The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, June 19, 1761, Page 2

R ‘are fo conftantly expofed to imminent peril, fhould labour to procure that confidence: fince it is terrible indéed, to hear the threat- ning tempeftsroar ; to feethe blue lightning glare ; to behold the mountanious furges beat uncontrouled ; to view the fhattered crathing maft, with horrible confufion torn away : to fee death entering at the fatal leak to fink —irrecoverable fink into the farthomlefs abyfs—emblem of that esernisy, whence there is no return :—How dreadful thus to fink :—without one reafonable hope of acceptance with him, who is g0 determine our condition,irreverfibly in that efernal ftate ! ~—One moment’s refletion certainly muft be {ufficient to awaken in every man’s mind an attention to this moft interefting of all con- cerns to human beings :—muft be fufficient furely to engage our naval commanders, and all thofe who go down to the fea in fbips 5 and Jee the wenders of the Lord in the great deep, to act in fo confiftent a manner,that chriftianity may derive fome advantage from their voy- ages ; -or at leaft not be reproacbed and reviled amongft the beathen ; to whom we fincerely wifh, no real caufe had ever been given ; to whom we carneftly pray, that no future caufe may ever be given, to fay,—* Why fhould we become chriftians ? are they better than we? they lye,they fwear,they fteal, they cheat, they indulge their luft, they are drunken : ~—-Tell us then, why fhould we become cbrif}- zgns 2 wherein doth their purity or morality excel our own ?——"’ L @ N P O N, Aprl 14 The bumble Addrefs of the Right Homsurable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, i» Parliament affimbled, pre- Jented o bis Majefly on Wednefday the 4th Day of March, 1761. 4 ; E Your Majefty’s moft dutiful and loyal Subje&ts, W the Lords Spiritual and Temporal,in Parliament aflembled, return Your Majelty our humble thanks for Your moft gracious Speech from the Throne. The tender Concern which Yeur Msj:fty is plesfed to exprefs for the Libertics of Your People, and for the Adminiftration of Juftice, fills our minds with the fin- cereft Gratitude. We lock upon Your wife and juft Sentiments, concerning the Independency and Upright- nefs of the Judges of the Land, as the ftrongeft proof of what Your Majefty has formerly declared to us, in words the moft affcétionate that ever came from the Throne, "That the civil and religious Rights of Your Subjeéts are equally dear to You with the moft valuable of Your Royal Prerogatives. At the fame Time, nothing can be a nobler Inftance of Your truc Greatnefs of Mind, than to elteem thefe Principles, as they truly are, the moit conducive to the Honour of the Crown. . We will not fail to take into our Confideration this important Objett of the Continuance of the Judges, not- *withiftanding ‘any Demifle of the €rown ; and to do eyery thing on our part, to make Y our Majefty’s public- {pirited Intentions . effc€tual : Happy, in having an Opportunity to do this by Your Majefty’s free and vo- luntary Recommendation; and forming the moft ardent Vows, that the Event, wherein the Effe@ of fuch a provifion will be experienced, may, by the Goodnefs of Providence to thefe Kingdoms, be removed for a long Courfle of Years. Permit us, on this Occafion, to renew to Your Ma- jifty the moft unfeigned Affurances of inviolable Duty and Affe@ion, and to exprefs our thankful Acknowledg- ments for Your gracious Approbation of our Proceed- ing hitherto. Nothing can equal our Zesl for Your Mzjefty's Support ; Nor fhall any Thing be wanting that depends upon us,to bring thisSeffion to a fpeedy and happy- Concluficn, anfwerable to Your Majefty’s juft sxpeclations. ) P L e Wi have received the following [urprifing account from a place called Middleton, near Tamworth, viz, That the widow Walker of that place, who had kept her bed for = year and half through lemenefs, had, a few days ago, her legs, thighs, and arms all broke, and one of'her arms in two: places, whilft in bed, without any accident; for which no-account can be given. . Weare informed, that one of the Lieutenants of the Minerva, who had kept his bed, through indifpofition fome days, was (o animated at the profpgét of coming to a&tion with the Warwick, that he kept the deck, and gallantly performed his duty, but was obliged after the viflory to retreat from his fatigues. What appears re- markable in this affair,is,that his bed was fhotto pieces : fo that had he continued inactive, which his ficknefs would have fuficiently jultified, he had fell a vi&tim to the enemy.— Fortune favosurs the brave. April 7. It is faid that the propofed conditions of peace are nearly agreed to, and that the whols territory of Canada is to remain in our poffeflion. Letters from Saxony fay, that the King of Pruflis, wich his whole army arrived before Drefden the 24th ult. and had invefted that city, = . e s _ A-Czution is Tea Drinkers. ‘On Wednefday the 4th of March laft, a remarksble socident happened at Mr. Stickland’s, at Chalwel farm in Derfet, as he and his family, confifting of & wite snd five children, were drinking of tea in the afternoon, hé obicrved, after drinking of two or three difhes, that the t=x Jooked of a darker colour then ufuzl, and had mo flavcur,upon which after various furmifes of what fhould be the reafon, the kettle was exsmined, wherein, to their greataftonithment,they found alarge toad, boiled to that degree,that the legs were {eperated from the bady ; upon this alarming circumftance, they all feemed greadly in- difpofed,concluding themlelves poifoned, & feit direstly for an apothecary, who very prudently gave esch of them a large dofe of falad oil, which both purged and vomited them plentifully, and thereby, s prefumed happily recovered them, as they all feem out of danger. KINGSTON, in Famaica, April 11, Extralt of a Letter from Capt. Brown, Commander of the Hawke Privateer Brig, to bis Ouwners in Kingfisn, dated Morant, April 3. 1761. *“ On the 29th ot March, being off the Grand Ky- metias, fent in my tendersnd yawl, which the nextday returned, and gave an account, that they had difcovered, lying at anchor, two very large floops, 1 of 10 carriage guns and 64 men ; the other of 12 carriage guns & 75 men. The pext morning; having s fine wind, we ftood in, and about 12 came in fight of them ; they immedi- ately got under way, snd ftood from us, but finding we had the heels of them, bro’t to, in order to engage us, with Dutch coloursfiying. We then hail’d them, to which they anfwered, they were coming on bosrd. "They then got out their ftink- pots, and the engagement began very brik on both fides; our people fired very well, feldom miffing their hulls, but the enemy fired high, in orderto damage our rigging, which was fo well executed, that the firft brondfide carried away our fore- topmaft, and moft of our fore rigging, on which we inftantly boarded the weathermoft {loop fword in hand, when enfued 2 very bloody battle, but my brave of- ficers and (eamen foon beat them from their quarters, and obliged 30 of themto jump overboard, and the remainder were ali either killed or dangeroufly wound- ed. During this ation the largeft floop being under our ftern, raked us, but we foon got clesr, and began to fire at her, on which fhe madeoff. . They were from Port- au-Prince, bound to St. Euftatia.™ L O N D O N, April 6. LIST of the Men of War, & commanded by the Hon. AUGUSTUS KEPPEL. Rate. Skips Names. Guns. Commanders. 2d Sandwich 90 g Ricbard Norbary, - on. Com. Keppel. 3. Vliant 72 }Adam Dungan. s 2d Superb 74 Jofhua Rowley. 3d Dragon 24 Archibald Clevland. 3d Temeraire %4 Matthew Barton. 3d Torbay 74 William Brete, 3d Swikifurs 68 Sir Tho. Stenhope, 2d. in Command. 3d Eflex 64 Alex. Schomberg. 3d Hampton Ccurt 66 Carr Scroope. 4h Achilles 60 Hon. Sum. Barrington. 3d - Alcide 64 Thomas Hankerfon ; not ready but to follow. 4tb Prince of Orange 60 Samuc) Wallis. Befides the above 12 ftout thips of the lice of battle are the following frigates, viz. Launcefton—f{siled before to the Madeiras to pre- pare wine. Southampton. Flamborough. Alborough. Lynn. Adventure. Slogps.— Efcorte. Alderney and Fly. Bombs.—Firedrake. Infernal. Firefbips.— Vefuvius, Ztna. Aquillon, Frigste, to go part of the way. Two cutters and one chaile mari. HALIF A X, in Nova-Scotia, May 14. The Hon. Fomathan Belcher, Eiq; Prefident of his Majefty’s Council, and Commander in-Chief of this Province,has been pleafed to appoint Tuelday the Ninth Day of june next, to be obferved as 2 Day of public Fafling and Prayer throughaut this Province. Latt Sundsy night, one of Major Gorhim’s rangers named John Tambrow, de/pairing of the mercy of God, and theDevil getting the predominant over him [o as to perfwade him to be acceflary in his own desth ; which he effeCted in the following manner. By tying a fmall cord to the tricker of his firelock, with s loop atthe other end in which he put his foot, and putting the muz- zle to the temple of his head, by the movement of his foot pull’d the tricker, which in an inftant put a period to his days. PHILADELPHIA, June 4. Captain-Banning, late of the Schooner Friendfhip, of Maryland, writes from Martineco, ‘April 23, that he was taken on his Paflage to Barbados, and fent in there, the 16¢h of that Month: That a Privateer Brig was fitting out, defigned for this Coaft : That two ef our Men of War had appesred off St: Pierre’s, one as a Flag of Truce, and fent in her Boats with the Prifoners, which was 'detained, on pretence that fhe was cruifing with the other Man of War, who had taken a Ship go- ing in ‘there : And that they expefted the Englith Fleet daily, and were making what Preparations they could againft an Attack. , Captain Pyne, of the Dreadnought, belonging to St. Chriftopher’s ,writes from Virginia, That he was taken by a French Frigate in Lat. 26, 12, which had alfo taken Captain Williams, in @ Privateer, likewife of Sr. Chriftophers ; Captain Baldwin, in & Schooner bound to New.England ; and two Veflels from Monto-Chrifti pa - - 175 Men, in Lat. 32, 33. took; Captuin Jdie¥ «in & Ship from Carolina; two Vefie's, befonging to Miw: York ; and was in Chace of a Ship, Exitrelt of o Letter from Wisthefer, May 26, 1761, *“-We are now on the March to (he Souchward ;- out how {ar we fhall proceed againit the Cherpkees, 1s notknown. Thaey received aSurcke futely fiom e Northern Indians, within & Mie ot Fore Chiflel, our advenced Poft. They stiacked their Camp in the Night, killed fix on the Spor, and wounded a grcal many. Next Morning the Cherokees delivered up theic Women and wounded Men inio the Hatds of Major Lewis, and begged he would take care of theim, until they fthould look who bed hurt them.” N'E W-Y OR K, June 4, : We hear from New Jerfey that the Rev. Mr. James Finley is cholen Prefident of (he College 2t Prince Town. N E WP O R T, Rhode-Ifland, May 12, On. Wednefday lalt-died “here the Lady Carolina - T aged about g8 years, and is faid to be of Royal extract : She was brought hither foon after Her birth by her Guardizns, who poffeffing more good natare. than found policy, fuffer’d -their Ward ¢0 ruin up wild, and without the leaft edueation. She was well featur'd, fave a [quint eye, which fhe got carly in her yoush, in a fright fhe took at fuperftition, . .. which fhe had mif- taken for religion. Want of education laid her open to all ill advice, and foon form’d her charaler, viz. That fhe had beauty without chaftity, pride without riches, and confidence without knowledge : She open’d her commerce,by carrying to market her probity,which fhe barter'd away for a piece of political srithmatick, which taught ber how to pay a fhilliog debt with two pence : neverthelefs fhe blunder’don with fome thew of modefty, till about thirty years ago, when two of her principal guardians confumated her debauch ; the one aflzil’d her with force, and the other money, and have enjoyed her alternately ever fince till the day of her ceath, when both folicited her embraces together ; this produced s quarrel, eich one drew their fword, and like Quixots at a puppet-fhew, [o laid about them, that moit ftanders by hop’d they would cut each other’s throat ;: Butajge! Madam received a mortal wound in the fray, and is dead. A mandamusis expefted from the chief coroner, to take an inquifition Super Vifum Corporis : After which,at her interment, will be a fermon, from 2Kings. : Chap. ix. and part of the 34th verfe, Go /2s mogy this curfed Woman,and bury ber ; for fbe is a King's Daugbter. B0 8T GO ]uncl;.b Laft Tuelday Evening one- Jeremiah Dexter of Wal- pole, @ Trader, was detected in offering falfe and conn-: terfeit Dollars, in this Town ; and being spprehended and examined,there were fourd upon him Five of them, caft ina Mould, they were made of Pewter or fome bafe Metal ; and want near 3 Penny weight, of the Weighs , of genuine Ones. He atfirft made very weak-and eva- five Anfwers to excule himfelf ; but being committed. to Prifon, he confefled the next Morning with Tears, that they were of his own making, and that he had na more than thofe Five ; and then faid he hed no Ac- complices : Notwithftanding which, we hesr he has fince accufed one of being concerned with him, after whom & Warrant for apprehending him was iflued Yecfterday. The lame Day Capt. Bartleit srrived at Marblchesd from the Weft Indies : On his Paffage near the Latitude of Bermudas, he was taken by & French Privateer ang ranfomed his veflcl for 3000 Dollars. Yefterday an Officer came to Town in 2o Days from Montreal, who informs, that, .... All is Well in that Quarter. 1 There is Advice byLetters from the Rev. Mr. White- field, dated in February laft, that on the lsft General Faftin England, he had colle&ted fwo Hundred and Fifty Pounds Sterling, for the Relief of the Suflerers by the late Great Fire in this Town ; which morey is ordered into the hands of the truftees appointed for recciving and diftributing thefe charitable Donations. ] We hear from Middletown in Connefticut, that on Monday the 11t Inftant, died there greatly lamented, the Rev. Mr. William Ruffel, Paftor of the firft Church in that Place, aged about 70 Years. We hear from Newport,Rhode 1fland, that laft Week two French Dutch Prizes were fent in there, ope taken by Capr. Sweet in & Privateer belonging to that Place, viz. @ Sloop bound from Old Franceto the Cape, laden with dry Goods, Wine, &c....The other a large Sloop bound from the Cape, laden with Sugar, Coffée and Indigo, taken by Capt. Hanfen in a Privatecr belonging to the Welt Indies, after & fmart Engagement, in which feveral were killed on both Sides ; Capt. Hanfen had alfo taken two other Prizes from the fame Place a2nd fene them to New York. 2 The following Paragraph was publifbed in the Cork * Evening Poff of the 27th ¢f February The Gloucefter Journal of Saturday laft has the fol- lowing extract of a letter from a gentleman of diftinétion in London to his friend in Glouceiter, dated Feb. 16, “ I am now to inform you, what perhaps niay be new to you at fuch a diftance ; the King of Praffie has lacely made us a vifit here : This now engrofies cur conver- fation. ' That great man, wilely coufidering the de/ays neceflarily attending negotiations, left the repofe he en- joyed at Leipfic, after a moft aétive campaign, to do ( what would bé beft done by himfelf ) his bufinefs here, He ftaid but few days in town, during which ke wait- ed on his Majefty at St. James’s, with whom he had & long private conference. He lodged at his Minifter’s L for New Yotk, And that & Brig of 14 Gu ns, and hetfe, never went out but in a chair, was at the plog in B o i ’ N \