The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, December 9, 1757, Page 1

. - o~ N <« Rochfore. 4 el FRIDAY; bfi.';;:émnzn 9. 1787 The New-Hampthiref the Frefbeft Advices Containing 4 ok 3z : The following Advices were brought by the Captains Jacobfon from London, -azd Noldrid and Baker from Brifiol, awbo arrived at Bofton /aft Weck. HAGUE, (in Holland ) Sept. 27. Y .an Exprefs from Berlin, we have juft received an Account, that, on the 13th Inftant, the Rof- fian Army made a precipitate Retreat out of Proffia,which was executed in o hafty a Manner, that they left all their Sick and Wounded behind them, to the Amount of 15 or 16000 Men, and 8o Pieces of Cannon, &c. Marfhal Apraxin mafk'd his Dcfign,by ad- vancing all his Irregalars towards the Pruffian Army, fo that Marfhal Lehwald was not informed of it, "cill the third Day, when he detained Pricce George of Holftein, with 16,000 Horfe to purfue them, but with little Hopes of coming up with them, as they made forced Marches, inorder to be the fooner in their own Country. The Caufe of this extraordi- nary Event is not yetknown. ‘M. Lehwald was faid to be marching to Pomerania. By our Account from Germany, the French, under the Prince of Soubize, fly before the King of Pruffia. ‘T'hafe which Marfhal Richelieu feem to move much flower, fince the Arrival of Prince Ferdinand of Brun{- wick in the Datchy of Haberftadr, with a Corps of Troops, who has defeated the Van Guard of the French near Egeln, confifting of 1000 Men. The French feem to keep to Hartz Mountains inftead of following the Plain, which may retard ard embarrafs them confiderably ; and it {feems very uncer- tain, whether and how the Junétion of their Army can be made. The French continue to extort Forage and Contri- butions from all the Countries they go through in ‘the moft exorbitant Manner, and, of late, their Deiiands have rifen confiderably. One very melancholly Circumftance attend - ing their Abode in Lower Saxony is, that they have not left Corn enough to the Farmers to fow their Winter Grain, which may create a more violent Calamity hereafter. [Lon- don Gazette. i From the Camp at Clofler Sewen, Sept. 14. We have no more enemies on this fide, and therefore are going to maich to the King of Pruffia with the greateft part of our army. The Duke d'Antin Peer of France, and Major Gene- ral of the Kings armies, died laft Night at Breemen of thefmall pox, aged 35. . ) Paris, Sept. 23. An Exprefs has brought Advice that the whole Coaft of Brittanny had been kept eight Days in conti- nual Alarm by the Appearance of the Englith Fleet. Héimburgh, Sept. 23. 'The Duke of Cumberland having made an End of Bufinefs at Stade, will {oon fet out for En- glind. We flatter ourfelves that he will ‘attend hisSifter the Prince(s Mary hither, and horour us with a Vifit. FonTAINBLEAU, (@ moff delicious Village of France ) Sept. 2c. A Courier arrivedjuft this Inftant, brings Advice that the Englifh bave taken the Ifle of St. Oleron, (atwhich Place was the Regiment of Rouergue, compofed to two Battalions, commanded by the’Marquis de Schelles) and landed {oon af- terwards ncar Rochelle. The King’sHouthold Troops have received Orders to march direély thither. The Ifle of Oleron is fituated upon the Coafls of Aunis and Saintonge at two Leagues Diflance from the Continent near It is five Leagues in Length, two in Breadth, and tawelve in” Circumference, and is reckoned to contain about 12,000 Inbabitanis who are excellent Seamen : The principal Places theriof are the Tower of Cheffiron 5 St. Dennis 5 St. George; Dolus ; Sauzelles ; St. Pierre 3 la Canezel ;3 St. Andre ; la Paroche, &c. Cologne Gazette. E Bristor, Oclaber 8. It’s faid the learned Dr. Bradley "€ has, for 14 fucceflive Nights viewed the COMET from "the Royal Obfervatory at Greenwich ; that it is fcarcely vifi- ble toithe naked Eye, and even with the help of a double Telefcope very little of the Tail is difcernable ; and that it appears to be, in every Refpe&, the Comet foretold, except in its, Direétion, which proves to be contrary to what was expc€led, and is going towards the Sun with great Rapidity. L o) N D (o} N. : WHITEHALL, Ofocber 8. Eferday an Account was received that the Fleet and Tranfporte, under the Command of Sir Epwarp Hawke, were arrived at St. Helen's, having failed from Bafque Road on the fir® Initant. _ Onthe 23d of September Sir Edward Hawke ordered the ” Vice Admiral with his Divifion, compofed of the Magna- niime, Baifleur, Neptune, Torbay, and Royal William, Fri- gates, Bomb Veflels, Fire Ships and Cutters to attack the 1fle of Aix, between the Iflands of Rhe and Oleron; the Magnanime led, and about T'welve the Fire began from the “Fort, with Shells and Great Guns, and continued while our Ships approached, till about ten Minutes after Ong, when the Magnaniime brought up within lefs than-forty Yards of the Fort where fhe kept an inceflant Fire for about thirty five Minutes, as did the Barfleur, which brought up about five Minutes after her, abreaft of the Fort. About Three Quar- tersafter One the Firing ceafed, the Garrifon having ftruck fheir Co'ours, and farrender’d. _ They had in the Fort, 8 Mortars of about 14 Inches Dia- meter, and 30. Guns, 16 of which were 18, and the Remain- der about 14 Pounders. The Magnanime, tho’ damaged in her Rigging; Yards and Mafts, yet had only two Sgldiers Killed; and 11 Men wounded ; of the Garrifon, which/con- fited of near (joo {cgmen =3 foldiers, only one wwdkilled, and 4 or 8 wainded” T ks of this Foit kdve been fince blo ; 3 fRaag N P ‘The Duke de Mirepoix, late Emb: adér fiom the French King to the Britith Court,dizd on the 2 sthepalt at Montpeher., October 6. We can affure the Publick, from undoubted Authority, that the Troops under the: Command of Lieat. General Morcs 1ot have landed at Rechefort, and when the Exprgfs came away, the Fieet, &c. wére preparing to bom- bard it with the utmolt Vigoar. There are nine Men of War on'thg Stocks, befides a large Quantity of Stores in the Magazmcs, and a Fleet of Merchant fhips ready to fail. Since receiving the foregoing Acceunt, Capt. Skinner in the Viper Sloop of War, is arrived Exprefs from Sir Edward Hawke, and brings Advice, among other Particulars, that he h_z;_s taken Rochefort, in which was aboyve 2000 Men in Gar- rifon. Letters from Oporto, dated the sevof Sept! give a-moft dreadful Account of a moft violent Shock of ah EARTH- QUARE, which had entirely deftroyed the Ifland of Fyall. Ii-is one of the Weftern Iflands, inhabited by the Poriugueze, and counted very rich. From Dantzic they write, that Advices had been received at Warfaw, by the Way of Bender, that the Turks had de- clared War againft Ruffia ; which, the Departure of Count Apraxin from Pruffia, and his forced Marches to get back to ‘Ruffia, feemed to confirm. Odtober 4. Yefterday Mr. Mitchel, charged with the Af- fairs of the King of Pruffia, received an exprefs from Marfhal Lehwald, informing him that there had been a revolution in Ruffia-, and that General Apraxin was marching his army back into that Kingdom, leaving behind him gooo fick and wounded, The French have declared to the magiftrates of the Im- perial city of cologne, their intenticns to pafs the winter with them, and have farther demanded 150,000 rations of forage, for the ufe of their cavalry. October 6. The following Declaration, figned by Lord Holdernefle, it’s faid, has been fent to aH the Foreign Mini- fters refiding atthis Couart. ** The King bawing caufed an Account to be laid before bim of the. Reprefentations of Mr. Mitchell, on Accaunt of certain Overtures made by bis Majofly's Electorate Minifless” concerning the bad Succeffes in Germany, Orders, that fbm}:g of Pruffia’s Minifter, Jbould be told in Anfwer, that i:,;wa} newer his Majefty's Intention that the [aid Owertures, made without the Participation of the Britifb Coun- cil, fhould bawe the leaft Influence over his Majefly’s Conduli as King. He looks with the fame Eye as heretofore upon the per- nicions Efeéts of the Union betaween the Courts of Vienna and Verfailles, which threaten to overturn the whole Syflem of pub- lick Liberty, and the Independency of all the Powers of Eurape ; and confiders it as a fatal Conjequence of thés dangeross Connec- tion, that the Court of Vienna has already delivered the Ports of the Low Countries into the Hands of France, contrary to the Faith of the moft folemn [reaties,- at Jo critical a funilure, Whatever may hawe been the Succels of drms, kis Majefly is determined to perfift, in Concert avith the Eing of Pruffia, in the mofl efficacions Means to frufirate the unjufi -and ofprifive De- Jfigns of their common Encmics 5 and the King of FPrufia may affure bimfelf, that the Britifhb Crowwn wwill continue [irictly to JSulfil bis Engagements with bis Pruffian Majefly, and [fupport bis with Rejolution and Vigour. Done at Whitehall,Sept 16.” S e T o e N R S S S S S KINGSTON, in Jamarca, Offober 4. By Captain Bernard who arrived here on funday laft from Gibralter, we have Advice, That the brave Captain ForTunaTUs WRicHT, hdving fel-#® with a Freneh priva- teer, (fitted out at T'oulon on purpofe to deftroy Capt. Wright, on account of the incredible damage he had done their trade in the Mediterranean) and engaged her for near four glafles, during which the Frenchman feveral Times attempted to board him, but was conftantly beat off, and at laft received a fht betwixt-wind and water, which obliged him to bear away to ftop a leake ; upon this Capt. Wright crowded {ail after him, but a (quali coming on, his lee guns broke loofe, the force of which oveifet the Véflel, aud every foul on board perifhed. PHILADELPHI A, Nowember 21. Since our laft the Captains Hamilton, White, and Powet, came up from Jamaica. In their Paffage they faw a [mart Engagement betwixt a Privateer of Jamaica, and a French One, between the 1fland of Navafa and Cape Tiberoon, which lafted for about T'wo Hounrs, in which Capt.. Mackey, (of the Jamaica Privateer) loft 5 Meén, and had feveral weunded ; and 'tis thought the Fréenchmen’s Lofs was cone fiderable,as he thought proper to make the beft of his Way off. Monday laft Capt. Condy arrived liece from Halifax ; as did a Slaop from the fame Port, in which were a Number of our Soldiers that were taken at Lake George. Captain Condy was chafed feven different Times in his Paflage, by a-black Privateer Brig, with a white Bottem, but having ge- nerally Wind enough, he got clear. NEWARK, New-Jersey, November 23. » Extrafl of a Letter from Licutenani Rickey, dated at the Head- Duarters, on the Frontiers of New Jerley the 17th Inft. « Sir, I have the melancholly News to tell you, that yodr Friend John Doty, was kill'd, fealpt, and butchered in a bar- barous Manner yefterday, within two Mile of the Fort ; as was likewife Serjeant Mahurin : there was a Soldier with them, all on Horfeback, when fivz Indians in Ambuath fired, killed the two, and fhot thro', the Sodizr's Great Coat, when he immediately got down, an§ one of the Stsages runtowards it with Ais Togbhawk -n‘_,;_;*\,‘{'” i him with Ris TP oL . ~Nuowms, 62. | GAZETTE, . Foreign and Domeflick. e he killed one of them. The Inhabitants on the whole Fron-' tier is fo terrified thar they are moving, the Reft“gathering together, and ftockadoing themfelves in the beft Manner” thicy can. {am, &&e? . ¥ N E W.-.Y O R K, Nowenber 28.. Our lait Accounts from Albany are of Thurfday laft,which pofitively affure us, That a Body of about 300 Indians and 100 Frenchman, had attually fallen on that Part of the Ger- man-Flats fituate on the North fide of the Mohawks River, and burnt and deftroyed every Houfe they came a-crofs, had killed and fcalp’d above ten or twelve of the Inhabitants,and carried away Captives at lealt one hundred and ten more, Men, Women and Children, befides the Cattle, killing fuch Beafts as they could not carry away ; that fome of the ladizns continned-arehe Flits nearthreeDays, laying wafle the Country : And that one of the Captives had made his Efcape from the Enemy, and come back, reporting, that on his March he lag’d pretty much, which the Enemy did‘not Notice, and that coming near the Oney da Lake, (about 25 or 25 Leagues on this fide of Ofwego) he obferved 2 Num- ber of Frenchmen to be very bufy in landing of Cannon, in order, he thought, to ereét a Fortification either on the Lake or fomewhere on Woad Creek. Wednefday laft returned from a Cruize of about § Weeks, the ( extraordinary fuccefsful) Privateer Sloop Harlequin,'. mounting eight fmall Carriage Guns, a few Swivels, and cf©] rying 40 Men, formerly one of our conimon Pilot Boat\* fhe brought in with her (and it would have prov’d a Wond®j if fhe had not) a French Prize Ship which fhe took on the 2d Inftant, in Lat. 28, 30. Long. 59, 17, after a taught En gagement from Day Light 'till g 0’Clock, when Monfieu: ftruck : fhe mounted eight large Carriage Guns, had go Men, and is cailed the Marfhal De Refellue, Monf{. Delbroil, Cont mander, Burthen between 250 and 300 Ton, is an entirg new Veffel, and loaded with 533 Hhds of Sugar, 166 Bar rels 49 Tierfes and 17 Hhds of Coffee, befides other Things This Ship was bound from Martineco to Old France, and fail’d in Company with ten fail of Merchantmen and fou Men of War, one of 64 Guns, one of 54, and two Frigates One Mr. Cunningham was a Ranfomer on board of thi Prize, fhe having taken an Englifh Veflel and ragfomed 'eg ;or £L.5000 Sterling, a few Days before the Harlequin to er. A The fame Day arrived a Prize Ship called La Francois Peter Tourame, Mafter, taken Oétober 24, in Lat.'19. Long 58. by-the Sturdy- Beggar Privateer of this Port, Capt. T'rens fhe was bound from Merfailles to the Weft Indies, anc if loaded with Claret, White Wine, Cyprus ditto, Brandy, Soog Candles, Olives, Capers, Anchoves, Almonds, Oyl, &c. e mounted 6 Guns, and had 33 Hands. Extrali of a Letter from on board the Privateer Slop George of this Port, Capt. Haley, dated at Sea Oftober 17, 1757 ¢ On thurfday the 11th Inft. about eleven in the Fore noon, we faw a {ail to windward bearing about S.E. from us, when we lower’d down all fails that fhe might not difcove us, thinking it moft prudent to wait for her coming, as-fhe ftood right before the Wind. About 3 or 4 we made {3 and ftood to the northward, when the fhip haul’d dow ftudding fails and ftood after us, hoiting a French jack, en fign and pendent. About 5 we got clofe along fide of hi and began the engagement, which continued aboutan ho and a half, in which we had one man killed and two woung ed, alfo four blown up by an accidental fhot which ftove o of oar cartouch boxes, and one of our Matches catched t Powder. Night coming on we left off engaging uatil ¢ Marning, the fhip dropping her courfes and ftood before t wind s before, when we made fail after ber, in the m time mending our fails and rigging, and putting every thi in order for afecond cngagement. - A, [%-u light the ne morning, there being but littie wind ¢ ;59 0018 7 rowed, in order to get along fide of K tinoal fire on us with her fltern ghace half after 11, at which tim throw a fhot out of our hand ups our fecond engagement, which I‘ ¢ : fide and broad-fide, during whichilie Ths 5 /) e fire kept up with great guns,“fwivels, and imall hems oo b fides. In this engagement we had 5 killed and 12 woun.: our fails and rigging fo difabled that we lay as a “wreck o the water, our ftays, fhrouds and takles bging all hot a@,p' our fails torninto thoufands of pieces, hu "_‘I‘ii},, v the muzzel of ane of our guns hota, “ e abled, our maft badly wounded and ¢80 and through.” Thus mayled we lay, unable to, attack, "Wirnn a e te {prang up, and the 1 fails drawing, {he fhot 2*4ud of us, while webeheld her w\ | evil eyes going off, not in a condition to follow her.:~——- She was confiderably fuperiour in-force to what we ¢ pefted, having 22 guns, moft o which we believe 1o be pounders, as we picked up two pieces of a nine pound i which went through our deck into the hold ; wlfo having 3 {wivels fore and aft, and in her tops, and appeared full.o men. We are fenfible fhe was much lifabled id her riggin and had their mizzen yard'and top maft:fhat away 5 w ' feveral of their men fall from their tops, and concludZ™ ¢ lofs among them muft be great ; their bull no doabt did ai {uffer, as we levelled well, and was fo long along fide of & but the particulars of her damage we cannot p / you, only are fure it cannot be finall, and hat y - of the la {hie mads rh '