The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, May 19, 1758, Page 4

From the Connucricur Gazerre, April 15! T 4save believe our Readers will agree avith us, that & there never was a Fime when the Exertion of a noble and manly Virtue was fo lowdly” called for from us, as Englithmen, as at prefent, we fhall make wvery Tittle Apology Jor inferting the following, as thereby 20 imprefs thus much upon our Countrymen, viz. That we may reay -Advantages, if rightly improved, even Jromour Misfortunes : That it is equally abfurd to conclude, that becanfe in _fome late Inflances we bave proved ourfelves not to be invincible, we are never “more to gain-a Vidory 5 as it would bave been to infer from a ten Vears uninterrupted Succefs in Queen Ann’s Time, that awe avere never to lofea Battle. And that, infiead of flackening our Deligence; after Jome ferw ignominious Defeats and Dijappointments, awhat have we to do, but to fland our Ground with the more Firmnels the approaching Campaign, and Sace our Enemy with redoubled Ardour.) tp—a~4O what malevolent caafe can we afcribe the l decay of Britith Courage ; and the increafe of Gallic Bravery ? We value ourfelves up- on high notions of Freedom, to which we are jaftly ‘intitled by our national conftitution. 7hey are born flaves, #nd fight under a falfe fictitious paf- fion ; not for liberty, but ta gratify the ambition of atyrant: And yet muft be allowed to'have difplayed fuch inftances of courage and gallantry, in” thefe lat- ter days, as would add glory tothe Briti/b name. A circumftance entirely owing totheart of govern- ment ; which is, to give merit its due; to make courage and gallantry the only road to a foldier’s preferment, Thisis the grand fecret, and true in- dication of the wifdom of the French policy ; which animates {laves with the Spirit of freemerr: and the ‘want of which ' enervates the courage and debafes thofe, that are really fo, to the condition of flaves. Without a real fenfe of honour there can be ex- pé&ted no fpirit capable of encountering a brave and refolute enemy, inflamed with a fenfe of glory ; and the beft difciplined armies, which have loft all that fenfe of duty, and whofe paffions never rofe higher in their country’s férvice than to receive their p?)é: have never been famous for their vi€tories. For) where money and plunder are prefered to liberty and honour, that nation can never fucceed, in any emi- nent degree, in its military capacity. Mercenaries were never to be depended on ; pu- fillanimity, felf prefervation, new privileges and greater advantages, have frequently ruined the beft caule, wiiere there hasbeen no better defence than the arms of hireling troops. A crew, to whom an army, fighting under the implufe of liberty, never yeilded upon dithonourable conditions. Thereisno need to refer to the hiftory of antient Rome ; or e- ven to the modern fory of Switzerland and Sweden, to fhew, that the greateit actions in the field are at- chieved by men fighting for their laws, religion and freedom. Our annals record the valour and fuccefs of the men of Kent ; whofe courage, tharpened with the dread of being inflaved by an arbitary invader, forced him to confirm their immunities before they would recognize his fovereignty. And the recent memory.of the Grand Rebellion, in' which Crom- wELL With an army of rude undifcliplined enthufiafts and- appréntice boys, fpirited up in the name of li- berty, gained many battles, may ferve to convince us, that regular troops, headed by experienced, and e- ven by courageous Officers, want {omething more than their pay'to engage them heartily in the true intereft of their country. - What fhall we then not fear, when thefe mercenaries have juft caufe to com- plain of feverity and ill ufage from their command- ers ? Punifhments as well as rewards are neceflary inftruments for the fupport of government. But fe- verity never carries that authority, nor works fo ef- feCtually on the mind of a free Briton, as gentle ufage and a ftriét attention to military merit. The man that carries a mufket, if he retains no fenfe of liberty, nor has any expeation of prefer- ment, is not much to be depended on in the hour of danger. But if he has been taught, and is convinced the moft valuable bledfing of life is liberty ; and that by fighting for his country, heis fighting for the happinefs of himfelf and pofterity, an Englifiman will always a& up to the fpirit of his illultrious anceft- ors: provided he be led to battle by a general, of whofe abilities he has a good opinion, and on whofe Juttice and benevolence he has reafon to think he can confide. As foldiers, thisis an additional motive, befides the love of their country, to fire their courage in time of altion. But whether thefe particulars have been maturely confidered and fufficiently adverted toby the prefent wife and magnanimous adminiftation, the public will judge. And thus far I will fay, that if military pre- ferments are beftowed on motives éxtrinfic of milita- 7y daty ; and are denied to the brave and experien- ced foldier, who has faved his conntry _ from rapine, murder, and tyranny ; and if our armies are animat- ed by no higher motive than to fight for a groat or five pence per day, we cannot expet to revenge the Ponzsmouri ; Printed by D, Fowss, of whom this Paper may be had for One Dollar per Ann. or an Equivalent in lite difhonour ; nor to retrieve a lofs which reproach- es us with turning our backs upon a nation of flaves, more than oncé conquered by our progenitors. _ Therefore it highly concerns the guardians of our liberties to erquire into the caufes of this: mifcarr- riage ; and with the greateft impartiality endeavour to find out, whether it ought to be afcribed to the cowardice of the common men,or to the mifconduct, _negle&, or want of ability in the officers; or to their ill ufage or feverity towards the foldiers ? for fhould any of thefe complaints be juftly founded, it will be in vain to rifque another armament in thefe wild woods of America, before proper care be taken for the encouragement of the foidiery ; and to fend them under {uch commanders as fhall treat them like free born fubjeéts of Britain; and not only be wit- nefles of every man’s courage, 5" promote him ac- cording to his merit. e Had this been the condu&® of the officers in the late expedition ; had this been the expefation of the foldiers, there would have been no occafion of this mourning and defpondency : the colonies would not have been expofed to the malice of the French : nor to the barbarity of the Indians. And I had al- motft faid that a great part of the charge of our paft armaments might have been faved to the nation, and the colonies fufficiently defended from all invaders, had our brave rough inhabitants by gentle laws and a mild and temperate regiment bzen convinced of the difference between a free and defpotic govern- ment ; and fatisfied in their minds, that whiift they neglect their own fettlements, leave their families, and venture their lives, they not only ferve their country, bat promote their own happinefs : and if by their bravery thofe fettlements which the French have ufurped fhould be retaken ; they ought to be fecured and confirmed in the poffeflion of them by the moft facred laws. Fidelity is grounded upon confidence and love ; and not uvpon fufpicion and flavifh fear, ; - From the Gloucelter Journal. The SPEECH of Lawyer Briir againft Tediouf- . nefs and Prolixity. My Lord, and Gentlemen of the Faury, HERE are a Set of Men in the World of fuch - a tedious, tirefome, trifling, troublefome Ha- bitude, Temper, and Difpofition of Mind, that they perplex, corifound, intangle, and puZzle, every Ciz- cumftance in every Caufe which they undertake, prote&, defend, and juftify. Inftead of comingto the Point, Matter, Bufinefs, Debate, they deviate; vary, waver, fly off, therefrom. When we expet Truth, Satisfalion, Conviltion, and Decifion, we find, perceive; obferve, and remark, nothingbut Un- certainty, Ambiguity, Doubtfulnefs, and Difficulty. This, my Lord, I humbly apprehend, conceive, think, prefume, and furmife, is owing to Tedioufmefs and Prolixity, the Natare, Gewius, and Extent, of which, I fhall confides, weigh, examine, expifcate, and {crutinize. In the firft Place then I fhall fhew, prove, -and demonfirate, the Natare of Tedioufnefs and Prolixity, by fhewing, proving, and demonftrat- ing, that there is nothing {o unnatural ; for the Bu- finels of a Tongue, Utterance, Speech,of Language, is to come to the Point, Argument, Contemplation, Queftion, at once point blank, flap-dafh, & concifely, without any Prevarication, Equivocation, Retardati- on, or any Circumbendibus what(oever.———And now in the fecond, fucceeding, following Place, Point, and Preliminary, I come to promulgate the Ginius of Tedioufnefs and Prolixity, which is done, effected, perform’d, and brought about; by manifeft- ing that they have no Geniusatall ; and, fofar from any Men of Genius making ufe of them, none bat your egregious, abfurd, ridiculous Dolts, Dunder- heads, and Blockheads, ever admit, receive, or em- brace, any fuch Notions, Ideas, Maxims, Principles, or Tenets. Thirdly.—My Lord, I beg. Leave, according to Order, Form, Series, and Succeffion, to animadvert upon the Exrent of Tedioufnefs and Pro- lixity ; and this managed by demonfirating that it is infinite and without Bottom, and confequently can have no Extent at all.——And now, my Lord, I will open the Caufg, Spring, Origin, Fountain, Rife, and Poundation, of thefe Vices, which is 7autology, which. is the fpeaking, faying, delivering, uttering, pronouncing, divulging, declaring, remarking, obfgr- ving, repeating, or exprefling, the fame identical in- dividual Thing, an hundred, and an hundred, and an hundred, and an huridred, and an hundred, and aa hundred, hundred, hundred Times over. And now, my Lord, I beg Leave, Pardon, Permiffion, and Sufferance, to lay down only fix and fifty Parti- culars ; every Particular my Lord, fhall confilt of only feventy-two Divifions ; every Divifion fhall comprehend, contain, and confift of only eighty two_ Subdivifions ; every Subdivifion fhallbe concluded with the fix and fortieth Article ; and every Article fhall confume, expend and coft, no more than an Hour and-a half, ; Here the Coutt was out of all manner of Patience, . Gray. e e e S e and the Judge, with great Indignation, pgut a Peried toa Qxfcoarib, w hich, if the Lawyer’s Tongue had been immortal, might have lafted to all Eter: ».y. D — Sl it e aincandis i PHILADELPHIA, May 4. Sunday laft arrived here the Snow#efire, Capt. ThisVeflel was taken the 23d of Februaryy by two French Privateers of Martinico, on her paf- fage from Surinam to Rhode Ifland,under the Com- mand of Rufus Hopkins, and retaken -the 26th of fame Month, by the Privateer Ship Britannia, Capt. M’Pherfon, of this Port. Capt. M‘Pherfon has alfo retaken two Schooners,one of which was carried into St. Chriftophers,” and belongs to Pifcataqua. And we hear from Antigua, that he has carried two French Privateers, and two large French Dutchmen in there, and failed from thence on his Cruize the z3d of March. : . : NEW-YORK, May 8, The 17th Regiment of Foot, commanded by Col, Forbes ; and the 22d, commangded by Col. Whitmore, that embarked here about 10 Days fince, failed from Sandy- Hook on ‘Wednefday:laft, with a fair Wind, for Halifax : The whole:Fleet, confifting of 45 Sail, were convoyed by Commodore Durell, in his Ma- jefty’s Ship the Diana, of 36 Guns ; the Devonthire, Capt. Gordon, of 64 ; the Ludlow- Caftle, Captain Clarke, of 40 ; Hind, Gapt.Bond ; and Weinchelfea, Capt. Hale, of 20 each ; Gramont, Capt, Stott, of 18 ; Hunter-Sloop, Capt. Le Fory ; and "Tyloe Armed-Ship; Capt. Price, of 16 Guns each, Wednefday arrived Capt. Bryfon, from the Ork- neys : Friday the z8th of laft Month, he fpoke with Capt. Knowan, in the Brig Charming-Sally, from. St. Kitts for Philadelphia ; and the next Day he fell in with the Fleet from:Philadelphia; in Lat. 38, un- der Convoy of two Men of War, about 3o Leagues from the Land, bound for Halifax. . _ His Excellency the Earl of Loudoun, failed for England on Wednefday likewife, in his Majefty’s. Ship the Hampfhire, Capt. Narbury, of 50 Guns. On the 23d of February laft; Capt. M*‘Dougal, in: . the Privateer Sloop Tyget, of this Port, retock the Snow Mary, of Glafgow, and fent her into St.Chrif- tophers. And, on the 22d of March, in Company with a Privateer Brigantine belonging to Barbados,, took a large Dutch Ship, loaded with Sugar, Coffee, Cotton and Cocoa; and carried her into St. Chrifto- phers alfo. She'is called the Stadt Amfterdam, came from Bayonne, to Martinice; there-loaded, and was bound to St. Euftatia, to get a proper Clearance. Her Cargo is fuppofed to be worth 25,0001, Cur- rent:Money of St.’Chriftophers. . . ' We hear from, Maryland, that the Raven Party of Cherokee Indians, who' left Fort- Frederick on the gth ult. on a Scout, returned there the 16th, and bro’t in two Scalps with them. By Letters from Virginia, we learn, that there are; 700 Cherokee Indians now at Winchefter, and many more expefted. - : o : Saturday laft, and Yefterday, a great Number of the Forces belonging to this Province, embarked for Albany. 2 Yeflerday General Abercrombie, and moft of his Regular Officers, alfo embarked for Albany, " Ty the Albany Poft, we learn, That Sir William Johnfon, Superintendant of the Indians for the Nor- thern Department of this Continent, was to fet out for Onondago with zoo Mohawks a few Days ago; to hold a'Conference with feveral Tribes of Indians in our Intereft. And that the Oneidas had declared to' Sir William, * their ‘unanimous’ Refolution to ob- firuét and prevent all Afiiftance that may be fent dpwn the River Miflifippi from Canada. , There belonged to Guadaloupe, in the Month of March lalt, one Privateer of 12 Guns, two of io; five of 8, fixteen of 6, two of 4, and five of 8 Swi- vel Gans each. 3Ur{uant toa Licence from the Honorable the Judge of Probate for the pro- vince of New-Hampthire, Wiz BE SoLp at public Vendue, by Margaret Nealy and Thomas Simpfon, Adminiftrators of the Eftate of Mattheaw Nealy, late of Nottingham-Ealt in faid province, Yeoman, de- ceafed; feventy Acres of LAND joining ta King- ftreet and Queen ftreet in Nottingham, within one Mile from the Meeting Houfe ; twenty or thirty Acres of which is ‘clear Land with Englifh Grafs, with a likely young Orchard, and a Dwelling Houfe, vety commodious for a Tanner, and anexcellent paflure with conftant Water. The Adminiftratora will not infilt for the Cafh all down, but will give' fome Months credit to a refponfible perfon, as it is to difcharge the Debts of the faid deceafed. Con- ditions of Sale to be feen the Day of Sale, which, will be the lat Wednefday of ‘May next, at the Houfe of the Widow Margaret Nealy in faid Not- tingham, to begin at ten 0’Clock in the Forencon. Bills of Credit ; Half to be paid at Entrance -