The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, March 17, 1758, Page 3

Exiralt of a Letter from an Officer in Prince Ferdinand of Brunfwick's Army, to his Friend at Stade, dated Al- tenbagen, December 16. ¢« Marftg Richlieu makes War asan Incendiary. At the Approach of our Army, he caufed the Suburbs of Zell to-be burnt down without Neceflity, after having firt plundered the Houfes. He likewife adds Cruelty to Devaftation ; witnefs the Hofpital for Orphans at Zell, in which the greateft Part of the Children were burnt, and thofe who attempted to efcape the Flames, by lea- ping out of the Windows, perifhed by the Fall; and all this though we made no Motion towards the City cither Yefterday or the Day before, and confequently the Enemy could not have thelealt Pretence for fuch Barbarous Excefles. They alfoburnt down Yefterday all the Farm Houfes and Buildings belonging to the King’s Sheep Walks, after having firlt entirely plunde- red them, without paying the lealt Regard to Prince Ferdinand’s Reprefentations to Marfhal Richelieu.” From the St. Fames's Ewening Poft, of Fanuary 10. Hacue, Jan. 3. Extra& of tawo Letters awhich are Juft come to Hand, one dated from the Head Quartersof the Hanowerians, at Ulzen, Dg. 26. and the other from a French Officer, dated Zell, December 28, The Purport of the former is as follows : : ¢« After having ftaid feveral Days in fight of the E- nemy, who had retired with Precipitation behind the. Aller, and broke down the Bridge of Yell, behind which City they intrenched themfelves up to the Chin, his fe- rene Highnefs Prince Ferdinand of Brunfwick, confi- dering that the Troops fuffered much by the Rigour of the Seafon, has tho’t fit to march to this Place, in order to canton them. ¢ It was Yefterday in the Morning that the Army ‘began to move this Way, after having offered the Ene- my an Opportunity .to give us Battle, which they did not chufe to do. All that they did was only caufing us to be obferved during our March, by fome Detachments ¥, -of Light Troops, who never dared to break in upon us: Nay, a Body of 5 or 600 Cavalry, Dragoons and ~ Huffars, having advanced towards this Place Yefterday, ran away at the Approach of 300 Dragoons. % The Sequel will quickly fhew you whether we are . defirous of comingto blows withthe Enemy : In the -mean Time nothing has paffed between the two Armies - but what I have juft related, which is ftrictly true.” : The French Officer’s Letter runs thus : _%¢ Mavinal ‘Richelieu having received his Reinforce- . ments, made between the zoth and 24th, the proper . Difpofitions for attacking the Army of the Allies, under " Prince Ferdinand of Brunfwick. The 2z4th in the Night the French Army crofled the Aller, on feveral * Bridges : The Divifions on the Left, mec with very few Obllacles in the Villages that covered the Right of - the Enemy’s Army : The Centre foand their Camp abandoned, and the Enemy retreated fo haftily thac it was impoffible to overtake them ; only fome light Troops were ordered to purfue them. The 26th we made 5oo of them Prifoners, and killed and wounded as many as their hafty Retreat would allow us to come up with. We did not loofe above 20 Men in the Purfuit. We have taken many Waggons full of Bag- gage and Provifion. The fame Evening the Volan- teers of Flanders carried off from the Enemy 120 Hor{- es, and many Waggons laden with Equipages and Pro- vifions. ¢ The Marfhal was back at Zell the 25th in the E- vening, and has fixed his Head Quarters there. The Enemy marched 24 Hours fucceflively in their Retreat, and took the Route of Lunenburgh. *¢ Letters of the 2gth, mention pothing but that the Enemy continued retiring. We owe this Succefs to the Marfhal, who, by his prudent D.fpofition, hindered Prince Ferdinand from attacking him before his Army was re-aflembled, and obliged him to march back as {oon as it was poflible. ! WILLIAMSBU R G, January 27. The Johnfon, Capt. Gawith, from Liverpool, is ar- rived in Rappahannock River, and has brought in with = him a French Banker laden with Fith, valaed at 1000l. By him we are advifed, that the Elizabeth, Heyfham ; the Hannah, Bork ; and the Otway, Salifbury, are ar- rived at Liverpool : The Oxford, Barnes, from Mary- land, is loft near Liverpool, but Part of the Crew faved. "ANNAPOLIS, February 16. We hear that Capt. Pearis, and two Suba'tern Offi- cayrs, with 30 Soldiers, and 20 Cherokees, went from Fort Cumberland the latter End of January, with an Intention to proceed to Fort du Quefne. TheWeek before laft, John Lane, ard Griffith John- fon, being out on a Scout, pretty far up on Patowmack, they came a crofs the Tracksin the Snow of fome In- dians,which they followed and came up with onGeorge’s Creek, near Savage River, at Night; when the In- dians,being Nine in Number,topped and made a Fire, and Lane and Johnfon fired upon them, and knocked down Two, but one of thém got up again, and made oft with the other feven; Lane ran into fcalp his Man, but whillt he was ftooping down, his Backfide being to- wards them, the Indians fired a; him, and one Bullet went through the Crotch of his Breeches, making two Holes in them, and he very narrowly efcaped being ferved as bad as, or worfe than, being fcalped ; for the Bullet juft grazed and took off a {mall Piece of the Skin. He finithed fcalping the Indian ; and they both came off {afe with the Scalp. This Mr. John Lane, is the fame valiant Man, who was taken Prifoner by the Indians laft November (after he and one Cox had killed Two of them) ftripped Naked, Pinioned, and had a Halter tied about his Neck, on which the Indians lay down, when they went to Sleep, but cut himfelf loofe with a broken Piece of Bottle, which he had found on Generals Braddock’s Road, and concealed under his Arm ; and on his Return, dug up an Indian which they had buried, took away his Match Coat, and fcalped him with a broken Stone. We hear that the Ship Hannah, Capt. Coates, who loaded in Patapfco laft Year, for London, and failed after the Convoy, was taken by a French Privaterr, and carried into Dunkirk. PORTSMOUTH, Laft Saturday Capt. Daniel Wentworth, in 2 Brigan- tine, belonging to this Town, bound to Bofton, from London, meeting with a contrary Wind, was obliged to put into Cape-Porpus, and going in there, with a Pilot on board, (the paflage being narrow and the Wind a head) his Veflel ftruck on Goat-Ifland, but we hear is like to be got off with little Damage. Province of New-Hampjhire, WE the Subfcribers being a Commit-- tee appointed by the GENErRAL AssemBLY of faid Province, to build a State-Houfe in the Town of Portfmouth, of Wooden Materials, about eighty Feet long, thirty Feet wide, about twenty-one Feet Poft : Any Perfon or Perfons inclining to take faid Building, and find all the Materials (except Iron Work) to frame, raife, in- clofe and compleat all the out-fide Work by the Month of fune next, may treat with us at Portfmouth aforefaid, any Time next Week or the Week after. Portfmouth, March 15, 1758. Daniel Warner, Henry Sherbusne, $ Committee. Clement March. ———— s s e s S = On a Tong L.AapY deceas’d IN dawon of Life the wifely fought her GOD, And the trait Path of thorny Virtue trod ; In Bisom of B:outy humbly turn'd afide The lncenfe Flattery offer’d to her Pride. In others Griefs, a tender Part the bore, And all the Needy fhar'd her little Store. Fond to oblige, too gentle to cffend, Belov'd by «//, to all the Good a Friend :. The Bad fhe cenfur’d by ber Life alone, Blind to their Fauits, fevere upon her own, At Diftance view'd the World with pious Dread, And to GODs Temple for Protetion fled ; There fought thatPeace which Hrav’z alone can give, And learn’d to di¢ e're others learn to Hwe. 8 O 8 -T" 0O N, March 13 By two Veflels arrived at Salem ia about 26 Days from St. Martins, we bave Advice of the following Veflels being arrived and taken, viz. Capt. Dodge of Salem taken. Worth, of Newbury, taken. Hodgkms of ditto, taken. Florence of Marblehead, taken. Hof- kins from Surrinam for Bofton, taken. Churchill from Bofton, arrived. Capt, Gruchy, of the Privateer King \_" , Enemy, but the Snow being fo hard they Fort- Dummer to No. 2. when he came to the Houfe could not track them. The Wife and Children of the immediately returned back to the Fort to acquaint them the Place where the faid Moores lay, to {ee if they could Erother died in a few Hours after, and his Father liesin of the A%air ; upon which two Men went with him to - Laft Monday as one Michael Gilfon was going from difcover the a dangerous Condition. Saturday laft his Excellency the Earl of Loupounw, hear, that feveral more of our People which were taken not knowing it was Loaded, it unhappily went off, and near where they lay® on Fire ; when the faid Gilfon \Jet out from hence for New York, in order to take Paf- at Ofwego, among whom was Mr, Jofeph Morfe, was fhot his Father and Brother in a terrible Manner; his got fafe to England, and were to take Paflage in a Maft- Ship which was to fail in February for this Place. Laft Tuefday Morning arrived here Capt. Stebbins, in the Ship Polly, a Letter of Marque of 12 Carriage Guns, from London, who came out under Convoy with of Pruffia of this Port, retook Capt. Florence, and car- feveral other Veflels forthefe Parts, the 18th of De- ried him to Tortola. of Mr. Moore, at a Place called Weft River, about 3 faid Berjamin are mifling, ard fuppos'd “either tobe. Miles above Fort Dummer, he found Capt. Fairbanks burnt in the Houle, or cairied off by the Enemy, Mogre and his Son Benjamin dead, and faw the Houfe - d e L g a Bayonet on his Gun, We hear from Cape Ann, that lat Monday as Capt. fage for England, Finifter.—~We Soams of that Town was fixin :—Capt. arted with the Convoy andthe reflt of the Ik Fleet in a high Gale of Wind off Cape cember laft; as has been already mention’d Stebbins