The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, November 18, 1757, Page 2

"Preparations are making to have a great garrilon here. “Fhis winter. The French artillery is ftill at Linden near . this city, where a very farge train arrived ‘the day before yefterday. : ! Paris, Auguf? zg. ‘A rumour is fpread, that aperfon furrendered himfelf at Lyons, confefling himfelf an accom- plice in the late execrable attempt on the life of his Ma- jefly ; and that having made an ample confeflion, wherein he impeached “feveral .great ‘ant refpeftable names, and {i.ning that confeffion, "he was found the next morning dead in the:prifon, though with no apparent marks of vio- lence, and but little appearance of poifon. Part ofa Letter from Stockholm, Aug. 23. “ Don't be furprized that <what paffes in this kingdom is kepte fo fecret. 1 can affure you, that had it depended on the King, none of thofe warlike preparations avbich are mak- ing in Pomerania wwould have taken place this year. There are alually 19,650 men in that- province. Ficid Marfbal Blron Sterenberg “awaits at Stradfand, expedling every pofty orders awhen and swhither to march this wrmy in the faither Pomerania, awbich, we bear, fwarms awith Pruffian trosps, e/pecially at Stetten.” " AmsTERDAM (in Holland) Sept. 8. According toare: lation of the blockade and {urtender of Gueldves, the gar- rifon of that place confilted of 750 men: bat after the capitalation they all deferted, except 41. Hacug, Sepr. 8, According to the lateft advices from the army under the Duke of Cumberland, it went toen- camp on the 3d of this month under the cannon of Stade, where it will run no great rifk of being attacked by the French, notwithRanding their great f{uperiority. UrrecHT, (a great, firong, and popuiow: City of the Low Countries, row. fubjelt to the States) Sept 8. The army of _the Duke of Cumberland having left the neighbourhood of Otterfberg the 3d of this month, marched towards Stade, jn order to occupy the camp marked out there. The ca- valry of his rear guard had fome fkirmifheswith the French voluntiers, in which there were fome killed and wouanded ©n boh fides.. - An Hanoverian detachment has taken poft at Bremervohrde, to cover that diftrict from the enemy’s " incufisns. The French have advanced as far as Rothen- bourg, and have with them a confiderable quantity of field- artillery, befides feveral pieces of heavy cannon and fome . Jnortars. . Thefirft column of the Prince de Soubife’s army was on the zgth ult. but one march from Sala, to advance into Mifnia. ~ His huffars- and dragoons entered Saxony pre- cifely on the fame day that the Pruflians entered it laft year, which was the 28th of Auguft. . According to our lateft advices from Bohemia,” Prince Charles and Marfhal Daun had made no difpofitions for quitting the meighbourhood of Klein-Schonau, becaufe that fitgation was proper for their defign of falling upon - Silefia, as foon as the approach of the armies advancing in:o Saxony thall oblige the King of Pruffia to abandon his poft in Lufatia. DusseLpore, (a flrong City of Germany, [ubjed to the Duke of Newburg ) Sept. 6. ~ The French advance as the Hanoverians draw back. Though the Camp at Rothen- burg was judged to be very ftrong, the Duke of Uomber- lard did not think proper to flay in it ; the Superiority of the Bnemy being fo great ; but has taken the Rout to Stade, even abandoning a very confiderable Magazine. The Endeavours of the French to cot off his Retreat doubtlefs occafioned this Step. The French appear refolved to pur- fue bim il farther, and were on the 2d inft. at Holftein. Brusseis, Sept. 16. The Dioke of Duras, Lieut. General in the French Service, pafled thro’ this City the 14th Inftant going to his Court with the News of a Copan- vention, relaiing to the Affairs of the Electorate of Ha- nover, that has been concladed by the Interpofition of the King of Denmark ; the Articles of which Convention arg ;- " a 1. That the Army under the Command of the Duke of Cumberland fhall immediately feparate and difperfe. II. The Heflians and Brunfwickers return to their re- fpeQiive Countries, there to be diftributed into fuch Quar- gers as fhall be affigned them. - J1L. A Body of 5 or 6000 Hanoverians are allowed to yemain at Stadt ; but upon Condition that they ftir not above half a League from that Town ; and Boundaries . for this purpofe, are to be fixed round the Place. IV. The reft of the Hanoverians are to retire over the Elbe, into the Dutchy of Lawenburg, afually poflified by the King of Great Britain,but contefted by the Houfes of Saxony and Anhault. : V. The Troops included in this Kind of -Capitulation are to remain quiet in the Quarters allotted them, and are ‘. not fuffered. to recruit. What relates to the Contribution, fubfiltance, and Winter Quarters of the French Ariny, has aifo 'beeo fet- , tled by this Convention ; and the faid Army is to keep, during the War, Poffeflion of theCauntries it now occupies. Letters from Germany on_this fubject add, that in or- der to reap immediately the Effe€t of an Event fo unex- pected, and fo glorious to France, Marihal Richlien was going to march for Saxony, with 5o or 60,000 Men, and . yeckoned to be on the zoth Inftant at Halberftadt, a . City, belonging ta the King of Pruflia, already occupied by the Light Horfe of the Prince de Soubife’s Army. ; ey N DR OEN, September 13. Extrad of a Letter from Portfmouth, dated Sept. 12. « Yeflereay in the Afternoon arrived from Lreland the / Heltor and Clinton Eaft- Indiamen, and a Weft Indiaman, under Convoy of the Fougueux, Capt. Jofeph Knight ; to convoy which Ships the Effex, Capt. Campbell, was ordered and failed for Ireland lat Week. Thefe Ships fell in with Sir Edward Hawke's’ Squadron and Tran{- ‘ports, between two and three o’Clock op Saturday Mor- -ning, beyond Plymouth.—He is to take five Ships of the Line from thence. -General Mordaunt, on reviewing the Forces at the Ifle of W_ifir, before they went on board the Tranfports, exhortedevery Regiment to behave like Britons; and he defired the Officers not to take with them any anneceffary '{I}!}aggage, as the Expedition was to be very fhort and very arp. Before ‘the Fleets failed from Spithead, an Order being given for fending the Chefts on Shore, fome of the Infe- rior Officers on board Admiral Hawke’s Ship complained of the Want of Conveniencies'to carry Neceflaries to fhift themfelves, upon which the Admiral told them they would foon be where they would meet with Cloathing and Meney enough. . Laft Week fix Meflengers landed in different Parts up- on the Coalts of Norfolk. We hear that Capt. Geazy was on Friday appointed Commodore of a Squadron of Men of War, to fail from Portfinouth. By Letters that may be dépended upon, from Konipl- berg, dated the z6th -of laft Month, we have a moft dreadful Pi@ure of the Suffering of the People of Praffia. Afcer all the fpecious Manifeftoes and flattering Promifes of the Ruffians, they have alted every where like the moft favage Barbarians, ¢xatting, firfl, under the modeft Title of Contributions and under a Promife of Protection, almoft all that the People had to give, and then brutally plundering them ofall they had lcft, even to their Cloaths, without the lealt Refpect to Sex, Age, or Condition. The Coffacks and Tartars have reduced- feven Villages to Afhes ; and, in fhort, their Behaviour has been fuch, that the Peafants have aimoft every where quitted their Houf- es, and retiring to Marfhal Lehwald, have defired him to give them San&uary in his Army. Iuall the little A&i- ons that have hitherto paffed, the Pruffians. have clearly had the better, and have deftroyed great Numbers of the Mufcovite Irregulars. Laft Week a Mob to the amount of 1500 affembled at Royflon on Account of the Militia, but happily a Party of the Guards arriving in Time prevented any Mifchief. | Letters from Statia, by the Way of Holland, mention the taking of a French Man of War of 74 Guns, called the Scepter. ; The Ufrow, Anna-Maria, Garrett-dill, from Ham- burgh, is fentinto Dover by the Kent Privateer. The Egerion, Sanderfon, from Stockhelm for Mar(eil- les, is fent into the fame Port by the True Briton Priva- teer. The Prince of Orange, Jackfon, from Rhode 1{land for London, with Logwood, is taken by a French Privateer, and carried into Bayonne. > A Ship and a Sloop loaden with Whale Oil are taken by the Jupiter Privatcer of Bayonne. 5 A Tranfport from Dublin to Antigua, with 700 Barrels of Beef, and a Ship from St. Euftatia for Rotterdam, are taken by a Privateer from Bayonne, but not carried in. The Prince George, Willis, from Virginia for Briftol, is taken and carried into Motlaix. A French Sloop of fix Guns, and 40 Mep, has taken the Fanny, Barns, bound to South Carolina, and two imall Sloops, bound to the Leeward Iflands. All the Endeavours ufed ac the Court of Peterfburgh, in order to prevent their Concarrence with the Courts of Vi- enna and Verfaillies in the proje&t of crufhing the King of Pruffia, have proved fruitlefs ; becaufe thofe Courts have had the Addrefs to perfuade the Ruffian Minifters, that this great' point, which they have fo long meditated, might be effeCted in 4 fingle Campaign,and that when once cfl'e.fled, as the Weight of Ruffia will be vaftly increafed, its Friend- fhip will of Confequence : 4 a higherRate by the Powersto whom it becomes necefiary. September 15. ‘The Parole, an advice boat, from Lou- ifbourg for Breft, is taken and b pught into Briftol by the Defiance privateer of that port, by which an account is re- ceived that all the French fleet, except five thips, left Louifbourg the 12th of Avguft. Before the Defiance took her they threw all the letters over board. Extra& of a Letter from Port{mouth, Sept. 13. « Yipterday arrived the Rainbow, Capt. Fobn Kuight, avith the Conway from Plymouth. T bey fell in with the Jqua- dron fome time after the Forgueux did, who vere thex nine leagues avefl of Portland, all well, avith a brifk fair gale. “I'he Rofalliz and the Aimable Julia, both from Bourde- aux, to Martinico and Quebeck, were taken by two Eng- lith privateers ; and as they were condudling them into port, were met by the Prevot of Paris, a privateer b’el9ng- ing to Bourdeaux, who retook the Rofallia, fusk the Aima- -ble Julia, and took one of the privateers ; the other / efcaped by favour of the night. sl The Concord, Thompfon, from Leith, is taken and ran- fomed for 340 guineas. The Colbert, Ferrifter, from Gottenburgh to Holy. Ifland, is taken and ranfomed for 220 guineas. “The thip from Philade!phia for Laondon, carried into St, Malo’s, s the Pennfylvania, Capt. Lyon, be more efteemed, & purchafed at The Merry Catharina, from New York for Amfterdam, was taken by a French privateer, and afterwards lot go- ' ing into Dunkirk. y } The Grand Cyrus, from St. Domingo f ardeas®, is loft at the Havanaah, where the was drove by ftrefs of weather. & f l The marine tradeof France is at prefent greatly diftref{ fed, ipfqrahces being at 735 per cent. aclog fufficient aloner to ruln 1t. . 4 -3 The French Miniftry are at fuch a lofs to raife the iy menfe fums required for the current {ervice, that they have. opened a fubfcription for feven millicus flerling, at feveny and a half per cent. : Whitehall, Sept. 13. The King has been pleafed ta: conftitute and appoint the Right Hon. George Lord An- fon, Edward Bofcawen, Efq; George Hay, Do&or of Laws, Thomas Orby Hunter, Gilbert Elliot, John Forbes, and Hans Stanley, Efgrs. to be his Majefty’s Commiffioners, for executing the Office of High Admiral of the King- doms of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Dominiom,‘ Ilands, and Territories thereunto refpeétively belonging. According to the laft letters from Leipfick, a train of field artillery, and all other requifites for the army, werg. i readinels ; fo that his Pruffian Majefty, upon hisarrival, would be able to meet the French and the army of the Empire in an open country, where, if they fhould happen i 5, K N to be defeated, they will not have either fortrefles or . friends to afford them any affitance. 3 *Tis faid the Pruffian minifter at the Hague gives out, that in lefs than two months, affairs will put on a new face which will aftonifh all Euarope, and give their mafter a great fuperiority over his encmies. ) On Monday the Commiffary General, Jean Baptifta=. Le Peltier, late Mafter, came up the River to Botalphey oo wharf :* This fhip makes 1oz French Prizes brought intg. ™ the port of London only,and entered at the cuftom houfe, fince Augult 1, 1756 ; moft of which fhips have been already condemned by the High Court of “Admiralty as lawful captures. i The Rofs, , from Belfaft, for New York,is retaken by the Lyon privateer, and brought into ‘Briftol. The. Muette Brig, a French prize, boand from Bour- deaux to Canada, very richly laden with bale goods, fmall ° arms, wines, ftores, &c. taken by the Liverpool privateer, Capt. Hutchinfon, and Fame of Guernfey, ia company 4 with the two prizes fafe arrived at Liverpool, wasdrove athore and ftranded in Bride’s Bay, near Milford-Haven, in the late gale of wind, and is entisgly loft ; part of the cargo was faved, but plundered by the natives, Laft week the wife of Samuel Partin, an induftrious la- bouring man at Northall in Middlefex, was brought to= bed of three boys, who were chriftened by the names of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, and are likely to live. - . Sept. 21. Letters have been found on board a French prize, from French Officers at Cape-Breton,moft earneftly . requefting their Friends at Paris to ufe their utmoft En- deavours to get them recalled. = Other Letters, of a later . Date, from the fame Gentlemen' to their Friends, have been found on board another prize, in which they fignified that the Diftrels of the people at Cape-Breton, by the fcarcity and badnefs of provifions, and the Rage of an in- feCtious Diftemper, was fo great, that they (tho’ Officess) would return to France, if they fhould be tried and fhot for Defertion the Day after their Arrival. The Black-Vomit has broke out amoagft the Inhabi- tants and feamen at Cape-Breton. M. de la Mothe has, we hear, loft 700 Men on board his own fhip, by this loathfome and infeflious Diftemper. Sept. z2. The parliament, which ftood prorogued to this Day, is further prorogued to Tuefday the 15th of November next, then to fit for the_Difpatch of Bufinefs. By the laft fhip that arrived with Euglith prifoners from Quebec, which place fhe left the 22d of July, we have Advice, that the French Forces in Canada had begun #’ig Year to be in want of provifions, none having arived there from Old France ’till the 7th of June ; *yhereas their firft provifion fhips from thence generally got there very enrly in May ; and that this had put Them under great anxiety, left the {upplies had fallen in with fome Englifh thips in their paffage ; but that #iere were arriv- ed in the river St. Lawrence before t¥iis veflel fail'd, 15 fhips loaded with a confiderable quaritity, tho® it was tho'c not fufficient to laft them very long . g We have by the fame Vefle, further advice, that ac- cording to the computation mzde by the French at Quebec, the number of their yegulag troops upon the whole conti- nent of Capada, dées not exceed 3000, many of them having died ther€ of an epidemical difflemper which pre- vailed among them, and their freth recruits from France, this year, ngt amounting to more than 7000, and that their regular trsfopsat Louifboutg do not exceed 25co ; fo that the ftate of the French and Englith regulars now in North- Ameyica, ftands thus : 35 Phrench regular troops’in Canada, 3000 ; at Louifbourg 2400 ; in the whole 5500. Englith Regular Troops, viz, Warburton’s, Hopfon’s, Lafcelle’s, Abercrombie’s, Webb's, Otway’s, Murray?s. Highlanders, Montgomerie's and Frazier’s ditto, O'Far- reli’s, Lord Loudoun’s Royal- American Regiment -of four Rattalions, the Royal Scot’s, the four independen® com- panies of New York, three at South Carolina, and one company of Rangers at Nova:Scotia, all which, together with