The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, March 6, 1761, Page 1

. Yot !} a7 A \ FRIDAY, THE New-Hampfhire « Containing the Frefbeft Advices, P s ., SRR N e Al [ I : LO-N D O N - To the KING™s Moft Excellent MAJESTY. The humble. ADDRESS of the Houfe of Commins in " Parliament affembled, Nyvember 18. 1760. Moft gracious Sovereign, . . q * ~»'E your Msjefty’s moft dutiful and loyal fubje&ts, the Commons of Great:Bri. “tain in ‘parliament affembled, approach your royal prefepde; to exprels the deepelt fenfe of lhe‘gg;_ and levere lofs, which your majefty, and thefe kingdoms, have faf- thined by-the death of your msjefty’s roya “grandfather, oor late moft excellent {overeign ; the memory of whole _ juft and profperons reign ‘will be held.in reverence by lateft pofterity. j _ We beg leave to congratulate your majefty on your happy scceflion to the throne, the only confidera:ion that can alleviate our grief for fuch a lofs. - The know- ledge of your majefty’s royal virtues, wifdom, and firm- 1nefls, opens to your faithful lubjeéls the faireft profpedt oftheir fature happinefs at home,and for the continuance ofthat weight and influence of your majeily’s crown abroad,fo effentizlly ncccfl'xry‘in this arduous and cridca conjundlure, for the prefervation of that {yftem, upon which the liberties of Europe depend. We retarn your majefty our humble thaunks for your moft gracious [pcech from thethrone ; and acknowledge, with the livelieft fentiments of duty, gratitu e, and exul- tation of mind, thofe moft affecting and animating words of our moft gracious fovereign, T'hat, Born and Educated in this Country, He glories in the name of Briton. And we offer to your majefty the full tribute of our hearts, for the warm expreffions of your truly royal & tender affeftion towards your people. We venerate and con- file in thofe facred affurances of your maijefty’s firm énd invariable refolution, 'to adhere to, & ftrengthen this excellent conftitution in church and ftate ; to main- tain the Tolleration inviolable ; and to prote& your faithful {ubjects in that greatelt of human blefings, the fecure cnjoyment of their religious and civil rights. Permit us to congratulate your majefty on the various fiicceffes, which, under the proteétion of God, haveat- tendes the Britith arms, duting the laft fummer ; parti- culasly in the reduction of the city of Montreal, and the entire province of Canada ; a conqueflt eqaally important and glorious, atchieyed with inteepidity, and clofed with humanity, genuine atiribates of that Bricifh {pirit,which, under the benign aufpices of your majeity, will, we truft, continue, by the divine ailiftance, to give addiional laftre to the arms of Great Britain. This valuable and exterfive acquifition, joized to the finga! advantages gained in the Eait Indies; the floniith- ing Rate of oir commerce ; the refpetable condition of your majefty’s navy, By which the remains of the enemy’s flect continue blocked up in their harbours, while their trade isalmoft annikilated ; are confileraiions, which fi'l our Hearas withthe moft pleafing hopes, that your mijsity will be thereby enabled to profecute this jaft and neceflary wwar, to that great and defirable otject of eftablithing, in conjundlion with your ailies, s {afe, honcurable. and lafting peace. We (¢, with the greateft p'ea’ure; that the progrels of the French armiesin Germany, notwithftanding theif faperiority of numbere, has been ftopt, and, to the ko nour of your myjelty’s arms, their ateripts hitherto bafiled, by the wife and able condu of his ferene ligh- nefs prince Ferdinand of Brunfwick. ~ When we. confider the ftupeadous efforts, made; in every campiign, by yoar maj:ity’s great ally, the king of Piufliy, the defeat of the Anitrians in Silefia, and that recent & glotious viétary obiained over the army com- manded by marfhal Diun,we cignot fufficiently admice the invincible conftancy of niind, and insxhaultible vefources of genius, difplayed by thdt magnanimous monsrch, to whom the moft dangsrous and difficule fituations have only adminiftred frefh nc:afioris for glory. Our moft dutiful acknowledgments zre due to your majefty for ths mention which you have [o gracioully made of the diftinguifhing valour and intrepidity of your officers and forces at fer and Jand, snd for the declaration of your majeity’s conftant refolution to encourage and rewsrd facn merit ; and we return our moft humble thanks to your majelty for your favourshle acceptance of the zzalous and- uféful fervice of the militia, in the pre- fentarduous conjunture. : We aflure your msjefty, that your faithful commons, thoroughly fenfible of this important crifis, and defirous, with the divine affiftance, to render your majelty’s reign fuccefstul and glorious in war, happy and honourable in peace ( the natural return of 5 grateful people to a graci- ou: and affeCtionate fovereign ) will concur in fuch mealurcs as fhall be’ requifite for the vigorous and effe@ual profecution of the war; and that we. will chedrtully %nd fpeedily grant fach fupplies as fhall be fouad necefary for that purpale, aad for the fupport of the king of Prufiia, end ths relt ob your mijeity’s ellies; firmly relying on yeur majeity’s wildom, good- aefe, and Jultice, thef they will be applied iniuch a N - B S . % : ] " gaanner g3 will moft cfFQually aofwer the ends for which they are granted, and with the utmoft cczonomy that the nature of fuch great and exténfive operations will allow ; and that we will make fich an adequate provifion for your msjefly’s civil governmeat, as may be fufficient to maintsin the honour and-dignity of your crown,with all-proper and becoming luftre. Your mejefty’s faithiul commons epproach your royal perfon with hearts penetrated by the warmeft and live- lieft fenfe of your unbounded tenderne(s and concern for the welfare of your people ; and rejoiving st the high {atisfaftion which your m-jefty tskes in the union which fo univerfally - prevails theoughsut your kingdoms : A and profperity vifibly deep fenfesf that nationsl frengdh derived from this falutery fource, and, sbove all; your majefty’s spprobation of that happy union, and the natural difpofision & wifh of your royal heasts to cement and promote it ; sre the ftrongeft incentives to concord, srid the fureft pledge of its duration, The fixed refola- tion, which your msj:fty bas declared, to countepance and encourage the pratice of true religion and virthe, will, we doubt not, prove the beft means of drawing down the favour of God upon a dutiful and united na- tion ; and we fhall never ccafe devoutly to offer up our 2rdent vows to the divine .providence, that as a recom~ pence for thafe royal virtues, your msjefty may reign 1n the hearts of a free and happy people, and they, ex.ited by your majelty’s benevolent care to difcharge your royal fun@ion, and animated by gratitude for the en- joyment of fo many bleflings, many make tae due re- turn, by 2 conftant obedicnce to your laws; and by the moft fteady attachment snd loyslty to your perfon and government. His MAJBSTY's e/ gracious ANSWER. . Gentlemn, ) I Return you my cordial thanks for this mefp dutiful and affeitionate addrefs, and for yur warm expreffions of fidelity to my per[in,and atteniion 19 the bonour and dignity of my crown. The unanimous affurances that you will make effectual and Jpeedy provifisns for the vigoreus profecuticn of the war, and for the fupport of my a.lies, yield me- the trucf? fatis Saltien, and wiil, 1iruft, prove the bappy means of reduc- ing the enemy 1o 1he terms of ajuft and honsurahle peace. With [uch z2al and barmong among my pecple, Ibave only to implore the continuance of the divine bieffings en their gemerous effirts, and on wy ardent endeavsurs for the per- manent felicity of my Lving fubj<és. The Addrefs of the People calied iakers ; prefented 1o ; the KING #y Dr. Fothergill, To Grorce the Third, King of Great Britain, and ( the Dominions thereunto belonging. ) Tbe bumble Addrefs of bis Proteflant Subjeéis, the Pesple called Quakers. May it pleafe the King, L ERPLY «Mifled with the fudden snd forrow(ul 1 Event, that leads our feliow Subjells with Con- dolence to the Throne, we bég Leave to exprefs the Sympathy we feel on this efliting Occsfion. Juitly fenfible of the Favour and Prote&tion wehave - erjoyed during the late mild and happy Reign, and impreffed with the wsrmcft Sentiments of Duty and Gratitude to our decea’ed Sovereige, we pay this Tri- bute of unaffcted Grief to the Memory of the Father and the Friend of his People. We have abundant Realon to acknowledge the gead- &(s of Almtighty G)d, for comiinuing to this Period a Life of fueh [mportance to the Welfare of thefe King- doms ; a Period, whén we behold a Prince, endowed with Qualities that add Lufture to a Crown, formed by Tuiton and Exdmple to potedt the Libertics of his Pecple, afcending the Briith Throne, ind, in the ear- liet A@s of Power, giving the moft ample D mon- ftrations of his Royal Regard for Piery’and Virtue. Ever faithful and zcaloufly Affe&ted to thy illuftri- ous Houle, tho’ differing in Sentiments and. Conduét from others of our fellow Subjefts, we embrace this Opportunity to crave thy Infu'gence and Prote&ion ; and beg Leave to sflure the King that-our D.{lent pro- ceeds not from a contumacious Difregard to the Laws, to Cuftorn, or Authority, but from Motives to us pure- ly Confcientious. oL The fame religious Principle that produces this Dif- fent, we t:uft, thro’ Divine Afliftance, wili continue to engage us, a5 it always hath done fince we werea Peo- ple, to exert whatever Inflaence we may be poflefled of, in promoting the Fear of God, the Honour of the King, and the Profperity of his Subjefts. .- May the Almighty ble(s thy Endesvours to puta Stop to the effufion of Blood, and rexider thee the happy Inftrument of reftoring Peace and Trarquilicy. May facred and unerring Wiflom ever be thy Guide, adorn thee with every Virtue, and crown thee with every Bicfing, that future:Azes may commemnrate the Hap- pinzfs of thy Reiza with grateful Admiration. Signed at Londeh, the f-} Day of ihe tweifth Minth, 1700. ¢ WELKS firer 11 Parver 1 was fdt pubtihed. GAZETTE Foreign and Don:eftick. His MajesTy's moft gracicus Anfwer, HIS dutiful ard loyal Addrefs is very acceptable o to'me, and you may depend on my Protefiion. EoTOR0 T OROT0 RO C OB RRCHORORCRISC TORT R0 o Conflantinople, Nov. 10. The Plegue, from which we had been free thefe feveral Monihs paft, Has juft broké cutagain i theSuburb of Pera, This is chiefly atiributed 1o the warm Weather we had laft Month, ; Mabprip, Now. 3. The Belligerant Powers [eem to have dropt &ll Sol- licitations with our Court to interpofe for their Recon- ciliation ;"and we don’tfee any further Steps wwken here relstive to thst Obje&. Indeed we ate very fen- fible how difficult the ‘Work of Péace ‘mutt be in the prefent Sitmation of the Affzirs of the moft iaterefted Parties. ; Frontiers of Saxe, Dec. 1. We hear that the King of P:ruffia is arrived at Leipfick to take up his Winter- Qgarters there. They write fiom Drefden, that the Auftriens are el{o beginning to g6 into Winter Quarters. A great Part of the Army is to go into Bohemia. ) Toulon, Dec. z. Tweny Englifh Prifoners efcaped from our Arfenal s few Days sgo, after overpowering the Keeper when he brought them Victuals. Finding a Boat on the Coeft, they put off in hef, and would in- fallibly have got tlear, had they not endeavoured to teke a Tartane, which thcy perceived within a little Diftance at Sea, and which was coming hither, with only- the Mafter and a Cabbin: boy, who could not have been able to have refifted them if they had boarded hers but jaft a5 they came slong Side of the Tarane, they ait imprudently got on one Side of their Boat, which overfec her. Twelve of them were drowned ; the refk who {wam to Shore, were immediately picked up and re-conduéted hither, where they will be now confined in fuch a' ‘Manner, as to afford no Room to fear a fe< cond Efcape. . L0 "N D ON" Dic z0. i The King of Pruflia, defirous of rewarding M. de= Dalwig, Commandant of the Cuirafliers of Spain, for the stiazing Intrepidity with which that Officer feveral Tifnes led his Regiment to the Charge during the Batde . of Torgau, ‘has not, only exprefled his Satisfuétion to him in the moft gracious T'zrms, but prefented him, =s well as thé Commnnders of each of the Squadrons of that Corps, with a Purle of 500 Crowns. Fan. 3. Letters from Hanover of the 16th ult, sffert, that they never had inthe Memory of the oldeft Man living, fuch bad Weather, with Rains'and Storms, in that Ele&@grate; as of laté, whici had véry much retarded the latter part of the Campaign. Allo that Proivifions were fo (carce, that the Inhebitants p1id Half a Croavn a Pound fcor butter, two Shillings for the worft Sort of Sugar, and that Wood was bought by the Pound. Itis added, that the Inhabitants of Gottingen were reduced to the utmoft Mifery ; that Fire Wood, which was formerly fold fer io Rixdollars, is now raifed to a 100, and every kind of Provifian in Proportion. CHARLES-TOWN, Souih Carolina, Jan. 24. There have been no French Privateers fince 1758, in the Harbour of St. Auguftine, nor have any additio- nal Works been made there, or the former repsired fince the Commencement of the 9rcfent War. We hear that Capt. Quintyne Kengedy, of the 17t Regiment, is to Command the Body of Mohawks that are to ¢l againft the Cherokees. PHILADELPHIA, February 19. Capr. Wathington from Jamaica, on the 6:h of Janii- ary, off Cape Nichala, fpoke with Capt. Hickey bound to Mento Chrifto from Virginis. And two Daysaiter; he fell in with a Privateer belonging to New Providence who informed him, that he had fpoke with a Provi- dence Veffel, 8 Wrecker, that had taken feveral Men off’ the Hogfties, that were calt away there in a large Ship from Jamaica, which is fuppofed to be the Eagle Galley, of Briftol, Capt. Nafh, as the fsme Day a large lower Maf, without any Rigging on it,was feen floating along Side Capt. Wafhingtons Veffel. : N.E W.¥:0 R:K, Fcb. 26, Py a Gentleman Officer who came to TownonThrf< day left from Montreal, and who has bren from hencs €0 Quebec and back again fince we had the Accounts of the King’s Death ; we are told,—That all the French in Canads, of any Diftinétion, went into Mourning for the late King ; - That they have had a very mild Winter in Canada ; the Troops all very healthy, snd have «ll the Neceflaries of Life in Plenty. And, thatGovernor GAGE had been addrefs’d by the Officers of the Militia, and Merchants of Montreal, on the lofs of our, Sovercign. [ For which fee next Column.]. Extraft of a Letter from S¢. Euflatia, Jan. z4. 17615 ¢« Our Trade is greatly diftre(s’d by the Englith Ment of War and Privateers, whole entire Plan-s to cruize for Dutch Veflels, while their Vellels are in Numbers, - taken end carried into Martineco ; amang the Numbery is one Bafh, in 2 brig fram New Lendon : There .has bers alio within this M.nth * feveral carried into St. . Fhoma,s 270%) i [0 J20INO ‘4 J