The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle — Portsmouth, N.H., 1770-01-05 00:00:00, page 2

By Cast Malcom, arrived at Philadc}l\ehz’a,frorﬁ
Cork, and Capt. Pym, arrived at New-York,
- from Dublin,we have the following Advices,viz,
L. O N D O N, Oéober 12. ;
HE Persians have taken arms, and assembled a great force in
« the neighbourhood of Bagdad, which causes {peculation a
mong the Turks. ‘
Letters from Constantinople mention, that the Divan had caused
it to be intimated to the Englith Ambassador, that should Great-
Britain afford shelter to the Ruffian navy in any of her ports, or
grant any other fuccdurs to the enembes of the Grand Signior, it
could be looked on in no other light than an indire€t declaration of
war, '
The Ruffian fleet in the Humber, on the roth instant, we are
inforfned, consisted of 14 fail of the line & 30 transports, on board
of which, we hear are 6008 troops, :
It is now talked that the Parliament will meet on the 1t of De
cember next ; and that after the Land Tax and other Money Bills,
&c. are pafied, a new Parliawent will fpecdily be elected.
Tt is asserted, that the repott of Sir William Draper having kissed
hands, on being appointed to the Government of South-Carolina,
is without foundation,-----various are the conje€tures concerning
his voyage to America ; some fay he will be preferred to the Go
vernment of New-York ; while others insist that he is aCtually ap
pointed Gavernor of South-Carolina ; but the M-----y intehd to
keep it a secret, for political reasons; till Sir William arrives there,
with Ris commission in his pocket; which he will produce when
he is landed on the continent.
0&. 19. We are assured, that orders have been dispatched to the
commanding oficer of the troops at Boston to make a ftri€t enquiry
into the affair of the grenadier, who was lately rescued from the
constables there ; & that direCions haye been given for the friCt
eft justice to be executed upon all who have lately'dared to violate
the rights of the civil magistrate in that town, ; ;
Ofo. 18. This Morning Sir William Draper kissed the King’s
#land at St. James's,on being appointed Governor of South-Carolihia
in the room of the Right Hon, Lord Charles Grenville Montague.
O&. 21, Some Gentlemen at the Wefi End of the town took upon
them 10 assert, that Sir W. D, bas yot a commission from the govern
ment of a wery extraordinary and important natire. Some affirmed,
that it is wery nearly on the plan of the Eaff India Super‘t};[or/bip,
and that Sir William is wefted with full power to adjuf> all the
:lé'ﬂ':re’mm, tc{ pofible, betnween our several mal-content settlements in
merica’and their Motber country 3 awbile others pretend to know,
that bis authbority extends no farther than making a tour through all
the Britifb colonies, énquiring personally and minutely into the true
cause and fate of all tbzi%riwance: and complaints, and tranfmit
ing the whole (with Sir William's observations and opinion thereon )
to bis Majsfly, in order to be laid befors the parliament, before the
close of the eﬂfuinf/cﬁom. . :
07, 24. His Majesty, being informed of a dreadfol fire that hap
pened inthe town of St. John’s in the island of Antigua, on the
16th of August last, has ordered the sum of 10001, to be paid into
the hands of Mr. Alderman Harley, to be shipped in {pecie for the
imrmediate reliel of the poor fufferers of that town, and has direét
ed the distribution of it obe under the care of the Governor, and
ten of the principal merchants there.
0%, 2. sireport prevails, that William Henry Lyttleton, Efg;
Wis Lritannick Maiefiy's Ambassador at the court of Portugal, will
foop be recallel ina 3o sointed Governor of New Yorlk, in the room
of Sit Haacy Moore ﬁart. deceased. {
OF, 28. We are ¢ informed;thag thedong contefled cavr
Sptareen the Righ 0 if; Wd John Wilkes
E;; wili be bro't to
‘dy for determ::n
CHARLESTOWN, Sith-Carolini.
Nov. 26. There wagd #fiecting of the gene
ral committe on Tues ft; inConfequence
of which we hear, no d leather will be
exported for some Mo s we are to expeét
no more faddlery or thdXsWom abroad,befides
what were ordered befqre the 22d of July last,
till the American Revenue Aéls are repealed.
The next meeting of said committe will be on
Tuesday the 7th of November—The day to
which the General Assembly of the_ Province
stands prorogued.
The Brig Molly, John Liockton, failed from
St, Chriftophers, full as she could stow, for
Philadelphia, arrived there,delivered her Car
go, took in another, & arrived at St. Kitts in
juit 45 Days. Al
N E'W-Y O R K, Becember 21,
Last Night arrived the Ship Countess of
Donegal, Capt. Pym, ih 6 Weeks from Dub
lin. On her Paflage, Lat. 34, 12; Lon. 73,
Capt. Pym spoke a Sloop, Capt. Himm,from
North-a"arolina,-boxmd to. Jamaica, all well-
He reports, that Sir Henry Littleton was ap
pointed Governor of New-York.
Tuejday the 12th Injt. the Skip New-=York,Capt.
Haight, [ailed for Londsn ; and it blew so hard
when he got off the Hook; that he could not land
his Pilot,
The fathe Day; and ai the [ame time, the Ship
Albany, Captain-Richards,failed for London also:
His Pilot, William Brown, left the Ship off the
Hook in a small Skiff, in order to fetch the Shore,
but as he kias not since been hedrd of ’tis imagined
he must have perifbed; as his Craft was very small,
and a heavy Sea run in the Bay;
December 18. We hear that Andrew Eliot,
Andrew Oliver, Charles Morris and Jared In
gerfol, Efgrs; Commifhoners for fettling the Boun
dary Line between the Colonies of New-York; and
New-Ferfey, at Hartford, in Conneéticut, the Bth
Inf}. according to Adjournment, when the Agents
of both Colonies offered- to enter their Appeals § Fut
there not being a [ufficient Numbey of commi/fioners
to conflitute a court, those present ordered the Ap
peals 10 be lodged with the clerk of the court, and
gave the Agents severally a certificate of their hav
ing tenderﬁ .'.ﬁ fame dt the Time and Ploce ap-
o % £ 5w i
to the troops, on any consideration whatfcever ? which was carried
in the negative, there being not more for the affirmative than there
were on the former gueftion. Immediately thereupon the question
was put : Whether they would appoint a committee to communi
cate the whole of this tranfaion to their Members ? Which was
carried in the affirmative; - ! -
The Representatives received the Committee with decency ; anﬁ
in general returned for answer-----That they were of opinion the
majority of the inhabitants were disposed to give money to support
the troops, and that it was fiow too late to pay any regard to the
above report of the Committee.
Mr. Joha Lamb being the perfon’ who proposed the questions in
the preceeding report, Mr. De Noyellis charged hit therefore with
being am abettor to the papers signed A Sox or LisxrTy and
Leclow, and moved the hon. Houafe to order Mr. Lamb toappear
before it, to answer for that condutt ;---and as what he did in the
fields is the undoubted right of every Englithman, the Corsniittee
confiderinng themselves equally concerned in propounding the ques
tions with him j and therefore wrote DeNoyeilis the following
Eeteed, . .
S IK, a 8 New-York, I'zc. 20, 17649. i
WE the Members of the Committee, wh '« » mes arc here.
unto subscribed, appointed by the Inha’ .o et i
the Fields on the 18th Inst. confider ourselves «: ;v
questions put by Mr. Lamb there,and therefore, Sitr, vou maj
sider us in the fame predicamient with hip 5 an. . e
licitous to bring him to the Bar of the Hon. H of 4 :
to answer for that conlu&, we take this metho ra you
our Sentiments on that Subje¢t, and are ready 'o criwer tn
Conduét in a constitutional Manner.
Isaac Sears, Casper Wiftar, Alexander M'Dougai, jacobus ©
Zandt, Samuel Btoome; jun’t Erasmus Williams, { James Van
Vaurk. ¢
B O S T O N, Januaty 1, 1770. o
By Virtue of 2 Commission lately received “ - Right Ho- §
nourable, and most Worfhipful, the Earlof DA 7101 5]
Master of Ancient Free and accepted Mafois o © i
Wednesday was solemnized at a Giand Lodge Fr
Accepted Masons in the Town, held at Mafor « 211! o tal
ment of the most Worfhipful i!OSEPH WAR " L iPy
cial Grand-Master of Ancient Free and Acceptea via/ons i B
America; on the Occasion there was an elegant Oioiior -
the Inftalment thére was a Grand Entertainment.
We hear from New-York; that after 2 warin Debate in the As
sembly on the Question for supplying the Troops, it was carricd in
the Affirmatives’T'welve to Eleven and that it was thouvght a 2 Mo~
tion would be made to fe-confider the Vote, as fom.: of the Majo
rity had acknowledged they had midaken the sentiments of their
Constituents. : L < _
On the 24th instant, being Lord’s Day Morning, departed this
Life Mrs. Mary Loring, the aged and virtuous Consort of the ve
nerable Mr. #rael Loring, Pastor of the Weft Church in Sudbury,
in her 88th Year, since last June, and was about tWoﬂl\'a_?ths-youn
ger than her surviving Husband, having lived togethr abeve. 6. .
Y ears.------There were 2 fowr Thinoe tn Ke Ahferved cancernine
het ; for 45 Years past ¢ ten) ir Hours, and
that was brdinarily only = hiteie Drc d Cheese at Night, a it~
{le before she went to Jied, yet her Healith was such that she wwe2s
at the head of her Family Affuirs and Business till übeut ten Days
before her Death. Reip &ting her Offtpring, 2 Child of ber Greats
Grand-Daughter was baptifed by its GreatCireat-Grandiathe: the
Sabbath. thut she lay dead, and it was callo? after her Name.
By the weekly Accour: of iurislsgec Haghims, It appears -* .
. from January 3, 17.5, .- =O3 &{ vz Bpthere havelmes bus