The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, May 7, 1762, Page 1

[ \ ' Containing the Frefbeft Advices, Wil i e i e ‘ |t From the LonpoN Maeazine for laff Auguf. The Prevalent FORCE of EXAMPLE. < Non magna loqui fed vivere.” “« Cbriftiani pafloris mores optimé funt ejus doéirine explicatio.” S pdpdedd T is univerfally allowed, that: :’f;”k ‘*"E"’é an uniformity of life and man- Pt :“3:%. ners is the beft comment on exeedpdpopss the precepts and dodtrine of Ppgpppdd the clergy. The powersof ‘oratory—the fineft flowers of rhetorick, lofe their influence, unlefs accompanied with the ftill {mall veice of good example, unlefs a lively pattern of the truths delivered to others, fhine forth in the conduét of the man of God. Itis this thatgives the weight and efficacy to every precept — It is this, thac, with a ftill, yet irrefiftible force, com- mands, at the fame time that it, as it were, ' ‘engages univerfal regard, whillt it appears i L ! [] not to claim it, and difplays the beauty of ‘holinefs, more powerfully than a thoufand ‘arguments. ¢ Dum tacet, clamat.” , Tullius Cicero, ‘What weight and authority (as a certain writer juftly remarks) does it add to the inftrué¥ions of che.clergy, whilft the audi- ' ence have it to fay——the minifter—the preacher is a worthy man ; that he doth not enterinto the pulpit, as an ator upon the ftage, to perfonate a feigned character, and forget his real one ; toutter fentiments, or reprefent paffions not his Gwn : No! He paints the feveral virtues with a mafterly hand, in their molt jult proportions and amiable colours— and no wonder when he paintsthem from their living and beautiful originals in his own breaft. He warmly recommends, becaufe he warmly Zoves them. He exclaims againft the contrary vices, with an honeft indignation, and be- coming boldnefs ; becaufe he derefts, and is confcions that he detefts them. He bim- Jfelf feels what he fpeaks, hath an inward and vital fenfe of the truths he delivers, and therefore he makes athers feel them too : He fpeaks from his own heart, and /o the hearts and confciences of his hearers, and therefore he prevails : He fhews, that his ¢ dotrine is not merely fpeculative, by tranf- - planting it into the courfe of his own con- dué ; and, by difplaying the amiablenefs of religion and virtue, in the tenor of bis own lite, he makes otbers enamoured with it too 3 fo that they, as it were infenfibly, proceed from feeing to approving, and from approving to imitating. Pulpit oratory may be exceedingly #féful, as well as or- painental, when accompained with the one thing needful, a good example ; but; in com- parifon of that, it is as nothing. Without that, eloquence is only looked upon as a founding brafs, or a tinkling cymbal— warmth, artifice, and addrefs, oftentation. The effe@ of oratory is tranfient ; its im- preflion vanifhes, as the animal fpirits fub- fide ; a well-regulated and exemplary life, 'on the contrary, is a continual fermon—it o is a babit, not a tranfientat, and tends more to reclaim the vicious, and convince the thoughtlefs, than the fineft flowers of rhe- torick—the ftrongeft eloquence, or pathe- tick perfuafion. The apoftle doth not admonifth Timbo- thy to ““Take heed unto his doétrine only, but alfo to himfelf.” The conneétion between the one and the other, is fo </ofe, thot izis abfolutely ne- ceffary they thould go hand in hand ; it is the one that muft elucidate the other, and that muft give it life and vigour: Thus we may obferve the one is united with theg other, in the prayers of our church 3 an the energy of their doétrine is always to be feconded by their exemplary'lives. Every inadvertency, every little flip, every indif- cretion, derogates from the authority, and leffens the influence of the man of God. Would he maintain the dignity of the order. Would he preferve the refpet due to it from others. He muft a& confiftently with the chara&er himfelf.—He muft root up every plant which his heavenly father hath #ot planted ;—and, as far as in him lies be poffeded of every virtue that he enforces, and free from every vice againft which he exclaims !—abftaining not only from every thing in itfelf culpable, butalfo from every impropriety of aétion, from every thing that may give occafion to the feekers of it. Theie is a more immediate obligation upon the clergy, to be particularly circum- fpect in their condudl. The ambaffador of Chrift, confcious of the importance of the vocation wherewith he is called, thuft engage in no other pur- fuits 5 but apply all his care and attention to that sse great concern, which cometh upon him daily—the care of the church— having no ambitious views, afpiring at no power, but that of gaining a conqueft over himfelf and his paffions. The apoftle, one of the greateft of the apoftles, hath faid, *“Who is fufficient for thefe things?’ If fo, certainly nothing ought to interfere, or ftand in competition with this momentous concern—difengaged froth all meaner purfuits—regardlels of all lower advantages, that tend to obftru¢t his great defign of glorifying God on earth, and finifhing the wotl which be hath gi- ven him to do—always ftudying in what manner he may adorn the doclrine of Chrift —which he knows he cannot do, by any other means—than by preferving bimjfelf every way blarhelefs, and difcharging right the facred truft repofed in him (no lefs a one, than that of fteward of the myfteries of God) Sedulus, &3 populo prodeffz, deoque placere. Epwarp WATKINSON. iy Hartford, in Conne&icut, April 5. By Letters received in Town from the Windward Coaft of Africa, there is Adyice that all was quiet there the Firft of February laft. ‘ From the NEW YORK GAZETTE April z2. Yeltesday arrived the floop Robert, Captain... .., from Barbados. By a Letier from thence, dated the 28th March, weare informed that Admir.u Redney - with all the fhips of War except three were gone from Martineco to Jamaics.- That a Frigate from England touched thsre and went after them : That T il - Nume. 29‘!‘“‘ Wesxs Fnce this PAPERY { was firft Publifh’d. AZETTE Foreign and Domeflick. 2 Veflel from Briftol in 7 Weeks wss arrived, and brought Advice, that Admiral Pocock with 5 Sail of the Line, and Lord Albemarle with Goco Troops were immediately to proceed to Martinico, and with theForces there,atrack theHavannah(Capital of Cuba)- That Lotd Tyrawley, {Governor of Gibraltar, hn/d. acquzinted the Miniftry that for [£.20,000 Sterling, he could procure 40,000 Moors, and land them in Spain ; and he confirms the Account of Admiral Saunders’s having taken a Spanifh RegifterShip worth reer half s Million. By late Advice from the Havennsh, we are affured there were no more than 6 fhips of War at that Port. On Monday st arrivec here the Ship Qi Grace, Cap!Chambers from Briftol,laft from Plymouth, which he left the 26th of February : From two London Printsof the 9th & 13th of that Month, we have tzken the following Intelligence, viz. L O N D O N, February g. Welearn from Hamburgh, that there are various {peculations as to the change which the acceflipn of Peter the Third to the Imperial Throne of Ruffis may operate on the prefent {yftem of affairs. Two circum« ftances have contribued not 2 listle to {way the fenti- ments of the politicians there: The firft is, the gene- rofity of his Imperial Majclty, in directing the Swe~ dith Count Hordt, who is alfo aColonel in thePrufllan fervice, and had long been a prifoner in the citacel of Peterfburgh, to be immediately {et ar liberty Ihe other is the dire&tion which the Ruflian wroops in Porarrania are faid to have received, to ¢t only upon the deferfive till after orders. It is slio obier- vable, that the Baton Van Ragftadt, the Holeftin Mi- nifter, received the news of che death of the Cuarirg, and the acceflion of hisImperialMsjelly by s courier fram Kiel, which he notified immedistely to =il rhe publick Miniflers of the Circle of Franconia ; where- as the Ruffisen Minifter, the Sieur Muflin Pulchkin, . received no exprefs directly from Petersbourgh. On the 15th paft, the States of Holland agreed to fit our 30 fhips.of the line, inftesd of 25, the number propoied st firft : and laft week this Reolution was carried to the Affembly of the States General. As no doubt was made that it would bz sgreed tothere, orders are iflued tothe feveral Colleges of the Admi- ralty to get every thing in réadineis for fiting out the thips ; and the Siates of Holland have agreed to advance maney to thofe Provinces which cannot im- medistely pay their contingents, that the fhips may be ready for fea in the fpring. : AdmirslPocock is appointed to fail with a fquadron of men of war to Jamaica, to relieve Admirai Holmes on that ftation, who is to return home. Exiraf of a Letter from Portfmouth, Feb, 7, € On Saturday a draught of 100 of the Queen’s re-’ giment marched in here, in order to embaik in our. grand expedition, which gess on with great fpuit.” : L O N D O N, February 13. The embargo-laid on all Britith and Irifh Veflels, leden with provifions, is in effeé& an embargo leid on the Spanifh flcet in the port: of that kingdom ; for the Spaniards cannot viftual their Ships without pro- vilions from Ireland. And fo many were the fhips at Cork waiting to tske in provifiors,when this embargo was laid,thatif no embsrgo had taken plece, not zbove two thirds of the number could have got ladings. The great {upport of the French Intereft at the Court of Peterfburgh, was Count Schuwaloff, Maf- ter of the Ordinance, who had been for feveral years the Emprels’s favourite.. But this Lord was fo liwle regarded by the Grand Duke, now Czaring’s demife was lookedupon as a near event, his Highnefs, at the Empreis’s table, threw a filver plate at his head. The city ot Roftick in Meck|enbourg is ordered by the Pruffisne to furnith the fortrels of Stettin with all forts of Subfiftence ; and, for the greater fecurity, it is to be conveyed by water. According to the ordinance iffued by his Catholic King for prohibiting the imporiaiion of Englith mer< chendize, the Clerks of the Coftoms there are to be banifhed if they permit snyto be brought in through ignorance ; snd if willingly snd knowingly, the heaviclt puiifliment are to be infl &ed. Letters irom Vienna; of the zoth unlt. import, that a courier arrived there that day from GeneralO'Daon- nel to Marflial Daun, with «p gccount that the Piu- {fian GeneralSchmetten having peneraied intoLower Lufatia, had cbliged Genersl Beck to sbanden. his winter quariers, and that be had joinedGeneralLalcy, in order to make head agsinft the Pruffizns. An embasgo is laid on all fhips l2den with corn or provifion, except thole bound to cur pianisiions,snd they ate to give bond te go with convoy. e i e - i %