The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, May 29, 1761, Page 1

‘ { { & ) b /! FRIDAY, MAY 29. 1761. - New-Hampfhire Contdining the Frefbeft Advices, NEW-YORK, May 18. In Thurfday laft arrived bere the Earl of Halifax Packet Boat, Capt. Bolderfon, in fix Weeks. From the public Prints we bave the following Advices to March 24th Jrom London. L O N D O N, March 20. His MajesTy’s moft gracious SPEECH to both Houfes of Parliament, on Thur[day the 1gth Day of March, 1761. , My Lorps and GeNTLEMEN, Cannot put an end to this feffion, without declar- ing my entire fatizfadtion in your proceedings during the courfe of it. The zeal you have fhown for the lonor of my Crown, as well as for my true intereft, and that of your country, which are ever the fanie, isthe cleareft demonftration of that duty and affetion to my perlon snd government, of which you fo unanimoufly affured me at your firft meet- ing. Nothing could fo much add to the pléafure which thefe confiderstions afford me, as that I am now sble ' to acquaint you with the great progre(s made of late by the combined army in Germany, under the command of Prince Ferdindnd of Brunfwick. I formerly told you, ¢ that the nature of the war, in thofe parts, had kept the camptign there fill depending ; and it now appears, to the {urprize of my enémies, tht the fuperior ability,and indefatigable aftivity of my General, and the (pirit and - ardour of my officers and troops, have greatly profited of this| periéverance, notwithftanding all the difficulties arifing from the feafon.j By your affiftence, I have taken the beft care to re- cruit that army in ¢n effetual manner ; and have made ' fuch a difpofition of my fleet, for the next fummer, as , may moft sdvantageoufly detend my kingdoms ; protect the commerce of my fubjedts ; msintain and extend our \fleflions, and acquifitions ; and annoy the engmy. As in all my meafures I have nothing in view but .he fecurity nd felicity of my dominions, the fupport »f my allies, and the reftoring of the public tranquiiity, I trult in the Divine Providence, to give & happy iflue to our further operations. Gentlemen of the Houfe of Commons, 1 cannot fafficiently thank you for your unanimity and difpatch, in providing for the expences of my Civil Go- vernment, énd the honour'and dignity of the Crown ; And 1 think mylelf &s much obliged to you, for the prudent ufe, which, in freming thst provifion, you have made of my confent to léave my own hereditary revenues to fuch difpofition of Parliament, as might béft conduce ' tothe wility and faisfaltion of the Public, s for what more immediately cencerns mylelf. In making my acknowledgements for the large end extenfive fupplics which you have granted me this Sef- fion, I am 4t a Jofs whether moft to applaud your chear- filnefs in giving, or your wifdom in proportioning them to the extrdordiniry occafions of the Public, notwith- finhding thofe uncommon burthens, which I heariily , régret. No care fhall be wanting on my pirt, to fe¢ them duly spplied to the nadonal ends for which you intend- ed them. My Lords, and Gentlemen, The ‘expiration of this Pirliament now drawing very near, I will give forthwich the necefliry orders for call- ing 4 new one : But I cannot take my leave of you, vyithout returning my thanks for the many eminent proots ¢« you hive given of your fidelity and aff:ftion to my family end government, and of your zeal for this happy and excellent confti‘ution, During this pulianient, the flame of war was kind- - led by the injurious encroachment and wfurpations of our enemices ; and therefore it become juft and neceffary on ou# part. In the prolecition of it you have given fuch fupportto my royal Grandfather and myfeif, 2nd fuch afittance to our Allies,as have nmunifefted your publick- fpirited concern for the honour of the ndiion, and ‘the ‘ndintenance of its undonbiéd rights and pofleffions, and een atténded with glorious fuccefies, and great acqui- fitions, in various parts of the world ; particalarly, the entire reduttion of Canada, & conqueflt of the atmolf im- Mortance to the fecurity of our colonieés in North dmerica, and to the extenfion of the commerce and navigation of my fubjeéls. May God Almighty grant continuance to thefe fuc- cefles ; The ufe which [ propofe to make of them i3, to fucure and promote the welfaré of my kingdoms, and to carry on the wir with vigour, in order to procure to them the bleflings of peace, on fafe and honourable conditions for meand my allies ; to which I have been always ready to hesrken. # Firm in thefe refolutions, I do,with entire confidence, rely on the good difpofi:ions of my faithful fubjets, in the choice of their reprefentatives ; and I make nodoubt, but that they will thereby demonftrate the fincerity of _ thofe aflurances, which have been fo cordislly dnd uni- verfilly givéen me, in the loyal affeltionite, and unas- fimous addreffes of my people. Then the Lord Chancellor, by his Majefty’s com- mand, faid, My Lords, and Gentlemen, It is his Majefty’s Royal will and pleafure, that this Parliament be prorogued to Tuefday the feventh Day of April next, to be then here held ; and this Pacliment is accordingly prorogued to Tueflday the feventh dsy of April next. Since which bis Majefly kath by bis Royal Proclamati- on, diffolved the Parliament 5 andgiven grders for iffuing © Writs for calling a new one, to be returnable on Tuefday the 19th Day of May. SPePUDLPPULEPPLHADHDD e, it o S * SR SRS LB March 3. We can with pleafure affare the public, that Mr. Secretary Pitt i3 much better. The Crown is now making in Arundel- ftreet. March 12. The Syren, Collins, from Bofton to Bil- boa, is taken by the St. Michsel Privateer. Tuefday 40 ton of beer, 400 dozen hofe, 3000!b. of wrought leather (fhoes)and other merchandize, were entered for exportation to Quebec. March 17. We are informed that Lady Buate will in a few days, be created a Countels, by the title of Wortley Montsgue. The Earl of Bute took his place laft night as Secreta- ry of State, in the room of Lord Holdernefle, made Groom of the Stool. By an exa& account received of the late riot at Hex- hara, it appears that 45 of the rioters were killed, and 300 wounded, fome of them mortally. Exiraft of a Letter from Paris;, March 10, There is great reafon to fear that the negociation for 2 peace will vanifh into fmoake, England fill pe:fiting in demanding the ceflion of the gresteft part of North- Americaand Guadsloup ; but at prefent we are too well acquainted with the smount of the produce of this ifland to give it up. \ We hear that the eight large ftorefhips, which were {ome time 250 fent to Quebec, where they are fafe ar- rived, there were, among other articles, 7000 barrels of gunpowder, 75 pieces of cannon, snd cloathing for 12 regiments ; from which there 1s little reafon to doubt, but the iniention of the government is to keep pofief- fion of thofe valuable acquifitions in America, which have coft the nation fo much blood and treafure to acquire. March 18. The Bay of Quiberon is now evacuated by the Englith, and the fleet difpoled in the following manner. All the three deckers are come home, with fome others of lefs force; s fmall flying fquadron cruizes off Breft; and fome fingle fhips are fent to the weftward. A tranfport fhip is arrived at Falmouth from Cork, with 300 foldicrs ; the captain {ays, that another fhip with the (sme number of troops for the fame place, was taken a few days ago, by two French frigates, who were cruifiog 17 leagues to the weft of Scilly. The Whitfield, Thomas Cuzzins, mafter, from Bofton to Dublin, with flaxfced, thought to be loft, has got into Lamaifh, We ledrn from the Hague, that fince the French have been driven cut of all Hefle, except Caflel end Mar- bour, the fata of the French garridon of Gottingen is very precarious. Invefted on all fides, it has no com- munication with M. Broglio’s Army. We learn from Vienna, that Count Daun was to fet out on the 27th of February, in crder to refume the command of the grand army in Saxony. By a letter from the allied army of the 25th ult. we are informed, that M. Broglio had by a letter fent to Prince Ferdivand from under his own hand, offered to evacuate Caflal, provided he would admit the gar- rifon to march out with the honours of war, and take away el their effe@s ; which was abfolutely refufed him, : Friday morning died at Bath, Licut. Gen. James . Kennedy, Col. cof the 43d regiment of foot. Oa the 10th inft. arrived at, Spithead, Sir Edward Hawke, in his Masjefty’s fhip Roysl George, and Sir Charles Hardy, in the Union, from Quiberon, with 2 French frigaies of 14 guns each, and two or three {fmaller prizes. St. James's, March 17. The King kaving this Day thought fit to diffslve the Privy Council, and, at the lame time, to appoint a new one, confifiing of the fame wrém- bers with the former Council, together with Antbsny Earl of Sbaftfbury, allthe Lords and others prefent were there- upon fworn_of bis Majefty's moff Honourable Privy Coun- cily and took their places at the board accordingly March 19. By feversl Letters from Madrid there is an account that the Eerl of Briftol, the Britith Am- baffidor, had, at an audizuce of his Catholick Majefty, been affured, that he remained firm in his refolution to maintain the prefent treaties fubfifting between the Courts of Great-Britain and Spain. The f.ur remsining vacancies of the hon. order of the Bath, we hear will be filled up with Gen. Amherft, Adm. Pacock, G. Warren, Efq; snd Sir H, Grey, Bart. i - Nuwms. 243 [Wszk’s’ fince this Parer was firft Publi{h’d. Foreign and Domeflick. Whiteball, March 21. His Mejelty having besa pleafed to appoint the Right Hon. WiLLiam Prrr, Eigs to be one of his'Mejefty’s principal Secretaries of Statey. the oath of Secretary of State was this day, by his Ma~ jefty’s command, sdminiftred to him in council. March 24. On Saturday lieut. General Yorke areis ed intown ¢rom Holland. He has left Mr. Laval his fecretary at the Hague, to take care of the Britifh af< fairs atthat ccurt in his abfence, which it is faid will be in five or fix- weeks. The Emprefs Queen of Hungary has made a prefent of an Eftate in Bohémia to Gen. Laudohn, for the fin- gular fervices he has dene the houfe of Auftria. March 24. Letters from Paris prétend, that the mi~ niftry had received advice of a confiderable advantege gained over the Englith in Indis. The fame letters add, that as Martineco was ftill threatned to be attacked the governor infifted warmly on the fending him a re- inforcement, and promifed to keep the place, provided they would let him have fome fhips of war, and be- tween 2 and 3000 land forces, with fome ftores, par- ticularly gunpowder, of which he wasin great want, Extraét of a Letter from Rotterdam, March 17. This day’s French letters bring an account of an En: glith homeward bound Eaft Indiaman being taken and carried into Breft, called the Ajax, from Bergal and Madrafs, loaden with 4000 bags of fsltpetre, 800 bales of handkerchiefs, and one cheft of diamonds, befides masiy other produéts of the ports fhé came from. She was taken by the Prothee, a King’s frigate, Capt. Cor- nci. The Indiaman mounted 26 carriage guns, 100 men, burthen 750 tons. She is & new fhip, being her . firft voyage, and commanded by Capt. Lindfey, who it is (aid was killed in the a@lion when his fhip was taken; which was worth 200,000 1. The Denhdm Eaft- Indiaman, that f{ailed from Bengel before the Ajix, is al{fo apprehended to be taken or lofty and yeftegday 50 |. percent.infurance was made uponher. ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, March 10. Extrat of a Letter from Sir Epwarp Hawke, Admi-" ral of the Blue Squadron of His Majefly's Fleet, 1o Mr. CLEVELAND, dated on bsard His Majefly's Ship Royal George, in Quiseron Bax, t2¢ 28ib of Fe- bruary, 1761. ¢\ N the zd of February arrived here the Mars and Orford from a Cruize. On the gthot January they took a Brig, called L’Union de Cap, bound with Wine, Oil, Flour, Cheele, &c. from Rochelle to Cipe Francois. On the 13th they took two of the French King’s Frigates, L’Annemame, and Sardonei, armed for War by the Merchants, carrying each 14 Guns, and 130 Men esch. They fail’d from Rochfort the Day before they were taken, and were bound to the Coalt of Guiney. On the 27th they retock the New Bofp- hrorous Snow, bound to Naples with Pilchars, and theit to Smyrna with Broad Cloth and Pepper. She had been takeén ten Diys before, by & Privateer of Dunkirk. Théy are all fafe here, and the Frigates arePrime Sailors. On the 16th of February the Swallow Sloop, which I'had fent on a Cruize off Oleron, returnéd- with & Letter of Marque Sloop from Martinico, with'd Cargo of Coces, Hlephant’s Teeth, Coffee, and Caflia.” Capt. Ogle, of his Majefty’s Ship Aquillon, gives an Account, in his Letter of the gth Inft. that he took on the 4th, the Zephire, a Ship of 12 Gunsand 114 Men, belonging to Bayonne, 140 Leagues te theWefiward of " Ufhant, and hasbrought her to Spithesd. Capt. Nightingsle, of his Majeity’s Ship Vengeance, allo gives an Account, that on the gth Inftant he took & French Privateer Snow ealled L’Augufte, of 12 Guns; and 67 Men, and has brought her into Plymouth. The Officers of the Expedition Fleet have received their Orders, and are going to Portfmouth directly. Private Letters from Stockhelm give an Account, that there had been {ome grest Turns in' the Diet in Favour of the Proteftant Caufe, PHILADELPHTIA, Mayrq. Tuelddy laft arrived 4t Wilmington, Capt. Flint from St. Chriftophers. A: gentleman who came with him writes the tollowing from Wilmington, May i3. « T arrived here this day from St. Chriftophers, in the fchooner Succefs, Capt. Flint. On our piflige was taken in let. 26, 30. and lon. 67. by 4 brig of 16guns, arid rdnjomed for two thoufand dollars. There was & alfo in company « frigate of 40 guns, snd a floop of 12 - guns.—We came out with about 5o fail, i which w:som 22 veflels for this continent. I “ani (dre there zre many of them teken by the ebove véfiels. We mudewred the gththit [ knaw of, on¢ of which was Captain’ . Flowers for Philadelphia, taken by the frigate, and ran- foried for 170 1. fteriing.” ; Yeéfterday the fioop George, Capt. Flowers, arrived here from 6t. Chriftophers, who informs, that on the 28¢h of April, in lit. 25, §6.¢nd long 68 5. he wis ' taken by a French frigate” of 36 guws, called the Hebe, Li Touch de Bauregunrd commander, bound from Hii- ; paniols for France, who ranfomsd him lor 175 L. ft':rrll1 < k