3 - The New-Hampthire| » Containing the Frefbeft Advices Order is heav'n’s firft law ; and this confeft, Some are, and muft be greater than the reft, More rich, more wife : but who infers from hence, That fuch are happier, fhocks all common f{enfe. Pore. N the reign of Jenghiz Can, conqueroz.of the caft, in the I city of Samarcand,lived Nouradin the merchant,renown- ed throughout all the regions of India for the extent of his commerce and the integrity of his manners. His warchoufes were filled with all the commodities of the re- moteft nations ; every rarity of nature, every curiofity of art whatever was valuable, whatever was ufeful, hafted to his hand. The firects wére crowded with his carriages, the fea was covered with his fhips, the ftreame™of Oxas were weari- ed with conveyance, and every breeze of the fky wafted wealth to Nouradin. At length Nouradin felt him(elf feized with a(low malady, which he firft endeavoured to divert by application, and af- terwards to relieve by Juxary & indulgence : but finding his ftrength every day lefs, he was at laft terrified, and called for help upon the fages of phyfick : they filled bis apartments with alexipbarmicks, reftoratives, and effential virtues ; the pearls of the ocean were diflolved, the {pices of Arabia were diftiil’d, and all the powers of nature were employed to give new f{pirits to his nerves, and new balfam tohisblcod. Nou- radin was for fome time amufed with promifes, invigerated *with cordials, or foothed with anodynes : but the difeafe prey’d upon his vitals, and he {oon difcovered with indignation that ‘health was not to be bought. He was confined to his cham- ber, deferted by his phyficians, and rarely vifited by his friends : but his unwillingunefs to die flattered him long with hopes of life. : At length, having paffed the night in tedious languor, he called to#im Almamoulin his only fon, and Kaving difmified his attendants, ** My fon, fays he, behold here the weaknefs and fragility of man ; look backward a few days, thy fa- ther was great and happy, frefh as the vernal rofe, and ftrong as the cedar of the mountain ; the nations of the eaft drank his dews, and art and commerce delighted in his hade. Ma- levolence beheid me and fighed ; his root, the cried, is fixed in the depths : it is watered by the fountains of Oxus ; it fends out branches afar, and bids defiance to the blaft; pra- dence reclines againft his trank, and profperity dances on his top. Now Almamoulin, look upon me withering and pro- firate ; look upon me, and attend. I have trafficked, I have profpered, I have rioted in gain, my houfe is fplendid, my ¥ervants are numerous ; yet 1 difplayed only a {mail part of my riches ; the reit, which I was hindered from enjoying by the fear of raifing ‘envy or tempting rapacity, I have buried in caverns, I have hidden in fecret repofitories, which this {croll will difcover. My purpofe was, after ten months more fpent in commeyce, to have withdrawn my wealth to a fafer country 3 to have given feven years to delight and feftivity, and the remaining part of my days to {olitude and repentance: but the hand of death is upon me ; a frigorifick ‘torpor in- croaches upon my veins ; I am now leaving the produce of my toil, which it muft be thy bufinels to enjoy with wifdom.” Thethouht of leaving his weaith filied Nouradin with fuch grief, that he fell into convulfions, became delirious, and expirec. ~ Almamoulin, who loved his father, was touched a while $with honeft forrow, and fat two hours in profound meditation without perufing the paper which he held in his hand, He then retired to his chamber, as overborne with aflition, and there read the inventory of his new poffeflions, which fwelled bis heart with fuch tranfports, that he no longer .aniented his father’s death. He was now fufficiently compofed to order a funeral of modelt rhagnificence, {uitable at once to the rank of Nouradin’s profeflion, and the reputation of his wealth, . The two next nights he fpent in vifiting the tower and the caverns, and found the treafures greater to his eye than to his imagination. Almamoulin had been bred to the praflice of exalt fru- gality, and had often locked with envy on the finery and ex- pences of other young men ; he therefore believed thathap- pinefs was now in his power, fince he could obtain™ all of which he had hitherto been accuftomed to regret the want., He refolved to give a loofe to his defires, to revel in enjoy- ment, and to feel pain or uneafinefs no more. ‘ He immediately procured a {plendid equipage, drefled his fervants in rich embroidery, and covered his horfes with gol- den caparifons. He fhowred downfilver on the populace, and fuffered their acclamations to fwell him with infolence. The nobles faw him with anger, the wife men of the ftate combined agzinft him, the leaders of armies threatened his deftru&tion. Almamoulin was informed of his danger, he put on the robe of mourning in the prefence of his enemies, and appeafed them with gold and gems, and fupplication. He then fought to ftrengihen himfelf by an aBiance with the princes of Tartary, and offered the price of kingdoms for a wife of noble birth. His fuit was generally rejefted and his prefents refufed ; byt a princefs of Aftracan once con- defcended to admit & m to her prefence. She. received him fitting on a throne, attired in the robe of royalty, and fhining with the jewels of Golconda ; command {parkled in her eyes, - and dignity towered on her forehead. Almamoulin approach- ed and trembled. She faw his confufion and difdained him : hos, fays fhe, dares the wretch hope my obedience, who thus {hrinks at my glance ? Retire, and enjoy thy riches in fordid ofiematiqn ; thou waft born to be wealthy, but never to be great, Y - He then contdalled his defires to more private and do- 1 {ur He built palajge ke laid out gardens, he . - orefle he le refti - - War. red fountains from the tops of turreis,and roiled their waters through new channels. Thefe amufements plealed him for a time, but languor and wearinefs foon invaded him. His bowers loft their fra- grance, and the waters murmured without notice. .He par- chafed large tradls of land in diftant provinces, adorned them with houfes of pleafure, and divesfified them with accomoda- tions for different feafons. Change of place at firft relieved his fatiety; but all the novelties of firuation were foonexhau fted ; he found his-heart vacant, and his defires, for want of external objefls, ravaging himfelf, He therefore returned to awd fet doors to all thofe whom idlenefs fends forth in fearch of plea- fure. His tables were 2lways covered with delicacies; wine of every vintage fparkled in his bowls, and his l2mps featte- red perfumes. 'T'he found of the lute and the voice of the finger chaced away fadnefs ; every hour was crouded with pleafure, and the day ended and bean with feafts and dances and revelry and merriment. Almamouiin cried dut, I have at laf®found the ufe of riches : I am furrounded by friends who view my greatnefs without envy, and [ enjoy at once the raptures of popularity and the fafety of an omcuare ftation. - What trouble can he feel whom all are ftudious to pleafle, that they may be repaid with pleafare ? What dan- ger canhe dread to whom every maun is a friend ? ™' Such were the thoughts of Aimamoulin, as he looked Semaréénd, open his GAZETTE, » Foreign and Domeflick. down from a gallery upon the gay aflembly regaling at his . expence : but in the midft of this {oliloquy, an officer of jultice entered the houfe, and ip the form of a legal citation fummoned Almamoulin to appear before the emperor. The guefts ftood a while aghait, then flole imperceptibly away, and he was lzd off without a friend to witnefs his integrity. He now found one of his moft frequent vifitants accufing him in hopes of‘fharing his confifcation ; yet, unpatron:fed ard unfupported, he cleared himfelf by the opennefs of innocence and the confiftence of truth. He was difmiffed with honour, and his accufer perifhed in prifon. Almamoulin now perceived with how little reafon he had hoped for juftice or fidelity from thofe who live only to gra- tify their fenfés ; and having wearied himfelf with vain ex- periments upon life, and fruitle(s fearches after felicity, he had recourfe to a fage, who, after fpending his life in travel and obfervation, had retired from all haman cares toa {mall -habitation on the banks of the Oxus, where he converfed with fuch only as folicited his council. * Brother, {aid the philofopher; thou haft fuffered thy reafon to be deluded with idle hopes 2nd fallacious appears ¢t Havipg lony looked with defire upoa riches, thou bhadft taught thyfelf to think them more valuable than rature defigned them, and to expect from them wkat experience has tanght thee they cannot give. That they do not confer wifdom thon mayft be con- vinced by confidering at how dear a price they tempted thee upon thy entrance into the world to purchale the empty found of vulgar acclamation. - That they cannot beftow for titade or maguanimity, that man may be ¢riain who ftoed trembling at Aftracan before a being not natarally f{uperier to himfelf. That they wiil not fupply unexhauited pleafure, the recollettion of forfaken palaces and neglected gardens will eafily inform thee. 'Khat they cannot purchafe fricnds, thou didt foon difcover when thou wert left to ftand try tii- 4l uncountenanced and alone. Yet think not riches ufelefs ; ‘there are purpofet to which a wile man may be delighted to apply them ; they may, by a rational diftribution, eafe the pains of helplefs difeafe, ft.ll the throbs of reftie(s aaxicty, relieve innocence from oppreflion, and raife impotence to cheerfulnefs and vigor. 'Thisthey will enable thee to per- form, and this will afford the only hkappinefs ordained for our prefent ftate, the confidence of divine favaur, and the hope of futnre reward.” B e e o s s T S Frefh News by the Packet-Doat, Laf Saturday 7 night arriwed at New York, iy 40 Poys from Falmouth, the General Wall Packet Boat, Capt. Lutwyche s by whom we bave the folloawing Advices HANOVER, (the Capital of the King of England’s Electoral ' Dominions ) Fuly 22. . OUR Regency has juft received the following Summions £ ne e A from the French General Marfhal d’Eftrees. *¢ The King’s Army beipg already in*Pofleflion of Part of the King of England’s Dominior:, as Eleitor of Hanover, the Regency of Hanover is enjoined, upon Pain of MilRary Execution, to fend Depuries to the Head Quar- ters of our Army, in order to- treat about raifing the Contri- butions, and delivering the neceflary Subfiftence ior the fame, and to agree to fuch Terms as are juflifiable by the Laws of Done at the Head Quartess at Start- Olfendorf, July 21, 1758, From the Lonpon GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY. ., Wurirsuarr, Adugufi 11. ON Tuefday Jaft a Mefienger arrived from His Royal Highnefs the Duke’s Camp on the Wefer, and btought the following Relation of what paffed between His Royal Highnefs’s Army, and the French, from the 24th to the 26th paft, inclufively : SU:ND AL WY 4. HE Enemy marching in three Columns with Artillery, I towards the Village of Latford, Major General Fur- ftenberg, who commanded the Out- Pofts in the Vil- lage, and in the Wood, fent an Ofiicer ta inform his Royal Highnefs of it ; who immedisf:ly reinfarced thofe Polts with a Body ot Troops under Lijut. General Sporcke. [Iis Royal Highnefs found it img '> (o fupport the Village, Was Co g 11 ded b " " our Battery without any Oppofition. Nums. 6. fe=d, having it always in his Power to retake it, from its Si stuation in a Bottom, between two €liils. I'he Enemy made two Attacks, one at the Point of the Wood, the other higher up i the fame Wood, oppofite ta the Grenadiers commanded by Major General HardAenbengh.; ‘T'hey failed in both ; and tho’ the Fire of their Artillery was very {mart, they were obliged to retire, The Freach Army ercamping on the Heights oppofite to the' Duke of Cumberignd’s Pofts, together with the Accounts he had re- ceived, that Marfhal d’Etrees bad affembled all his Troops and had with bim 8 @ndi derabls Traieeot Artillery, left h.; .rl:)a. Highoefs no Room to doubt of his Iritentions of a¢- talkidg b 3 his Royal Highaefs therefore determined ta change his Situation, and take a more advantageous Oue, by drawing up his Army on the Height between the Wefer and the Woods, leaving the Hamelen River on his Right, the Village of Haftenbeck in his Front, and his Left clofe :,c he Wood ; at the Point of which his Royal Highnefs had a Bat- tery of 1z Pounders and Haunwitfers. There wasa Hollow Way, from the Left of the . .ilage to the Ratery, and 2 eon- tinual Morafs on the other Side of Haftenbeck o his Right. In the Evening his Royal Highuefs withdrew all his Cut- Pofts ; and in this Pofition the Army lay upon their Arms all Night. Major General Schulenberg, with the Chafleurs, and two Battalions of Grenadiers, with fome Cannon, was potted in the Corner of the Wood upon the left of the Bat- " tery. His Royal Highnefs ordered the Village of Haften- beck to be clear to his Front, that it might not be in the- Power of the Enemy to keep Pofleflion of it ; and the Com- munications we had made Ufe of during our Encampment . there, to be made impracticable. i _ Oa the 25th in the Morning,theEnemy appeared marching in Columns, as if they intended to attack ; and began to can- nonade us very feverely, which lafted almoft the whole Day: They marched and coanter- marched continnally, 2ud fhewed as if they meaant three Attacks om our Right, Left, and Cen- ter. In the Evening their Artillery appeared much fuperior to ours. . The Army lay on their Arms all Night. Hi Royal Highnefs ordered the Battery at the Point of the Wood to be repaired ; and reinforced Count Schulenberg’s Command with a Battalion of Grenadiers, and 2 Pieces of 12 Pounders ; and fupported it By four more Rattalions of Gre= nadiers, under Major General Hardenberg. His Royal Highnefs ordered a Battery to be made of 12 and 6 Pounders (the firft of which were fent for from Hamelen) behind the Viilage of Haftenbeck, and togk all the Precanticas ke coul thinl of, to givethe Enemy a good Reception. As foon as it was Day-Light, his Royal Highnefs gol Horfeback, to reconnoitre the Pofleflion of the Enemy, 4| found them in the fame fituation as the Day befcre. At little after Five, a very {mart canmonading began upon ¢ Battery behind the Village, that was fupported by the Hefli Infantry and Cavalry. Their Countenance and Steadinef: fo fevere a Uire, is hardly to be exprefled or equalled. B tween 7 and 8, the firlng of fmall Arms began on our Le when his Royai Highneis ordered Major General Behr, wit three Battalions of Brunfwick, to fuftain theGrenadiers in th Wood, if wanted. The cannonading went on all the Tim rather augmenting than decreafing ; but it did not create t leait Diforder in the Troeps. There never was feen fo mu Firmnefs, tho’ it lafted for above fix Hours from firft ¢ The Fire of the fmall Arms on the Left, increafed, and ta Enemy feemed to gain Ground on us. His Royal Highnef cstached Colonels Dachenhaufen and Bredenbach, with thre Hanoverian-Battalions, anc fix fquadrons, round the Woo by Afferdee. The Grenadiers in the Wood, appreheni of being furrounded, frem the great Force of the Enemy t’ appeared there, and were marching round on that fide, thg they repulfed every Thing that appeared in their Front, t! it advifeable to retire nearer the Left of the Army, whi gave the Enemy an Opportanity of poflefling themfelves Here it was that ¢ Hereditary Prince of Brunfwick diftinguithed himfeif at ¢ Head of a Battalion of Woolfenburttle Guards, and 2 Ha verian Battalion, by attacking and repulfing with his i pets, a fuperior Force of the Enemy, and setaking theBa: The Enemy. being in Poffeflion of a Hcight, that comma ed and flanked both our Lines of Infantry, and our Bat which Attack they could fuppert under the Cover of a J which his Royal Highnefs could not dife:te, without Cx ing his Flaok both to their Artillery and Mufquet he ordered the Army to retreat,which was done in the gré eft Order, and with the greateft Reluftancy, the comg Soldiers defiring to be led on'to revenge the cruel and uny allelled Treatment of their Mafters and Countrymen. Royal Highnefs retreated to Hamelen,where he halted {o T'ime, and then continued his March to Lhuse. The E my did not fhew themfelves in any fhape during our Retr Whether it was owing to what they had fuffered, orto ik good Countenance of the Troops,we wil! not pretend to {1y Col. Brederbach attacked four Brigades,very {trongly 1 & with a Bitiery of fourteen Piecesof Canpon; chargea & Enemy with his Bayonets, repulled and drove them dowa Precipice, with a confiderable Lofs : took ail their Artiliy Ammunition, &c.-bat preferring the Gare of s Woun 2 to the carryimg away of the Cannan, hg only Lrought off £is nailing up and deftroying the Reft, Col. Dechenhaufen, on his fide, drove faveral fg the Enemy as far as their Army, who never gave i a0 § portunity of charging them. “This Attack was Lue in Day,and at fuch a Diitance, that his Royal Highnels v informed of it *till fome time after his Retrear. £ Lof: of his Royal Highnefs’s Army,,daciog e’