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FRIDAY, Marcu 14, 1760 T HE sy 3 e, - . K o ~. iMr: Fowre, - 4 : S the Naval Courage, and the bold refolute L Atchievements of the Englifh under the prefent happy Adminiftration, is become a fathionable Topic _of Converfation, the following Extraét from the Naval Hiftory of Great Britain may entertain fome of your Readeys, who will make an eafy Tranfition from the Life of the brave Admiral Blake, who flourifhed , about ¥ Cesitury ago, to-fome who are now honer’d with the Command of the Englith Fleet ; and have, like- Bjake of old, made new Acquifitions fo the Glory of the Britith Navy. . e oo oo %85 L E memorable Roert Blake, one of our <5 T;g' moft famous Admirals, whofe. Ations o ™ a2 will be mentioned with Honor to the late(t Bpop dogdy: Pofterity, was a Man of low Stature, with quick lively Eye, and a good Soldier like Counte- Iy nance. » He was brave beyond Example, yet cool in f A&ion, and fhowed & great:deal of military Conduét + € 7' inthe Dilpofition of thofe defperate Attacks which Men of cooler Compofition have reckoned' rather fortunate than expedient. He loved his Country ", 'with extraordinary Affettion ; and as he never inter- meddled. with State Intrigues, fo under whatever 4 ~ Government he ferved, he was [ollicitous to perform his Duty. = He was upright to an high Degree ; for notwithftanding the vaft Sums which pafled thro’ his Hands, he fcarce left Five Hzndred Pounds behind him.of his own Acquifition : So far was the making of his Fortune from being the main Objeét of his Attention. In fine, He was difinterefted and free from Ambition, expefing himfelt on all Occafions for the Benefit of the Publicand the Honor of theNation, withcut any. View to his own Profit or Fame. He was pious without Affeltation, ftrictly juft, and liberal to the utmoft Extent of his Ability. His Officers he treated with the Familiarity of Friends, and to his Sailors he was truly a Parent.” He was the firt Man who declined the old Track, and made it manifeft that the Science might be attained in lefs Time than was imagined, and defpifed thofe Rules, which had k v been long in Pratice, to keep his Ship and Men out | of Danger ; which had been held in former Times .. a Point of great Ability and Circum(peétion, as if { the principal Art in the Captain of a Ship had been 29 be fure to come bome fafe again. He was the firlt Man who brought Ships to contemn Cafiles on Shore; which had been thought ever formidable ; and were difcovered by him to make a Noife only, and to fright thofe whocould be rarely hurt by them. * . He was the fuft that infuled that Proportion of Courage intd the Seamen, by ~making them fee by Experience' what mighty Things they could doif they were refolved, and taught them to fight in Fire as well as upon Water ; and tho’ he. has been well jmitated and followed, he was the firft that gave the Example of that Kind of Naval Courage and bold and refolute Atchievements. « As fuch Blakes live in the prefent Age, may the Eaglifp: Nation never want fuch Admirals to command ber Navy. j ; 00009000000 0009000®Y A Officer's Addrefs to the PuBLICK, v Being a Charaller, with fume Particulars, of the late ¥ Majsr Gengral WOLFE ; taken from the Gentle- e man’s Magazine for November 1750. y N ‘the midft of oir univerfal; well founded joy, I for the reduction of QUEBEC ; let it ever be remembered, 4s an humbling confideration to i humanity, that there fell the young, the brave, | the virtuous major general WOLFE ; cut off from the fammit of public glery, and all the moft flattering ,‘ ' profrels of domeflick felicity. ' T u draw fuch charalters; requires Raphael’s Pencil; the prefent is an outline only, but fkeich'd by the hand of truth, unbiafs’d and unafk’d. , General WOLFE feerh’d by nature form'd fof } ' inilitary greatnefs ; his memory was retentive, his judgment deep, and his comprehenfion amazingly quick and clear : His conftitutional courage was not A only uniform, and daring perhaps to an extreme ; p but he poflefled that higher fpecies of it (if I may be allowed the ‘expreffion ) that ftrength, fteadine(s and activity of mind, which no difficulties could obftruét, nor dangersdeter. With an unufual livelinefs, almoft 2o impetuofity of temper,he was not fubjeét to paflion: | "With the greateft independence of Ipiiit, free from ‘ pride. Generous, almoft to profufion, he contemned o every little Art for the acquifition of wealth, whillt he fearched after objeéts for his charity and benefi- 1 EE cence » the deferving foldier never went unrewarded; { 4 and even the needy inferior officer tafted of his boun- Y v 4 i ‘ g N e el P —— Lvo e LA ..'..i..'..-fi‘:m?’t,:‘r ] 3 ) 4 - New-Hampfhire ; Cmtqizting ;_lee,,‘Frg/befl Advices s, : & i .k4u;q5; i R r VI . R g ; - \ Y A N o | e GRRNI . 4ol U ty. Conftant and diftinguifhing in his attachménts : Manply and unreferved, yet gentle, kind, and conci- liating in his manners: He enjoyed a large fhare of the friendfhip, almoft the univerlal goodwill of man- kind : And, to crown all, fincerity and candour, a true f{enfe of -honor, juftice, and public liberty, feemed the inherent principles of bis nature, and the uniform rules of his condutt. He betook himfelf, when very young to the pro- feflion of arms ; and, with_fuch talents, joined to the moft unwearied affiduity, no. wonder he was foon fingled out asa moft rifing military genius. Even fo carly as the battle of La-feldt, when [Icarce twenty years of age, he exerted himfelf in {o mafterly a man- ner, at a very critical jun¢ture, that it drew the bigheft encomiums from the great cfficer then at the head of our army. During the whole war he went on, without inter- ruption, forming the military charater ; was prefent at every engagement, and never pafled undiftinguifh- ed. 'Evén after the peace whilft others lolled on pleafure’s downy lap, he was cultivating the arts of war, He introduced(without one 2t ot inhumanity) fuch regularity and exaétnefs of difcipline into his corps, that, as long as the fix Britith battalions on the plains of-Minden are recorded in the annals of Eu- rape, {o long will Kinfley's ftand amongft the fore- moft in the glory of that day. : Of that regiment he continued lieutenant colonel, till the great minifter who rouzed the flceping genius of his country called him forth into higher fpheres of s&ion. He was early in the moft fecret confultati- ons for the attack of Rochfort; and what he wox/d have done there, and what he afterwards 4id do at Louifbourg, are frefh in every one’s memory. : He was fcarce returned from thence, when he was appointed to command the important expedition againft Quebec. There his abilities fhone outin their brighteft luftre : In fpite of many unforeleen difficul- ties, from the nature of the fituation, from great fu- periority of numbers, the ftrength of the place itfeif, and his own bad flate of health, he preferved, with unwearied diligence, praltifing every ftratagem of war to effe&t his purpofe : At laft, fingly and alone 1n opinion,- he formed, and executed, that great, that dangerous, yet ncceflary plan, which drew out the French to their defear, and will for ever denominate him The Conguceror of Canada. But there—tears ftop my pen ——there, when within the grafp of victory, he firft received a ball thro’ his wrift, which imme- diately wrapping up, he went on with the fame alac- rity, animating bis troops by preccpt and example : But, in a few minutes after, a fecond ball, thro’ his body, obliged him to be carried off to a fmall diftance in the rear, where, rouzed from fainting in the latt agonies by the found of Tkey ruz, he eagerly afked, ““ Who run ?” and beingtold, the French, and that they were defeated, he faid, “ Tuen [ THank Gobp ; I piz conTENTED ;” and almoft inftantly expired. Thus to die, is to live an age ! Hi, own altions have ereéted a laiting monument of gratitude in every patriot breaft . Britons, and feliow foldiers, let not the public fuffer by fucha lofs § Warm’d by his example, let us learn to imicate his virtues !.... Then a PI'T'T will never be without a WOLFE, to fight the Battles of his country, in fupport of its own independence, and of the rights and liberties of mankind. On Saturday, Now. 17, at feven o’clock in the morning, his majelty’s fhip Royal William (in which this HERO’s corple was brought from Quebec to Portfmouth) fired two fignal guns for the removal of his remains, ~ At eight o’clock the body was lowered out of the {hip into a twelve oar’d barge; towed by two twelve oar’d barges, and attended by 12 twelve oar’d barges to the bottom of the point, in a train of a gloomy filent pomp, {uitable to the melancholy oc- cafion, grief fhutting up the lips of the 14 barges crews, Minuace-guns were fired from the fhips at Spithead, from the time of the body’s leaving the thip to its being landed at the point at Portfmouth; which was one hour, The regiment of invalids v-as ordered under arms before eight, and being joined by a com- pany of the traininthegarrifon at Port{mouth, marched from the Parade there, to the bottom of the point to receive the remains. At nine the body was landed, and putinto a travelling hearfe, attended by a mourn- ing coach, (both fent from London,) and proceeded thro’ the garrifon. The colours on the fort were ftruck half flag ftaff'; the bells were muffled and rung in folemn concert withthe march ; minute guns were fired on the platform from the catrance of the corple e e TV S GAZETTE. Foreign and Doma_’flz’cfi. {38 - w-York Piiva to the end of the procefiion ; the company of the train led the van with theiy arms reverfed. ; the coiple fol- lowed : and the invalid regiment followed the hearfe, their arms reverfed. They conduéted .the body to the Landport. gates, where, the train opened to the right and left, and the hearfe proceeded thro’ them on their way to London. .Altho’ there were many thoufands of people affembled on this cccafion, not the leaft difturbance happened ; nothing to be heard but murmuring broken accents in praile of the dead HERO.— On the 2oth, at night, his body was depo- fired in the burying place belongiog to his family, at Greenwich. oy ot g o5 ot of oS8 o ofe oo e oS oG e B o oo e oo o o8 PORTSMOUT H , two French Pettisuger Privatcers, were here, taken by a Ne e We kave now in this Fort upwards of one Hundred French Men, Women and Children . We hear from Monto Chrifto, that on the 28th of fent in ¢ land in Novem- to this Port g “who left Briftol, in 8 January laf Mr. PRINTER, : e 1 have 2 Complaint to make againff (ome Fokes that live in your Towne, that I dow't knowe, and think the beft Way to let them knowe it, is to fet it forth in your News Letter, and fo I praye you to give it a Birth. AM an oneft Farmar at your Sarvis, and hires a Place in the Neghbourhood of your Towne, which I indevors to manage like & good Farmar, and trics to keep up my Fenfes all the Year round, efpefhially about my Medows and moweing Ground, and wou’d not fuffer them to lpe open to all the Bealts of the Feeld, as one may fay, in the Winter and late in the Springe Sefon,.and fo have all the Fog ete up, and the Gras nawed to the Roots, and the Ground poched like a Bed of Moriar, as fome Fokes that pretend to be Farmars do. But thereis : a greac many Peple in your Towne that muft keep Horfes forfuth, at other Peples Coft ; for after working them hard all Day without Food, they curne them out in the Highways at Night, and may be lute firft, hafe flarved, to prole like Wolvs for themfelvs, and oftenas much to the Farmars Damage ; with as lictel Mercy to their Beafts, as Regard to the Intereit of their Neghbours ; for they know they can get nothing but by breking into other Peples Inclofers vice of Captains Sharrad or who left En in a high Gale of Wind, and was drowned. . the fame Manth ; all bound We have yet no Ad Bradford, in two Ships, oner bound hither from - ber laft ; nor of Capt. Sloper, had the Migsfortune to | Lat. 30, e kngcked Shi May laft : The ho has been with - overboard by the Boom laft Saturday Fortnight, in, Extrat of a Le ter- from Fort Cumberland, Dec 13. althy, and have e very Thele Cretures come and breke downe our Femfes, (~ 2 = _ for Hungar will breke thro a Stone Wall, as the old © & 8.5 51 Saying 1s ; and fo it will be unpoffable for a Manto 3 .. > g! be a good Farmar about this Towne, if thefe Fokes 5§ = 2 @0 ante_hindard from alting in this Mannar. I hope ¢ e 3 7 ¥ ;;‘ our Rulars will hear of it, and contrive fcme Way E = = 255 to help the Farmar. For my Pary, if fome Coursis © ‘E'; SR -ij not quickly taken aboute thefe Horfes, I muft levemy &-Z-5 P Place, and go where Peple will be more jufter in this = & £ - a=| Regard. For thefe Horle Keepers knowe that the £, 2 g;o_é Law of the Province is, that Horfes turn’d out at 3 =9 ‘ large thou'd be well fetierd all the Year round 5 but . . o o they dont minde that, as longe as they dont pay § 8 S -] foundly as they ought for their Negle&, becaufe the ] Sy Penaliie of the Law wont come to as much as it does 2 c?,- > 2 arm’d Sloop, in 9 Days from Halifux, S to keep a Horle in the Barn or a Paftur. But why maynt we Farmars turne out all our Cattel in the Highways as well as thefe Horfe Starvers— and if we fhou'd, what a fine Spot of Work wou’d that make. And how wou'd they like it if we fhoud drive downe fome of our old Oxen that are ufed to the Shack, in the Fall, within the Smell of their Gardens, their Fenfes wou’d be but as rotten Wood before them ; what wou'd become of their Cabbages and other Frutes ? And wou’d sot this be doing as they do by us. Moreover their Horfes are as trou- blelom about oir Barns in theWinter, as our Ground —and if they do no wors they ete up great Part of our Dung and Muck. Now if I thou’d fay of one of thefe Men, he was a Theife, and had ftole a Parcel of Haye from me, he wou'd dcutlefs be highly affronted with me, if he knew it, and ‘fay I wronged him, snd hurte his Cara&er, and no Queftion but he ed ; and that u the Gales abating, Dc la Clue’s Squad:on {li Laft Satutday arrived here Capta:n Adams, in an off that Place, and bear away for Gibraltar to re th, but whgse bound was not known. . in. his Damage, whete he (afe arriv 5 wou’'d tauke at leaft, about an A&ion of Defamation. i XS g But praye what Differenfe is there betwixt my ftealing » 2 883/ a Cock or- two of Haye trom my Neghbour with 3 5= & 3| my own Hands, and fending out my Horfetodoit: .8 2 §E I dont knowe what fome Fokes may think, but for 2 e 83 o my Part I think it much the lame Thing : And thefe £ = 28 RE Peple; whatever their Caralter is, they cannotdeflarve <3 2 g O, to be called oneft Men. And now I am upon the = Mok 3‘; oneft Part, praye be fo good as to afk them the fol- ~a® b lowing Queftions : Firflly, Whether they can think 5SS there is any. real Differenfe between my privately Os%fi g’g; takeing my Neghbours Sheep and difpofing of itto ~ &5~ .2 my own Ule; and fending my Negro Fack to take ¢ o & § £ 8 it, and he dosicand I ete it ? | Secundly, Whether = =g e 5 he who will not obflerve the Law, which fays he © EQ;'—E<- fliou’d not turne out his -Horfe at large without 5% 5 R Fetters, wou'd obferve the Law which lays thou fbalt ~ & & 2 .5 e ot fleal, it he was in no mere Danger at prefentin gq 2 % ~=8 this Cafe than in tother ? 7Thurdly, Whetherheis Z'g S €4 a true oneft Man who wont obferve both 2 <2 8 7a i kg ’k\i‘ = FL Tk - =, v . e < A g — o~ fi—/._ .'*1,.55