The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, June 19, 1761, Page 1

$ " FRIDAY, JONE r9. 1761 THE ‘ New-Hampfhire ‘Con'taining the Frefbeft Advices, From the Public Ledger, Or, Daily Regifter of Commerce & Imelligence. The VISITOR. No. 46. By PuiLanthroery Canpin, Efg; Who fings the Source Of Wealth and Force ? ¥ Vap Field of Commerce and big War? . Wbhere Wonders dwell ; Where Terrars fwell ; Azd Neptune tbunders from Biy Car 2 ; Yovna Y e HEN webehold the great deep, Foasaed gikoye track,or without limit, b w 3; we may well ftand amazed at oo anaRe thecourageof thofe, who firft Bodp e JoPW dared to cemmit chemfelves to its unknown bofom,and to pierce into its pathlefs regions. Horace (who was not indeed a man of very great courage him- felf ) is of opinion, that the firft adventurers muft have had hearts of oak, or rather of tri- ple brafs ; their attempts were judged no lefs preiumptuous than dangerous : fince the ocean was efteemed by the ancients as chein- {uperable barrier, and grand feparater of dif- ferent nations, formed by the Deity* on pur- pofe to fecure kingdoms from theattacksand infults of each other. A noticn fo very far from the truth, that the. fea is the fole con- ne&or of diftant nations ; and toit we owe 3t once, all the advantages of commerce, much of the improvements of feienee,,nay and the knowledge of the glorious Gofpel. By aneans of this liquid vehicle, veffels of the largeft burden, are borne along with the utmolt eafe from clime to clime, from fun to fun 3 thus the rich produce of the Eaftis poured into the ftorehoufes of the North ; » and the inhabitants of every quarter of the / globe, not only hold intelligence, but mutu- ally exchange their commodities, and gain a fupply of more than every want in life.— Hence what abundance of wealth rewards the anxious and . induftrious merchant : what a happy provifion is afforded for the thoufand and ten thoufands whom -the demands of commerce continually employ. Thus our inferibur brethren are engaged in ufeful la- bour ; and become the ftrength, the finews of the community ; who if relazed from the . honeft engagements of induftry, moft prob- ably would corrupt in indolenice, and be either the perpetual -annoyance, or the fpeedy de- ftrultion of the public welfare and peace I-— How gracioblly hath the wife Creator of all things provided for the well being of his peo- ple :---And let me add, for his people of % TDls runs the whole paffage, which is in the 1d ode bf Horace's firfi book, and begins 1lii robur, &%, Sure he who firft the pailage try’d, In harden’d cak his heart did hide ; Or with firm éra/s of triple fold,. His breaft couragioufly enroll’d ! His hardy breaft, in hollow. wood, Who tempted firft the briny flood § | Nor fear’d the winds contending roar; Nor billows beating on thé fhore, - Nor Hyades portending réin, Nor all the tyrants of the miain. What form of death could him sfright; Who unconcern’d with ftedfaft fight, Could view the furges mounting Reep, énd monfters rolling in the deep ; ould thro’ the ranks of ruin go, ith ftorm's above, and rocks below, g vdin did nature’s wile command i ivide th;_:h waters from ?;: land, f dari ips, and men prophane, 1nviden':8h' inl:iolnble main § i ‘Th’ ‘eternal fences over leap, And pafs at will the boundlefs deep: Drypgn, ——— ’ “ " )“ " 3 - = ‘our favourite kingdomin particular. "Where not only plenty crowns our peaceful plains, but the golden wings of commerce waft bleflings on every gale ! Happy, thirie¢ hap- py Britain! May the tender mercies of him, who is.omaipotent, flill preferve thy invalu- able priviledges to thee! And while amidft the horrid din of diftant arms, and the me- lancholy cries of ravagisg defolatiop, ; thou heareft-only the plealing voice of firmelt uni- on, fulleft glory, and compleat profperity,---- may’ft thou be wife, gratefully to acknow- ledge the bounty of the giver 5 and may thy fons, by every. worthy and lzudable virtue, by the work 6f humanity, and the love of religion, engage. to themf[elves a continuance of the Almighey’s protection ! == When we vific the dock-yards, and furvey the wooden towers rifing there, beneath the artificers hands ; their awazing bulk fills us with wonder to think that they fhall not only when freighted to the foll, and immenfe in burden,be buoyed up,and float, kike the light cork, on the waves of the mighty main g bat that they fhall travel through its roaring furges, with a velocity perfe@ly incredible : And what is moft amazing of all, be directed unerringly. through a wild of waters, where there 1s neither land 5 not path,nor land mark; to dire& the bewildered traveller ; diretted with a facility, that is inconceivable, and turned ——unwieldy machines, turned as the dire&ing band of the mafter plcafes. * Bebold alfo the [bips, faith the Apoftle, which though they be fo great, are driven_of fierce winds, yet are tbey turned about with a wvery fmall belm, whither foever the governor lifteth. To what we have faid concerning the. falinefs of the waters, we muft add ; chat chis faltnefs ferves greatly to the ufe of navigation, in affifting to buoy up the vefiels 5 for it Is fpecifically heavier than freth 5 and it has been faid, that veffels which have failed fafely on the fale, have funk when they came up frefh water rivers. But not the faltne(s of the water nor the managerment of the helm 5 not the nice conduét of the bellying /fails ; nor the wondrous power of the air, which though invifible, fills themn with fuch force, drives on the veffel with fuch impetuofity through the dathing foed ;- none of thefe, though admi- rable in therifelves, ftrike us with fuch plea- fing furprize, as the refletion on that foffil, which tho’ mean and contemptible in appear- 4ance, is invaluable to the fatlor ; for it uner- ringly dire€ts hirn thro” the tracklefs tegions of the boundlefs ocean. And when peither fun nor ftdr ; when neither Jand nor land mark are to be feen ; when all is fea and all is fky : Nay, when neither fea nor fky are to be difcerned ; when all is darknefs and tempeft ; then this inifallible guide holds out its kindly affiftancé, and the loadftone informs the failor where to fteer his courfe: The loadftone, which has given to navigation its perfeétion, and enabled the yndaunted failor to traverfe the globe. From hew fmall and inconfiderable caufes doth the omnifcient credtor produce the moft important effe€s. Who would conceive that a mineral of this fort fhould tend. to fuch ex- tenfive utility ! But we may obferve, thatin nature, as well as in grace, the mighty-mafter , as it were to teach men humility, and © de- | ride the vaft efforts of human powers—— thus conftantly aéteth ; ufing the mean and apparently contemptible thines of the e Nuus, 246' { WEeeks fi'j,c'c this Pagsx was firft Publith’d. 'GAZETTE. : Eo_r"e‘zgzz: and Daflzq/f:c’fi to confound, we are told the ftrong and the wife. Letgpt then the fow and fervile ap- pearance, :Which his only begotten Son pue onamong us ; let not.the fhameful and ac- ourfed death he deigned to die: ' let not the obfcurity of his Apottles, the lownefs of their: birchs, the fervility of their occupation, their ignorance of human learning, at all difguitt orefficndus.: Nay, rather let it confirm our: faithy and fatisfy us, thac this is moft agreea. ble to the Sovereign Ruler’s manner, and the ftrongeft proof of his intervening power, to: ‘whom eafy and arduous are the fames -who can work as effeGually by the weak as by the: ftrong : And who from the meannefs of the inftrument, more abundantly confutes the' arrogance of mortals, and eftablithes his own: unparallelled glory. e b AN Great and many are the advantages deriv= ed from the fea, confidered as the grand vew hicle of commerce, the fource of nationat- wealth and induftry : but let us not omit to obferve, that thusnot only the:riches eof na-; tions are communicated ; thus!al{o the riches of the gofpel of Chrift may be, have been conveyed ta us; are copveyed to diftant climes, and they who fat in darknefs and the - fhadow of death, are revived with the light of his. heaven-defcended truth: Americs can witnefs this; whofe realms ere while, were obfcured with a darknefs, not lefs black than that which invefts the twany inhabitants; but now the day-fpring hath - arifen. 10 en-. lighten———and would to God, we cotld add ——nhath perfectly . enlightened thefe be- nighted climes !---But alas ! how flow is th= progrefs, bow imperfeét the fpread of the religion of Jefus! how deftructive, how per- nicious, in every view are theravages of war! how fearful is the account, how borribly fearful are the accounts thofe potentates will have 6 make hereafter, whofe defolating fwords the fury of ambition hath drawn ;3 whofe inftruments of war, the luft of fway;. and the defire of conqueft, hath brought in- to the enfanguined field! Religion, liberty, and every fdcial virtue demand their juft ven-~ geance ! Wretched Princes, what can be more deplorable than your circumftances !--- But not by war only ; the propagation of religion is prevented by other caufes ; asother men may propagate it no lefs than Princes. But tho’ the bleflings of the chriftian religion are everlafting, and its rewards. ineftimable, we muft obferve with regret, that its profef- {ots are not fo follicitous,if inany degree folli- citous to diffufe its comforts, as they are to amafs the perithing wealth of this world : which they will feek at the fearful peril of all things dear to them, feek in the frail bark, amidft all the extremities of heat and cold, bunger and thirft ; tho’ it will avail themv nothing, when death demands his due, and’ the foul fhall depart to an unbiaffed tribunal ! How happy would it be, and how troly praife-worthy 3 if the veffe! that traverfed the deep in fearch of temporal wealth ; would permit a fmall freightage of the eternal cruth to fail with it 5 would not only by the dif- perfion of ufeful books, but by the exempla< ry demeanor of its mariners, dnd the feafon- able hints of its commanders, endeavour to. promote that religion,the knowledge of which i§ life eternal! How pleafing 4 confidence in thé midft of dangers, would fuch condudk, infufeinto the breafts of all who filled fo hap- nwa o] . and furely if aoeesgn THOLC Sl