The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

NEWPORT, September 7.

A correspondent, who styles himself Homo, says, "By late advices from New York we are informed, that so great is the prevailing influence of a certain religion, acknowledged by a modern sect, and very well known by the name of SHAKERS, that no less a personage than his Britannic Majesty has lately espoused it with such fervour, that the utmost exertions were necessary to bring his fingers to command a pen with sufficient direction to enable him to sign intelligibly the late commission of Mr. Grenville, for the acknowledgement of American Independency at the Court of Versailles; that it was hourly expected his agitation would rise to such a height as to commence whirling! — Should this take place, and in the paroxysm of rotation he should happen to step from the axis, or central point, astronomers have predicted, that the power of gravitation may probably precipitate him back again to Hanover. — The same advertisement further adds, that his Vicegerent in America, Sir Guy, has also lately manifested strong symptoms of penitency, not unlike those of his royal Master; — that on reading his pious sermon of August 2d. to his refugee auditory in New-York, when he came to these words, "That the independence of the Thirteen Provinces should be proposed by him (Meaning Mr. Grenville) in the first instance;" Belshazzar like, "the joints of his loins were loosed, his knees smote one against the other." — Add to this, 'tis whispered by a female correspondent, that the waters gushed forth from him! — The above emphatical language, which reduced his Excellency to such a dilemma, I am told by an eminent Divine, bears great analogy, in the original, to Mene, Mene, Tekel, &c. so descriptively interpreted by the Prophet Daniel to a Monarch of as infamous memory as his successor George the III."