The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, June 2, 1758, Page 1

- . 3 - % . 1758. New-Hampfhire | GAZETTE:. Fareign and Domeflick. Fripay, June 2. Coptaining the Frefbeft Advices Province of NEW-HAMPSHIRE. y _Anno Regni Regis GE O R G 11 Secundi Magne Britannia Francie et Hibernie Tricefimo Primo. An ACT in Addition to an ACT, Entitled, A» A& to prevent Fraud in Cord-1 ood expofed to 8ale, made and pafied in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of her late Majefty Queen ANNE. HERE AS it often bappens that Perfons who expofe Weod to Sale by the Cord, refufe to bave the [ame meafured ' by B Sworn Wood-Corder : And whercas there is .jo Provifion made in the before recited Aét, to oblige them thereunto, whereby the faid A is of little or no Benefit or Advantage : For Remedy whereof, Be it Enaéted by His Excellency the Governor, Council, and Affembly, That when, and as often, as any Perfon, or Perfons, 'thall fell by the Cord, any Wood, that fhall be brought by Land, or Water, the fame thall be meafured by fome Sworn Wood-Corder, in the Town, or Parifh, where the fame fhall be {old, if any fuch Wood-Corder there be, whether chofen by the Town, or Parifh, or appointed by the Sele@-Men thereof refpectively, on the Penalty of Five Pounds to the Buyer, and on the Penalty of Five Pounds to the Seller, the one Half thereof to the Informer, and the other Half thereof to and for the Ufe of the Poor of the Town, or Parith, where fuch Wood fhall be fold, to be recovered before any one of His Majefty’s Juftices of the Peace within this Province. - And-be it farther Enaéted by the Authority aforefaid, That the Penalty on any Sworn Wood-Corder, for refufing to do his Duty, when thereunto required; thall be the Sum of Five Pounds, unlefs he can give fufficient Reafon for refufing, to and for the Ufe aforefaid, and to be recovered in Manner as aforefaid. : - That the Fee for meafuring, be Six Pence per Cord, to be paid by the Buyer. (The foregoing ACT paft the General Court; May 6. 1758.] B S B e S S e R S B S B B BEs s Fromthe LONDON CHRONICLE 7o the PRIN TER. ik SIR, Broad Street, Fan. 3, .1758. ON feeing in your paper, that Mr. Whitefield was to fet Monday a part as a day of thank(- giving for the late victories gained by the King of Pruffia over his encmies, curiofity led me in the e- wening to attend at the taberoacle near Moorfields, where to my great {urprize, I found it fo crowded (though the night was one of the worft we have had this winter) that as near as I could calculate, there could not be lefs than 8coo hearers. I was indeed much pleafed with the preacher’s manner of opening the occafion of cheir meeting, which was followed with a moft fervent prayer for the continuance of that peace and tranquility which we of this nation enjoy under the mild and gracious gove:nment of our augult Sovereign, for the deliverance of his Majefty s German dominions out of the hands of his cruel and blood-thirfly enemies ; and for alleviating the bur- den of hisafliftions, for the fufferings of his people and tie lofs of his moft pious and amijable daughter the Princefs of Caroline : he concluded with thank{- givings for the precious life of the King of Pruflia in the day of battle. This prayer made a deep im- preflion on the audience, and was followed by a bymn fuited to the occafion. But what . was the moft fingular circumftance of all, inftead of a fermon _which I'expeQed, he produced a pacquet of letters, which he told the people he had received from feve- ral parts of Germany and from our plantations in America, many of them dire&ted to himfelf, and o0- thers to his friends in London, giving an account of - the fufferings and cruel perfecations of our poor bre- thren of the Proteftant religion by their implacable and unrelenting enemies the French. Of the many violences he mentioned in Germa- ny, 1 can remember but few, fuch as the burning the orphan houfe, and plundering and deftroying the houfes of the peaceable inkabitants, which in many places could only be on a religious account : for when they were on Count Bruhl’s eftate, who was the chicf engine in the plot againft the King of Pruf- fia, they laid wafte the fields, and covered the roads with the fpoils of the houfes ; and even the hallow- ed loaves and altars, they net only defiled, but after making a large hole in the middle, filled them with human ordure. They dragged a Lutheran parfon 15 miles, tied behind a horfe’s tail, and many, other cruelties which fhocked me, and chilled my blood to hear. When he had read and commented as he went on, above an hour; he gave out another hymn, by way of relief tg himfelf. When this hymn was over (if I miftake not) he produced a letter from Profefler Franks, of the uni- verfity of Halle in Saxony, belongirg to the King of Pruffia. And now, fays he, I will read fomething that fhall pleafe you, Here he had a fine opportunity to comment on the courageand valour of thefe fons of violence and ravagers of the earth ; for fays he, mauy of them were fuch cowards, that when overtaken by the coun- try people, they feli on their knees, crying out, Fe Suis un bon Lutherain. Thus many of thefe bullies denied their religion in hopes of faving their lives, by bypocrify, where they had not aa opportunity cf ranning away ; three of thefe fine gentlemen, whom I fuppofe to be Marquiffes, were put to flight by two old women with broom-fticks.= The whole French German army was routed by five Pruffian regiments only. . He then told them how the Pruffians were em- ployed in prayer & finging of hymns for fome time before the battle ; and that many had their Bibles in their hands at the time the King gave the command to march up to the French. Then, fays he, the command was, In awith your Bibles, and out avith your Swords. . The Lord of Hofts fought this battle, and gave him a compleat viftory. The King of Pruflia acknowledged this conqueft to be the greateft deliverance from the hands of his numerous enemies that the Almighty had ever wrought for him. He further told them that the Jews fettled at Halle fung Te Deumina very folemn manner, and kept a day of thankfgiving very ftri€ly, for their deliverance from their perfe- cutors the Catholics, by the fignal viory obtained by tbe King of Pruflia at Rofbach. In.the courfe of this leGture, which. took up near three hours, he introduced an account of his being lately attacked by a Frenchman to know if he was for war, for, fays the Frenchman, I learn by the foreign papers, that you have faid 10,000 men meet daily to pray for faccefs to the Hanoverians and Pruflians. To which he replied, No, I am nor for war, but peace ; only that the Freoch King, the cruel opprefior of the-Proteftant religion will not let them live in peace till he has been feverely drubbed ; and fays he, the next time you write to France, tell them, that you know of 20,000 men in Great Bri- tain that meet daily to pray to God for fuccefs to the Proteftant caufe, and I know that they will fight like lions when oceafion calls them, in fupport of their king, country, and religion. He then concluded with a hymn and prayer in which he exhorted them all to put their truft inGod, and hoped that none of them would prove cowards, or run aways if ever they were put to the trial. Haxover, March 7. Laft Sunday was obferved as a Day of folemn Thankfgiving to Almighty God, for delivering us fram the French. All the Miniflers preached on ¢ Pfal. cxxvi. 1, 2, 3. When the Lord « turned again the Captivity of Zion, we were like ¢ them that dream. Then was our Mouth filled ¢ with Laughter, and our Tongue with Singing : ¢ Then faid they among the Heathen, the Lord hath ¢ done great Things for them, the Lord hath done ¢ great Things for us, whereof we 2re glad” Some of our Preachers did not hefitate to point out fo plainly the generous French Lord, to whom, under God, it is owing that we are not entirely ruined, that their Audience could eafily perceive they meant the Duke de Randan. : Had it not been for that noble Lord, whor Pro- vidence brought back from Paris (whither he bad made a Tour) in the moft critical Minute, sli tiie Provifions the Frerich had amafled here, wodid have been thrown into the River : this was a&tually begun to be done, when, in confequence of the Duke’s Re- monftrances, an Order came from the Count de Clermont to countermand it. There were found 4000 Sacks of fine Wheat, a confiderable Quantity of Rye, Barley, and Oats, befides Meal, Bread, and Rice ; Part thereof wasdiftributed gratis, to the Poor, and the reft fold ata low Price to thofe that had fomething left to pay for it. This has prevented that Famine to which we fhould otherwife have been reduced. To prevent Pillage, and other Irregularities, this truly noble Lord was pleafed to patrcle the Streets of this City, from Time to Time, in Perfon, the laft Night the French ftaid here. BarceLoONA, (a large City of Spain, containing 15,000 Honfes) Feb. 25. The Spanifh Ship Saa Diego, Captain Ramon Fauffi (formerly Capt. Con~ nor’s) is arrived at Alicant, Béfore fhe left Cartha- gena, the Captain of a French Privateer faid, he would take her when at Sea, as fhe came from Lon- don, and muft doubtlefs have Englifh Effetson.board s the Spanith Captain hearing of this, applied to the Governor, and defired that the Privateer might be detained 24 Hours after his failing ; upon which the Governor told the French Captain that he would not fuffer him to go out in that Time ; but the French- man, regardiels of this Notice, and of a Gun fired at him from the Caftle without Shot, did his utmoft to get out ; upon which fome Cannon from the Caftle, loaded with round and Grape Shot, killed feven of his Men, and damaged one of his Mafts, which obliged him. to put back, and the Govewnor has con- fined him in the Caftle, and flopt the Privateer for his infolent Behaviour. Lecuorn, March 3. The Louifa Ulerica, Oloff Strom, Mafter,is arrived here from Smyrna*, which Place he left the 14th of January, when People daily died of the Plague. This has been confirmed by an Englith Veflel, the Prince Edward, John Steuart, Malter, who left Smyrna on the 4th of February. His Britannic Majefty’s Ship theAmbufcade has taken and fent five French Turky Ships into this Port. JA large Privateer, fitted out by the Chamber of Com- merce at Marfeilles, is failed from thence ; fhe car- ries 32 Eighteen Pounders upon on¢ Deck. ® Smyrna, a city and port iown ¢f Afiatic Turkey,