The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, February 25, 1763, Page 1

w»gsz;h;)%gc; i THE To the Publifber of the Nz@effamp[bireGAznTTn. ' SiR. ‘EVERY one knows that in fettling and cultivating wild Lands, there muft ne- — ceffarily arife a confiderable Expence, “which muft be duly paid bz the proprietors, or the Work muft be retarded ; which thows how unteafonable it is for People to expect. Town- thips thould be fettled in which they are Pro- prietors, while they fhift, fhuffle and .negle& to pay their Proportion of the Taxes laid for that end. But by the imprudent and unfair Manage- jment of fomé of the leading Proprietors, it often happens others are blamed, and at laft - their Rights fold for Non-Payment, who never heard of the Tax. Can it be tho’t a fair Me- - thod of giving Notice in fuch Cafes, when the Lands lie ip this Province (tho’ a few only of the Proprictors live here) to infert an Advertife- ment in a Connedicut or Bofton News Paper, for the fake of the Proprietors there, without any Regard to thofe, who by an Advertifement " in the New-Hampfhire Paper, might fave their Rights. WHEREAs by the Method. complain- ‘ed.of, the faid Rightshave been,and may always be fold, and purchafed by thofe who have con- triv’d the Scheme, and the fmall_Numbg‘r a_fot-:- faid, made finaller, or reduced to a Cypher ; And thercfore defire t. = Managers to give Notice in yourPaper for - future of their Pro- ceedings in thefe Cafes, or e Leg,ahty thereof will hereafter be called in Queftion. To the publither of the New Hampfbire % GAZETTE. SIR, g [ inferting the following extrac? from the Phi- K Iofophical Tranfatiions as abridged by Bad- bam, vol. 5. p. 108, you may do great fervice to K many Parmers, whofe lands lay by the fea. THE manner. of manuring Lands by Sea Shells, in the Counties of Londonderry and Dublin. . ; OTH thefe Countigs are.very mountain- B ous, and thefemountains arccovered_‘wlt.h bogs and heath, infemuch that there is little arable ground, excepting what was latterly made fo. There are three ways of reducing eath and bogg' to arable land : The firfi is by {lutting off the fcurf of the ground, making up the turf fo cut into heaps, and''when the Sun has dried them fettin® them on fire : when burnt as.much as pofiible, they are fcattered on the %%ound, and after plowing, it produces barley, rye, or cats for about 3 years. The. inconveni- ences attanding this method are, that it is not rafticable in a wet Summer,and that it renders the ground ufelefs after the third crop for feveral ears. ¢ The fecond method is by liming ; this is such better than the former, becaufe it does not Mpoverifh the ground fo much, lafts ]png_ey and roduces better orain, and good grafs if it be ot plowed too leng. : : But the third and beft method is drefling with lc2 Shells : this is the great manure about the {ea coaft. . Towards the eaftern part of the Bay ' of Londonderry, commonly called Lough-foyle, are feveral little banls that diy appear at low of thells of fea-fifh of all xts, particularly periwinkles, cockles, limpets, %c. The cauntry people come with boats, and bt low water carry loads of thefe fhells away ; jeave them in heaps.on -the thore, till they iry ; then they carry them by boat as ‘ers will permit, and then in facks ips for {ix or feven miles into the - ellow fometimes 40, but moftly I an acte. Thefe fhells agree with oy, heathy, clayey, wet or Thiff land, butnot with a fandy foil 3 they feem to give the land a fort of fermentation, as yeaft does to bread, o- pening and loofening the clods, and by that means making way for the roots to: penetrafe, nd for the moifture to enter into the fibres of the 3 “roots, This manure lafts fo long, that no one € “an determine the time of its duration : therca- ¥ re.s to [2, FRIDAY. Fi5RUARY 25 1763 - New-Hampfhire Coniaining the Frefbeft Advices, : Donnegallin Ireland 5 by the Archbifhop of . sfin ] BOGE B e 8ol M I § 3 E: o SN fon of its long continuance feens tobe this, viz. that the fheils diffolve a little every year, till they are all {pent, which requires'aconfidera‘ble time, whereas lime, &c. operatésin manute and fpends’ its ftrength all at once. 2 Butit is to be obferved, that with this fhell drefling, infix or feven years plowing, the ground becomes fo mellow that the corn grows rank, and runs up to ftraw to fuch a length that it cannot fupport itfelf ; and then the land muftlie a year or two, that the fermentation may abate a little, and the clods harden, and then it will bear as long again, and continue {o do fo, with the like intermiffions, for 20 or 30 years. In the years that the land is not plowed, it bears a fine grafs; fhort'but thick. The famemanure likewife prod,uc_es‘ the fai;re,fi ; and largeft flowers in aflower garden : it is alfo ufed in Ireland for raifing potatoes, being mixed with a little dung or ftraw : after raifing pota= toes 3 years, they fow the ground with barley, and the produce is very good for fome years. Sea fhells, which have been under the falt water, are much better than thofe fometimes found in banks at a diftance from the fea; tho’ the latter will do fervice. The land about the fea-fhore of Londonderry, bears but indifferent - wheat, nor will the fhelis alone anfwer the pur- pofe without fome dung ; yet this may be ow- ing to the ignorance of the Farmers, who gene- rallgz underftand nothing ofwheat. ' ome thoufands of acres have been improved by fhells, and what formerly was not worth a groat per acre, is now worth 4 fhillings. Some years ago they made lime of the fhells, and ma- nured their lands with it ; but a poor country- man, who out of lazinefs or poverty, had not provided to makelime, threw the fhells unburnt on his Jand, and his crop proved as good a5 his ncighbours, and the 2d and 3d better ; fo all took the hint, and haye ufed them fo ever fince, PRy A oy e s o S Y L O N D O N, Nov. 22. Extraé? from Aldcrman’ HEATHCOTE’s Letter to the Lord Mayor of London. FTER exprefing his fentiments, and A giving his opinion with great force and judgment, again{t making a peace on the footing of the preliminaries that have been juft publifhed, in tive: news-papers, and fhewing the true value of our Acquifitions, by exhibiting a candid account of the produce of them, and the advantages that muft accure to the kingdom from keeping poffeffion of them, and the evil that will enfue from giving them up ; and then fpeaking highly in praife of that patriot Minifter, through whofe wifdom they were obtained, Mr. Heathcote afks the following queftions : < Whether any hation can have a right to invade another, or any of its colonies and pof- feflions, and to butcher the people without mercy, either by themfelves, or by inhutan favages? ¢ If any nation is {o unjuftly im'adcd_and in- jured, has fhe not a right, by thelaws of nature, the law of nations, and the law of God, to de- fend herfelf againft fuch an enemy, and make ireprifals 3 to keep what fhe takes in the war, to indemnify herfelf for all the charges of fuch war, entered upon in her juft defencp, and to diftrefs the aggreflor, fo far as is neceflary for her own fecurity and peace? <t Hath not France without the leaft provo- cation from us, invaded and plundered our co- lonies and poffefiions in America, in breach of treaties, and inhumanly butchered our fellow- fubje&ts, bothby themfelves,’and Indian favages ? ¢¢ Hath not Great-Britain the fame right in common with all nations, to defend herfelfagaindt fuch injuries done her by Franee, and to retain what {he has takenfrom™ her*in’ the prefent juft amtl neceflary war, in crder to indemnify herfelf for the chaiges of it, and eftablith her future fe- curity and peace, ? ¢«¢ Can Great-Britain reftoreany of her con- quefts in America or Africa to France, without reftoring to her the power of endangering her, fecurity and peacey and @ifoiof putting:a total period to het national exiftenge : » aey & Noume g4 [Weeks ok this Baven &5 .:.!;3. 7. " Ceremonies. —— s v L was £istt Publifhed. Foreign and Domeflick. P — e e o At ¢ Hath not France been a moeft notorious treaty breaker, and hath fhe not bfoke every treaty fhe ever made with this mation ? ¢“'Can Great-Britain,confiffent with her own fecurity and peace, or any rule of policy truft that notorious treaty-breaking and perfidicus nation ? ; ¢ Is any one conceffionr made by France; in the preliminaries publifhed, that can poffibly in- demnity Great-Britain for the immenfe charges fhe hath been at; in defending her juft rights, and protect her fubjeéts from French violence, and herfelf from French {lavery ; and why is fo materia! and neceflary an article omitted - the preliminaries ? : ¢ Can our more than chriftian Samaritans and moft illuftrious heroes, fince the day of the firft warriors, whofe examples they feem (o clofely ta imitate, produce a fingle inftance from hiftory of any nation, that after being ina lefs degree fhan we have been, unjuftly invaded and injui- ioufly treated, reftore their conquefts to the of- fending party, if fhe herfelf was in a condition to maintain them ; efpecially when fuch a reftiZ tution would have enabled her enemy to have compleated her ruin ; and are we not in a con- dition to maintain our conqufts over France,and to fecure ourfelves for the future againft the fatal effe&ts of her boundlefs ambition ; and muft we not expet all the calamities of a conquered peos ple, if we again truft her with thofe weapens, which will empower her to work our deftrution, and which we are fure fhe will employ to that purpofe ? sl ““ What national reafon can be given for making conceffions to conquered France, thatfg evidently tend to hrer exaltation, and the perdi- tion of Great-Britain ? ¢ Is it poffible for any Briten in the South or North of this ifland, toapprove of conditicns fo {hameful, dithonourable, ihjurious, and fatal to his native country. ° i < If any fuch there thould unhapyily be, will he not juftly deferve juftice, which is due toth.: higheft crimes, it is poffible to commit ; and « a punithment adequate to the offence, is un- known to our laws,-will not a law po/l faéiv be neceflary and warrantable, in order to prevent fuch dangerous evils for the future, by firiking; a proper terror into the hearts of all futureM...rs ¢ i oo B O b | Y Bt e v g e L oo i L0 N~ B8Ny . Nov. 27. Laft Wednefday, the Duke de Ni- vernois, Ambaffador Extraordinary, and Pleni- potentiary from the Moft Chriftian King,had an audience of his Majefty to deliver his credenti~ als: To which he was intrcduced by the Right Hon. tho Earl of Egremont, Secretary of State for the Southern department, and conduted by Sir Clement Cotterel Dormers Mafter of the On this Occafion his Excellency made the following fpeech to his Majefty in French. Cordial reconciliation between two pow- erful monarchs formed toloveeach other; a permanent union of fyftem between two great courts, attracted to oneanother by their intérefts rightly underftood ; and 2 fincere and lafling conjunétion of two refpectable nations, whom unhappy prejudices have toolong divided ; form the glorious zra of the commencement of your Majefty’s reign : and this zra will, a¢the fame time, be that of happinefs reftored fo the four quarters of the World. Your Majefty’s name, your glory, and your virtues,will be infeperably joined in hiftory, with univerfil felicity ; and pofterity will there read, with/fentiments cf re- {pect that treaty whichh will be diftinguifhed, a- bove all others, by gdod faith, without equivo- cation, aud by permanent {fability. Permit me, Sirs to fcliditate myfelf at ycur feet, on being cliofen bv./l‘xe King, my mafter, to ferve, between your M ajefty and him, as the organof the noble fentifents of two hearts fo worthy of eaeh other, #0d to be emploied in this blefled work which irfures your Majc&y’s glory by giving happir,lefs % the whole worid." : e