The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, August 27, 1762, Page 2

¥ From the Appendix to the London Magazine for the Year 1761. i To the Author of the London Magazine. S IR, T was with fingalar Plea'ure [ fourd, by your va- lusble Magszine of May left, that there was in 2 lae elhon ot Parliament, 8 Bill prepared & prelented wy ke Hovle of Commons, to render more effeftual port tt (ome former Aéts, “ For the better Obfervati- o5 of the LORIYs DAY.,” A laudible Undertaking tns, 2 truly worthy the Attention of u Britith Par- li.mut; and lec me add, - pariicularly fealonsble at ihis Jup@ure, when we have fuch abundant Caufe {0 piels God for.she great Things he hath dosne for - us in the Courle of the prefent fuccelsiul War ; snd 1.3 therefore in Gratitude furely obliged to pay s @ular Regard, to whatever more immediately re- lstes to him and his Service, And how agreeable s Bill of that Sort would be to his Majefty, 1.nced noc fay, when it is conlidered how cerncltly thet Matter is infited on inthe Royal Pegclamation, ““For the Encouragement of Pitty and Virtue, and for the preventing and panifbing of Vies, Profanenefs and Tmmorality,” publithed immediately afice his happy Acceflion o the Throne. Alihough, theiefore, the Bill had mnot the good Foftune to pifsinte a Law at that Time, and was notrefumed in the Jaft Seflion, (I prelume by Resfon of the Multiplicity of Bufinels neceflary to be tranf- #fted in {o fliort & Seflicn) it is to be haped the war- thy Gentlemen concetned in bringing in che feid Bill, will no? defift from the good Wosrk they have under- taken : ‘But will endeavour with all cheir Might to reivicve the Honsr due to & Day, peculiarly filed ““Tkhe LORD's DAY,” by {fome efl»tuzl Law for the due Obfervation theréof. And in Amendment of the Laws in beirg, [ would humbly coffer, that the former .Laws relating tothis Subje& be repluced, snd the whole reduced into one confiftent A& ; as wiag-dore in the [ate A& sgainft profane Curfing and Swearing, That where any Perfon offending agaiaft this A€t is uuknown to the Church Wardens or Con flables, they fhali feize snd. carry Him before the ! pMagiftrate, to be dealt with sccording to Law ; un le{sof his own Accord, he pay the Penalty dncurred, for.tie Ule of the Poor. " That opening of Shope bz deemed sn Exercife of Trade. That Churca- Wardens and Conflables have Power to {eize Goods expofe! to Ssle on the LORD’s DAY, without & Warrant fisft ob:ained from & Juftice of the Peece ; hat not ta ie!l the fame without fuch Warrant. That Verfoss © av:iling, ss slfo Cayle driven thro’ Tun- pikes oif Sundays, pay double, excepiing his Majefiy’s Meffengers, the ordinary Polts, Phylicians, Midwives, &c. ‘That the Words -ou? of their own Parifbes, and, -wirthin their own Parithes, Stat. 1. C. Chap, 1. relat- ing ta Sports and Paftimes, be omitted; fo ss to m:ke the Claule general. That Perfons under Six- tecs Years of Age. offending eguinft this A&, be waip’s by the Church Wardens,or foch other Perfon &5 the Magiftrate thall appoist. That where s Town is in two Parithes, the Conftable snd Church Wap- den of either Parith mey put the A& in . Exccution, for Offences committed in that Town, or within on& Mile of the fame. That Offenders agsinft this A&, bz for the third Offence, compell’d to ferve on board his M.jefty’s Fleet, or in the Army, for'the Space of Years, 'That Church Werdens and Coiftsbles be compell'd to put this Aét in Execution, under fome fuch Penaliy as is provided inthe sbove mentioned A€t sgeiaft {wearing. Provifions {uniefsfor Sale) be sdded to the Excep tions, 29 C. 2 Chsp vir. That Minifters have equsl Power with Juftices ot the Peace, to put this A& in Ex-cution,(ss sifo thofe sgainft Swearing and Drunk- ennefs,) for Offences committed within their own Parifhies, or (where & Town is in two Parithes) with in cne Mile of the Precin& thercof. 'That this Aét (ar & proper Abftrzét thereof) be read in all Churchaa and Chapels, twice the firt Vear, under the Penalty of Teenty Pounds. at every Vifite'jon, mske it an Article’ of Eoquiry, whether this Injuné&tion be complied with. I have only to add (if that will be of sny Weight) that the foregoing Refletions are the Refult of moge than 20 Yzere Obfervation upen this Subject. SPEH: Tho® the diffe:ent Circumitances of Places insy require different Regulationsin fuch a Cafe, yet it is well worthy Confiderstion, how fer Neglet and Supinenefs in this Relpeét (efpecially at fucha Junc- ture) argues & gieat Zeal for the Chriftisn Rehigion, or is very confiftent with the Chriftian Charaéler. RS o s BT A PHILADELPHTIA, Auguft 12 The following is the Subltance ofal.etter wrote by = Perfonat Snow Hill,dated the 31k of lait Month,viz «“ That be had juft pa-ted with three Men who Ie 4 beentgkes in a §choonerin Chefopesk: Bay, at the Month of Yerk River, on their Wiy trom’ Nor: jcil to fome River in Marylsnd : That in the Schoo- ner werp Goods 10 the Value of Six Thoutand Gui- neas, that the Veflel that took them was & Sioop of 8 Carrepe, snd 12 Swivel Gans, and 95 Men, from Cape Fiancois,commanded by DonPedroOrdogriez : "That the Capiain informed them, a few Days beiore. h= Sloop attacked 8 Lsiter of Marque Brig of Phila.. 1 That bsking of . Abnd that the Ordinary. do,. delphis, off (e Capes oF Delawar, but wag abliged to leave her, wich the Lofs of her firft Csptain,s French- man, who hid « French Commifiion, tho® the Chief of the C-ew were Spaniards, as is thie abovenamed Captain : That afterwards they took Cept. Biird,- from Wilmington to Sinepugent; whole Veflel they {cawgled, and endeavoured ) 1 thore tn Aflitesgue Beach : Schooner they ook in the Bay to the Prifo -got into Sinepaxent Inlet :' That there was the Priveteer 2a Epglilhman, .born on 'the Shore in Maryland, who was wrell: scquainted the Beye and Shores, and had agreed with the Esemy - to-plunder and deftroy the Plantations, &c. And that accordingly' they had'landed 2§ Men, in order to carry off fome Negroes from z Veflel jult arsived but the Csptain having Notice of their Defign, got his Men together, aad ftood on his Defence; which the Privaieer’s Men went on bosrd again. - % Oae of our Pilots, who was on bosrd the Boat they gave the Prifoners, informs, thet the vSloop' bed alfo taken two other Veflels off of Carolina, . And a Gentleman who arrived here on. Monday laft from Wilmington, in North Carolina, {xys, that, on the 3d Inftant, off the Capes of Virginis, he was chaced by & Privateer Schooner, and went into Hamp- ton Road, where he met “With Captain Stiles, in 8 Bermudian Schooner, fronf, Turks ifland with Salt, who hsd likewile bzen chzced by the fame Veffel ; which Veflel, it is faid, has a Slocp in Company with her, thought ta be the one sbovementioned ; who, this Gentleman hesrd, had found Goods ta the Value of Nine thoufsnd Ponad Sterling, on board the Schoo ner in Chelopesk Bay'; snd that Part of her Crew hed landed, in order to carry off fome Negroes, but were dilsppointed. Captsin Tucker, from South Carolina, was chaced _by-# Schooner off the Cipes of Virginis. On Seiurddy s srrived here Cepin Higgs, in ' 19 Days from Tusks 11and, who, two Days alter he fuled, fpoké with the fecond Divifion of Troops from 'New York for the Havapneh,neer the Behams Straiis, ell well-; but no Account of the fift Divifion. Captsin Kennedy, from Madeira, edvifes, that a | *very large Ship, fuppofed to be a Man of War of 60 Guns, was loft on the Morth Side of that Idend, not known, to where fhe beionged, but thought not 1o be an Englith Veflel. p ) Extra& of Letter from ag Officer iuthe Navy, on board bis Mejefly's Ship Conturion off Cape Fiorida, Fuly 23. ¢ I fett our Army and Fleet going on very weil in the Siege of the Havannth, ... The Tioops from New York are much wentd. ....I do not doubt but by this Time the Meore Caftle is qurs, as they ex- cfred it to furrender, or teke it by Storm,. by the wenty fecond... It has made 2 very obftinite Defence.” From the Caroline Papers we have the tollowing Particulars relating to the Havannah, viz. That by ‘the pradent and proper Mealures tsken by Admiral Pocock, and the Care ofthe Providence Pilous, the whole Fleet of Men of War, Trsnfparts &c, got fafe thro’ the ‘Bahams Old Scraits, and errived befare the Havennah, on the 6th of June, without the Lofs of » fingle Veflz] : That 19 Ships of the Line, befides Frigates, went down wiih the Fleet, and were after- ‘wards joined by two or thrce more : That theTroops _did not excted 10,000 Menfrom the marching Regi- ments, with 2000 Marines from the Ships : That of thofe 8coo waere tanded on the 7th, Parc on the Euftern Side of the Harbour, sgsinft the Caftle El Marro, under the Barl of- Albemarle ; the reft on the Weftern Side, againit the Governor’s Caitle, under Colonel Willism Howe : That four or five Days ‘after 2000 more were lended : That our Forces had Poffeflion of all the Neck of Lisnd to the Weltward .of the Entrance of the Harbour ( except the Puntal, {ome Batteries along fhore, and the Gavgrnor’sCaftle, “lately built upon a Hill, which commands the Town and other Forts, mouniing three Tier of Cannon ) &nd zl{o of the River Lagids,where from they were fupplicd with Water tnrough Pipes : And that the Spaniard had & prodigions Number of Cannon mount- ed at the H:vanneh, moftly on the Forts and Bet- geries which face the Fnirgnce of the Habour; but that potwithilsndicg it was the’t the Britith Troops wouldfbs in Poficflion of the whole Place in five or fix Days from the 1a'h of July, ..., The Spenifh Declaration of War agsinft Grest- Britain, itis fsid, was not publifhed 2t the Havsnnsh when our Fleet and Army arrived before the Place ; nor at Carthagens the 10ih of June ; norat St Auguttine the Firft of July.... NEW.Y OR K, Auguft 16. By a Veflel arrived at Wilmington trom Martini- co we lsarn, that on the 19th ule. about 70 lesgues E. § E. off Nantucket fhosls, he was chaled by two veflels, the one a 5o pun fhip, the other: s finall " frigate ; snd on the 221 faw a brigentine afhore berween Little Egg Harbour and Barney’s Gut. Capr. Robiafon, lsiely arrived from Madeire; re- poris, that he was informed there, that-about the middle of June laft, a fine Plantation, on the weft end of the illand, on which was a valuable vineyard, fud- denly funk under Water,without any apparent ceule, there having been no esrthquakes perceptible before, oraf thetime. The Part on which were the houles was left ftanding. kber, but fieran v, | hav ‘who The msil for Falmo yeflerduy put oo board the Duke of Cutl:thfirhmkc: bon,y gnp&. Good- ridge, and (he iell down to procezd on her voyage. .BOST ON, At 23 On Menday left Capt, Hunt in s Flagg of Tivce, ed u; Newport i 17 Diys fromCape Fraticois, ard §5 En Prifoners, moftiy Men ar's Mt W grog 1o His Majefty’s Ship !’-‘l:flfi‘n,‘? cl:‘wn c;flé away fome Time ago :ln e £ of Rocks nesr- 4] v Cepta-Hunt informs, that he left at tz.‘ClP&h Men ‘of War of the Line, arid eight Frigates, and theTalk there was, ~~thst. they were to fail from™ ghevce fome time in Odtober. ! g AT g We have no Accounts from the Havennah of & Ister Date than thofe which have been already pub- lithed « *Tis faid-eur Forces had poficflion of all the - Neck of Land to the Weftwerd of the Entrance the Harbour (except the Puntal, fome Batterie tong the fhore, and & Caftle ¢all’d - the Iately built upon « Hill which. command eed other Forts, and mounting three Ties snd alfo of the River Lagida, where fro were ufually fupplied with “Water. thro’ Pipes ; and - that the Spanith Gavernor had fent a Flag of Truce - with 8 Meflage to Lord :Albermasle, exclaiming a- gainft the Meafures of cutting off the Water from the Inhsbitents, ss contrary to the ,Rules of War among civilized Nations : That the Spanisrds were fsid- ta have 1870 Pieces of Connon st the Havannah,moftly on the Forts and Batteries which face the Entiance of the Harbour : That theMen of War funk st the Mouth of the Harbour, were buoyed up fo that their uppes Decks appear’d above Water: Tl;llAdmiul Pecock’s Squadron Iay at Anchor all along the Shore both to Lezeward and Windward of the Harbour, juft out of Gun.fhot, with Winter Top mafts up and no Top- gellant- mzits : And we make no Doubt that by the firk Veflels from thence we fhall have Advice of that Place being in the Pofleflion of the Englith. We hear from Newport that lat Friday a Veflel ariived there from Philadelphis, who on her P:flige fpoke wiih a Veffel from New Providence, that in- formed them that Moore Ceftle at theHavannsh wa in the Hands of the Englith. \ Tuefday laft was committed to Gosl at Salem, one Ellingwood of Beveily, for the Murder of Mr. Po- lsnd, of the fame Town, having run him thro" the Back with a Sword, in & Fray which bappensd be- tween them, of which Wound he inftantly died, We hear that Capt. Rogers in: a-Sloop belonging to Newbury, and Cspt. Hales in another Sloop bee; longing to Pilcsiequa, on their Pafluge from St Kitts: were both (aken by a [imall French Privateer of 4. Guns and renfomed. . 3 W g Laft Satnrdsy fe’nnight a Houfe at Medford, be-. longing to Mr. Braoks of that Plsce, was confumed by Fire ; fuppoled to be occsiioned by the Work- men heving leit fome Lime therein to flacken.., There were little or no Goods thercia, We hear from Weftborough, that at Midnight, beiwecn the 17th and 18th Inftant,the DweilingHoule of Mre. Dorothy ‘ Thurfton, of that Town, Widow, was confum’d by Fire : Itis not known by what Means it began : her Som fist difcovered it, being wak'd by the Smoke in the Chamber where he Ilay, and alermed thereft of the Family, who sll elcap’d’ she Flame:, but have {aved very little of either Goods or Cloaths. Friday laft & Veflel arrived here in 10 Days from Halifex ; fhe {ail’'d from thence in Company with Lord Colvill in the Northumberland of 74 Guns ; the Gofport, Capt. Jarvis, of 40, and theM:flachufetts Province Ship King George, Capt. Hsllowell, of 24 Guns, bound to Newfoundland, where they wereto, be joined by the Antilope of 50 Guns, and Syrene of 24, in order to block up the French Fleet at St. John’s till fome Aflitsnce arrived from Europe. We slfo learn, that all the remaining French Neau tvals at Nova Scotis, amounting to beiweer 3 & 400, waere fhip’d on Loerd orher Veflels, and weie to fail the frit tair Wind fo. ***, and that thelr Wives and Children were not permitted to embark with them, but fhip’d on board othez Veflels (o be canfported to the fame Plac2 : CUSTOM HOUSE, Boftor, Avguft 21 ENTER'D [N. p Pesrce from Grand Terre, Cox from Virginis, Kent from St. Martins, Mc Philliny, Sohier and Metcalt from Hult'ax, Besl from Muylind, Hanis from Barbados, Phips frem Louifbourg. Crearep Our. Howeil for Nova Scotia, Brown for Louisbourg end Quebec, Codner for North Carclina, Wimble for New York, Orr for Virginia, Cobb for Montreal, Haslow for Weft Indies, Stzp'eton for [relend. NEW PROVIDENCE, Julys. ¢ Yefterday errived here o French privaceer bri- gimite, and s Spanith xebeque, token <« fF the-ifland ot Cuba by Cipi. Kemp snd Cspt. Roberts, of the privatzers Speedwell and Rover, of this Port, The , xcbeque was in bsllaft, going from the Hevannah to fetch timber for the pavy., The brigantine mounts eleven carrisge guns end fixteen (wivels; snd is very well firted out in sll refpe&ls. She was going to! crarize ugon the cosft of Norths Americs, after touch-; ing at the Havanash for fome neceflaries, but meets;