The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, January 22, 1762, Page 2

Eleazer Ruffell, Elg; - * Major Jon. Moulton, Efq; -Col. Jofeph Smith, Efq; ~ § Major Jofeph Bianch- POR S M. OO0 T W The following Gentlemen were re- turned asMembers to ferve inGE- ‘NERAL ASSEMBLY, which wis -conven'd here the 1gth Inft. viz. Henry Sherburne, Efg; PORTS. Mr. Andrew Clarkfon, MOUTH. Capt. Thomas Wk. Waldron, Capt. Howard ‘Henderfon, o i Hamp- § Mr. Chritopher Toppan. | som. * Col. Mcthech Weare,Efq; -HemptonFalls, Col. Peter Gilman, Efq; G Exet Mr. Zebulon Giddings, o § Capt. George Froft, \ Newcafle § Richard Jennes, 3d Efqs } and Rye.. Mr. Benjamin Stevens, KingRon. § Maj. Richard Downing,Elq; Newington. § Andrew Wiggins, Efq; Stratbam. ‘* Col. Samuel Barr, Efq; -Bondonderry. Col. Clement March, Efq; Greenland. Major Jofeph Smith, Efg; Durbam. Newmarket. : e Southampton. § Capt. Jon. Carlton, Plaflow 8& Hampflead § Lieut. Jofeph Wright, Salem & Pelbam. Capt. John Wentworth, Somer [fworth. Hollis & Dunfiable. Merrimack and e s B ard, Efq; Monfon. § Lieut. Samuel Roby, Chefter. L#tchfield and § Capt. Samuel Greely, ] Natc/zf ;. ”izf' All thofe with this § Mark are new Members. Thofe with this* Mark were not of the Jaft Affembly. e s s e ) o Frimie LONDON GAZETTE. At the Council Chamber, Whiteball, the 171k Day of Oliober, 1761. PRESENT,. "The Lords of His Majefty’s moft Hon. Privy Council. ,Hls Majefty having been gracioufly pleaf- ed to deliver the Privy Seal to Wil- - Jiam Sharpe and Jeremiah Dyfon, Efgrs. whom his Majelty by Letters patent un- der the Great Seal of Great Britain, hath conftituted Commiffioners - for executing the Office of Keeper of the Privy Seal, they this Day took the ufual Oaths, as Com- mifTioners for the Cuftody of the Privy Seal, L.O N D O:N, 0# 29, Saturday Sir James Hodges, town clerk, waited on the Right Hon. William PITT, "Elq; at Hayes, with the addrefs of thanks from this city, for the many important fer- vices he had done the nation, during the time of his holding the place of fecretary of sTaTE 3 to which Mr. Pitt returned an obliging anfwer, which is to be reported next court-day, The refignation of a late minifter, who “hath fo ably and fo fuccefsfully managed .the expenfive war in which we are en- -gaged, before that war is concluded, filis every one with aftonifhment, Various reafons are affigned for it : but 4//think the minifter had a&ted more confiftent with the high charaer he has for fome years {o well fupported, had he rgfufe® the reward till he had compleated his work. Anmong other anecdotes relative to the late. re- .- fignation, the following is m=niioned : that Mr. Pitt, .after coming out of the K ...’s clofet, and leaving the feals behind him, thould have faid, That he aloways ¢ had the greateft opinion of the K....’s head and ¢ heart, but that he never knew him fhine more ¢ than in what had pffed between them. " The Money that arofe from the Sale of the Bays and platform, that was ufed for the praceflion of the Coronation, has been divided in propertionate fhares _between sl the guards that .were on duty ; the fhare of each private man was two fhillings and feven pence half pzany. : “Extrat of a Letter from Pariz, O&. . | EBHASE NE XS BB RE RS S R ¢ Since M. de Buffy’sreturn, [everal Coun- cils"bave been beld, at the rifing of which couriers were fent to different foreign cotrts, particularly toVienna and Madrid : but tbe Jubject of tbeir difpatches is kept fecret. Mean while it is afferted with confidence, that the Catholic King is fincerely drfpofed to join bis marine forces with ours, to veconquer the ‘colonies which the Fuglifb bave taken from us, and to alarm their coafis. It is in. con- fequence of this, that the artificers are work- ing with the utmoff diligence in all the dock yards of Spain; and tho’ their marine be on a good fooling, we are affured that bis Catholic Majefly is megotiating at Stockbolm for the purchaje or loan of fixteen Swedifb Jhips of war. ¢ The prefidens Ogier, in bis laft letters, alfo gives bopes of obtaining near the fame number from the court of Copenbagen ; [o that we may flatter ourfelves, that we fhall be able mext [pring not only to make bead againft the Englifb by fea, but alfo to execute the projéle that bas been long on the carpet, ef making a defcent in Scotland. “ A vaft number cf copies of the account of the late negotiation, are printing at the Louvre, to fend to ail the courts of Europe, to fhew the bard terms England wWanted to impofe on us.” L, PHILADELPH I A, De 3¢ Some Letters from Loadonderry, dated absout the End of Ottobér, mention the Report of a Spanith War being over, : _ NEWY OR K, Deceinier 7. : The Seveil:y of the Weather about Ten Days agn, occafirned fuch great Quancities of Ice, to be driving in oar Harbour and Hay, as to give graat In- tesruption to the Navigadon., “His Majelty’s Ship the Rochefter, Capt. Burnét, was in Danger, but being well provided, received lit.le 6r no Damage. Wednelday, Thurlday, Friday, snd Saturday laft, the Weather was very warm, clofe and foggy, atten- ded with rzin, fleet and (now, at Times, which in great Part removed the Interruption ; fo that we are in hopes the Rochefter, who now lays near Staten Ifland, ac the Watering Place, waiting for s fair Wind to lail for the Weft Indies, with nine Sail of T'ran{- ports, loaded with Provifions, & one Ordnance Ship will foon'depart, NEWHAVEN, Juuary o. We hear from Derby, that on Thurldsy, the 3ift of December laft, tize roof of the dwelling houfe of Daniel Todd, of that place, was burft off by the ex- plofion of & quantity of gun powder, that was in the houfe ; the powder was lighted by a coal of firethat fell from a pipe that a ycung woman was {moking : ....the young woman is much wounded by the acci- dent, bur itis thought may recover. NEW-LONDON, Jauary 8. Capt. Hinmsn from St Croix informs, thac about the beginning «f December laft, in the night, a num- ber ¢ f Negroes, fuppofed about a hundred, having fome [mall arms with them, took poffeflion of a fchooner belonging to St. Croix, and (teered for Posto Rico; butbeing purfued by three armed veflels,ome ot them came vp with them, when the Negroes de- fenced them'elves very obftinately for a confiderable time, but finding they were likely to be overpower’d, they threw the Captain of the ichoon:r over board, and chen the whole of them followed, except fix, who were carried back and put to death. Saturduy laft Capt. Rogersarrived here in 20 deys from St. Croix, apd informs, that three deys bzfore he left that port, Capt. Anfon, in & piivacer {acp { who filed from New York with the fleet ) ar- rived there, in 12 days paflage, having left the fl.et three days before, in health and high {pirite. Capt. Aoftin, in a floop of 20 tons, from Bofton, was arrived at St. Croix in 16days....Cept. Phillips in a brig from Rofton was arrived at St. Euftatius. HALIFAX, in Nova Scotia, Jan: 7. By an Exprefs from Fort Cumberiand we lesrn, that the Ship Hutton, Capiain Bepjamin Hillowell, belonging to Hull, but freighted from London for Quazbec, was loft in a violent ftoym on the 16th of November 1aft, on a [indy iflind at the mouth of the river Merimichi, on the gulph of St. Lawrence ; the Captain and all the crew except the Mate, were loft. Providentslly for the Mate, fome Frengh people, who were ftopt there by the badnefs of the weather, relieved him ; he was jult gone when tirey pick’d him up, but is now in a fair way of recovery. Tuefday lait arrived here Capt. Phips in 3 days from Louifbourg, by whom we have an account ot s cartel fhip being loft nesr Cape Noir, bourd from Quebec for Old France, withazo men on board, of which only the Captain and 6 Frenchmen were faved. PO R FiB M O U T H: ~&mft Tuelday came to Town from Bofton, the Honorable JOHN TEMPLE, Efq; Licutenant GOVERNOR of thisProvirce: He was met at the Province Line, by His EXCELLENCY’s Troop of Life Guard, who efcorted him to the Seat of His Ex- cellency our GOVERNOR, when his Commiffion was read at the Council Cham- ber, and took theOaths accordingly. B O ST O N. January18. Extrad of a Letter from a Gentleman at Newpart, to bis Friend bere. ¢ We have Letters from Capt. Simmots, dated St. Croix,who writes ug, trat he was taken in sCalm by the Bosts of two DutchSloops fromPort su Prince bourd to Curacoa ; who in » piretical Manner ftrip- ed him and his People of a!l his Clothes,Chefte, BcS« ding, &c. Afier taking the Maiter and all his People ott, fent the Veflel to Port au Prince for Candem- nation, which they told him they would not have ddne, if they liv’d there, or he had not belonged to the Englifh.” On the 25 of Décember laft,about 6 o’clock in the morning, came on fhore, at Setaaket South, Suffolk County, Long Iland, the Snow Nancy, Woodbury Morris, mafter, belonging to Rhode Ifland, loaded with Rum, Sugar, Molaffes, & Coffece. The veffel is ehtirely loft, and only about 20 or 30 cafk of Rum and Molafles faved.” The Captain and five of the Men cate on Shore slive ; but the Mate and four ‘of the People were drowned, : " Laft Tuaelday was difcovored in opening a hollow Place under a Roof jetting from the Chimney of & Houfe in this Tpwn, a prodigicus Number of Bees, with a vaft Quentity ol Honey and Honey Comb; new and old, of which was taken out, near a 100 pound Weight, and ’tis fuppofed was not sbove s Third of what was lett behind when they covered the Place.— By the appearance of fonie of theComb, which was dark and dry, “iis concluded that thefe Infects had occupied this Appartment for & grest Number of Years. Port of BOSTON, Jsouary 15, / Entered In. : Freeman from Gibraltar. _Steward from St. Chril- tophets. Phillips from No. Caroline. Shiverick from Philadelphia. Cleared Out, Chad well for Guadaloupe. Nickelsfor Maryland. Haitch, Parker, Gorhem, Bill, and Crocker for No. Caroling. Nick:ls for Halifax and Lovifbourg. -Newell for Lifbon. Orr for Glafgow. Snow, and Connell for Weft Indies. Bray for St. Chriftophers. Ingerfol for Halifax. Brown for Jamaica. o ) e Ao e A CUSTOM HOUSE, Pifcutaqua, January 21. Entered Inwards nonme, ' Cleared Outwards, Biig Hanrah, Nathaniel Kent, for Guadaloupe. Brig Charlotte, John Bartlet, for Bsrbados. Brig Antilope, John Tarbox, for Guadaioupe: .. Schoorer Charming Molly, E. Grow, tor Virginis. Sloop Charming Michsll, Sterling’s Fancy, Themas Baker, for Guadsloupe. Brig Narcifla, Samuel Frofi, for Barbados. AN ODE writtenon NEW. YEAR'sDAY. THE fetting Year in Shades of Night, ‘A Has hid its Head from Mortals Sight, And like a Dream is fled Paft Soys or Griefs, whofe Pow’rs cantroul And drive with rapid Sway the Soul, Are mingled with the Dead. Lo ! a New Year with dawning Ray, Its blufhing Face does now difplay 3 Propitious may it fhine / If Health, if Peace, if Competence Their balmy Bleflings ftill difpenfe, Each earthly blifs is thipe. As Summer Winter, Winter Spring, And Spring the Summer on does bring, So rolls the Round of Life : The Zear’s Viciffitudes difplay ( Jutt Emblems of the human Day ) A pleafing anxious Strife. ‘Who knows if over-ruling Fate, Another Year’s protracted Date May for thy Life prepare ? Then ule the prefent, while you can, Its fleeting Moments wifely fcan, Nor truflt a future 2ear.