The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, January 15, 1762, Page 2

' To the Freeholders ! "Of thofe Places in the Province of New Hamesuire, which eajoy the Privilege of o fending Reprefentatives to the GENERAL ASSEMSLY ¢« GENTLEMEN, j . M S youare now invited,agreeable to that ! -4\ happy form of government undcr ' which ygadive, to chufe fuitable per- ’ * fons, to repre{eM you, and make one of the e ° three branches, of which that form is com- . pofed, youwill not takeit illto be remjgded ' of the importance of making a wife clivice, o -even tho’ your-monitor thould not be fo « Jucky, as to fit upon any fentiment, which has the appearance of novelty—for in that . ** cafe the good-will ought to be kindly ac- cepted, and awaken the caution of the 1 admonifhed. > . . You need ndreat labour to convince By % yoft, that your cheice is a matter of very confiderable confequence to your felves, if you refle, that your Reprefentatives have in a manner the command of your purfes ; and that you conftitute them the guardians of your properties, libertiesand privileges. | You are fenfible that exorbitant grants, or mifapplications of your monies, will in- timately affect you, from whatever fource they fpring. It will be much the fame ; thing in event, whether this happens thro’ i : avarice and felfith views,want of addrefs and dexterity in affairs, or meer ignorance. The fame may be faid witk refpeét to yourLaws, which are the Fountain of your liberties, the defence of your perfons and properties, and the proteCljon of all. Itis prefumed ; you are not infenfible, what place your Re- ! prefentatives hold in the bufinefs of Legifla- tion.—To them it more efpecially belongs, a: being more acquainted with the condia- on and circumftances of choie they repre- ' {ent, to nbferve what Jaws already enacted, Rl have been found by experience to be in- convenient, to alter, and amend them, and { introduce fuch new Laws as the fituation of ¢! public affairs demand ; and in a word, fo " to mould and frame them from time to time as to make the whole a regular fyftem, analagous to thofe of our mother country, differing only as circumitances differ, dnd thereby making the adminiftration of juftice eafy, and expeditious:— Here is a . large field, and you will be ready to fay, pi (if you tonfider it well) who among us are fufficient for thefe things 2 It is certain, in proportion as thefe things are obferved, the affairs of a Government will be either in J5) good order and condition, or perplexed and embarrafs’d— And if your choice fixes on .. fuch as are wholly ftrangers to fuch maters, ‘ ) are willing to continue in that ignorance, ot are fo contra&ed in their views as to make fome fcheme, to leffen the tax oa their ref- pective towns or parithes, the main object of their attention—or if they are fo du// and | beavy in their proceedings, doubting and [ hefitating in the plaine/t matters ; or which is il worfe, if they care for mone of iheje shings,—but only give their attendance to f bear their expences,while they do their own private bufinefs: in any or all of thefe cafes you will be the principal fufferers, becaule the public bufinefs will be neglected, left undone,whichin time will undo the people, while the inltruments of chis mifchief, will take effectual care to be well paid for their good fervices. : The confideration of thefe things fully i demontftrate, that the Elefzion of Reprefen- e tatives, can at no time be juftly deemed a b Jight and trifling affair ; that ro treat it with '\"/)» 4 indifference, muft be, to fay no worfe, an e € argument of great infenfibility, and inatten- w4, S _ zion to the public good, and is cenfurable as a criminal negligence— And the more involved ia difficulties, and the proper bu'—“' finefs of paft years, devolved on the prefent;, time.—But by this time you may be ready’ to enquire, what is to be done -~ We can ! chufe no better men cthan we nave—That’s true—but can you fay you have always in times palt chole thofe you really thought molt capable of ferving the public— that, to ‘ferve a turn, a party, er fome particular fcheme, had not the leaft influence on your choice.—~To affirm the former, fome may think carries in it an imputation, of which perhaps you wou’d not be fond.— But however the conduct of paft times has been, it is more to the purpofe to confi- der the time prefent— What is now to be done ?>— The anfwer i, do as ought always ‘to be (as well as to have been) done, in fuch cafes. Chufe thofe who are moft capable -of the fervice,and there is no great difficulty in finding them out.—~Therc is no town or parith, but the inhabitants, in the free exer- cife of their own judgment, can eafily turn theireyes,to the men among them moft capable of public bufinels—Such men, (to aliude to a phrafe well known in country towns) as bave knowledge of the times, and know what Ifrael ought to do. The people never mifs thefe men, when left to their own judgment : and I make no queftion but experience wou’d juftify this affertion, that in all the Governments in the planta- tions, which are of this form, the beft Affemblies have been chofen, when there has been the leaft pains and ftir to influence Ele@ions—If you fee perfons di&tating to others whom they ate to chufe, or telling fome plaufinle tale, to recommend their friends,can you fuppafe them difinterefted? Can you think the public good the motive at bottom—or when you fee one making intereft to be chofen, is he not to be fufpeét- ed of finifter views >—Who ever courted labour, fatigue and trouble, without a view to. fome advantage refulting from it ? — I thould therefore think aman who is really capable of the fervice, difgualified for it,by fuch a condu@t—It would be an abufe of Words, to call an Electian, made purfuant to cicher of thefe cales, the Yox Populi—~ There is one miftake into which many ot you are apt to fall, thatis, to think that an boneft man is qualified for any thing, tho’ you have a proverb again(t you, which tells yau, every boneft man is not fit for @ Juftice of the Peace.~ A man, however honeft, cannot take one ftep without knowlege of the bufinefs he has to do, and by his prin- ciples cughe not. A man of capacity, tho’ he wants that good principle, may do well to fecure bis reputation,— a regard to his characer among men,may induce him to do them all the good in this way, that isin his power. Upon the whole,—You may eafily difcover, that your Reprefentatives, have a great, and an arduous talk to perform, of which a meer honeft man may be utterly uncapable—In the difcharge of which, you are deeply interfted—Thac as it is a mat- ter fo very intereting to you, rather more than to themfelves, it ought to awaken your attention ; oblige you to ¢af off all prejudice, renounce all party meafures, keep in view the good of the whale communily : Remember you are all members of one family, or ( to bringit clofer ) of one body, and that if one member fuffers in the con- neétion and order of nature, all the other members fuffer with it. I am your Friend, and a Freeholder PusLricus, ; MMMMM [V WLV N A magnificent throne is almoft compleated n the houfe of Peers for his Majefty againft the mecting of the Parlisment, and all other neceflary difpofitions for the difpatch of public Bufine(s aye making. fo, when the publio affairsare by any means wmmw v o v e e e e R NEW.Y ©® RK, Janusry 4. ¥ The Ship Succefs, Copt Cookfon, and the Ship London, Cept. Waatfon, arzrived here on Monday latt thie 28tn of Decefnber, froth Barbadoes, which they left the 5.h of the feid Month. Capt Cookfon in- forms, I hat Admiral Rodney arrived inCarlilleBay, from England, TwelveDays before heieftBardadoes with the followingMen of War of the Line,viz.The ~ Foudroyani, Modefte, Vengusrd,, aud Marlboro’; ‘together with one ‘Bomb Ship exch,srriving on diffe- rent Days, the Admiral arriving firft :..That the Nottingham, Commodore Swanton, wes looked ‘for ., ‘every Hour’; asalfo two other Bomb Veffels, ‘whe , failed in Com pany.... That the Admiral had lsid 2n Embsrgo 6n all ‘Suipping st Barbados, immediately. upon his Artival ; and was nourly expe@ing the 4000 Trocps from Belleifle, which we heard fome Time sgo were embarking in fixteen Tranfports for the Weit- [ndies :...And that he alfo wes locking for thofe fromAmerica ;and was determined they thould go into A&ion, as foon as the Junétion could be made. Capt. Caldwell, alfo arrived at Bartbados from England, which he left after the Admiral sbout ‘thep four or five and twentiethDay of O&ober,.. And in- formed, That the Lord Mayor gt the City of London, and Common ‘Council, were qgually ., | preparing to wait on the Great Patriot 2i.f,t0 know his particular Reafons for refigning; lS&\th.& ¥ from thence it was corje€tured the Nation wodd grow exiremely warm, was not a Resritation foon to follow, or the Publick fatisfy’d with his Anfwer, 1 Immediately on the Arrival of Admiral Rodney, 2 he ordered all the Ships of War that were at Barba- { does to putto Ses, in order to block up Martinico, b where they expeted the Englih every Day, s ) Lieut. of one of ourMen of war having been lately: p there on & Flag of Truce, was informed, by the Governor, it feems, of every Regiment and Ship, . thet the Army and Fleet that were deflined againik Martinico were compofed of, and thejr Sirength, and that he only wanted a few Field ‘Carrigges rea- dy in order to give them a warming at tl'lfir Lan- dings, a8 he hourly expeéted 15 Sail of the Line,and 8 Number of Fo.ces from Old France. ) On Tusfdsy latt, Captain Benjamin Morgan, late M:{ter of the Brig Neptune, of £niladelphis, by Way. of Rhode Ifland, ariived here from Surrinam, and in+' forms, that on the 17th Day of Augult lat, he was f taken, on his Paffsge from Madeira to Surrinsm, by & French Piivsteer Sloop, of ‘g Carriage Guns and 3 Men, belonging to Martinico, called the Realle,Capt. Lewis Jousnia,who had been cruifing off theRiverof r Surrinam fome confiderable Time,and the fameWeek 3 had taken Capt. Bethel of this place, and Capt.Clark- o of New Port. He gave the People of thele Veffels v their Bosts, in which they got afhore at Burbitis, about 25 Leagues to Leeward of Surinzm. ' ThurldeyMorning laft arrived here the BrigPom- - "™ pey, Capt.- Richard Goodwin, in 28 Days from i Jamaics, who gives us the following Pnricuhrs.viz., 1 That Admirel HOLMES was dead ; that Com: -~} Forreft had afflumed the Command of the Station 3 énd that there we ¢ 12 Men of War there.... That sbout the 1gth ot November, the Ship Veftal, Capt. i Bleir, of 16 Guas, and 40 Men belonging to Jamaica i | and Philadelphis, 30 Leagues to Windward of An- - \ tigua, was aitacked by three French: Privatcers, the ‘\ one of 6, and the other two of 1o Guns each, with whom he held an Engagement of three Quarters of an Hour, when they were obliged to fhesr cff i re-* fit, and in about two Hours sfter returned to the ¥ Autack, and boarded the Veftsl with 60 Men; - by but that having their Graplings cut loole, they diyn- 0 ed cff, and left thieir Men on board, four of whom were kill’d, two wounded, and the reft obliged to jump overboard, who were all drownded, as tl.e @ ‘ Privateers mde the beft of their Way off, being chaled by Capt. Blair, whofe Veflel was prodigioufly mauled in Mafts, Sails,Rigging and Hull ;...and had i L . but oneMan wounded, haviug his Thigh breke, bug 4 none killed. Capt. Goodwin furthor info ms, That two Days Belore he failed, His M:jzfty’s Snow the Merlin, of 20 Guns, sbout the 24th of Novembaer laft, 10 , ; Leagues S. of the Ifle of Afh, defery’d five Sloops, 8 whom fhe bore down upon, and who proved to be Al fo many Dutchmen. That after enquiring who they 0 were, they immediutely a ticked her, and continued ‘ an Engsgement of three Quartess of 2n Hour, when d the Dutch Commodore made a fignal for boarding, | upon which the Man of War was obliged to make the belt of her Wav off, being confiderably fhatrer- ed in her Rigging, &c. and had feveral killed,befides many wounded. i Two Days before Capt. Goodwin failed, His | Majeity’s Ship Huffar arrived st Port Royal, and b.g brought in with her two of the Thirteen Dutch '7 ! Veflels, a Sloop snd Schooner, who werg at the ta- i Ling and myrdering of Capt. Little, snd others, as mentioned E\our New York Intelligence, on the 14th December#eft.... The twoDutch Captains made their Efcape by (wimming ; and the Crews were . properly taken Care of ;..the blacks were made . Slaves to the Sugar Works. i Admiral Holmes before his Death had ordered ¢ | = | Man of War to be fitted out forCoracos, to know the ay N Reafon of the Pyratical Proceedings of the above = mentioned Fleet. e