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BG.759.029
15 Oct 1759:13 (236)
On receiving the above important advice [of the reduction
of Quebec] last Friday morning; all the bells in town began
ringing, and continu'd the greater part of the day, and at
noon the guns of his Majesty's Castle-William,the batteries
of this town and that at Charlestown were discharged; and in
the evening the Province House and Court-House was
beautifully illuminated.
The same joy was expressed at Gloucester by firing of guns
and a general illumination. Capt. Weston who bro't the
important advices from the river to Louisbourg, arrived here
last Saturday, and confirms the above.
We hear that the Rev. Mr. Cooper, Chaplain to his
Excellency the Governor and the two houses, is to preach a
sermon to morrow before the Great and General Court now
sitting, on occasion of the success of his Majesty's arms in
the reduction of Quebec. After divine service is over, his
excellency and the Court are to dine together at
Faneuil-Hall, and in the beginning of the evening are to be
entertained with a concert of musick at Concert Hall, to
which the gentlemen concern'd in the management, have given
them an invitation; when the concert is over they will
repair to the Council Chamber, his Excellency having given
an invitation to the civil and military officers, and other
persons of distinction to drink the King's health there, &c.
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