The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, January 16, 1761, Page 1

- sy % e P THE New-Hampthire Containing the Frefheft Advices, |2 Frpm the GEnTLEMAN'S MAcCAZINE, for Oftober. The bumble Adirefs of the Lord Mayor, Aldsrmen, and Commans, of the City of London, iz Comman Council affimbled ;" prefented O 16. 1760, on the tating of Montreal, Moft gracious Sovereign, ERMIT us, your ever dutiful and loyal (ob- jeéts, the terd mayor, aldermen, and com- mons, of the city of Londsn,in comnion coun- cil affembled, humbly to congratulate your majefty: upor the late fignal fuccefles with " ‘which ithas pleafed the divine providence to blefs your “majefty’s arms by fea and land. "The conqueit of Cansds, fo heroically begun at Que- bec, fo nobly feconded by thedefeat and difperfion of the enemy’s flzet upon the coaft of Britany, and (o hap- ‘pily compleated without' the effufion of human blocd at Montreal ; at the fame time that it reflects the high- eft honour upon the wifdom and vigour of your ma- jelty™ councils; upon the- condu&, fortitude, and ac- tivity of your commanders ; and upon the bravery and difcipline of your fleets and- armies, is an event of the utmoft importance to the trade and menufatures of thefe kingdoms, as it is' the only effectual means of fe- curing your majefty’sinduftrious fubje@s in North A- merica againft the continual encroachments and un- parallcled barbarities of & reftle(s and infiduous enemy, evermore dangerous in peace than war. Deeply fenfible of your mejeity’s paternal goodnefs in thus gracioufly prote&ing the moft diftant of your faithful fubje@s, your msjzy’s grateful citizens of London will ever cheatfully exert thofe means, ‘for which (under the divine favour) they efteem themfelves indebted to your majefty, towards enabling your ma- jefty to preferve this valusble acquifition, end effc@ually to profecute the various and extenfive fervices of this joft and neceffary war, and to diftate to the aggrefiors, g¢he terms of 2 _fafe and honourable peace. ‘T'c this defirable end, may the God of armies crown the juftice of your majefiy’s caule with repeared nn decifive. victories ; and when your Wejefty hall hav fong enjoycu ihe glorious truits of all your care and Tahours, may the empire of Great fritata contiaue ia your mujeity’s iliuftriovs racs in full fplendour and fecurity, “ill time fhall ke no w0, His Majefty’s moft Gracious Anfwer. HAVE the highefl fatisfaction in this frefb and fig- nal procf of your affectien to me, and to my govers- ment, for which 1return you my bearty thanks. The Sfame anion amongf} my people, and the fame sbility and alour in’ ‘my floets and armies, will, I truff, under the bleffing of Gad, enable me, in the end, to terminate this sieceffory and extenfive war, by an bonourable, adyanta geous, avd lafling peace. The city of London may de- pead on my conflant care for: their projperity, aid for the extention o{ the trade, manufallures, and navigation, of oy faithful fubjeéls, ki fW HJI T EH A LL Ofbober 25. ETWEEN the hours of 7 and 8 this morning, cur late moft gracious fovegeign King GEORGE the fecond was. fuddenly feized, at his palace at Kefington, By aviolent diforder, snd fell down fpeechlefs, and foon, expired, notwithftanding all peflible methods ufed for his recovery. His majcty departed thislife in the 77the year of his age, and the 34th of his reign ; beloved, hanoured, and regreited by his fubjéts for his eminent and princely virtues. : Whercupon the Lords of the Piivy Council aflemb.ing at Carleton houfe, gave orders for proclaiminig his pre- fent majefty, who caufed all the Lords and qthers of the late King’s Privy Council, to be fworn af his Maj.fty’s Privy Couficil, and was pleafed to make the following moft gracious declarstion. <« THE lofs that I and the nation hiave fuftained by ¢ the death of the king my grandfather would have been « feverely felt at any time, but coming at lo critical & < jun€lure, and fo unexpedted, it is by many circum ¢ ftancedaugmented, and the weight now falling upon « me much increafed ; I feel my own infeffiziency to <fupport it as 1 with ; but snimated by the tendereft < sffeftion for my native country, and depending:on ¢ the advice, experience, and abilitics of your lordfhips, ¢ on the fupport and afliftance of every hon¢ft man, I « enter with chearfulnels into this arduous fiuation, and « fhall make it the bufinefs of my life to promote, in « every thing, the glory and happine(s of thefe kingdoms, ¢to prelerve and frengthen both the confliwtion in ¢ church and ftate ; and, as I mount the throne in the ¢« midft of an expenfive, but jult and ngceflary war, I « fhall endeavour to profecute it in the manner the moft ¢ likely to bring on an honourable and lafting pesce, in « concern with my alties.” " Whercupon the lords of the council made it their humble requeft to his majefty, that this his majefty’s moft gracious declaration to their lordthips might be mldcbpublhk, which his mej=0y tyas pleafed to order accordingly. At the Court at Carleton Honfe. Prefent the King's moft excellent Majefty. His Roya! Hizhnefs the Vife. Falmouth DuakeofComberland ~ Vife. Barrington ‘Abp of Canterbury Vife Ligonier Duke of, Leeds Lord Anfon Duke of Newcaftle Lord Man-field : Earl“of Holdernefle Mr. Vice Chamberlain Earl of Cholmondely Mr. Secretary Pitt Earl Waldegrave Henry Fox, Eq; Eaul Gower _ Sir Tho. Robinfon. His msj=fty, st his fi- coniing into the council, was this day pleafed to declare, that underflanding that the law requires he fhould, #t his acceflion to the crown, take and fubfcribe the oath relating to the fecwiity of the church of Scotland, he was now ready to do it this firft opportunity ;3 which his msjefly was gracioully plesfed to do' sccording to the forms ufed by the law of Sdotland, and lubfcribed two inftruments thereof in the prefence of the lords of the council, who witaefled the fame ; and his majefty was plealed to order, that one of the faid infiruments be tranfmitted to- the court of [eflion to be recorded in the beoks of Scderunt, and afterwards to be forthwith lodged in the publick regifter ofScotland. And that the other of them remain among the reccrds of the council,& be entered in the council bock:,” His late mzj:fty rofe inthe morning at his ufual Four, without any apparent figns of indifpoficion. He called his page, drauk his chocolate, and enquired akout the wind, as if anxious of the arrival of the muils He opened his window, and looking out of it, and feecing it a fine day, faid he would walk in the Zardens. This paffed while the page atended him at breakfaft ; buton leaving the room hé heard a deeg figh, immediately followed by a noife like the fallivg ot a billet of wood from the fire, end returning hafkiiy, found che king dropt from his feat, as if in attemp.jag to ring the bell, who faid faintly, cqll Amelia, ans then expired. . He was in- flantly raifed and laid wpon the bed, the princefs was called. who wes told he was dead upos her entering the reom, but being « fmde<deaf, wnd her fpirits being i Jurried by the alaviny fhe did pet undiltand whar vy {sid ; and rin up o fue bed fidesand Rooping tendesly over hey fatlier, as thinking be might fpeak @0 her ina low voice, fhe then fiufl Gifcov.red e was dead ; this fhock fo fudden, fo unexpeéted, 2od fo violent, threw her into an ageny, and pzoduced a diforder from which fhe is not yer recovered His m:jefty, in the fall, received a fmall hurt on kis temple, snd his phyficians and {urgeons being fent for, came inftantly to his sflitance, but without effe@. An attempt was made to bleed him, but the iffues of life were dried up. The news of this event, which threw the court into the utmoft confternation, was carried to the fecretaries of ftate. Mr Pitt, whofe coach was ready at the door to drive to his country feat, was then ordered inftantly to Kew,where he acquainted his majeity with the great event in fosm, the king having fult heard it on the road, as he was riding ous, by 2 mefl:nger whe had been difpatched by one ot the pages of the prelence, he turned back, and at Kew he received a letter from the princels Amelia, {oon after which Mr. Pilt arrived. His highnels prepared immediately o atiend the privy council; that upon the king's demifle, bad got together as faft as poflible. .What tollowed, the articles in the Gazétte declare— His late majeity derived his title to thefe kingdoms from Elizabeth ihe only farviving dtughter to Fames L. who maxxied Frederick V. Count Palatine of the Rbine, cleéled King of Bobemia, but never put in poficfiion of the thwone. By this Prince, Elizabeth hed a daughter, who was aficewards married to Ernelt Augullus, eleétor of Brunfwick, and duke of Hanover, the great grandiather to the laic king. Upon the abdication of King Jsmes 1L. his two daughters Mary and Anne, fucccflively filled the Britifh throne ; but, both dying without iffue, the crown devolved on Georgé I. grandfon to Elizabeth, danghter of James I. This prince, when of age, married bis firlt coufin, drughter and heirefs of the duke of Zell, by which that ¢ukedem - bgeame unived to the dominions of Hanover. Tkhis Lady, whofe name was Sophia Dorothes, is faid by & German writer to have been betrothed to Auguftus Frederick,prince of Wolfenbu tle, two years before the was prevailed upon, by motives of family intevelt, to marry. the' young prince of Bronfwick. This may in {ome fort account for that little affeCtion that alterwards fubfifted between thole great perfonages. By this mar- riage, however, he had two children, the late king, ard a princefs, married to the late king of Pruflia, mother to the prefent illutrions monarch. ~ Our lste king was born in 1683, and when in his 15th year was prefented by bis grandfather; the prince of Zell, to King William, who received him with the fondnels of a parent. Oa the 4th of April 1706, he waseletted knight companion of the moft noble order of the garter ; on the 2d of Juse following was invefled with the whale habit and en- figns of the order ; and; on the 224 of Dec. 1710, was " inltalled at Windlor, withathe dukes of Devenfhize and WEEKS fince this Pavga Nuwus. 2 4 { Wz, fidt publithed, Foreign and Domeffick. pes Argyle, Lord Halifsx being bis proxy. In Nav. 1706, he was created duke, marqiefs, eal, and vifcaunt, by the titles of duke and maerquis of Cagbridge, earl of Mildtord haven, vifcount Nortiallerton, and baron 'of Tewk(bury.—1t wss oblerved by fome friends of his highnef(s, ac. that time, that i¢ wae a defet to give him the peerage of England, and net the precedency of all other peers, ; & In 1708, he weat a volunteer to make 2 campsign in the Nethernds, undcr'john, duke of Mariborough. On the 22d of Juhe he airived at the camp, and on the sith of July, the batle of Oudenard wes fdught, in which his eleCtoral highnefs putting himfels at the head of a Iquadron of Henoverian dragoons, ccmmanded by Lieut. Gen. Bulow, charged the enemy {word in hand, with the greatef intrepidity. His horfe was killed un- der him, and Col. Lufechly, who commsnded the fquadron, ¥/as flain, bravely fighting by his fide. Oa the acceflion of George 1. totbe throne in 1714, ofders were brought from Hanover to the regency, to prepare & parent for creating the cleGtoral prince, George Au- gvftus, prince of Wales. : George L. dying at Ofnabrug, June 11, on the 14th the mclancholy news arrived in Englend, whereupon the lords of the piivy council aflembling at Leicefter houfe, gave orders for proclsiming his fon George,prince of Wales, king of England, which was dome about ten a’clock in the morning of the next day. On Wednei- day, the 11th of O&ober 1727 ( O..S ) hisamajcfty was crowned in Weltminfter abbey, with his royal confort theprincefs Carclina Wilhelmina Dorothea, daughter of John Frederick, margave of Brandenbourg Anfpach, to whom he was marzied on the 22d day of Jure 1705. L O NY 3 O N Ocre. 28 Lord Chamberlain’s Offics, O&. 28, 1760. Orders for the court to go into mourning on Sawday nex:, the 2d of Novemher, for his late majelty king George the fecond, of blefled memory, viz, The ladies to wear black be..lwzines. vlain muflia or long lawn'linn=" crz5 gads, thimoy fhoes & gloves, and eraoe f23, Undrels © Dark Basdich crepe The men t« sesr black cloth, withourbaa@ g the flceves & pockets, plain mufin or long lawn craveig aud weapers, fhamoy fhoes ana gioves;, ciz2pe hatbands, and black fwords and buckles, Undrefs : dark grey frocks. This day the Right Hon. the lord mayor, end alder- men of the city of London waited on his majeity at Saville Boufe, end being introduced o his majelty by his grace the duke of Devonfhire, lord chamberlain of the houthold, Sir William Moretow Knt. the recorder, made their compliments of congratiation & condolance in the following addrefs. Mof Gracious Sovereign, 44 OUR majefty’s truly dutiful and loyal fub- jcts, the lord mayor and aldermen of the city of London, beg leave to approach your royal per- {on, and congratulate your msjefty upon your happy ac- ceflicn ;o the imperial crown of theferealms, and, at the fame (ime, to condole the lofs of our late moft gracious fovereign, whofe gloricus reign snd princely virtues muft ever make bis memory dear to 2 grateful people. It is our peculiar happinefs, that your msjefty’s heart is truly Englifh, and that you have difcovered in your carlieft years the warmeft attention to the laws and con- fitution of thefe your kingdoms ; liws fo excellently formed, that as they give liberty to the people, they- give power to the prince ; and are & mutual fupport of the prerogative of the crown, and rights of the {ubje&t. Your majefty is now in poflcflion of the united heerts of all your people, at a time- when the honour and credit of the nation are ( by the courage and altivity of your majefty’s flects and armies ) in the higheft extent ; a time when we have happily no divifions at home to obftruét thofe meafures which have carried terror to our enemies abroad. As your majefty’s reign is lo happlly begun with the uffiver(al spprabation and joy of the wkole nation, per- mit us, Great Sir, to exuprels the high fenfe we have of your majefty’s virtues, by the firongeft affurances of our unalterable zeal for your majefty’s (acred perfonand government ; being convinced that your majeily has the true intereft ofthis nation intirely at heart, and that your power will cver be €kerted in. protccting the trade, rights, and liberties of your fubj:&s. May you reign long in the hearts of your people, and may the crown of thefe kingdoms ever defcend to one of your majefly’s luftrious family to lateft pofterity. To which addrefs his majefty was plealed to seturn this moft gracious anfwer. HAVE great Jatisfaltion in the early marks you bave given me of your Zeal and affeltion for me and my gawrmfimt. And I return gou my bearty thanks. Yiuw may rely ox w1y tender concern for the rigbls, trade, and manafaliu-es of the city'of London. They were all received very gracionfly, and had (ke o ur toki's his mejelty’s hand, ? -