The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, January 13, 1758, Page 1

'y : ; / A A (o . / v From the Lonpon GAzZETTE. it . Warrenavs, Ofober 1. Copy of a LETTER from Mr. Secretary PITT, ¢ Sir .« | Edward Hawke, and o John Mourdaunt, dated Whitehall, Sept. 15. 1757, dijpacched by the Fiper Sloop, and received by them om boerd the Ramilies, the . | 22d Day of September. " S I R, ; IS Majefty, by his Secret Inftrullions, dated the 5th Day of Augutt Jaft, having dire@led the Return of the Fltet under 2 Forces'on board, **fo as’td be i Eilg- «wad, at, or aboat, 3s near as may, be, :he;agj of ' % Seotember, anlefs the Circnmflsnus{ the Shipsand J ™ Fooces, fhall neceffarily require their, ‘gggn;‘o‘opc_r;" .+ Xam now to fignify to you the King's:Pleafure, that 1 P not confidet the abovementioned Time, limited” fo: . .. Return,iapintended, in any Manner, to effell, - 257 ime, be'agreable to many of o ft 2pd - , as « cer, {q}a{z_.an‘g,llifl:fd in Erench, intitAd, The Horrors and ¢ or:..urlere with the fall Execution of the « piit :ipal Objed of thé Edpedition ;namely; 5* Actempt- ‘{'hs as far ‘as (hall be- found praiticable,a Defcent on- « the French Coalt, “at or near Rochfbrt; -1h ordér'ta ¢ o aadk ) if pradticable,’ and, by a'vigdrods Imprefiton,” *¢ forcs that Place, and fo burn and deftroy; to the-ut-! Ju “ met of your Power; all'Shipping; Docks; Magazines,* . <6’ ¢+ apd Arfenals, that thall be found there, and exert ¢ “ {uch other Efforts, as fhall be judged moft proper for * anngring the Enemy.” Apd with Regard to any other paiticalar Attempt, which, agreable 10 your Or- ders you fha'! have commenced, and in the Exebmioh whereof you fhall bg\afi'uaUy engaged ; It is his Ma- jefty’s Pleafure, that you do. not defift from, or break ap the fame, merely, and folely on Account of theTime, limited for yoar Return, by the Inftru&ions abovemen- tioned ; bui that, notwithftanding the fame, you do epatinue, with the Fleet; during fuch a farther Number of Days, as may afford a competant Time, for the Completion of any Operation under the above Circam- fances ; After which you are to take Care to return, L2 ;.’i. «3eh the Fleet under, youe Command, and the Forces L\ onboard, in the Manner direfted by your former Ia- ftra&iops. 1 am, &c. W. PITT. d L ONDO N : . | Odoter 15. We hear there are great Commotions f v\ @t C—t, and that feveral great Men are quite difcarded on Acceunt of their Behaviour in fome late Affairs. vy Wethear the Comedy of Much Ado about Nothing will be played next Week at one of our Theatres, for the Benefit of the Widows and Children of thofe Offi- cers wha were unfortunately flain during the Bombard- nient of Rochelle. 4 Agvices from Provence fay, that they comtinue to : affenible T'roops on the Coafls ; that they were enlift- -+ ing Seamen to Man the Fleet at Toulon ; and that this " Fleet, whick was expeted to be foon ready to put to +t« fea, confifted of 13 Ships of the Line, and fix Frigates. Great Naval Armaments are alfo carrying on in Spain. The Men of War continte fill at Spithead, and it is ; tofitivefi' aflerted, that fome extraordinary Orders will Sbe fent to them after the next general Council. A Convention of Neutrality betweén the King of Praffia and the French Coirt is much talk’d of. . *Tis frongly reported, that a very great Perfonage » has rtfigri’d his Pofts in the Army. ‘We hear that more regular Troops will be fent to Ametrica ia a very thort Time, under a ftrong Convoy of Men ol War, N We hiar that bis Pruffian Majelly has fent pofitive Orders to the Prince of Bevern, not to retire any longer from the Auftrians in Si/efia, but to hazzard a Battle, rather thah let them advance any farther in that Country. . A Letter from the Prufian. Army under Mar/bal Lebwald, ayrittenbefore the late Bartle, and publifbed by duthority at Berin. ¢ The ¢nemy, notwithtanding their fuperiority, are entrenching themfelves, and ftudy only to ruin the J'coun‘try in the moft barbarous manner. The farmers bave fown none of their lands this feafon, and the ene- my forage all withoat diftinétion. Gen. Fermer’s at- my has maintained pretty good dilcipline : and if it has plandered, it has not maffacred, or maimed. . Bat no « '%hing can equal the diforders and cruelties which mark the rqut of the grand army. They cut oft the nofes and ears of the country people, becaule they had no- thing more to give, and their cattle were drove away, » and fold to the army for eight grofs a head. The t Coflacks, they fay, mult have {ubfiteace and; get mo- ¢ ney., Thediforders they have committed ftrike horror. Many of the inhabitants of Pruflia have'been hanged, aey Others have fhad their legs cas off, or ript up alivé and " their ,l,iiearts tore out. Childre¢n have been carried off f1am their ghrents ;and in fhort fuch atrocious cruclties \ » “ ERIDA’i.(," !]ANUAR? 13. I75§" ol ewrHampthire '~ Containing the Frefbeff ‘Aa'fvices ‘your Comtaatd, togerher with th> Laod’ ¢ are exercifed as thock humaq\.nirure, «and willfix eter- nal infamy on an enemy who ali themfelves Chriftians, and who promife nothing but moderation and goed dif- cipline in the memorials they have publifhed. The in- habitants of the country, driven to defpair, take arms wherever they can get them, and endeavour to defend their lives and the few effecls they have carried off to their places of retreat. Gen. Apraxin indeed has cau- fed the officers of fuch parties of Caumucksand Coffacks, among ‘which were threc colonels, to be feverely pu- nithed by the knout, for commitfing irregularities in Lithnauia and “Proffay the rigiy of which punifh- ment has been in this caclexarricdivery far, four of the delinquents who were-condéminéd 1o receive each 200 ftrokes, dying under the hands of taeir tormentors. [ The following little Extrali juts the Calamities of War éin jo firong a Light, and clprains fuch beautiful atdgufl Sentiments, that we cgnhol put believe it will at 1‘ Readers. It is taken o fhe Memoirs of the Buke of o 2 French Offi- ~ o played, hymasnoralizing Warrior. T bis. Nobkw &awaf. “: iam of the z%landy Abti- on zear Parma, blwe}.‘,t&"fiflfie@afis and the French, Juie 29, 1734, o 00 thivsz = §he King Wl 3aritsapy oty theQueen’s Ilinefs had cailed to urin four %y five Days before, returned to the Army ea'ty on the Morning; after the Battle. Everyone !mov'l ghe Valour of this Privce 5 he exprefled ‘2 great Re Jet at having come ‘60 1¥ve, Hic tiAmedjasely vificed weFicld, to fee the Ground on which the Difpofitions: were made for the Engagement. He wasattended by feveral general Of-. ficers, amongft whom I was. » As gur Cavalry had not been engaged, but remained behind at fome diftance, during the Heat of the Battle, I'wis ignorant of what bad pafled. = Cariofity led me to'#ttend his* Majefty, that I might },ear the Accountgiv:.: him of the Affair; but the Horror which reigit’d oa al fides, foon infpired me with different Thoughts. T fafcy’d I beheld, a lit- ‘tle diflance‘: from me, among{t the$lead, a Captain of my "Atquainiance ; [ rode a jittie off from the Road to examine nearer, and found it was he. After paying a Sigh to his Memory, [ caft my Eyes on the Plain, where the Enemy had lefc their Dead. I faw 10 or 12,000 Men ftretched out, naked, and disfigured with Wounds ! Inhumanity it felf muft have melted @t this Spetacle. The Reflettion of Xerxes prefently occur- ed to me : Alas (thought I) all thefe Men were living within thefe tweanty four Hours ! Why are they no more ? What Frenzy has thus led them to cut each other’s Throats ? Were they Enemies ? No. They did not fo much as know one another. Were Glory, Ambition, or love of Wealth their Motives ? Alas, the Memory of the greateft Part of them is buried with them, and all their Recompence is a few wretched {ppils, as the Fruits of their Dangers. But, continued I, am I lefs criminal ? Want, Wretchednefs, or Force has made molt of s4efe, Soldierss - But what obliges #s to fhare in the fame - Cruelties ? Have thefe Men, with whom I am fo earneft to fight on the firk Occafion, ever offended me? Did thefe Countrymen, whofe Grounds I lay wafte, ever commit fuch Hoftilities on my Eftate ? What then is it induces me to act a Part fo contrary to Reafon and Humanity ? Muft I purchafe a poor Renown at the Price of fuch Oppreflion and Blood ? Have I fludied the World from my Infancy, and am I il fwayed by fuch Prejudices ? Is this the true Happine/s I have fo long {ought ? Or can I hope to find it amidft the Tuadiult and Rage of War ?* Guod God /' What weak Creatures we are ! I reafon, I phi- lofophife; T behiold Virtue with 2 Kind of Fondnefs ; yet all my {pécalations have hitherto only ferved to fhew me my own Weaknefs, apd heighten my fhame ?” ‘Thefe Reflections may be cqually applicd to many other Ot- cafions, wherein Men have been blindly facrificed by Thou- Sands to the Folly or Ambition of Monarchs. & NEW-Y ORK, Deceniber 26: We bear by the laff Mail from Albany, that about the 17th Inflant, Five German Deferters came into Fort Ed- ward, from Ticonderoga, avhere they veport, Provifions, were Jo fearce among their Countrymen, that they could bardly find awhere avith all to Jubfiff 5 and, that thry vhemyelives being <willing to make Ufe of the listle Strength they badlefe, (before they were effeliually flarwed to Death) thought it beft to awalk off avhere Provifion was more plenty ; and expelied others foon to followw them : Indeed Cit-is Jfaid thefe Fellows are mere Spellres, (which feem b0 confirm their Report) and that their Strength was al- i) exhanfied when they arrvived, $.cefe Delerters allo give out, that they were Qoo firong at Ticonderoga, all' wery much o' fjatisfied on Qccafion of thair prefent Extremity, { Lhe joip mentioned in our laff Glaxeite to-be ran affuore Nums. 67, GAZETTE, ' Fareign apd Domeflick. #o the Eaftward of Barnegat, proves to be a Prize W2IN taken by Capt. Seymour, in the King of Pruffia Privateer, of this Port, onthe 4th of November laff. She was load- ed with Oyl, and was bound from Cape-Breton to Cope- Francois. The Cargo and People _faved ; but the ¥, el doubted. An Hermaphrodite Privateer is now Jitting out, to be commanded by Captain Telamon Phenix ;5 fbe is. to carry Eleven Guns, viz, Ten 3 Pounders, and One 24. Pounder. List of Shipping now in our Harbour, up to the 24th Inflant, are 55 Ships, 16 Snoaus, 11 Brigs, 18 Sloops, 5 Schooners ;— Coaflers 40, and Wood Boats 59. We include the Fleet lately arrived from Cork, and bis Maj' Jefty's fbip the Scarborough. B O & T O N, January g. Extrad of a Letter from St. Thomas's, dated Nowember ¥z 176 By a Veflel from the Cagesjwe have Advice of a French Admiral in an 84 Gun Ship, with 3 more of the Line of Battle Ships and z Frigates and a Tender having engaged an Englith' 74 Gun Ship and 2z more Englifl'x Line of Battle Ships, off the Cape (who lay ta interrupt all Veffelsinward or outward bound) the En< glith thips of War, the firft and fecond Broadfides, car- ried away all the French Admiral’s Mafts, and kill'd them 700 Men, and fo difabled the other Ships that they were all forced to fly, and get into the Cape again asfaft as poffible : One of the {malleft of the French Ships blew up : and by the French Account one of the Englith Ships of War was funk. ¥ have not heard what Damage the other Englith Ships have receiv'd 3 the French account is, that they were obliged to pata way for Jamaica.” ; We havealfo Intelligence by the Way of Rhode- Ifland, from one 'who was a Prifoner at Cape-Francois the Time of the above Engagement, That before the Fleet put out, 2 or 300 of their principal Men went on board as Volunteers ; and that Commodore Forveit re ; ceived the Fire from the French till they were withi about Piftol Shot, when they apprehended he would ftrike to their fuperior Force ; but to their Surprize he: poured a Broad fide upon their Admiral and then tic-— Engagement enfued, in which "twas faid, above 1cow of the French were kill’d, among whom was the Gene< ral, and the Governour of the Place, and many othes Officers : The Admiral’s Ship was tow’d in with 8 or g Feet of Water in the Hole : A great Number of woua - ded-Men were landed ; fo many, that the Hofpitals could not contain them.—The Engagement was{o near the Land, that the Houfes and Prifon in the Place hook in a terrible manner. Thar{day fen’night laft arrived at Newport Rhode - Ifland, the Privateer Brig Hawk of New- York, molt of the People belonging to Newport, commanded by Capt. \Valentine, (6f whom mention before has been made) that he, in Company with Capt. Shoals, engaged a rich,_ French Ship, which afterwards firuck to a 40 Gun Ship and fent to Jamaica, valued at 50, or 60,000l. Sterling 3 half of which was generoufly given to the two Priva- teers, for their Bravery.—T's faid, the Account is con< firmed by Capt. Valentine, ‘ The above Brig bro’t in with her a Schooner, which they took coming oat of Cape- Francois, laden with Su- gar, Coffee, &c. faid to be bound to St. Enftatia. Capt.) Valentine and two other Privateers of New. York, com manded by Capts. Sheals and Weyman, have alfo taken a French Ship out of the homeward bound Fleet from the Cape, barthen about 350 Tons, laden with Sugar, Indigo, Cotton and Coffee, and fent her to New. Yorlk. Capt. Burges arrived at Rhode- Ifland from Jamaic laft Weednefday in 30 Days, and brings a farther Aci count of the late’ Engagement in the Weft Tadies be tween the Englith anaFrench Squadrons off Hifpanicla «) which is as follows, viz. That ' Commodeore Forref with 3 Ships of the Line, having been cruifing off tha Place for fome Time, interrupting all Vefels inward of outward bound ; the French fitted out a Schoooer a Smuggler) pretending to be a Spaniard, to [cll them Ram, &c. The Commodore imagining the Irrand they came upon was to know his Strengts, told them, they deferv'd to be hang’d, though he would not take that Advantage of them, but delivered them a Number of French Prifoners which he bad on board, and difmif{- fed them with faying, that they might go and téil their Mafters the Prifoners knew better the Strength of his Ships, than they by their Spy ; the Commodgre ‘would not have given them that Liberty, had he vot expetted to have been join’d hourly by the Princefs Mary, and a 20 Gun Ship, whofe Time had been élap,'d fome Days. Upon which 4 French Ships of the Lincand 3 Erigates came out, taking all the Men ouc of the Priva- teers then in the Harbour, befides a great -Number of Volunteers, when a {mart Engagement enfu’d, wherein . the - ’ e