The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, February 27, 1761, Page 1

FRIDAY, February 27 1761, THE 1 A Cm?airzi’ngfi;be Frq/bé/i Advices, : -St. F AMES's, November-2r. " 'This Day the following Addrefs of the Proteftant Diffenting Minifters, in and sbout the Ciiies of London and W infter, was prefented to his Majefty, 2 the Rev. Dr. Samuel Chandler, introduced by his Grace the Duke of Newecaitle. " To the King's moft Excellent Msjefty. The bumble: Addrels of the Proteftant Diflenting Minifters, in the. Cities of London and Weftminfter. Bof Gracious Sovereign, =~ : ; E ‘your Mmfl;’l moftdutiful and Joyal Subjeéts, the Proteftant Diffenting Mi- nifters, in and about the Cities of Lon- don and Wefminfter, moft humbly beg + Lesave o' -approsch your Majefty’s Throne, to exprefs our deep Senfe of the great Lofs your Mijefty, your Kingdoms, snd Europe in general, have fuftained by the Peath of his late Majefty, your Royal Grandfather ; and, with Hearts full of Affc&tion snd Joy,to congratulate your Mujefty’s bappy and peace- able ‘Succeflion to the Imperisl Crown of thefe Realms. The numerous Bleffings thefe Nations enjoyed, for u long Series of Years, under his late Majiity’s aufpi- cious Government, and grest Events that were depend- ing in Europe, made the Prefervation of your Roysl Grandfather’s important Life, the common Defire snd earneft Prayer of all:good Men in thefe Nations ; and their Corcern for his fudden Removal, would have been much more painful ghd durable, had not the Know- ledgz of your Majefty’s Virtues, and great Abilities for Government, allevisted cur Anxieties, diflipated our Fears, and filled us with the moft plesfing Profpect of the fure Continaance of our Profperity. Illuftrious and ancient Defcent, princely Education, Prime of Life, Dignity of Perfon, early Piety and Vir- tue, Love of Probity and Truth, Regard to Liberty and the Rights of Confcience, and your known Affeétion to this your native Country, peculiarly endear your Majefty ‘to all your Subjetts, and promife them every Thing their Hearts can wifh from the beft of Kings. Your Msjefty afcends the Throne in a Time of Diffi- culty,and amjdft allthe great Expences and-Uncertainties of War: We adore the good Providence of God, for the diftinguifhing Succefles that have attended it ; and we truft, that, by his conftan: Bleffing on your Majefty’s Counfels and Arms, your Mej:{ty wiil foon become the glorious and bappy Inftrument of eftablithing fuch a Peace in Europz, as fhall effeétuslly fupport the Pro- teftant Religion and Liberties, and fecure the Profperity of thefe Kingdoms, upen folid and immoveable Foun- dations. : We recolle@®, with Joy #nd unfeigned Gratitude, that glorious /ra, which fettled the Succeflion to the Throne of Great Britain in your Majefty’s Royal Houfe, and perpetuated to thefe Nations, under God, the fice and undiftarbed -Enjayment of all their civil and reli- gious Liberties. And we humbly beg Leave to affure you, mcf gracicus Sovereign, that entirely confiding in gonr Majely’s great Goodnefs and Juflice, for our hare in the Protection and Bleflings ot your Majefty’s Government, we fh:ll not fail, from Diftates of Con icience and Gratitude, to be Examples ourfelves of Loyalty and Duty, and to inculcate on all, who attend our Miniftry, that Submiffion and Obedience, which they owe to'your Majefty’s Autharity and Government. Ellicniona to Almighty God, that he would render your ajefty’s Profperity fo diftinguifhed, as that when G eat- beloved Kings, the Defcendents of your Roysal Houfe and Family, your Felicity, me# illuftrious Prince ! may umph fay — May their Reigns be &s long, ss glorious, and happy, &s your Majeity’s. this moft gracious Anfwer. Thank you for this lsyal aud affeionate Addrefs. Veu Attention to fupport the Proteflant Intereft, and ts maintain she Toleration inviolable. cioufly, and they had all the Honor to kils his Majefty’s Hand. fome days ; the conditions offered by the enemy are even mentioned ; and it is f2id, that a truce. will be Francfort, Dec. 16. Ttappears very plainly, that the Heffe, and maintain the Pofts they poflels at Gottingen. T'nis Adyantage is no {mall one,and it is attributed to as likewiie to the good Behaviour of the Officers em- ployed under him. ting Saxony have been much harrals’d in their Retreat, They have fuffer’d grealy, snd are fo reduced, that Nor fhall we ceafe to offer ap our moft ardent Sup Britain, in future Ages, wifhes well to any of her moft bound sall her D fires, and the may, with Joy and Tri- To which Addrefs - his Majeity was plealed to give I may be affured of wep Proteétion, and of my Care and His Mbjefty was plealed to receive them very gra Vienna, Dec. 6. Peace has been much talked of for agreed op, to facilitate the preliminarics to this great French will keep their Ground during this Wiater in the extraordinary Mealures taken by Marfhal Broglio, Baruth, Dec. 10 The-Army of the Empire in qui:2 moft of the Regim:as which compife thag c&p‘:my do New-Hampfhire not exceed foms 200, and otheérs 300 Men lglofi. Their Winter Quarters are ta be in Franconis, and the Head Quartegs at Bagburgh.' ; " Altena, Dee.rg. . We have€ Advice, that the Pruffisns baye exalted '« Millionand a Hilf of Crowns from ‘the Duchy of Macklenburgh, befides Recruits and Pro- vifions. Brift ( ir Framee) Dec. 7. Purfusnt foorders from court,we are arming here in all bafte the following fhips, viz. the He€torand Courngecds of 74 guns ; the Sage, the Proteus, and Achilles, of -, «To_ this srmament, the deftination of which is‘not mentioned, 6 frigatesare to be added. Mot of the cfficers thatare to command thefe fhips, are'sppointed ; snd we are aflured that 3 new fhips more are to be put on the ftocks, befides the Royal Lewis, which is pierc’d for 116 gons, and will foon be launched. L O N D (0] N. Dec. 2. As his Majefty was mounting his Horfe in Hyde-Park, he fuddenly reared ug, but his Majefty throwing himfelf from kim, happily received no Hurt. He was blooded, however, by Way of Prevention, but in the Evening was at Covent Garden Theatre to [ce Henry the V. 1é&ted a ‘Dec. 3. Privaie Letters from Stockholm inform us, that the Government have msde fome Overtures for an Acecommodstion with the Kirg of Pruffia. Itis sdded, that their Army in Pomerania, which at firft was 30,000 Men, is now reduc’d to 8o00. Inthe bill of Entry YeRerday we find 8640 Packs of Cards for Guadaloupe. Dec. 5. By the violence of the Wind this Morn- ing at N. N. E. great Mifchief was done st Ses, the Pr. of Orsnge Man of War parted her Cables, and drove down to St. Helens, but without further Damage. — The Expedition Fleet role it out fate. Two Ships were driven afhore at Deal Beach, and 8 in Hearn- Bay. Several in the Downs cut and parted. Dec. 20, By a Letter from the Allied Army, bro’t over by the laft Mail, we arec informed, that the Right Honourable the Msrquis of Granby does not propofe to cometo England this Winter, but to.coniinne wish the Army in Germany. It is faid that the Packet-Boat between England snd Holland will foon be put under the Direétion of the Lords of the Admiralty, that they may no longer be commanded by Subfli.utes; and that the Veflels em- pleyed in this Service will be Sloops of 16 Guns, and 100 M¢n in the Service of the Geovesnment ; which will be able to beat ¢ff the fmall Priva:eers ; the Sight of which will ftrike the prefent Packe:s with Panic. By & Letter from the Mediterranean.we learn, That a French 74 Gun Ship was purfued .into one of the Turkifh Ports in the Mores, by an Englith Frigate,and was obliged to clsim -of the Governor the Neutrality of the ‘Piace notwithftanding the great Defparity of Force between the two Ships. Letters frcm Italy by this Day’s Mails give an Ac- count that the-Plague has-carried off confiderable more than half the Inhabitants of Grand Cairo, the Capital of Egypt. Extrs&t of a Letter frem Gibraltar, dated Nov. 13. < Some Sufpicion of an intended Muting and Sedition amengfl the Soldiers, thresw us lately into no fmall Con- Slernation.. Repart [aid at firft that more than fcven bun- dred of them bad joined in a Confpiracy to make themje/ves Maflers of the Garrifon : After the Brificft Enquiries, it apprared that five or fix drunken prefl gate Fellows bad bebaved ard talked in a mutincus Manner, ard attempted to fet a Sedition on Foot. Tke Leader of thofe was inflantly banged in @ moft pubiic and exemplary Manner 5 the-reft punifbed [everely, and all is mow in good Crder and Dif- cipline.” By the Mail from Lifbon theie is Advice, that from the 15th to the z2d paft, 15 Englith Ships arrived there with Wheat from England. Britain hasnow as great s Demand for Furs, and is beccme the principal and almoft fule Market dor that Commolity. All the Stips frers North America have brought large Quantitizs of Skins : The French havein 2 fmall Degree Tupplied themfelves this Year with that Atticle by the Capture oftwo Ships frem New-Yoik, that had large Qpantiiies on board. Dr. Duncan and Dr. Wilmot are fwern in Phyfici- ans to his Majetty. Licut. Colonel Harvey, of the Inifkilling Regiment of Dragoons, and Quarter Mafter Geneial of the Britith Forces in Germany, is appointed Firft Aid de Camp to his Majefty ; this Gentleman bebaved with the greateit Gallantry, and was wounded at the A&ion at Cam- pen, under the Hereditary Prince of Brunfwick. The Letters from Venice are filled with Accounts of the Damage fuftained by the oveiflowing of Rivers. The Bridge of Monteselio, on the Road eading from Verona to Vicenzi, has been carried away, and all the Extent of Land betwcen the 1aft Ciy and Padula laid under Water . Dec. 30. The suny of the Rmpire unlerthe Com- mand of General {ivdaic, ir,- & hi.auner, I:ul:’;.cd by \EEEKS firce ¢hi: Farer was fult publflicd. Z ETTE. Nuwus. 230 Fareign and Domeflick. the forced March they were compelled to make from Chemnitz, where, if the Pruffians Had srrived 2 Honrs fooner, they mo# have been furrounded; and obliged to hy down their Aggs. The Auftrians find themielves extremely embarraflcd by being obliged to keep anArmy of Obfervation on the Frontiers of Bohemis, towards the Circle ofthe Mountsins,and another Army of Obfervasion o prevent the Pruffians making &n Irzuption from Silefs. In the Opinion therefore of iome very fenfible Peaple, it is_not at all impoffible that they may be cbliged.to abandon Dieiden’; and fOme fay thisis already cxecuted, and that only two Saxon Battalions are left in that Citg. Some Letters from Hanover fay, that two Picces of News sre whilpered there among Perfons of the beft Intelligence : The ore, that an entire Revolution has happened in a certain EleCtoral Coust ; and fome of the Minifters have been atually putunder Arreft : The other, that a great Defign is in Agitation, which will be executed very fpeedily, notwithflanding the Rigor of the Seafon, snd which will entirely change the Face of Affairs in Germany ; to which they attzibute the laying afide the Siege of Gottengen. The Papers of this Day fay, It is reported, that the building of & new Roysal Palace is under Confideration, the Front to face Pall-Mall, and to take in St. James’s, Cleveland Row, and Cleveland Court, and extend as farc . as the‘Green Park, Part of a Letter from Montreal. ¢ The country here is an extreme fine one.~-I had like not to have mentioned an inftance of French cruelty. As the fervants of Gen. Gage were lately cleaning his cellar (late Vaudreuil’s the governor of Canada) a number of fcalps were found, lome fay to the amount of 200. And its faid be uled to hang his room with fcalps, ;lnddfixew them to all Eoglith prifoners that fell into his ands.” — Some Lem"é from Ssxony mention, that s Conven< tion is on the Carpet for a Sufpenfion of Hefilities be~ tween the Pruffians and Auftrians in S2xony during the Winter. , On the 12th, & new treaty with the King of Pruffis, was fi at London ; by which Englend cngages ta puy his Pruffisn Majefty, s before, the fum of four mil- lions of German crowss amounting to 670,000. fterling. Fan.“3. Orders are iffued dor purchefing 1800 Horfes for remounting his. Msjefty’s Cavalry in Germa- ny, snd Commiffions sre slrcady given forthat Purpofe. Extraf? of a Letter from Part/meath, Fan. 1. ¢ Vaft- Preparations aguinit the Spring go forward very brifkly. Our Troops are canton’d round the Country near the Coaft, fo that they can be ready at a fhorc Warning. It istho’t our Armament in the Spricg will furpafs any Thing of the Kind that was ever cut of England’; which we bave great Reafon to believe, when, befides what is now doing, we confider the ftupendous Provifions of warlike Stores fill on board theTranfports, and under the fame Order as at firlt.’ Laft Wednefday the Genilemen who have engaged to fupply the Government with the losn of 12 millions for the fervice of the enfuing year, delivered in lifts of their friends by which it appeared, that there is a much larger fumn fubfcribed than the faid 12 millions ; and we hear that a depofit of 15 per cent. on the above fum, is to ke made at the Bank in the courfe of the third week in pext month. i e A French frigate of 18 guns was lately loft off Dunkirk_ A French fhip of 14 guns,and 120 men,from "Orient to Martineco, is tsken by the Torbay man of war, and brought into Plymouth. PHILADELPHTIA, February 12 ‘On Monday lsftthe brave Mejor Rocers, with Capt. Brewme, arrived here from his long and fatiguing March to Detroit, where he wasient by His Excellency Gen. AmuersT, in order to take Pofleflion of the French Forts there ; and from whence he was to have pro< ceeded to Millichimarhinac, 360 Miles beyond it, 10 bring off theFrenchSoldiers that were in thePoft at thac Place. But this he could not accomplith, on Account of the Ice, fo was obliged to return, after having got within about 200 Miles of it.---The M:jor met with no Oppcfizien, the People laying downtheir Arms, and. taking the Oaths of Allegiance, agrecableto the Capitu- Jation of Canada, and feemed, in general, well fatisfizd with being under an Englith Government. At Detreit he found betwixt Four snd Five Hundred Men czpable of bearing Arms ; a fine level rich Country, where, before the War, there was ¢ great Deal of Wheat raifec, Plenty of Cattle,and the Iahabitants lived very comfor- tably ; tho’ they have not done fo of late, moit of their Cattle being, killed, apnd ‘their Fields not cultivated as ufual. . As foon as the ‘Arrival of thiy Gentleman was known the People here, to tefify their Senfle of his dift- inguithed Merir, immediately ordered the Bells to be rung, and' fhewed him other Marks of Refpe&t. Ycfter- day be fet off fur New Yok Monday Capt. Winter, from Teneiffe, csme up to Town ; feveral of the' Viflels, mentioned in our laft, cre got into Daiby-Creek, and are all expedted upina Dsyor two. CE ARy