The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, December 10, 1756, Page 3

rore ¥ By i % ¥ # ¢ 1 ] Pon > Hands about 70 Hours. Capt. Sandford and all his Hands were kept on board the Privateer, except the Mate and -one Man mote. A Gentleman at Newfoundland paying the falvage, > was releas’d ; and is expefted to return " here every Day. Extraét of a Letter from a Gentleman in Newport, fo bis Friend in Bofton, dated Dec. 2. Nclos’d is an Extra&t of a Letter juft received from a Gentleman in Amfterdam, dated O&ober 11. “ On the j0th of September laft, the King of Pruffia, « ¢ at the Head of 35,000 of his Troops, on his March near ¢ Bohemia, met the Bohemian Army, confifting of 50,000 “ Men,under General Brown, and gave them Battle. The * till One 0'Clock in the Afternoon, and then ended in Fa- . “¢ 'vour-of his Pruflian Majeity : The Bohemians had 4000 |, *¢ Men kill'd on the fpot ; and the principal Part of their ¢ Officers, and a great Number of {oldiers taken Prifoners. « “—The Pruflians loft in the A&ion z000 Men.— That * ** they daily expelled to hear of anotherBattle being fought ““ between the Pruffian Army and the Saxons.” ——T0 . copfirm the sbove, . * Capt. Boardman who unfortunately fell into the Ene- "¢ my’s Hands, on his Paffage to Europe, and came Paffen- “ ger in this Veflel, and with whom 1 have particularly ¢ convers'd,gives me the foliowing very agreeable Account, “ ¢ (¢tho’ in fomeRefpelts very different from what my Friend i 2 | | j ¢ has wrote me)j he fays, ** There has been already three ¢ JAttions between the Pruffians and Auftrians, in all which ¢ the fosaver had greatly the Advantage:~—That the grand ‘¢ and laft Battle was fought on the 6th of Oflober : That ¢ the King of Pruflia,at the Head of 35,000 of hisTroops, “ engaged the Auftrian Army near Bohemia, cornfiting of “¢ 70,000 Men, commasded by General Brown : — That ““ he had/kill'd and taken Prifoners 24,000, among which ¢ was their principal Cflicers ; and had poffefs’d himfelf of «‘ all their Baggage,&c —1 hat his Pruflian Majefty had his &* Horfe twice fhot from under him," loft 12,000Men in the ¢ Aflion ; and that a General, (Brother to the King)whofe ¢ Title he had forgot, was much wounded, but likely to A¢ recover :— That the King of Prufia had march’d an * Army within 6oMiles of Holland ; had demanded of the ‘¢ States General a categorical Anfwer what part they de- ¢ fign to take in the prefent War, which he left at their # Option, and had allowed them but 16 Days to determine ¢ andreply :—That their High Mightinefles had upon this * important Occ.fion, aflembled at the Hague under the +!* greateft Dilemma :——That the Hanoverian and Ger- * man Powers had rais’d 60,000 Troops, which were in ¢ Readinefs to join the Pruffians ; and that another En. - % gagement was daily expefled :—That Admiral -Hawke ‘‘ ‘was cruifing off Minorca, and had taken 5o Tranfport ¢ Veflels bound there ; and 8§ valuoable Merchantmen,— * That a Guernfey Privateer of 20 Guns, had in one Week, *% taken and carried into Port 8 valuable Prizes :—That “ the Tygrifls Privateer of Briftol, had fent ia a rich Prize, * valued at 20,000l. Sterling.— That on the ogth of ¢« Oftober laft, in a very violent Gale of Wind, 45 Sail of ““Ships, chiefly Dutch, were loft upon the Banks of the ¢ Texel ; among which were 2 Dutch Men of War of ¢ 20 aqd 40 Guns, 3 Dutch India Men, and 10 fail of ¢ Englifh Ships ; and a great Number of Souls perifh’d.” ““ Engagement began at 7 in the Morning, and continued ——Thefe Falls the Captain affures me may be rely’d on, and declares he read the Accounts of the Batle in the pub- lic Prints ; and which was further confirm’d by a Letter’ from a Captain in the Pruflian Service, to his Brother ; which he alfo faw. Extralt of a Letter frem a aworthy Gentleman, receivv'd by oneof the lafi Vefels from Londsn. ¢ The Lofs of Makon, through the unaccountable Con- ¢ du&t of Admiral Byng, who is now under Arreft in Order ¢ for Tryal; is a fore Rebuke for our vain confident Boait- ‘ ing in our Maritime Power, which this Affair has now * brought into Reproach and Contempt. ; I cannot give you a more fummary Account of the Af- fair, than by tranfcribing the Words of a noble Perfonage, in a Letter to me on this Occafion. ““ The Affair of Port Makon, from the firft Refolution “ of the Land and Sea Officers before Gibralter, to that of ‘‘ returning to Gibralter, after the Skirmith with Gallilonier, ~ “is to me the moft unaccountable Conduét that I ever “ heard, or read in any Hiftory in my Life ; the whole is * indeed abfurd and irrational. I am perfwaded the Or- ‘“ ders to Fowke the Governor of Gibralter, to deliver ta “ Byng a Battalion, and to Byng to receive a Bartalion from ‘¢ thence, on board him, and to go to the Relief or Defence “ of Port- Mabon, were pofitive ; but Time muft difcover, “ by a diligent Enquiry, the Wickednefls or Weaknefs of ““ this dark and unintelligible Tranfallion ; but how to re- ‘“ trieve it, is in the Hand of Providence only.” PORTTSMOUTH, Dec. g. Yeflerefday Captain Bethune put into this Port from Lon’ don (baving left that Place about 16 Weeks, and 6 from the Doawns) bound to Boflon, by whom from the Wefiminfler Four- nal of fipt. 25th, is extrafted the Solloaving Articles, LONDO N, Sept. 23. We hear that there is a valt deal of foreign Aemp fafely s arrived at the port of London, {o that however great the de- mand for balters may foon be in this kirgdom, there may we think and hope, be a fufficiency to fupply it ina tolera- ble manner, {o that all who deferve, and ought to be bangcd, may at any time have a balter, for the good of the pubiic. Extra of a letter from Dartmouth, Sept. 16. ~ _ ¢ Laft Tuefday the Hawke privateer, of Exeter, Wil- liam Yewfon, commander, fent into Salcombe, afnow, of about 102 tons burthen, from Antigua, bound for Liverpool, William Saul, late mafter. She had been taken by three French men of war,and had been in cuftody of the French 16 days ; fhe is laden with fugar, rum, and cotton. The French took all the Englithmen out of the fa'd {now, {6 that I'can’t learn her name = The fame day a French priva. teer {loop, fuppofed to be the fame, that lately took feve- ral off this place, took a brigantine, bound from Lancaflet for London, into Salcombe.’ . Gy The Unicorn, capt. Galbraith, has taken a large priva- teer of 22 guns and 190 men, fitted out Bayone, which was our Spence floop in the laft war: fhe boarded capt. Gal- braith, who fought her two hours and half. = The Frenchs« man had 70 killed, and the Unicorn fix. - The prize is ar- rived at Guernfey. : : We learn from Naples, that on the 23d patt, and theé two following days, Mount Vefuvius a:ain poured forth a confiderable quantity of liquid fire, which running towaid Pog;i;i, ,/’:\. = 2 | I"‘r §