The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, March 10, 1758, Page 2

— e ~— S SRS i i A To the PrinteER, e, Sir, : . : I Deiire, by Means of your Paper, to proclaim to all the World my Thankfulnefsto ALmiciTy GOD, for a great and won- derful Mercy vouchfafed to myfelf and feverak Thoufands more, and indeed to the whole Britih Nation. 1do not fabfcribe my Name, nor that of my Ship, left I fhould be thought to affeé the Reputation of being religious, and (to confefs the Trath) to avoid that Ridicule and Contempt which (amongft us) is caft on every Ap- pearance of Godly Fear and Concern for the im mortal Soul. On the 25th Day of September laft, zo Sail of the Line and 4 Frigates were cruifing off Louifbourg. A violent Storm came on, blowing direttly in Shore. The Seaburft over our Ships like Moun- tains, carried away Mafts and Rigging, and laid many of our Ships to the Side. Weendeavour'd to relieve ourfelves by beating to Windward, 2nd fome of us by cutting off our Mafts, and throwing Guns and Anchors over-board : But all was in vain ; the whole Fleet drove toward. a rocky Shore. After ftruggling 14 Hours; the neareft Ship (the Tilbury, Capt. Barnfley, dafhed againft the Rocks, and in a few Minutes mo# of them perithed. The Grafton ftruck alfo, but by Gop’s providential Care, and by throwing out ber An- chors, was ftayed a few Minutes. The moft diftant Ship was now but two Miles from Shore, and in all Probability but half an Hour (perhaps not half that Time) from Deftruction.. When, behold ! Let it be remembred, O ! my Soul, while thou haft any being ! Let it be remembered O ! Britain, to the End of the World !—of a fud- den the Wind fhifted round to the Point direfly oppofite to where it was before. A blefled Gale blowing off Shore, carried us clear from Rocks, and Death, and O ! perhaps, (with Refpet 1o many of us) from Damnation. Never was the Hand of Gop more vifible, with Regard both to 'udgement and Mercy. He that Jooks to any other Caufe muft be a biind Infidel indeed. How is this Providedce of Gop calculated auy e ‘anynajpio(q ays Aepjan g, Craquddg ‘NOdNO'T *‘pred spocq mo uy ediy 21 jo auo wouyy paysune[ sem ‘dug un3 ¥4 Cannon, 3 Mortars, and 4 Colours, that we have taken, but it is {2id there are more. 1600 Prifoners, including Deferters, are bro’t to the Head-Quarters. I do not mention the Wounded, becaufe I do not know the Number of them ; but 1 believe that, in this Ar- ticle, we have more than they. Our Lofs is by no Means inconfide- rable. General Wurben #s killed ; Lieut. General Clerici, and Majors General O Keili, Mayern, Gemmingen, and Reichel, are wounded ; M. Keihl, Malter General of the Ordrance, has had his Arm fhattered. The Pruflian Deferters fay, that Prince Francis of Brunfwick, the Prince of Wirtemberg, and General Schuliiz, are wounded. The Body of the Pruflian General Kleift was found on the Field of Battle. Thenext Day the Enemy pafled the Oder, and are marching towards Glogau, after having left a Garrifon at Breflau. The 24th Te Deum was fung. The fame Day the Prince of Be- nedsr 61 pue ‘A(1wipaurun GAOY 2AB3| 03 SAU $1301j0 [ J0§ AifeinuUpyY 3g) jO sp10T I W 4] g = vern, Commander in Chief of the Pruffian army, having been to re- 2.2 connoitre us, had the Misfortune to fall in the Hands of a Body of - & Croats, who were in General Beck’s advanced pofts. He is made % @ prifoner of war, and carried to Stablowitz, where Marfhal Daun’s Quarters formerly were, and is guarded by a Lieutenant and thirty Men. He is treated with every Mark of Diftinction that his Birth and tharaéter, and eminent Qualities, deferve. You may eafily imagine we are not forry for this Accident ; for he cuts us out a deal of Work. Laft Night the City of Breflau defired to capitulate. The Garrifon which is faid to be 3000 Men ftrong, under the Or- " treated in good Order. ders of General Lefwitz, Governor of Breflaq, is to march out thi Day with ail Military Honours,. It is not to ferve againft the Em- prefs or her allies for two Years. Ail the Magazines, Chefts, &c. remain in our Hands.— This is all I know at prefent of the Capitu- lation of Breflau. | _ ; ; Extraét of a Letter from Vienna, dated Nn‘bfl' 26. « Several Couriers, difpatched by Prince Charles, have brought the News of his Royal Highnels’s having attacked the Prince of Be- vern on the z2d Inft. and forced his Intrenchments. This News at ; firlt occafioned great Joy at Coart ; but was much allay’d by the particalars of the action, the moft bloody that Hiftory can farnith an Inflance of. People whifper each other, that, with fuch another Viory, there would be an End of the Auftrian Army. It coft the Lives of Twenty Thouland Auftrians. The Court endgavours, in vain, to palliate this Lofs ; for it 1s eafy to be feen, that.they repent having given Orders to attack the Pruffians, who made fuch a Re- filtance, as was not expected, notwithftanding the many Proofs they have already given of their Spirit and Bravery. In fhort, feveral Generals of the Army have wrote, that the Number of the Slain was equal to the whole Pruffian Army before the Battle. This will not be difficult to be believed, when it is known, that the Heat of the A&tion Jalted from about 11 0’Clock, to fix in the Evening, and that four inacceflible Intrenchments were to be forced, planted thick with Cannon, which fired Cartridge Shot from nine in the Morning, till - the Evening. The Pruflians were never put in Confufion ; and re- Their Lofs is not computed at above 3 0r 4000 Men, in killed, wounded, and Prifoners. Thefe are the only Particulars as yet come to Hand of this bloody Battle, which does as much Honour to the Pruffians as to the Auftrians. Some Letters even affure,that the Prince of Bevern only retreated to fpare his Men, L. O Do : Dec. 13. Asto the battleof the 22d we hear by private letters from Holland, the Prufians repulied the Auftrians five times ; and B = 2 ® s to ftir us up to fear fo greata Gop, whom Winds and Wavesabey ; the Prince of Bevern, thinking the affair was over, difpatched a cou- 5 ‘.? " to obey fo gracious a Father, who in the Midft of Wrath remembers rier to the King of Pruffia, advifing him, that he had beat the Au- == g Mercy? Blefled, for ever blefled, be thy Mercy and wondrous Love, ftrians ; which advice being direéily forwarded, to England, occafi- ;’:E @ Ol glorious aLmiGHTY FaTner. Tothy tender Care ] owemy oned the report laft Thurfday, that the Pruffians had gained a com- 8 » o Life: and to thy Mediation and Interceflion O ! bleffed Jesus.—- pleat Victory : But the fame Letters now inform as, that the Auftri- o O ! enable me to fhew forth thy Praife not only with my Lipsbut ans returned to the charge in the afternoon, and after four other yi- ~ & & with my Life, by devoting myfelf entirely ta thy Service, Ol Gon gorous attacks, forced the Pruffians to abandon their intrenchments, 2E 0 of my Salvation. o and retire towards the King of Pruffia’s army, which was then with- il e From the LONDON GAZETTE. ; in two or three days march of Breflau. The Prince of Bevern, S & Extra& of aLetter from the Imperial Army near Breflau, November 25. bringing up the rear of the retreating troops, as every brave expe- 2« Notwithftanding the different Metions of our Army for feveral riensed General does, was carried off by a party of Nadafty’s light £ B Days, the Prince of Bevern did not ftir. On the zoth he had al- horfe. \ § & ready fent the Baggage of his Army into Breflau ; at Jaft,on the 22d, By other letters from Holland by yefterday’s mail we are inform- o g we attempted to diflodge him by Force. ed, that the Auftrians made no lefs than eight feveral attacks on the & & ' The Cannonade, which was one of the moft violent that ever Pruffians, under the command of thke Prince of Bevern, and that they % % was heard, (we baving made ufe of Forty 24. Pounders,befides other were as many times repuls'd with great lofs, and were at laft obliged B 5. Pieces of a fmaller Bore) began at Half an Hour paft Nine 0’Clock to defift from their Attempt. And that two days after the retreat 5 ?3 in the Morning, and continued 'til One, when the Fire of the Small- of the Prince of Bevern, the King of Pruffia had joined his forces, 2 o 'Arms began, which was the fharpeft I ever faw. At lat we carried marched and attacked Count Daun, and gain'd a complete victory. & 2 our Point by clearing the Redoubts, Defiles, Morafles, and what- Yefterday the court martial met at the Cockpit, when feveral per- & £ ever other Oppofition Art and Nature had thought fit to oppofe to fons were examined, touching the poffibility of landing the Brutith £. 0 us. The Refiftance of the Enemy was moft ebitinate ; but atlaft forces at Rochfort, &c. They are to proceed upon the faid exami- E. 2 they found themfelves obliged to yield to Numbers, and to abandon nations daily, except Sundays and Holidays. There were prefent a & o the Village of Pilzenitz. Our Right did not meet with fuch Re- confiderable number of members and other perfons of diftin&tion, and 225 fiftance as the Left, where the Fire began ; for the Enemy, at the an additional guard placed at the gate to prevent any difturbances. ¥ B’ very Beginning, drew the greateft Part of their Troops towards the Letters from Leghorn bring Advice, that his Majefty’s Ship thg k- Y- Right, and there concentered their Force. The Fire of the Small- Hampton Court, Capt. Hervey, is loft in a harfi Gale of Wind in | 2 g o Arms lafted till Five 0’Clock in the Evening, when the Enemy be- the Bay ef Meftina, and every fou! on board perifhed. \ = @ 2 gan toretire towards Brefliu. One Part of the Army threw them- On the 3d Inftant the Succefs Man of War arrived at Plymouth, Ik ® 8 3 felves into the City,and the reft pofted themfelves under the Cannon. with ten Sail of Tranfports. ik . Bt :&; ‘2. Night prevented any further Progrefs. The Peter, Kennedy, bound from Bofton to Briftol, is loft in the 1 286 « We have loft a great Number of Men ; the Enemy rallied North Channel. All the crew perifhed,except the Capt.and one man. ‘ @ 3 £ three different T imes, and the Defiles prevented our extending our- Fan. 10. An Englifh Shep with 300 Pipes of Oil, is: taken by { & felves, and caufed now and then fome Diforder, of which the Prof- the French, and carried into Mahon. ! ' = fians availed themfelves. Hitherto I have only feen zz Pieces of Five loaded Colliers, two of them large, were carried into Dun- kirk the 3oth. Fan. vo. We hear that the Rio Fleet was delay'd fome Time at the Brazils, on Account of the Toulon Squadron, which put in there to refit, bound for the Eaft Indies. This Squadron fail’d from France with General Lally, and fome Troops on board.—They were to fail from Brazils in September.—Itis certain that the French Fleet was at the Brazils in Auguft laft ; therefore, it isim- poftible that this Fleet fhould yet have made any Attempt on our Settlements in the Eaft Indies. Commodore Stevens fail’d in April Jaft from Torbay, with four Ships of tke Line to join Admiral Po- cock, which he probably will do before the Toulon™ Fleet arrives there. ; ; Cuarves-Town, (in South-Carolina) February 2. Laft Sunday Night arrived an Exprefs from Fort Loudoun, at Tenefee in the Upper Cherokees,with the agrecable News, that tho’ the Little Carpenter had been unfuccefsful in two former Expediti- ons againft the French, yet he was returning from a third, with un- doubted Proofsof Valour, and of his firm Attachments to our Inte- reft, having got no lefs than twelve Scalps, and three Prifoners. I¢ feems, he went towards a French Fort (faid to be lately erefted, and , fuppofed to be fituated either where the Ohio or Cherokee River falls in the Miflilippi) within two Miles whereof his firft Adventure was, they falling in with a French Lieutenant and five Soldiers, all which he killed and confequently fcalped : After this he proceeded Newbury LOTTERY TICKETS, Part Firf?, to be Sold by the Printer of this Paper. S