The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, August 26, 1757, Page 1

i % 5 £ FRIDAY, Avcust 26, 1757, NE#W-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE, s Containing the Frefbeff Advices Foreign and Domeflick. ;'&@’k'fi"fi"fi"&‘fl"fi"fif’@@'%%i’%%%*’%’-‘k*%%%@‘fi’*‘k'i""fi"fi"fi' fdde bttt lbdddddd b ddddddddddddeds Friday Morning laft arriv’d at Bofion Capt. Jacocks from < London, and bro't Prints to the 20th of June, from which wve bhave collefled the following Intelligences. From the Lonpon GazeTTE, Fune 14th. Camp before PR A G UE, (a wery firong, elegant, and rich City, the Capital of Bobemia ; the largeft in Europe, and the moft populous, except London, Paris, and Con- ftantinople ; fubject to the Emprefs Queen of Bobemia) May 24. LL the Redoubts,and Lines of the Pruffians have been compleated without any Oppo- fition, and the Batteries on both fides of the River are now finithed ; the Mortars and heavy Artillery are arrived, and it is ex- pected the Bombardment will begin forthwith. Laft Night it was perceived that a Sally was intended ; Mar- thal Keith gave the proper Orders, and the whole Camp on this fide the River was alert. About Two o’Clock in the Morning the Fire began. It confited of about 30,000 Men ; they attacked a Battery which was not finithed, from which they were repulfed feveral Times. ‘The AQtion was very obftinate,and lafteft full three Hours, but at Day-break they retired into Prague in fome Con- fufion, without being able to damage the Works, or to | make any impreffion on the Pruffian Troops. What the Lofs of the Auftrians was, we do not certainly know ; , the killed on both fides Iye yet unbaried. On our fide " ghere were 48 killed, and 217 wounded, of whom 13 were Officers. Deferters come in daily in great Num- bers from Marfhal Daun’s Army, as well as from Prague. Tn the Sally of laft Night, Prince Ferdinand of Pruffia, wd his Horfe thot under him, and was himfelf flightly wounded in the Chin. The Intention of the Auftrians in this S?l_'y, was not only to deftroy the Batteries that were raifing, but to have attacked the Bridges of Com- munication which the Auftrians have upon the Moldau, at about one Quarter of a German Mile above and below Prague, at Branick and Podbaba ; and the Deferters fay, their whole Army was drawn out upon the Ramparts, to have fupported the Attack if they had repulfed the Pruffi- ans. The laft Letters from the Prince of Bevern’s Army, fay, that he had taken Pofleflion of Colin, Nimburg, Suchdol, and fome other lefler Magazines. That Count Daon’s Army lay with the Right to Kattenberg, fo ex- tended as to cover Czaflay, from whence they are tran{- porting their Magazine to Chrudim, add it is believed shey intend to retire into Moravia. Hacue, Fune 3. Weare informed from the Fron- *iers, that the Want of Forage in the French Army, par- ticn'arly Hay, is fo very great, -that befides the Cavalry, shich has remained beyond the Rhine, Marfhal d’Eftrees mielf, the Princes of the Blood, and all the Officers of ae Army without Exception, have been abliged to fend back a great Part of their Horfes, in order to {ubfift thofe that remain. Our Accounts from Bohemia, f{ay, that the Pruffians were to begin firing upon Prague the 27th of May : That their Artillery, on Account of the Badnefs of the Roads, did not arrive 'till the 26th ; and that the Sally made by the Auftrians on the 24th, was reckoned 2o have coft them 4000 Men. It is faid, the Elettor of Bavaria has‘affured his Pruffian MajeRty, by .one of his Chamberlains, whom he fent on Purpofe to the Army, that he would fritly obferve a Neutrality : that he had taken no Meafures with the Court of Vienna, but what be had been forced to do, as well as many cther Mem- Yers of the Empire 5 and that he was ready to renounce all his Engagements with the French and Auftrians. From the Lonpon GazerTe, Fune 18. F Vienna, (the Metropolis of Germany ) Fune 1. Marfhal PDaun’s Army is Rill at, or near Czaflau, and it is faid here to confift of 41,0006 regular Foot, and i 1,000 Horfe and Dragoons, befides 15,000 Irregulars. Itis compoied of 46 Battalions, and between thirty and forty Companies of Grenadiers ; 16 Regiments of Horfe and Dragoons, befides 18 Squadrons of Saxon Cavalry ; 8 Battalions of Croates, as marly Companies of Grenadiers, and about 5ooo Huffars, with a Train of Artillery of above 100 *ieces of Ordnance ; and the Day before Yefterday 45 ‘eces of Cannon, 7 om twelve to three Pounders, were .ot from hence to join that Army ; and fifty more are getting ready in the Arfenel. to be fent thither forthwith. Marfhal Daun ftill expeéts alReinforcement of four other Battalions of Foot, befides the three of the Garrifon of Vieona, which marched out of this City lat Week. The ‘Troops that were gathered together at Benethau, are now "difperfed in the Villages upon the Skirts of Moravia and Auftria ; ard they are bufy here in getting ready Arms, Tents, and Accoutrements for them. Itis faid that in “he Jate Battle thirteen Imperial Regiments loft their re- umental Chefts. Count Czernichew, a Major General, wei'ved here within thefe few Days, from the -Raffian Army, with an Account that the T'roops of that Nation were defiling from all Quarters, and would be all at the General Rendezvous as on, the 3oth of lat Month. Camp beford Pracve, Fume 1. The 24th and 25th the Pruffian Almy was kept alert, as another Sally, fronr the Town, was expetied, but, it was not, however at- tempied, and eccept a few flight fkirmifhes, between the Aufirian and Pl’l_ an Pandour%o. jing happen’d till {un_; day the zgth of May.wh‘en, at Midnight,(for fome Hours - before which there hrd been Leavy Rain and Thunder,) his Pruffian Majefty'sArmy,by the fignal of a Sky Rocket, thrown for that Purpofe, from the King's Battery, began firing upon the Town from one Battery on this fide the Moldau, and from three other Batteries on the other fide of that River, all which Batteries being extremely well ferved, have continued firing inceflantly ever fince ; and the Bombs and red hot Bals have had their Effe&, by fetting the Town on Fire in feveral places, which burnt furioufly laft Night, and this Day a new Fire is feen to be kindled. ‘It is impoffible to determine the Damage the Bombardment has already done, or what Effe&t the Fires in the Town will have‘upon the Garrifon, they . having yet made no Propofiticn whatever ; but it is'se- markable, that fince Yefterday Morning, hardly one fingle fhot has been fired fiom the Town, which is impated either to their Want or Ammunition, or perhaps of pro- per Artillery. 'This Morning early about 5000 Horfe, fupported by as many Foot, came out of the Town, on the other fide of the River, near the Wefcherad. They advanced towards the Redoute on the Left of the King’s Camp, wheré Prince Henry commands, but were there {o warmly received by the Fire from the Redoute, that they returned into Town again ; and it is conjeCtured from this, that in Prague the Forage for Horfesbegins to fail. Hague, Fune 10, Letters from the Empire fay, that the EleQor of Bavaria has allually figned a Convention of Neutrality with the King of Praffia ; and that the Minifter, who was fent with it to the Camp before Prague, has already pafied through” Ratifbon on his Way Home, with his Pruflian Majefty’s Rarification of it. Fune 14. 'The laft Letters from the French Army fay, That His Royal Highnefs was extremely well pofted. The two Armies were fo.ncar one another, that they had frequent Skirmifhes, but nothing “of Importance is yet come to our Knowledge. [ Thus far the Gazettes.) L ON D O N, Fune 11. Admiral Hawke is gone to Plymoush to take upon him the command of the Fleet there.— By the laft Eaft India company’s thips Portfield, Edgecote, and Chefterfield, ar- rived at Limerick from the coaft of Malabar and Coro- naridel, there are certain advices, that on the death of Al- liverdee Caun, the late Nabob of the Province of Bengal, his grandfon and fucceffor Sovrajee Dowiah having made moft exhorbitant demands on the Company for ‘money, which not being immediately complied with, marched down in the month of June to Calcutta with an army of 60,000 men, and hath made himfelf mafler thereof, toge~ ther with all the fettlements of the company in the pro- vince of Bengal, exercifing moft ishuman cruelties. 'The French and Dutch having experienced the Fate of the Englith, have made their peace with the Nabob, at the expence of large fums of money,— The Eagle and Med- way Men of War have bro't into Plymouth the Luc d’A- quitain, from Pondicherry, taken from us in the latWar, beiog then called the Northumberland, and with private adventures of the officers on board, is faid to be worth thisty thoufand pounds,— There is near 50,000 French prifoners in England,and yet the Frénch court refufes com- ing to a Cartel for exchange of prifoners, except thofe fhips and cargoes taken before the War at firft be reftored. —The Miiitia Bill has paffed both Houfes of Parliament. =—We are informed that the garrifon of Prague have offer- ed to furrender, on condition that the King of Pruffia would accept of haif of them being made prifoners of War; but that his Pruffian Majefty rejeted the propofal. Extrat of a Letier from Plymouth, Fune 4. It is awith pleafure I inform you, that Capt. Pallifier of the Eagle Man of War, bas this Evening bro’t in the Duc de Aquitain, a French Eaft Indiaman of §0 Guns, all 18 pounders, which is pretty remarkable, and 500 Men. The Eagle newer fir'd till fbe awas awithin Piflol Shot, and en- gaged ber 55 minutes,and had voMen killed,and 36 wounded. dbe Aquitain bas bad §0 Men killed,and near 100 wounded.’ Fune 20. Letters from Holland fay, that the Britith court has required the Landgrave of Hefle Caffel,to order the 10,000 Men of his Troops in the Pay of Great Bri- tain, to march immediately, to join His Royal Highnefs the Duke of Cumberland’s Army. Thefe Letters farther tell us, that the King made Major Grant, who bro’t His Majcfty the News of the Victory obtained by the Pruffi- ans at Prague, a Prefent of 1000 1. Bank Note, a Gold Snuff Box, and a Gold hilted Sword. Yefterdey Morninga Meflenger arrived at Kenfington, from his Royatl Highnefs the Duke of Cumberland. We hear that the French Army was within fifteen Miles of his Royal Highnefs. It is affured the French Army confifis of 80,000 Men, but Jickly, and in want of prowifion and Forage,the Duke of Cum- berland hawing defiroy'd € remos'd the fame for femeLeagues. We are well infurmed that the Meflenger which arrived Yefterday from his Royal Highnefs the Duke of Cumberiand, bro’t an Account, of the fituation of bis Army and that of the French, dvbereby it appears that bis Royal Highnels bad not retreated, as was reported, but wasin a pofition to face the Enemy, that an Engagement was hourly expedied, and bis avbole drmy were in bigh Spirits. ; The fame McfJage brings Aduice thai Count Brown awas dead of bis Wonnds. at ¥iague, v That the Armies and Fleets of Ruffia ave afually in Moti « on, is no longer a Doubt ; accordingly awe are informed that Orders bave been fent to Sir Hanbury Williams, to declare in due Form to the Emprefs of Ruffia, that from the moment ber Majefly's Forces fet Foot ox the Pruflian Territories, and there commit Hoffilities, the annual Subfidy of 100,000 L. payable by Great- Britain by Virtue of the Ireaty of 17535, foall abjolutely ceafe. Fune 20. Yefterday was held a Court of Common- Council at Guildhall, when Sir Thomas Harrifon the Chamberlain, acquainted the Court, that he waited the 24th of May, on the Right Hon. William Pitt, and Henry Bilfon Legge, Efqrs; and prefented them with the Free- dom of that City in Gold Boxes, agreeable to the Refolu- tion of. that Court of the 15th of April : He alfodeliver- ed the Anfwers of thefe Gentlemen,which they had given to him in Writing, and they being read, it was ordered that they fhould be inrolled in the Journals of the Court. The ANsWER of the Right Hon. William Pitt, deliver'd to Sir Thomas Harrifon. ¢ Give me Leave Sir, to requeft the Favour of you, ta prefent, in the moft expreflive Terrs, to the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the City of London the high Senfe I have of the ditinguithed Honour They have been pleafed to do me, in conferring on me the Freedom of the City. ¢ 1 have ever been zealaufly devoted to the Support of the Liberty, Trade, and Profperity of that great and ge- fpeflacle Body : and I am now proud and happy to have fuch Caufe to add the Sentiments of trueft Gratitude for fo generous a Mark of their Favour, and for fo unmerited an Approbation of my ‘infufficient Endeavours to carry into Effect the moft gracious Intentions and paternal Care of his Majefty, for the Prefervation and Happinefs of his People. The ANsWER of the Right Hon. Henry Bilfon Legge. ¢ Give me Leave, Sir, to beg the Favour of you to re= turn my fincere Thanks, to the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the City of London, for having admitted me to the Freedom of their Corporation. © ¢So eminent a Mark of Diftinélior, derived frem tha moft refpa&able City in Europe, and to which {o few have ever received the Honour of Admiffion, cannot but fill my Heart with the higheft Senfe of Gratitude and Re- gard ; and tho™ it far exceeds the bare Merit of meaning well, which is all-1 &ave to plead, muft prove a firong Incentive to thofe, whom His Majefty fhall hereafter think: fit to employ, to exert with equal Zeal, much greater Abilities in the Service of their Country. i ¢ 1 hope every Part of my fature Condu&, confiftently with that which I have hitherto endeavoured to hold, will thew my firm Attachment to the Rights and Privi-, leges of my Fellow-Subjeéls, as well as to his Majefty and his i'lluftrious Family upon whofe Eftablihments the Maintenance of thofe Rights and Privileges does fo effen-, tially depend.’ The Freedoms of the City prefented to Mr. Pitt and M:r. Légge, were finely written by Mr. Jofeph Champion each on a Vellum, beautifully ornamented round the Margin by Mr. Charles Gardner, with the City Arms on the Top, the Lord Mayor’s on the Right fide, and . the Chamberlain’s on the Left. The City Arms was engraven on the Lid of each Boxy The Coft of the Boxes, writing and ornamenting theFree~ doms, amounted to 151l. 13s. PHILADELPHIA, Asg 11; About a Fornight ago three lndians carried off a Boy from Marfh Creek, near the Maryland Line, and wound- cd a3 Man, and aNegro Woman ; fince which many of the Inhabitants of York County, it is faid, are moving away. We hear from Hanover Townfhip, in Lancafter Coun- ty that a few Days ago one Man was kilied and fcalped there by the Indians, and 2 Woman and Child carried off : That on Saturday laft another Man was killed in the fame Townfhip, and two Perfons made Prifoners: And that in Bethel Townthip, in the fame County, and on the faid Day, cae Man was murdered, a fecond wounded {o badly that he died, and a third fhot in the Hand. B O 8§ T O N, Auoguft 2z, By feveral of the Officers and Soldiers, who have re- tarned from Lake George, fince the Surrender of Fort, William Henry, we have a Confirmation of the cruel and bloady Maffacre of many of our Men by the Indians, as they were on their Way to Fort Edward, centarary to the Articles of Capitulation : But we cannot give our Rea- ders any particular or true Account of this melancholly Affair as there is none as yet come to Hand. : By a Letter from an Officer of Diftinttion who was at Fort William Henry in the late Engagement, we learn, That the Officers and Soldiers wete to Masch oat with alt their Baggage, Drums Beating and Colours Flying, and one Piece of Connon, a fix Pounder ; which M, Mont- calm made a prefent of, to Col. Young for his gallant Behaviour in the Lines,—The Garrifon were likewife by Capitulation, to have for their brave Defence, all the Honours which that of Minorea had. ; Monday laft arrived here Capt. Bronfdon, from Bri- flo), lait from Coik, which he left the Reginning of Juse, in Company with the Winfor Man of War of 60 tuns, ghe Granada Bomb Eecich and her Tender, and fowe Merchantmety \ Nowe. 47.