The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, September 4, 1761, Page 2

Cop h g T T e S — L O N D O N, Funeb. If ever publick Demonftiations of Joy were exprefiive of the reel Sentiments of a free and united People, there never was a more eminent Difplay of them than on ‘Thurfday, it being the Birth Day of our Britifh Mon- arch, when entered into the 24th Year of his Age, and the firit which has accrued fince he entered upon his Reign, therefore all Hearts were open and emalous to fhew Gladnefs on this Occafion, and many were known to make ftrenuous Efforts, in order to vie with their Neighbours in exhibiting to publick View, ele- gant Emblems of their Zeal, Affeétion, and Joy. Difpofition of the Fir¢works, as ordered on Tawer Hill, for the King’s Birth Day. Firft dipofition as (oon as day began to clofe. 24 Half pound rockets. 4 Small jerties. * z Iffs with the fan picce in the middle: 2 Air balloons. 2 Fruilioni, with one regulated picce, with cir- cular fire in the middle. Planks of pots de brin. 2 Fixed funs with illuminated ftars. 1 Cheft of Rockets. Second Difpofition. 24 Pound rockets. 4 Large jerties. Fruilion. Caduceus rocket. Regulated ftars of five points. Air bailoons. peralis. Circular cafcade. Cheft of rockets. Third Difpofiiion. Pound rockers. Pattern pieces, with funs. Air bsiloons. Pieces with five pointed ftars, and a regulsr piece with circualar fire in che middle. Caducens rockets. Pots de faucificns. Tranfparent piece, with GEORGE III. Pound rockets. 5 Regulated picces, [talian, 2 Planks of Pots de brin, 2 Fan chefts of rockets. 4 Nails of maroons. On the midft of the Hill was placed a noble column of the Corinthian order, with a large hollow crown of wood, giltwr the top, filled with a curious figure in Pyrotechny. #%ound the column, quite from the bot- tom to the top, were placed lamps in great numbers ; and on the pedeftal a Zivat Rex, in gold letters,at about a hundered feet diftance from this, poles were placed in a circular order, with large ftars upon them about eight feet high ;and five wheels filled with an infinite number of rocksts made up in various fhapes and fizes, At the ealt end was fixed fome of the largeft rockets, which perbaps have ever beenmade. The whole was extreemly grand, furrounded by a valt number of chevaux de frize ; befides which, divers of the ma- trofles and others belonging to the train of artillery at- tenced. The illuminated obelifk raifed on a pedeftal and fini- fhing with the imperial crown (exhibiced laft night in honour of thedsy at the Turk’s head tavern in Gerrard fticet, by the Society of Artefts of Great Biicain) pre- fented on the front of the pedefal, the figure of Provi- dence holdinga piofile of his moft gracious Majefty now reigning, in one hand, infcrined with thefe words, BORN ANDEDUCATED A BRITON,(urrounded with a Glory refemelingthat of the Sun, and extending her other hand to Britannia, placed balow, with this addrefs, THY FELICITY HIS GLORY. Oan the fide oppoled to the upper end of the ftreet, an altar charged with a pyumid, on the fummit of which was the Crawn with the Scepter and Sword ; on the right, the Mitre and Paftoral Stsff'; on the left, Maigna Charta, the Cap of Liberty, the Purfe, Mace, Seals of Juftice, &c. and on the fteps of the Altar, Pen and Ink, Pallet and Pencils, Mallet and Chiflel, with # Bult, Compafics, Archite€tonic Se&tor, Botany repre fented by a Plant in s Pot, the Globe, Telelcape, &c. with this jufl acknowledgment, ALL THE OBJECTS OF HIS CONCERN. Andon the conirary fide, the Emblems of Agriculture, Manufaltures, Commerce, and Navigation, with a continuation of the Sentence be- gun, AND FLOURISHING BENEATH HIS IN- FLUENCE. On the Obelifk were allufions fuited to the feveral fides, viz. On the Front immediately under the Crown the Royal Cypher encircled with Rofes, and radiate, with the Sceptre, Sword, and O:, &c.— On the firft Side, June 4°h, the Birth Day decorated s the Cypher; under it the Royal Arms. Oa the other file over the Emblems of Commerce, &3, the Year 1738, with the Arms and Regalia of the City of London. T'wenty three Rockets were let off, when his Maje- fty’s health was drank, and it may be truly added, that nons of thefe expreflions without doors equalled the Z:al, Daty and Attachment, manifefted by the Com- pany affembled within, It is faid that Five Guineas were offered for Places, even to ftand id the Galleries tofee the Nobility and Gentry pafs by at Court. Thurfday his Grace the Duke of Neweaftle gave & very grand Eniertainment to feveral Perfowd of Di- ftiattion at his Houfe in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, in Hon- = e N NDNORN N n N NN - - N e 2 our of his Majefty’s Birth Day, st which there was 2 curious Delart, reprelenting the Citadel of Palais, and his Maj=(ty’s Forces now befieging the fame. The Ball was opened at St. James’s on ‘Thurlday by the Duke of Yotk and the Princefs Augufta. The Con- courfe of Nobility and Gentry was fo great, that feveral Ladies fainted through exceflive Heat. The Minutes did not end till near One, when the Country Dances began, then his Majelty withdrew, and the Ball en- ded between Two and Three o’Clock, June 6. By a Letter fram a Gentleman at Guada- loupe, dated April 28, to bis Correfpondent in.Town, we are iaformed, that every Thing remained guiet in the Hfland 5 that the Englifp Government was even extolled by the French Ihbabitants 5 that near atboufand Perfons from England and America bad arrived there, and fettled to Advartage, fince its Reduftion ; that the Number of VefJels ufually employed, were much increafed ; and that the next Ships, would bring a prodigious Quantity of Sugar, &¢. to England. Cargoes of the Hareurt, from Mocha ; Shaftbury, from Bengal and Fort &, George ; and Stermont, from Bombay, arrived on Accant of the united Company of Merchants of England, trading to the Eaff Indies, viz. 6254 Pieces of Baftaes ; 3481 Pieces of Bandannoes, 194 Picces Betellees Oringal 5 411 Pieces ditto Pullicat ; 120 Pieces Byrampauts'; go Pieces Callapatties ; 161 Pieces Calliapores 5 332 Pieces Coopres 5 10444 Pieces Coffaes 5 126 Pieces ditto flowerd ; 2090 Pieces Chintz Bengal 5 275 Pieces ditto Baftaes 5 1017 Pieces ditts Moores 5 300 Picces ditto Bombay ; 100 Pieces ditto Amadvad ; §00 Pieces ditto Caddy; 300 Pieces ditto Doorguzzees 5 1000 Pieces ditto Naffermany ; 74 Picces Chanderbannies ; 371 Pieces Chowtars ; 1112 Pieces Cufbtaes ; 200 Pieces Dimities Bengal 5 1720 Picces Doreas 3 19g Pieces Doofooties ; 173 Pieces Ginghams frip'd ;5 630 Piecces Gurrabs ; 175 Pieces ditto long s 1786 Pieces Humbams; 200 Pieces Izzarees 5 224 Pieces Lampaffes 8248 Pieces 'Long Cloth; 701 Pieces Mosnes ; 2592 Pieces Mulmuls: 2080 P. Niccanees large; 100 Pieces ditto fmall 5 14595 Pieces Romals faot 5 1643 ditts Barnagore ; 485 P. ditto Silk Lungee ; 1720 Pieces Sallampores 5 358 Pieces Sannoes, 370 Pieces Saftracun- dies 5 122 P. Seerfuckers 5 3909 Pieces Tanjeebs s 539 Pieces Taffeties 5 1920 Pieces Tapleifs large 5 700 Pieces Terrindam; 555 Pieces ditto fawer'd. 1155656 Ib Coffee; 16400 /b. Carmenia Wool ; g221b. Cotton Yarn ; 454287 /b, Pepper 5 134400 (b, Red Wyod ; 19226 Ib. raw Silk, gr; G77826 ib. Saltpetre, bifides feveral Par- cels of Goods, the Particulars wheresf are not yet known. Extraft of a Letter from St. Neots in Humindenfbire, June 6. “ This morningas [ was obferving the tranfit, preceived a phznomenon, which by its motion appea- red to move in a curve different from any fpots I had ever before di‘covered on the fun. An idez occured to me, that it wis a fecondary planet to Venus, for it plainly appeared to attend its primary as the center of its motion ; and by the help otP my telefcope I could perceive it make nearer the fame tranfit as the planet Venus, but nearer the ecliptic.....of the trarfit of Venus 31 minutes paft eighs, and the end of the fecondary 9 inche morning, apparent time. NOY WX U R K Adouft 22, Tuefday lait the Earl of Halifex Packet Boat, Caprain Bolderfon, left this Port with the Mail for Falmouth. Friday laft Capt. Bryfon arrived here from Holland, but laft from Portfmeuth, which he left the z4th of June lstt, in Company with the Piince Edward Man of War, of 40 Guns, bound for Gibraltar, who had the Trade under Convoy ;—He tock his Lesve of the Fleet off Cape Finiftere ; as did the Brig Dolphin, Captain Logan from Cowes for Philadelphis, whom Captin Bryfon paried with on the 10th of July, on the Banks of Newioundland, We learn nothing materisl by Captain Bryfon : He fays they weie quite fu// in England of the Redullion of Belleifle : T'hat the fecond Expedition Fleet was not failed ;... 'That he lcft the Hope, Captain Jacobfon, bound to this Place from London, to Portfmouth wait- ing for Convoy, as fhe had Stores on board : That it was [aid a Man of War was foon after to be sppeinted to Convoy the Hope, snd [updry other Norihern Vel- fels this Way : And, that on the 1oth Infant, in Lat. 39, he fpoke with a Ship bound to Philadelphia from tne Orkneys, Captain Buys, all well on board. On Fiiday Morning lalt, between Three and Four o'Clock, a terrible Fire broke out in the Houfe wherein Mr. Chriftopher Smith, Merchant, lived, in French Church Streer, in this City, while the Family were in the Ceuntry : It got to fuch a head before it was dil- covered, and burnt with fach Fury, that it foon con- fumed the Houfe, together with the greateft Part of the Furniture, and & large Quantity of Dry Goode, which was the Pioperty of Capisin Colgen, Mr. Smith’s Bro- ther in Law. It allo reduged the Houle adjoining in which Dr. Van Dyke lived ; And almoft deftroyed the Third, in which Mz, Feuter, Goldfmith, refided, be- fore it could be got under, notwithitanding the great Dexterity of our Firemen, and unptrralled A&ivity of the Inhabitants, always exested on fuch Occafions. We were happy in having little Wind that Morning, other- wife in all Probability much greaterDamage would have happened, the Streets being very narrow in that Part of the Town; and it was with great Difficulty the neigh- bouring Houfes were preferved. It has not yet appear- ed how chis Fire was occafioned. Between T'welve and One 0'Clock the fame Day, another Fire broke out st the very Top of the Dwell. ing Houle of Mr, Low, in Broad fireet ; but the ufus Application foon put s Stop to its Progrefs, and prevent: . ed uts doing any cenfileradle Dimage. Pert of & Letter from Antigua. —“This Quarter of the World affords us few Tranf- altions, altnough for fome Months we have had great Expeétations of it being the Scene of bufy Adtion, but fuch Thoughts are now vanifhed for this Seafon st ieaft, and the Enemy will probably keep Poflefion of their Iflands anotherYear. One of cur Ships of War has been to vifit the different 1flands,while the reft of the Squad- ron have little to do.—We with the Armsment was employed on fome Attack equal to its Importance snd toe Expence of fupporting it here. The French have had two Line of Battle Ships in thefe Seas, but have had the good Luckto efcape us all. They continued & gieat Time at Gianada, and then went to St. Domingo. The Temple of 70 Guns, and Arundel of zo chafed them, but the Esemy were not in a Humour to e fpoke with, which might be lucky for our Ships, s they were of fo inferior a Force. Monfieur La Touch, Governor of Martineco, has lately received 1200 Troops. NEW.LONDON, Auguft z1. Several Veflels have arrived here fince our laft, from Antigus, St. Kitts, &c. who failed from thence the latter end of July, under Convoy; among which aré the Captains G. Saltonftall, and Parker, of this Port 3 They bring nothing Material. Captain Caldwell, who arrived on Wednefday, was chafed by a French I’ri-/‘ ; " vateerin Lat. 37, and was very near being tsken, but fortunately elcaped, by snother Sail appearing, to which the Privateer gave Chale. B O S T O N, Augut gt By Advices from Quebec, we hear that the Canadians fay, they have not had for nineteen Years paft equal Eafe and Leifure for the Culiivation of their Lands . .. That there was a promifing Appearance of fine Crops of Grain the beginning of laft Month . .. That the Go- vernor had fent from Quebec sn Engineer by the Chaudier to Fort Halifsx § its likewife talked of another Engineer going from thence to the River St. John down to the Bay of Funday, there are Indizns employedto affift and gpide the Engineers. We may hope for great Advantages from the accurate Surveys and Obfervations of thofe Gentlemen, and obtain a certsin Knowledge of our own Frontiers, which, %ill very lately, we knew lirde of, but from the French Accounts. Exirait of a Letter from Ofwego, dated July 21, 17613 N Friday Isft Sir WiLL1aM Jounson arrived here O in good Health ; and this Day about Four inthe Atternoon, he embark’d on board the Anfon Schooner tor Niagara ; as did alfo Col: Eyre, Chief Engineer. Sir William, I am inform’d,is taking a Tour quite round from Niagara to Fort Detroit, and round by Pittfbusg, we fuppofe to quiet the Indians, who feem uncaly by the Per{uafions of the French, that they the Indians will all be either enflav’d or cut off,if they fuffer us to go on and miske fuch large Conquefts in their Coun'ry. The greatelt Part of Gage’s Light Infantry, which arrived here laft Week, with Major Gladwin, embarked this Morning by Sun rife, on board Battoes for Niagara : the Mzjor went on board the Anfon. A Party of Men are 1o follow Sir Wiilliam to Detroit. Befides the An- fon, we have ansther Schooner and Sloop belonging to this Garrifon.” Lalt Week one Jeremiah Dexter of Walpole wis Convicted at the Court of Aflize, &c. held here, of ut- tering two Counterfeit Dollars, for which he received the following Sentence on Saturday laft, viz. To ftand jn the Piillory one Hour, to pay a Fire of Twenty- Pounds, and to be bound to his good Behaviour. Itis ftrangly fu/pefted that he was concerned in forging them, but the Evidence wasnot fufficient to fatisfy the Jury of his Guilt, and fo they scquitted him of that Part of the Inditment. We hear thata Veflel is arrived at Halifax in 6 Weeks and 2 Days from London ; and that fhe bro’t Advice, That there were the greateft Preparations mak- ing in England, for another very important Expedition. That M. Bufly, who it is faid was fent from France to Eungland, to negaciate 3 Ceflation of Arms, had not fuc- cecded in his Expe@aiions, but was retorned to Paris = That there was greac Profpedt of the War flill con- tinuing. T'he Peace and Plenty, Captain Peake, from London to Bofton, is taken by the Ruby Privateer of Bayonne, and carried into Corunna. Yefterday fail’'d from Nantafket with a fair Wind, for London, his Majefty’s Ship the Chefterfield, with feveral Merchantmen under her Convoy. The Chel- terfield is alfo to Convoy the Maft Ships home: The Province Ship, King George, Capt. Hallowell, fails this Day as Convoy to a Store Ship bound to New- York. A Letter from Gibraltar dated the latter end of May 1761, fays, “We have an Account of a French fixty- « four gun Ship from China being taken by two of our « Frigates and carried into Oporto loagded richly with ¢« China Goods.” Lift of Captures iately carried into Martineco. Vefels. Captains Names, where from. Sloop, Auldboy, New-York. Ditto, Eddy, Philadelphiar Schoaner, Junkins, Halifax, Brig. Lewis, Bofton. Sloop, Roach, Cork. s Ditto, Giles, Philadelphia, Brig. Fofter, Cape Anne. ) r I i . [l f. ’ \ i