The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, August 21, 1761, Page 1

- New- VZ ‘ t [ THE FRIDAY, AvucusT 2r1. 1761, 2 Hampfhire Containing the Frefbeft Advices, - Tothe PRINTER: AS the following relates to the Publick, pleafe to give it @ Place in your Paper ; SBPESPunovaTion in Philofophy, as in other Qoo epsd things, genenlly meets with Oppofi- P I 6% tion, and has Perjadices to cocounter. &l s Itis not leng fince the uleiu nels of S ddeps Iron Rodsin depriving the Clouds of S20% PP their eledt.ical Qualities has been dif- cover’d, and rationally demonftrated to every unbiafied Mind : Yet this new Dorine however evident has been publickly combzied. A few Yards of Wire were not long ago the Caufe of Earthquakes; and the fame . “harmlefs Wire has been lately accufed of bringing upon 4 ! us the prefent calamitous Drought. This laft Sug- geftion as it is propafed in your Paper, ( No. 2975 *) deierves our Confiderstion. The Effay, which I have yeference to, was figned Acapemicus, and was *‘ in- fested in your valuable weekly Colleétion "', for the ex- amination of the Public.—Every Man therefore has a Right to propofe his Objeétions, or confirm the Author’s Theory : In doing which, I fhill not undertske to eriticife upon the Propriety of his Expreffions, but can- vafs his Sentiments with Impartiality and Candour. “We are told in the sbovemen:ioned Eflay, that ¢ the Ele@rical Fire in the Clouds does frequently produce Rain * ; and that in the following manner ; ¢ At the spproach of two Clouds differcntly electtified, the Particles of Water in each, attra& one another, come into Contat, &c.” We cannot, have any immediate Praof of the Opzrations of Clouds upon one another ; becaufe they fall not under the Cagnizance of our Sen- fes = Bat by arguing from Analogy from the known Laws of Ele&@ricity, the Affertion of the Author will be found impofiible, For one eleflrified Body ap- proaching angther Rody eleflrified in a lels Pegree, will communicate to it Part of its eleftrical Subftance : This Communication will be before the Bodies come into Contaét ; and the greater the Diffcrence of the eleétrical Subftance they contain, the greater will be the Diftance, at which they will communicate : [mmedi. ately upon their Commuaication they repel one another with confiderable Force. Thefe Things admitof ex- perimental Evidence. Now the Aturation between the Particles of Water is infenfible at the leaft fenfible Riftance. This Attraltion then cannot be fo firongas to overcome the repeilant Power of the Clouds, can- not bring them into cortalt, and fo in this Way cannot produce Rain ; Thus after a Thunder Clap no re- mackable Shower is likely to fucceed : But Oblerva- gion convinces us of the contrary. The true Caufe of ‘this Phz1romenon, I humbly conceive, is the Heat of - e eleftrical Fire, which rarefies the contiguous Air ; “and as the Air becomes more rare, the Vapours, which were before fupported, muft neceffarily fall : By being rarefisd alfo, the Air muft expsnd itielt every Way and in expanding, it will croud Particles of Water in each Cloud neaer together, and larger Spherules will be forined, which conititute Rain, Tuereare two other Arguments, which the Author s ules to prove his Charge againft the Iron Points: The firll is, the prefent unulual Intrequence of Thunder and Lightning ; and the other, the narrow Extent of the ! Drought. As to the firft; It is » potent Argument, I confefs, 2ud fuch au onc ss No Perfon cou’d reafon- mbly cxp:& from the firft Specimen of the Author’s philofophical Enquiries »:. Bat (o render it valil and unexcepticnsble, he ought to have proved the Poffibi- lity of Rain’s proceeding from Lightning, or ( to fpeak more philofophically ) from the eleétrical Qualities of the Clouds, of which Lightning and Thunder are but the Efedts 5 and then that no other Caufe cou'd be concerned in producing the prefent Scarcity of Rain, T am certain, no direét Proof can be brought to make out the conclufivenefs of his Argument ; and if there cou'd, it will follow, that we can have no Rain in Winter, which is abfurd. The true Caufe why we have o little Thunder and Lightning at prefent, with Submiflion to the learned and judicious Author, [ take to be this ; That the Vapours which conftitute Clouds, are at prefent chiefly rzifed from the Sea. The Sea abounds with Salt, which is an eletric per /¢, and con- - fequently by Aurition from the conftant Agitation of the Waters will produce the elc&rical Subftance, and fo will communicate it ta the alcending Vapours: Clouds exhaled from the Ses muft be elc€trified nearly in an equal Degree, as the Califc cannot be fubjet to any great Changes: Thele Clouds approaching near one another - cannot produce any confijerable Shock. Clouds rais’d trom the Earth are lels eleflrified than fuch as are yais’d from the Sea, between thefe then it is likely there may be a comunicztion ; But in a very dry Time the Earth can afford butfew Vapours, The grester Part of the Clouds by far will be Evaporations from the Ses, which are commonly not very uncqually eledtrified ; * Serthe Boftin News Letter, e Heacein a dry.Time therecannot be much Thunder and Lightning. .It is anneceflary heie te regard the pommunicntion Fetweer re Eurth and ;%uds, as it is o where fuggelted, [w this is the Crab R si » THE other Argament is falle in Poin‘fha X t‘Q'r the Want of Rain extends as far back a5 here o, Igh- habitants .. . An Extent I believe the Author dic; ‘IL comprehend in his Idea of s few Miles, y Tue Author propofed his Query cofeerning (b prefcnc Drought, to de capvalsd by the barned apid judicious ; and as he himfelf has canwifs’s, ity 1 ,:t natuzaliy led to conclude thut he is boh VeanPd we judicious : I therefore beg the Author ¥Would xdz}e the following Quesizs ; WaY the two laft Years, fince which there hdve been few Wires erected, were fo remarkably rainy ? ( Way Philadelphis, which has mote Wires ere€iad than any Town on the Continent, has Rain enough ? Wuy Cafco Bay, which has no Points within jo Miles, faffers for want of Rain as much as Cambridge,? WuEn the Author has fatisfaltorily clear’d up theie Points, in & way which may ¢ preiend to any Sort of philofophical Selution,” we fhall be better able to judge concerning the Queftion he propofes, and will readily scknowledge him both learned and judicious. Tue Influence of the Iron Points is not very exs tenfive : Objels at the diftance of half a Mile have been ftruck with Lightning ; their Efficacy therefore muft be imperceptible st the diftance of a Mile, which is an Allowance,that perhaps greatly exceeds theReality of the Thing. The Influence of the Iron Points muit decreafe in the fame Proporion that the Influence of other Bodies do, whole Virtue or Power is propagated from a Point; and this is known in diffcrent Places to be reciprocally in a duplicate Ratio of their Diftances from the Center of it's Propsgation. Since then the Energy of the Attradtion of the Wire extends not in sny fenfible Degree more than a Mile, beyond that Diftance they will have Rain 23 ufuzl, and the Wire will be the Center of the greateft Drought, which is contrary to matter of Fa&t. I¢ I may be permitted to give my Opinion concern- ing the natural Caule of the prefent Drought, it is this 3 The Earth becomes hot to a very great Degree : The extreordinary Heat of the Earth is communicaced to the lower Regions of the Air. The Vapours then condenfing in the higher Regions of the Air, and begin- ning to fall,meet with conftant Succeflions of very warm Air,which rarefies it and caufes it to difperfe every Way. Thus extreme Heat as well as extreme Cold equally hin- ders the fall of Vapours. What remarkebly verifies this Solusion is that common Oblervation of People; That in & very dry Time ell Signs of Rsin fail : Thisis an Effe& that abvioufly follows from the Caufe T have afligned. It feldom 1ains in Summer unlels an eafterly Gale cools the Air. Upon high Hills, which are slways cool, more Rain generally falls, than in the Vallies. Rain alfo in hot and dry Summers is obferved to fall more plentifully upon large Rivers than on the diftant Plains. ‘Thefe Things I know not how to account for, without fuppofing them to proceed from the Caufe I have men- tioned. Every Perfon may form to himfelf an Ides of what I have afferted, by confidering the Cafe of anin- verted Still, which fuggefts Jo eafy and natural an Ides, *twill be needlefs to run the Parallel between thern: To conclude, From hence it evidently sppears, that in a dry Time cateris paribus,the longer a Scarcity ofRg continues, the more likely it is to continue. 7 Portfmonth, Fuly 22. 1761, W. W.\ i Wbile we are bere vifited with 2 long Drought, toe baue Accounts from the Southern Parts of this Camim?, particularly Seuth and North Carolina, that they baype bad exceeding beavy Rains there 5 and in the London Prints we find that the Rains in England bad drivin great Numbers of poor Haymakers, boath Men and Women; to leek Relief, that on the 3d of Fune the Merchants of the Royal Exchange made a Colleftion among themfelvés to the. Amount of 17 . and difiributed it equally amoig 129 of thew 5 and the next Day 12 4. more was collec- ted and given them. v Naples, 4pril 28. The 3000 Recruits, raifed by Order. of the Court, sre complete, and on their March to the Camp at Sors. Captain Peppe has entirely cleared the Sicilsn feas of theBarbary Corfairs. Five Knights are juft fet out from hence for Malts, where we hear the Grain furnithed by the Pope is fafely arrived. The Maltefe Am- baflador is gone to wait on his Holinefs, to thank him for this great Matk of his Favour. The Ottoman Fleet was to fail on the 23d ult. Ac- cording to the general Accounts, it confifts of zo fail of the Line, 6 Galleys, and 2 large Number of {maller \}/:ffcla and Corfairs, who have received O:dess to join them, ; Nums, 253 G Werks fifice this PapER was firft Publifh’d. AZETTE Foreign and Domeflick. Francfort on the Oder, May 1. A large Party from the Ruffisn Army is advancing towards S“Ch!l, and’ waiis only 1o be fullowed by theirAriillery and Draught Horles, which are become very fcarce in this Countrys They have alresdyformed o Camp 2t Bojanovs, which they are continually fortiiying wnd have a confiderable Msgezine at Polen, guarded by a Body of Cofaques srrived fzom the Ukrmine. Altena, May 11, Oar left Advices from Pomeraniz bring an Account,that ihe Moriality among the Horned _sttle, rages there with (o much Violence, that in fome Parts there is not cne remaising alive. Altena, May 15. There were Yefterday two very interelting Reporis fpread, but we cannit as yet lay any Strefs upon the Truth of them. One wasthat 2 Body, of 10,000 Pruffians having attacked near Bautzen @ Body of Troops, which Marfhal Daun had detached. from his Army to reinforce General Lsudohn in Silefis, had totally defeated them. The other was, that the King of Pruffia having pafled the Elbe on the 5th Inft: with moft of his Forces, was foon after obliged to re< pals that River. Tke following ADDRESS is faid te bave been prefentsd to his late Majefly King Grorce 1. on bis Acceffion to the Throne, by the Crew of the Orford Manof War 3 and as it appears to us to be made in Charalier, and to abound with Wit, as well as plain good Senfe, we judge, & Publication of it will not be unacceptable.” OST gracious Soverign Lord our King, Since all your Lands their Tribute bring Of Loyalty—— juit Duty, plesfe To accept the Homage of your Seas : Neptune, who under you commands, Craves Leave to come and kifs your Hands 3 And we your Servants, Sonsto him, Give you three Cheers from Scern to Stem 3 And pray while we can {plice a Rope, Youlive the Anchor of our hope. We mourn’d your royal Father dead, But Joy takes Place that you fucceedg Your royal Confort next we hail Mauy fhe long ride in gentel Gale, And the lov’d Offspring never fail. Receive thefe Dues, rcugh as they run; Rough as the Element we're on ; For they’er fincere, and not for Show Nor from dry thoughtlefs Cuftem fluw, But a true Senfe of what we owe. Our Duty does not bounce nor boil ; Our Pens not dipp’d in Ox‘ord Oil ; We ufe no Tinfel Arts to prove "The force and Ardour of cur Love : But come as poor plain-dealing Folk, To tell you that we’ve' Hearts of Osky As true as.ever ftruck a Stroke. Nor do we make our Zeal abound With twenty Shillings in the Pound 3 But we’ll do for you all we can, And 1ll ftand by you to a Man. Do Tempefts roar or Billows tofs, Do Combinations mske a Fufs, We’ll fteer you (afe, Sir, . . .. . Thus, Boys, thus. Speak, and we'll let your Thunder fly, - And make the World dance Barnaby ; Bring the Pretender to the Jeers, And cut off all the Rebels Ears; Mike hufiing Phil and Charles obey Your Sceptre, keep us but in Pay. If our King afks us, who are youn ? ‘We humble anfwer, Otford’s Crew : Let who elle dare, we anfwer bluff, We're Orford’s Men and that’s enough. LONDON. On bearing the elegant FORDYCE preach. E E graceful FORDYCE, lucent nosthern ftar, Attracks the wand’ring fceptic from afar 3 Sublime in eloquence he points the way ! T'o certain manfions of eternal day ; ; Whilt he inftruéts the leain’d to preach, the great ) to pray, : The greedy audience, crowding to admire, And blefs thofe lips, touch’d with celeftial fire ; - Such truth, fuch grace, on ev’ry accent hung, " Such rapt’ harmony flows fi his ton pt’rous y flows from his tengue, You'd thing ’twas he the royal lyre had ftrung, }i ALL Perfons indebted to, or that have any Demands on the Eftate of Bartbslomers Thing, Jate of Epping, Yeoman, deceafed, are defired to bring in their Accounts to Martba Thing, Admini- ftratrix on faid Eftate, and Widow of the faid Deceas’d, in order for Settlement, > P