The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, August 20, 1762, Page 1

- carry on the Wer in the moft effc@ual ‘Manser, till - THE Ccntaini;zg the Frefbeft Advicer, His MAJESTY’s . Moft Gracious SPEECH, 20 bes Houfes of Parliament, June 2, 1761, Iy Lords and Gentlemen, HE Publick Bufinefs, for which you were sfiembled, being mow happily conciuded, the advanced Sesfon of the i this Scffion .of Perliement ; which [ ‘cansot do, without exprefling the highelt Approbe- “tion of the Zze), Uradimity, and Difpaich, which have {o fignally appeared in the Couile of your Pio- " ceedip ceedings.. At the Opening of this Seflion, Iinflormed yau, "'¢hat it hed been my earneft With ca refiore the Blef- of Paace to My People; bat thas it was My fixed - " Refolution, with your Concurrénce snd Su , o shatdefirsble Objeét could be obisined upon equita- ‘ble #nd” honoursbie Conditions.” My Sentiments in both thefe refpeéts contisue inyariably the (ame ; end I have the Satistaclion to find them confirmed by the uaanimous Voice of My, Parlisment, The Declaration, which Motives of Hdfinfiry- "have engaged the Emperor of Ruflia 0 make (o uil Courts in that Alliance, and the great and bappy Change ia the Siiuation of My Ally, the King of Praflia, give Us juft Reefon to hope, thet the other Belligerant Powers may be induced to entertsin the fame pacifick Dilpofitions. On the other Hand, opr . Rupture with Spuin, notwithitanding My utmcf En- deavours 10 prevent it, and the violent and unprovok- ‘ed “A:tack with which the Dominicns of My sacient Ally, the King of Portugal, sre threaned, fufficiently evince the Wildom and" Neceflity of that Fumnefs - and Refolntion in my Pstliament, which have ens- bled Mz to contisue Our Milisary Operations with- out the fesht Interrupiion or Deley ; snd confiders- bly to augmiat My Fleets and Armics in thofe Parts, in which our Enemies csn be moit {enfibly diftreffed. "®he fignal Succels of my Arma. in die Conqueft of Martinico, snd the Acquifition: of many other valua- ble Settlements in the Wel Inflics; have, under the - Bleffiag of God, been the happy Conlequences of thefe Menfures. I trofRt in the Divine Picovidence that they will be sttended with fiil farther Advanta- ges, uhti{ the Powers st Wer with Us (hell be dif- fed 10 fuch Terms of Aecommodstion; a5 the iguity and juft Rights of my Crown, the future Security and commercisl Intercfts of my Subjetls, wili pevmit Meto accept, - Gentiemen of the Houfe of Cornmins, When I confider the emple Supplies which you have grasted, I cannot but lsment the hesvy Burdens which the Neceffiiies: of the. Public Service have ebiiged yoa to.impofeon My People. From this Coanfideration, [ have endesvoured, in every [nftance, to reftvain My Demands within 83 narrow Bouads, g3 the Difficatiies, in which I founa Myfelf involved, would silow. [rom the fame Motive, My utmoft Care (hall be employed 10 exert the moft exs&l Oe- conomy, cenfiftent with the Sstety of My Kingdoms, and the good Faith end Honour of my Crown. I re:urn you my psriiculay Thanks, for the Proof which you have given of your Regerd to me and to my Family, inthe smple Provifion you have made for the Qaeen; " whole Virtues and AffeCtion to this Country, will, I ém confilent, be found (o delerve it. ; My Lordiand Gentlemen, ! I have the fulleft Pesfuafion, that you will continue to diffule in your feveral Conmi;n,_(hn Spi‘r‘ixof Con- cord, which you have yourlelves fo ftzadily excreed in Parlisment : And you may bsaflured, that [ wiil, on my Pars, return your Z:al and Aff:flion for my Peifon and Government, by a conflant Astention to whatever may coatribute to the Esfe of my Subjcéls, and that it is My ardet Wifh, to found the Giories of my Reign on the Union of my Peaple, and on the Wellsre snd Profperity of thele my Kiogdoms. When the Lord Chaecallor, by His MAJESTY’s i Command, {aid 3 My Lords, end Gentlemen, ST is his Blajeity’s Royel ‘Will and Pleafure, thae . & this Parlisment be proregued to- Thurldey the Fifceenth Day of Julynext, to_l:n then here Held; and _this- Parliamens \js. accordingly prorogued to Thar{day the Fitteenth day of July mext. s FIDAY. Aucusr 20, i‘75'.3;, Yesr calls upos me to pus an Ead to B O § T O N, Auguft 16 Yefterday arrived in Nantefice; Road a Brig from St. John’s inNewfoundand, in 20 Days : Sne was bouad to Virginia sad bas on board ebont go Paflen- gers, among whom are feveral Mifters of Vedels and others who had sefufed fo take the Oath of Allcgiance to the Freach: Toey coofirm the Account of the French having ftrengthened that Place, and that they were to lsave 8 gerrifon 0i 600 Men dusipg the Win: , ger 3 That Gapt.: Rofsy the ‘late commundjog Officer there; snd.the Capiain ofihe: Gramont were gone o England, and that o Gartdl was foon to fuil for New. York with 8 Number maore of the. Inhibitants, who are not sllowed to casry off any of theirEffeéts : That ..&he Frenca Troaps.are altfine pick’d Men, snd had , rectuiied ebous z0ofince they had Pofleffion there; _but that the Fleet, confiling of only two Ships of the Linez,a Frigste and & Store-thip, were poorly manged - Thatithe Antilope Man of War of 50Guns, and the. Syren Frigate were &t Placentia ; snd thatthe Frepch were in deily expe@ation of an Englifh Ficet from theContinent.---- The sbove men- tiosed Brig was one of the Fleet from freland with Provifiors, #nd arrived ac St. John's afrer that Place had furrendered and-wus afterwards made a Prefent of to the Genilemen who now commands her, to- gether withmoft ot her Cargo, but tor what Reafon may. perhaps heresiter appear. By twe of the ] amaicaiieeat arrived atPhiladelphia, bug lat from che Havannah, in fourteen Days Paf fage, we have the following Advices, viz. That the sbove memtioned Fleet was detsined there 8 Days, in which Time about 3000 Bags of Cotton were. toker oyt of the difrerent Veflels for the Ule of the Army ¢ That we had two large and frongCampsat that Place ; one to the Esftwsrd, the other to the Weltward of the Havannsh : That ourBatteries were shopt 50 or 60 Yards D.ftance ‘fiom Moore Caltle, end pisyed fo-inceflintly upon it, that its Walls were beat level with the Rock; sad that.the Spaniards hed pot fired sbove 3 ar 4 Cancon from it for 48Hours. That she Enemy had got al] their Seilors and Ships Guns.intgthe Ciille, and were fupplied daily wich 1600 freth Men from: the Towa ; where'it wis faid) there were fome Thoufsnds continually under Arms: Tha: to the- Welt'ward of the Town, a Bittery was ercéied of four 32 Pounders, and two Mortars, in order to pley upon . Caftle calied EL FusrTe, or THE FORT, o the. Weft Side of the Harbour ; and to drive, from her Siation, a ' Frigate that had killed 2 Number of our Seldiers,'as they pifiéd to relieve the differgat Pails ; this Battery "begin playing two Days beiore thele Veflels failed : That the 2bove Batierry likewile commanded the Town, but they had not fired at it, their Orders, it was thought being to the contrary : Thatit was reckoned there were a- bout-1000 Englifh Seilors athore, who were of great Ufe in ferving the Batterics, hawling Canncn, &c. + 'That the Enemy had {unk 5 of their Ships of war'in the Ilarbour, and it wasbelicved there were 4 others ftil remainiag there : That the Waters had not been poiloned as we were informeds That on curArmy’s firk landing and ere@ing a Battery, th¢ Spaniards made u Sally and took that Battery ; but before they had fpiked sny of the Cannon, it was retaken, with the Lois of 200 Enemy ; fiace which they had not fatled again : That defeccers reported,- the Spaniards loft about zo0 Men every Day in the Moore Cafile : Thet.it was fsid our Lofs - was but fmall ; snd that the Army was in bigh Spirits ; thad been pretty well fuppiied with Live Catde, and hed Greens in great Plenty, which muft contribuie greaily to keep the Men hexlthy: That two Days before our Fleee arri. ved, twa Duich Ships got in, laden with Warlike Stores of sll Sorts : That two Spenifh Frigstes hed been funk in'a Harbour, a few Lesgues to Leaward of the Havanneh, which the Englith were weighing ¢ That eur Troops took z Waggons losded withMoney, going from the. Town to the Mountains, where all the Nuns; Priefts snd ufelefs People, had. retired ; And that the Troops from New York, were not sr- rived. Infhort'ic was hoped; that'in g tew Days we. fhauld - be . Pofeffion of the Moore Cufile, but therit maft be taken by Storm, a8 it was imegined .tbe Enemy wolild not liften to soyTerms of Capitu. ladion that might be offczed them ; and which, it rvas fuppofed, migut be put-in Fxecution zbout the 224 or 23d ult, when fix 74 Guns -Ships, we are “told, - had Qrdersto be ready toga iato the Tetbour, if oyr People fucceeded in the'Starm. /... .. We are likewife, informed, thay st one particuler Time, 18 Bombs 5 Nuus. 307 z;p"v‘ o P g ¥ TG o ey Weeks fince this PAP!I‘ ’ { was firlt Publith’d, 3 GAZETTE Foreign and Dosmeftick. were thrawn info, Moore Cslile in th: Space of four or five Minures....And all Accounts sgree, that the Siege was carried on with the greatelt Refolutjos and Bravery ; and that the Place was deiended with equsl F rmpefs and Coursge. In the Prefent very dry Scalog, the woods. and Brufh in the T'own of Braintree, leading toAhbington, have by tome means catched on Fire, and confumed all in it’s courle for near 3 Miles; tho’ we hear of no Buildings being burnt : Ac Plympton sllo the lika has happened, tho’ not [o extenfive, yet the Damage alceady sccriizd s conliderabie :--WeHear ulic trom Brookfizld inthe Coenty of Worcefter, that a Place in that Town a Mile fquere chiefly Wood and Bruth, has been burnisg for above a Week paft, : We hear tha: a Brig, Capt. John Stevens, jun’r) Mafter, belonging to this Place, iounder’d st Sea the z2d of July, on her Peflage home from Jemaical The People were taken up by a Veflel in Company, We hesr from Quebec, ‘that there is greet Like- lihood of fing Crops ot Wheat in Canada this Year g their Crops are in September, It’s tho’t Wheat will be fold and fhipp’d off there for 2s. « Bufhe! French Meaiure, which is fomething larger than our’s. We hesr from New London, that aVeflels is arris ved, who laft: Wednelduy ie’nnight {poke with twaor Pilot Boats off the Capes Deleware, who' informed them that «.fhip from the HAVANNAH, was gone up the River ¢o Philadelphin, and bro’tan Account of that Place having furrendered to the Englifh on the 224 Day of laft Month.....We have feveral other Reports to the fame Purpofe, but fear without founs dation. . ; PORTSMOUTH:: Lift Wednefday was Ordeined to the Paftors? Oflice of the Firft Chutch in Kingfton, the Rev. Mr. Anos Torran : The Rev. Mr, Focc began the public exercife with Prayer,the Rev. Mr.AppLrTON, Presched s Sermon fuitsble to the Occsfion, the Rev. Mr. NowzLL; gave the Cherge, the Rev. Mr. CoFriv, geve the Right Hind of Fellowthip, and the Rev. Mr. Opris mede the lift Prayer,, the whole - folemnity was condufled with grezt Decency. We hear irom Ipfwich, that Col. - Daxie/ Sppleton, of that Place, died there very fuddenly laft Tuelday, CUSTOM HOUSE, P1scATaQua, Avcust 19. : Entered Inwards, Sloop Ranger, Jofish Simpfon, from Chigne&o. - Brig Lyon, William Stickney, from Jamaics, Sloop Fame, Nicholas T'racy, from Grendterre. 8loop Elizabeth, Jofeph Sewall, from Annapolis -Sloop Newport, George Janverin;from Rbode 1{land, Cleared Qutwards, 3 Sloop Sea Flower, Jofish Stone fér Annapolis: Schooner Dolphin, Edward Sargent, for Antigus, Sloop Dolphin, John Gibb for Perth Amboy. Sloop Pompey, Giles Seawsrds, for Montferrat, Sloop Ranger, Jofish Simpfon, for Menis. Sloop Merimack, Mayo Greenlesf, for Halifax. Sloop Charmiag Sally, John Wells, for Dittos Schooner Amherft, Theophilus Morrill,for Martinicoi T O BE SOL DBY Capt. Daniel Clarke of York, A Veflel of abogt 100 Tons, which is ready to Lannch ; Any Perfon'wanting to gnrchn(e (aid Vei- fel, may Enquise of fsid Clark, snd know the Con- ditions of Szle. York, Augufl 12, 1262. R S : THE Perfon who took upwards of One Hundred Pound; Old Tenor, cuit of 8 Defk in & Tradelman’s Shop in this Town, is defired to-retuin it, and no Queftion fhall be sfk’d ; otherwife mufk cxpe& to be dealt with in anather manner. NOTICE ishereby given tothe Creditors of the Eftate of Noab Fobafon, late of Dunftable, in faid Province; Gen:ileman, deceafed, that fix Months from the z4th Day of July lafl; is sllowed them to bring in their Claims; And weths Sublcribers bring sppointed Commifioness, tn regeive | and examine the fexi Claims, will s(tend that Service at ‘he Dweliing Houfe. of Col. Zsccheus Loveruel, Tnnholder ju.faid Dunftable, on the laft Tueidev of t.is, and the nexs five (ollowing Months, from Thiee to Six'of the Clock in the Alternoon, cn each of faid Days.. - Dunflable, Augujt 34 1763, ' : Fonatban Lovewett. J Commif - i Francis Waorcefier, fioncrs. L T A e L e h e Ve The Sale of the Rope Walks, &c.-belenging to the Effare of Fobn Meferve, will begin onTuelday next at Six o'Clack Afternoon, at the Houfe of Capt.Zechariah Fofs, Innholder in this Town, "ntVENDUE._