The New Hampshire Gazette

LONDON. July 21.

Monday night the Cherokee King with his two chiefs, attended in a coach by three officers, went to Ranelagh gardens: their behavior was very decent and they expressed great satisfaction, particularly at the ladies, as a gentleman with them, who understood their language, was pleased to assert:

Wednesday night there was a very numerous and polite company at Vauxhall, to see the Indian King and the two chiefs. The King appeared in a blue silk mantle edged with gold lace, and the two chiefs in scarlet mantles. They appeared greatly pleased with the entertainment and the beauty of the place, and in token of their satisfaction shook hands with some hundreds of the gentlemen who crowded to kiss them. There were computed to be upwards of 4000 persons present.

When the Cherokee chief, with his attendants, were at Vauxhall last week, Mr. Tyler's gave them a very sumptuous entertainment at his own expense. The wines first set before them were burgundy and claret, which they not seeming to relish, others were replaced, and they fixed upon Frontignac, the sweetness of which suited their palates, and they drank plentifully. Saturday evening they were at Sadler's Wells, and seemed delighted with the entertainments. They are sitting for their pictures at Mr. Reynolds. Yesterday at the Court at St. James's the Cherokee King and his two Chiefs had their first admittance to his Majesty. The King was introduced by Lord Eglinton, and conducted by Sir Clement Cotterell, master of the ceremonies. They were upwards of an hour and a half with his Majesty. The King's dress was a very rich blue mantle covered with lace, and his head richly ornamented. On his breast a silver gorget with his Majesty's arms engraved. The two Chiefs were in scarlet richly adorned with gold lace, and gorgets of plate on their breast. They were received by his Majesty very graciously, and their behaviour was remarkably humble and meek: the man who acted as an interpreter for them, to his Majesty, was so much confused, that he could ask but few questions. They are men of middling stature, seem to have no hair upon their heads, and wear a kind of skull cap; their faces and necks are so bemired with a coarse sort of paint, of a brick-dust colour, that it is impossible to say of what complexion they are. Their necks are so streaked with blue paint, something resembling veins in a fine skin. There seems to be a mixture of majesty and moroseness in their countenance.

One of the King's Ships is ordered round to Spithead to carry over the Cherokee Chiefs, to Carolina, who, it is said, will set out in about ten Days for Portsmouth.