The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, January 15, 1762, Page 1

I FRIDAY, Januvsry rs. THE New-Hampthire | C_’ontdim’ng the Frefbeft Advices, LONDO N, O¢tober 17. 1761. A Letter from*** & Right Honorable Perfon to***¥%ip tbe City. ‘ DeARr Sir, ‘ e INDING to my great Sutprife that Ly the Caufe and Manner of my re- figning the Seals are grofly mifre- ¢y prefented in the City, as well as that the “ moft gracious and Spomtanous Marks of ¢ bis Majeity’. Approbation of my Servi- T3 A 4" xeW which Marks followed my Refig- § / ~ s Ll L] it e T, —— i . * ' | ¢ nation, have been infamoufly traduced ¢ as a Bargain for my forfaking the Pub- ¢¢ Tick, I am under a Neceffity of declar- ¢ ing the Truth of both thefe Fafts, in a _““ Manner which I am fure no Gentleman ¢ will contradi€t. A Difference of Opini- ¢ on with regard to Meafures to be taken ¢ ‘againft Spain, of the higheft importance ““ to the Honour of the Crown, and to the ¢, moft effential national Intereft (and this % foimgcd on whatSpain hadalready done, .“ not 6n what that Court may furcher in- *¢tend to do) was the Caufe of my refign- “¢'ing the Seals. Lord Temrre and I * 'fubmitted in writing, and figned by ¢ us, our moft humble Sentiments to his “ Majefty : sWhich being over-ruled by “ the united Opinion of all the reft of the “ King’s Servants, 1 refigned the Seals on * Monday the 5th of this Month, in or- ¥ der not to remain refponfable for Mea- *¢ fures which I was no longer allowed to ¢ guide. Moft gracious publick Marks of ke - his Majefty’s Approbation of my Servi- e ces, followed my Refignation : and [ P \¢¢ fhall ever be proud to have received ¢ them from the beft of Sovereigns. . I will now only add, My Dear Sir, '¢¢ that Thave explained thefe Matters only ¢ for the Honour of Truth, not in any “ View to counc return of Confidence * fromany Man, who witha Credulity as ¢ weak as it is injurious, has thoughe fic s haftily to withdraw his good Opinion ¢ from one who has ferved his Country «¢_with Fidelity and Succefs, and who jult- ‘“‘]y reveres the upright and candid Judg- ¢ ment of ity liccle folicitous about the ¢ Cenlures of the Capricious and the Un- ¢ generous. Accept my fincerelt Acknow- ¢ ledgements for all your kindFriendfhip, ¢ and believe me ever with Truth and ¢ Efteem, My Dear Sir, ¢ Your faithful Friend, &c.” LONDON Tothe P RIN T E R. Confefs myfelf té be ore of thofe, not at all convinced by tbe firong things that, without proofs, bave been faid againft our keeping CANADA 3 andas I conceive shat we bave a free liberty to debate that point at prefeit, while the country is in our bands ; and as I prefume, not likely to be takern from us, unlefs we are talked into a bumour of giving it up 3 I beg leave to offer fome reafons for keeping it, tho’ it [bould not bé Juch aparadife as fome have attempted 1o re- prefent it . in the firft place, methinks the keeping it . *would (hew, that we are confifient with our M\ fentiments s forif it was not worth keeping, P ‘wby were we at the expence of fo much blood and ireafure to acquire it 2 Why fuch rejoic- ings 2 Why fuch congratislations to the crown upon the acquifition? It may be faid, ibat ex- perience bas fince convinced us it is not worsh keeping . But on whefe experiences ought we to rely? the inbabitamis of our colonies bave not told us fo ; meither bave we beard ihis from the officers or faldiers by whom it was cenguered. 1t is agreed on all Lisds, that if we keep Canada, the inbabitants of - our plantations will bave nothing 10 do but 1o cultivate them ; they will be free from anmy apprebenfions of being attacked from thence, and notbing but keeping it can free them from thofe appreben- Jions 5 confequently, when they are free from them, their commerce with the mother country will be much greater and more profitable. The inbabitants of Canada, if we kecp it, will become more alZive and induftrious 5 be- caufe they will bave much greater encourage- ment to [upport themfelves,by their own induf- try,than they formerly bad; and the encourage- anent afforded them by the vicinity of & richer and beiter cultivated country, to harrafs and plunder its inbabitants, and to live in a JSate of war, even in the tiime of the moft pro- found peace, will be entively taken away. The climate and foilis certainly much mend- ed fince the French firft festled there ; the for- mer is become milder, énd the latter more Sruitful; farther cultivation, and greater po- pulation, the defiruclion of woods, the raifing of tswns and villages, will comtribute to a fartber melioration 5 and whatever our new conquefl may be, it will grow bstrer and bet- ter, {0 long as it remains in otir bands,and of confequence the inbabitants will grow richer. We can certainly fupply all their wants,as eafily, and at as cheap a vate as the French could da 5 and furnifb them @uch better, for carrying on their trade with the Indians : fo that whatever they acquire we [ball have ; and we fball bave the more, tbe more they acquire. We can eafily prevent their baving any communicavion with their old maflers, if they fhould dzfire it : But if we fupply thems upon better teriis, there is no reafon why they Jhould defire it. Upon the whole, thergfore, she acceffion of fuch a territory, and fuch a number of people, muft be very beneficial 16 this country, and therefore it feems belt to keep it. From the London Magazine . Foui AUGUS T ¥o8s - - The following account is tranfmitted from Paris :....At Chateauroux near Em- brun, there is a boy about 13 years of age, whofe name is William Gay ; and who if we may believe a number of perfons, has neither eat or drank any thing fince the t4th of April; 1760. His mouth has a lit- tle tinGure of vermillions a pale red over- fpreads his clieeks ; and he has a fmiling countenance, his belly 1s, as it were, join- ed to his back bone, and he voids neither urine nor excremient ; e fleeps regularly and foundly mine hours évery day. Since he hids cealed eating and drinking, he has had the fmall pox very wviolently, which has notin the leaft impair’d his conftitution. He ufed to be ailing during the time of his taking nourifhment, and has often been thrown into a lethargy of three days con- tinuance, All the food which they eam- Nums. 276 { Wceks fince this PAPER Lwas firlt Publith®™d, {GAZETTE Foreign and Dome MK ’dea?hrcd to give him afterwards, he voids ed thro” his nofe and ears. M. Fouraicr, the curace ofChateauroux, tqgk him hofre to his houfe for a whole month, and ap-.* pears perfeétly convinced of the reality of this extraordinary fa&. An accougt of fo- furprifing a phenomenon has been commu- filcated to the royal acadegny of fcienges. FTABVFVIVV LTSN 29 At Cumbernauld in Scotland they lately had a violent ftorm, attended with thunder and lightning, which have done great damage to the planting, and killed above 1000 crows 3 upon examination it appeared, that their bones were all broke, and their flefh quite black, and when of- fered to the hogs, they refufed to touch ir. A5 Account of the Burials in the Town of Bofton, and of the Baptifms in the feveral Churebes in the Town, for feven Years paft, Burialss . o Whites Blacks Total. § Baptifed: 175§ 419 65 484 || 442 1750 461 63 526 414% 1757 361 73 434 || 413 1758 476 57 524 || 423 1759 563 £4 524 || 376 1760 508 68 576 | 430 1761 448 83 531 | 412 Obfervations on the Ufe of the Bills of Mortality, with & CompPutation of the Number of People i . the knoton Part; of the Globe. T is & common cbfervation, derived from perufing a feries of bills of mortality, that in every king- dom more perfons are born than die ; and conle- quently thst the human fpecies are continually en- creafing. . Among all the obftacles that hinder the increafe of mankind, the peflilence is the greateft ; next to this are war, famine, and celebacy. The effets of the lutter are chiefly felt in Roman cathglic countries, ccesfioned by their great number of nun- neries and convents. All populous towns, in whiehe the births and deaths are at leaft equal, {uffer greatly from the irregulsr lives of the inhsbitants, together with their unhealthy fi:uations, and other circumftan- ces often attending them, z Itis agreed by all writers that the carth is capsble of fubfifting three thoufand millions of the human Ipecies, but a third part of that number never a&tually. exifted atone time. Perhaps the following fcheme, which has been calculated with confiderable attention,, nearly exhibits the nuthber of Mankind now on the furface of the globe. ) Great Britain 7500000 Aufirian .;(elami ,2600000 Netberlands . g rance 18400000 Switzerland & : Spain . 74c0000 Repub Geneya ot o ‘Partugal 3500000 Sweden 3400000 Ttaly 4100000 Denmark 2100000 Iflands in Me. | Norway 1600000 diterranean 2700000 Ruffia 17000000 Germany 20600000 ' Hungary 5000000 Republic of U- . Poland 3200000 wited Provinces 3200900; Turkey Europe 18400000 Thus centsins Eurdpe 125300000 : Afia 450000000 { 895300000 Africa 150000000 ' : America 160000000 r . If we reckon with the antients, thst & generation Iaft thirty three years, in that fpace 895,300,000 of men will be born snd die ; confequently 81762 will diec every day. - The lifts of chriftenings plainly prove that there are more males born than females, the ratio between them being as 21 to 20 ; but wars and other cafualtics re- duce them to an equality. So thst this proportion between the fexes is an unsn{werable srgument agsinitpoligamy. 1. T oy The incresfe and décréafé of the inhabitants of & tountry or town, is evident from the lifts of burials = and by ‘thefe the number of the living may alfo be nearly computed ; for, in large and populous ciiies; we may reckon 25 or 28 living perfons, tor every one that dies. In middling cities, as Copenhagen, Berlin, Breflau, &c: 29 or 30, but in _ the country 40 or 45. Wherefore fome ‘reckon, " that, in the towns and villages of & councry, uken'in-the_gr9&, one qut of 4o dies annually ; bus in. Londan dnd Paris, one nearly out of 20, « (] { ® ] %l 7‘ ~ P S