The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, November 26, 1762, Page 1

+ New-Hampihire; D - _FRIDAY, Noveumszr 26, 1762. § Containing the Frefbeft Advices, %}- . Q\}' % » LY 1 3 s THER LLOND ON, S§egt. 9. ‘ EXTRACT from Confiderations on the approaching Peace. (The fenfible Authsr (whaever be be) of this little Piece reafons with great Candour and Knoewledge ; be Soesvs bimfelf to be Mafler of the Subjet, and treass it eoith z becoming Decency.] ’ E havedbeen fighting France (fays he, pag. 3.) thefe feven - Years, and have matwith lit- tle élfe but hard Blows ; and now,when there is fomeProl- pe& of obtaining a Recompence for the Heroifm and Toils of our Warriors, muft their Hands be tied up? Muft a Peace be figned juft when they are entering upon their Harveft ? and fhall they be difbanded as a Reward for all their Services ? [ He thes ludicroufly treats the Parade of the Her- miane's Treafure through the City 5 makes feme Remarks o1 Admiral Hawke's Retarn ;5 [pesks of our fuppofed Jusing for & Peace with France ; and, in erder 1o fosw bow injurious to this Natiow & Peace will be at this Time, be fubjoins the Motives of an old French Cfficer for making a Peace with England, as they were lately Jaid before the FrenchMinifiry : TheConclufion of which is in thefe Words:] 4 ¢ The general Weaknefsand fupinerefs that for ever attends immoderate Wealth and Luxury, hides from the Englih the Knowledge of their own ftrength, real Power, and true Intereft. Suffer them not to relapfe into Virtue and Underftanding. Plunge them not too deep into Difficulties, and they will never emerge from Felly into real Wifdom. ¢ Give them Peace ; and they will foon return to their Amufements of Eletions, - Party, and Faclions. ¢ Give them Peace 3 and theirNavy will once mare be laid up to rot, and their fea- men and Ardificers once more be torned OVEr (O Us. ' ©Give them Peace ; and we fhall net fear the Defeétion of Allies which will ruin our prefent {yftem. ¢« Give them Peace ; and they will never thiak of fchemes for encreafing their Peo- ple, or for making every Part of their Do- minions of real Ufe to every other. ¢ Purfue fteadily this Plan for 15 or 20 Years, conftandy dire&ling the Riches of the King lom to raifing a Navy equal, or fuperior to England ; and then, and not till then, (hall we be able to ftrike theBlow we have, for above a Centiyry, meditated.” Hlence it is evident (fays the Writer of the Confiderations) that aPeace withErance, before her Riches and ftrength are exhau- fted, is the fame Thing as bnibiug an Exe- cutioner to cut off our own Heads: And by the prefent fvitem, EFrance will never be ex- haufted uati! Spain is cut off from all her Refources in America ; therefore Spain, as well as France, ought to be vigoroufly at- tacked in everyQuarter of theGiobe, before any Terms of Accommodation are ever thought of : For *“1his is the Time ; iet us crufh the Whole Houfe of Bourbon.”” [Mr. Pirt’s Words in tne Couancil, when be 4 ftroogly urged the Necefiity of aWar with 7% Spain....... Words that ought to be engraved in LerTers oF Goup.] Our Fleets and Armies are in the higheft fpitit, and wifh for nothing fo ardently as to gratify their POt pegarto § oty b Nar ¢ b S0 i ) i o € Refentment, by conquering theirl{lands and fettlements; and feizing their Treafures, It is a noble Thirft, which nothing but the very Objelts themfelves ought to guench ; and muft be completely done, in order to fecure us from fature Danger, or in a few Years we fhall have another War, As there is more of Diftruft than fincerity to be expefied from our Enemies, have we notReafon to fufpeét that there is fome View for fetting on Foot this Negociation ? that itis done with a Defign to accomplith a Ceffation of Arms fer a limited Time ? or, at leaft, to make us relax in our Meafure ? to call home our Fleet, inorder to furnith an Opportunity for the Spanith Regifter fhips and French §t.Domingo men, to get fafe into their Ports ? by which the Coffers of their refpectiveCourts will be replenifhed; and as [oon as that is done, the Negociati- onis to break off, and the recruiting Ene- mies to reward us by the moft vigorous Efforts for our Folly and Credulity? That thisScheme is not unlikely to be their prin- cipal Aim, every candid Englifhman will allow ; then let us think about Meaas for defeating it : ‘At leaft lec us thick it is. fo, and be provided for the worft. Leta fpirit of Patriotifm and Emulation awake the People with a true feafe of “the fuppofed approaching Danger, and let them prefent dutiful and becoming Addrefles to ‘the Throne,on thelmportance of ourConquefts, and the great Neceflity of keeping them ; fobicit the Parliament’s being convened ; and likea Free People, who value their Pri- wvileges and Properties, infiruil their Repre- Jfentatives on tbefe invaivable Concerns. (He then prefents us with Iufirullions” from the County of Merioneth, to William Vaughan, Efg; their Reprefentative, ar worthy of prefent Imitation ; 1o wbhich, after fome [orewd Obfervations, be adds :) If there be aWant of Money for carrying on the War, let us makea Free Gift ; thew our fteadinefs to our own Interefts, our Loyalty and Attachments to his Majefty’s Crown and Dignity, and an unthaken Re- folution to fupport him againft all his Ene- mies.— Thefe are Meafures which will ter- rify the Enemy, and invigorate all our Commaaders to aét with a true Englith Spirit, Let the Grumblers who begrudge paying the Laod-Tax, whofe Fortunes are immenfe, and whofe Avariceis unbounded, be regarded as theEnemies of theirCountry, who, for the Sake of favinga few Pounds anpuallyy are for precipitately concluding a Peace with the Enemy on aay Terms, that will in a fhort Time bring on another War, and impoverifh perhaps ourfelves and our Pofterity. Let us not liften to the - Sonnd of Peace, ¢éill our Enemies conjointly make fuch Pro- pofals,as we may withfHonour accept: Racher let us fee his Royal Highnefs the Duke of Cumberland treating all foreign Agents as they juftly deferve, both here and elfewhere, put himfelf once more at the Head of the Britith Army, and render himfelf as terrible to the French and Spaniards as he was to the Rebels 5 and to the Dilgrace of fuch ag make WaraTrade,procure a fafe;honorable,, and lafting Peace, Nume 321 ¥ f e » { Wrexs fince this Parzi { was firlt publith’d. AZLETTE L e o £ 8 & . o S et Foreign and Domqfiicfi. [ Next be gives the Preliminary Articls of the a3° proaching Peace ; on every ome of which he makes favs. ral exceilent and canded Objeroatians, tending a5 well 10 Jhew tke Importance of the places, os the Light in which they were confidered and fixed by formerireaties ; particulariy with refpeit to Newfoundland avd Guada- lupz, one of which is [upported by an extralt from tbe Treaty of Usreebt, and the Impartance of the other ex- plained in fych a Manner as to leav: an Impriffios on the Mind of the Reader, ] { PHI LADET P H& A Nov, ar. The following isan Account of the melancholy difsfter that befell the Phwmaix, of London, Captain M’ Gicher, in Lat. 378 Long. 72 bound toMaryland from Guinea, with 332 Slaves on board. * On Wednelday tne 20th of Oftober 1762, at fix o’clock inthe evening, came on & molt vickent gele of wind at fouth, with thunder and lighming, the fea running very high, when the thip fprung leak,and we were obliged to lie to under bare poles. The water geined on us, with bo'h pumps conftantly working. At ten, P.M. endeavoured to put the fhip before the wind, to no purpofe. At 12 the fand ballaft having chosked our pumps, and there being 7 feet water in the hold, ail the cafks sflast; and the ballaft wafhed to leeward, cut away the rig- ging of the miin and mizin maeft, both which were inftantly clofe by the deck, and immediately the foremaft wes carried sway about 20 feet sbove. Hove overboard all eurguns, upen which the fhip right- ed a litilee. We were theh under s neceffity of letting all our {laves out of irens, to &ffit in- pumps ingend bsiling. Thurfdsy morning b:ing mode rate, having geined about 3 feet on the fhip, found every cafk in ¢he hold fove, fo that we only faved = barrel of flour, about 10 1b. of bresd, 25 gallons of wine, beer and fhrob,and 25 gallons of fpirits. The *fesnen and flaves were employed sll this day in pumping and bailing, the pumps were frequenty choaked, and brought up great quantities ot fandd We were obliged to hoift one ¢f the pumps up, sad put it down the querter deck huichway. A fhip this day bore down upon us, end tho’ very near,and we making every fignsl of diftrefs, the would not fpeek to us. On Friday the men fleves being very fullen snd unruly, baving had no (ulensnce of any kind for 48 hours, excepting a dram, we put half of the Rrongeft of them in ircns. Oa Saturday end Sundey sll hands, night and day, could fcarce keep the fhip clear, and were conftantly under arms. On Mondsy. morning many of the {laves hed got cut of irons, snd were sitempiing to bresk up the gratings, and the feemen not daring to go down the hold ta clesr our pumps, we were obliged, for the preferva- vion of our own lives, to kill 5o of the 1ing leaders; snd ftouteft of them....... It is impofiible to defcribe the mifery the poor {laves underwent, having hsd na frefh water or tood for § deys. Their difmal cries snd thricks, and moft frightful looks, added a- grest derl (o our misfortuned 5 four of them were found dead, and ope drowned herfelf in the hold, Thix Evening the fhip geined on us, and 3 feamen dropt dowa at the pump with fatigne end thi:ft, which cuuld not be quenched, tho® wine, rum and fhrub,’ were given them alternately. On Tueldsy morning the fhip had gained, during the night, sbove = foor of water, and the feamen quite wore out, and many ofthem in defpsir. About 10 in the forencon we faw & foil ; sbout 2 fhe difcovered and bore dows upon us 3 at 5 fpoke with us, being the KingGeorge; of Londonderry, James Mackey, mafter ; he imme dictely promifed 10 take us on board, and hoited out hie yiw), it then blowing very freth ;the gala incres{ing,prevented him from faving any thing bot the white peoples lives (which were 36 in nunber) not even sny of our cleaths, or one flave, the boat being fceree able to live in the fes the Isft tip fhe msde. Capt. Meckey, and fomz Gentlemen pafien gers he bsd on bowd, treated us with great kindnela and humanity.” ' From New Providence there is advice, that the privateer brig New Grace, Cspt. Taylor,of this pcic, was loft on s 1idge of rocks, as fhe was coming cuc from thence for this place. NEW.Y OR K, Nov. 13, The Ships Manchefter snd Edward, that srrived here lately from London, brought over no lefs than 206 Chefls of Green and Bohea Teas, for the differ- ent Merchants of chis City. Ty ¢ .Since cur Jaft two Veficls errived here $rom Tred land with sbout 2000 Firkinsof cheice Lith Duties,