The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, May 22, 1761, Page 1

4 4 E o % FRIDAY, MAY 22. 1761. i THRE :New-Hampfhire " Containing the Frefbeft Advices, From a late Paper we bave the following Defcription of Martineco. ‘P HZ Msnd of Martineco, called by the Savages J Madanina, and one of the Carribees, lies in 14 ‘deg. fome odd minutes N. Lat. and 61 deg. W. Long. "80 miles S. of Guadaloupe,and 120 N.W. of Barbadoes, ‘being as well if not better peopled. Its length is littie more than 60 milesat beft, its breadth extremely:un- equal, and. {carcely any more than 20 miles. As the ifland is .pretty high, it appears from the (en like three diftant mountains, and if you inciude the promontories, which projc& in many places two or three leagues be- yond the reft of the ifland, its circumference will include above 160'miles. Though not the largeft, it isat prefént the chief of all the Carribees:pofleffed by ‘the French, .and the refidence of the governor,general of this part of _the world. It.isin moftiplaces {o-well fortified, as to .have bid defiance, for many years paft, to all invafions. Here are the fineft*harbours in the Aatilles, every way exceedingany to befound st . Guadaloupe, thoughat *fisft that-ifland had fo much the preference. The coun- try is for the moft part uneven, though roads may be . ~cut through it without any great labour. Among the harboursand bays of the Cabefterre there are leveral promontories and .peninfulas, of -different dimenfions, fome branching out above a league into the ( water,and perhaps half a league acrofs, others lefs,iwhich if. properly inclofed, might beof excellent fervice for feed - ingoicattle. The BaffeTerre is frequently interfefled by mountains and heads of land, well-peopled, and the dif- advantages of their fitustion fufficiently recompenfed by the plenty of fine tobacco -which they -produce ;-and _here'and there you- are'furprized with the fight of level .downs, or'plesfant vallies, moft agreably watered. The oil isfor the mofk part graveliy, which, though it'fwal- ‘lows the rain, and becomes dry, yet retains the effedt, fo as to.preferve its frefhnefs:much longerthan in amore compaét foil, and .gives a Rronger .and more exienfive . sxoot.to whatever is implanted. . The ifland derivesalfo more refrefhment and feitility from the rivers-and run- niog fireams which are upwards of forty in number, and fome of them, pariicalarly on.the Cebeflccre; are deemed ‘navigable within Jand. . The town ofSt. Peter; takes its name ‘from s fort built in 1665, by M: de Clodore, governor 6f Maninico, with an intention rather to awe the (editious inhiahitents, who often revolted againft: the - Welt Indie compeny, thanto sefift the attacks.of aforeign enemy. -Jt isan oblong, for the moft:part regularly built ot fone, with .# {trong battery of cannon, which commands the road. ‘The oppofite fide, where the Place -d'Armes lies, is flanked at each-end with a round tower; and embrafures forfour pieces of cannon. The walljoining theietowers isalfo beared for cannen; but has neither ditch, palifade, nor covered way. The road; which:is excellent; except io the middle, where-is a:tharp.rock at the bottom 'that .cuts the cables,-is allo commasded by fomie "cannon; mounted on ane of the thorteft fides of the fort, ‘and faces Eaft. The fartis'waflied by the river Rovolana; now called 8. Peterds, or the Fort River. The gate lies to the Eaft, snd opensinto.a-long court, flinked on the ‘North, .which locks towsards -the country, by s palifaded.wall ;2and on the South, or -towards the fes; by a wall planted with artillery. - Within -¢the-gate, on the lefi-hand, or North,dtands the guard-hou'e ; and oppciite to it at the bottem of & Jong court, is a'chapel, a veltry, aud “a guard-room. Fort St Peter ‘may be commanded every where but from the fea 3 .and muft part of that front, with .an.angular battery on the:river, were torn down and deflsoyed in 1693, by an hurricane. The wall has been rebuilt, and there ‘s a platfarm, in the place of the other building, .which forms part of-the governor’s ladgings. The town may be properly divided: into three quar- ters, St, Peters; Ia Mouillage; and-le Galere. S: Peter’s or the middle quarter,begins at the tort and the parochial church; and extends to a mountain on the Welt; where ‘there is a battary, a barbette,. mounted with elevan . pieces - of . .cannon, called St.. Nicholas’s battery. La Mouillage,fo called from the anchorage of veflels fecured by the goodne(s of the ground, reachesfrom the fzid ifland to titat of' St. Robert’s'onthe Weftern extremicy. Veflels 'are here better theltered; and upen:the. whole, * ride fafer . than at Fort St. Peter. Divine fervice for the ';geople of this quarter, and theinhabitants of the neigh- ouring eminences, is celebrated in-a*church belonging to the Dominicans, and dedicated to our Blefled Lady of Safe Harbour. * La Galere, or Gallery quarter, isa - long ftreet by the feafide, running from Fort St. Peter to a fmall battery st the . mouth.of the Jefuit’s river. The hurricane sbove-mentioned (wept awsy from this quarter above 200 houfes, leaving only three.or four ftanding, among which was a magizine - belanging - to the Guinea company, which, by means of a ftrong » parapet of ftone, refifted the moft impetuous violence of she fea. To the ‘P'r'i?:fer, “ Goo's! What Havock does Airbition ‘make aming your “ Works 1 *........ - . “ADDISON, LL Mankind, its univerfally #llowed, dre nvore or ' lefs atuated by that governing Principle, Love or Fame. *Tis trae; this Paflion, whenkept within its proper Bounds, is of .no Differvice to Muaxkind ; but when it gets-the Affendent aver Reafan, ané the Daty we owe to our Fellow men, itis atiended with moft fagal Conlequences ; -when this is the Cafe, even Juftice ifdi(hébl}ted with & partial Hand. . SuPErBUS is governed entirely by this Paffion ; he fticks at nothing, however criminal, to gratity his eager Thitk of Fame. He has found by long Experience, that the moft diteét Methed to accomplifh his Defigns, efpecially in.that Part of the World he now tefides, is by gaining the'Applaufe of the People. This Plan, he atavy Rate parfnes.... Thisin the Garden, in the Shop, -oreven onthe Judgment Seat;engrofles all his Thoughts. ....Here centers the whole of his Views, Ends, and Aims.---By this usjuft- Method, Superbus -has gain’d almoft the Summit of his Happinefi..... He fillsa Séat in the Senate, and in civil Courts. ‘He’s carreffed by the People. That thefe Favours might be continued to him, and mere obtsined, I’'ve known him deprive 2 Perfon of the greateft Blefling on Earth,cven théPrivilege of an Englithman, for no better Reafon, then to pleafe the Populece. How can we entertain & more:favourable Opinion of the Charaéter of Superbus, than that of the moft inhumane Murderer? He not only deprives a Man of his Liberty, which iseves facred, and more valnsble than. Life, but does it under-a Clonkof Juftice. O Tempores ! O Mores ! For myown Part, I can't envy the Hzppinefs of fach a Man.---- Altho’ his Artifices:may:pafs on the ‘Populace, and he obtaired his Purpofe ; yet Heaven, who dif- cerns the inmoit Recefles of the Soul, will finally re- ward the Innocent ; end Superbusmuft receive the juft Demerit of his Crimes. Some forw REMARKS mide on the ‘Settlements the Frencii bave on the River Miflsfippt, Oubach, or St Jerom alfo an the Navigation of the [aid Rivers, made in the Year 1754a F HE firlt of thele Rivers.is fo rapid 25 ta allowor admit of no large Veflelsto go upany confidera- ble Lesgti ; they aie obliged therefore, to ufe a kind of large Bateaus, rowed by 30 or 40 Men, to carvy their Stores and Neceflaries up and down faid River, al{o tothe Ilinois 2nd Oubach Settiementis; from whence tacy carry great Quantities of Grain, and other Pro- vifions to Muffifippi ; thele Boats are generaily efcorted by a Number ot Men, to preteétithemfrom the Chero- kees and Chiekefaws, who have ofien attacked and de- ftroyed feyeral of the French intheir paffing that Way ; the Place they generally fell npon them, is where the Rivers Oubach and ©Ohio falls into the River Miffifippi. They commonly take fo go from Kufkufkes, Chartres, Cahoki and Fort Vancent, {rom 15.to 20:Days to Miffi- fippi, and three Months to come back. At the firit of thefe Places there is a Fort garrifoned with 100 Meh, feveral Priefts and Jefuits, wha have befides indians, large . Congregations, ‘there being abave 100 Hoales there five Years ago ; Land exceeding fertile : At the fecond' Ptace, they have aifo'a Fort with 40 Men and 5o Families : At the third, 2bove 20 Houles, no Fort five Years ago; thele three Places are on the M firfippi 5 the fourth, which is Fort Vincént on ‘the Qubach, is ftrongly gafrifon’d ; the Officerof the faid Fort s Com- mandant, end receives his Orders from the Governor of Miffiippi,whofe Authority reaches no further that Way, viz. to the North' Eaft In that Country they have great Plenty of: Buffaloes, or Wild Cowes, which they make great Ufe of ; there is another Settlement of above 20 Houfes; at Wawisghtanhook, on faid River Oubach, 60 Leagues above Fort Vincent ; there is snother Fort about 6o Liesgués farther, on the Mismis River, where there is a earrying Place frem faid River ‘into the Ot- bach, of fome Miles. The nextis Detroit, a very con- fiderable Settlement of French ; then follows in Coutfe .their two Forts - at Lake Erie, River Beanff, and next Niagsra, "Fhe French have been trying ‘all means to obtain Liberty of feuling on the Miflouri River ; titey at Length, after lofing much Blood and Trealure there- by, built a Fort there, and now have éngaged feveral Nations of the Indians sbout them in rheir Intereft, whom they not only invite.to war agsinft the Panys, &c. but join them in‘all their hoftile Expeditions : The: Indians thereabouts generally fight on Horfeback, ;-;i:ih Targets made of the neck Part of the Buffulo’s ide, ; N.B. The White River, which is pretty large, thould be between the Oubach and Belle Rivere ; but is omitted in De Auville’s Msp, coreéted by Bolton, Nuwms. 242 { Wreks fince this Papan [ was firft Publifh’d, Foreign and Downeflick. s £ . A Pravex of Harry 1V, of Framee, jult before a ‘battle, in ‘which he obtain’d an entite vittory. i 0 LORD of Hoft, who canft Jee thro® the thickeft vail and chfef difpuife ; who wieweft the bottom of my beart, and the ‘Beepel? defigns of my enemies 5 whe baft in thy bands, as well as before thine eyes, all the events which concern buman life 5 if thou knowet that my reign will promote thy glory, end ke fafety of thy people 5 if thou knoweft that 1 bave no ather ambition inmy foul,but to advance the bonor of thy boly name, and the good of this flate 5 favour, O-great God, the juBlice of my drms, and veduce all the rebels to acknowledge bim whom thy [acred decrees, and the order of a lawful fucceffion, bave made their fovereign : But if thy good Providencebas ordered it other- wife, and thou [eeft that I fhould prove one of thofe Kings whom thou givest in thine anger, take from me, O merciful God, my life and my crown, make me this day a facrifice tothy will, let my death and the calamities of France, and let my bload be the laft that is [pilt in this quar- rel.” The King uitered this gesierous -prayer in @ Doice, and with a countenanee, that infpired all who Leard and bebeld bim with like magnanimi - ty 5 then turning to the fquadron, at'the bead of which be defigned 1o _charge, ** My fellow- Joldiers, faid be, as you run my. fortune, fo. do 1 yours 5 your fafety confifis in keeping well your ranks 5 but if the beat of attion fhould force you to diforder, think of nething but rallying again.; if you lofe fight of .sour colours and flandards, look round for the white plume in my beaver, you fhall fee it where ever you are, and it fhall lead you to glory and 1o viclery.” L O N P O N, Fanury 10 N the addrefs to the King of Sweden, by the Speaker of the Houfe of Pealants of that Kingdom, effembled in Diet, we find the following Paffage : “ A fincere and *“ fubftantial proot of your Majefty’s love to your fubjects ““’'and of your Msjefty’s Zeal to promote their happinefs, “¢ for which we cannot fufficiently exprefs dur Gratitude, ‘“is to fee the northern countries, which have lain hither- ‘“ to wild, uncultivated, and uninhabited, known by 'the “*'Name of theLappmarchen, wear ‘at prefent ‘2 quite dif- “ ferent Face. They sre now covered with dwellings, *“ the lands aré cirliivated, - and, for the firft ‘time ‘fincs *“‘the creation of the World, this new peopleappear in ‘““the Diet with ws by their reprefentdtives. How “ agreeable would it be to us, how would it rejoice “‘ our hearts to fee our dear country extend its bounds’ ““ more and more, by the draining of moraffes and other ““ lands covered with water,and the peopling of defarts.” Letter from Deal, Fannary 10. ESTERDAY [Iarrived in oneof the Packets from ‘2 French Prifon ; and the Day before I left Havre de Grace thefe was brought in there fix Sail of Englifn Veflels, taken off the Start by the Othello Privateer 6f St.-Maloe’s. ‘She wasa Dagger, mournited ten carriege Guns, ‘and ten Swivel; and carried 100 Men; ... twa Vediels, bound to Seville, took to their clofe Quarters, and aftér an obflinate Engagement, with the lofs of one of the Mafters, the other'being much wounded, with feversl of their Hands, was obliged to furrender, and fhiare the fame Fate with their Companions: Paris, Fanuary 26. Councils are frequenily held on 'the difpatehes rex ceived fram ‘abroad, snd are thought to be relativé to a pedce ; and as feveral neutral ‘powers feem to fet about that work in earneft, we begin to hope it may be‘accomplifhed ; if not, the war will rsge with greates Fury ; as fome arrangements, ‘efpecially concerning Italy, will greatly contribnte thereto.—~We alteady lée preparations Which ‘léave us no doubt of the fmartnefs of the mext cémpaign : The eremy, on their part, do not feem to be idle. “The Englifh talk of fending s rzin: forcement of fourteen or fifteen thoufand men into'Ger- many. ; L ON D O N, Feb 3. ‘ Letters from Paris'Tay, that they are fitting out botk at Rochefort and Breft all the thips of war sad frigate that ‘are fit' to go to fes.