The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, August 22, 1760, Page 2

7 4 waatf 1 & . 'The Seeecu of His Ex-ellency FRANCIS BERN AR D, Efg; Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over His M.jefty’s Province of the Maffachufetts: Bay in New England, and Vice Admiral of the iame. T'o the Great and General Court or Aflcmbly of faid Province, met here on Wedneldsy laft at the Court Houle in this Town, being the Day to which they were prorogued, viz. g Gentlemen of the Council, and Gentlemen of the Houfe of Reprefentatives, AVING been sppointed by His Majefty to the Government of this Province, I have taken the fisft Opportunity of meeting you in the Great and General Court, that I msy effure you that I have the higheft Senfe of the Honor His Majefty has done me in naming me to prefide over a Province fo emi- nently diltinguifhed by ic’s Loyalty and publick Spirit. Our gracious Sovereign is not more tlluftrious in proteting the Perfons and Eftates of His Subjects againft the common Enemy, than in vindicating their Rights and Liberties againt civil Enchroachmen:s ; and that Subftitute of His that means to recommend himlelf to His Favor,muft endeavour to follow his greatExample. My Daty therefore as the Kixc's Servant, my In- clination s sn Englifhman, and the Intereft I have in worthily fupporting both thoe Charallers, confpire to gether to form the ftrongeft Obligation that I fhould be moft careful in preferving notonly your general Rights as Britith Subjeéts, but alfo thofe particular Priviledges which have been granted to you by the Royal Charters. And [aflire myfelf that in the Execution of the great Ttult repofed in me, I fhall always have the Aflitance of the other Branches of the Legiflature. VEry fingular is the Happinefs of the prefent Times, beyand all other known in our Hiftory : When all Pur- ties are united, and even the Voice of Faction is filenced: When the Sovereign is acknowledged to be the Main- tainer of the Priviledges of His Subjets, and the Peo- ple are become the Supporters of the Prerogative of the Crown. Hereisa Field for us to exert ourlelves in : Let this be the only Contention between us, who fhiall moft contribute to improve that Harmony between the Kinc and the People, on which the general Wel- fare of the whole Community fo much depends. Gentlemen, As thisis a Time of the Year in which you will be glad to be much at your own Homes ; 1 purpofe not to detain you zny longer than the neceffary Bufinefs, which fhall now ceme before you, fhall require: In this, and in all other Things, I fhall confult your Convenicnce mi‘a the Good of your Conftituents. unci) Chamber, R . i Fra. Bernard. D 20t 4G¢ 100405 208 40C 04 40X 0 @ 08 402 104 40L 04 40X 044X 204 (P To His EXCELLENCY FRANCIS BERNARD, Eff ; Captain General and Governor inand over His Majefty’s Province of the Maffachufetts Bay, and Vice- Admiral of the (ame. The ADDRESS of His Majefty’s Council of the afore- faid Province. May it pleafe your EXCELLENCY, 1S Majefty’s Council for the Province of the H Maffachueftts Bay, cheerfully embrace this firft Opportunity to exprefs their Gratitude to His Majefty for this renewed Inftance of his paternal Goodnefs, the Appointment of your Excellency to be our Governor. While His Majelty renders his Britifb Subjeéts happy by his wife and gentle Government beyond sll Ex- smple ; He is not unmindful of His American Domi- nions ; and it is not the leaft of His Cares to_have His facred Perfon reprefented by thole who are beft qualified to extend the like Happinels to thefe remote Provinces. Wz fincercly congratulate your Excellency upon your fafe Atrival among us. The Duties of our Station will frequsntly cull us near your Perlon ; We there- fore take a large Share in the Satisfalion which your Appointment has given throughout the Province. Tas Bafinefs of the Conncil mult be rendered ex- trem:ly ealy ‘when the Gowernor is perfeltly well ac- queinted with the Rules of civil Policy and the Laws of the Land ; and is feadily refolved in Imitation of the great Example of His Royal Mafier to form his Adminiftration upon them. From hence we derive the firongeft Hopes of this People’s Happinefs under our Guvernment, and it fhall be our Endeavour by a faithfu! Di‘charge of eur Duty to render it as ealy a8 may be to your Excellency. We tralt this People will continue to diftinguith themlevies by their Loyalty and Public Spirit, and that feeling the happy Infuence of your Adminiftration, they will demontirate their Gratitude in a Manner not wholly unworthy your Services. May your Excellency long prefide aver a grateful and dutiful People—and ‘may his Majz(ty continue to honour you with his Royal Approbation To which His Excellency was pleas’d to make the following Anfwer. Honourable Gentlemen, T Gives me the greateft Pleafure to know that His Ma- I jeBy's dppointment of Me to this Government bas fo entirely your Approbation ; and 1 fball ufe my beft Endea- ours ts prove myfelf not wholly unworthy of the Honor His Majefty has conferred upon me, mor undelerving your good Opinien. My Ability for this ardusus Taft muft be determined by wy future Condult : My firm Refolution to exert that Abi- lity to it’s utmoff Powers and beft Purpojes I can now de- ¢lare and prowmife for. Happy fball 1be,if I can make it COLBORN BARRELL will give Three Pound Old Tenor per in any degree anfwerable to the great Truff committed to Me, and the earneft defire 1 bave to exccute it weil. EHHERHHAK KKK KKK AHARHH NN % To His ExcELLENCY FRANCIS BERNARD, Ejg; Cuptain General and Governor in Chicf in and over His Majefly's Prowince of the Maflachuletts Bay, and Viee Aamiral of the Jame. Tbe Addrels of the Houfe of Reprefentatives for the aforefaid Provirce. May it pleafe your Excellency, IS Majefty's loyal and dutiful Subjefis. the Repre- Sentatives of His Province of the Maflachuletts Bay in General Court affembled, beg Leave to offer their fincere Congratulation, en bis Majefly’s appointing you to the Government of this His Province, and on your fafe Arrival to the Capital of it. We confider your Excellency’s Appointment as an additional Inflance and Evidence of the paternal Care of our gracious Sovereign. It was with bearty Foy and Thankfulne/s we recesved your wife and obliging Speech from the Chair of Govern- ment Yeflerday. . We attended to your Excellency’s Obfer- vatisn of our Loyalty and Public Spirit with great Plea Jure, efpecially as we boped our Conflituents in fome good Meafure deferved it 5 ond that your Excellency would re prefent us in this juff Light to our moff gracions Sovereign and Father ; for this Province has almoff alone, for above Sixty Years, been a Frontier and Barrier to all His Ma jefly's Subjefts in North America, againft our and their inveterate and unalterable Enemies, always-infiduous and Jalfe in Times of Peace, inbuman, Javaige and barbareus in Limes of War. Qur oton Experience very pleafantly confirains us to join with your Exccliency to acknowledge and rejice in the Safety of our Perfons and Eflates, Rights and Liberties in His Majefly's wife and aufpicious Reign ; and it is with great Satisfaltion we obferve your Excellency’s Zeal to Sollow our common Fatber's fbining Example, and we fpall gladly give all poffible Affiflance therein. I¢is with incxpreffible Joy we 1ake a View of the pre fent Times .— Ube Briti/b Conflitution bas for a long Seriss of Ages been allowed 10 exceed all others, and accordingly by the Favour of the Supreme Ruler of the Univerfs, it bas preferved itfelf againfi all the Attempts of intefline Tyranny, Rebellion and Anarchy, as well as foreign Ma- chinations and Enterprizes © Bat yow this glorious Con- Pitution exceeds itfelf 5 it raifes new ldeas for which no Larguage bas provided Words, becaufe never known before; Contradiftions are become almoft confifient, clamorous Fa&tion is filint, morefe Envy good natured. by the divine Bliffing on the Councils and drms of our dread Sovereign, in every Quarter of the World : He is become the Scourge of Tyrants, the Hopes af the Opprefled ; yet in the Midft of Vittories propofing Peace. It gives us great Satiifaltion and very pleafing Hopes of Happinefs under yesr Excellency's Guidance, that in this glorious Reignof Wifdom and Juftice, your wife and good Condufl in giverning a meighbouring Province, bas recommended you to juch a Degree of His Majefly's Fa- vour, and fo endear’d your Adminifirationto the People o f your Charge. It isoar bearty Defire, and fpall be our conflant En deavour, to make your Government bere eafy and bappy to your Excellency, as we duubt not 1t will be fo to ourfelves. To which bis Excelioncy was pleas’d to make the Sfollowing Anfwer. Mr. Speaker, and Genilemen of the Houle of Repre- fentatives, I Heartily thank you for your kind Congratulation on His Msjefty’s appointing meto the Government of this Province, and my Arrival to the Capital of it. It has given me great Pleafure that I have been able, with fri€t Truth, to take Notice of the datiful Return that this Province has made, to His Majefty's paternal Care of it. I ftill receive a much greater, from the Teftimony you now give of your Sentiments of this great and happy Zrs, (o glorious to the whole Britith Empire and (o particularly favourable to this part of it. If I can derive any Merit from the Adminiftration of my former Government, ( in which I was well affited by the good Subj-&s of it ) It hasarifen from my having fet before me the great Example of my Royal Mafter. From the fame ruling Principle I muft hope to deferve your Endeavours to make my Government here ealy and happy. On Monday laft the Merchants of this Town in & Body waited on His Excellency the Governor, and prefented bim the following ADDRESS. May it pleafe your Excellency, E, Merchants and others in the Town of Boffun, concerned in Trade snd Navignaion, wait on your Excellency to teftify our Joy on your Arrival among us. ; Taue Charater with which your Excellency comes to us. gives us a fair Profpect of a wifc and juft Ad- miniftration, and makss us the l:fs regret parting with the Gentleman who fo worthily fat at the Head of Government at the Time of your Excellency’s Arrival: PermiT us, SR, in a prrticular Manner, to recom- mend to your Prote€tion our Trade and Commerce, with the Welfare of which the general Welfare of the Province is (o clofely conneéted ; and fuffer us to hope that, under . your Excellency’s Patronage, we fhall fee them revive from the low State to which they are at prefent reduced. May Profperity and Succefs attend your Excellency thro’ your whole Adminiftration! We, in our refpedlive Spheres, will do all we can to render it ealy to you, as your Excllency, we doubt not, will render it acceptable to the King, and happy to the people. ‘and ordered them all to be cloath’d. o . & ’ Toawhich ‘Addrels His Excellency ‘was pledled to return tne following Anfwer. GENTLEMEN, i A M wmuch obliged to you for your Congratilations up- en my Aarival kere, and your favourabie Expeclations of my Adminifiration. T HE Subjed of your Addrefs deferves my befl At- tention: And the' I cannot pretind to underfland it ;3 well as the Gentleman who was at the Head of the Govern- ment atmy Arrival ( and, 1 bope, will fill continue to affiff it ), yet Lam fo fully convinced of the Conneltion between the Welfare of the Province and that of Trade and Commerce, that I fhall ufe all the Means in my Power to promote the ore as conducive to the other 5 and I hope, by my Intextions at leafl, to deferve your good Opifliéfl. PORTSNMOIT T H Laft Tuefday arrived here Capt. John Gowell in 14 Days from Louifbourg, by whom we have the follow- ing Accoun, viz. g Louifbourg, Aug. 4. 3 “Mr. John Mofs returned here with 14 Indisns, wha came to pay their Submiffion to His Excellency General WHITMORE, and fign Articles of Peace ; His Excel. lency received them with great Marks of Friendfhip, . There is oge ‘Chief and 12 more Indians expeied in every Diy on' the fame Account. N. B. Said Mr. Mofs was the Hoftage left at S:. Pifto lat Winter, and the, Perfon who brought the firft Indians into Fort Cumberland and fent the firfk to His Excellency Gen. Lawrence CIPL Gowell informs, that the Mines were all in Rc:'dxnefs to blow up the Fortifizations of Lou.fbourg which he fuppofes is eff:€ted before now. . . &5 By a Perfon who lett Bofton laft Tuefday Even- ing, and came to this Town the next Day, we are ciedibly intorm’d, That General Aniheift, with his Army, embark’d the 7th Inftant, and that General Monckion had join’d him with 1200 Men, Sir Wiiliant Johnfon with 1500 Indians; that the Forces at Crown Point march’d the 1oth, and that Genersl Murray had embark’d the 13th, from Quebeck, all in high Sprits, in orderto attack Montreal ; which we hope will complc.'g the Reduétion of CANADA. Perhaps the following at this Time, may not be unfealonable of our brave General AMHERST. A man in judgment, tho’ in years achild ; Und.aumed Courage, and of temper mild = Rapid, tho’ cool ; intripid, tho’ fercne; Fierce as the torrent, as the light'ning keen, General MonckTON, When Briton’s lov’d Epaminindas dy’d, Thou fell’ft unconquer’d, bieeding by his fide ; Thy wound's & paffport to the rolls of fsme, Blazons the hero, and records his name. Cuftim- Houfe, Pifcataway, Adugufft 21. Enter’d In, Schooner Swan, Giles Scaward, from Philadelphia, ~——Charming Molly, John Gowell from Lauifbourg, Clear’d Out, Sloop Dolly, Walter Williams, for Halifax. Schooner Hound, Richard Mitchell, for N. Foundland. Brig Dutch Skipper, Michael Purcell, for Ditto. Sloop Profperous, David Coffin, for Guadsloup, Sloop Ranger, Jofish Simplon, for Nova Scotia. OT long fince Borrowed of, or Scole from Joun NewmarcH, Efg; of this Town, one Horfe Coller, one Pair of Hames and a 'Back Saddle ; which he defires the Perfon that has themi in Cuftody, to fend or bring to the Owner, Aug. 1. 1760, Joun NEwmarcHs A LL Perfons Indebted to, or that have any Demands on the Eftate of Fobn Nuet, late of Chefter, in the Province of New Hamp- fhire, deceafed, are defired to bring in their Accounts to Mary Greare, (who was the Widow of faid Nurt) of Chefter, Adminiftratrix to faid Eftate, in order for Settlement. [5] JLL PERSONS having any Demands on, or are Indebted to the Eftate of Elifba Fackfon, Mariner, late of Portfmouth, decealed, are defired to bring in their Accounts to Daniel Fackfon ot Portimouth aforefaid, Adminiftrator on faid Eftate, CAndles, Flax, & Sheeps Wool, To be Sold by CoLBoRN BARRELL, at his Shop at the North End. 13t ]| HESE are to give Notice to the Proprietors of EPSOM, that the Proprictors Meeting, warned the Eighteenth of June, to be held'at the Houle of Capt. Andrew McCleary, in faid Eplom, fands adjourned to the Tenth of September next eafuing the Date hereof, Epfom, Auguft the 1, 1760. Fobn McClery. Nathan Marden, ) Sele& Men, Tbomas Clakee, ) Provisce of New Hamesuire, May 28. Hefe are to give Notice, that all the Real Eftate of Cales How, late of Hinf- dsle, deceafed, which lay in Weftmoreland and Weft< minfter, in the Province aforefaid, is to be SOLD at Publick Vendue at the Houfe of Mr. Thomas Cham- berlain in faid Weltmoreland, on Wednefday the 27th Day of Auguft next, at Ten of the Clock before Noon. Apner How, Adminiftrator. PorTsmouTH: Printed by Daniel Fowle. Buthel for good Flax Seed.