The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, December 10, 1756, Page 2

fuffer them to have Provifions, They alfo fay, that the Garrifon of St. Philip’s are fo much in want of frefh Pro- vifions,thaton an Army’s landing,it is fuppofed they would furrender without firiking a Stroke. I afked my informant if this News might be depended on, on which he fhewed me two Letters he had received from the Fleet, one frem on board the Admiral, : 4 Extralt of a Letter from Portfmouth, Sept. 23 They write from Paris, that an Army of 24,000 Men commanded by the Prince de Soubife are to pafs the Rhine without Delay, to the Relief of the Emprefs Queen, and that another Army of twice that Force will enter the Low- Countries ; and in Conjunétion with 20,000 Aultrians, in- vade the King of Prufia’s Dominions on that Side, and be- . fiege Welel. There is a firong Report, that his Pruffian Majefty has declared War in Form againft the Queen of Hungary, that the King of Poland, as Ele€or of Saxony, has entred into Treaty with the King of Pruffia, and likewife that the Em- prefs of Ruffia bas refufed to fign the defenfive Treaty of Neutrality between the Courts of Vienna and Verfailles. Sept. 27. We hear a Pruflian fhip has been flopped at Oftend, and that the Englith fhips there were expected to be detaired likewife. The Experiment Man of War was arrived at Gibraltar from Admiral Hawke,and gave an Account, that the Ad. miral had taken 70 Tartans bound for Mahon with Catile and Provifion. The feven Men of War ordered to join Admira! Bofca- wen, are to have the full Compliment of Men, or more, and are alfo to have fome Land Forces: pe It is believed, that fince the Month of February laft, above 4000 regular Troops have been fent from Fraace to Miflifippi, with a great Quantity of Mufkets and otherOrd- nance flores; which might all have been eafily prevented or intercepted,if we had ftation’d one forty and one twenty Gun fhip at the Mouth of that River. But we never once thought of the Matter; though we thould be greatly furpriz- ed to hear of South Carolina’s being carried by the French before next Winter ; and be thenready to lament the Lofs of that invaluable fettlement, as we are now to deplore our being deprived of Minorca, and all the defiruflive, as well as dithonourable, Confequences, attending Informations. - The Lords of the Admiralty have ordered feveral ftout armed Veflels to cruize in the North Seas, to proteét our Trade in thofe Parts, as feveral {mall French Privateers are conftantly cruizing about there, and when purfued by our Men of War run into fhallow Water, whither thefe armed Veflels will be able to go after them. . : Extralt of a Letter from Hertford, [fipt. 8. ¢ We bad laft Night the greateft Rejoicings known on any public Occafion for many Years, on Account of the Birth Day of the brave General Blakeney, who then en- tered into the 81t Year of his Age. A fet of voluntary Militia {who are ready to ferve their King and Country on any Emergency) fired three Vollies at four different Parts of the Town : A large Bonfire was made, in which the Efiigy of acertain Admiral was burnt, after being firft ex- poled all over the Town ; the Populace were treated with ‘Wine and Beer in Abundance, and many Entertainments ‘were made at private Houfes, where his Majefly’s Health, and the Royal Family's, with Sugcefs to our Arms by fea - of their Army are yet at Torgua. and Land, went merrily round. The whole was concluded with the atmoft Decency and Order.” Leipfick, in Germany, fept. 13. Upwards of 60,000 Pruffians bave entered Saxony. All the Taxesmand Reve. nues of the Ele&torate are collecled now by the King of Pruflia’s Orders only. His Generals have levied all the Money that was found in the Offices of the Receivers at Leipfick and other Places, and we ftill furnith them with Provifioas and Forage. The Indendants and Commiffa¥ies Latt Tharfday the City of Urefden received a Pruffian Garrifon, and Major Gene- ral Baron de Wych is oppointed Commandant there. The King our fovereign is retired to Pirna, with two of his fons. All our Troops are affembled in the Neighbourhood of that Place. Inall Appearance they will be attacked by the Pruflians, who want to be Mafters of the whole Courle of the Elbe, even into Bohemia. Baffterre, (in jt. Kitts ) fept. 15. On Saturday laft was brought in here by the Brigantine Oliver Cromwell, a . French Felucca, called La Verge de la Garde Pierre Anto- nio Dalleft Mafter, bound from Marfeilles to Martinique, She left Marfeilles, the 14th of July, and was taken the- 5th Inftant, On funday the Dove Higgins, and the Lampoo, Captain Sheerman, two private Veflels of war, brought into this Harbour a French Privateer (the Captain of which was kiiled in the Engagement) and the Snow Elizabeth, Ritche fiom London, and Cork, bound for Jamaica, which they retook from the faid Privateer. We can with Certainty affure ourReaders that Capt Linn, in the Jorom Privateer, (which was fitted out from this Porg and lately taken by too large French Privateers) behaved® with the greateft Bravery and Refolution, asdid all his Ofhicers. They killed 42 of the French and wounded 17,and would inevitably have tzken either of che Veflels figgly : The Enemy admired the Intrepidity of the ga'lant oid Captain whom they treat with the Refpe& he deferves. PHILADELPHIA Novimber 25, . Friday laft his Honour the Governour, with the Gen- tlemen that accompanied him, returned from Eafton, hav- ing concluded a Peace with the Delaware Indians that live on Sufquebanna : fo that it is hoped our Northern Frontiers will now have fome Relft from the Incarfions of the Sava- 4 ges, and the Province better enabled to defend the Weft- ern Parts. B OST ON, Deemb. 6. We have a Report in Town (bronght by a Veffel from Europe) that there has been a great Battle on the Borders of Bohemia, between the Army of the King of Pruoffia,con- fitting of about 40,000 Men, and that of the EmprefsQueen _ of 80,000, 17,000 of which were killed, and 8cc0 taken Prifoners ; that the King of Pruffia loft 12,000, and had three Horfes kill’d under him. By Letters from St. John's in Newfoundland, of the 4th and 6th of Nov. paft, we are inform’d, that on the 3d at Night arrived there the Brig Edward of this Place,—Sand- ford, late Mafter. Leagues to the Eaftward of Cape-Ann, bound to Europe, by a French Privateer {chooner of 8 Carriage Guns & 120 Men from Louifbourg, to which Place fhe had ordered the Brig, but meeting with his Majefty’s fhip Seahorfe, Capt. Darby, the was setaken, after fhe had been in the Enemy’s Hands ' e o s She was taken the 26th of O&ob. 200 - -4