The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, August 15, 1760, Page 2

%D 8. T°0 M, Aogels- 7.t Laft Monday the Miniftersand Wardens of the Epifcopal Churches in this Town, waired on His Excellency,and prefented the foilowing ADDRESS, May it pleafe your Excellency, E:;j‘E, the Miniflers and Wardens of the epif- L7 copal Churches in this Town, beg Leave to congratulate your Excellency om your Jafe Aprival in this your Government. --- We like- wife acknowledge with all Thankfulnefs, the paternal Care of our moft gracious Sovereign, in appointing a Perfon of your Excellency’s approv’d Abilities, Integrity and public Spirit, to direét the importans Affairs of this Province. We perfuade ourfelves, that a dutiful People will be bappy under your prudent and gentle Ad- miniflration 5 and your Regards for Religion, “and ¢fpecially for thas Eftablifbmens wherein you have been educated, leave us no roomto doubt of your Proteflion and Encouragement of the Church of England. Asit is qur Duty, [o fball we be always affidu- ous to honour your Excelleny’s Perfon, and to re- verence and obey your Government. We [ball make it our hearty Prayer, that GOD may biefs you and your Family, and [uccced your Ad- minifiration to the Advancement of his Glory andthe Welfare of this Province. . To which His EXCELLENCY was pleafe to return the following Anfwer ; Gentlemen, e AM very much obliged to you for this -+ 4 kind Addrefs, and efpecially for your Hopes of, and Wifhes for the good Succefs of my Adminiftration in this Province. The Advancemenr of. Religion I efteem to be oneofmy fir(t Duties;and I can fay that it is moft fuitable to my own Difpofition. You may therefore be aflured, thac I fhall ufe my beft Endeavours to render that Cam- munion, in whick I imbibed the firft Princi- ples of Religiony moft conducive to the Ends of it. o | Laft Tucfday the Sel:& Men of the Town of Bofton waited on His Excellencyand prefen- ted the following ADDRESS 5 To His Excellency FRANCIS BERNARD, Efq ; Captain Gencral and Governor in Chicf, in and over His Majefty’s Province of the MafTachufects-Bay in New-England, and Vice- Admiral of the fame. The ADDRESS of the Seletmen of the Town of BosToN. 'May it pleafe your Excellency, Ffj’H E SeleGmen of the Town of Bofton take 53 this Opportunity, with great Refpeit, to congratulate your fafe and bappy Arrival at the Capital of a Province, which the Wifdom of our Sovereign bas committed to your Care. The dppointiment of a Gentleman of your acknowledged Accomplifbments to shis important Fyufl muft affordthe greatejt Satisfaltion to all awho have the profperity of this Pravince at Heart 5 and. we cannot but entertain the pleafing Hopes that the bappy Effects of your Adminifiration of Government, of which one of the Britifb Colonies has already bad Euxperience, will be enjoyed by 1his. : Permit us then to exprefs our finsere Foy on this Occafion, and to affure your Excelleney of our zealous Endeavours, as far as our Influence extends, to promote the Succefs of your public Services, anda juft Confidence in your Govern- went. . While, with great Submiffion to your Ex- cellency, we commend the Rights and Priviledges, the Trade and Commerce, and every Intereft of this Metropolis to your Proteftion and Favor, we have afirm Perfwafion that it’s Inhabitants avill be ever ready to exhibit all proper Teftimonies of Loyaley to His Majefty, aswell as Duty and Z{feciion to your Excellency. T which His Excellency was pleafed to make the following Anfwer. Gentlemen, (2676962H E affetionate Terms of this £ T € Addrefs deferve my warmeft Ac- (9696555 Kamwledgements : I can affure my highe(t Ambition isto an{wer the Expeétations you have conceived of me. THE known and experienced Loyalty of the Town of Bofton, leaves me noroomto doubt, but that you will fupport His Ma- jefty’s Government under my Adminiftra- tion,whiltt T ufe the Power, with which I am intrufted, for che Good of the People, over whom Iam placed. For this Purpofe ithas been granted to me ; and for this, I hope, I {hallaiways exert it. And, Yefterday the affusiated Minifters of the _ gongregatimal Churches in this Town, wait- edon his Excellency, and prefented the follow- ing ADDRESS, viz. May it pleafe your Excellency, (26569ESE, the affociated Paftors of the Con- £ W& gregational Churches in ths Town, §EPEES beg Leave with great Refpe@ to addrefs yur Excellency, appointed to the Com- mand of this Province by our gracious KING, the Wifiom and Bleffings of whofc Government are known and felt to the Extremities of His Dominion. We congratulate your Ecxcellency uponthis Appointment, and upon your fafe Arrival atthe Capitalof the Province. Civil Government can never want the Re- verence and Submiffion which it juftly claims, awbere Chriftian Virtue prevails: It is our Duty to teach and recommend what is fo ¢fential to the good Order and Happinefs of a Community ; and while we diftharge this Dury, your Excel- lency will allow us to depend upon your Favor and Patronage. We devoutly implore the Ble(fing of Heaves upon your Admimiftration. May every Branch of the Public Intereft flourifbunder it’s bappy In- fluence ! and, may it create_warm gnd lafting Sentiments of Gratitude and Refpelt in all who enjoy it : ‘To which His ExceLtency was pleafed to return the following Anfwer ; Gentlemen, xewee AM very fenfible how much the good @ I ® Order and Happinefs of a Community wxex depend wponshe Prevalence of Chriftian Virtue ; and therefore I (ball always endeavour to affift the Labowrs of that Order of Men, who are peculiarly affigned to the explaining and inforcing the Duties of the Chriftian Re- ligiom. You, Gentlemen, who bave diftinguifb- ed yourfelves by your Miniftry in this Town, will be particularly intitled to and may always de- pend upon my Favor and Patronage. Extratt of a Letter from Louisbourg, July 16. xeeeORD Roll» with about 1100 Troops are ® L@ gone from bence to Quebec, under Convoy @eee of the Sutherland : A Numbet of VelJels Juppofedta be shofe, were [een near Antecoftaby a Ve[Jel which came in bere on Sunday laft in 10 Days from Quebec, by her we learn, that allwas peaceable and quict there---General Murray with moft of his Forces were going toward Montreal tomeet General Amberji.---Two Cartel Ve[Jels Jailed from bence on Saturday with the Iuha- bitants of PiGou, &c.--- Same Day Capt. Gay arrived here from Bofton.---The Garrifon is very healthy: They are preparing to bluw, but there is not pne Mine finifbed yet.---The Preparation it is tho's wiillaft as long as the Seafon is fit for Working.’---- ; ’ We hear that Jofeoh Dowft, Efg; is con- firm’din the Office of Surveyar and Searcher of his Majefty’s Cuftoms for the Ports of Salem and Marblehead, in the Room of Jo- nathan Puc, Elg; deceafed. e . ’ The 6:h [ftant arvived at Marblehead, the Earl of Leicelter Packet, Capt. Mortis, in fi% [Wecks from Falmouth in England; fbe was bourd to Nzw Tork, but meeting with contrary Winds was obliged topat in theve ; and early next Morning the Difpatches from Str Wil LIAM PLTT were forwardedto his Excel- lency General AMHERST. From the Lon- L don Prints tothe 19th of Furne, we have the ' + following Articles of News. Magdebargh, June . : =) @E-;" T thelaft letters from Pomerania, weare 89 B&3 informed,that Lieut. Gen. Platen, bas EPEPES diflodgedthe Ruffians from the towons of Pottzin, Beerwalde, Neuftettin and Bublitz, and obliged them toretire tothe frontiers of Poland; that he bad killed a great many, and taken anum- ber of prifoncrs, with the lofs of very few men. Petersburgh, (the Capital City of Ruffia) ' " May 9. Withis the compafs of the laft three months, a greas number of courtiovs.arrived here fromdifferent parts with difpatches relative toa general peace; but our Emprefs has afrefb de- clared, that [be will not enter into any negogi- ation without the concurrence of ber allies. Count Soltikoff will fet out ina few days for the army, which will beginits operations withthe fieges of Great Glogauand Colberg, and this campaign is to be pufbed on with greater vigour than gny of | the preceeding ones. May 14. The Englifb envoy has received from bis court, by the way of Warfaw, fome veryim- portant news : the public thinks this news is rela- tive to peace ; that it contains the preliminaries of atreaty, andevenampleamends for the damage bis Polifb Majefty bas [uffered. The frequent conferences between the Envoy and Count /W oren- zoff give rife to thefe confectures. May 16. The workmen go on briskly at Cron- ftradt and Revel, towards equipping a fleer of 20 [bips of the line, under thz brave Admiral Mifchowkoff, whizh the Emprefs is refoived to have at [ea this year. Vienna, May I5. The ination of the armies in Saxony is not to be wondered “at. It would be fatal to the King of Pruffiato make a falfe fiep, and ‘. Daun aims at nothing more than to keep ihe Praffian army at bay. May 30. Ihe laft exprefs from M. Laudobr brings advice, that one of bis detachments had ' taken from the Pruffians, near Platten, 20,000 quintals of falt, 400 oxen, and 49 horfes. Hamburgh, Fune 6. The Prufilan Army, and that of Marfhal Daun, continue wholly inactive in Saxony ; but it is otherwife on the Side of Lufatia, frequent Skirmifhes hap- pen in thofe Parts with various Succefs. A few Days ago the Auftrians made an Ex- curfion to Cotbus, a fmall Town on the Fron- tiers of the New-March of Brandenbourg; where they found about 100 PruflianHuffars, moft of whom were put to the Sword, and the reft made Prifoners. Drefden, May 25. The Pruffian Canp bas beenin great Agitation foreight Days pajt. The Gates of Leipfick have been [but fince the 21/E. Every Thing indicates, that, after bis Pruffian Majefty made fo great Shew of fortifying bis Camp mly becaufe be was determined not to con- tinueinit. His Majeftybas already abandoned Meiffen. leaving in it fcarce more Men thanare lefi in a Firefbip. We are afjured be difigns to Jet Fire 1o thas Town. , We are aflured that near 30,000 Pruffians arealready fallen back to Tongan, and that they are at work on the Fortifications of that Place with as much Ardour as they worked on thofe of Leipfick, and probably toaslitde purpofe. It is faid that one of the King of Pruffia’s principal Engineers has core over toMarfhal Daun, and communicated to him Plans of the utmoft Importance. Genoa, Mas a1. The lofs of our two barks that were caft awaynear Baftia,makes more noife bere,than that of ten firft-rates would in Eagland.