The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, May 11, 1759, Page 1

FRIDAY, May 11. THE .- New:Hampfhire 1759- Containing the Frefbeft Advices The following Poem,wrote byWiLLiam Wuitenean, Efg; the new Poet Laureat, appointed in the room of that antient bard CoLLey CinBER, E/g; merits the reader’s decp attention ; by awbich aill bedifcovered much of the Sublime. VERSEs addre[s'd to the people of GREAT BriTAIN. Ritoxs, roufe to deeds of death! Wafte not zeal in idle breath, Nor loofe the harveft of your {words In a civil war of words ! Wherefore teems the thamelefs prefs With labour'd births of emptine[s 2 Reas'nings, which no fals produce, Eloquence, that murders ufe ; 1il-tim’d Humour, that beguiles Weeping ideots of their {miles ; Wit, that knows but to defame, And Satire that prophanes a name. Let the undaunted * Grecian teach The ufe and dignity of {peech, At whofe thunders, nobly thrown, Shrunk the Man of f MacepoN. If the ftorms of words muft rife, Let it blaft our enemies : Sure and nervous be it hurl'd At the Paivirs of the warld. ® Demofibenus. § King Philip of Macedon. Learn not vainly to defpife (Proud of Epwarp’s victories !) Warriors wedg’d in firm array, And navies pow’rful to delplay Their woven wings to ev'ry wind, And leave the panting foe behind. Give to France the honours due ; France has chiefs and ftates men too. Brealts, which patriot paflions feel, Lovers of the common weal : And when {uch the foes we brave, Whether on the {and or wave, Greater is the pride of war, And the conqueft nobler far. § Agincourt and § Poitiers long Have flourifh’d in immortal fong ; And lifping babes afpire to praife The wonders of EL1z4’s days : And whate’er elfe of late renown 3. - 7% - $b. —— Great as on Culioden’s day. Cold as winter’s icy hand, Let the fordid luft of gain Be banifh’d from the lib’ral Aims it at the publick foe. Might modeft worth ingennouns {peak, To raife a bluth on ev’ry cheek, And bid the varquifh’d wreaths difplay Other worlds demand your care, But glory which afpires to laft, Leans not meanly on the patt. *T'is the prefent NOW demands Britifp hearts and Briti/b hands. Curlt be he, the willing flave, Who doubts, who lingers to be brave : Curft the coward tongue's that dare Breathe one accent of difpair. To chill the genius of the land. Chiefly you who ride the deep, And bid our thunders wake or {leep, As pity leads, or glory calis ; Monarchs of our wooden walls ! Mid& your mingling feas and fkies, Has added wreath’s to Britain's crown ; Rife, ye BLAKEs | ye RavLeicus rife ! Whether on th’ impetuous Rbine She bade her harpefs’d warriors thine, Or fnach’d the dang’rous palm of praife He who ftrikes the gen’rous blow, Where the Sambre meets the Maile ; Or Danube rolls his watry traia ; Or the yellow- trefled Maine Thro' Dettingen’s immortal vale : E’en Fountenoy could tell a tale, Let glory be the guiding ftar, Wealth and honours follow her. See ! fhe {preads her lultre wide, O’er the valt Arlantick tide ! Zm}'.(’! NUI\?B. 136, GAYETTE Fcreign and Domeflick. Cenftant as the folar ray, Points the path, and leads the way ! «Other worlds, to Britain PEAR ; Where the foe infidious roves, O’er headlong fireams & pathlefs groves; And juftice’s fimplar laws confounds With imagirary bounds. If proteéted commerce keep Her tenure o’er yon' heaving dzep, What have we from far to fear ? Commerce f{teels the nerves of war ; Heals the havock rapine makes, And new ftrength from conqueft takes. Sweet LiBerTY / O deign to {mile, Goddefs of Britannia’s ifle ! If to usindulgent heav’n Nobler feeds of ftrength has giv’n, Nobler fhou’d the produce be ; Brave, yet gen’rousare the free. Ceome then, all thy pow’r diffufe, Goddefs of extended views ! Ev'ry breaft which feels thy flame, Shall kindle into martial fame. *1'il fhame fhall make the coward bold, Apd indolence her arms unfold : E’ca av’rice fhall prote& his hoard, And the plough fhare gleam a fword. main, § The field of Agincourt iz France, where King Henry the Vith,with an army of not quite 15,000 half fami/p'd Eaglitamen, beat the French army, confifling of abowe 60,000 with moff of the French Nobility at the head of them N. B. The moblemen of France caft lots over night for Englifh prifoners, and guarrel’d about who fpould bave the King. prifoner by Edward prince of Wales, commouly called the Black Prince, and jon to King Edward the 1114. Aend S ) ) () S (N o) AN BN \IN) SR o) SN ) S e ) ) () )\ ) () (AN, PRSI B pr) \ e A st pnd (N, (P o ) From the LONDON CHRONICLE. Fan. 13 Mate of a merchant thip, who was prefled fome time ago, made ufe of the following ingenious ftratagem to evade being carried from the "tender on board a man of war. The night before all the prefs’d men were to be removed, he fcratched himfelf all over his legs, hands, and a great part of his body, fo as to erafe the {kin, and even caufe the blood to follow in many places. On the mourrow, when the poor fellows were called out of their con- finement below, he tock care 10 be the laft ; and jult as they were going to put him over the vefiel’s fide, he entreated the favour to fpeak but one word to the commanding officer which being. granted, he begged, in the mofl piteous manner, that he would be plkafed to order him aboard fome thip where there was an extraordinary yood furgeon ; ¢ for I have had the ¢ misfortune, Sir, ({aid he) to have a moft inveterate ¢ itch, (thewing his hands, brealt, and legs) upon me ¢ thefe fix months ; and notwithftanding I have been under the care of feveral do&ors, and been in two ¢ hofpitals, I cannot obtain a cure ; and 1 fear if I go ¢ to {ea with it upor me, that having only falt pro- vifions, I fhall lofe my li‘e.” The officer, after view- ing him with fome attention, and curfing the gang for bringing fuch a {cabby fellow on board, bid them tarn him afhore for he would not fend him at all, left he fhould infe& the whole fhip’s company. L ON D O N, February 13. Though they feem asintent on warhke prepara- tions at Turin as if war was aClually declared, the domeftic police of the kingdom is not neglected, of which they give this ftriking preof. A Country Cu rate thought it his duty to adminifter the {acraments to a dying man without requiring, agreable to the orders of the Archbifhop of Turin, his confent to the bull Unigenitus. The Prelate, on hearing of it, immediately fufpended him. The curate complain- ed to the King. His Majefty ordered the poor Prieft to be fupplied with neceffaries, of which he had been deprived by the Archbithop’s interdict, and fent for his Grace to .know the reafons of his treatment of the curate. The Prelate an{wered, ¢ That the curate was an infolent fellow, who had been guilty of difobedience in a very weighty matter : And that as he had abfolute jurifdi&tion over all the ecclefiaft- ich of his diocefe, he had fpfpended him for difobe- dience.” * I know (faid the King) that you have a Right to make curates and Priefis ; and I the Right o make Bithops. It was I who made you what you are. I order you to give this curate a Penfion of 2000 florins (g d. each) : for it would be fhameful to fee a Prieft reduced to beggary.” The Archbithop immediately took off the fufpenfion, imagining that would excufe him from paying the Penfion ; but the King will have it paid by him while the curate lives. A medal is ordered to be ftruck upon the conqueit of Louifbourg, which is to be prefented to the pria- cipal commanders by land and fea, who were at the reduftion of that important place. The St. Ferdinand, Capt. Carbery, of 18 guns, fix pounders, of Briftol, has had an engagement with a French frigate of 36 guns and full of men (convoy- ing fix veflels to Portmahon ) for three glaffes. While Capt. Carberry went off the deck, fome of his men ftruck the colours, and ran down, which Capt. Carberry feeing he hoifted them again; and the fca running high, the French left him, without attempting any thing farther, and fince he is arrived at Carthagena. On the 10th of November laft, died in the Tower, Pompey, the old Lion, aged 86. Cambridge, May 2. 1759. HE Comet, which appear’d in the beginning of Ayril, pafs'd its defcending Node, and conti nued its routs fouthweftward, as we expeéted. It was then coming almoft dire&tly towards the earth, and by its near approach, its apparent motion was very much accelerated ; and thus in a fhort time it ran {o far to the fouthward, as not torife above our horizon. I faw it on the 1gth, pretty far to the fouth, and low ; being near the middle of Aguarius, with about 13d. 5. Lat. The two next mornings were cloudy, and on the 22d, I could not find it. While it was invifible in thefe northern latitudes, it paffed thro’ the fouthern conftellations, to above 5od. S. lat. according to my computation ; and all this time was to be feen in the fouthern countries, where it muft have appeared larger than it had done to us. It was nearelt the earth on the 25th, and purfuing its courfe, after it had pals’d by the earth, it again rofe above our horizon ; and on the 2gth in the evening at half an hour after 8, it was very plain, being near the meridian; and about 15d. high, It was not fo bright as before, but appezr’d bigger, and its tail longer and broader ; ~occafion’d by its being near- sl a7°2 3 be ) & 9[ Poitiers is a town in France, famous for a battle fought there between England and France ; in which John, King of France, awas taken er the earth, for it was much: Jasther €rom-'the San. It was a little fouth of that part of Hydra which is under Crater ; juft in the end of Zirgs, with about 36d. S. L. So that in the 19-days, when we could not fee it, it had pafls’d thro’ four Signs and an hald, viz, half of Adguarius, and the whoie of Capricorn, Sagitarius, Scorpio and Libra. Its courfe is N. W. But as it is departing now from the Earth as well as from the Sun, its motion will become flower conti- nually, and it will grow fmaller and dimmer il it difappears. It may probably be thought a difficulty by fome, that this Comet fhould be all this while purfuing the fame courfe, tho’ at firft it mov’d fouthward and thea northward. But the difficuity will vanith upon re- fleéting, that Northward and Southward are relative terms, and are ufed with reference to the poles.— While the Comet was going nearer to the fouth pole, it mov'd fouthward ; but after it had pafs'd its near- eft diftance therefrom, its continuing to move in the fame dire&ion carried it farther from that pole. Now to move farther from the fouth pole is, to move northward. Prowince of the Maflachufetts-Bay. Dmiral Saunders baving by a Letter dated 10th March (off the Weflern Iflands on bis Pa/ffage to Lowfbourg) informed his Excellency the Gowernor that be fbould procced early up the River — where the Flcet and Army would fand in Necd of frequent Supplicy of all Kind of Refrelbments—defires that bis Excellency auvould mahe it known to the People of the Province, thas Juch of them as are awilling tocarry any fuch Supplies, Jball nat on any Account hawe their Men taken from them, or detained. And that for their Encouragement, Jome Ships will be always eruizing at the Mouth of the Riwer, Sfrom awhom they aill receive all the Protedtion and In- telligence that may be needful. His Excellency bas therefore thought fit publickly io make known thefe Encouragements ; and doth further recommend it to all Maflers of Veffils and others concerned in fhipping Provifions, to turn the Courfe of their Trade, to the fupplying this Jo effential a Serwice. The Admiral in bis Letter further adds— * In Cafe “ any Nawal Affifance foall be wanted for the Pro- € reltion of your Governmint, on your applying to me, 7 auill fend you fuch as I may be able to db, confillent “ awith the Serwice with which 1 am charged by His “ Majefiy's Infiradtions,”, e 075t