The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, October 5, 1759, Page 1

- New- FRKIDAY, OcToBer 3. T759:. "THE Hampfhire \ £ Containing b Frefbeft Advices the bappy Turn of our National Affairs, fince the Advancement of the prefent Prime Minifier of State, IS . is undeniably evident 5 every true Englifbman mufl rejoice that our gracious Sowereign bas Jo wife, bonefl, and allive . & Counfellor near him, and by all the political Oppafition . made, and Clamors rais’d againft bis Adminifiration, muft ogly be more and more convinced that bis fincere and fleady Aim at the Honor of bhis King, andthe Profperity of the Nation, are the greateft Crimes which bis Enemies can ob- Fed? againft bim, and that be is moft defervedly ¢fieemed and + admired by all real Friends to bis Majefly and their Country. A Pamphlet lately publifl’d in London, and juft come to Hand, entitulid, Plain Reafons for removing a certain vv GrEAT MaN from His M———1x’s Prefence and Coun- Y+ ought 10 be removed from, Se. ¢ « forever, addreffed to the People of England, wery juflly urlefques the falfe Policy of a corrupt Gowernment, and ciwes the bighefi Chara&er of a great Man, by expofing “he Reafons alledg’dagainft bim. 1 /ball now entertain .y Readers with a fbort Chapter from the afore(aid Pam- wlet, containing the firft Reafon why a certain great Man If this Chapter fhould b. acceptable to my Readers, I may go on in other Papers, and give them the Subflance of the Reft. / "fc'fy firlt reafon for removing W— P—, Efq; from his v o© ’ M ——y’s prefence and councils for ever, is becaufe _ he is the minifter of the people. g~4 HE fa& is notorious, that without p tary I intereft, sgainft the inclinations of the c—t, and in oppcfition to a powerful f—&—n, Mr. P— . was raifed by the voice of the people alone, in «me of danger, to the high ftation he now fills. I do sot fay that he is now as difagreeable to certain illuftri- otis perfonages as he was at firlt ; for there are fome who give oat, that he is as artful in gaining private efteem as in acquiring public confidence. But I affirm, that, befides the affiont given by their country to fo . many greater and abler men, by this piece of ill judged » €y . who have raifed him. 4 x diftin&ion, which muft breed an eternal refentment a- gainft his perfon and adminiftration, the voice of the people may be confidered as a kind of undue influence on the S——v—r—n, and other members of the Le- —{l—t—re, and is therefore highly illegal and uncon- ftitutional. If former m-—rs have acquired dominion» aver P—ts by corruption, which has been loudly com- vlained of, I do not fee that we are in any better con- dition now, when the fame kind of power is attainable by means of the people’s blind admiration cf magna- niinity, and the vain glory which arifes from 2n obfti- aate purfuit of popular meafures. . But there is a greater evil behind than any of thofe I have tentioned : for if the m—r follows the example of his great predeceffors in power, he will be ever ready to comply with the humours and interefled views of thofe As this man, therefore, was raifed by the people, it is to be feared that he will fludy ‘to preferve their favour, and in all his meafures pay re- gard to the genius and intereft of the people of England, which, God knows, has often been found very incon- fitent with maxims of ftate, and the principles of mo- dern policy. I will make this as clear as the light of day, by an inflance. I could.mention the habeds corpus bill, and the a& of Encouragement of feamen,which are exaltly in point; but as thefe are paft tranfattions, they would confine me firi@ly to fa&, which is a very great reftraint to an in- hiods author. I chufe therefore to rcft my proof on iomethjng that is futare, though not in the lealt uncer- tain : let us fuppofe then Mr, S——y P—t to be as fuccefsfal in the conduét of the war as your hearts can ‘defire ; yet when he comes at laft to treat about peace, it to be expected that he will offer our enemies fuch ms as they can poflibly agree to ? Will he not ftand much upon the honour of England ? Will he not ' aple to make fuch reafonable conceffions as may be ~:ffary for the irade and naval power of cur enemies? 'ill he not infilt on our preferving fuch conquefts as iy prevent the encroachments of France in all time ning ? And will he not, by his unfeafonable obftinacy, vder us from obtaining fuch a kind of peace, as has M.nerto been the end of all our wars, {uccelsful or un- Hoccefsful ? . It is plain then that his being the m r of the people threatens ruin to England. Were it poflible for him to remain in power till the conclufion of the war, I am confidentthe King of France will infit on it as a preliminary article, that he be com- . pelied to refign his office, and leave the management of the negotiation to men of cooler heads, who under- Mand and regard the intereft of Europe more than he does. Let us difmifs him ourfelves, that it may never be faid to the djfgrace of the Englifh nation, that we have yielded tgile defire of a tyrant. And, indeed, I NEW BURY LOTTERY TICKETS have no doubt, that before I have done, I fhall opea fuch a cry againft this prefumptuous darling of the peo- pie, as will foon bring him down from his lofty height, to the private ftation from whence be rofe, which is the proper fphere of an inhuman and untralable virtue. [To be continued. ) FA-M A4 1-C 4. St. Jago de !a Vega. We bave a certain Account of Mon/.Bompar’s being arriwed at Hifpaniola, from whence, Aug. 26th be_fint out fiwe Shipsof the Line on a Cruile, He bas_feven in all, but 2 of them are bowe dowwn to refit. Aug. 11. On Monday arrived bis Majefly's Ship the Liwvely, and bro’t in a Frinch Privateer Sloop, commanded by the famous Monf. Palangui, awbich Jbe took Yeflerday Je'nnight off Cuba. Palangui had taken and fent away tawoPrizes a few Hours before the Lively appeared in fight, and endeavoured to make bis Efcape by crowding all the Sail poffible, and even imagined be' had loff ber in the Night ; but at Day Dawn, next Morning, was greatly Jarprized, after a Chace of 16 Hours to fee ber clofe up awith bim, when be prudently firuck bis Colours. This Sloop mounted 10 Carriage Guns, and 8 Swivels, and bad on board 106 Men when taken.— She formerly belonged to Capt. Grant, who was inbumanly murdered at Curacoa. As Monf. Palanqui has ewer been diflinguifbed for bis great Generofity and Benevolence to bis Prifoners, be is now happy in experiencing a reciprocal Treatment, and is much refpedled and careffed. He bas taken during ihe lafi and prelent War, 95 Prizes ; and this is bat the fecond Time that be bas ever been taken, baving laff War been once carried into New York. St. JOHN's, Antigua, Aug. 18. 1759. By a Flag of Truce which arrived from Martineco the Day before Yefterday, we have a Repetition of our former difagreeable Accounts of the Depredations com- mitted by the Enemy’s Privateers. Ir loes not anpear the Number of Cuptures is at all aiated zes were carried in there betwe=n the 1t inflant and the Time this Veflel failed ANNAPOLIs,in M2 Asg. 30. Friday Evening laji arrivea bore i avout fix Weeks [from Gambia, the Ship Upton, Capi. Thomas Birch, with upwards of 200 wery likely, bealthy Slaves, abich are allowed by Fudges to be as choice @ Parcel of Negroes as bhas ever been imported into this Prowince. Capt. Birch on his cutwvard Paffage, took a French Letter of Marque Ship aith 8 Carriage and 12 Jwivel Guns, and 50 Men, after a wery Jmart Engagement of two Hours and a half, one Glafs of awbhich time they were [o clofe as to be lock'd to- gether : In the Engagement the French Captain and 12 of bis Men were killed, and 16 wounded. Capt.Birch had but 40 odd Men, one of which avas killed,and § or 6 wounded. About a Fortnight ago, a Manin Kent County, baving imbibed fome jealous Notions of bis Wife, got up early in the Morning, Jaddled bis Horfe, loaded a Gun, and went to the Bed-fide and (ot her thro® the Body as fbe lay aflecp, and then rode away to a Magifirate, acknowledged what be had done, and Jubmitted bim[elf to Fuflice. Friday lafi the Boatfwain of the Ship Thetis (lying in Petapleo) being in a Paffion with a Boy on board, took up a Hand/pike & knock'd bim overboard where be was drown- ed ; a Death the Boatfwain is not likely to meet with ; Jor People Jeem to think be was Born to be Hang'd. PHILADELPHIA,Segt so. Captain Vaughan, from Antigua, on Friday Mor- ning laft, in Lat. 33. 5. N. was chafed by a French Privateer Sloop, who fired two Shot at him under a French Jack ; but Captain Leech, in the Pennfylvania Frigate, hearing the Guns, crowded all the Sail he could to fpeak with Capt. Vaughan ; and having learnt of him what he took the Sloop to be,immediately fpread all his Canvas, and purfued theSloop, which theCaptain thinks he muft have come up with. N E W-.Y O R K, September 24. From Madeira we learn, thata Sallee Man of 32 Guns, baving taken one of our.Veflels, Admiral Bofcawen ordered one of his Frigates to purfue him, whom fhe came up with, and funk the firlt Broadfide : And that 8 Dutch Men of War had failed with a Fleet of about 200 Sail of Merchantmen,for different places, 25 of which with 3 of the Convoy ( fuppofed for the Weft-Indies) had touched at Madeira., The Dutch Men of War had Orders to fink and defiroy all Englifh Privateers that offered to moleft the Merchantmen. From Antigua, That feveral Veflels had arrived with military Stores and Cannon, for Guadaloupe ; which looks as if there was fome Intention of keeping that Ifland : That Capt. Tysrell was about fetting out for Antigua, when the News of the Surrender of Gua- daloupe arrived in England, lfy which his Voyage was Lirteea Uri- Nums, 157. | GAZETTE. Foreign and Domeflick. countermanded ; but that there was fill fome diftant Expectations of an Attempt on Martineco in the Win- ter : Anud, that tho’ we have now a Number of the beft failing Veflels that ever were on that Station, yet near 200 Prizes have been carried into Martineco fince Februoary lat. . By Letters from Jamaica, we learn, that they had certain Advice there from. Port au prince, of 2 Sloops one of which mounted 12, and the other 10 Gnns, being failed from that Port to cruize on the Coaft of North-America, and that a Snow was foon to follow for the like Purpofe. ~ Captain Barns arrived here on Tuefday laft from the River St. Lawrence : He left Point Levee the 16th of Auguft, and left our Fleet and Army in the fame Sita- ation asmention'd in our Jaft. On his Paffage hither he was bro’t too by .Mon{ Le Blanche in the Priva- teerSchooner that took fo many Veflels bound to Que- becand Louifbourg, as mentioned in a former Paper, but by making ufe of a Stratagem got clear of him, tho® he was fo clofe to him that many Mufket Balls were lodged in his Maft, Sides, and Cabbin, j 3 ~ Since our laft was fent in here by the Captains Sey - mour and Sears of this Port, a {mall French Brig called the Young Jofeph, which they took the 26th of June, in the Streights of Bellifle ; her Cargo, Oil and fome Seal Skins. We hearthat Capt. Sears has had an Engagement in the Streights of Bellifle with a French Frigate of zo Guns, and 100 men, but was obliged to quit ber, after three different Attacks, with the Lols of 12 Men killed, and 25 wounded. : s Extra®? of a Letter from Albang, dated Stpiember 20. # Rogers’s Scout which went out the 13th inft. to- wards St. John's, fooh fell in with 300 of the Enemy : He has taken 27 ‘calp’d 200 of thein ; but 2m afraid Major Rogers is cither killed or wounded.—We have loft 3 M.ia, hov iy, The 18th a Party w Point to efcort in the Prifoners. nnded, [ cannot of Truce arrived ihere fro: . Jjohwn's, with A:}v‘cg that the Siege of Quebeck itill continucd the 3oth of Auguft : That Capt. Kennedy, and Lieut. Hamilton, were taken by 16 Indians, near St. Francois, on their Way to Quebeck, and carried io Troie Rivieres, where they were, well : That the Brig was launched, and al- moft fitted : That the Redau, g5 Feet loag, and 30 broad, to mount fix 24 pounders, and a grest many Swivels, would foon be ready : That they had a par- ticular Account of the Strength of the Encmy at the Ifland about 40 Miles diftant from that Place, where it is faid they have 70 Picces of Cannon motinted ; every acceflible Part from the Wate: Jcfended ; and on the LandSide they are covered by an impenetrable Swamp; whilft in their paflage, between the Ifland dnd the Shore, four armed Veflels are ftationed. BOSTON, Ofober i, Before the Vi&tory was gained by Prince Ferdinand, the French Army had taken Poffefion of Minden, wherein were 80,000 Rations of Hay, and 1,500,000 of Grain, Gen. Zaftrow and his Garrifon of 1500\Men were made Prifoners ; they alfo took Pofleffion of Va- rendorf, and Munfter, where they loft goo Men : The French had feized all Prince Ferdinand’s Mlagazines but two, that at Ofnaburg was valued at above T'wo Million of Florins : He had only the Magazines of Verden and in Bremen left. By the Return of a Flag of Truce laft Week at Rhode. Iland from Port au Prince, which bro’t 17 Pri- foners, we learn, That Capt. Stiles of and from Phila- delphia for Jamaica, was taken by a French Privateer Sloop after a defperate’ Engagement, the Particulars of which we have not learned ; however, we hear that Capt. Stiles manfully fought her feveral Glafles, till at laft being boarded he was oblig’d to take to clofe Quar- ters, after which he kill'd a Number of the Enemy ; but being overpowered by Numbers, he was at lait oblig’d to fubmit,when the more than inhuman (French) Barbarians cut Capt, Stiles and all his Men to Pieces, for the brave Defence they made, being between 20 énd 30 in Number, Satdrday laft a Bear was kill’d at Point Shirley, the Weight whereof was fifteen Score. Laft Satarday a Countryman who faid he belonged to Stow, was fined 4of. for felling bad Butter, or rather Greafe, befides having it {eiz’d, and being bound over. We hear that a Ship belonging to New York, and fitted out there 2s a Fiag of Truce, and bound for Hif- paniola, was talcen by one of our Cruizers and (afely convoy’d into Jamaica ; where her Cargo fold ata. very good Rate, being chiefly Provifions. Sold by the Printer hereof,