The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

LONDON, May 17.

Yesterday an humble Address, Remonstrance, and Petition, of the free Burgesses of the Town and County of Newcastle upon Tyne, was presented to his Majesty at St. James's, by Sir Francis Blake Delaval, Knight of the Bath. The following is a Copy thereof:

To the KING's Most Excellent Majesty.

The humble Address, Remonstrance, and Petition, of the free Burgesses of the Town and County of Newcastle upon Tyne.

WE, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the free Burgesses of the Town and County of Newcastle upon Tyne, emulous of following the great example of the City of London, notwithstanding the independency of its first Magistrate, and of the two public-spirited Sheriffs, has given such particular offence to your Ministers, think ourselves called upon to repeat our unwearied application to your Majesty for redress of unexampled grievances.

We cannot but feel, with the much injured County of Middlesex for the wound given to them, to us, and the Constitution, and warmly animated by the late noble behaviour of the independent Electors of Westminster, whose actions have best contradicted the fallacious language of your Ministers, when they confidently assured your Majesty, that only some few misguided persons had complained of their determination---by the House of Commons, but who nevertheless found themselves under a necessity of beholding, with silent confusion, a virtuous Remonstrant rewarded by the grateful tribute of a free people.

We point out this picture of the people with the more satisfaction, that your Majesty, notwithstanding misrepresentations, may give credit for being a majority, equally warm in the true service of our country and of your Majesty, and equally out of the reach of that baleful influence which some way or other has hitherto succeeded, we fear, in concealing from your Majesty the wishes of an affectionate but afflicted people.

We Therefore humbly presume to solicit your Majesty to exert that constitutional authority which the laws have vested in you for the benefit of your subjects, by dissolving the present Parliament, and We most earnestly implore you to remove forever from your councils those Ministers, who, not content with having violated the freedom of election without doors, have advised your Majesty to dismiss from your service the first officer of the law for his faithful endeavours to support the liberty and constitution of his country; and this measure is still the more afflicting, as our last hopes amongst your Majesty's servants were placed in his acknowledged integrity and ability, from whence we flattered ourselves the truth might reach your Majesty's ear in spite of every confederacy against it.

The grateful acclamations of your whole people (a term your Ministers affect to hold in contempt) would incessantly await your Majesty if you would deign to relieve the afflictions of millions of your subjects by the dismission of these pernicious Counsellors.

For while the affairs of this great nation are by an over-ruling fatality placed in the incapable and mercenary hands of men, who under the specious title of Ministers, are collusively transferring from one to the other the exclusive right of sporting with their country, we have every calamity to dread both at home and abroad, as well from their want of experience as from their want of integrity.