The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, February 25, 1757, Page 1

i i A ¢ The New-Hampfbire RIS WPLISSISHSVSIGITRHIPEIIED ‘ L) A Friday, February LT G - With the Frefhef? Aduvices ke \ 3 L O N D O N, Nowember . ETTERS received from America, relate that I the Lofs of Ofwego has fo univerfally alarmed all the Provinces, that it has occafioned a per- fe&t Union among them, fo that they appear to be attuated with one and the fame Spirit, and every -~ Body that is able to bear Arms follicits to have them to go againft the common Foe, breathing Deftruétion to the French and their Confederates. Now. 6. Yefterday the Rev. Mr. Thomas Bradbury preached an excellent fermon, at the Chapel in Cary- Street fuitable to the Day, from Obadiah, at which - place he has annually preached a fermon for fixty-one years fucceflively. ; Nowemb. 11. By a Perfon lately arrived from . Lifbon, we are informed, that agreeable to the king’s order, they had begun to dig for a foundatien upon the old fpot, which in fome places towards the T'agus was crazy and rotten ; and that fome hundreds of dead bodies were dug out of the ruins in the month of September laft ; many of which, from fome cir- comftances; are judged to have lain fome time in the ruins before they expired ; andthatall the treafure found is obliged to be carried to a proper office with- in four hours, on pain of death, Private Letters by the laft Flanders Mail fay, that the Number of Troops which the French have tranf- ported to Corfica, amounts to 7600, and that they have loft two Men of War in one of the Ports of that Ifland, the Tranfports being returned to Antibes. Extra& of a letter from on board the Royal George privatéer, Capt. Ried, Portfmouth, Nov. 6. ¢ We are arrived bere, and brg’t in a large merchan?- man bound from St. Domingo for Bourdeanx, we do not . weckon ber lefs than 40,000 l. lcan afjure you fhe was dearly purchafed, brawely fought,and as brawely defended. avben ave-firft bore dowrn apon ber we imagin'd ber force, and wwere Joor convinced of it by @ warm broadfide, agh'tb & ur gunner. and fome of our pesple : How-. ewer, 20 1§95 went, and continued to engage her 4 bours, yard-arm and yard-arm great part of the time, before < the firuck. We are now [afe in thisport, and it is aell we are, being little better than -a awreck either of us : The prize’s main mafl ot away. We bawe both of us Sbot betaveen wind and water 3 and our Jails and rig- grag are Jo maul'd that we wufl remain where we are. The prize meunted 22 guns, chicfly 9 pounders. We bad 13 men killd, and our mafler’s mate basloft bis leg. The prize bad 4 men kill’d invthe engagement, and 6 wounded, who are fince dead. She came from St. Domingo in company with fix more, which were feperated from ber * in a bardgale of wird. ¢ Now. 20. Yefterday came advice, that a bag of let- ters, belonging to the London Packet, Davis, bound from London to Nova-Seotia, has been taken up about » four miles to the weftward of Falmouth, by a fither- man, whereby it is feared that the fhip is loft. Now. 25. We hear that the New Miniftry have refglved to make America their chief Objeét of Mili- " - tary Attention, have ordered twelve compleat Regi- meints for that Service, which is the Occafion of the y 't prefeat Prefs. To Morrow Prefs Warrants will be iffued for rai- ) fing twelve Thoufand Men, for the Land and Sea Service, Dec. 2. His Majefty offers his moft gracious Par- on to all Deferters from his Land Forces, who fhall =ender themf(elves on or before the laft Day of Ja- hary . next. We hear that the intended Departure of the Hano- verians and Heflians is countermanded, or at leaft fuf- ~ pended ; and that ten or a dozen more Regiments of -Britith Troops are to be tranfported to America, in confequence of theAccountsand Reprefentations lately fent hither by Lord Loudoun. We hear that Lord Forbes will foon be appoined one of the Lords of the Admiralty. Dec. 4. Eight Ships of the Line will, we hear, thortly fail for the American Seas, and ’tis faid Com- modore Spry’s Squadron is to continue cruifing off { Nova-Scotia till the End of the fucceeding Summer. . It's faid that feveral large Draughts will fhortly be made frem the Regiments.of Foot on the Englith and Irith Eftablifhments, which will be fent to America, and their Vacancies fupplied by the new Levies ; and that there will alfo be a confiderable Body of High- landers raifed for that Service.. s ~ An Advige Veffel has been difpatched to Jamaica, Foreign and Domeftick. with fome Packets for the Commanding Officer there, and we hear that four Men of War of the Line, be- fides. Frigates, will {oon fail for that Ifland. Dec. 7. We hear that Orders have been given for feven Regiments, with Tents and all Accoutrements, to be in Readinefs for Embarkation. We hear that ten Regiments will be fent to North- America, viz. fix from England, and four from Irelard. This Morning died, at his Houfe in the Stable- yard, St. Jamee’s, the Hon. William Earl of Har- rington, one of His Majefty’s moft honourable Privy Council. They work extraordinary Hours at all the King's Yards, to fit and finifh for the Sea all the Men of War, Bomb Veflels, &c. We hear there is Advice from South America, that fix Sail of French Men of War were feen upon the Coaft of Brazil in the beginning of June Jaft; and 'tis fuppofed they are fince gone to the Eaft Indies. Dec. 16. A few Days fince died in the Fleet Pri- fon, Theodore Baron Newhoff, who for fome Years fince was crowned King of Corfica, in that Ifland. On Monday died the Hon. William Levefon Gow- er, Member of the prefent and fix preceeding Parlia- ments for Staffordfhire, and Uncle to the Right Hen. Earl Gower* : We hear that 54000 Men will be employed in the Sea.Service for the Year 1757. Dec. 23. On the gth inftant was brought into Ply- mouth, by the Torbay, Capt. Campbell, the Royal Chariot, from Rochfort for Canada, a Frigate of 36 Guns and 144 Men, laden with all Sorts of Stores. The Torbay has alfo retaken the Mary, from Liver- pool for Jamaica. The Royal Chariot, taken by the Torbay, has cloathing on board, for the whole Garrifon of Louis- bourg, and is near 800 Tons burthen. Extra& of a Letter from Portfmouth, dated Dec. 6. ¢ T his Morning arrived from Ametica the Litchfield, Capt. Barton, from Halifax. She jet Sail from thence awith Commodore Holmes in the Grafion, with the Fou- gueux, and another Man of War or two, bat parted awith them in three Days. ! ¢ The Litchfield picked up a French Prirvateer at the Back of the lfle of Wight, and brought her in. * Admiral Byng’s [vial will pe on board the Reyal Anne, at Spithead, on Wednefday Se'nnight : Vice- Ad- miral Smith, awbo is to be Prefident, awill be here this - Day Se'nnight : The Court Martial avill confift of the tawelve fenior Captains in the Navy. Portfmouth, Dec. 21. Rear Admiral Coates will foon go to the Weft-Indies in the Terrible, with a large Squadron to the Eaft: Indies ; and Rear Admiral Nor- ris and Commodore Holmes to America with another. Remain the Admirals Ofborne, Smith, Moftyn, and Norris, with 34 Sail of Men of War and Sloops, From the Lower Elbe, Now. 2. The Day before yef- terday an Englith Man of War of Forty Guns, and feveral Tranfports, arrived here. On board of the Man of War were the Duke of Richmond, Lord Man- ners, and feveral other Englifh Noblemen, with mag- nificent Equipages, all of them going to ferve as Vo- Junteers in the Army of the King of Praffia. Breff, Now. 17. Saturday Night arrived here the Ontarde Frigate, froth Quebec in thirty four Days, with zoo Englith Prifoners taken at Ofwego. Paris, Now. 22. Saturday an Exprefs arrived at Verfailles from Holland, with Advice thdtthe Datch have figned a Treaty of Neutrality: The Emperor of Morocco hath given Orders that the Englith receive no Affiftance in his Dominions. The Brief lately fent hither by the Pope, relating to our domeftic Difputes, is in the Prefs : His Holi- pefs declares therein, that all who do not fubmit to the Bull Unigenius are in a State of Damnation ; after which he fpecifies the particolar Cafes in which the Sacraments are to be refufed. : An Hundred and Twenty Men belonging to the Train of Artillery are ordered to embark at Breft, to- gether with fome Miners, for Canada. From the LonpoN GAZETTE. s Admiralty-Office, November g. 1756. By letters fronji'v{:admiul Watfon, dated the 5th of Feb. and 10th of March laft, in Geriah harbour,we have an account, that he arrived off the place tha 11th of February, with the fhips undermentioned, where he was informed Thnlagee Angria, was treating with the Moratogs to furrender the place to them. NumMms. 21, GAZETAE —— {10085 038RESA TSRS ARREED In confequence of this intelligence, the vice admi- ral fent him a fummons the next morning to furrender the town and fort to him, but receiving no anfwer in the time he propofed, and finding the Morattoes (from whom he hasreceived no refiltance) were trifling with him, he weighed in the afternoon, and ftood into the harbour in two divifions in the order undermentioned : The enemy fired at the fhips as they paffed their bat- teries : bot as foon as they weére got by them, and were properly placed, they began fuch afire as foon filenced their batteries, and likewife the fire from their grabs. Soon after four o’clock a fhell was thrown into the Reftoration, an armed fhip which Angria fometime ago took from the Eaft India Company, which fet her on fire, and very foon after his whole fleet fhared the fame fate, and are all entirely deftroy- ed. Inthe nightthe vice admiral landed all his troops, fufpeting the enemy would endeavour to let in the Moratoes, which fuppofition was verified by a defert- er, who informed Mr. Watfon that Angria (who him- felf was not in the fort) had fent orders to his brother- in-law, who commanded the garrifon, on no account to fuffer the Englifh to come in. On the 15th inthe afternoon, after feveral meflages had paffed to no purpofe, the vice-ddmiral renewed the attack, and in about twenty minutes they flung out a flag of truce, but the admiral infifting that his troops fhould be let in, and their colours hawled down, and they not complying with his dethand, he repeated his attack with great vigour, and the enemy very foon called out for mercy, which our troops were near enough to hear very diftinétly. An officer with fixty men marched Into the fort that night, and the next morning all our forces. The vice admiral reports, that all his officers and men behaved with great {pirit ; that our lofs was very inconfiderable, as well with refpe& to men 23 to the damage done to the ‘llnps, infomuch thar e thould have been able to have proceeded to iea agzin in 24 hours, had there been a neceffity for fo doing. They found upwards of 200 guns, fix brafs mertars, and a great quantity of ammunition of all kinds ; and in money and effets, about 2 hundred and twenty or a hundred and thirty thoufand pounds. The garbs which were burnt, confifted of eight ketches and one fhip, befide two others which were building, one of which was to carry forty guns ;and a confiderable number of fmall veflels called gallivats. There were in the fort about zooo people, 300 of which bore arms,—Among the prifoners are, Angria s wife and children, his mother, his brother-in-law, and the commander in chief of his grabs. The vice admiral has left about 300 of the Eaft India company’s European troops in the garrifon, and as many {eapoys, and 3 or 4 of the companiesarmed veflels in the harbour, for the defence of the place, as it is judged to be extreamly well fituated for thein. tereft of the company, and vesy tensble. His Majefty’s Divifion. Company’s Divifion: Kingsfither Sloop, Revenge, Bridgwater, 24 Guns, Bombay Grab, Tyger, - - 6o Guardian, Kent, - - 70 Drake Bomb, Cumberland, 66 Warren Bomb, Salifbury, - go Triumph Bomby Proteior, Eaft- India) Viber Bomb. Ship, 40 Guns. ) A Letter from an Officer on board the Tyger Man of Weasr, in Bombay Harbour, March 11. concerning Angria the famous Pyrate, and taking the Place, bas the Sfolloaw= ing Particulars— * We find fince we became Con- querors, that we burned near 30 Sail of fine Vefels, befides others on the Stocks and the Town and Store- Houfes, which were full of the richeft Merchandize, —The Fort is extremely well fortified both by Art and Nature : It lies on a Peninfula in the Lat. of 16 De- crees 40 Min. North. The Ifthmus which joins it to the Main Continent, is not 100 Yards over, where a large Trench is cat from Sea to Sea, and it is with- out doubt the ftrongeft Place in all India; and only wanted a proper fet of People to defend it.—Five Days after we took the Fort, we and the Bridgwater were difpatched for Bombay with all the fick and wounded Men in the Fleet, and to repair what little Damage we fuftained in our Hulls and Rigging. We had fent on board of us the Day before we failed from ' Gerya, 84 Boxes of Money, 224 Bales of Goods, fix Chefts of wrought Plate, and fix Arabian Horfes ; the 7 Bridge-