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BEP(F.759.021
15 Oct 1759:31 (1259)
Upon receiving the above joyful news on Friday morning last
[re. the fall of Quebec City to Wolfe], the bells of the
town were rung, at noon the guns at Castle William, and
those on the batteries in this town and Charlestown were
discharged, and at night the court and Province-House were
beautifully illuminated, and a great variety of fire-works
played off. And,
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 concerned 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.
The joy on this occasion is the most sincere and
universal, and the expressions thereof will we expect be
answerable to the importance of the event.
ON THE DEATH OF GENERAL WOLFE.
What honours, Wolfe, should thy brave brows adorn?
Shall fading wreaths, by other heroes worn ?
Not breathing marble, nor enlivened brass,
Tho' there thy manly form the eye may trace;
. . . [10 lines] [signed] Massachutensis.
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