The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, February 4, 1763, Page 1

;E"RIDAY, FeBruAzY 4. 1763. THE Fram the Gentleman's Magazine for September lofi. L The TRIMMER. A Paper written under this Charalier. To the good People of England, AND reslly agood fortof people ye are, when ye are plesed.... The tefk is not difficult to bring ye into gpood humour, neither ; but I dely all the artifts in Exrope to keep you fo. Ye love to find fault, pay, to maks faults ; and if you cannot quasrel with your neighbours, yeu will fall outwith yourfelves, like the giey hound, who ‘uled to be angry at his owa tail. ¥ou muy Tay thactheTrimmer is guilty of igjufiice, and that ye are affable, humane, {riendly, charicable, focial, fweet temper’d, [clf denying beings : if every perfon was to draw his awn picture,thepen and ink upan life above twenty years, an unconcerned [pec- tator of all the fantafticalne(s with which mankiod have fatigued themfelves....to me ye appear {elfih, ftupborn,querulous,conceited,difcontiented exiftencies, imoft of whom enjsy more than they delerve, yet sre ily withing for more enjoymseats, and (o do lefs to deferve them. I dined yefterday st Mr. Fineer's, and his eldeft fon being introduced,sccarding to arcient family cuftom, of fhewing the vifitors how much wit the heir ha:, one of the guz{ts addrefled hic pipa with....‘I fuppole, Sir, you will bring mafterupto your own bulinels. . bring him @p to 2 hingmea rather, was the parends anfwer. ¢ No, no, he fhall never be brought up io work all his life sime for nothing,asl have cone.” Aad yet this perfon has gained, by his own indultry and {uccels in trade, upwards of four thoufand pounds. But thus it is, we cover 0 enjoy Rill more than we do, and wan: Qill to do lefs tor it Epictetus (sys,mankind are diffaticnzd: Semeca (sys they sre dilcontented ; and this is what both belore ead fince Seneca every perfon has bDeen faying who could fay sny thing. With your leave, good people, T will prefent you with a couple of charafters; 45 it is Common for tho® who {uppofe themlelves to be artilts, to exhibit fpe- imens of their perfermunces. I offer thele, with ubmiflion ; and tcll me, if you plezfz, how you like them. They are fleetches of & farmer, and a hop planter In the harvelt fealon, that pariiculsr month of pravidence’s bounty, when all the animal crestion eppears chzarfally induftrious, and we may even faucy approaching ‘winter to bear a (mjle on his weaither woim wiinkles, when he views the ftore that is gathering in to comfort him, while he vifits | us, yet, even, then, congratulate the farmer on the . noble pro’p_-:.él of his we!l covered acses,he will fhake iz head, and batwszen a figh and a grunt he will snlwer you wich...*Ah ! but the ftraw’s fhost.’ If the ftraw is long, then he will tell you there is no fubftance ia the grain, ¢ If there is but an indifferent crop, he laments it will not pay the expzace of houfing and threfhing. It a pleniiiul crop, then he grumbles, corn will be fo cheap, it will not bz worth carryieg to muiket. + Juft{o the hop plaater:...he 1ifes, lifis up the {afh, ead leoks: gver the horizon ; 1/ the mosning happens to be cioudy, e pulls down the window with an oath, faying, ‘It willrain to day, and all the blofioms be wathed off.’ : if there fhyuld be a pleafant air sbroad, then the ples will be «li blown dowa. Lf thz fun fhilazs,,...O Lord ! then the plants muft ='burned vp. ! ¢ Liitis a clofe, diy day, without ‘much fun fhice, gr wiad, then he wifhes for riin to deftroy the vermin, or elle they will estall the buds up. The reader, who neisher . owana hopgrouais, nor renis ciin Jiads will wonder how thele perfons can be fo difcontented. Yet i is an even betr, thas thofe, wha (eem to Be amized at fuch grumblers, sre a3 difati fizd themlelves ;' the fympioms of the difeale is the fame in ximoit all. HLif the cure is luppofed to be performed whea thz phyfician knowsthe patient’s 'diforder. Indeed, 7 good people, neighbours, countrymen, and choice sivies, I do know, binsfile, that you are difordered, =d kaow what your duarder is, nay, would prefcribz fa . you, but imsgine my medicines wonld be thrown aWaYs | : Suppafe T order you a few grains of felf know- i Redge, half g drachm of patience, a fcruple of felt de- *) nis), mx:d vp with a tea fpoonful of the fyrup of " hamanity ; will any of you take fuch an eleCtuary ? ' ye mightafls it, iedeed, for the novelty fake, but { . will bett a handful of integrity aguinft all court ceremonies, that ye fpit it out sgain, Folly has ihrown your heads into hyRericks, and ' New-Hampfhire? Containing the Frefbeff Advices, portrait would appear fo. But I, who have locked w@@@@@@@ . < < o - \';‘? & I will lay opinion rgeint common feafe, which are the greatelt odds that can be cffered, not onc man in msany dozens, knows what ia the matter with him/lelf. Left week I called on an cld acquaintssce; his lady told me, her {poule was difturbed and difcrder- ed at(omething, the could not tell for what; and that the was happy in my ceiling, beczult the hoped I weuld get Kim into fpirits zgain. I wens to him iato his fludy ; there he fat difcon- tented as an undoae gamefler. I took hir by the hand,ind enquifed if he was ill; be replied, thar,chank God, he enjoyed 23 good & fiate of health as any man - in the world, * I defired to Kmgw if his affiirs were say way complicaed, which might make him uneafy ; his reply was, Sir, [ do not owe &ny perlon a fhilling, and my inceme greatly exceeds my ocutfets....I hope, Sir, no words have happened betwixt your lady and you. There is not a batter woman breathing, Sir, and we live in continuzd hermeny.... How does your daughter, Sir ? Married, Sir, as happy asI am...Your fon st College? My fon, Sir, contributes to my hsp- pinefs, I hear every body praife him. What then, Sir, can you be unezaly about ? See there, Sir, my filend replied, raifing his'voice atthe feme time, and pulling fome printed papers cut of his pocket,...there, Sir, read there..... There is the Monitor, and Auditor, and Biiten, and North Briton, and the Wefiminfler Fournal,..... who can enjoy themiclves when they -read fuch terrible accounts as they give us, vot only ofthe governmaent, but allo of themfelves ? mercy upen us | but_we are a bsught and fold nation! Wih fume difficulty I perfusded him to come into company again, and once more be bimfef,] and let the fludy of politicks alone to thofe” who Joved to be impaofed upon. I told himall that & man of fenfe ought to do, was to ccnform to the laws of God aad his country ; 1o take things es they were, ufe them as they fhould be ; st with &3 much integrity to mankind as the cuftoms aof the werld would fuffer, and independent and con- tenicd enjoy the pleziures of domeltic fociety; ard wait with patience for that ewlul, that all interefting event, when empire breaks his fceptre, and beiumy ceafes to be amiable, when Fation is diffipated, the phantom of Pride vanithed, and all werldly difiin&li- on buried in a death bed’s diflolution. L O N D O N, Nw. 13 There were preleni on Tuciday st Guildhall, the Marquis de Croy, wha lately csme frem France, the Lord Chancellor, the Lords Talbor, Falifax, Ef- fingham, Northumberland, Egremont, Bute, Cath- cert, Falmouth, Mansfield, Tilney, the Speaker of the Houle of Cdmmons, leveral Judges, ancGentry of the firlt rank.” The number of ihein was fogreat, that the Aldermen were obiiged to dine st the Sword. beares’s table. At eight o'Clock the ball was opeaed, and the evening was ended much to the {ztisfallion of thole who previded the entertain- ment. On Tuellay aCommendam p:ffed the feal to en- sblc the Hon. snd Right Rev, Frederick, Lord Bi- fhop of Exsier, to hold with thy bifhopiics, the re€tory of Shopbroke, in Devenihiie ; alfo the arch- desconry of Exzier, together with & prebend or ca- nonry in ths cathedral church otExeter, and slfo the treafure fhip of the faid cathzdral; all vacant by the dezth of Ds, Laviagton, the late Bifhop. It being a receivad notion, That the &Vg&f;:tde sre univesfally (mall, we fhall here prefent our rea, ders wiih the weight end dimenfions aban ox lately flaughtered atCow bridge,inthe couaty of Glamor- gsn, in which county he was allo bred. The four quasters of this beaft, which for fizs mighr, with much greater propiiety, bave bezn [uppaled to have belonged to an elephanr, weighed 1642 1b. his hide 161 / tailow 158 his he'ght was iz feet 2hree inches,his lenzth from beed tg tail, 17 feet feven jaches, and coft 20l..... The Reader is to obisrve, that this is & remaiksble large price far it'to have been {old at on the fpot; tiiough wz know 2 genleman, not two miles from thez gbgve mentioned place, who has mors than once foll oxzn of his own rearing, st Briftal, for 450 & yoke. We meation this circumitance as & proaf, the® large cautle are no rarity in ihet country. , Taeldsy moraing the child of & journeyman prin- ter, a fioe boy sbout thres years old, in White Horfe Alley, Clerkenwell, being a little difordered, the land lady of the Houfe gave' the mather fome cpium in- ftead of rhubsrb, which ths ignorantly gave her child, and occafioned its death in sbout en hour alterwards, This thews how cautious pesfons ought to be in ad- miniftezing medicinea they&now nothing of. . Laft week two of the Glamorganhire militia quar- Nunse 331 ‘[ Weeks finte this Paven L was firft Publifhed. Féreignpand DomeFich, teted in Brifto), after receiving a thoufend lafhes esch a: three different times, were diummed ous of the re- gimest for receiving mopey of the French priloners ¢corfined at Knowle, for permiuing them (o mske their elceps. As foon 3 they were properly ditmil- fed from the militasy fervice, & body of failor: con- cufled them on boatd & man of war in King read. An extraordinary aifair bappened a few days sgo in Kiog’s Hesd Court, in Tocley ftreet, where & mafter bricklayer being fuddenly trken ill, dicd im- mediately as it was thought, on which he was pu: into 2 fhroud and ccffia, where he was abous 30 hour:, and then, 10 the fy piize of cvery body, awaked ss Gut of 4 trevree, £id it now; and hes Been ever fince, in good health, ‘ His M:jefty’s fhip Niger, is arzived st Plymouth, from a cruize, sad has brought in the Victoire pri- vateer of Beyonne of 10 guns, and 80 men. : The Ereft, of and from Breit ; and the Cantabsria privateer of St. Sebaftions, are bath taken by theLoe. Waterfird, Of. 25. Laft night we had & dread- ful form. A large fhip from Norway, laden with dexls, bound to Dublin, was wrecked in the entrance of our harbour, on the weft fide, niar Nymph Hall. She carried between 5 and 600 tons, went to picces immedistely, and s!l the crew, except the carpenter, pesithed : her cargo is foated all over the harbour. A cosfler was likewile loft ; and feveral fhips were feen in the cffing, in the afternoon, none of which ere come in, {o that we are in the utmoft uneafinefs about them, s it fiill blows at S. 8, E, The magnificent Public Entry of the two Ve- nction Ambafladors {which will be in the Spring ) will be oze of the moft elegant and gentecl public Shews ¢ver [een in this Capital. The Prepasations are slrcady begun to be made, and are forwarding #s (aft o3 pofiible. Three very [iperb Equipsges are now making at Paris. The Engiifh Artificers, to whom the Offer was firk mede, required 1z or 1 Months 10 meke them, which was too long & Time tor their Excellencies to wais, The Liveries (which a'e of Scarlet Velvet, and trimmed with Point 42, Efpagne Lace) of the Pages and Gentlemen of the Bedchamber, will be the meft grand cver {cen in Europe, they being proportionably richer cne shove anpiber, and the meaneft valued at Forty Guinsas. All the Officers Prifoners of War,1s wellAuftrisns as the Troops of the Empire, who were at Leipfiic, have been {:nt to Megdebourg, by Order of Prince Henry of Pruffia ; and fome bundred Waggons were employed in removing the Grand Magazine efta- blilhed these. The Marquisde Caftrics, who has lately had his Arm cut cff, did not receive theShot which cccafioned its Amputation in the Battle whercin the Hereditary Prince was wounded, as mentioned in all the Daily Bepers of Yefterday, but.the fevere Cannonade dur- ing the Attack of the Caftle of Amonebourg on ths 2 ft Sepi. The foflowing Affair happen’d at the Havannah, 8 litdde before thePlece furrendered : The commander ofthe Moro Caftle hsnged three of the principsl Spenith merchants inthe iflard, for venturing to lay in public company, that the Governor had better furrender, and cbtain the famc terms as were granted &t Guadalupe, which were 2s good as could be ex- petted, than maintain an obftinate dejence, and ir- ritie the enemy to compel them to fuirender prifo- ners of wer. One of the merchanis happened to istimate thefe his fentiments,and ihe others acquieiced in them ; which bring reported to the commandant, Le ordered them all three tocbe immediately feized and hanged upen = trisngular gallowsz, high encugh to be feen from the Englifh camp. One of them is {sid to have been worth 200,000, snother was one of the Havannzh Company at Jsmaica, and had a Jit- tle while before been at that 1{lsnd ; and in his re- turn to Cuba, the veflel, in which he was paflenger, was taken by the Richmond frigate ; but on account of his extenfive trade.and connexions with the Englith, was granted bis liberty,and had got into the Havannsh only the evening before his unfortunate end. There ave yet no perticulars concerning the third, enly thic he was & very principsl merchant in the place. Notwithftanding the Spaniards fent the vuns end prietts cut cfthe Iavanneh into the country belore the Englifh came there, yet one cfithe suns (aid to bz a very besutiful woman) fouad meens to mcka her elcape, snd fled to.the Englith camp, whereLoid Aibemsrle took her immedistely under his protec tion, and feot her immedistelyon board Admirsl Pococks own fhip.:... Sometking fimilsr happene | during the fiege of - Minorca. When two Spanifh Jadies ofthe ifland fled to the garsifon, Lord Bigke- ney took them under his protection ; and they we:a both married to officers iathe garrifon. This sffeie was the more remarkable, as Lord Blskeney greaily