The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, November 2, 1759, Page 1

el A ¥ ) ane. FRIDAY NovemBER 2. 1759 THE ’ New-Hampfhirey, 1' Cbntaz'riing the Irefbeft Adwicg;l : Continued from our laft of Ofaber 26. Arother Reafon for dijmiffing Mr. §——y P—t, is, becaufe be is @ great Encourager of Learning. venture to pronounce that he is altogethes unfit to be prime m—r of Great Britain. For T bave known many fcholars, and have never yet met with one who eould fo much as comprehend the courfe of exchange, and much jefs underftand all the dark myfteries of the art of ftock jobbing. And how a {cholar of a m r fhall be able to fettle the ways and means,and with the help of his Greek and Latin go through all the perplexing mazes of the funds and finances, is quite unexplicable to me. 1 have heard, indzed, that there are certain 4nferior m rs to whom the care of thofe important branches are committed, and in whofe honefty, as well as fkill, our great man has im- plicite faith. But I have my own doubts, that men of his chufiog will be too like himfelf, fine florid holiday declaimers, but quite uncapable of doing real bufinefs, Or if they are indeed men of bufinefs, I laugh much at their preten- ces to honeily in that ftri&t fenfe fome odd peo- ple now affc& to ule the word. We of ihe city know what it is to have'the bandling of money, and it is impofible to convince us that any one, but a fool, can let millions pafs thro’ his hands, as if they were fo many fea fhells, or dead flies for the Britith Mufeam. I heard a pleafant inftance of our great man’s Jearning. given, not lovg ago, in acoffee houfe by a {mart Oxonian, who thought he had hit IF the man himfelf is truly learned, I will ., yon romething extremely clever. ** At aft,” fayshe, ** we have got a man of learning and parts, who has read the antients; and avails himfelf of bis reading, at the head of our affairs. It woald have been long ere any of our fatef men of Arthur's College, who never read any books but tHoyle and Demoivre, had difcovered the true method of making war upon France : but Mr. P-—t has learned from Thucidydes, the prince of hiftorian3, in what manner the fmall flate of Athens exerted its naval power, and by éxpeditions and defcents became the moft formi- dable republick of all Greece ” ““ And i would have been long, ™ replied old {lyboots, from a corner, ** ere the able ftatefmen you defpife would have contrived fuch a ridiculous and im- pra&icable lottery as that of the year fitty feven.” The Oxonian grumbled fomething in contempt of the noble fcience of calculation, then ftrutted to the other end of the roem and call’d tor coffee. What ground they have for it is more than I can teil s but it is certain that many of the wits at our end of the town, plume themfelves not g little on the learning and tafte of the m—r, as if there were an hundred poet laureats to be appainted in a year or two. They tell yecu that if you look back through the hiflory of the human mind (2 book that I have fearched for in vain through the whole city) you will find that great genius's aiways come in flacks to any country like the birds of paflage 5 and thatif you have feen one, you may be fure that more will very foon appzar. ‘They qaote certain periads of time, which in a certain jargon of their own, they call by the name of Siécles; and they flater themfelves that fuch a period is now began, which will prove a perfect golden ige to poets, painters, aichiteéls, and fiddiers, If thefe are the genius’s they are fa fond of, for my part, I thould be very g'ad to [ee them all fairly on t'other fide of the Chaanel, except I mean that excellent artift who built the Manfion-houfe with its Egyptian hall, and the noble row of lamps all along the magnificent % Sold by the Printer beregf, TICKETS in the Ne 1 L A ¢ entry. That {olid edifice I confefs is worthy of the chief magifirate of fo great and opulent a city, forthere is not a ‘fingle chimney in the houfe but I’ll be'fworn; has more marble in it than any five of their boafted tombs inWeflmin- fter abbey. = And it would make me extreme- Iy happv to have the oppertunity of drinking a glafs wih the worthy gewe $nan, who, I hear, comes to town every year, and dines at a tavern hard by the Marnfion houfe, merely for the pleafure of p—{l—ng againft the wall of the hugeft and moft ponderous houfe in the world. But to return to my fubjeét, and to tell truth, what alarms me moft, is that this m—r and fome more of the {fame ftamp are openly proteéted by the ap—{uc—. And indeed what may not fuch defperate men as thofe attempt ? 1f they have warmed the young s heart with a romantick love of the conftitution, and filled his head with whimfical ideas of patriotifm and virtue, it will be utteriy impoffible for the able ftatefmen of the old meuld ever to come into power again. Amidft my fears for the confufion of our finan- ces, and the decay of cur trade under fuch an adminiftration, I have fill one ground of com- fart, and that is, that a very {mall part of what is given out, may only be true. I'll tell you allthe reafon | have forthis hope. You krow that the learned and epregious Dr. Br—n, in the fecond vol. of his 'Eftimate, has drawn a chara&er of Mr. P—4, which, at firft reading gave me infinite pain, as it confirmed 2ll my fears. For as preacher of the J./ngdom, the Dr. frequented many of the levees at the court end of the town, and had atcefs there to the beft information. But I felt my {pirits become gradually lighter as I read on farther, and came té my geod friend’s charafter of himfelf. For as he certainly knows himfelf much better than he can know Mr. P—¢, with the help of all his Jevee-lights ; and, asin his own character, he has at leaft given us thbe cube of the truth, I am willing to believe that with the fame meafure he has taken tohimfelf, he has alfo meted to the m—r. My next Reafon againfi Mr. P—t, is becaufe be bas meanly complied awith the Maxims, and Sollsawed the Miafures of the Tories. ~ VER fince the Revoluticn it has been the L coaftant topick of the torics, and of all the patriots, real and pretcnd’éd, thatthe ocean is the Britifh element, that our nataral ftrength lies there, and that if we exert it to the utmoft, this Ifland will not only be fafe but profperous. But fuch has been the vigour and fteadinels of our m—rs, that, till now, they never once com- plied with thefe abfard maximsof their enemies. This infatuated man is the firt who has ever fairly made the experiment ; and, as whatever he does, he does with ail his might, a few flight effays have not f{atisfied him, for he has carried on the naval war with fo much heat and vio- lence, as to fet an example, and eftablith a precedent that, I am much afraid, will never be forgotten. And henceforth it will be impoflible for the beft difpofed m—r to fend over an army of fifty thoufand only to the aflitance of our dear and faithful allies, while the French have a fingle fhip on the fea, or a fithiag-town on the coalt. Nay, from what I have ebferved of this m—r’s condué@®, I doubt very much w-e- ther or not he would have permitted one bat- talion to join the army on the Rhine, orgranted one fhilling to the king of Pruffia, if ‘his wifer predeceffors had mot, on parpofe, feft our affairs in fuch a dangerous fituation, as made it impof- fible for him to avoid it. wbury LOTT. ERY, which - NoMB, 161, GAZETTE. | Furcign and Domeflich. . 1 A et For has he nat, to pleafe thofe malignant to- ries and mock patriots, mude the navy of En- gland. more terrible thar ever it hasheen ficce the days of Oliver Cromwe' the ufurper? Has he not employed a force on the ocean that awes and amazes the whole world ? Has he not af- ferted our right to the fovereignty: of the fea, and demonitrated that Engape upited, is. not an over match for us on..ihai. elemgat ? In one word, has he not fhewn, that thoagh it may be proper for a horfe to kick with his heels, yet it is undonbtedly prudent in a bull to pafh with his horns, when he is attacked by his enemies 3 and thereby brought the old genteel method of kicking in Flanders into too much centempt. a- mongft us. For my part, though I hate the French, yet I could almott with tor fuch a Froft in the Channel as has fometimes been feen in the Baltick, that a hundred thoufand Normans might walk over to Kent on one of our flar- light mornings, and convince the inflexible Mr. Secretary, that even while we have a navy ac- cording to his own maritime head, it is the ¢a- fieft thing in the world to invade ms. And here I mightapply almy former fopnd reafonings agdiuft harrafling the army, were nos our feamen in gencral, both high and low, fuch a parcel of brates as to count hardfhips and daogers as nothing, when compared with the honour of the Britifh flag. - But though the tars are an unelegant fet of mortals, who neither afk nor deferve any pity, yet who can be fo hard of heart as not to regret our fige, tall, gallant fhips of war, which are eternally toft upon the boift- erous element, aid daily expofed to the fweep- ing hurricane or gnawing worm in the moft dif - tant parts of the world, to pleafe a navy-mad m~—r and the tories, . It is not long fince men of milder tempers, ard of a more reafonable and moderate way of thinking, were at the head of our fleet: mea who had the fafety of his m—y’s fhips very much at heart, and prudently weighed the ene- my's meta! in fcales, ere they proceeded fo alli- cn. - But I don’t know how the former {yftem is worn quite out of fafhion : and I believe there is now but a very few officers df the'na- vy who would not fight, altho® they were in« ferior in weight of metal to the enemy by fe- veral pounds, But I think it a matter worthy of the confideration of parliament, whether or not the fame rules that take place in horfe rac- ing, fhould not be extended alfo to fea-fights 3 and whether it fhou!d not be declared, that if eithier party carries but 2n ounce weight more than his antagonift, there is no match at all; or that the one which has over weight fhall be the lawful prize of the other, Buat to return from this digteffion, the exert- ing our utmoft force by fea is not the only in- flance wherein Mr. S P—t has fhame- fully complied with the old maxims of the op- pofition (and which, by the by, is the ftrongeft proof of his bafenefs or folly ; for as he was vesy deep in the oppofition himfelf, he ought, the moment he accepted a place, to have re- nounced zll hisold principlés and notions, and ated on the plans of his predeceffors in power) for he has likewife employed theHighland rebels in the American war. None of his mealures have given me greater difquiet than this has done, and I do not think there is avy thing like it to be met with in all hiltory: The Rebel Highlanders, according to a for- mer plan, were to have wrought in manufalt- ures, which they hate, and are altogether unfit for, which would have been a punifhment fome~ what adequate (o their crimes; and whereas one will be drawn the 2 1} Inflant.