The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, September 4, 1761, Page 1

k' FRIDA | | ) £ THE - ‘v : . Tbe following VERSES were compofed by a pisus Clergy- man in Virginis, who preaches to feven Congregations, ' the nearef? of which meets atthe Diffance of five Miles \ Jrom bis Houfe, as be was retarning bome in a very gloomy and rainy Night. Poflels my Soul, and folemn Thoughts infpire. The facred Hours, that with too fwife « Wing Inceflant hurry by, nor quite elaps’d, Demand s ferious Clofe;, ‘Then be my Soul Sedate and folemn, as this Gloom of Night, Thet thickens round me. Free from Care, compos'd " Be all my Soul, as this dread Solitude, ' S Thro> which with gloomy Joy I meke my Way. Above thefe Clouds, above the fpacious Sky, , In whofe vaft Arch thefe cloudy Oceans roll, | . Difpenfing Fataels to the World below ; ! 'There dwells The MajesTy whofe fingle Hand Props univer(sl Nature,snd who deals His lik’ral Bleflings to this little Globe, The Refidence of Worms ; where 4dam’s Sons, Thoughtle(s of Him, who tsught their Souls to think, ! i Rambiein vain Pur(uits,. The Hofts of Heav’n, Bt Ciierubs and Sezraphs, Potentates and Thrones, Array’d in glorious Light, hover on Wing Before his T'hrone, and wait his fov’reign Nod @ With aétive Zesl, with facred Rapture fir'd, ML "T'o his extentfive Empire’s utmoft Bound b T'hey bear his Orders, and his Charge perform. ‘4 Yet He, ev'n He, ( ye Minifters of Flame, % Admire the Condefcenfion and the Grace !) Employs a Mortal form’d of meaneft Clay, Debas’d by Sin, whole beft Defer: is Hell ; Employs him te proclaim a Saviour’s Name, And offer Pardon to a rebel World. This Day my Tongue, the Glory of my Franie, Enjoy’d the Honour of his Advocate : Immortal Souls, of more tranicendent Worth /! Than Ophir, or Pera's exhauftle(s Mines, Are trufted to my Care.. Important Truft ! ; What if fome wretched Soul, ( tremendous Thought ! ) Once favour’d with the Golpel’s joyful Sound, Now loft forever loft thro’ my Negledt, In dire inferna! Glooms, with flaming Tongue; Be heaping Execrations on my Head, W hilft here fecure I dream my Life away ! What if fome Ghoit, cat off trom Lite and Hope, With fierce deipairing Eyes up turn’d to Heav'n, That wildly ftare, and wiinels Horrors huge, Be roaring horfid, ¢ Lorp; avenge my Blood On that unpitying Wretch, who [aw me run With full Career the dire inchanting Road To thele devouring Flames, yet warn’d me not, - Or feintly warn'd me § and with languid Tore, And cool Harangue; denotinc’d Eternal Fire, vt And Wegth Divine 2" At the dread fhocking Thought My Spirit fhudders; all my inmoft Soul Trembles and thrinks. Sure,if the plaintive Cries Ot Spiris reprobate can reach the Ear Oi'their Great Jupae, they muft be Cries like thefe: Butif the meanett of the happy Choir, "Chat with eternal Symphonies farround . 'T'ne heav'nly Throne, can {ftand, and thus declare, ¥ «’[gwe it to his Care that [an here, Next to Almighty Graee : His faichtul Hand, /-~ Regardiefs ot the Frowns he might incur, Snatch’d me, relu@ant, from approacaing Flames; £ Ready to catch, and burn unguenchable : May richeft Grace reward his pious Zeal With foue bright Manfion in this World of Blifs.” Tranfporting Thought ! Then blefled be the Hand "That form’d my elemental Clay to Man, And fill fupporis me. "Tis worth while to live; : If I may live to Rarpoles fo great. ty » Awake my dormant Zeal ! for ever flame ( W ith gen'rous Ardors for immortal Souls : And may my Head end Tongue, and Heart, and ali; Spend and be fpet in Service o divine. — ———————— — ——— p——— i 4t P i S, S Drefden, Mey 29. ~ 7be King of Pruffiz has now got ints Silcfia 3 and the Army of the Empire, upon which it was imagived that Monarch wonld fall before ke left Thuringia, is now happily out of Danger. We now Jee what Strefs can be laid apon the Englifb and Pruffian dc- counts, in regard to the Forces of this Ally of England. About fix Weeks ago, they repeatedly told us, shat his Pruffian Majefty was fironger by 30,000 Men, thea in the preceeding Campaigns 5 that is te lay, that be bad 200, 000 Men on Foot : Now their Tone is altered, and they ol zell us be has only 70,000 men in Silefia 5 50,000 in Saxony s 1§ or 16,000 in the Marches of Pomerania, ewhich amount in the whole but to about 120, or 130,000 Men. Thisis fill a great Force 5 but if Fortune favours | the Praffian Arms, this Number will alfo be lffened, in \usrder to raife the Reputatica of the Congusror 3 and if the | COME, heav'nly penfive Contemplation, come, e — 44 Containing the Frefbeff Advices, | G contrary [bould happen, 30 or 45,000 will fosn be raifes upon Paper, in order to foew thevaf? rejourfes of the van- quifbed. 1t is however, fall, toat bis Pruffian Majefiy bas in the Field, all the men ke kFas been able to raife. Lafl Year, before the Battle of Siplitz, the Garrifon of Magdebourg confifted of two EBattalions ; and the oldeft Perfon that bore Arms, was #ol above fiftcen Years of Age. Maubert. L9 No. oK) N, Junea, Extralt of a Letter frois 4 Uferchant at 'Fheflslonie; the Capital of Macedonis, to bis Friend in London. e Onfiderable Havock has been made by the Plague here, though it is now pretty well over; but, what with the Earthquake of lalt Year, the rum- bling Noifes ftill heard, and feveral fevere Shocks which happen almoft every Day, the Country is become de- folate, and the beft Part of this magnificent City laid in Ruins. Itis a moft difmal Sight to behold ftately Palaces, and ncble Buildings, levelled with the Ground,- befides Numbers of Perfons oé various Quality that are buried in the Ruins, and the Stench of whofe Carcafies occafioned the additional Misfortune of the sbove men- tioned Plague ; the latter, however being, thank God, now abated, Numbers of Perfons are employed in re- moving the Rubbifh, in order to recover their Jewels and other valuable Effe@s. The Bathaw and principzl Lnhabitants are likewile doing all they can to seftore Things to their former Order. « Yefterday we were terribly alarmed by 8 prodigions Ball of Fire, which rofe. from the Earth in the fouth ealt Parc of the City, and directed it'sCourfe horizontally towards the Weft, where cntering a dark bisck Cloud, it burft with a prodigious Joud Noife, attended with Thunder and Flsfhey of Fire ; fo that it feemed as if Heaven and Earth Bad been coming together. This was followed by fo violent a Shower of Rain, that it threatsed a fecond Deluge. God preferve us, my dear Friend, amiaft this Complication of Trounbles ! ” Extraét of a Leiter frem Durbam, Fune s, ¢ This morning we had the moft terrible Tempeft, within & Qusrter ‘of a Mill of this City, ever known in thefe Parts. What is very rema:kable; the Effe&s of it were confined to one Wood : It has levelled moft of the Trees to the Ground, {tripped many of the Ouks, and totally deftroyed one of the pleafanteft Foot Walks inthis neighbourhood. What is very uniccauntable, it came in a Current of Air from the neighbouringHills, and vented its Fury.on this Wood, which is fuppoled to be the firft Place wheré it met with any Refiitance ; it then fpentitfelf upon the River which was obferved by many Speftators to be violently agitaed. Some think it to be an Eruption of foul Air, 2 long Time con- fined, and opened by the late Commotions of the Earth. Itis hopsd fome of yaur learned Readers will endeavour to sccount for it.” s Fune 9. In the great Room st Vauxhall a large hiftorical Painting has been lately put up, reprefenting the Surrender of Montrea! in Canada, to the vitorious Arms of Great Britein, commanded by Msjor General Amberft. This Officer in the Regimensals, is the capital Figure ig the Piece : He ftands at the Front of his Tent, with fome Attencants, holding in his hard s Paper, fuppofed to be the Articies of Capitulation. On the Ground, at his Feet; are a Pair of krench Colours, as Emblems of Conqueit ; before him, is a Group of Figures, fuppoled to be Inhabitants of Montresl come to fupplicate Mercy, who, we may imagine, are inWant of Subfiftence, by a Bafket full of Losves being pleced at his Side, which he feems to order thall be diftributed emonglt them. On a cominemorating Stone, at one Corner of the Piece is the monumental Infcrip.ion : POWER EXERTED CONQUEST OBTAINED, MERCY SHEWN ! / M, DCC LX. ] At the oppofite Corner is 8 Csnnon meunted on its Carriage, on which is feen flying a Britifh Enfign. This Painting is aid to be done by the ingenious Mr. Hay- man; and the Room it is believed will be further ornariien.ed with other Piintings of the fame hiftorial Kind, We have Advice by Lettcrs, from Nova Scotia, of great Traétability of the Indians 3 who are now greatly pleated with their new Governors, and undeceived 3 relpecl to the many falfe Defcriptions and Relations the Freoch had given of the Englifh. We are informed, that a certain gredt Perfonage has very lately declared, that the longeftSword would bring forth 2 Peace and nothing elfe. g - On Wednefday laft the Agent to the Captors of Se-, negal finithed paying the Prize Money to the Sencgsl Coffee. Houfe, when the Share: of each Captain of the Men of War, amopnted to 10711 8 s. 6d, Lieutenants 131 ). 11 5. 6 d. Warrant Officers 5ol. Petty Officers 171, 14 5, 6 d. Common Men and Land Forces 4 1. each: - Nowue. 257 (Werxs fince this Pabr# {was firft Pubhifh’d, - AZETTE ~ Foreign and Dome/iic&. Faxe 15, Meflrs Leoney, Brothers and Merchants st Macieilles, have obtained, by the Parlisment of Paris, & Verdi&t againft the fuperior General of the whole Body ofgefuits in France, for 1,502,266 Liv. 2°Sol 2 Den. befides 50,000 Livres for Coft of Suit, Intereft; &c. for Bills of Exchange,. drawn at divers Times by Father Valette, a Jefuit at Martinico, which the faid Gentleman hon oured and paid. : : _In Maunfter nothing can equal the Mifery of the Peafants, who are ftripped of their Horfes, Cattle, and every Thing that is valoable ; and are fhortly likely to be furrounded by two hoftileArmies, which lik: a Fire fweep the Face of the whole Earth before them.— Brtiain, bow happy is thy Lot I who fafe in Sea girt Bulworks yatkereft, Laurels at aDiflance, axd parsakeft of 1beGleries without feeling the Horrors of War. ] They write from Paris, that the Grand Mafter hath declared Malta a free Port for all Chriftian Nations. The following letter, dated BELFAST, May 22, giving the moff particular account of the engagement between #be Duke deBiron privatcer and the Duke of Tulcany, we fball ley before our readers.. . eai o LAST Mondsy Captsin Edward Power, late of the thip Duke of Tufcany of “Briftol, arrived here, with one of the hands, and three other paflengers who were on board the [id fhip, by whom we have the following relation : ot iy ¢ ‘The fsid {hip beinga Letter of Marque, carrying eight guns, fsiled from Waterford Apnl 206th, with pailengers forNewfoundlgnd, in number, including the fhip’s crew, 211 ; and on May 1, at two in the after- noon, fell in with the Duke de Biron privateer of Dun- kisk, mounting 16_nine-pounders, with [wivels and mulquetoons, and 200 men, who gave chace to the Tufcany, and at half after three came up; wherevpon an engagement began and continued feven glaffes, when the Tulcany blew up, and funk in a few minutes; and only the Captain and four or five perfons were faved. < In the firk two hours of the a&ion the enemy had fhot away or difabled the Tulcany’s mafts, yards, &c. in fuch & manner that the veflel conld not be wrought. The enemy-keeping clofe on the Tarbord quanes, toaid - not bring any of their guns to bear, except the after- moft end fmall arms, bit they poured in great numbers of hand grenades; and ftink pots, fome of the tormer of which entering in at the cabbin windows, one rolled down thro’ the gangway into the magazine, 2nd blew up the fhip ; whereupon fhe wore quite round, 2nd then thole who remained alive on board endesvoured to board the enemy by fteering by the braces, sfter being knotted, fhe being toleeward ; but the privateer, difcovering their defign, bore away. The '[ufcany went down with flying colours, which {o exafperated the French, that they did not attempt to fave any of the crew. Captain Power was e quarter of an hour on the wreck; and then fripping, [wam for an hour and a° quarter more before he was taken up. ; « The enemy ‘ired cannifters of fingle ftones inftesd of langrage fhot; and often et the falls on fire by a com- buftible mattei confifting of tallow and turpentine, made iip in bladders; in the fhape of Bologna pudding. « There were, as near as could be computed, be- tween 80 iid o> killed and wounded, on board the Tufcany before the Blew up ; and the Duke de Biron had 32 killed, befides many wounded. T was foriierly holden that a Man might be indicted for a Slander of the Juftice of the Nation ( which intrufts the Megiftrate with-the Civil Power ) by re- fi:&ing on a Sentence given in any Court, Ecclefisftical or Temporsl, whether it be done direétly or indireélly., The Authority of a Government, can’t be maintained, unlefs the greateft Credit be given to'thofe who are [o highly intrufted with the Adminifiretion of Public Juftice ¢ and it would be impoffible for them to keep up in the People, that Refpect of their Perfpns, _m_d Submiflions to their Judgments, ( without which it is impoflible to eXecute theLaws wiih Rigour andSuccefs ), it they fhould be continuslly expofed to Calumny, &eq by thofe whole Partislity to their own Caules were in-, duced to think them(elves injured. A Gemlcman&fi: great leaning exprefles himfeli thus on this Subj:(t, viz. * If the Hands of the Civil Magiftrate are not * ftrengthned, the Office of Mugiftracy, muft become «ufelefs. Perfons of diffolute and bad Lives, and of « worle Manners : Perfons who defpife the Office of ¢ Magiftracy, and hate the Perlons of Magxfl:n.tcs L ¢ becaufe, Magiftrates punifh and controul their Crimes ¢ and reftrain them from AQs of Violence ; and from ¢ committing Diforders : Perfons who are prone to do # Milchief, and when they can do it with hopes of Im- ¢ punity, rarely fail to infult and abule the Perfons of ¢ Magiftrates, Thus the Hands of Civil Magiftrates ¢ are often weakened, when the Civil Magiftrate only, “can tame, lupprefs and prevent Riots and Diforders; « by punifhing Hiotous and diforderly Perlons,’