The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, December 17, 1756, Page 3

L4 A3 NEW.Y¥0OR K, December 6. i o o The feveral Companies of Royal Americans that lately <arrived here from Albany, decamped fince our laft, and are proceedié to the Jerfeys and Pennfylvania to go into Winter Quarters. A Part of Shirley's and Pepperell's Regiments arrived here Yefterday from Albany, and are, we hear, to proceed 0 Bofton, &c. there to be quarter’d for the Seafon, _ ' Thurf{day laft Capt. Codwife arrived here from Tortola, rand*advifes, that a Brig belenging to Boflon was taken the Beginning of O&ober, and carried into Porto Rico. q The fame Day the Magiftrates of this City met at the City Hall, where a ftri&t Enquiry was made of the Do&lors " in this Place, what Number of Perfons were down with the , Small Pox, under their Care ; when, after the moft dili- gent Enquiry, it was found that only four Perfons were then ill of that Diftemper, acd thofe ‘in four d:fferent Families. : 8 O 8§ T 0O N, Diembiris. Laft Tuefday Morning died here, and on Friday was honourably interred, the Honourable Jostau WiLLiarp, « [Efqg; Secretary of this Province,in the 76th Year of his Age. By Capt. Bryant from the Bay of Honduras, we are in- formed, that the Spaniards had demolifhed the Fort we had built at the Mouth of the River, znd thrown the Cannon (18 in Number ) into the Sea.--- That they bad fitted cut a Guard de Cofta of 12 Guns, to take ail Veflels that had Logwood on board, and that fhe had adtually taken two * Veflels belonging to New-York: By a Perfon who came Paflenger in Capt. Folger, we tearn, that they came thro” the Channel, under Convoy of . three Men of War, who were Coavoy to 11 Tranfports « bound for Gibralter, in order to reinforce Admiral Hawke's Squadion ; and that it was faid he was' going to attack Mahen at all Adventures : That Hawke was ftill cruizing ¢+ off Mahon, and took every Veflel that pafs’d that Way :— That the Englith Men of War and™ Privateers had taken and carried into Port, at leaft two Thirds of the Martineco dnd St. Domingo Fleet :—That the Breft Fleet had not as yet fail'd, being block'd up by Admiral Bofcawen, who kept a2 good look out. That the Capts. Wilfon, Kirk- wood and Cathcart, {aii’d with them for this Place, acd may be hourly expelled. . . PORTSMOU'T H: . Tuefday laft the GENERAL AssemBLY met here. We have Advice, that the Sloop Ranger, Capt. Oram, i I o« * ¢+ from this Place for Antigua, is taken and carried into Mar- tinico ; and that the Brig William, Capt. Noldred frem hence, arrived at Briftol in 26 Days. Je Laft Monday Night between 8 and 9 0’Clock, a new * Ship belonging to this Place, was caft away upon Ragged Neck in coming round from Hampton, where fhe was . « built ; fhe is fo bilg’d and broken- that there are no Hopes of getting her off again: We hear that the Captains Froft and Palmer are arrived « fafe in the Weft Indies from this Place. , By the Captains Pinkham and Folger from London, arrived at Nantucket, we bhawe the following Advices, viz. A From the LONDON GAZETTE. - KensincTON, O&ober 14q. “Laft Saturday Morning Colonel Lentulus Aid de Camp to his. Prufian Majelty, arrived here from the Pruffian Army in Bohemia, with Letters to the King, which he had the Honour to deliver to his Majelty in privae Audience, S Berrin, O&ober q. We bawe juft received the following authentick Relation of the Altion at Lowojchutz, on the firft Irflant, between bis Majefly’s Army and that of the Aufirians. N the 28th of September the King fet out from his Camp at Sedlitz, and joined his army in Bohemia, which he had fent forward under the command of Marthal == .. Keith,in order to take pofleflion of and f{ecure the pafles into Bohemia. This ariny was encamped near Auffig,and o ' confiited only of 25000 men, becaufe the King had been = ! obliged to leave the main body of his tioops in the neigh- O | bourhood of Pirna, in order to keep the Saxon camp block- * ed up. The Kingupon his arrival, refolved to march for- ward. He formed a vanguard of eight battaiions, ten fquadrons of dragoons, and eight of huffars. He put himfe!f at the head of this body, and marched to Tournitz ; and ordered his army to follow him in two columns, the one by the way of Profcobot, and the other by the fame way his 5 . vanguard had taken. From Tournitz he marched, with (3 his van, towards Welmina, where he arrived that evening, A an hour before {unfet. There he faw the Auftrian army, O with its right wing at Lowolchutz, and its left towards the == | Egra. That very evening, the King himfelf, occupied with fix battalions, a hollow, and fome rifing grounds,which commanded Lowofchuiz, and which he refolved to make QO ule of, the next day, in order to march out againft the ‘o Aultrians. The Army arrived, in the night, at Welmiuia, where the King only formed his battalions behind one aro- .ther, and the fquadrons in the fame Manner, which re- mained, all night; in this pofition ; the King himfelf fer ting up all night,and having no other covering but his cleak, befare a little fire, at the head of his troops. On the 1 of Olober, at break of day, he took with him his principal « = general officers, and fhewed them the ground which he p | intended to occupy with his army, viz the infantry, form- ing the firlt line, to occupy two hills, at the bottom betwixt & them, fome battalions to form the fecond line ; and the 2 third, to be compofed of the whcle cavalry. >~ The King made all poflible difpatch in duly firengthen. ~Q ing the wings of his army gpon the hills : The infantry at the right poffeflfed themfeives.of their poft, and took all =3 their precautions in order to fecare it effe@ually ; whillt ¢y the lefc was forming, it fell immediately into an engage- ment with the enemy’s Pandours, Croatians, and Grana _Q diers, who were poited in vineyards, inclofed with ftone walls, We advaaced up in this manner, till we came to & the declivity of the hli towards the enemy, from whence we faw the town of Lowofchutz filled with a great Body of infantry, and a large battery of 12-pieces of cannoan be- fore-it, and the cavalry form’d chequerwife, and in a line between Lowofchutz and the village of Sanfchiiz. There being a thick fog, this was all that could be perceiv'd The King {ent to reconnoitre ; and the reports confirmed all that had been judg'd of the enemy’s pofition. After the King had found, that the battalions were poffefied of that hollow, in the manner he had ordered it, he thought that the firlt thing to be done, was to drive’ back the ene- my’s cavalry, which {tood in his front, - Aad with this view the Year 1757. o | L eta hereo rinter anack = yomnc <« D AMEY’ - 4