The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, May 14, 1762, Page 1

| . .4 &, - | FRIDAY, MAY 14. 1762; THE New-Hampfhire:: Containing the Frefbeff Advices, To the AUTHOR of the Lonpon MAcGAZINE, S1w, Sidbury, Devon. Fane 22. 1761. F you think the following literal tranflation of & Latin Epitsph ( (uppoled to have been written by she ingenious Dr. King, of Oxford, and inferted in our Magazine, for May 1761) is worthy of a place, In yourjudicious and ufeful coliettion of monthly in- geliigence, you will oblige your conftant reader, and humble fervant, PHILALETHES, An Epitaph on Ricaarp Nasu, Efg; RicHarp NasH, born in an obfcure place *, and (prung from no anceftors 1, (yet what is wonderful and incredible) “fthe people, the nobility, and princes, with their free and voluntary {uffrages, conferr’d on him a moft rich and flourithing kingdom 1, which he govern’d with the utmoft dignity, more thdn fifty years, M’ ith the conlent, approbation, and spplaufe of all. - Befides, a tamous province § was annex’d to his dominion, by the unanimous voice and confent " of all ranks of pecple, . which he managed with admirable prudenc and condut, by bim/elf alone, and never by delegates or deputies. He uled to vifit his province every year, ; and to'refide amongf his provincials, Yo long as the necefflity of affairs obliged him. In fuch exilted fortune, he neither appesred aking Iwollen with pride, by his gai: ; ‘or, like tyrants, demand f{ervile homage from his Subjefls, or arrogated to himfelf ample honours, or {ounding titles: For he laid afide all the badges of authority, ‘even the royal diddem itfelf, and was content with the fimple ornament . of a white bat 3 An evident fign of the probity of his mind : A moft prudent lawgiver, more illuftrious X than Solon or Lycurgus: He made, eftablifh’d; and publifh’d; what laws he pleas’d: ~ Bat all his orders and rules ., were grateful, plesfant, and beneficial, both o his fellow chiizens, guefts, ftrangeérs, : and foreigners. He was the umpire, and dire€or of their : amufement ; but grave, elegant and polite ; tho’ he temper'd his higheft gaiety with becoming gravity and fedstenefs. In the firft place, he took particular care., that no one fhould be indecent or immodeft; in the affemblies of gentlemen or ladies : And that no impurity, clsmour, or tumult fhould appear there. « He not only enlarged his owh moft famous city ¥, his joy and delight, with moft beautiful buildings, but adorn’d it with remarkable difcipline and orders : Siace no one better underftood, cultivated, or tsught decency, than he did. He was juft, liberal, kind, and facetious ; e friend to sll, efpccially the miferable and diftreffed. He had no enemies, except fome overgrown medlers; and morole, fanatic, declaimers, who are the fevereft pefts of mankind, He was a lover of peate, and of his country 5 and ke eftablith’d happy and lafting concord in his kingdcm|, to fuch & degree, that no one dared to affront another by faucy language, or injure him by sny . bad aftion : Nor ever to wear s {word in publick, as {ufpicicus of beingin danger. Altho’ he was moft poweriul, and governed all things in his kingdom by his nod ; yet liberty herfelf, hardly ever flourifh’d more, in favour, glory, and authority. For he dilcover’d the happy temperament (s thing of extenfive ftudy, and, perhaps, of all the moft difficul) whereby the mean with the noble, the ® Swanfty, in Wales. + i, e, of note, 1 Bath. § Tunbridge. * Bath, ~ i poor and the rich, the unlearned with the moft learned, the . coward and the moft brave, might think themfelves upon the fxme level. _ He being the {ame impartial king to all. Whatever he did amifs (for we all have failings) he injured himfelf more than others : And this by miftake and imprudence, rather thaw villsiny or improbity ; bist never thro® ignorsnce of decency or honefty, nor cver to that degree, that he might not eafily gain pardon from all hinmane perions. If other kings and governors, or their viceroys, would imitate the copy of 4is life and ‘manners, ( which I wifh, agsin and agsin, they would ) then both they themfelves would be blefs'd, and ali the countries of the world would be moft happy. Let the mules and graces mourn the death of fuch, #nd o great a man: . LetVenus anc her Cupids mourn: : Weep all ye aflembles of young men and maidens ; bat thou, O Bath, do not thon ceale . to bewail.......... thy ‘prince, thy prazceptor, friend, and patron: Alas! alas ! never more wilt.thou have his equal....cceciiceicsisonie Rl v L) oy ey ) St. JOHN's (in Antigua) February 24. The reduétion of Martinica was celebrated. here laft Seturday, with all the pomp and {olemnity poffible. —At 12 o'clock the cannon st Monk’s hill and James's fort were difcharged, snd the veflels in the harbour, and gians placed st differen:_plsces in the town, continued to fire all the day. His Excellency the Generel, and moft of the principsl perfons of the iflind dined in pablic ; and upon the whole, the rejoicings were [uitable to the value end importance of the conqueft, which is beyond all doubt the greatelt thet Great Britain ever made. -, gt The poffeflion of Martinico wili effeftually fecure all our windward fugar iflands (though Guadaloupe and its dependencies (hould be reftored upon 8 peace) and occafion {0 great increale of the navigation, re- venue, end confumption of Britith msnufsctures, as will make us emple ¢merds for the expences, great as they ere, of continuing the war, till cur enemies can be brought to realon. . | : : March 10. Admiral Redney has lstely received two exprefles from Jamaica ; one by a veflel dif- patched by Capt. Forreft, commander of his Ma- jefty’s fhips on that ftstion, and the other by the re- turn of his own tender, which the Admiral had fent down fome tinie before. By the firft of thefe ex: prefies we hear the Admiral was informed that there were 22 fail of Spanith fhipsof the line, and 8oco troops at the Hivanna, ready for an_expedition ; and it was believad they intended to sttack jamaica, but might probably wait for the formality of & declara- tion of war, which they expelted every Day : And the ather exprels (the Admirals tender) had the good fortune, in bher paflage up, to take the exprels which had been fent from Spain for the Flavenna, with the Spanith Declaration of War, and _afterwards to take a veflel from Spain' lsden with bombs, fhells, cannon balls, and other ordnance ftores. .. : Since our laft arrived here a French fhip from Ma:leilles,bound for Martinito;but taken by the Cig- net floop of war, which was fen: by Admiral Saun- ders to the commanders by fea here, 2nd at Jamaics, with an account of s Spanifh war., We hear fix other hips failed from Marfeilles with this prize, bound on the fame voyage ; onc of which has been taken ¢ff Martinico by Captain , in a Brig belonging to Lavcafter ; and Capt. M’Pherfon, of the Britannia Privateer, was [een in chafe of a fhip, which was fuppofed to be another. ; Accounts from St. Buftatius reprefent the trade of that ifland as being almoft at an end, and that the greateft part of the inhabitants were preparing to lesve the placec We are told that one gentleman had the keys of ftores and houles, which rented for three thoufand a year, delivered up to him in one day. We hear there aré feven thips of the line now upon the Jumaica ftation, befides frigates, and it is reportéd they have taken a Spenifh frigste. There . are two regiments of regulars (wanting four compa- nies) upon the ifland ; and it is faid Sir James Doug- lafs will be fent down with mare fhips. 3 March 24. It is faid & firong fquadron will im- > Nuwms. 293 : szncs fincé this PapeR { was firft Pubiifh’d. GAZETTE Foreign and Domeffick. mediately go from hence to Jemaics, and that Admi- ral Pocock may be expeéled here very Ioon, ia his way to Jamuica. By the fhip Black Prince, which srrived here yel- terday from Cork, we hear, that the Admirals Hawke i:l_d Pocock were ready to fail with 25 fhips of the ine. 7 By this fthip we alfo hear, that the King had made Mr. PITT very pariicular com pliments on his pene- tration and advice relative to Sgtin {which events have fhewn him to be right) and requcfied the con- tinuance of his fervices. p March 31. Two veflels bound from Virginie ta St. Kiits, were lately taken to windwsrd of this ifland and fent down to St. Thomas’s; or Porto Rieo. The Capt. of the French Privateer faid, fix or eight other privateers were deftined to cruize to windward of, this ifland. April 7. We hesr from St. Chriftophers, thst Com. Sir James Douglafs failed for Jamasica the 2d inft. with 12 fhips of the line.—Commodore Swanton: is at Martinico, with part of the fhips ftill remaining on this ftation, and Admiral Rodney is gone to fes with the reft, the Admiral has yet upwards of 20, of his Mijefty’s fhips, _ F Extralt of a Letter from Barbados. to 4 Gentleman i . Martinics. : / . By a veflel arrived here in 25 Days from Briftol, we have an Account, that Mr. Pict is reinftated, and hasalfo an Addition of 3000 1. per Annum ieitled on him. HAERT . Likewife that Lord Bute and the Duke of New- caftle had both refigned. . - ) Sl PHILADELPHTIA, Aprl 29 . __ From Cape Francois we have Advice, that the following French Fleet arrived there from Breft, on the 17th of laft Month, under the Command of Ad= mirsl Blenac,with 1500 or 2000T rocps on board,viz. Le Du¢ de Bourgoigne, of 80 Guns; Le Heétor; 74 ; Le Defenfeur, 74 ; Le Dizdem, 74; LeBrilliant, 64 ; Le Prothee, 64 ; L’Opal, 36 ; Le Diligent, 323 Le Zephys, 24 ;and La Calyg!o, ot 16 Guns. The Dragon, of 64 Guns, mifl:d Steys and rsn sfhore, where flie foon bilged. Nothing will be faved out of her but aPart of he;Guns,and fomeRigging. That the above Fleet was defigned to reinforceMartinecos off of which Ifland it arrived the 4th of March,when the Calypfo Frigate was fent in fhore to get Intelli- gence ; but her Signals not being properly anf{wered from the Shore, it being then in Pofleflion of theEn-~ glifh, and heviag that Account irom a Biig they toolk theFourth, they immediately proceded for CapeFran- cois : That off the Cape they, in the Night; fell in with two Englifh Frigstes, who, firing eight Shot at them, put them into grest Confufion: That pext Morning they were within Gunthot, and remained fo, till they got into the Hazbour ; during which Time they neither fired at, or gave Chace to them : That Monficur Bory, General of the Ifland of St. Domingo ; Monfieur Belfance, Field Marfhal of the T'roops ; the Chevalier de St. Croix, Governar of Belleifle during its Siege, and & Number of other Officers, came out with this Fleet : Thhat the Troops with what were before at the Cape, amounted (o about 3500Regulars :And that it was faid thisFrench Fleet was to be joined by a Spanifh one, in order to go on fome Expedition. The Calypfo Frigate of a6 Guns,and zco Men, in returning to the above Fleet off of Maninico, fell in with Capt. Charles Jen-- kins,in theBrig John and Richard, of Barbados, of 16 Guns, snd . 28 Men, who engsged the Frigste for near three Hours, snd obliged her to fheer off ; but Cspt, Jenkins’s Powder being then nesr out, upd’ feeing a Fleet ftanding towards him, which he ims-; gined to be Englifh, he made far them, and coming up with the headmoft Ship, which he found td be a French Man of War, the Brilliant, of 64 Guns immediately ftruck his Colours ; notwitbftrnding which fhe fired the greateft Part of ker . Brosdfide, snd feveral Vollies of SmallArms into hisVeflel.Cap- tein Jenkins, nor nong of his People received sny Hurr, but the Brig was much fhaitered. TheFrigate loft fix or feven Hands, and the French scknowledge that Capt. Jenkins and his People behaved moft gal- lantly in fighting the Frigste fo long, which was fa vaftly fuperior to him in Force, Extra&t of a Letter from L fbon, Feb. 29, 1762. s¢ It is aiready fettled between the Spaniards and this Court, that & fri& Neutrality is to be cbferved' here, on which we congraiulate you. Laft Week the Arethufa Frigate brought in here a lasge French Ship from Bourdesux, loaded wish Wine, Porkand Flour.,