Hicky's Bengal gazette, or The original Calcutta general advertiser (27.1781)

H I € K T' s

BENGAL GAZETTE;

OR THE ORIGINAL

Calcutta General Adver

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A JVetkly Pflit'u-td aid Cutttmercittl Paper,

Open ii all Parties, but influenced, hy None,

79 .

From Saturday July the.21ft..

to Saturday July a*th 1781. . [No. XXVII]

The DEA TH or GLORY Privateer
a Prune failing VefTel commanded by
JAMKS B^ACEY mounting 22 fix
pounder's, 12 Cohurps and twenty Swi-
vels and carrying ' 0.1c hundred and
twenty Men.——will leave Calcutta
jn a few days on a fix Months, cruifc a-
ga'inft the Dutch, French, and Span-
iards.

The heft Treatment and Encourage-
ment will be given. .

S I %

If you tbfr.k the following worthy of a
place in your Gazette, by infer ting it you
will oblige.

A Constant Readsr'. '•;

Ufe-jSjVX HE more deeply we pene-
*^ ^ rrate into the Labyrinth of

m, ^ ourfelves from thofe ends

'.'"•;*." « for which we entered it.—

To all Gentk»ztK Seamen, end Lads of En-■ certainty (uncertain even- to the profef- ; which two Farmers , from the Plough
terprize, and true fpirit.' iors themfelves a« Egyptian darknefs to 4 could • have decided : in half an hour,

r . ... , ,. the pert of Mankind) the contending takes ihe Court twenty Years.-^i'rfni

T^fHO.are ambitious of making an , partics fclt themfeives. more effectually ; htwcvci at. the end .01 my labour'-md

\ V ho:H».-able In,lcpendence by ,thc| rilined b the ddav? than they couJd
Pl.nv.ier of tiie Enemies, of their Country.-, bave beep b the in:uftice 0f any Dccifi-

'•'on.—Our Inheritance are become a prize
for difputation, and difputes and litiga-
tion art; become our Inheritance.
, The Profcffors of Artificial Laws
have always walked hand in hand with
the Profcffors of Artificial Theology, as
their end in confounding the reafon of
man, aqd abridging his natural freedom
is exactly the fame, they have adjufjed
the means to that end in a way entirely

fimilar.---The divine Thunders out his

anethemas with more noife and terror,a-'
g'ainft the breach of one of his pofkive
inftitutions, or the neglect of fome of.
his trivial forms, than againft the neg-
lect or breach of thofe duties, and ccm-
men'dments of natural' Religion, which
by thefe. forms and inftitutians he pre-
tends to inforce.—The.Lawyer- has his
forms and his pcfitive inftitutions too,
and he adheres to them with a Venerati-
on altogether as Religious.—-The.worft
canfe cannot be fo prejudicial to the liti-
gant, as his advocates or Attorney's ig-
norance or neekct. of thofe forms.-A

Law Suit is line an, ill managed difpute
in which the firft Object is loon out of
fight, and the parties end upon a matter
Wholly foreign to that on which they be-
gan.-——In, a Law fuit, the .queftion is,
who has a right to a certain houfe or
farm! and this queftion is daily deter-
mined, not upon the Evidences of the
r ght, but upon the obfepvance or neg-
lect of fyme forms of Words, in life
with the Gentlemen of the Law, about
which there.i§, even amongft themfeives
fuch <* difagrecmenr, that the molt ex-
perienced Veterans in the profeffien can
nrver be pofitively affured that they are
not miftaken.

Let us expoftulate with thefe learned
Sages, thefe Pricfts of the facred Tem-
ple of J office? Are we Judges of our

This has heppened in almoft every
foeeies of artificial foclcty, and .in all

times.---We found, or we thought

We found, an inconvenience in hav-
ing every man the Judge of his owii
eauff, therefore, Judges were fet -up,
■•1 firft with Difcretionary Powers;
but it was foda •found a mifcfable
Slavery to have our lives and properties
precarious, and hanging on the Arbitrary
determination of any one man or fit of

men.--We flew to Laws as a remedy

for this evil.——By thefe we periuaded
ourfelves we might know wirh fome'eer-
taintv upon what ground we ftood ; but
lo, differences arofe upon the feme and

joterpputation of thefe Laws.-Thus

were we brought back to our old incerti-
tude.---]>ew Laws were made to ex-

pound the old. ones, and new difficulties

arofe upon the New Laws-As words

multiplied Opportunities of Cavilling
upon them Multiplied alfo.---Then re

have in reward for all mv trouble- and
vexation a Judgment in my i'avor.—But
1 old, a Jagacious .Cemm'r.- in the ad-
veriarics ArmyT.as -found a flaw in the
piocectiing.—My triumph is turned into
n:ournmg.-r-l:have.iifed or iivficad of and
or Jome miftake, imall in Appearance*
but drcrd-ful- in confequences, and h^ve
the Vvl de of my fuccefs quaffed in 'a

Writ of en 00--h remove mV iuit 1"

fluft frcm Court to Ccuit.——I'fly-from'
equity to lavv, and .frcm law, to equity ■

-Equal uncertainty attends me every
where, and a miflake in which I had ho
fhaie decides at once.upon my Liberty,
and property, fending . me from the
Court to the Prifon and adjudging my
family to Beggary and 'famine.-i-I am
innocent of the darknefs and untertaintv
of your fcience.----- I never darkened it
w.'th abfurd. and contradictory notions,
norconfounded if with Chicane and So-
phiftry.— you have-excluded me from
any mare in the conduct of m'y own

caulev-The fcience-Was too deep for''

me.-I acknowledge it ! but it was

too deep 'even fur yquHelvcs:--*—you
have. m«de the way fo ihtricate- that yen
areyourielves hut in ic—i—you err' and'
y o u. pu ui fh me for yo or errors!" '

A • good - Paribh once "faid.-^-—-Thar,
wheie myftery ■ begins, Religions ends,
cannot I fay, ks truly at Jcaft, of hunian
laws-, .that where- myftery begins Juflice

ends:'--It is hard to fty whether tlic;

Dcdtors of law {• r divinity have made
the greateft advances in the lucrative bu-

(fin'efs of Myftery.-■-The "Lawyers' as

well as TheologerS have erected' another
reafon befides natural reafon, and the re-
fult has been, another Juftiee be'fides' na-
tural Juftice.--They have fo'bewilder-
ed the World and themiclves in unmean-
ing {forms and Ceremonies, and fo per-
plexed the plaineft matters with'"Meta-
phyfioal Jargon,- that it carries the higheft, '

caprfe was had to notes, comments, I titen who are initiated into the Myfteries

own property? By no means.--You danger to a man'out of the proleffion td

Glofies, Reports, learned readings &c.
.&:<:.—Eagle ftood againft Eagle, Autho-
•S Y againft AuthoriLy.—Some- were alu-
^•ed by the modern—Others Reverenced
the Ancient---The New were more en-
lightened—The old venerable—Some a-
dopteci the Comment—Others ftuck to

of the Blindfold Goddefs, inform me
whether I have a right to eat the bread I
have earned with the fweat of my. brow,
or the hazard of my Life —The grave

Doctor anfwers me in the affirmative.--

The Reverend Serjesnt replies in the ne-
gative.—The learned Barifter reafOns up-

jthc text—The confu fion increafed-- j on one fide and upon the other and con-

The mift thickened, until it. could be eludes nothing.—Wnat fhall 1 .do?—An.

jdifcovcred no longer what was allowed
or forbidden, what things were in pro-
per;}-, a:jd v. hat conmicn---In this un-

Antrgonift ftarts up andpieffes. me li^xd.
I enter the field and regain thefe three
peiftsns to defend my csufe.—-My caufe,

make the leaft ften v/ithout their advice
andaOitancc tiius by corifining;to them-
fe.les the knowledge of the foundation of
ail rnens lives »iid properties, th-y have
reduced all men into the mot abject 'ar.d
fervile depc.ndance we- are tenants at mr.
will of thefe gentlemen for every thing
«kid a -Mctaphyfical-quibble is' to decide
whether the greateft Villiia breathing,
(hall have his deferts or cfcape Vi'th in *
purity of whether the- bet man in focicty
fh.?!l act be reduced to the loweit ajiiT
m,ft ;:ejp'c,b'^ condr.ion kafford.3, -I«