The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, November 13, 1761, Page 2

5. To'the Champion, & _high bowl and cover, $finely chafed and ' gilt, of 36 cz, 6. To the Duke of Norfolk, as Chief Butler of England for the Day, & cup of pure gold of 32 oz. 7. To the Lord Great Chambelain, as™ Chief Officer of the Ewry, two large gilt bafons, and one Jarge gilt ewer. The Archbifhop claims, as his fee, the purple vel- vet chair, cufhing axd foot-ftocl, whereon the King fits at the coronation. The officers of the removing wardrobe alfo claim, as their fee, the pall of cloth of gold over the King at the coronation, Dr. Drummond, Bithop.of St. Afaph, will preach the coronstion fermon. ; Auguf 27. The feaffold in St. Margaret’s church yard, to fee the coronation, is raifed fixceen feets one sbove another, and [ome of the old houfes have above two or three edditional ftories clapt on the tops of them. Why thould they fop here, when there is fo much room between that snd the ‘fky, to build higher ; and the highér they go, the purer the air; and, with the help of good telefcopes, they might be sble to fee the proceflion in & fair day,es plain as they did the Trranfit of Venus over the Sun. We hear that there are -fome artificial trees made to decorate the grand defett for the Coronation, up- wards of ten feet high: o Thereis ereted over Weltminilter hall 2 refervoir, which is filled full of water, and contirved in fuch 2 manner, s to be of infinite fervice in cale of any accident of fire'at the approaching grand coronation. ANNAPOLOS, is Maryland, Odober 1. We are told, that on the 20th of Sept. the Day which the Captain of the Convay bad peremptorily fixed for the Sailing of our Fieet, there were orly about 30 Sail Srom Virginia and Maryland, which were ready to (ail with bim = But by the Wind's bolding Eaflerly about three Weeks. which prevented bis Sailing, and favour'd the other Ships in getting dowun, there eere collelied, ‘ready for [ailing under bis Protefion, One Hundred and Fourteen, on the 6th Inflant, and it is fappofed they fail'd ox the 7th. Tbe follrwing is an Account of what Number of the Fleot are boand to different Ports under Convey of His Majefty's Ship the Aflikance Man of War, Captain Norton, of 50 Guns, and Poltilion Frigate, Captain Dalrymple, of 20 Guns. Three Merchantmen of Force, Part of the Fleet, bad Orders to fail on the Starbsard Side of the Fleet with their Pendants, and Three on the Larboard, the ref?, beiug 108, in the Centre. ‘Bound for London 57 { Hull 1 Briftol 1t I Leith I Liverpool 8 t Lifbon Whitehaven 6 T Weft Indies Glafgow T Fifty fix of the above Fleet are Veffels of Furce, from " 40 t0 20 Gurs, befides their Convoy ; in the whole 854 Guns. H ALIF A X, in Nova Scotis, O&ober %5 Laft Friday arrived her the Ship Hopewell, of Londaonderry, by whom came upwards 200 Perfons, for the Settlement of this Province,with Col. Alexan- der McNutt, who we are informed has contracted for 10,000 Toons of thipping, 5000 bufhels of Wheat, 5000 buthels of Barley, 5000 buthels of Potatoes, 3000 buthels of Flaxfeed, 300 buthels of Hemp Seed ; with other Seeds in proportion, for the Ufe of the Irifh fettlersin Nova Scotia, the enfuing Spring. The Paflengers arrived here in good Health, and & con- fiderable number of them will procced to morrow with Col. McNatt to view and examine theCountry, PHILADELPHIA, O&ober zg. Capt. Davidlon, of the fchooner lately retaken, and fent in here by Capt. Katter, who was on board the French privateer when he engaged her, inforins, that the Frenchman had twenty-two men killed out right, and a grear many wounded, nine of which died of their wounds, On Tuelday lsft arrived here Capt. Jov from An: tigug, with whom came lenger Capt.Yorke, who was taken in the floop Wolle, of this porr, bound to ‘Guadaloupe, by aFrench Privateer floopof 10 guns ; which had alfo taken Capt. Forret, of New Yoik, and Capt. Webb, ofNew- London ; the laft ranfom’d for fifteen hundred dollars, having loft his mainmaft, and very leaky.---The floop had a fmart engage- ment with a letter of marque thip and was beat off; during which one of her guns was burft by a fhot from the fhip, and killed feveral of her men; apd afterwards was obliged to throw overbeard sl her guns but two, in a gale of wind....WhilcCspt.Yorkc was on board the enemy, they fpoke with another ¥rench Privateer that had taken feveral prizes. E W.Y OR K, Navember 2 On Monday laft the commiflion from his Majefty, appeinting his Excellency Major General ROBER T' MONCKTOR, Captsin General and Governor in Chief in and over the province of New-York, and erritories thereon depending in Americs, was pub- ‘lithed at the City Hall, with the ufual folemnity ; on ‘which occafion his Excellency was attended by the Lieutenant Governor;, His Miajefty’s ‘Council, the . Gentlemen of the Clergy, the Gentlemen of the Cor- iporation, the Sheriff wich his proper Officers, and the 1 23 City Militia under srms: A confiderablen ber of Officers of the Army and other Gentlemen o ftinc- tion sccompanied the proceffion. At right the city was handlomely illuminated. Staten Ifland, 26th Oftober, 1761. The ceremony of invefing Sir JEFFERY AM.- -HERST, with the moft honourable Order of the Bath, was performed yefterday in camp, he having concerted with Major General MONCKTON, (uch -manner of its being performed, 4 the prefent fervice would sllow of. His Excellency MajorGeneral Monckton, Governor -of New York, and feveral Officers of the Army be- ing prefent, Msjor Geners! Monckton firft resd Mr. -Secretary P1Tr’s Letter, as follows; , SIR. Whitehall, July 17. 1761. e« IS Majefty kaving been gracioufly pleafed, as H » Mark of his Royal Approbation, of the ‘many and eminent Services of Maj. Gen. AMHERST, to nominate him to be-One of the Knights Com pani- <ons of the moft Honourable Order of the Bath ; and it being neceflary that he fhould be invefted with:the Enfigns of the faid Qrder, which sre tranfmitted to him by this Opportunity ; I am to‘fignify to¥ou the ‘King’s pleafure, that You fhould perform that'Cere- mony ; and it being His Majefty’sIntention, that the fame be done in the moft honourable & diftinguifthed Manner that Circumftances will sllow of, You will concert and adjuft withGeneralAmuersT, fuchTime andManner, for invefting him with theEnfigns of the Order of the Bath, as (h.il appear toYou moft proper for fhewing all dus refpect to the King’s Order, and #s muy, at the fame time, mark in the moft publick Manner, HisMajefty’s juftSenfe of the conftantZeal, and fignsl Abilities, which General AMuERST has -exerted in the Service of His King and Country. I am, &c. W. PITT.” Honourable Robert. Monckton.” Mijor Genersl Monckton then proceeded to put the ‘Ribbon over Sir Feffry Anberf’s Shoulder, msking an Apology, that Circumftences would not admit of a more formal InveRiture. Sir Jeffery Amberff, upon recsiving this Order, addrefled himfelf to Major GeneralMonckton in the following Terms: SIR Am truly {enfible of this diftinguithing Mark of I his Majefty’s Royal Approbation of myCondud, and fhall ever efteem it as fuch ; and I muft beg leave toexprels to yon the peculiar {atisfaction I have, and the Pleafure it gives me, to receive this Mausk of Favour from your Hands. The Corporation prefented His Excellency the Ho- woxrable Robert Monchtsn with the Freedom of this City, the Seal of which was enclofed in a Gald Box. They write from Vigo in Portugal, That His Ma- Jefiy’s Ship Blonde, Captain Kennedy ( Son of the Hon. Archibald Kennedy, Efg; of this City) bas retaken the Penclopen, Allen, from Famaica to Gibraltar, and carried ber in there, B O S T O N, November o. The Great and General Court of this Province,are to meet here on Wednelday next. Lait Sstarday fe’nnight three Men on Horleback attacked apon theHighway,in theCounty ot Worcefter three Men, at different Places, travelling fingly s de- manding them to deliver theirMoncy,threatning their Lives in cafe of Refufal: The firlt who was affaulted fo overpowered his Antagonifts as to knack down two of them, and efcape from the third.... The two others the Highwaymen came up with, and robbed them of their Money and other Things and then went off ... But being purfued that Night, they were spprehended the next morning when at Breskfaft, at a Houfe in Holden, and committed to Worcefter Gosl....They ga{y they came from Old England, butlaft from New- ork. Laft Wedne(day a veffol arrived at Rhode Ifland from Philsdelphis, the‘mafter of which, we hear, reported : That a day or two before he arrived, he {poke with a veflel in 6 weeks from Scotland, bound toa New York, the mafter of which informed him that the KING of Pruffia had obtsined a VICTORY over the Auftrians. We hear from Milton, That laft Thur{day Evening 23 Mr. Nathaniel Arnold, belonging to Chasleftown, was ftanding near the Wheel of the Snuff Mill in that Place, 1 of the Coggs catch’dHold of hisCloaths, which drew him under, and kill'd him inftantly. A letter from Newport mentions, that a Veflel bound from thence to the Weft Indies was taken by s New Providence Privatcer and carried into that Port ; where after being detained fome Time, the was at laft permitted to proceed on her Voysge ; from which we are encoursg’d to thik that there now begins to be a Free Trade to the Weit Indies, not- with{tanding our good Friends at Providence: We hear from Scituste, that laft Monday ina fnow ftorm two floops were drote athore and loft, but the peoples lives were faved; ane of the floops belongs to Salem, having her mainfail lower'd to two racks, a fpring like a whirlwind, runup the mainfail t6 the head of the mag, blew it from the racks into the water over the ftern, which they dragged fome'hours, When another Spring of wind blew it ont of the fes, on board sgain. Taey cam? cut in company with five (ail from the Eaftward, two arrived fate, and one is yet mifling, which, i’s feared, is founder’d. PO R %8 M O U T5H Laft Tuelday, as a young Man in this Town waa ‘drawing the Charge ont of a Gun which had a Bullet in, it went off and fhot him thro’ his Thigh, and the Bullet went thro’ the ‘Shop; butheisin a fair Way of Recovery. v STRAYED or STOLEN from 1%¢ Orchard of William Parker, Elz; on the 31f80f Oftober laff, a Red Roan HORSE about 14 Hands bigh, branded with an & on the near Shouldey. Who- ever svill return bim there, fhall buve L. 12 OldT énor Reward, and all neceflary Charges paid by W, Parker. e Province oF New Hampsuire: NOTICE is hereby given, to the Propriztors of 2 Tra& of Land granted to Fob# Leavit, Daniel Marflon and others, That their Meet- ing held the 6th of O¢tober laft patt, ftands Adjourned to Tuefday the Seventeenth Day of November next, at the Houle of Capt. 7obn Leavit, Innholder in faid /Parith, st One o’Clock ‘Afternoon, to-adt any Thing that fhall then be thought proper.—— And every delinquent Proprietor, is defired forthwith to pay his Arrears to the ColleCtor, otherwile may expect his Lands will foon be expofed to Sale. i Hampton, Of. 28 Danigr Sameorw, Pro, C1) ) Province oF New-HampsHirz, of WHEREAS at a Mecting the Proprietors of Gilmantows, in faid Province, held at Exeter in faid Province, on the fixth Day of July laft psft, IT was VOTED t6 raife a Tax on esch Original Right, or Proprietot’s Share in faid Town- fhip, which, with what had before been raifed on faid Rights, fhould amount to Eleven Pounds New- Tenor, on each Right. And WHEREAS many of the Owners of the faid Rights or Shares, have been + Delinquent in paying the Taxes raifed on the faid Rights ; THESE are therefore to Notify and Warn alt fuch Delinquents, that they pay their refpedlive, Taxes to me the Sabferiber, Colle@or of the faid Proprietors, in ore Month next enfuing, or they may expel that fo much of each of faid Original Rights 2s will pay the refpe@tive Taxes die on them, will be fold to pay the fame, 4s the Law dire&ts. DavnteL Grant of Exeter, Collettor of Gilmantown. Duted st Exeter, Oftober 142h, 1761. JOSEPH BARRELLI, Has remoo’d from ths STORE of Resyrr Traics) E/q; where be formerly kept, to a Shop in Kingfreet, three Doors below the Poft Ofice, and nearly oppofits Capt. WiLL1aM PrARSON’S, where be bas to Sell, as cheap as can be bought any where in this Town, Iece GOODS, by Wholefale and Retail ;among Pwhich are, Silk and Worfted Petticoats, blackSilk, and Scarlet Cloth-Cardinals, Scarlet and Clath-color’d Short Cloaks. ALSO by Retail, Rum, Sugar; Mo- lafles, Tes, Coffee, Indigo, Loaf and Brown Sugar, Cotton and Sheeps Wool, Pepper, Alfpice, Tobacco - at Nine Shillings by the Single Pound, and chesper by the Hundred. & THOSE who favour him with their Cuftom, may depend on being well ufed A Ay ey Ly eyl Ay ey Amynd e el ALL Perfons Indebted to, or: thst have any Demands on the Eftate of Fsfbua Mitchel, late of New Marke:, Ship-wright, deceas’d, are defired to bring in their Accounts to4//zs Mitchel, Widow, and fole Executrix to the laft Tefament of the faid Deceas’d, in order for Settlement, James Stoodley, Has Removed from the North End of the Town, to his New Houfe, where the other was burnt ; at which Place his good Cuftomers may depend upon being well Uled, and Entertain’d, PROVINCE or NEW.HAMPSHIRE. NOTICE is hereby given, that the New Edition of the LAWS of thig» Province, which has lately been ordered, is finifhed, and to be Sold by the Printer, THE Walking-Watch for the Town of Portfmouth for one Year, ends this Day by Agreement ; and NOTICE is hereby Given to 2il honeft Men, inclining to watch another Yeer, im-~ mediately to make Application therefor to the Select- Men, with cheir Propofals, that the Inhabitants may, * not be injured for want thereof. The Soldiers from this Govern- ment by Inliftments, are to be dilcharg’d next Sundsy, and s it’s not yet known who went from this Tov n laft Campaign, (their Names fhall be in our next) tte Inhabitants are defired to be very careful not only'in receiving their own Friends,but entertaining Soldiqzs - not belonging to this Governmen, By Ordir of tbe - Selels Mes, JOHN PENHALLOW,Town Clerk, \ k)