The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, February 11, 1757, Page 2

8¢; Fames's, Now. 18. 'The Bithop of Salifbury, by the Sovereign’s : Command, having fummoned a Chapter of the moft noble Order of the Garter to meet thiz Day, the Duke of Devonthire, Earl of Carlifle, the Earl of Northumberland, aqd the Earl of Hertford, were knighted, " eleéted, and invefted with the Garter, Ribbon and C'Scorge. Whitehall, Now. 20. The King has been pleafed to conftitute and appoint the Right Hon. Ri¢hard Earl Temple, the Hon. Edward Bofcawen, Temple Weft, and John Pitts, Efqrs. George Hay, Doftor ' of Laws, Thomas Orby Hunter, and Gilbert Elliot, Efgrs. to be his " =3 Majefty’s Commiffieners for executing the Office of Lord High Ad- miral of the Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the Do- minions, Iflands and Térritories thereunto refpetively belonging. The King has beefi pleafed to grant unto the Right Hon. George Grenville, the Offic# or Place of Treafurer of his Majefty’s Navy. The King has been pleafed to grant unto George Hay, Doctor of Laws, the Office or Place of his Majefty’s Advocate General, for Matters Ecclefisftical and Maritime relating to the Crown. Extra& of a Letter from Wellington, November 11. ““The grezt price of corn in thefe parts has almoft ftarved the col- liers and cdmmon people, who have aflually eat nothing but grains and falts for many days. To endure hunger is terrible, when our great farmers barns and yards abound with corn ; and the colliers laft week and this have rofe in great bodies, and ranfack’d the towns round us. It is pity fome method cannot be found to appeafe thefe miobs, by obliging the farmers to bring in their corn.” *Tis aflured that new methods are now under confideration of the Government, for better fecuring for the future our colonies in North- America, from the infults of the French and Indians. - “Tis computed that the lofs of the faid fettlements would be far more detrimental to the trade of Great Britain than both Gibraltar'and Minorca. N E W.Y ORK, Fanuary 16. “The Number of Veflels in our Harbour the 1i1th Inltant, were 21 Ships, 24 Snows, 17 Brigs, 49 Sloops, 17 Schooners, 57 Coaft- ers. Total, 181. In which are comprehended the Privateers fit- ting out, being two Ships, two Snows, and a Sloop, befides feveral Letters of Marque, and Prize Veffels. Fanuary 31. John M‘Daniel and Simon Kilfoy, the two Crimi- nals under Sentence of Death in the City Hall, are to be executed on Friday pext. By the Ship Durfley Galley, belonging to Philadelphia, arrived at - the Hook, in nine Weeks from Lifbon, we learn, that a fmall Schoon- er Privateer befonging to London, had taken a rich Martineco Ship, bound (0Ol France, and carried her into Port. On faturday laft arrived here, a French Privateer Prize Sloop, called the Le Roux Batteanx, Monfieur Hallicon, Matfter, being a Privateer from Porto-Prince, mounting 1z fix Pounders, 20 Swivels, and . 150 Men. She was taken on the 1gth of December laft, by the Sloop Goldfinch, Capti Randle,%nd Sloop Charming-Sally, Capt. Harris, both of this Port : The following Letter is from on board Capt. Ran, dle, dated at Hineago, December z4tk, 1756, juft before he fent the Prize away. : “—On the gth Inftant, cruizing in the'Bite of Leogann, we met a French Sloop of 10 Guns, bound frem St. Marck, to Porto- Prince, in ordér to be commiflioned for a Privateer, but foon ftopped her Courfe, took her Guns, and every Thing of value out, and fhe be- ing very old and leaky, funk her. About 1z Hours after we met Capt. Richard Harris, in a Privateer Sloop from New York, whom we have béen with ever fince. On the “1oth, being off Cape St. Nicholas, we faw two fail, one of which proved to be the Privateer we now. fend you, and her Prize, being the Sloop Delight, Daniel Seymour, Mafter, ficm New-York, bound to Jamaica, whom fhe had taken about 6 Hours before. We firft retook Capt. Seymour, and “oidpnad IADY SATY OAX “19quISAON] ‘0z ‘unf D! ‘Kauaxelg [eiousr) *qx ‘2 U] POOSH JAUCOYIS AY I, ‘ 4§ 341 Jo ot itk UsmMeN0y fenmpy’ pue ‘ave|{ SIy1 WoL} euljosey - Yo Joj ‘oopinyg wden) st ‘puetwos) sy sapun sdy qe Keme ye3 8 B .o 5 = 3 gagement with us ; we firft receiving thirty odd fhot from the Priva- teer : And after Engaging four Hours and a Half, fhe ftruck to us, having 5 Men kiiled, and 11 wounded. Our Confort and ourfelves, neither of us had a Man hurt. She was efteemed among the French, one of the fineft Privateers they had in the Weft Indies, and fhe really appears fuch : And though we have not the good Fortune to adorn your Harbour with rich Ships, yet we have the Satisfaltion of know- ing that we ferve our Country by taking the Enemy’s Ships of War, this being the 4th French Privateer we have been concern’d in redu- cing during this Cruize ; two of which we tock, in Company with a Providence Privateer :—However, we live in Hopes, having a heal- thy Compary, and a good Veffel. We bave met with a large French ' Ship calt away upon the Ifland Mayaguanna, out of which we took a . & frefh fupply of Flour, and fome fmall Matter of dry Goods, and fent them to Providence. I the Prize, we have fent a fmall Quantity of Indigo and Coffee, taken out of fundry fmall Crafts we met with. And in a fhort Time, if our Hopes fucceed in now going after fome pyhieq: pue ¢ pafiejat 21053 1q31N 29y YrnowAy paaej 0die)) oy ¢ sade)) ano jo premyInog 2yl 03 sandea] ¥ Ino el uv/ lz ' WM SI[MOUY | oym ‘ueIaiuacy v Ag for New-York, flill relying on the Affiftance of the Omnipotent.” Yefterday arrived here Capt. Ireland, from Honduras : Heinforms = us, Thaton Friday Morning laft, off of Little- Egg Harbour, he (poke — with, and weat on board of the Ship Europe, Capt. , bound in = hither from Cork ; where he faw Capt. Pell, who went out of this Port .79 a few Weeks ago Commander of the Privateer Brig Mary, of 12 Car- riage Guns, and ‘20 Swivels, with 100 Men.—Capt. Pell informed him, that he was taken on the zgth of December by a French Frigate of 36 Guns, bound to Old France ; and that a fhort Time after, the fell in with and took the Ship'hé was on board of ; who having Jury ‘Mafts up, and a great Number of Men on- board, the Captain of the .Frigate thought it beft to ranfom her ; and to permit him, ‘with moft diyg reuden jo 19quny] © A1d 03 sEM e e = - 30 yl0Z 3y yInom ~gag 01 9u > by that Time our Coufort, Capt. Harris, came up, and began the En- . Ships we have Intelligence are ready to fail, wé fhall bend our Courfe . PORTSMOUTH,. in NEW-HAMPSHIRE, Printed by Daniel Foanle, where this Paper may be had at One Dollar per Annum, or -an | ~ Equivalent in Bills of Credit, 40 /. to be paid at Entraace, ! by 'Eo”wf'{hii \’fi%cet;'s;, o return on board her :—But that his Brig, and all his Crew,#he Frengh Captain carried home with him. i New Haven, in Connecricur, Fan. 13. ., Laft Wednefday Night arrived here with a confiderab!s JOHN Earl of Lounoun, Commander in Chief of all HidflAJES TY's Forces il North- America, and next Morning fet out on hi:" Tour to Boffon.. Before his Departure the Rev. Prefident Crap with fome of the Fellows, waited on his Lordfhip with the following’ r Addrefs, viz. May it pleafe your Lord/Pip, T’HE Prefident and Fellows of Yale College in Neaw- Haven, beg leave to take this Opportunity of paying our hearty Compli-, / ments to your Lordthip, on your fafe Arrival into this Colony ( We efteem ita fpecial Mark of his Majefty’s Royal Goodx;é,fs, an& - paternal Carg of his Plantations in North- America, that he has beely . pleafed to appoint a General Officer to unite the Counfels, and con- ° duét the Forces of the feveral Colonies, againft the common Enemy. in the moft advantagious and effeCtual Manner. ’ And we leok upon it.ftill as a clearer Evidence of his Majefty’s royal Grace, and {fpecial Favour, that He has been pleafed to appoint a noble Peer of Great- Britain, who hasgiven {o many Demonftrations of his firm Attachment to the Royal Houfe of Hanowver, the common Interefts of the Kingdom, the Rights of the Church of Seotland, and the Prote&ion of thefe Plantations from the Inroads and Depredations of their Enemies. And when we recolleét the various Scenes of yoar Lordmip’s mili- tary Skill, Courage and good Conduét, difplayed in feveral Parts of Europe, and efpecially the vigorous Part you afled, in fubduing the Rebels in North- Britain ; our Minds are filled with the pleafing Ex- pectations, of feeing fome of the like Scenes, afted again by your Lordthip, in North America. X ; ; That Almighty God may prote&t ard preflerve your Perfon, diret your wife Counfels, and fucceed-all your Plans of Operation, for bis; 4 Majelty’s Service and the good of thefe Colonies, is the earneft Defire and fervent Prayer, of your Lordthip’s moft humble, and moft obedient Servants.. To awbich bis Lordfbip was pleajed to return the following Anfwer. Thank you Gentlemen, for this Compliment: And can affure you that' my fole End in coming, was to promote his Majeity’s Service, in the Protection and Defence of thefe Colonies ; and fhall vigoroufly purfue that Defign, by all Ways and Means which fhall lie in my Poiwer. ‘ etinue, B O 8 T.0 N, February 7. - Laft Monday Evening, the Ship King George, a fine Privateer of this Town, compleatly fitted for the Sea, ata vaft Expence to the Owners, in coming to Sail on a Cruize, from Naptafket Road, unfor- tunately ran upon the Quaker. Rocks, fo.called, where the lay foma Time unhurt, but at laft bilged, and the Weather being very tem- peRuous, fhe was ftove to pieces and entirely loft, with great Part of her Provifions and Stores, but the Men's"Lives were happily faved. Capt. Hopkins, in a Privateer belonging to Providence, in Rhode- Ifland Government, has taken and fent in there, a French Snow of 150 Tons, laden with Wine, Oyl, and Bale Goods, faid to be \very vaiuable. - P ORI SN0 UT I By Capt. William Simonton, who came t0 this Town laft Saturday, we are inform’d, That in his Paflage from Bofton to Faimoath in Cafco Bay; where he belong’d, was caft away in a Sloop on Wednef- day the 2d Inftant, aboat 7 0’Clock in the Evening, on Newbury. Piumb Ifland ; Veffel and Cargo intirely loft and fove to Pieces ; being his own Property ; the Lofs about 300l. Sterling ; the Crew, five in Number, all faved by hanging upon Part of the Veflel, which the Violence of the Sea almoft forc’d upon dry Land ; though in an ordinary Way muft have perifh’d with the Cold had they not found fome Fireworks in the Houfe on the Ifland, and by the Pietes of the Veflel which came athore, was enabled to make a Fire— As this Houfe was ereted at the Charge of the Newbuiy People, the Captain and’ Men acknowleges the Prefervation of their Lives wére owing, upder God, to this Charity of theirs : from thence'next Morning went over on the Ice to Newbury, where they were kindly entertain’d. Yelterday was 7 night departed this Life, ERenezEr WenTwoRH, Efq; of this Town, and on Wednefday lalt was decently interr’d. PorT of PISCATAQUA. g Entered In, Lang from Boflon. - Entered Out, Phillips for Wef- Indies, Cleared Out, Tuckerman for Jamaica, Noldred for North Ca- rofina, Chauncey for Halifax, Brown and Meferve for St. Chriflophers, Paimer for Wefi- Indies, Burton and Salter for Antigua, Darricut for Top/bam, Heavet and Froft for Bofion. ; : - ADVERTISEMENTS, AL L. Perfons who are Indebted to, or that have any Demands on the Eftate of Mr. ALExanDER PARKER, late of Litchfield, deccafed, are defired . immediately to fettele the fame with Acness WHITE of Suncooke, Aaminifiratrix to jaid Efiate. LL Perfons indebted. to, or that have any Demands on the Effate of Capt. Naruanaer Hammoxp of Swanfey i# the Province of New HaMmrsuIre, deceafed, are defired to bring in their Claims to JosgrH Hamyvoxp of Swanley njorf/'aid, Adminifirator to faid Efate; in order to Settlement. L S e R ZTT_F;:;;;::E;&T: or. have Demands on the Efate off Mr. Benjamin Smith /a2 of Exeter deceafed, are defired to bring in their Claims to Mrs. Mehitible Smich, Admnifiratrix to faid Eflate, in order to Settlement. : A p— P———— oo G &