The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, April 28, 1758, Page 1

. r < Xk Fripay, Arrin 28, B C'mtainiflg& the Frefbeft Advices L O N D O N, Jan 240 ¢ Y private letters from Hanover, dated Jan. 7th, bring an account, that Marfhal d’Eftrees is arrived, and taken upon him the command of the army on the 4th,and that the Marfhal Duke de Richlieu fet out for Parisin a litter, attended by his phyfician on the 5th ; the fame letters 2dd, that Prince Henry of Pruffia had fent a courier to the Prince of Brunf- ‘wick to acquaint his Highnefs, that he hopes to be able.to jois him, by the 1oth or 11th at {urthedt, he being but nine leagues off, and his army all well and in good fpirits. By fome private advices from 'the Hague we _learn, that it is reported there, that letters .were arrived which mention the death of Prince Charles of Lorrain, commander of theImperial army. The trealure which was feized near Ofnabruck -ae French is fent under an efcorte to Wefel, and . ding to all appearance they will pretend to con- :n it as a lawful capture. ©- Annarpovris, in Maryland, March 23: Laf Night, at two Minutes before Ten, when the Air was clear and ferene, we had here a very confi- derable Shock of an EARTHQUAKE ; but thro’ GOD's Mercy, it has done no Damage that we have yet heard of. . For about three Quarters of a Mi- nute before the Shock, there was a rumbiing Noife not unlike that of Carriage Wheels on Pavements or frozen Ground, ata Diftance, which encreafed till the Shaking, and that lafted about half a Minute. PHILADELPHA, April 12. Extra& ‘of a Letter from York County, the sth Inft.” Three Indians were_feen this Day by two Boys near Thomas Famefon's, at the Head of Mar/b Creek 5 upon auvbich they gave the Alarm; when fix Men went to faid Famefor’s Houfe, and found there one Robert Buck, killed.and Jealped; alfo a Horfe killed, that belonged to William Man, a Soldier at Carlifle, whole Wife and Woman, and ber three Children, Thomas Famefon, bis Wife, and five or fix Children, are all miffing : the Juame Day a Perjon going to Shippen’s town, Jaw a Number of Indians near that Place, and imagined they defigned to attack it~ This basthrown the Country into great Confufion. ; S Ay Extra& of a Letter from an Officer in the Province Service, dated at Tulpehocken, the 8th Intt. My, Kern and I have jufp got to Shearman’s, and are informed, that a Woman was killed and [calped laf? Night by the Enemy, about three Miles from bence 5 we aremow fetting off in Purfuit of them : the Liff of kil- led, wvith one Prifoncr, is as follows, vi%, at Swetara, ravo young Men Brathers, named Schaterly, Michael Soudery and William Heart, killed ; a Widow Woman carried off. In Tulpehocken, ome Levergood, and his Wife, killed. At Northkill, the Wife of Michael Tit- lefer, all killed and Jcalped : the Indians are diwided inta_fmall Parties thro’ the Wooeds. NEW.-Y ORK, April 17. o On Saturday Afternoon returned here from a Cruize, the Privateer Brig Prince of Orange, Capt. Dixon, by whom we have the following Account of Captures, viz. Thatop the 28th of February, in Company with the Capts. Paul and Chriftopher Mil- ler, Haley, Dobs and Dwight, he took a Brig from Caracoa, bound for Cape Francais, loaded with Bgle- Goods ; ‘that on the sth of March, in Company with * the Capts. Paul and Chrifopher Miiler alfo, and Captain Dwight, he took a Dutch Fly Boat of 420 Tons; and the next D.y-he ook a Dutch Ship of 1g Guns : The two Jak were from Amfterdam, bound for Cape Francois, and are fuppofed to be en- tirely French Property, as 'tis evident their Trade is now moftly carried on in Dutch’ Bottoms, and ap- peared quite clear, by the two following Letters, lately found on board a Prize, Copies of which Com- modore Coats, ordered to be difperfed among all the Captains of Englifi Privateers cruizing in the Weft Indies, viz. e Extraft of a Letter from a Gentleman in France to bis Friend in St. Domingo. <t .Tt's but a few Days fince we obtained Liberty of the Marine Officer, to tranfport our Effeéts in néntral Bottoms ; and have contrafted fora Num- ber of Dutch Ships for that Purpofe ; and you may - = not fee another French Ship in your Ifland during the War.” * Extradt of another Letter from a Gentleman in France, T 70 bis Friend in St. Daomingo alfa. Newbury and County of 2orZ Lot 1758. - New-Hampthire Children bad jufl come taliwe muith Famsfen. This = « Notwithftanding ve are fo cautious in Regard to the Dutch Ships, thut they have no French Paper3 on board, but cleared &ut for Coraccoa, from Am- - fterdam ; yet the Enghifh have taken fome of them, and condemned them 1a the High Court of Admi- ralty in Great Britain ; tho’ ifit was not for our ?ood Friends the Dutclt, we fhoald not bé able to upport our Iflands.”’ - : _ Yefterday Capt. Taylor, arrived here from St. Thomas'ss “thaat +8 Tiaysago, in Lat, 35, he fpoke with his Majefly’s Stz he Devonthire, of 64 Guns, " with a Number of Trapfport Veflels under her Con - voy, bound for this Port, from England. _ The Publick will, no Doubt, be pleafed to learn, That Capt. Griffiths, of the Privateer Snow Revenge who was reported to have undergone the Severity of the Law at famaica, for fome Male-Praltices com- mittéd by him at Sea againft the Spaniards, aftera Trial of fome few Days at that Ifland, was acquitted of the Charge, he firlt paging Cofts of Suit. He has fince feized one orjiwo Dutch Sloops with French Property on board,- . = : Saturday laft arrived herethe Schooner Amfter- dam, belonging to $t. Buftatia.. She was feized at Sea the 16th of March laft, to Windward of Cape- Francois, (which {he left the. Day before) bound to Statia, by the Privateer Snow Revenge, Capt. Grif- fiths, of this Place, A ‘Gemtleman 'Paflenger on board her, informs ut, That on the vith of. March, while he was at the Cape, 4 Ships, two_Snows, two Brigs and a Schapuer, fail’d put of that Port, fome for Old. France, others for Cape Breton ; That foon af- ter they fail'd they were attacked by Captain Sey- mour, in the Privateer Ship King of Pruffia, of New- York, and Captain Sample, in another Privateer Ship from Bofton, when the Comufiodore of the French Fleet tho’t fit to turn Tail and make the beft of his Way back into Port_notwithftanding he had, with the feveral French Captains, folemnly agreed to ftand by one another : That tke two Privateers foon made Capture of one of the Enemy’s Ships, and would of a Second, but the Captain rather than fub- mit after a folemn Agreement, firft hoited his Co- lours and firing one Gan, fet Fire to his Powder Room, and with one Biaft canted himfelf and Crew (upwards of 70) into the Air, whilft the Veflel and Cargo, valued at half a Million of Livres, went the contrary Way, t0 ait, Downwards. Nine of his Hands, however, were by the Humanity of the En- glifh Captains taken up and put a fhore. The other rench Veflels unluckily got back into the Cape. , Capt. Caftles who came in Mafter of the above Prize, was in Jamaica abouttwo Months ‘ago, and fays thatall theDutch Ships lately fent to that I{land, bave been condemn’d and their Cargoes {old, for the Benefit of the Captors, by Order of Admiral Coats, as well as a Spanifh Snow fent in by Capt. Hickey, fhe having no Papers on board. Extra& of a Letter from Capt. Philips Cofby, of his Majefty’s armed fchooner Monéton, dated at Sea, March 28th, 1758. : Ewer fince the Fleet failed for Europe, 1Lawve been eruifing between Halifax and Boflon, for the Protediion of the New- England Trade, and hawe fo far lucceeded that not a Veffel bas been taken fince, except a [mall Skop belonging to Boflor:, wwhich was taken off of Cape La Hawe, the 8th lifiant, by a Privateer Schooner from Louifbourg. 1wasthen laying at Anchor in the Harbour of Lunenburgh, and received an exprefs from La Hawe, with the above Intelligence the Jame Even- ing. [limmediately got under fail, and rowed out in a thick Fog, and ibe next Morning got along fide the French, awhom I engaged for fometime, bat fhe baving 1he Heels of me, occafioned by the Monéion’s being very Soul, efeaped 3 howewer, 1 ve-took the Boflon flocp, on board of which was the Lieutenant of the Privateer, and fix Men: the Lieutenant of the Privateer aequainted me, that be avas the lafi Winter Lieutenant of a Pri- wateer floop belonging to Louifbourg, and being on the Coaft of New-York, boarded the fbip King of Pruffia, Capt. Robinfon, inavkich Engagement he told me, be awvas wounded ; that his Captain had an Arm broke, eight of their Men were killed, and 16 others avounded. The Privateer had but 48 Men on board : they bad alfo on board at thetime of the Engagement, an Englifh- manthat bad been Prize Captain of a large French Martinico tbip called the Menter, which bad been taken Jome of your-Privateers, and re-taken on your Coaft 2 Snow Privateer from, andcarriedinto Louifbourg; tery TICKETS to be Sold by the Publither of this Paper. 5 NUMB. 82. GAZETTE. Fofeign and Dofizeflicfi. awbere this Englifh Man engered a Voluntier on board the little Privateer Slocp ; be fought during the greateft part of the Engagement, like a Hero, but avas at la killed by three Balls thro’ bis Head, which be richly de- JServed, the' the Death avas too honourable for a Tray- : tor 3 wha be was, the Pricvatecrs awho took the Mentor, ccn inform yoi. ‘The Mentor avas in great Diflre/s avben re taken 5 baving loff her Maf and.Rudder. The Lieutenant further told me, rthat tavo other Prize SEips taken by fome of yowr Privateers, hawe alfo been re raken 3 which, with tawo tobacco fips from Vi irginia, a Veffel from Saltertudas, and a Jbip from London for Halifax, are all the Prizes ihat have beén carried into Cape-Breton the laft Winter. 3 t NEW.HA VEN, April 8. . We hear frot many different Parts of this Colo- ny, that a Martial Spirit {eems generally to prevail, that Numbers daily come in, and with great Cheerful- nefs and Alacrity inlift in the Service of their Coun- try, folthat there is the moft pleafing Probability, that the large Aid which the General Afembly( much to their Honour) have voted to the common Caufe, ~—the Caufe of his MajesTy, and the Briti/s Inte- reft,—the Caufe of Religion and Liberty,—the Caaufe of their Country—will foon be compleated without prefling a Man,—which muft be very plea- fing to his Majefty, and greatly recommend this Loyvar Covrony to his Favour, and to the Britifs Parliament, as well as give Life and Vigeur to all engaged in the ImporTavT ExpepiTioNn. And when we confider the remarkable Change in the Miniftry providentially brought about in England, aqd the Zeal, Vigour and Expedition of the Mea- fu’res now purfued, we have the greateft Reafon to hépe, with the Blefling of GOD, that our Endea- vours will be crown’d with Succefs, and our Armies return vi€torious.—Let no Man fhun the Service then, that woild Tace the Tridoph, or feel the joy of Peace and all its Blefflings,—let our Hearts be all united as the Heart of one Man, to obey the Call of GOD and our CousiTry.—Let every Man act up- on nobler Principles than merely the Hope of his Pay. Tlhe Blood of his Fellow Subjes flaughter’d -with every Circumftance of horrid Cruelty, the clo- feft Ties of Nature, the moft facred Rights broken and violated, in a Manner moft fhocking to Humani- ty, all call upon him, in Cries that reach to Heawen, to punifh the favage Foe, relieve his bleeding Coun- try from Diftrefs : and reftore the Bleflings of a la- fting and honourable Peace.—Lét no-Man fear to go where Duty calls him.—He, who fuffers not 2 Sparrow tofall to the Ground without his Perntiffion —will never {uffer a Man to be taken off, to his Dif- advantage, in the faithful Difcharge of his Duty. Let not the Fear of Death then, fright a Man from his Country’s Service in being a Soldier, nor from dding his Duty as one, ; BOSTON, 4pil 24. : We can with Pleafure acquaibt the Publick, tbat by the Returns made by the feveral Colonels itdp- pears, that about sooo Men, including Officers, are already inlifled for the intended Expedition ; and confidering beating Orders have not been out above 26 Days, our moft fanguine ExpeQations have been exceeded.—It is hoped that by the 24 of May all our Regiments will be full, without an Imprefs, otherwife a Draught will be made from the Militia on that Day to compleat the Number of 7000, which is exclufive of thofe who are in our Veflels of War, and employ’d in Garrifpns and Scouts on the Fron- tiers of this Province, and the. many who bhave and are daily entering into his Majelty’s Service as Bat- toe-Men, Rangers, Artificers, &c. for both the Wef- tern and Eaftern Expeditions—a happy Effe&t of the Encouragement recéiv’d from his Mdjefty, and of the Aflurances givén by the Miniftry, that the War fhould be profecuted this Year with the utmoft Vi- gour, and that Canada would be the Obje&t,—— Accounts receiv’d from the other New- England Go-~ vernments agree, that a good Spirit prevails among them alfo. Some Perfons who came from Albany laft Week report, that there is already got up to Fort Edward, where is a numerous Gartifon, Provifions fufficient to fupply an Army of z0,600 Men for 3 Months, and that proper Difpofitions had been made by thofe whofe Province it is,for the early conveying of Stores, Attillery, Provifions, &c.—Money is not now want- » A%