The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, April 23, 1762, Page 3

J (= 4 j 4 L/ 2 13 . On the v4th ofsMareh, in Lat. 16, Y, Port an Prince. Alfo that Capt. Bradford ia a Ship from Pifcataqua, bound to the fame Place, had alto been takenand ranfomed. : Port of BOSTON, April v7. Intered In, Barnes, Stecking, Godfrey, Eilis and Tinker, from Con- ‘melicut. Wileox from Rbode lfland. Lampfon, Inger/on, Homer and Hatch from North Carolina Billings from New Providence, Wosdbury, Bill, Dyar, Sparks, and Ellis from Maryland. Silvefier from Pbiladelpbia. Mar ' fball from Halifax. Ames and Stweesfer from New York, Me Lellan and Hales, from Anguilla. ; A proper Method to raife WHEAT. TAKEa Piece of Land of 2 light loomy Soil ; Plough the Laad deep, then crafs plough it, and let the Clods lie and rot, ‘that is Muck for the Land : Take the Wheat that you defign to fow, and put it into 2 {mall Pickle, ftirit well, and all that {wimg ‘throw away, fow no Seeds buc what finks; then take the Wheaeand-fpread it on thé ‘Floor, and throw amoog it fome flack Lime; then give thg Land a thorough plowing and harrow it fine ; and fow fome of thé Wheat in Ridges'and fome in Plain, for the diftance ‘between the Ridges makes a Sution ; and ‘every Morning when the Honey Dews ‘come, before the Sun rifes, take a line and ‘rubback and forwards, thatrubs the Slime off ; and.when the Wheat is palt Dangen, ‘throw in the' Field Grafs Seed among the Wheat, and in'the Fall you will have a fine ‘green Field 5 then let.your Sheep feed upon i, the ‘next Year mow the Field, and that Soward that the new feed makes, will be muck Yor the Land, then fow the Field agiin. Bofion, April 8. 1762, J. WALKER., N. B. Do not fow later than the middle of Adgult, then the Seed has Tims to take ‘desp Root in the Ground. : - NEW-HAVEN, Arils. k- ‘Laf Sunday Captain Phineas Cock arrived beryim 32 Days fram St.-Martins s .... be informs, thas t ¢ Days of ier be left that Place he tvgs taken by a Frexed Priva ‘teer of £0 Guhs, and ranfom’d for eleven Hundred Pieces ing. 6y, Captain Cook Jpoke with. Captain Ferémiah Greenman of Rbode dftand bound 1o she }”l‘(fl Inties; all ‘well, but bis Vil wery ledky. And, . LY ; ’ ske with the Carolina Fleet, boynd . O the 15th b’f v fo Europe, they bad Lft Port 7-Days, were all will and : le of Wind _ ‘bad afine [4 ey 4 PO RTS MOURH - Wedaeliay nexr, the 28cthof this Inftane April, is by His ExceLLency’s Proclamati- on, appointed 4nd fet apart as a Day of public H#mliation, Fafting and Prayer thro’- Sgphis Provines, - o ¥Agreeable to His Exceriency’s Orders for Protlaiming W AR againft the King of Spain, His MajesTy™s Declaration therefor was publilhed trom the Court Houfe laft Monday. ' CcusroMm HOUSE, Piscatcqua, April 22, : ; Entered Inwards Schooner Elizabeth, Thomas Herrick,from No.Carolina Siaop Chirming Polly, Adenijah Pyke, from Virginis, Sloep Sally, Enoch Lunt, from Maryland. Schooner. Benjantin, Bartho. Gaddin, from Virginis, Schooner Swan, Jacob Mills, from North Carolini. loep Abigail, Thema: Rickard, from Virginia. "Anna’s, Thomes Bond, from Maryiand. doner T'ricon, Thomas Beazin, from Grand Terre, Out ward Bound Big Ec‘{gfijo!eph Mead, for Weft Indies. 4 Cleared Dutwards, i Brig Monck:on, Mayo Greenleaf, for Philadelphis. S.oop Speedwell, Simuel Goodin, for Menis Sloop Speedwell, Theophilus Bradbury, for Halifax. Sloop Elizabeth, [ohn Seawards, for Philadelphis. N\ s \voson e b e e Vo NP GOLD to be exchinged for STERLING BILLS on the Credit ‘of titis Province in the Yesr 1759, dated either the Firft of January, the fecond of April, or the Firft of No vember in faid ‘Year, W\JMMWMMMMM TO BE SOLD A Likely Negro Boy, fit for any Stiring Bufinefs about Sixteen or Seventeen Years of Age,and can be well recommended 3 Inquire of the Printer, : Province or New-Hampsurrne! @ * Noticels hereby Given, That the GENERAL ASSEMBLY of this Province, which flood Proroguedto the 27th of this Inftant April, is by his Excer- LEncY the GOVERNOR’S, PRocLaMATION ‘of this Day’s Date, further . Prorogued to Tuefday the ryth Day of May next ; And all concern’d ite to take TICE, and ‘govern themfelves accordingly. Portfmouth, April 19. 1762. = . By His EXCELLENCY’s Command, THEODORE ATKINSON, jun. Sect: Charlefiswon, South Carolina, Febraary 27, 1762, PR -O'PO: §2K 2,8 For Printing by Subfcription, s In Four Volumes Ofayo, The M EMO LR S or May.Robert Rogers, ‘Comtainiig JOURNALS of the different Excurfions made by him sgainft the Enemy, fince the Com- mencement of the prefent War '; the Letters and O¢- ders of the {everal Genenls and Officers under whom - he has alled fiace the Year 1755, for carrying the fame into Execution, end his An{wers thereto. b A Delcription ‘of the Soil, Produce, and Extent of the f{eversl Britith Colonies in ‘America; the Number of Inhabitants in each “of them, their different Forms of Government, &c. - . , A brief Account of Canads, and s trize Defcription of that important Conqueft ; the . Inhabitants thereof, its Soil, Produce, and Extent. : : ~ Ap Account of the different Nations of Indisns that have'any Commerce with the Englifh ; their Cuftoms, Manners, Habits, religious Ceremonies, Methods of proclaiming and carrying oh War, and their Policy in Treaty and making Peace. . ‘ , - Some Refleftions on the great Advantages that would accrut by, regulatinig « proper T'rade with them, and the great Value of the ‘interfor Ceuntry on the Ohio, and betwix: that and the:Coun'ry of the 1llenois, and great Lakes nortbward to Hudfon’s Bay ; and fome Propolals for the Dilcovery of the North Wefl Pafage by.Land;: i ¢ . & , . ... The Manulcript is now resdy, end the Prefs as foon as the Nomber 10 be sfcertained. " o e The Price t0 Subfcribers wiill be Ome Pound Sterling; one half to be paid at the Time of {ubicribing, and the other on Delivery of the Book, fewed in bluePeper. Subferiptiony ar'e taken in by the Printer beveof. K5 4isbe above mentionéd Memoirs are 10 be printed at Charlftown South Caroling, 274 as it is net cuflamary Bere to pay any Advances at [ubferibing for Baoks to be tublifbed in anotber Previne ; it is requefled that thofe Gentlemen who are willing to Subferibe, would [end in their Namas Jpeedily, that it may be known what Nam ber may be [ent for. ; PROPOSALS ~ For Printing by Subfcription, , An excellent .Performance, entitled, WAR : Being an Heroic POE M : From the taking of Minorca by the French, to the Raifing of the Siege of QuEeBECK, ‘ By General MurRray. : The Price to Subjeribers will be Half a Dollar & Book or an Eguigalent in Old Tenor 5 Thofe wha Jeribe for Six Books, to bave a4 Sevemth grates. will be put to printed can be Preface to the foregoing POEM. .. ¥ READERS, 6f whatever rank, or denomination, if ye fhou'd receive any pleafure from, snd spprove -the following lines, as to their general defign, it is the fummit of my embition. Ism co writer by profeffion, bu' at my leifure hours, wrote the fiege of Louifhcurg, in the winter of 1758 : to amule my/lelf; and friend:; and had no thoughts of printing it. But in the great snd ever memorable year of fi'ty nine, fo repeated,and rapid, were ous corquefts, both by fea and lsnd, in Europe, Africs, and America ; fo often came news of our fuccefles from every psrt, (like gunpowder when toych’d by the match,)my fancy took fire ! the rapt’rous j 'y grew (00 great to be contain’d within bounds ! and 1 thought among the reft, I wou'd sdd my fhare of appleule, and ftrive to regifter in the book of Fime, the heroic ¢&ions perform’d by our trocps and tars. My inteniion is fiot to calumniate any man, not even to write a trie narration of what any particular perfons ‘may have done amifs, thro’ towirdice, inadvertenicy, inexperience, incautious confidence in others promiles, pride,or the like. Neither do I meddle with ke intereft of the two oppofing parties, in Gresg Sub- . Tbe following Lines are taken from the Authoi’s Britain and Treland. Bat my fole defiga is thie 3 (A4 3 by alove of my country ! and ' genercus efterm tor o}t who have foughi,bled, or dy’d for my covniry’scsuf. | to exert my utmoit effors, to inroll in &R of fama their names ; to call them forth in the faireft point of view ; and drefs their amazing a®ions| in all ‘ha elegance of barmonious numbers, snd poctic temh ¢ to warm the heert of Rim that fought and lives Ito give s jult, deferv’d encomium, on the worthy wariing dead ! and infpire with Neroic fentimerts the foul of every youth which reads, and;hath not been reaping the honourable harveft of martial glory! . Hewho governs his peaple with Regel Lenity, and Paternal fondnefs: Thofe who hazard their Royal Perfons in batdefor dheir country’s wellate : the Minifters, and Patriots, that nobly ‘plan Her warlike Jchemes ; who firmly flern the tide of dppofition, which wou'd break down, happy conftitution ; with all thofe who draw the fword in B.itannia’s quarrel,whetherEnglifhmen, Caledoniane, or Hibernians, and carry theiz pstriot fchemes, dread— Mully,into & wafting exccution | All fuch a5 thefe demand daty, sliegiance, and 8 generous acknowledginent of every heart, fenfibly touch'd with & due fenfe of their Kingly care! fuccelstul glans ! andFeroic perforinances! and fuch & Kiog, futh Princes, Patriots, snd Minifiers,) has Englend got. And fich warrlors we have, in the Royal Navy, and Army of Gréat Britain,that commonm fenle, and gratitude, bid us reves® thém | and fpeak of their grest merits in the moft exalted firainl and folong sslwrite,l fhall always beftow my encomjums on thofe, who plan my country’s good, prejerve péace & amity,(a mauch as poffible in the Jand;fight her battles, & pour de ftrullion on her inveterate foes. Thefel fay,thall employ ,my tongue,to fing their fame,& give them due henoure, of what country or party foever : for he that doés the nation good, deferves a grateiul acknowledgment of the fame. s a0y 4 . . I have,as well s3I can, thro’ the whole poem, Ppre [ferv'd & continu’d nakration of the events, as they hap< ena.. - ; Py : . It was inlefs compafs than ‘three years, the plans were form’d, and carried into execution, sgfinft Loz bourg, the Continent, ard Quebec, againt Malges, Cherburg, and the Gallic fiéets; anll all the other expe-' diticns agairlt our enemies in Atrica, &c. 5 I thought proper to throw in together thé attacks dnd/ redultions of Guadaloup, Senegal,Gransda,St.Martin'sy Marigalante, Surat, Chandernsgore, Calcutiagund the Nabob twice defested ; under the comman Watfon, Pocock, Moore, Clive, Draper, Marsh, Keppel, Mifon, Barrington, Sayer, &c. &c. &c. Thele I th efore rec< kon’d up in the fiift of the pogm, whems] nentioh’ds Great Britain roufing to battle; Her armament for was,/ and pouring her viftorious troops round sbout on evdry, fide ; fince it was near about the fame time they f{I'd’ from England ; end I hope a3 I bave mention'd {odlw ¢vents happen’d, and under fuch Commsnders, it will pafs without tndergoing a fevere criticifm. Whill¥: General Wolfe, Admiral Saunders, &c.are beleaguering. and attacking Quebec ; I have likewife mention’d by way of epifode, whet Genersl Ambetff, General John< fon, &c. &c. &c. stchiev'd onthe Continent, ' In tkat great day,WOLFE's ewarring /pirit fied | And MONCKTON, for bis King and Courtry bled ! When cong’ringTOWNSHEND, char'd the flyirg G aulsl, And terror fhook QUEBEC’s exalted walls 1 Whbilft leading fiercely on, to toilfome fight, Coborts of beroes, * gainfi umequal might. A few Thoughts o LOTTERIEg: A LOTTERY, like magic Jpell, . All ranks of men bewitches, Whofe beating bofoms vainly fwell ;. .. With hopes of fudden Riches. With hopes to. gsin fome thoufand Pounds} How many poft to ruin, And for an empty, airy found, Contrive their own undoing é Thofe on whom wealth her ftores has thed) May firmly bear their croffes, But they who earn their daily bread, Oit fink beneath their lofies. "Tis frange, o many. fools we find, By tickets thus dclt’:dkg'., : And by a trifling tarp of mind . From life’s bleft blifs excluded; For life’s beft blefling calm content, . Attends no more his flumbess, ho dreams of profit, cent, per cent; And fets his heart on numbesrs; Thro’ all life’s various ftages, Care Our peace will oft difquiet; Like a tree gift it comes, we fie’s . Need be in hafle to buy it. ¢ who intent on fhrdowy fchemes, By them is deeply bcbb{ed. eferves 1o wake from golden dresms; With difappointment doubled. nmov’d by Fortune’s fickle wheel, . The wile man Chance delpiles ; And Prudence courts with fervent zeal e §he givesthe Higheft Prizes, and over run the bounds of hee I