The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, January 27, 1758, Page 1

Nums. 69, FRIDAY, \January 27. 17358. . “An Extral from Voltaire's dccount of the prefent War. § A 8 N the midft of a peace which had its foun- 5'—." ¢ dation in mutual jealoufy, and in warlike an unforefeen event has changed the whole political fyftem of Europe, for the prefent, and time will give it a new appearance hereafter. A trifling quarrel between France and England, for certain favage lands, dependant on Canada, has infpired the So- veteigns of Earope with new politicks, This quarrel hath arifep from the negligence of the Miniiters who were employed in concluding the treaty of Ucrechr, in 1712 and 1714, By this treaty Frauce had ceded to England, the country of Acadia, in the neighbourhood of Canada; but :the Jimits were not {pecified, for the Minifters themfelves were ignorant of them. = Such er- yors are feldom commitied in private contrafts. Con- fufion was the neceffary refult of this omiffion, Did Juftice and Philofapby énter into the difputes. of man- . kind, they would fliew that both fides difpated coneern- ing a country to which nejther bad the leaft right ; but principles like thele feldom .influence the affairs of the world. The Englith were for having the whole coun- try, even to the frontiers of Canada, and for dgftroy it the commerce of Frans &-in this part of America, Ehop were far {uperiour in North America, both ia therichcs and the number of their Colonies, but ftill more fo at fea, by their flcets ; and having defiroyed the Marine of France.in the year 1741, they had flatrered themfclves, that nothing would be able to eppofe them, either, by land or fea, in that part of the world. They have, however, deceived themfelves in all thefe refpeds, at lealt in what has yet happened. i ¢ They began, in the year 1755, by attacking the Fresch on the fide.of Canada ; and, without any decla-. ration of war, made prize of mose than three hundred merchant. fhips, belonging ‘te - France : they alfo took fome veflels of other nations which were carrying French. merchandize. S ; .8 The comdu®t of the King of France, on this occa: fion, was quite different-from that of Lewis XIV. He at firlt contented himfelf with demanding juftice, and even farbad his fubjets to maie the Jeaft oppofition: Llewis XIV. had afe&ed to talk with {uperiority in the courts of Earope ; Lewis XV, made thofe coarts per- . ceive the faperiority which wes arrogased by the En- :glith : Lewis XIV. was reproached with ambitiouily aimiog at Uviverfai Monarchy ; Lewis XV. made the .. world perceive the real. dominion which the Englith ufurped, and aétually exercifed over the Seas. And hence, as BEurope once defired thie humbling of Lewis X1V, foihey now withed to lower the pretenfionsof the Engiifh. . « In the mean time Lewis XV, enjoyed 2-glorious and juft revenge His forces gainded a molt compleat vidory over the Englith in Nosth- America ; and a for- idab!e fleet iffued from his ports, with defign'to invade. the elecoral dominions of the King of England. ¢ This invafion of Germany again threatned Europe with new commotions ; the firft fparks of which bad been kindled in North America, = This it wasthat gave rife to a change in the whole political fyftem of Europe. Fhe King of England intended to. oppole the French, in Germany, with an army of Ruffians, which the En- glith were 1o keep in pay.- The Empiefs of Ruffia was 4t this time in alliance with the Emperor, and thé Em- peefs Queen of Hungary. The King of Proffia had reafon to fear leaft the Ruffians, the Imperialifts, and Hanoverians, (hogld, witn united forces opprefs him. Tho' he had ap hundred and fifty thoufand men in arms, ke gladly ¢ame into an alliance with theKingofEngland, to hinder, on the one hand, the Ruflians from entering Germany, and on the other to prevent the French from. doing thelike an the oppefite fide. This fine firoke in politics had effe@s which were yery difagrecable to the Kiag of Prufia, and which were unexpeéted by all ; it reconciled the houfes of Auftria'and Bourbon ; What fo many treaties, fo many marriages, could pever bring to pals—what none could hope for. afier the acceflion of Charles V. to the Empire, was, atthe end of two hun- dred years, brought about, without any trouble, by the umbrage France had taken at a Prince of the Empire. < But treaties were not all the means the King of France made ufe of toward obtaining revenge for the ' depredations of the Englith, He was fupplied with all the money he had occafion for, ? one of tholerefources which are to be found only in Kingdoms fo opulent as that of France. Twenty new places of Farmers General, and fome borrowed money, fufficed to fupport the be- ginning of the war ; while Great- Britain was exhanfted with exharbjtant taxes. | ; !« The cokfts of Eoglandywere menaced with a pre- ended invgdlin, Thelegllre not- the times of Queen New-Hampthire Cont‘{tining the Frefbeft Adf()z;ces Elizabeth, who, with the powers of England alone, hav- ing Scotland to fear, and fcarce able to reftrain Ireland, bravely withftood the efforts of Philip thefecond. The King of England, Gedrge the fecond, though it necei- preparations,equally terrible tobosh parties fary to call over the Hanoveridns and Heffians to defend the country. The Englith, who Had looked for no fuch incident,murmured to fee themfelves cver run with ftrangers. The difpleafure of {ome was changed into fright, and all trembled for their liberty.” The relt of the chapter is taken up in an account of " the fiege of Port Mahon ; wheie we fee the French per- forming prodigies of valour, fcaing thofe walls,in the face of an enemy, which others would find the utmoft danger in defcending, even in cool blood. But French men can do, or {ay, any thing. L O N D O N, Oaler 1. Extratt of a Letter from on board the Hibermia, Captais “Watfon, off Rogipore, a little to the Southward gf Bom- bay, in the Eaft Indics, Decsmber 11, 1756. . YESTER DAY morning we were furprized with 2 general call to quarters. The caufe of our alarm was a vefle! bearifg up to us, which at laft proved to be an Eoglith merchantman from Batavia. This Day a- bout nuon, Dec. 11, we faw fcveral calevats, or rather galvats, or war boats, apmed with {wive] guns; 2nd doubly mann'd : They were at a confiderable diftance, and crowded about 3 ketch, which they feemdd to tow along. The captain and chief mate, who were both well acquainted with the Mallabar coaft, immediately declared, that they believed it was the Meelwan fleet, which had made a prize of this kstch, and was towing her in fhore, to get out of our way, Thele Meelwans, * or Kemafants, as the Portuguele call them, are a neft of pirates, a little to the Seuthward of Gary, and for- merly fubjed to, or allies of, Angria, the grand pirate, on the Mallabar coaft. The chief mate was pofitive that it was Capt. Scoit, of Blay’s ketch, and that it would be 4 piece of good fervice o retake her from the pirates, whofe calevais were twelive'in number, cordingly we bore away likewifyy in {bore, and endea- vo’m‘cd:{y"all ‘meansio come up with them ; but there being but little wind, ard we baving a luggage boat of 70 or 80 tons to tow after us, they lugged the ketch along, and kept at a confiderable diftance from us ail the afternoon. However, about half an hour after eighto’clock at night we came within-gun-fhot of them ; when firing only two nine-pounders among them, the calevats abandoned their prey, ahd made io. fhore into thallow water, whither we conld nci foliow them, Oor chief mate and twelve men went armed cap-a pie, with their mufkets and cutlafles, and took pofiefiion of the ketch, which the pirates had#robhed of part of.her car- go :. It belonged to fome merchants at Calicat, and was bound from Mufcat with Mallabar goods, as Caflia, Pepper, Buttle-Nuts, -Cardamoms, Sandal Wood, &c. The veflel itfelf, with what is left of the ‘cargo, we judge will amount to about 8ooo' rupees, or 10001, fterling, which we fhall divide among us, according to the rates of the navy. The affe&ing part, however, of this affair, is what follows : Our chief mate had orders to fend all the prifoners on board the Hibernia, and to keep pofieflion of the ketch with our men. But when they came.on board, what a moving fight'! out 'of 25 men, hardly any could walk, or even ftand, without be - ing fupported. Thrice had- they. fuftained the attack -of twelve calevats, and as many times repulfed them; partly with their {fwivel guns, and partly with flones, {pears, and cutlaffes. Thhis hot aflion fafted about two hours, doring which the ketch’s people hehaved exceeding well, and the Captain, or Nokedy, as the country people here call him, killed five of the affailants with his own Band. However, as the pirates were at leaft twelve times more numerous than the ketch’s people, they got on board her a fourth time ; when the Nckedy afked his men which of them would ftand by him, two of them only offered themfelves, and were in a manner cut to pieces with their captain, who fell fighting heroically, if I may ' be allowed to ufe fuch a term, for his liberty and pro- perty. Ee was the only mankilled outright. Butal- molt all the reft were wounded in a moft frightful man- ner, particularly the two men who ftood by their cap- tain to the lakt. Some of them muft have been ftabbed as they retired, the wounds being in the pofterior parts of the body ; butthe two brave menalready mestioned, received all theirs in the anterior parts. One had a piece as large asthe palm of the hand almoftcut off from the forehead, and adeep cut an the crown of his head, which we imagine will prove mdrtal, as the fkull is fraltured. Thefe two wounds, it feems, laid him fat {prawling on the deck ; and indeed either si{them, efpecially the laft, was fufficient toftun the maft Nout hearted. Theother was cut and flafhed all over thyhody. e had received a frightful wound on the righk"d¢ of Lis fdce, which, Ac-' | GAZETTE, % Foreign and Domeflick. had cut off the lower haif of his-ear, and laid ‘open tha jaw-bone quite to the chin, and even the integument of theneck fo deep; that the jugular veffels appeared. The patella, oy {mall bone of his left knee was divided in two by ‘another flath, that reached four or five inches longitudinally. Another gath athwart thé outfide of the left:thigh penétrated to the boae, dividing afunder a large perve as big as a man’s finger. ' He had received another wound between the elbow and wrift of the left. hand, which had cut afunder the nerves which ferve ta move the fisgers, and penercaied quite to the bone. _ All this time he ftood fighting the ewemy with bis, right hand, ’dll atlaft a2 wound received athwart the fingers of that hand, whereby one finger wascat off, and two others deeply wounded,prov'd a finifhing &roke, fo that, no longer able to hold his cutlafs, he fell down upon the deck, bleeding at numerous, and alfo very deep, wounds. And indeed it is furprizing he could have ftopd fo long, confidering the vaft difcharge of blood from his wounds. Capt. Watfon, whofe huma- nity on this occafion deferves particalar praile, a&iné as furgeon’s afliftant, preparing bandages, tents, plegets, plaifters, &c. He took a great deal of pains in wathing, cJearing and drefling their wounds ; and, befides the plaifters put up in the medicine cheft, made ufe of Balm. of Gilead, which he poured plentifally in the wouands, fecuring all with tents and plegets dipt in the fame Bal- fam, which he had purchafed at Judah the latt fummer. And the better to fee them taken care of, they wers all brcught on board the Hibernia *till we fhould arrive =t Tillecherry, where the Captain intends to pat them un- der the care of Dr. Gill, the company’s furgeon.” To—the P U B L I C. IT iscertainly for the nation’s interefl, to keep in' with the bleffed God.: for as ali things are appareatiy, and will be eternally, under his countroul, chey baftcon- {ult for their own fafety and happinefs (f{eparate from _other obligations to be reiigious ) who malce it their oo difgnifed, invariable aim to pleafe him; and the more: wifdom and influence any man poffeffes, h= is{o mnc the more inexcufable, if he negleéts this molt obivousfl point of reafon. Itis therefore moft palfionately o be wifhed, that contentions about precedence and. fuperi- otity, might give places to unanimous, and the moft ani mated endeavours for the fuppreffion of vice, which only] can undermine car national wea: ; and the nacaral tep dency of which is, to give rational beings chaff, inflead] of Bread, to eat.—If parents would endeavour to tinétnre every opening ray of reafon in their tender offspring) with fentiments of virtae and refizion ; if mafters wouid] refufe to continne in thermr fervice perfons who are guil of profane curfing & fweéaring, and drunkennefs, (which 1'am fure, from -obfervation, might inmoft cales be done, if refolutely intended); if magiftrates of eve name would, by their anthority and example, fupprefs fabbath-breaking, and look every daring vice out of countenance ; if minifters ofievery profeflion were ho noured or difcountenanced, according as they did, orf did nor, lay out them{elves to promote the ends of theiy facred officé ; and the great woula condefcend to ho? nour themfelves by fpreading vistu¢ around them, a-)\ mong the obfequious croud, in city and country ; plea- ( fure, honour and peace would _then triumph in everyg corner of the land, and joy wipe away all the fulleu tra ces of grief from every countenance. Then might the true God of war be invoked with confiderice ; and vic tory would hover no more; in doubtful uncertainty, o'e the imoattied piain, but mark out the favarites of hea- ven with a high hand : our profperity would thaeeg {fomething more than a name, viz, avital enlivening) fubftance,” felt in every joyous brealt. Virtue is the beft fyftem of politicks : this, my dear fellow-fubjedts is the fure path to national honour and dignity : fo rea fon fays; and does not every refponfive confeici¢ within atteft and vindicate the venerable dictate ? The LOTTERY. WH!LE fickle fortine turns the wheel, What ftrange anxiety we feel ! Each thinks to win—but ah ! how vain ; You'll find at laft they all complain : Reafon will not their rage abate ; They curfe their luck, and blame their fated Nay, tho® aten pound prize'they get, Alike they fume, and vex, and fres ; For they’ve on thoufands fet their mind, And think no, blanks at all to fiad : But thofe, ‘whofe fenfes are nat gore, Allow there’s eighty feven to one.~ Then ceafe to vex—thus fay the wilc, * Content makes any iot.a prize.” \ .. We hear a {cheme of a {otrery for the enfuing yea has been faid before the Lords of the treafury 2ad fel veral memibers of parliament, whick :nsets wilh aniver: {a