The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, April 30, 1762, Page 1

TS ot i - FRIDAY, Aran fo. 1762 [ THE Containing the Frefbeft 'fl'dvice::‘, : GUADALOUPE, Fasgary 11. 1762. 9o His Extellency Carsenert DaLrymeir, Efg;. Brigaditr-General of His Majefly's Forces, Gover - ‘sor Genoralsf the Iflarnds of Gusdaloupe and it's De-~ pendencies, and Commander in Chief of all HisMajefly's Lroops in the faid Ifland, &e. Tz, May flé pleaje Your Exceliency, W Bafleterre in Gaudeloups, waif-upon you, to ¥ exprefs the grateful fenfe that we entereain : of the generous declarstiop . mads to (us in your late Speech.- it i 14 f Werefleft with pleafure on the endeavours that you exerted for the fervice of this Colony,evenbefore you faw it ; and tho’ thofe endeayoursmet not with the fuccefs yan wifh'd, they have, si lesft, sfforded your xcellency the greater opportunity of manifelting your humanity snd love of juftice. ' . We joftly scknowledge that your Bxcellency has plann’d your conduét gn the rules of equity, and go-' vern'd us,(as near as the circumiftences. of the Colony yould permitjupon the principles of the Britifh con- &?ution; and tho' national honour, (engaged to keep theCipirulation inviolate)would notallow theEnglifh forms of juftice, yet we have not been difsppointed in Qur hopes of enjoying the (ubftance of it. % . The Ordinance publifh'd for the prevention of im- pofition and fraud in planter’s payments ;.... Y our en- deayors in copncil to remove the delays of juftice,and to fupply end smend either the defeft or sbufe of Law in the%‘unch courts, even at the ri‘que of the efteem of the members of the cquacil ;....Your cere in for- ming dackets to prévent all exaltions upon trade in the public offices ;... Your offer to encoursge any proper plan that we fhould lay before you, for the beuer regitlation and promoting of trade ; are all eminent and indubitable Proofs of yaur Excellency's attention to our commercial interea.‘ At the fame time that we return our thanks for thefe provifions made and intended for 'increafe and Tecurity ‘of our property, p.smitus,’ with equal gra- titude to declare, that, under your Excellency’'s mild and gentle adminiftration, we live in the full epjoy- mients of our liberties; and tho’ unreftrained by Law and by the eftablilhment of a civil jurifdi@ion, your Excellency remembers thatyou are » Briton, and that we are mea born and educated to freedom. ‘We cannot hilpon this occafion to declare our fiacereft atachment to your Perfon and government, &.to return you our thanks for the good epinion you have'expreflzd of our prudence and harmony, sad hope we [hall at all tipes deferve your Excellency’s ipi_fp‘onion. LT AL ety B T A S 2 “From the experience of your Excellency’s paft ad- tniniltfation, we have the beft grounded confidence, that we fhall coniimie to be happy uvder your go- vernment, and therelore canrioc but esrneltly with thae his Majefty’s gocd pleafure may prolongit to you, ’ull your ewn requelt fhall put a period ¢o it, His EXCELLENCY's AnSwes, , Gentlemen, fa i Return the Merghants end Inhabitants of Baffe- terre my molt pariicular thanks for this very obli- ging addréfa, and beg they muy be affared,’ that my suthority and aitention fhall be conftznily exerted for the encoursgemént and fupport of trade ...that therefore, cvea in our uncertein Rate, théy may pro- cesd with all poflidle vigour] ablerving only to fix their times of payment at the proper times, or at the yelticaiion of che [fland ; which will fecure them a- g#init cvery eventthat msy happen, and enable me toeflit them' withou: any acts that may look like in- jultice. v A3 Britith fubjeQls, they may depend upon sll the {ifery and freedom, which the Spirit of our laws, withaiit the eRtablifhment of them, can infpire ; be- ing too muth a friend to liberty to ufe the power which car Critical fituation hath thiown into my hesids, otherwile than for the fecyrity and protedlion o hishdajelty’s faithful fubje@ts entrufted to my care. oG N RO [ennRry. 2 The King of Spain thiestned to invade Portugal with 30 or 40,000 men; ¢ His Cathalic Msjeity ¢ “hed grdered his fmbaflador ar Lifbon, to’ demand a cutegorical anfwer from his moft faithful Majefty, -what part be would take in cafe.of a rapture hesween Britain and Spain : His Partugueze M:jefty had anfwered, it was a queftion of o much importance, that he could not well determine in lefs than fe- ven monthd 5 whereupon ‘the Spanifh minifter tald tbe king, that his mafter had ordered bim fo fig- ““ ' ot . -6 & - “.aify to his Majeft the Bricith Merchants and Inhabitsats of- New-Hampfhirejg e , thatif he did not give an ex- ¢¢ plicit anfwer to Zir demands in four hours, he “‘ had 40,000 men on the frontiers ready toenter the * kingdom of Portugal’; but that in cefe hé fhould ¢ teke part with Spain, then he ‘and his- fubjects ¢ fhould meet with every kind of indulgence and «« affiltance that & gaod “friend and alfy could give.” What refolution his Portuguefe msjefty came to ‘up- on this exursordinary declaration; we dont learn. .. Fromibe lntéf London Prints, Ebey write froin Peterfbure, that the’ Hofpital had been reduced to sfhes; and that'a grest Number of . Perfons muft have perithed in the Plémes, as moft of the fick frem the Ruffisn' Flcet were in it. The Waterman’s Compsny have alotted about §00 Apprentices to ferve on board hisMsjefty’s fleet. Frefh Orders are given for compleating the feveral new Regiments now raifing, for which Purpole lar- ger Bounties are given than ever was known -in the Memory of Man;: Cuarces-Town, SouTh Carorina, Maich 4. We hear thet his excellency the Governor, has prefented a very handfome fervice of plate for the ule of the parith chyrch of St. Michael: And that & {ubfcription’ is now on foot for purchafing in En- gland a fet of ci‘ght%’l}lt, sad an organ for the f{aid church. oy 5 . b His Excelleccy ph Governor, we hear, made a very handlome prekept for the ufe of St. Phillips pe he gave the fervice of St church at the {sme’ti Michael's, & : We hesr that Admirsl Rodney bad difpatched 6 fhips of the line & a bomb, to take poffeffion of the Grenades. ; ; The Eccho frigete, mentioned in a former paper, to be taken 3 days after the reduttion of Martineco, was cruifing off St. Evftatia the 26th of February ; fo thztu_cconnbgfmnjt-be 1 VR BRI R Dl Although the fkirmifhes between theCreckIndizns end Spanisrds have hitherto been but trifling, yet their differences insy foon become ferious ; a8 we hear g of the fotmer have been lately killed ; snd that large parties are going from the lower towns to tike fatisfation of the Spaniards, : From Ninety fix of the 27th nlt. we learn, that new feitlers are daily conting in there.../That the - Little Carpenter had in earneft fet about colle&ing the Engliih prifoners in the Cherokee nation : That A4 Cherokees' had come down with one of them ss tar as Amefia townthip, and were waiting for the Liule Carpenter, who is expe&ted there mext week, with 30 niore, being all that were willing'to' quit the Indizn country.. i e . The veflels that were feized st Teneriffe in the month of Japaary laft, were'reftored to the mafters ; but not their cargoes, they being firft sppraifed, and. fecurity given for their value being paid in cafe war then was; or thereafter fhould be declared between Grest Britsin and Spain. ey . Although it is neither expedient or prallicable to comply with his Majefty’s. former 1equifiticn here, from the fitustion and circumftances this province is in, yet the Hon. CommonsiHoufe of Afleimbly yef- terday voted the fum of 10,5001. to_be spplied in fuch manncras his excellency the Governor fhall think proper, towards raifing the quou of recruits (268 men) demanded for ‘compleaiing the Britith regimentsin Americs.,..The General aflembly have refalved to continue two ef the four companies of rangers for three months longer'; and to provide for | repsiring’ or rebuilding fort Moore. : ik . The fcaoner New Providence Packer, Capt John Cuder, is loft oh the Booby Rocks. D ” By letters from Willismfbarg, in Virginia, we learn T'hat their regiment was' to be difbanded, on the lieutenant governor’s receiving an suthentic notifica- tion of a peace being concluded with the Cherckees. Conocatocko, or the Standing Twkey, hsd 'been in the Virginia camp, and scqueinted the commending officer with the drticles of pesce ; and'fent down a belt of white wetnpum to lieut. governor Fauquier, {n confirmation of i ; The Standing Tutkey, has alfo, by. en additiondl sriicle, entered into with' Co). Stevens, included the Tulcaroro’s in the treaty. Se- veral Cherokees were at Willismfburg, mskiog pro- feflions . of peace, and esrnefltly folliciiidg u trade, which was reftrained till -intelligence was received from this quarter. The reportfrom thence of ' the Cherokees being either outrageous ‘or infolent, which Was cizculated here, was abloluely ‘groundlefs. - * - Foreign and Dmej?mfi, . [ Week s fiace this PA'r'x'\‘u; { was firft Publith'd. ’ We hear from Halifex that his Ma-jefiy‘) Sfl.'p. Chelterficld was arrived there from New York, wha on her Paffage met with his Majeity’s Ship Emer- " prize, which was boond to. New'York, with Difs patches for Genersl Ambherft, snd having D}_fpnghenj': b alfo for Lord Colvill, the Chefterfield ‘darried 'them ' to Halifax : That the Men of War in that Harbeur” confifting of two Ships of the Line snd twoFrigates, _were getting ready for theSea : It was rcpopted there, that a-large Fleet’ was é¢xpe&ted (com ffomm Bégland. . ‘Capt. Mackey in 8 Snow belonging to this Place, way arrived at Halifex from Losidon. aftér ‘g iedicus Paffage of +6 Weeks tnd 4 Days....He is hourly ex- pected here from Halifax.. .~ ¢ " On Tuefday laff arrived bere. Captain’ Mitchel from Gibraftar, who informs, That in tonfiquence of fome difpatches receiv'd on the 12th of Fanuary by la Brane frigate, in 16 days from Plymoyth, dimiral Saanders's [quadron was got in readinefs 30 put to [ea at g mement’s warning, and Jailed the 20th : That when theé Britife’ viffels in the Spanifo ports were foized, , if was faid, even the books and accompts of themerchants eoere Faken Jrom them . that be faw at Gibraltar .a copy of & -moft infolent Spanifb manifeflo : That the Danae frigate bad been fired at from the Spanifb lines : And that o the 1ff of March, in lat. 28, lin., 45 W. frim the Lizard, be fpoke with bis Majefly's ij Squirrel, going svith difpatches from Admiral Saunders to Quebes 3 which fbip bad orders to take, fink, bury and defivey alf Spanifb property. He knows nothing of aBritifp fleap af war's arrival at Gibraltar from Lifbon, nor does bé fay that the bombs and fire (bips- which joined Admiral Saunders, were allthat bad been fent from Britain that, tvay this war. . e i e T We bear that the Spanifk Indians who ufed to commit borrid barbaritirs on the unbappy , wretchés that swere caft away on' the Florida [bore, fince they bave beew :;W, baunted by the Cretks,are all remowved to the ifland of Cabd, . That a Providence viffel which lately soent 20 catch turtle on that [bare, fesing 4 party of Indiang (wwbom they mifiook for Floridans, bul were Crecks) fired on them to frtvmt their coming on board, bur the Andians retirned the fire, killed teoe valunble negroes,: woanded the Captain, one Anthony Kemp, i% the thigh, and kis brother mortally. fevndtag R - - - e - o i ot s : Halifa¥, in Neva Svotia, March t¥. : We hear from Falmouth in King’s County, thst Intely & Cow belonging to Cspt. Stoddard of thag Town, brought forth three Calves all slive and well. We are alfo informed that in moft of the Towns, fituate on the Bay of Fundy, the Cows produce 2 Calves, and the Sheep feldom lefs than two Lambs sg once, fo that Experience teaches us, that thisPravince is no lefs remarkable for its Fecundity in the Produc tion of Vegetables, than it is furprizingly prolifick in the Increale of ufeful Animals. =~~~ =~ - nd) Feb. 18. Fartnight ago;’ ANNAPOLTS, (Msrylind The Boat which we memione? to berun afhore at the Clifts, provesto be the faime &s wad {uppos’d : There were cight Perfons in her, of which one Woman, (the Wife of Henry Baldwain) and three of her Children, perithed. = A few Dayg after, when & number of people went to get off the Boat, which was near and juit under a high Clifs; one of them call’d out to the reft, and told them he heard & Crack in the Clift, on which they haftily left her, & had but juflt got sway when alarge Body of it fuppos’d to be about 40,000 Weight,fell, & (mafh'd the Bost to Piecessbut none of thePeople were hurt. Mareh 4, Late on Tuelday Night laft Week, or rather on Wednefday Morning, - it being very datk; a3 Daniel Wheeler, Overleer of Mrs. Wootton’s Plan- tation, was going from s Tavern, hemifs’d hisWay; and fell down Head foremoft into &8 dread{ul Gully there, where it is about 25 Feet slmof} perpendicujer, and never Rirred after. %-le was & &idovycr, and has left T'en Children, § TR it _ . April 1. Tuefday Night laft we had & Thunder Gult, uncommon at this Seafon : On the North Side of Severn the Lighining killed 2 Bull. = : " Laft Week an Overfeer at & Quarter of Mr.. Ni- ¢bolas Dorjey’s, on. Patapico, in this County, gave one of the Negro Men under his Care, fuch en bp- merciful and barbarous Flagellation, that the poor Fellow died foon after ; and the Overieer has fince madgofiy - el gl 41 3 PHILADELPHTA, Apil 15. , His Majelty’s Ship the T'weed, Capt. Pafton, has taken a French Privatees, called the Duke de Ayen,