The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

BOSTON, April 4.

YESTERDAY the Great and General Court or Assembly of this Province met at Harvard-College in Cambridge, according to Prorogation. The Representatives being assembled in the Chapel, appointed a Committee to wait upon His Excellency, and acquaint him that upwards of Forty Members were in the College Chapel, and that they were earnestly desirous his Excellency would be pleased to remove the General Assembly to its ancient and legal Place the Town-House in Boston.--His Excellency immediately sent a message to the House by Mr. Secretary Flucker, to direct their Attendance in the Council Chamber, where his Excellency was pleased to deliver the following SPEECH to both Houses, viz.

Gentlemen of the Council, and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives.

SINCE we were last assembled in General Court the public Tranquility of His Majesty's Dominions has been in great Danger of being disturbed by the violent Proceedings of the Spanish Governor of Buenos Ayres, in disposing His Majesty's Subjects of their Settlement at Port Egmont. I have received repeated Assurances from the Right Hon. the Earl of Hillsborough, one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, that, if Matters should come to Extremities, the Security of His Majesty's Dominions in America will be a principal Object of his most gracious Care and Attention. A Plan of Augmentation of his Majesty's Forces upon the British Establishment has already been determined upon, and His Majesty's Pleasure has been signified to me that I should exert my utmost Endeavours to give Efficacy and Dispatch to this Plan, by assisting His Majesty's Officers to raise such a Number of Recruits as shall be sufficient to complete the several Battalions now serving in America. I have with the Advice of His Majesty's Council, issued my Proclamation, inviting and requiring His Majesty's faithful Subjects in this Province to engage in Stations and Capacities; a service so essential to their Security and Defence.

It appears probable by the last Intelligence from England, that Satisfaction may have been made for this hostile Act of the Spaniards, but, as I have received no authentic Advice of it, and have no sufficient Reason to suppose that the proposed Plan of Augmentation will be receded from, I shall persevere in giving Encouragement to it, and if any Act of Legislation shall be found necessary I will recommend it to you, and readily concur with you in it.

I have no particular interior Business of the Province now to lay before you. The situation of the Season for the convening a new Assembly agreeable to Charter, being so near I chuse to refer to that Time all Matters, except such as are of immediate Necessity, and will come before you of course. If you will give the Dispatch which is requisite on your Part, there shall be no delay on my Part. I doubt not, as the most busy Season of the Year is just at hand, you wish to return to your respective Homes as soon as may be.

I may not omit acquainting you, in Form, that I have received His Majesty's Commission appointing me Captain-General and Governor in Chief in and over the Province -- that it has been published in the usual Manner--that I have the most grateful Sense of the Honour done me by this Appointment, and that it is my sincere Desire and Resolution to employ the Powers, with which I am intrusted for His Majesty's Service and for the best Interest of the People ; and I will cheerfully join at all Times with the other Branches of the Legislature in Such Measures as may tend completely to restore and constantly to maintain that State of Order and Tranquility upon which the Prosperity of the Province so much depends.

T. HUTCHINSON.

Council-Chamber, Cambridge, April 3:

Yesterday His Excellency THOMAS HUTCHINSON, Esq; lately appointed Governor of this Province, on an Invitation from the Corporation of Harvard-College was pleased to visit that Ancient Seat of Learning.

His Excellency with His Honour the Lieut. Governor, and the Honourable His Majesty's Council, in their Carriages attended by the Sheriff of the County of Suffolk, and a Detachment of the Troop of Guards went from the Province-House in this town in Procession. and were received at the County-Line by the Sheriff of the County of Middlesex, and the principal Gentlemen of Cambridge in their Carriages. At the Steps of Harvard-Hall his Excellency was received and congratulated by the President, Fellows, Professors and Tutors in their Habits.---In the Philosophy Chamber he was met and welcomed by the Honorable and Reverend Overseers.

The Chapel not being large enough to Accommodate the Gentlemen who were present on this Occasion, and the Members of the Society ; His Excellency, with the Lieutenant-Governor, the Overseers, Corporation, Officers of the College and the other Gentlemen, went in Procession from Harvard-Hall to the Meeting-House, preceded by the Students of the College, Graduates and Undergraduates.

The General Court being then sitting in the College, a Committee of the Corporation waited on the Honorable House of Representatives to ask their Attendance on the Exercises of the Day.---Which Invitation they were pleased to accept of.

The public Exercises began with a handsome Gratulatory Oration in Latin pronounced by Mr. WETMORE, one of the Resident Graduates, To this his Excellency made an Elegant Reply in the same Language, testifying his Affection to the Seminary in which he had his Education, and his Regard to the Interests of Literature.

Then followed an ANTHEM, composed, set to Music and performed by the young Gentlemen of the College.

WE have heard with our Ears, O Lord, The Words of the Anthem. and our Fathers have told of thy might, Thy wonders which thou didst of old ; how thou didst drive out the heathen from among them ! For they got not their land by their own sword ; but it was thy right-hand, thine arm, and the light of thy countenance ! O Praise the Lord forever and ever.

--How blessed are all they that fear the Lord and walk in his Ways, for thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands.-O well is thee, and happy shalt thou be.

Lo ! thus shall the man be blessed that fears the Lord.

For thus saith the Lord, from henceforth, behold all nations shall call thee blessed ; for thy