The New Hampshire Gazette

B O S T O N. Sept. 28. 1761.

His Excellency the GOVERNOR, Having received the following London GAZETTE Extraordinary, from the Right Honorable Mr. Secretary PITT, hath ordered the same to be published to make known the joyful Event therein mentioned to all his Majesty's good Subjects, who will no Doubt receive it with the utmost Joy and Satisfaction.

From the LONDON GAZETTE Extraordinary.

A T the Court at St. James's, the 8th July, 1761. PRESENT, His Royal Highness the Duke of York, Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Chancellor, Lord President, Lord Privy Seal, Lord Chamberlain, Duke of Bolton, Harcourt, Cornwallis, Hardwicke, Egmont, and Thomond. The Viscounts Falmouth, Barrington, Bateman, Ligonier, and Boyne. The Lords Berkeley of Stratton, Sandys, Anson,
Duke of Leeds,
Duke of Bedford,
Duke of Rutland,
Duke of Queensbury,
Lord Great Chamberlain,
Duke of Newcastle,
Lord Steward,
The Earls of Huntington, Winchelsea, Sandwich, Shaftesbury, Holderness, Rochford, Albemarle, Godolphin, Cholmondeley, Kinnoul, Bute, Halifax, Waldegrave, Bath, Buckinghamshire, Powis,
Lyttelton, Melcombe, Grantham.
Mr. Vice Chamberlain Henry Legge, Esq; George Grenville, Esq; James Grenville, Esq; Mr. Secretary Pitt, Lord Chief Justice Willes, Master of the Rolls Henry Fox, Esq; Charles Townshend, Esq; Robert Nugent, Esq; Welbore Ellis, Esq; Sir Francis Dashwood.

His Majesty being this Day present in Council, was pleased to make the following Declaration, viz.

'HAVING nothing so much at Heart, as to pro-

cure the welfare and happiness of my people, and

to render the same permanent and stable to posterity,

I have ever since my accession to the throne, turned

my thoughts towards the choice of a Princess for my

consort ; and I now with great satisfaction, acquaint

you, that after the fullest information, and mature

deliberation, I am come to a resolution to demand in

marriage the Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg Strel-

itz : a Princess distinguished by every eminent virtue,

and amiable endowment; whose illustrious line has

constantly shewn the firmest zeal for the Protestant Religion,

and a particular attachment to my family. I have

judged proper to communicate to you these my inten-

tions, in order that you may be fully apprised of a

matter so highly important to me, and my kingdoms ;

and which, I persuade myself will be most acceptable

to all my loving subjects.'

Whereupon all the Privy Councillors present, made

it their humble request to his Majesty, that this his

Majesty's most gracious declaration to them might be

made publick ; which his Majesty was pleased to order

accordingly.

W. SHARPE.

[This Gazette Extraordinary]

LONDON, July 10.

The Princess Sophia Charlotte of Mecklenburg Strel-

itz was 17 years old on the 19th of May last. Her el-

dest brother the reigning Duke, unmarried, was born

May 5, 1738, and succeeded to the estate in December

1752. Another brother Charles Frederick, aged 20, is

a Major in the Hanoverian service; a third brother,

Ernest Gottlob Albert, will be 19 the 2d of next

month. George Augustus, her youngest brother, will

be 13 the 16th of next month. Her sister, Princess

Christiana Sophia Albertina, will be 26 the 6th of

December. Her mother Dowager of Duke Charles

Lewis Frederick (who died May 4th 1752) is a daugh-

ter of Duke Ernest Frederick of Saxe Hildburghausen,

and born in 1713.

The House of Mecklenburg (which is derived from

the Vandal Princes, who joining the Goths, struck

terror heretofore into the Roman eagles, and carried

their victorious arms into Italy, Gaul & Spain) is divi-

ded into two branches, the descendants of Albert and

John, sons of Henry Leo, Prince of the Vandals,

who reigned in the beginning of the 15th century;

and were received into the number of the Estates of the

Empire, where they have seat in the college of Princes,

by Charles IV, who began his reign in 1347. They

are distinguished by the titles of Mecklenburgh Sch-

werin, and Mecklenburgh Strelitz, which they take

from the cities of their residence.... The Princess of

this House were disposed of their estates in the be-

ginning of the last century, by the Emperor, who gave

them to Wallenstein a Sieben, (who came to a miserable end

but replaced, in 1621, by the victorious arms of their

cousin german, the great Gustavus of Sweden. Their

country, which is about 100 miles long, and 60 broad,

lies in the circle of Lower Saxony. It hath Holstein

and Saxe Lauenburg on the west, the Baltick sea on

the north, Pomerania on the east, and Brandenburg

on the south. A German, who wrote in the last century,

remarks that the House of Mecklenburg had had in

marriage within less then 200 years, ix daughters of

Kings, and five of Electors. It is the Duke of Meck-

lenburgh Schwerin whose country is now smarting for

his favouring the enemies of Prussia.

July 11. A Gentleman who was till lately an inhabitant

of Rostock, in the Dukedom of Mecklenburgh, informs

us, that the Princess Charlotte, our intended Queen,

whom he has often seen, is a Princess greatly esteemed

there for Piety and exemplary Humanity and Benevo-

lence : Her Person graceful and handsome between the

two Extremes of Tallness and its contrary; of a very

pleasing Mien, grave and grand Deportment, intermixed

with much unaffected Affability and Composure of

Mind : .. A proper Match for so graceful, good, and

great a Monarch, as the British King, GEORGE

THE THIRD.