The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, February 3, 1758, Page 1

1 v » - ol i 1 i FRIDAY, Fesruary 3. 1758 N NéW-Ham‘pfljire | Lo Containing the Frefbeft /féz’vices By Cupt. M'Leith awbe lately arrived at New-York iz . "mine Weeks from London, we bave the following, viz. L OND O N, Otober 14. Sir, Tothe CITIZE N. Qo dodo do e AM moft credibly informed, that the oo {85380 155 8533 Freuch have been for fix months paft g8ua2e fortifying all their fea coaft towns and 43492 ports in the Channel and Bay, on the % 352 likelihood aril probability only of avi- oedpdpdodfedls fit from u: The thought was nzru- _ral; and youdee, secording * the very volgar faying, “that a ftitch in time faves nine ; fo their welitimed pre- patations have entirely bafiled all our our fecrets, and . all our ftrengsh. : : What an armament we fent out! The ordonance- flores weie almoft exhaufted to ferve this expedition. We have embarked and debarked. We have loft two failors, taken a few guns and men ; and now, and now, accordingly to the firange way of wording it in the pa- pers, they are all arrived fafe at Spithead. Safe and ' _jound has a very odd found, Mr. Citizen, and I with I had never heard it. The campaign now may be looked on as over. The troaps muft foon go into winter quarters ; and a million of money has been {cattered only to raifea laugh a- mong our vifible enemies; and, perhaps, among our- felvestoo. I wifh it may net. . Every yeat produces freth hopes. Thas in the fpring Lord Loudon, and Admiral Holbourn, were to have done Wonders—Kill them, as Captain Bodadill fays. "The Cotfican expedition was to have been fuccefsful too—Kill them alfo 5 but this fecret expedition was to have fecretly deftroyeftthe whole power of France— Zill them alfo 3 ‘while only two failors on oar fide have been killed, and none of our encmies, though we were #li Jack Giant killers a month ago. ‘Fhe dignity of the plan, laid by a Miniftry in vogue with a precarious people, the great opiaion of the chief Commandgr, and the fize of the armament, made every frae Briton rejoice. Manyan exiraordinary batie nas been cenfumed in -additional Bumpers, throughout this tippling Ifland ; but Providence, I believe, would have been better pleafed with private prayers, than fuch Bac- chanalian Rites ; and, except the Rev. Mr. Whitefield, ' and his Flock, 1 hear of no Divine, whoever has thrown even a hint into his fermon, or in'the lift of his addref- fes of troubles and advesfities. We are eicher the moit piods or profligate of all peo- ple. True piety, Ike that of the Pharifees, is not to be {een of men. Perhaps we are fuch ; if not, there is ro other Name left for us, but what I have jult menti- oned. The French, the Lutherans, fing Te Deum, and pray as publickly in their camps, as they exercife. A chap- lin of an Englifh regiment, is a Sine Cure of five fhillings a day fubfiftance, and one fhilling and eight pence ar- rears; and is to be bought (if you will give credit to News papers) every week in the year at Brokers (hops, in the fame manner 2 fiate lottery ticket. A fine in- ftitution to a cure of the fouls of above a thoufand peo- _ ple, as moft regiments haye two battalions. Divine in- fitations indeed ! As we are not heartily with the God of hofts and armies, he o’ courfe is not with us. Itis be, and he only, thatcan #nap the bow, and break the Jpear ajunder. Let us no longer wuflt to ourfelves, bat truft in bim, and him only. Sion-College. Your’s B.B. P.S. We fhaltfoon have the French account of the expedition. *Among ourfelves it appears ridiculous e- - nough ; but when larded over with their animadver-” fions, how will it appear then ? I a!moft dread the next mail, and wifh I could, like certain animals, bury my- fe!f under ground, and fleep out the winter, that every thing may be forgot before I come into day-light again. Adien, s O&. 11. Asthe Sea isthe Element on which the Englith Valour thould, at this important Jun&ure of Affairs, be more efp&cially difp'ayed, it becomes every true Briton to rejoice, that Admiral Watfon and Pocock, Captains Lookhaft and Gilchrift, have given fuch em- inent Proafs of the old Englifh Prowefs and Refolution, and to hope that other Admirals and Commanders will follow their gallant Examples, by which we fhall moft certainly continue Mafters of the Sea. Admiral Smith will hoift his Flag on Board the Royal Sovereign. The Union, which he was on Board for fome Time, is going into Portfmouth Dock to be fitted for the Sea ; ‘which, as foon as done, an Admiral, who is to have the Command of the Channel Fleet, will hoift his Flag on Board. She is eftcemed one of the fineft 90 Gin Ships in the Navy, " The Lol the French hive fufferd in the late Affair Tndia, b their own fictéunts appear to be no lels than soo, 4 1. Sterliggiletides their Credit with the Natives, which they have bren eftablithing by every Art they could make Ufe of. ; : Yefterday a Publican 1#ar Moor-fields, was convid- ed before the Right Hon. 17¢ Lord Mayor, for {uffering fome Jourseymen Breech:s Makers to play at Caids in his Houfe ; and paid t- : Penalty of forty Shillings, as ordered by thelate A : the Journeymen were alfo convifed of playing, and »eid the penalties prefcribed by the faid A&, Threei: ourths of the Money were paid for the Ufe of the [4s f the Parifh where the Offence was committed, 4i# whe nther to the Intormer. Thefe are the firft People conviéied on the late A&t. Oct. 13. It is {aid, that a Peace is negotiating between France and England, under the Mediation of the Kings of Spain and Denmark ; wherein, alfo, are to be incind- ed the King of Prufiia, and the Queen of Hungary. Some Tranfports in the River, iaden with Provifions and Warlike Stores, are ordered to proceed for Gibral- tar, with the utmoft Expedition ; under Cenvoy of three Men of War, affigned for that Service. It is faid, that out of the Troops lately difembarked from the Expedition Fleet, another Draught will be made to augment our Forces in America, and that they will fail in fome of the returned Tranfports as foon as pofiible. O&. 14. The Prefs for Seamen continues as brifk as ever, none being excufed who are capable of Service. His Royal Highnefs the Duke waited on his Majefly on Tuefday Evening at Kenfington. The two prefent reigning Toalts among all Lovers of their Country are, To the Virtuous Remains of Qld En- gland, and, To the Doswnfall of French Powoer, Frénch In- terefl, and French Fafbions. d ; The French, to obtain the Secret of our late Expedi- tion, alually offered a Perfon in publick charafier in Holland, 5,000,000 1. Sterling. The idie Report that our Fleet and Forces returned fo unexpefed from their intended Expedition,in Con- fequence of an Exprefs fent to receli them, purfuant to a fecret Article in the late ignoble corvention ; gained fo much Uredit, that at the grasd Seminary of Corrup- tion, a Perfon offered to lay an hundred Guineas of it, and none of the Company would take the bett. But we can affure the Publick, that the Exprefs fent to Sir Ed- ward Hawke contained a frefh Account received from abroad of the defencelefs State of Rechefort and Rochelle. This account was likewife tranfmitted to the L—t g—I who commanded the land forces, in orded to infpire him with that Confidence, which the Prafpect of certain Succefs will give, even to a Coward, much more to one that bears fo high a Command. By a private Letter from the Hague weare informed, that the foreign Ambaffadors at Paris wrotcto their Friendsin Holland, that the Court and Miniltry of France were thrown into the greateft Confiernation on receiving an Account of the taking of the Ifle of Aix - for they had bent all their Endeavours to provide for the fecurity of Breft, and left the Part of the Coatt, where the [fland is fituate almoft defencelefs, the regular T'roops left ta guard it confifting only of fve Battalions. They concluded that we mult fucceed in the Scheme, which they fuppofed usto have laid, of deftroying all the Shippirg and Magazines of Rochfort, before they could fend frefh-Forces to its Relief, the Country being fo bare of Troops, that they were forced to order thi- ther the Gendarmerie, and two Regiments of the Swifs Guards from Paris, whole March maft have taken up at leaft fifteen Days, the Diftance from Paris to Roche- fort being and hundred and two Leagues. Of the eight Tranfports hound to Ireland and North ~America, which failed under a Convoy from Spithead on Monday the 3d inft. three, with Tranfportson board, were feparated from the Convoy by a hard Gale of W ind on the Wednefday following, and the next Day fell in with a French Frigate of 26 Guns on one Deck, befides her Quarter.deck Guus, which came very near them : But one of the Traunfports (the Vifcount Fal- mouth, Capt. Edw. Edwards) being a Ship of above 600 Tuns, and well fitted, with 24 nine Pounders on one Deck, and well manned, putting on 2 good Coun- tenance, and hoifting his Jack, Enfign and Pennant, the Frenchman run away, taking him, it's fuppofed, for the Convoy. By this bold Bebaviour of Capt. Edwards, it is probable, moft, if not ail of thefe Ships were faved. Aggording to advices from the Eaft Indies, the French were preparing to attack fort George, which they will find a taugher piece of work thanit was when they took it in the laft war.—While they were in pof- feflion of it, they levelled feveral rows of buildings that fiood clofé by the fort ; whereby they did usa good piece of fervice,which our Indis company did not dare tof do, tho’ every military man ha:z‘judged it long neceffary. ‘. 0A. +8. This morning §i/ Edward Hawk fet out for Portfmouth, and is tofail \irecly, with twenty-one fhips of the line, and feven frigh-ss. sl GAZETTE, Foreign and Domej?ick. Extra&t of a Letter from a Gentleman in France, to his Correfpondent in London, dated O&ob. . *¢ Since my laft, cur Letters from Rochefort, of the 28¢th paf2, advife, that the Englio bad then made no attempts of danding on the continent, nor ismow tho't they awill, as they have let flip the moft favourable Opportunity tbt]' could bawe wifped for : But the number of troops now affembled, make the peoples minds guite eafy. It would appear bere @ Fatality attending your expeditions. People bere blyfh for! them.”’ i By the Hunter Cutter arsived from New-York, in company with the laft packet, we learn, thaton the 1 5th of September they.left Admiral Holbourne cruiza ing off Louifbourg ; that he had been joined by four men of war, viz. the Edinbargh, Eagle, . Prince Frede< rick, and ; and that fome Highland troops were. juft arrived from Scetland, or laft Ireland.——When the' teafon will no lenger admit of blocking up the harbour of Louifhourg, then the French fleet will return to Brefts and after its arrival in Europe, a fquadron as ufual, wilk be fent ftom Portfmouth to block it *p; which locks fo much like playing a blind-man’s buff, that the nation which has the fuperiority at fea ought to.be athamed of it: for, while we keep their men of war in port, how can we deftroy them ? England’s game at fea fhoald be offenfiwve, in order to provoke the enemy.to come out of port ; but blocking up fleets in harbour, is, in fa&, att< ing upon the defenfive. : The———,M’Collock, bound from Belfaft to New2: York, is taken and carried into Bayonne. : We hear that admiral Broderick was employed tai take the foundings for the large fhipsto cover the de~ batkation of theland forces in the late expedition : Thag it was refolved they fhould land by moon-light : Thag when the admiral had got every thing.ready for landing; them accordingly, he received a meflage from the geis neral, acquainting him, that he did not think it propeg to landtill the next morning : Th& when morning came, the general fent him notice, that 2 counfel of wap - confifting of land officers, had refolved not 6 'and at all 4 Upon which the adniiral wrote to the general, to know) whether he had any farther f{ervice for his majefty’s fleet ; if not, he would fail for England nextday. The yery ftrong reafons by which the general’s council of war were determined, we have not yet learnt. It is faid, that two French prifoners gave information, thac the ditch round Rochfort, which was fuppoféd to be & dry ditch, was filled to the brim with water ; and that the garrifon could lay the country five miles round un+ der water. The propofitions of peace [poken of about town with great confidence, are, that reparation fhall be made to the Frenck Nation for all captures taken by the Englifh before the Jormal declaration of war, together with all expences and charges accruing thereupon: That the Englifh foall noty Jor a certain number of years, bereafter to be mentioned, give any lett or bindrance to fuch troops of the French na- tion as may be on the ifland of Corfica : That all ihe moweable valuables acquired in Germany fball be unaccount - ed for : Thefe articles being agreed upon, Minorca és 20 be reflored, but under certain limitations. { " The Comedy of Errors, which has been Alting fome) Years in the Britith Dominions, by Perfons of Diftinc tion in high Employments, for the Benefit of the Frencll Nation, and the Diverfion of all Europe, is, we hear,| to be poftponed for fome Time, and Mealure for Mea Jure to be performed in the Room of it, for the Benefi of fome of the Commanders in the late gloricus Expedition What Jeurns to increafe the perplexity of the publick irf accounting for the difappointment of their, late expelialy ons from the late important expedition, is to find among (048 number of officers employed in it the following Gentlemen. Sir John Mordauat, member of parliament for Cracher: mouth, iu Cumberland, knight of the Bath, colonel of thd 10th regiment of dragoons on the Britilh efiablifbmentygo wernor of Sheernefs, one of the equerries, to the king, and lieutenant -general ever fince May 1. 1754. . H. H. Seymour Conway, member of pariiament for St Maaves in Cornwall 5 and colenel of the 4th regiment 4 light barfe, on the Iifb eflablifement ; who was made & major- general Fan. 30.1756. Hon. Edward Carnwallis, member of parliament for the city of Wefiminfler, colonel of the 24th regiment of fout, ord the Britifp efiablifoment, a groom of the bed chamber te the king, and a major general. ' ; 2 It is faid Capt. H—, Capt. B—, Capt, C—, and Mr. W—, a Volunteer, in the late Expedition, went al on Shore near. Rochefort, and remained.gn Shore un molefted two Hours.—But it was in the Night, Extrad of a Lester from Lifbor. Sipt. 25. Au Advice Boat is arriwed at Lifton from Rio ¢ Grande; achich bas bro't fix Fefuits Privaners, and Intelli- gunce to accafiengbe Confeffors of. the King and Zueen of Portugal to be bmifled the Kiogdorm.” : “