The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, April 13, 1758, Page 1

/ | . " L 4. o ) ’, o Gonmifl)'ng the Frefbeff Advices From one of the lateft Englith PRINTS. An Efjay towards the Charaéler of the King of Pruflia, t}arylaud from the French of M. D. M. : HE moft faithful and fcrupulous Hifto- rian wou'd be the beft Penegyrift of Frederick King of Pruffia. "I pretend to be neither ; I only attempt the Outlines of his Charafter, which even co temporary Jealoufy, Envy, and Malignity, are forced to admire, and which, more impartial Pofteri- ty, if it can believe, will'almoft admire. By the mere natural Strength and Superiority of his Genius, without Experience, he broke out at once, a General,a Hero. He diftinguifhed with Precifion, what inferior Minds never difcover at all, the Difference between great Difficulties, and Im- pofiibilities, and being never difcouraged by the For- mer, has often feemed to execute the Latter. Indefatigably labourous and active, coolly intrepid - in Altion, he difcerns, as by Intuition, {eizes with Rapidity, and improves with Skill, the fhort, favour- able, and often decifive Moments of Battle. Modeft and magnanimous after Victory, he becomes the ge- nerous Proteftor of his fubdued, and captive Ene- mies. _Refolote and undeje@ted in Misfortunes, he has rifen (uperior to Diftrefles, and firaggled with Difficulties, which no Courage nor Conftancy, but his own, would have refifted, or could have fur- mounted. But as he cannot always command the Succefs which he always deferves,he may perhaps be obliged to yield at laft to the fuperior Numbers of almoft all Europe, combined againft him ; their Legions may perhaps conquer, but his Virtuesmuft triumph. . As a King, he is 8 Man, a Citizen, a Legiflator, and a Pririot. His own extenfive Mind, forms all his Plans of Government, undebafed by felfith minifteri- al Interefts, and Mifreprefentations. Jufticeand Hu- manity are his-only Minifters. In his own Dominions he hasréformed the Law, and reduced it to Equity, by a €ode of his own di- gefting. He has thrown Cavil out of the fhifting and wavering Scales of Juftice, and poized them equally to all. Indulgent to the various Errors of the human Mind, becaufe tainted with {o few himfelf ; he has eftablithed univerfal Toleration ; that decifive Cha- yaQeriftick of true Religion, natural Juftice, focial Benevolance, and even good Policy. He equally abhors the Guilt of making Martyrs, and the Folly of making Hypocrites. " Greatly above all narrow local Prejudices, he has invited and engaged, by a general indifcriminating Naturaljzation, People of all Nations to fettle in his Dominions. He encourages and rewards the Induft- " rious, he cherifhes and honors the Learned, and Man asMan where ever opprefled by Civil, or-per- fecuted by Ecclefiaftical Tyranny, finds a fure Refuge in his Sentiments of Juftice and Humanity, which the Purple Robe has not been able to fmother. A Philofopher, undazzled with the Splender of the heroick Parts of this Chara&ter, may perhaps en- quire after the milder and focial Virtues of Humanity, and feek for the Man.——He" will find both the Man_ and the Philofopher too, in Frederick ; unally’d ‘by tHE King, and unfullied by the Warrior. A Patron of all liberal Arts and Sciences, and a Model of moft : In a more particular- Manner cul- tivating, adorning and adorn’d by the Belles Letters. His early and firft Attempt was a Refatation of the impious Syftem of Machiavel, that celebrated Pro- feflor of pofitical Iniquity. Nobly confcious that he might venture to give the World, that publick Pledge of his futore Virtue.— His Memoirs, intended to ferve only as Materials for a future Hiftory of the Houfe of Brandenbourg, are fuch as muft neceflarily defeat his own Purpofe, unlefs he will write the Hif- " . tory too, himfelf. There are alfo Specimens enough of his poetical Genius, to fhew what he might be as ... a Poet, were he not fomething greater and better. Neither the Toils of War, nor the Cares of Ga- vernment engrofs his whole Time, but he enjoys 2 confiderable Part of it in familiar and eafy Converfa- tion with his Equals, Men. There the King is un- known, and what is more, unfe/t. Merit isthe only Diftin&ion, in which his unafferted, but confefled, and decided Superiority, flatters a Mind formed like his, much more delicately, than the always cafual, . and often undeferved, Superiority of Rank and Birth. grNewevry LOTTERY TICKETS to be Sold by the Erinter 2 .~ Ther{day, ArriL 13.. 17358. New-Hampfhire But not to {well an Eflay towards a Charadter, to the Bulk of a finith’d Chara@er, fill lefs to that of a Hiftory ; I will conclude this Sketch with this Ob. fervation : Many a private Man might make a great King ; but where is the King who could make a great private Man, except FREDERICK ? CHARLES-TOWN, (South Carolina) March 2. On Satarday lait arrived here, the Sloop Bahami- an, Captain Scars, from New-Providence, and was the fame Night put afhore onthe Fort Point, in a violent Snow Storm, but received little Damage. By this Sloop we have the following Advices, wiz. That a Spanith Schooner was lately feized there, for ha- ving purchafed and taken in a Quantity of Flour to carry to Cape-Francois, where it is fold for forty to fifty Pieces of Eight a Barrel ; and which is the Oc- cafion of an extraordinary Number of Flags of Truce being fent thither : That Capt. Roberts had retura- ed from a Cruize on the Coalt of Hifpaniola, whence he had brought 7ize Siaves : That the Englith Pri- vateers have carried feveral Dutch Veflelsinto Mon- te Chrifti, and fent an Expre(s to Admiral Coats, for his Opinion what to do with them: And, that a French Flag of Truce with EnglithPrifoners, amongft whom was Capt. Charles Bardin of Rhbode lfland, who (being come Paffenger ,in th# Bahamian) con- tradi€ts the Report of § Fri stes being arrived at the Cape, and gives iis the following Account, That he was taken on the 10th of Anguft latt, in his Paf- fage from Jamaica for Rhode Ifland, by a fmall Pri- vateer Sloop fitted cutiat Miflifippi, and kept on board her 'til the z4th, when he and two # his 8ai- lors were put athore on a Maroon- Key near the Weft End of Cuba, inhabited only by a Spanith Turtler, who was fo kind as to put him the next Day upon the 1fland of Cuba, about 6o. Leagues from the Ha . vanneh; to which he travelled in 1 1 Days, over hide- ous Mountains, and fcorched Plains, and thro’ many cold deep Rivers : That thg poor Country Inhabi- tants treated him with grest Humanity and Kindnels in this long and painfol Joursey ; but, as he ap- proached the Capital of tha 1ffand, he found Charity greatly abating, and by the Time he reached it, quite exhaufted ; fo that he became molt miferable where he expefled moft Relief and Affiltance, and almoft perithed in the Midft of Pienty—for being an Heretic, and deftitute of Friends or Money : That duringtwo Mouths that he was 4t the Havannah, upwards of 40 Englifh Szijors were obliged to ab- jure their Religion, and go ix5panith Ships or perith ; and that this is frequently the Cafe, for Want of an Englifh Conlul there, who, by claming and relieving all that are taken and carrigd thither, or are caft a- way on the Coft of that Ifiagd, wouid fave a great e mauny Subjets to the Natios, otherwife totally loft.- Capt. Bardin obferves further, That the Dutch, French, and Danes, have Confuls at the Havannah, who take particular Care to releafe all People of their Nation, that by any Medns come there. Capt. Bardin has alfo favourgd us with the following Lift of Commanders of Englifth Veflels that were at Port o'Prince in Januoary laft, viz. - Edward Church and Thomas Webber, of Khode Ifland ; Clement Cardiff, and Hunt, from New York ; Randal Wiifon, and Hufton, from Piladelphia ; Fofter, of Liverpool ; Tucker, of a Hrize Sloop, re-taken ; Chipman, from Plymouth Bi* WNew-Eugland ; and Lightbourn, from this Port, ?fik Rdes thete Wee 5, ool 6o Carpenters, Coopers and Sailors ; 34 of ‘which were fent in two Flags of T fuce to Providence, and the Remainder to Jamaica: He adds, that Andrew Cuzzens of Rhode Ifland, was taken and carried in- to Port o’Prince, the beginning of lalt Month. ANN APO LIS, (inMaryland) Mareh 2. We are informed, that about 500 Friend Indians are lately come to Winchefter, to join the Virginia Forces. . PHILADELPHIA, March j30. On Wednefday the 22d Inftant, between 10 & 11 at Night, a fmall Shock ofian EARTHQUAKE was felt here. { Thurfday laft Capt. Sherlack came up fromNew- Providence, and brought with l}:i&f’afiengcrs the Capts. Hufton and Wilfon of this Fort. Captain -Spring left Port Maria, in Jamaica, for Briftol, on the 1cth of O&obér, and went to the Eaft End of the Ifland, in order t& fall in with fome of the King’s Ships for a Convoy thro’ the Windward Nuwmsz. 8e. GAZETTE. e o Foreign and Da))ze/lick. Paflage ; but miffing them, and hearing of the Ene- my’s Privateers cruizing about,he bore away for Port Antonio, where the Ship Raby, a Letter of Marque, lay, bound for Briftol, with which Veffel he propofed to fail in Company : That while he was gojng there, he was chafed by a Privateer Brig of 14 Six poun- ders, and 140 Men, but got fafe in, and afierwards faw her take one Capt. Stewart, in a Sloop belong- ing to Jamaica : That after ftayingthere fomeT'ime, and the Ruby not likely to fail, he came out again for Briftol, on the 26th of O&ober, in Company with Capt. Cardif of New: York, and parted with him two Days after in a Gale of Wind : That on the 31t of the fame Month he was attacked by a French Privateer of four Nine, and 4 fix-pounders, 20 {wivels, and 125 Men, which he fought about a Glafs and a half, when the Privateer boarded him, and his People took to their clofe Quarters : That upon this the Frenchmen knock’d down the Swift’s Companion, tore up the Decks, and fet the Veflel on Fire with their Stink-pots and powder Flatks, by, . which they were almoft ftifled : That the Mate be- ing blown up by a powder Flafk, fome killed, and other3 wounded, Quarters were called for, but not by theCaptain, who, it was thot’, if all bis Men {which were about 25 ) had ftood by him, would not have been taken alive : That then the French took Pof- feflion of the Veflel, and cut the Peopie almoft.to Pieces for not ftriking : That Capt. Spring had three Men killed, and 16 wounded ; the Enemy loft ten Men, and had a great many wounded. Capt. Spring received a Shot under-his left Shoulder, one in his Body, and another in his right Foot ; he had one Stab in his Breaft, and three in his Thighs 4 a Cut in his head, and one over his left Eye, out of which came feveral Pieces of his Scull. He was alfo ftrip< ped naked by the French Savages. A Ship, laden with Sugar,&c. bound to Old France from Porto Prince;was brought into Providence be- fore Capt.Shurlock failed, by one of their privateers. NEW-YORK, ~dpril 3. FromTrenton, we learn, that on thegth of March laft, one George Collins, and William Letts, two Soldiers in the 48th Regiment, and in Capt. Chrifty’s Company, deferted from their Quartes# ; the former having nine Men’s Pay in his Pocket ; And, thaton the 1 1t Corporal Frazer, with two Men belonging to the faid Regiment, went in Purfuit of them, and overtook them near Burlington, when the Deferters attempted to efcape by ruaning.into a deep Creek, with an Intent to fwim a crofs ; but Frazer (fearing the poor Fellows might be drowned) without Cere- mony fired, and killedCollins on the Spot,when Letts, in dread of lofing hic Life either Way, immediately tack’t about and - furrendered himfelf. The Affaic we hear has been canvas’d at T'rentan, and the Cor-, poral commended for doing his Daty. Saturday laft arrived here Capt. T'rip, in 19 Days from Providence. He advifes, that a few Days be- fere he fail’d a Veflel came in there, who on her Paf- fage had been brought to by an Englith Man of War, the Captain of which averr’d, that Capt. Griffiths, of the privateer Snow Revenge of this Port, was un- der Sentence of Desith at Kingfton in Jamaica, he having robbed a Spanith Ship on the High Seas of Effe@s very confiderable. NEW.H AVEN, Aprilr. We hear from the Nine-Parthers, that about a Wandred Men, who bad left their Habitations in this Colony, in Order to avoid the neceffary Defence and military Service of their Country, and fled into New-York Government ;— were taken up, and prefled into the Service of that Province, according to a Law there fubfilting— And it is hoped that wherever thefe difloyal cowardly Deferters fly, they will in like Manner be taken up, fo that they muft either fight for their Country,or defert to the French and fight againft it. On Friday lait ended the Sitting of the Special Affembly of this Colony, at New-Haven, having pafled An A& for raifing Five Thoufand Men, in- cluding Officers, for his Majefty’s Service, in invading “the Settlements of our French and Indian Enemies, jn.Conjunélion with his Majefty’s Regular Forces,and the Troops of the Neighbouring Colonies, laid an Fmbargo upon all Veffels in this Colony ; and ap- pointed Wednefday the 12th Day of April lnflant, to be obferved as a Day of Fafting and l"mye‘r.é¢ me bewof for New Hiampthire Bills of Credit at 31, New Ten, per Ticket, a1 well as_for Dollars.