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% ‘ n -** 1 * - ’ . <* ; (GEORGIA GAZETTE. Number 152. in Jamaica* May 24. MONDAY arrived here the Jamaica Planter, Capt. . Furnell, from London, who brought an ac count of the repeal of the deferable Stamp- Law, and, we hear, a commission from his [ Majesty, appointing Roger Hope Elletfon, Esq. Lieutert hiit Governor of this island.—And on Tuesday arrived the ,-!saUy* Capt. Cumnvns, with a full confirmation of the above 1 intelligente, having brought the London Gazette of the ; 18th of March, wherein was inferred his Majesty’s royal af * sent to the fame, and also the repeal aft.— Joyfui* news in deed! Thursday evening was appointed for celebrating this glorius news, the Hon. the Cuftos, with several of the ma- S giftrates and inhabitants, met at the Court-house,- where an nandfome cold collation was prepared by Mr. J. Baggs. The geptk nen grenadiers, light infantry, and half-boot blues, 1 cloathed in their uniforms, met on the occasion, and fired ’ three vollies as a feu de joy. The grenadiers and light infan try then retired to Rawleigh and Kemp’s Coffeehoufc, and • the blues to Tillidam’s, where they fpcnt the evening with * the greatest jollity.—The gentlemen of the light infantry _ had prepared a n emblematical flag, representing LIBERTY TRIUMPHANT and an odious STAMPMAN imploring t forgiVenefs for his many notorious oppreflions and extorti ■ ons during the exercise of his moft detestable funftion; and ; also an effigy of the grand promoter and friend to the Stam p Law, which after being ignominiously brought to the Cof feehoufe in a cart* was hung up to the sign-post, while a r bonfire was made, itrwhich he was consumed. The town was finely illuminated * many loyal toasts were drank, and the evening concluded with the greatest harmony, decency r hnd decorum. May 22. Monday last was the time appointed for she publick rejoicing on the repeal of the Stamp-Aft.—The • ardour of the people was so great, that immediately after ‘fthe clock struck one in the morning, the bell on the Rev. * Dr. Byles’s church (as being the nearest to liberty tree) was , let a-ringing, which was (oon answered by the bells onChrift-. ♦.Church, at the other end of the town-, and in a Ihort time *ll the other bells of the town (truck in.—Before two o’clock *,jnui[ick was heard in the streets, the drums beat, and guns vfired. As soon as it grew ligfit enough to fee, the steeple of -the meeting house next the tree of liberty was hung with ! banners.—The tree decorated with flags and ltreamers, and all round the town, on the tops of houses, were dilplayed ; colours and pendants.—About noon the guns of castle Wil • lum were fired, which were soon returned by those of the : south, norths and Charleftown batteries, the train of artil lery in this town, and ships in the harbour: In the evening the town was universally illurqinated, and lhone like day: - Fireworks of all kinds were every where played off, efpeci * aj!y on the common, where were exhibited the fineft that . yere ever fecn in New England. Here also was erefted an -obeliflc, covered with various hieroglyphics, and poetical lines, and illuminated within : A print of which from cop 'per-plate has been published.—Amidst all this universal joy .•there was nothing tending to riot or disorder: .Ad was loy •ty to the king, blessings on the parliament of Great-Bri -1 tain, honour and gratitude to the present ministry, and love . ind affeftioh to the mother-cquntrv. On the top of the pyramid was fixed a round box of fire works horizontally.—About 100 yards from the pyramid the jfbn s of liberty erefted a stage for the exhibition of their fire -1 works, near the work-houle, in the lower room of which • sey entertained the gentlemen of the town.—John Han cock, Esq. who gave a grand and, elegant entertainment to the genteel part of the town, and treated the populace with • pipe of Madeira wine, erefted'at the from of his houfc, WEDNESDAY, August* 20, tyS 6. * Which was magnificently ftage for the exhibi tion of.lus fireworks/which was to answer those of the sons ot liberty.—At dusk the feene opened by the difeharge of ra rockets from each ftage} after which the figdfcs on the py ramid w ere-uncovered, making a beautiful appearance.- ?.° § l J e a ascription of the great variety of fireworks exhi bited tro n this time tilt 11 o’clock would be endlefs-*fhe air was filled with rockets- -the ground with bee-hives and lerpents and the two stages with wheels of fireworks of va rious forts. Mr. Otis, and fomc other gentlemen who lived near the common, kept open hotife the whole evening, which was very plcafantj the multitude of gentlemen and ladies, who were continually pafling from one place to another, ad ded much to the brilliancy of the nighs: At-ix o'clock the flgnal being given by a difeharge of 21 rockets, the horizon tal wheel on the top of the pyramid or obelilk was played off, ending in the difeharge of 15. dozen of serpents ire the air, which concluded the Ihew.—To the honour of ttie fpnl of liberty We can with plcafure inform the world, that every thing was condufted with the utmost decency or der, not a refleftion cast on any chara&er, dot the lead dis order during the whole fccne.—The pyramid, which wasde figned to be placed under the tree of liberty, as a (landing monument of this glorious aya, by accident took fir* about one o’clock, and was consumed.-—The lamps by which it was Illuminated not being extinguifticd at the close of the feene it is supposed to have taken Ere by fome of them. New-Yorl r, June 5* Qn Tuesday last his Excellency Sir Henry Moore, Bart. Was pleased to appoint his Secretary John French, Esq. principal in the Prerogative Court of this province. Yefterdjy being the 4th of June* the anniversary of out moft gracious Sovereign's birth-day, it having been previ ously determined by the gentlemen in town to celebrate the lame with all poflible demonstrations of joy, in token of Our loyalty and gratitude to our beloved Monarch, who so late ly, on the 18th of March last, together with a large petrio tick majority in both Houses of Parliament, heard the-cry of the diftreflfed Americans, and repealed that intolerable trievance the Stamp-Aft, and are now planning other bene cial afts:—Therefore, to impress these blellngs oh the minds of the people, and make them sensible of tne~ happi ness we enjoy in our union'with and dependence on Greni- Britain,--*the morning ulhered in with the ringing of bells of every congregation, who, however they may differ in speculative tenets, heartily concurred in their .love and loyalty to the best of Sovereigns.—By 7 o’clock they began to prepare to roast two large fat oxen, prt the cqpunon, which was soon crowded with many fpeftators, to gaze at the flighty Roafi Beef. At 12 o’clock a gun. was fired from the fort, as a signal for the Council, the General, and mili tary officers, the corporation, and. all the gentlemen, to wait on tie Governor, to drink the King’s health} and never on such occasion. before was the company so numerous or splen did: Now the battery guns fired a royal fahite, and the air lefounded with the joyful acclamations of, Long live the King, the darling of his ptople. Soon after, this falut? was answered by the men of war and merchant veflels, decked in all the pageantry of colours. The preparations in the common at trafted our attention* on each lide there was an ox roasting, a large stage with .25 barrels of itrong beer, a hogfhc.ul of rum, sugar and water, to make punch, bread, &c. at one end, a pile of 20 cords of wood, with a tall mast in the middle, to the head of which were boiftrd 12 tar and pitch barrels, and placed on a round top. At the other end of :bt common were fixed 25 pieces of cannon, and at the top of t mail a flag-ftaff with colours difplayed *“ The principal inhabitants* gave an elegant etittjtaiftfi&caf
