The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, November 4, 1756, Page 1

: *‘Thurfday, November 4: _"“4.' 17506, . New Hampfbire | 'wesszessssssnnennn Hith the Frefheft Advices | EEOS EEA : T be following ADBRESSES, &F'c.relating to the Lofs of M- NORCA,sehich was of fuch great Confiquence to the Englith, + conquered by them in 1708, andceded 1o GRrEaT BriTAIN " by the Treaty of Utrech, canrot be difagreable at this Time. It bas anexcellent Harvbour awbercin the large? Fleets may | . < lie-with the greateft Security. - . S ————— - | * Kenan ¢ToN, (a Royal Palace and Village in Middlelex, - two Miles Weft from LoNpowN) AugusT 13. ' The Parliament flands prorogued to the 28th of Sep- femper next. - : e are informed that a Letter hasbeen received fiem ve, by a Leading Man in this City, requefling his Ia- e againft the ¢ ty’s addrefing the Throne. ’ 54n Friday lad the following Appress of the High iifi', Grand Jury, Juit'ces of the Peace, and Gentlemen a F Ceunty of Dorlet, was prefented by George Pitt and afikhx‘ phry Sturt, Eliges; Reprefentatives in Parliament for ' “Lid Ceun(y : Bemng intr@aced by the Right H.on. the o carlof Recheford, one of the Lords of the Bedchamber , tohis MajesTy. To the KING’s MosT Excetient MajESTY. £, your Mayesty's mofl dutiful and loyal Subjes the High Shertff, Grand Jury, Jufiicesof the Peace, and Gentlemen of the County of Dor)et, mofi bumbly beg Leawve, at this critical Junflure, to affure your MAJESTY , of our moft firamn and unfbcken Zcal for your MAJESTY s Por- ' fon and Goweriment 5 and that awe fhall, wwith the greatsft Alacrity, embrace every Opportunity of exerting ourfelves in Support of both. . Under the Government of a King of your Majeery's Great and martial Di pofition, and iy 1he £rojccution of fo Fuft and National a War, we arenot at all intimidated wwith ibe /" D breats and Power of France ; a Nation This bas mever ' fear'd, basoftn bumbled. But achin we reflelt on the Lofs of the lfland of NINORCA ; fo gloriowfly obtain’d, jo advan- L Weoufly kept, of fuch in:fiimable Value ta the Trade of thefe b - tngdoms ; we are convinced, that this dttempt of our natural Wl @ndinveterate Enemy was fo notorious, that wery few of your i Z’AJESTYU Saithful Suljcéts bad the lealt Daubt of the De- _‘,.fi ign, ling before it was put in Execution: Y.t the ffland was ] | B Fleet there. Thefe Rifiebiions fill us with Fear and Amaze- , ment ! And we mofi bumbly hope your Majesty awill be 2lealed to diredt juch Enguiry to be made into 1he Conduct ) B “oria e o i lefe Difencelejs, and the Meditetranean avithout any Engiifb, Fbreg;gn and Domeftick, ACACAC S RO which bas fo affonifbingly turn'd this defperate and rafb At- tempt of our Encmyinto Viflory and Glory, and bas cover'd this Nation «with Reproach and Dijfbonour, that, from what-, evir Caufes it bath proceeded, the Perfon by awbom it ‘bas been occafion'd, may receive that Punifoment fo juftly deferved. Vo V. lters Corneavall, Blq; and Sir Fobn Margan, Bart, Knights of the Stire for the County of Hereford, , We the High Sheriff and Grand Jury for the faid County, noww aflembied at the Affizes beld for the Jfame, biing greatly alaver d at the prefent melancholy and difireffed Situation of Afusrs of this Nation, think it a Duty incdmbent onus o ap- . ply ta you, our worthy Reprelemtatives, upon wsbofe diligent and fuitoful Conduct in the approacking Seffions of Parliament ae eatirely rely on, ; When we refl:& on the diplorabe Lofs of M INORCA, one of our meft waluable Poffeffions' ( a Lofs aggrawated by the unprecedented Difbonanr. fufained by the Britifh Flag in the ™ Medicerranean 1) andon the dijireffed Stare of onr Colonies in America, on which the Trade and Well beingof thefe. King- domas depend, we cannat but call to mind the immenfe Supplics granted in the Bafp Seffions of Parliament for the Defence of bis MAJESTY's Dominions, andthe great Fleets and drmies reis'’d for the fame, without any apparent Advantage.” We therefore, in Bebalf of ourfelves, and the other Freebolders of this-County, inflrult you to make a flric Enquiry into the "Ap- plication of the Publick Money, and the Caules of theft fatal Misfortanes, and to uje your utmoft Endeawours to difcover thole who hawe been any ways acceffary thereto, and te bring thim to Pudlick Juflice. The Spirit of Gaming is at fo great a Height at prefent, that Money may be loft or won-upon any Thing ; while the Fate of Minorca was depending great Wagers were laid, and high Infurances made on that important Place ; and fince it has been loft, Gibraliar has exercifed the In- dultry of fpeculative Gamefters : And lally, we hear Poli- cies are new made on the Life of Admiral Byng, the Ob- ligation to be void in Cafe he fhoald come to his End any other Way than by the Sentence of a Court Martial, or 2 Parliamentary Eonquiry. j We are informed that on' the next Sunday after the News was brought and confirmed-of the furrender of Minorca to the French, four feveral Chaplains, by Order of their Prin- cipals, preached four feveral Sermons from one and the fame Text, viz. The latter Part of the 21t Verfe of the fift Chapter of Job.; where are thefe Words, ¢ The Lord ¢ gave, and the Lord hath tzken away, blefied be the ¥ ‘ Nams Nums. ¢ GAZETTE,