The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, June 10, 1757, Page 1

= o 4 d the Friday, June 1o. 1757. The ew-Hampbire g From the Lonpon Macazing, for Fanuary, 1757. ‘An AcCOUNT of the REVENUES and FORCES of the GERMAN EmPIRE, with REMARKS. HE ftate and condition of Germany being now a fubjeét very much enquired into, we fhall give our eaders the follewing account of the revenues of the feveral orinces and ftates of that empire, with the number of forces ach of them can raife ; firft obferving, that the calculations of their annual revenues were made in German florins, which te fuppofed to be worth 3s. and 44. fterling each,and that the king of Pruffia, and fome others, were fuppoled to have large fubfidies from France, England, or Holland, . Rew. 130000 100000 100000 8onoo 70000 70000 62000 5c000 40000 30000 10000 70000 Forces. 8ooo 6000 6000 8000 5000 8000 5000 f{elels) 3000 2500 1000 6000 Archbifhop of Cologne Triers Mentz Saltzburg Maunfter Liege of Wurtfburgh Bamberg - =~ = Paderborn ——— == Ofnabrug Aichftadt The abbot of Fulca The other bifhopricks of the empire, together - - } The abbeysand provoftfhips . of the empire } e e s e e inces, an Number of Forces thiy. can raife. ——— ot — e s s e Bifhop e 60000 5000 Umnual Revenses of the eccleflaflical Pri 8ooco gooo Total of the ecclefiaftical princes. } 950000 76500 " The emprefs queen 8000000 The king of Prufia ——— 1400000 Thie eleétor of Saxony ——— 800000 Palatine 300000 The D. of Wirtemberg — 200000 The landgrave of Hefle- Caffel The landgrave of Hefle- Darmftade The duke of Mecklenburg The prince of Baden-Baden The prince of Baden-Durlach Princefs of Naffau _Ehe eleflor of Bayaria — The ele or of fTaneVer — The duke of Branfwick- ) Wolfenbatile s The D. of Holftein The D. of Saxe Gotha — Weymar Dukes of Saxony Princes of Anhalt Prince of Lowenburg ———— The other princes and im- } 500000 perial towns of the empire 180000 180000 20000 18000 15000 St 120000 12000 100000 QOO0 6000 3000 3000 10000 30009 40000 60000 18000 18000 120000 300000 400600 e e 300000 14000 80000 200000 80000 80000 60000 60000 12000 12000 10000 10000 6000 6060 50000 Total of the revenues and forces of the fecular princes Total of the ecclefiaftical princes } 13196000 646000 930000 76500 — " s - 3 'y e -~ < N L] D b - o &y b % ¢ g -~ § o < - -3 = ~ - < % - “ el _ s o -~ = g = - -y e b2 S st ” S © X [ Total of the revenues and ; : 14146000 forces of the empire 414 722500 From hence we may fee how dangerous it would be in France to have the houfe of Auftria rendered-as abfolute for the German empirg, as the power of the:houfe of Bourbon is in the kingdom »f France. But this might probably in a very little time, be the confequence, fhould France now affift in demolifhing the ,\oufe of Brandenburg; for we know how much the great hoilfes of Germany, to awit, the Saxon, the Palatine, and the ‘Javarian, have formerly fuffered by the quarrels with the hpule of Auftria, which were fpirited up by the intrigues of rance ; and if the houfe of Brandenburg fhiould now be ruine |, or reduced by the fame means, it will hereafter be very dj %icnlt for France to raife up any oppo- fition to the houfe of Muitria in Germany, or to prevail with any prince of the empae to join with her in an alliance a- g of the houfe of Auftria ; efpeci- ebe ftrengthened and eftablithed, '‘mber of male heirs, and the im- 2 fucceflion to the Auftrian domi- mal gaalr of that family. rench court never this prefent con- - event the houfe the other hand, their alliance Rual affiltance nquefts againft irit of revenge ; ce between the Llommodation, it i m;..m; 2 e it .r'v Nums. 36 CAZETAL Foreign and Domeflick. Plyrrouth, Feb. 25. This day arrived the Mount Ofizer, a French privateer of 2o carriage guds, nine pounders, taken by the Tartar after two hours engagement ; the had the af- furance to board the Tarter, {word in hand, after fhe had ftrack her colours ;- but, according to the old faying, caught a Tartar, having 36 men killed, bzfides many wounded. PorTsmotita, March 11. Extrall of a Letter from Ferley, dated on board the Charming Nancy Privateer of that Yland, Captain Winter, whbo has been out about three Weeks. } £ E have brought in here 2 French privateer of 6 car- riage guns, 14 {wivels and 50 men ; alfo a French floop loaded with wheat and peas ; and a brig from Bour- deaux to Nantz, laded with wheat and flour, and fix twelve- pounders, guns, and two anchors ‘or a privateer : we took a brig which we had but juft time to ranfom : we alfo took another brig, loaded with ch-=efe, bat retaken ; we afterwards chafed three large fhips going into Bourdeaux River, who run up the Bank, called the Olive, two of which, in lefs than an hour after, were loft, and all the men went athore in their boats ; the third, being about 400 tons, our boats were man- ned, and got her off of the bank, and proved to be a St. Do- mingo Man, laden with fugar, coffee, cotton, and indigo ; but fo much damaged with ftrikicg on the banks, that our men could not poflibly keep her free. Upon which webro’t her to an anchor, and took ou* about 5o or 60 hogtheads of indigo ; foon after which fhe fark. And in the interim & French bark taking us for a man of war of the fame nation that was aflifting this fhip, can'e in clofe to us, though we bad Englith colours, which fhe took for a fignal : This bark we alfo made a prize-of. She is loaded with fine wines, hams, pitch, ears, &c. all for the French king’s account. We alfo gave chafe to eight fhips to windward of us, bound for Bourdeaux, but they all got in before we could come up; one of them came to an anchor between the banks, atcut two leagues from the tower of Cordouan, which we took to be a merchantman, and as night was coming on,we anchored. The next morning we got under fail, and found her to be a man of war of z4 nine pounders upon herdeck,and fix upon her quarter deck,and as we were within fhore of her, it obliged us to come almoft along fide of her : She would not let us pafs quietly, fo we engaged her for two hours and a half, during which time we played pretty {martly, At laft I fuppofe fhe being fatisfied, left us, giving us a broadfide at parting, which we returned, and went about our bufinefs. Our rigging and fails were much fhattered. We received five, thots \n our huil, duc o by praifed had bat one mai flightly wounded. Our people, I do aflure you, have beha- ved extremely well ; and no fooner was any of the rigging ciit or damaged bat it was immediatly repaired, notwithftand- ing the great fire from ihe enemy Extra& of a Letter from Live o], dated March 15. ¢ This Morning about ten a’Ciock, it began very fuddenly to blow a more violent Gale of Wind than has been know thefe twenty Years: Six outwardbound Foreigners are put afhore from the Rock, and as many cppofite o the Town, one Veflel has ran thro® the middle of another, and feveral Keel upwards ; Chimneys dc#s in almolt every Street of the Town, large Buildings defroyed, Numbers of People - drown’d, and many fadly hurt. I had almoft forgot to tell you that near twenty Foot ¢’ St. Thomas’s Steeple was blown into the Charch.” March 15. Our laft Letters from Stockholm acquaint us, .that there died Jately at Sandio, {ot far from Eckefid, one Mr. Lawrence Swenflon, at t1e Age of 110 Years and § Months. He married a third Wife when he was g9, and had by her two Children ar 2 Eifth. Inftances of this Kind are not very rare in Sweden, where a pure Air, much Exer- cife, great Temperance, and 4 regular Courfe of Life, defend People alike from acute and shrenicle Diftempers. March 15. On Sunday mornisg about nine o'clock died, in the 66th year of his age, at hi; grace’s palace at Croydon, the moft reverend Dr. Thomas Herring, lord archbithop of Centerbury, primate and sgropolitan of all England, prefident of the corporation of Jic fons of the clergy, a go- vernor of the charterhoufe, nd one ¢f the lords of his ma- jefty’s moft honourable privy council. On the 1gth of Jan. died at Ecinburgh, in the 83d year of his age, Mr. Thomas Rudiimm-, late keeper of the advo- cates libsary. "T'his genties an’ Writings are well known ; particalarly his Latin Rudiments ; his large and fmall Latin grammars, &c. The zoth, died Mr. Robert Keith, one of the bithops of the Epilcopal chuich of Scotland. He was 47 years a clergyman, above 2ja hithop. The fame day at his houfe at Hornfey, near 1 onds2, Daniel Midwinter, Eiq; formerly Bookfeller in Londan : He left 1000 |, to Chrift’s and 200 1. to the foundling hofpuals, and 1000 I. to other charitable purpofes, under the care of the company of itationers. March 15 The Fleet goirg for Gibraltar and the Medi- terranean, have received pofitive arders for failing by a cer- tain day, but the particular ti ae4ip, udently kept a fecret. HaGUE (‘the pleafanteft, Izrfrjl and fineft Village in Chri- lendom, of ihe Low-Corntrics in Holland ) March 3. Count dAffry, Minifter Fleniptentiary from France, in Obedience to His Majefly’s jird e had 2 folemn Con- ferenge with the Deputies 0 es-General, to whom e prefented the followinc g the Germanick Conflitution and Libertics, to offift tho’e Pr:'lrn,' who, beirg unjufily, opprefled or threatened awith approacking Oppreffion, require the Performance of Juch Guaranty. ‘¢ In Conjequence of the Requeji made by the yefu!ral States of the Empire, bis Majefly intends to affemble, on the Lowwer Rbine, an drmy more or lefs numerous, and to aét in one Body, or to be divided into Jfeveral Corps, as the Situation and Interef of his Allies may require. ¢ The King bawing in View the Safety and Tranguility of bis Friends and Neighbours, difives nothing mare fincerely, than to contribute to re eftablifh Peace, as foon as poffible, upon fure and equitable Terms. His Majefly's Troops awill begin thiir March from the 141h, to the 30tb of March, to encamp betaeen the Rbine and the Macfe, near Dufjeldorp. Great Care awill be - taken to prevent giving any juft Caufe of Camplaint to any Posw- er whatfoewer, but more efpecially to the States General. ; ““ The King depending upon their High Mightineffes inviolabl® Obfervance of the Treaty of Neutrality they bave entered into, awill, on his Part, on all Occafions, continue to give them the cleareft Praofs bow much be has their Projperity at Heare. ¢ The King's Troops, fo far from undertaking aiy 1hing which can caufe any Uneafine/s to their High Mightineffes, wiil alt in their Defence, and for their Proteition, in Caje that in Conlequence of their Neutrality, any Attempts lbould be made up- on their. Tranguility, Liberty, or Commerce. ¢ Tbe King, my Mafler, will woluntarily communicate to the States General, jfuch further Refolutions as be fhall determine, in Purfuance of bis Forcfight and Engagements, as Circumflances may require, 3 ““ His Majefly expelts, from the Equity and Friend/bip of their High Mightinefes, that they will not lifien to any falfe Infinua< tions that may be made Ufe of, toimpofe upon them, and that they will place an entire Confidence in the Affurances given them &y his Majefly of the Sincerity, and evident Sentiments of the EReem and Affeltion be bas for their Republick, Sign'd # Count D’ AFFRY. Y et . PHILADELPHIA, Map 26. : On Friday laft came up the William and ,Mary, Capt Southcot from Cadiz : On his Paffage the z5th of April, a bout two in the Morning, it began very dark, and fqual Weather, he met with the Thomas and Mary, Capt. Reed from Jamaica for London, and neither of the Veffels feeing each other, they ran foul ; by which Capt. Reed’s Veffel ha the Rails of her Head, fore Shrouds and Chains, Feretop maft, and Sheet Anchor carried away, and her Bows ftove in and Capt. Sonthcot’s Veffel loft her Head, Cutwatsr, By’ ved confidcrable other Damage, The Thomas sad filled fo faft, that notwithilar fing thais coutnual pumping and ufing all other Endeavours to clear her, fhie funk be wixt five and fix in the Morning ; but Capt. Southcot feein her finking about five o’Clock, fix or feven Miles from himy made for her in order to fave the People, who had got if to the Long-Boad, and came up with them about Eight ¢ Clock, all which he took on board, and brought in hai with him. We hear from Carlifle, that john Paul, and one Mz were lately taken by 6 Indians, near Maxwell’s Fort, Conecocheague, aad carrizd o the Great Cove ; but ti Paul made his Efcape from them in the Night, not be 5 very fecurely tied, and got into Fort Loudoun. It is fas he offered to untie Martin, and take him with him ; but k] was afraid of the Indians tracking them, and refifed to go. We hear alfo from the fame Place, that one Willixg Walker was lately killed near M'Cormick’s Fort, abou Miles from Shipperfburgh, and his Servant Girl carried Prifoner. . Since our laft we received Advice from Lancafler, tha on the 17th Inftant, 5 Men and 2 Woman (who was big with Child) were killed and fcalped by che Indians, abou 30 Miles from that Place, dnd that the Bodies of three of thel Men, and the Woman, had been brougzht down » by ‘ fome in the Neighbourhood where the Marders v m. "mitted. We are likewife informed,that an Exprefs arrive calter on Saturday Morning laft, with an Account ple being killed in one Houfe the Night before. are Letters in Town, which advife of more Murde committed, the Number uncertain : but it is thang arg above 20 deftroyed, befides what may be caniva and that the Frontier Inhabitants are in great Diflrefs, moving from their Plantations as faft as they can. T e Numbers that have done, and are doing the Miichief, not known. Thefe late Marders have been done in Harover, Lebanon, Bethel and Paxton Townthips, all in Lancafles Couanty. § NEW-Y0RK, May 30. Thur(day and Friday laft retarned here from theirCruiz s, | the following Privateers, viz. the Brig. tlawke, Cant Alexander, the Slocp Charming Sally, Capt: Hartis, anc Brig Johnfon, Capt. Grig, each of rz Carriage Guos ; 2 brought in with them five French Prizes, viz three SEps. 2 8now, and a Brig, which they toolt out of a Fleicof2 Sail, between the 7th and 12¢h foft. off the Weft Caucafes asthey were bound fcom Cape Francois o Boardeausx They were vaaer Convey of ¢ Orenzh Meo of War of Line, and a {iiva » 4 B ivotecrs deferied i Jofr the (o, ~Lus el Gl e 2 g g o