, 1854-04-08

gers may apply to ChaS. Ward ApthrOp x
Company, at their store opposite Faneuil
Hall Market, or said master on board the
ship, at Long Wharf y. B. Said ship
mounts sixteen carriage guns, and will car
ry men answcrable also completely fitted
for close quarters has the best accomoda-
tions for passengers and will sail with or
without convoy as soon as loaded"
Col. Saltinstalls regiment of British
1 troops was stationed in Boston at the time.
Capt. Silas Brown advertiscs in the Gdsette
for the recovery Of one "Elphalet Kimble
Pearce, belonging to his Majesty's service"
who had deserted, or been secretcd by his
father, William Pearcc.n
Francis Bernard Esq, was at that time
! Captain General and GOyernor-in-C Chief in
and over his Majrsty'S Province of Massa-
chusetts Bay, and Vice Admiral of the
same" as We learn from proclamation in
the Gazette, in which he offers a reward Of
ten dollars for the detection of any of the
persons who had recently Committed great
disorder in the night-time, within several
towns in this Province, and particularly
had broke the windows Of some meeting
houses, and of the dwelling-houses of sever
al persons, by finging thereinto great
stones" The worthy old Governor was
wont to issue his proclamation on tri-
fling occasions in those days, when a street
fight would have been looked upon with as
much horror as n rebellion nowadays.
The Gazette is in size about II by Is
inches, and contains only three columns to-
the page. Five columns are occupied with
news there is no set editorial as in most
modern papers. Atthe head Of the second
column il is announced that Capt. Thomas
Allen arrived here on Wednesday last, in
forty-six days from Liverpool, and has
brought London prints to the 10Th of May
last (l76l,) from which we have the fol-
lowing advices, viz ETC." What would
the people Of America think now if they
were compelled to wait fOrty-six days for
news from Europe Nothing impresses
more strongly the great changes which
have been wrought by steam and clipper
models, than this simple announcement of
the passage Of Capt Thomas Allen. 3.
In the news brought by Capt. Thomas
Allen, and published in the Gazette, may
be found a contemporaneOus account Of
many important events Of the celebrated
Seven Years War in Europe, which are
now read with curious interest by the stu
dent Of History.
A despatch from Dresden, April 2, l76l,
says: "The King of Prussia's camp is sur
rounded by impregnable works One would
imagine that His Majesty intended to stay
in it oil summer" The Great Frederic
shortly after gained the famous victory of
Freiburg over the Austrians
From another despatch dated London,
May l2, l7Gl, we learn that the Grand
Signior [Sultan of Turkey had caused to
be published, by sound Of trumpet, through
out his Empire, that his predecessor and
brother had conceived the design of extir-
pating the Knights Of Malta, and charged
him by will to carry the project into execu-
ton. That though it had been hitherto
delayed, he was now determined they should
feel the consequences of his Just wrath and
therefore ordered the assembly of all his
feet, etc, at ConstaHtnople to take on
board the army that will spread terror
through the universe, and wash away the
injury sustained in Christian blood. by
our invincible power !" concludes this dec
laration, "all Christianity shall feel the just
indignation we have conceived at the loss
Of our religion"
What change in the affairs Of the world
since those days The Turk then so fierce
and threatening vengeance against all
Christendom, is now meek and lowly,
threatened with determination by the then
barbarous Russia and preserved only by
the aid Of the ChristendOm he once strove
to exterminate. Strange the mutations of
affairs when the sympathies and support of
the Christians are with the Infidel in the
contest between the Crescent and the Cross
Another despatch to be found in the Ga
zette, dated Malta, April I'd, says, "the
greatest preparations are making to receive
the Turks, in case they should make an at
tempt upon this Island" Still another,
from Mentz, April 2Sth, says "the Prus-
SLAMS have entered Bohemia, and are di-
recting their march towards Egra, where
General Guasco commands corps Of Aus
trians." 1t appears, in another part Of the
Gazette, that all the powers at war had
agreed to Congress, but the operations
Of the campaign were still pushed with Wig
or. Frederick, by a mastery stroke of
feeling, succeeded in making treaty with
the Sultan, which so much alarmed the
Empress Maria Theresa, lest the Turks
should again fall upon Hungary, that she
at once changed her implacable demeanor
and expressed desire for peace.
A letter from St. Eustatia, in the West
Indies, dated June 10th, gives an account
of the capture, by an English feet, on the
9th of the same month, of the town of Ro-
seau, in the Island of Dominica On the
French refusing to surrender, says the let
ter, Lord Rollo landed with his troops,