The New Hampshire Gazette

From the LONDON GAZETTE, Sept. 21.

St. JAMES's, Sept. 16.

This day the following humble ADDRESS of Congratulation to His Majesty, on his auspicious Nuptials, from the University of Oxford, was presented by the Right Honourable the Earl of Vamoresland, Chancellor; accompanied by the Earl of Litchfield, High Steward; the Rev. Dr. Browne, Vice Chancellor: his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury; the Lord High Chancellor; the Lord Steward of the Household; and the following Noblemen and Bishops, who had been formerly, or are at present, Members of the said University, viz. His Grace the Duke of Queensberry; the Earls of Northampton, Angleey, Shaftesbury, Coventry, Oxford, Dartmouth, Macclesfield, Bath, Gower, Northumberland, Egremont, and Shelburne; Lords Charles Spencer, and Greville Montagu; Vis. Say and Sele, Folkstone, Wenman, Parker, Dungarvon; the Bishops of Winchester, Hereford, Salisbury, Norwich, Worcester, and Bangor; Lords Willoughby de Broke, Wentworth, Foley, Middlesex, Mansfield, and Scarsdale; together with many of the younger sons of the nobility; a great number of Baronets and Members of Parliament; seventeen heads of colleges and halls; several of the public Professors; about seventy Doctors in Divinity, Physic, and Law; the two Proctors, and an hundred and forty nine Masters of Arts, and Batchelors of Physic, and Civil Law, in their proper academical habits.

To the King's Most Excellent Majesty.

Most Gracious Sovereign,

WE your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, of your University of Oxford, zealously attached to your Royal Person and Government, and sensibly affected with every occurrence, tending to the increase of your Majesty's glory and happiness, beg leave to express our unfeigned joy on the much wished for occasion of your Majesty's marriage with a Protestant Princess; a Princess illustrious by descent, and still more distinguished by such personal accomplishments, and such amiable virtues, as are truly worthy of a British Crown.

With the utmost satisfaction we reflect, that your Sacred Majesty, ever since your happy accession to the throne of these kingdoms, hath fully answered the most sanguine hopes and expectations of all your loving subjects; and nothing seemed wanting to fill up the measure of their felicity, but the prospect of stability and perpetuity to the blessings they enjoy.

The present occasion affords us this pleasing prospect, and abundant matter of the justest exultation. We are now led to carry our views to future ages; and rejoice to consider the interest of latest posterity, under the blessing of God, happily secured by this important event.

It is therefore our ardent wish, and daily prayer, that there never may be wanting a race of Princes, descended from your Majesty and Royal Consort, worthy their august parentage, and inheriting all those excellent endowments, which establish and adorn your throne: favourers of learning and merit; friends to liberty both civil and religious, making the glory of God the end of their government, and laying the foundation of their own greatness in the happiness and affection of their subjects; always recommending to them and enforcing the sacred obligations of virtue and religion, by that most engaging of all human sanctions, the Royal countenance and example.

Given at our house of convocation this ninth day of September, 1761.

To which his Majesty was pleased to give the following most gracious Answer:

'I return you my hearty thanks for this proof of duty and affection to my Person; and I take a very sensible satisfaction in such a cordial testimony of joy from my University of Oxford, on an event so truly happy to me. That ancient and famous seat of learning may depend on my protection and favour, and may be assured of my kind acceptance of their exemplary care to form my youthful subjects to a due reverence for the laws, and to a just sense of this excellent constitution, by enforcing moral, civil, and religious discipline.'
They were most graciously received, and had the honour of kissing his Majesty's Hand.

Immediately after they were introduced to her Majesty, by his Grace the Duke of Manchester, her High Chamberlain; when the Chancellor made the compliments to the Queen in the following speech.

Madam,

I Have the honour, in the name of the University of Oxford, to approach your Royal presence with a humble offering to your Majesty of their most faithful duty and homage; welcoming your Majesty's safe arrival in these kingdoms, and felicitating your marriage with our most gracious sovereign.

On this auspicious occasion, his Majesty hath given the strongest demonstration of his Zeal for the public welfare, by resolving to place the imperial Crown of Great Britain on the head of a Protestant Princess, whose personal merits, superior to her illustrious birth, will give an additional lustre to the diadem he wears. It is, indeed a circumstance peculiarly glorious to your Majesty, that the elevated station to which you are called, is owing solely to your own royal accomplishments, and to our august monarch's just discernment and estimation of them.

Oxford is proud of laying his honours and his laurels at your Majesty's feet; and of sharing with you what he valueth more than a crown, the unbounded love and affection of all his subjects:

Your royal consort's acknowledged virtue and goodness, joined to those excellent qualities; with which nature and education have so liberally adorned your Majesty, afford the fairest and most certain prospect of domestic happiness. Our prayers shall be daily offered for an uninterrupted continuance of it; and that the royal pair may long live to set forth the brightest pattern, and also reap the blessed fruits and effects of conjugal affection.

To which her Majesty was pleased to return the following most gracious answer.

'I return you my thanks for these affectionate congratulations, So very flattering to me; and I assure you, that an address, so full of duty to the King, gives me the greatest pleasure.'

They were received in a most gracious manner, and had all the honour of kissing her majesty's hand.

St. James's, Sept. 9. Her most serene Highness the Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg, arrived yesterday at the Palace at St. James's a quarter past three:

Her Majesty alighted at the garden gate, being handed out of the coach by his Royal Highness the Duke of York, and upon her entrance into the garden she sunk upon her knee to the King, who most affectionately raising her up, saluted her, and then led her with his right hand into the palace where she dined with his Majesty, the Princess Dowager, and the Princess Augusta. Her Highness's arrival at the palace was immediately proclaimed by the firing of the guns at St. James's, which were followed by those from the Tower: And at half an hour past Ten last night, the guns in the Park and Tower were fired again, on the joining of his Majesty's and the Princess's hands. The houses in the city of London and Westminster were illuminated, and the Evening concluded with the utmost demonstrations of Joy.