The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, June 5, 1761, Page 1

.- v FRIDAY, JUNE 3. 1,61. THE Conraining the Fre/befi Adwvic LONDON, Mk 21. ¥rom the VOTES of the HOUSE of COMMONS. Mercurii 18 Die 'Martif, 1761. Refolved, Nediine Contradicente, : WHAT the Thanks of this Houle be given (o Mr. Speaker, for his confant end unwearied 956 T 0% Aciendunce in the Chair, during the courfe’ m ‘i abave Thirty three Yeurs, in five'fucce(- five Patfiaments ; for'the unfhaken Integ- rity wid fteady impsztiality of his Conduét there ; and for thzfiind;&fxgiisgl’e Pains he hes, with “uncomimon Abiliviés, conftantly taken to promote the real Intereft of his King snd Country, to maintsin the Honour and Dignity of Parliament, and. to. prelerve inviolabie the Rights end Privileges'of the Commons of Great Britain : Upon whick tbe Speaker faid, A €Y Was never under {o great 8 Difficulty in my Life ! « to know what to fay in this Place, as T'am _l;§rc- «fent—1 cin ffand againfk Misfortines and Diftreffes 5 < I have ftood iiiifllf isfortunes and _Dif\fie es, and « may dofo gain; but I am not able to fiand this « Ovesflow of Good will and Honour to me. It over- . FOWél’S me ; and had I all'the Strength of Linguige, < [ cold never exprefs the full Sentiments of my Fleart <upon this Occafion, of Thanks snd Gratitude, 'Tf T <have Been happy enough to-perform any Services here, < that are acceptable to the Houfe, I am lure I'now re- < ceive the nablelt Reward tor them ; the noblett fhfit s any Mancan receive for any Mersit, far _f(z?’cqox_'. <in Rftimation, ta all the other Emoluments in this «World.—I owe every Thing to this Houfe$ I not < only owe to this Houfe that I am in this Place, but < that [ have had theic conftant Support in it; and to’ < their Good-will and Afiftance, their Tendernels and < Indulgence towards me in my_Errors, it is, that I < have been able to perform my g’u re to any De- s gree of Approbation; Thanks therefore are not [o ¢ miuch due to e for. thefe Services, 4s to the Houlfe it- < {elf, who made'them’ to be Services in me. 'S ¢ When I begen. my Duty here, I fet out with o ¢ Refolution, and Promife to the Houle, to be impar- < tialin every Thing, and to fhew Refpedt to every < Body. The firlt [ know I have done, it is the only ¢ Merit I can affurme : [f I have failed in the other, it ¢ was unwitingly, it was inddvertently ; and [ afk their ¢ Pardon moft fincerely, to whomfocver it may have ¢ happened. —I can'trily fay, the giving Satistattion to ¢ all, has beent my confiant Aim, my Stady, aad my ¢ Pride. ‘ ; ¢ Andnow, Sirs, T am to take my laft T eave of you. €Tt is, I eonfefs with ReZret, becanfe the being within ¢ thefe Walls his eber been the chief Pledfure of my ¢ Life : But my advenced Age and Infirmicies, ad fome - other Regfons, ¢dll for Retirement and Obfcurry. ¢There I fhill fpend the remainder of my Day: ; and ¢ thall only have Power to hope and to priy.. and my ¢ Hopes anid Prayers, my daily Prayer, will be for the ¢ Contibuance of tdie Conltitution'in gereral, 'and that ¢ the Freedom, the Digoity; and 'Authority of this ¢+ Houle may be perpetual.’ v " Réfolved, Némine Contradicente, That'the Thaiks of tliis Houfe be givén to Mr. Speakér, for whit he Has now faid to the Houle, and that thé fame be printed in the Votes of this Day. , Réfolded, Nerine Cintradicente, Thst an himmble Addrefs be prefented ro His Majefly, humbly to be- fréch His Majefty, that he will be® gracioully pleafed to confer fome fignal Mark of his royal Favour upon the Right Hon Akruur Oxsiow, Bigs Speeker of this Houle, for his greac and eminent Services perform €d to his Country, for thé Space of Thirty three Years and apwards; during which time ke has, with fuch diftinguithed Ability dnd Integrity, prefided in the Chiir of this Houle' ; ind to affure His Mijefty, that whatever Expence His Majefty fhall think proper to be incurred upon that Account, this Hodle will itiake godd the fame to His Majefty. : Fovie, i8 Die Martii, 1961, Mr. Vice Chamberlain reported to cthe Houle, that their Addréts of Yefterday bad been prefented to His Majefty : And that His Hsjcily was pleafed to give the following moft gracious Anlwer. That His Mijelty has the jufteft Sénfe of the long ““Services and great Merits ot Mr. Onflow, prefent *¢ Spegksr of the Houfe of Commons ; and hds already *¢ taken the fame into bis Confideration ; and that he © ¢¢ will do therein what fhall appear to His Majefly to . “be molt proper, agreeable to the Difire of his faith- % ful Commons.” ' Letter frim a Gentleman at Hesbam, Nortbumberland, _ . “Monday night, March g. ¢ The Depity Licuténants and jufticés met this day sbeut'the militia ; and as many of the fellows, who lately made the difturbance at Newcaitle, threatned to be here, four companies of the Yorkihire militia canre to town Jaft night. This morning thoufands of the rioters es, ity here to any De- cime to town in the molt defperate ‘manner. The Cryer went sbout, by order of the juftices, to-defire-all the inhabitants to ke=ep within foors ; for in cafe any, perfon behaved in a riotous manner, . the milicia fhould be ordered to fire upon them. AT -+« About ten, khg,;eu;i:nL } went to Moot-hall, and the militia were drawn up ' belore the gate to prevent any of the mob going inta the hall. = Ag the fame time the major told them all their complaints Mould be hieard if they would but be quiet #nd pescesbls. They sc- cordingly remained pretty ,_vdfir 7, till » large boay: of pitmen besween two and three Jupdred, came into town about twelve o’clo:k. who attempted to bresk through the militia to get to the hall. Upon which the militia received orders to fire. . Think what a thocking found ! for near tep minutes fellow {ubjedts firing upon one another,and what a horrible {cenc was beheld atterward; {ome carried away dead in carts, others on horfes. Many were led along jult dying of their wounds, and all covered with blood ! fhocking fpeftacles ! and to hear the dreadful fhrieks of the women, whofe bufbands or {ons were among the rioters, was enough to * pierce 8 heart -of ftone, One poor creature, whofe hufband hid tezn carried by desd a little before, came by {cresming in [ach a manner, thatwe heard her as far as the Abbey gate. His name wa: Danicl Bowman, a labouring map, and a very inoffenfive one, but wounld go out to fee what was going farward ; he has left 7 children.— A poor woman, a widow with eight chil- dren, and big with another, (one Carter) going into the market to look after her fon, was fhot dead, and her fon thot thro’ the thigh, and they fay cannot live. A wo- man who wasto come from Newcattle for a few days, to fee a relation, end was with child, wasfhot through. the belly as fhe was ftanding at a window. Befides thefe [ have mentioned, there arefeveral ill who came from Britley, fome from Gungerion, Aéton, Wall, and fome from the Shire, Twenty wounded were carried t one houfe, eight of whom are now dead, and it is feared not above two or three of the others. will furvive, There are fixieen allo now lying dead in the church to be qwaed, moft of whom are pitmen;, who have been the caufe of all this horrid flaughter. Many have been found dead upon the road, who had been wounded, and were making their ef-ape, Among the militia there is only one grenadier killed, befides thofe I mentioned. They reckon inall above roo killed and wounded : But I am afraid the number will te greater by and by, far they are continuelly finding more who had yun away wounded, and died by thetfelves in the holes where they lived.” . Extratt of a Letter frons Harsburgh, Fan. 25, "I"'HE Clouds thicken in curHemiphere,snd a Storm fecms ready to burft ; the Year 1761 will pro- bably fill the bloodieft Page in the future Hiftory of Europe : whoever dreams of Peace has not atientively confideréd the Syftem of the belligerent Powers ; but whatever Turn Affairs may take, we may boldly affirm, that the Emprefs Queen will bgs Lofer ; the Recovery af Silefia will not jndemnify her for the Sacrifices fhe muft_be, obliged to make the French, as has been be- fore oblerved, are fightingdor themlelves, sdd will, by their Acquifitions in the Low Countries, amply recom- pence themlelves for their Lofles in Gummy 3, Ahe Roflisns begin to take off the Mafk, ana by the, Hints lately dropped to the Regency of Dartzic, we may fee they look upon that City with 2 longing Eye, and asa Place extremely . fit for forwarding, their Do‘zgns 3 the Difpute with Dantzick sbout Holftein is_artfully de- layed, and Pelith Pruffia appears a tém‘ptfng Morfel. The pacific Scheme of the Britifh Minifter has been re- jatted ; thefe Things thew a fetcled Defigh of getting Footing in the Empire, for afliing theEmpre(s Queen is out of the Queftion ; they have never been hearty. in her Interelt, no further than it coincided with their ewn ; they now and then, indeed, lend a helping Hand to fave Appearances, bt that fo lamely,. that the:Aul- trians mutt be very blind Politicians indeed, i;_ they do not perceive their Diilt. . Well, but the King of Pruffia muft be crofbed, and this Northen Power recompenced with his Spails. This is felling the Bears Skins : For, One Hundred and 60T houfsndMen, with fuch a Prince at their Head, may cut out Work for more than one Campaign 3. and ik, he fhould trinmph, the Work muft be begun sgain, Jn fhort, of all the Northern Powers, noné has a Profpect of geining more, and lofing lefs, than the Roffians ; in them it is Wifdom tg temporize, and catchOpportunities as they rife ; this is heirSyitem, for which -they will not depart ; and when Overtures of Peace sre made, if they donot.come from the Courg of Viensia, be affured they will be rejefled, and from that Quarter there is very little Reafon'to expect them.” Since the Commencement of the prefent War, it is reckoried, that the French never were in fo bad a State as now, ' in 8 Countryfo exhaufted as Gergany is, makes it al. moft impoflible for fo numersus an Army to fubfift, The Deftruétion of fuch immenfe Magazines, | - ’ o “Nuus. 244 [Wuxsfimtc vhic ParER’ was firft ‘Publifh’d. Foreign and Domeftick. .. E pq Geienarl §sgis ol Qv the Seshorle, with the' Afironomers on biard, béing Sine: . attack-d by'a French Frigate : /A ARS, intorm’d tuat fome Wits, with inguifitive * Deflign'd into Venud's' nietions topry, Diipacch’d 7 bold Warrior from Lewis’s fleet, e The Caliiffs tofeize, and ¢héir’ purpofe defeat ; B¢ Neptuns firait fent s Séahorfe o their sid, * And fife d’er the océan his Fay'rites convey’d. o i v Criro:, . - Tebruaryza. 'The ARronomers lately gose in the Seahorle, Being too late to reach the place of deftination firft intended, are to'land in the moft convenient parc of the Sourhern Hemilphere, fo as to fave the day of oblervation ; dnd whote experiments, would probsbly been more compleat Had'their progrels not beenin- terrupted by meeting with the enemy in the commence- mient of their voyage. | - i _On the derivatioh of the Word NEWS. HE Wdrd explains it felf without the Mufe, ‘8. Andithetourlettersfpeak whence comes theNews; From North, Eaft, Weft, South, the lolution’s made, Each quarter givés account of War dnd Trade. A . March 10. The laft Letters from Saxony advile, that the'King of Pruffia having received a Train of Batter- itig Cannon from Mdgebourg,would (oon be in Aétion = :... Mean while his Majefty has defired all his Generals todraw up eich, feparately,a-Plan of Operations forthe enfuing Campaign ; in which are to-be camprehended ell the Defigns which the Enemy may be fuppofed tor form, ‘the Force employed in the Execution of eich, and the prefent pofition of his Armies. By this Means, jis Mijefty will be emabied tojudge, of each Man's Abilities, and whit Command he is fit for; and will svail him (elf of what is gdod in' édch Plan. , S,CHRISTOPHERS,: Aprilj. " Upon the 1t Taftant his "Mi%cfi ’s_thip Emereld’s tender brought to the rord of i’fi{t'e'n'e_, & ‘fchoones lotded with proyifions, bound to* St. Vincent from St. Euftatias, which fhe took upon the 24th ult. _‘There 1s advice by a letter from Jamaica. of 1 Jate dite, and Undoubted suthority, that many prizes Have been taken by his Majefty’s fhips and carried “in there lately. The Trent,” John Lindfsy, Efq; Commander, in & cruize of three weeks, had taken five French Pri-. vateers ; a floop from Curacos bound tothe Cape ; and a valuable fhip, bound w France from Martineco.—— That thip intended to have went be:ween Porto Rice and Hiipaniola, but made a miltake and fell in Cipain Lindfay’s cruize, who gave her chace, and fhe lay to for him, and fought three quarters of an hour. The Trent bad one man killed and five wounded ; and the French thip about 20 killed and wounded. She is large and mounted 40 guns the voyage before, but had when fhe was takén no morethan z4 or z5 mounted, snd go men. A Gentleman who arrivéd from Jamaica 1 few days ago fays, that as he was coming out his. M jefty’s fhip Cerberus, Capt.Webbar, was going in with a prize, being in & French Frigate, which he had taken a few days before. : : _ April 8. His Excellency the GENERAL left this ifland yefterday for Nevis. _ ; . _ Upon the ‘4th infkant his_ Majefty’s fhip Emereld’s tender brought in & fchboner, which ke had retaken from the French ; {He was laden with beef and pork, from Nofth.Carolina. i ; , April 11, Upon the 8th inftant csme into the road of Bafleterre, a French privateer fchooner, taken by his MajeRy’s fhip Levant, Willih Tacker, Efd; com- mander ;. and upon the gth a [mall French {chocner, loaded with provifions, and bousd to Martineco from St. Euftatius, was taken by his Majefty’s thip Emerald’s tender, > AN April 15. _Upon the 12th inftant, his majefty’s fhip Emergld’s_tender, commanded by Mr. William Loto, brought into the rona'_éf Bafleterre, a French let- ser of murque Xebeque of fix guns ( three whereof were nine pounders) laden with fugar, coffec, and cocor, and bound from Martingéo to Marfeilles.. . It is adviled from Antigus, that his Majeftys fhip Emerdld, Charles Middleton, Efq; commander, had taken and fent to that ifland a French brig privateer. ;B OS, T Q-N, .June . A Letter from Halifax dated the 21ft ukimo, fays, ¢’ A Ship is athore on Sable-Ifland, fuppos’d from Lon- don, boiind hither ; and that a Veflel wasfent from thence for her Relief. ? R Extratt of a Letter from a Gentleman at Lisbon, dated the 7th of Agrily by the laft Viffel. . ¢ ¢ The z1ft ult: we were vifited with another thock of an Easthquake, which, sho’ pretty. vidlent angd of near five Minutes Duration,thank God,hes done no Damsge of Confequence.” o, .. i/ ¢ The Affembly of. Norsth: Carolina have voted to raife 500 men, to be employed to Decemper hext, according ta General Amherf’s Order. R