The New Hampshire Gazette

The humble Address of the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled; November 6, 1761.

Most Gracious Sovereign,

We your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament assembled, beg Leave to return your Majesty our humble Thanks, for your most gracious Speech from the Throne.

It is impossible to approach your Royal Presence at this Time, without making our first Offering to your Majesty, of our most joyful Congratulations on the auspicious Occasion of your Royal Nuptials. We want Words to describe how warmly we are affected with an Event, so highly interesting to your Majesty, and to all your faithful Subjects; or to express our Gratitude to your Majesty, for giving us a Queen, who, whilst she completes your Happiness, promises, by every Virtue and amiable Accomplishment, the greatest Addition to that of your People. May Heaven grant the longest Duration to this Felicity! And may it be attended with a numerous Progeny, to transmit the great Examples of their illustrious Parents, and perpetuate the Blessings of your Reign to future Ages.

We thankfully acknowledge your Majesty's Goodness in communicating to us, that Overtures had been made, by the several Belligerent Powers, in order to a general Pacification; and by France, for a particular Peace between your Majesty and that Crown, whereupon a Negotiation had followed, which is since entirely broke off. No Proof could be wanting to us, that the Continuance of the War, and the Effusion of Christian Blood, can not, with any Shadow of Justice, be imputed to your Majesty, besides the known Generosity and Benevolence of your own innate Disposition.

Your Royal Wisdom has appeared in nothing more, than in not suffering your military Operations to be suspended or delayed: And we beg Leave to congratulate your Majesty on the present signal Success of your Arms. Besides the important Conquests with which they have been blessed, your Enemies have, in other Parts, been made once more to feel, that superior Numbers cannot avail them against the Superior Capacity & Conduct of your consummate General Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick, and the unshaken Bravery of your Officers and Troops. We cannot see without Admiration, those repeated Proofs of Magnanimity and Ability, which your great Ally, the King of Prussia, though surrounded with so many Difficulties, has given to the World.

Your Majesty's Sentiments cannot fail to have the greatest Weight with us, because we are sure that they proceed upon wise Principles, founded in the Love of your People. It is therefore from Conviction, that we declare our humble Concurrence in your Opinion, that it is necessary steadily to exert our most vigorous Efforts in every Part, where the Enemy may still be attacked with Advantage.

We beg your Majesty to accept the strongest and most affectionate Assurances, that we will, with the greatest Zeal and Ardor, and at the Hazard of every Thing that is dear to us, stand by and support your Majesty in prosecuting the War in the most effectual Manner for the Interest of your Kingdoms, and in performing, to the utmost of your Power, your Engagements to your Allies; nothing being more evident, than that this is the only Method to procure such equitable and honourable Conditions of Peace, as may with Reason be expected from our Successes.

We should be greatly wanting to ourselves, as well as to your Majesty, if we did not testify our particular Thanks for your paternal Goodness, in having so expressly declared, that both in carrying on the War, and in making Peace, no Consideration whatsoever shall make you depart from the true Interests of these your Kingdoms, and the Honour of your Crown.

This Resolution, So truly worthy of a British Monarch, and so engaging to all your loyal Subjects, calls for adequate Returns on our Parts. Penetrated with the liveliest Sense of your unbounded Tenderness and Concern for our Welfare, we do, from the Bottom of our Hearts, assure your Majesty, that we will, with the utmost Duty and Zeal, correspond to that Confidence which your Majesty reposes in us; being fully persuaded of the Necessity of Unanimity, Firmness and Dispatch, in the present critical Situation; and animated thereto, by the gracious Admonition of the best of Kings.

His Majesty's most Gracious Answer.

"My Lords,

Thank you for this very dutiful and loyal Address. The Joy which you express upon my Marriage, and your Affectionate Regard for the Queen, gives me the highest Satisfaction. I make no Doubt but your ready Concurrence in my Sentiments, and the becoming Zeal, which you have so unanimously declared, for carrying on the War with Vigour, will have a good Effect both upon our Friends and Enemies; and strengthen my Hands to pursue such Measures as may be most conducive to the true Interests of my Kingdoms."