The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

BOSTON, May 28.

YESTERDAY being the Anniversary Day appointed by the Royal Charter for the Election of His Majesty's Counsellors of the Province, the Great and General Court or Assembly of the Province met at the Court House in this Town: After the usual Oaths were administered to the Gentlemen who were returned to serve as Members of the Hon. House of Representatives, and the Declaration subscribed by them, they elected the Hon. Thomas Cushing, Esq; for their Speaker, who being presented to his Excellency the Governor, for his Approbation, according to the Direction of the Royal Explanatory Charter, his Excellency was pleased to send a Message in Writing to the House, signifying his Approbation of said Election: The House then made choice of Mr. Samuel Adams for their Clerk. --After which a Sermon suitable to the Occasion was preached by the Reverend Mr. Bridge of Chelmsford, from those Words in Deuteronomy XXXIII. 29. "Happy O Israel: who is like unto thee, O People saved by the Lord, the Shield of thy Help, and who is the Sword of thy Excellency !'"

In the Afternoon the following Gentlemen were elected Counsellors, for the Year ensuing.

For the late Colony of Massachusetts-Bay.

THE HONORABLE

Samuel Danforth, Esq;
Isaac Royal, Esq;
John Erving, Esq;
William Brattle Esq;
James Bowdoin, Esq;
Thomas Hubbard, Esq:
Harrison Gray, Esq;
James Russell, Esq;
Thomas Flucker, Esq:
Nathaniel Ropes, Esq;
Timothy Paine, Esq;
Royall Tyler, Esq;
Andrew Belcher, Esq;
John Chandler, Esq;
James Pitts, Esq;
*Joseph Gerrish Esq;
*Thomas Sanders, Esq.
* John Worthington Esq

Benjamin Lincoln, Esq; *Samuel Dexter, Esq.

The Gentlemen with this * Mark were not of the Council the last Year.

121 Gentlemen are returned to represent the several Towns and Districts, 26 of which Number were not of the House last Year.

The List of Counsellors chosen Yesterday being this Day presented to the Governor, his Excellency was pleased to Negative the Hon. James Otis, Esq; Joseph Gerrish, Esq: Thomas Sanders, Esq; Jeremiah Bowers, Esq; and Samuel Dexter, Esq;s
This Day at Noon His Excellency the Governor was pleased to make the following SPEECH to both Houses, viz.

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

At the opening this Session I have nothing from the immediate Command of His Majesty to lay before you. I therefore cannot employ the present Opportunity better than by recommending to you to endeavour to restore to this General Court the mutual Confidence and Unanimity which prevailed in it, until they were interrupted by the late popular Uneasinesses. And I must at the same Time assure you that I shall heartily concur with you in all Measures which shall be conducive to so salutary an End.

I do not however mean to decline the full Exercise of the constitutional Powers with which I am vested: They are derived from the same Fountain with your own Privileges, and therefore I trust that the free Use of them can never give just cause of Offence. But as I desire to temper my Authority with all possible Moderation, I shall be obliged to you for every Opportunity you shall give me to make evident this Disposition.

The Business of this Session is generally short; and the Season of the Year requires that it should be so. You must have observed how very expensive unnecessary Disputation is, and therefore I hope you will avoid it: that the Public Business may be done with all proper Dispatch, and you may return to your homes as soon as may be.

Council Chamber,
FRA. BERNARD.
March 28. 1767.