The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, May 26, 1758, Page 2

v 160 French, Part of thofe who weremade Prifoners of Warat Minden, by a Detachment of Bufche’s Dragoons, under the Command of Lieut. Colonel Lixfeld, and jrarted in this City. .- : . This Morning four Companies of Colonel Scheit- her’s Regiment marched towards Hamelen to take Pofleflion of that Place, which the French evacuated on the 18th inft. in good Order, after having deftroy- ed all the war like Stores. March z4. The Head Quarters of the Allied Army were the 1gth Inft. at Melle, a ‘Mile from ‘Ofnabrug, and a large Body of Troops under Prince George of Holftein has taken Poft at Hervorden, Bielefeld and Rintein, which the French have aban- doned, " Munden near Caffel is now the only Place, in this Eleftorate remaining in the Pofleflion of the French ; but it is hoped that Prince Henry’s Army will {foon oblige them to leave that Place, as well as the whole Hefian Country. Laft Monday 1400 French Prifoners, being Part of the Garrifon of Munden, were brought in here, guarded by a Detachment of Dragoons. The few French Troops that remain’d at Hamelen, have by the Count de Clermont’s Orders, entirely abandoned ¢hat Place, and deftroy’d the Bridge on the Wefer in their Retreat ; but before they went away they took care to throw beft Part of the Ammunition they could not bring off for waut of Horfes into the River. . L ON D O N, March 3, The Eagle, a French Man of War, is arrived at Breft in 15 Days from Louifbourg. : Monday feveral Pieces of large Cannon were fhipped for New-York : & a Quantity of Lead-fhot for Maryland. By a private Letter from France to a Merchant in London, there is this remarkable Obfervation, That in the Account which Count Clermont fent to Court, upon his Arrival in Hanover, to take upon him the command of the French Army in that Ele&- oraic, .on the Refignation of Marfhal Richliea, he telis the King, ‘That he found his Majefly’s Army divided into three Bodies, one above the Ground, ano- ther under Ground, and the Third in Hofpitals. He thercfore defires bis Majefly's Infirullions, awhether be Jbould bring any of them away,or flay there and bury therefl. March 15. By aprivate Letter from the Hague we are informed, that juft as the Poft was coming away, they received Advice that the Garrifon of Minden had furrendered Prifoners of War. Marcu 16, We hear his Majefty has {ent over a Sword of very curious Workmanfhip, and enrich’d with Diamonds to a very great Value,as a Prefent to the Hereditary Prince of Brunfwick. The Freedom of the City of York has been pre- fented to Mr. Pittand Mr. Legg in Gold Boxes. Mifs Babb Wyndham, of Salifbury, has order’d her Banker to remit /. 1000 as a prefent o the King of Proffis. The Lift of Admiralsislaid before his Majefty, as alfo the Lift of Captains in the Royai Navy, in or- der to difpofe of the vacant Flags. An exprefs has been difpatched to ca by one of the {loops of war. : March 28. Yelterday an Exprefs arrived, brought by a Fithing Boat to Southwold in Suffolk, which left Holland on Thurfday laft with Advice that the French had intrenched themfelves to the Number North Ameri- of 40,000 Men near Munden, in order to cover the Carrying off their Artillery and heavy Baggage, but that the Hanoverians, &c. under Prince Ferdinand had attack’d them with fuch Fury on the 18th Inft. that a general Engagement enfued, in which the rench Army was totally routed, with a moft incre- dible Slanghter. By the fame Channel it is confirmed, that all the French Privateers are unmanned, as they come into Port, and the Crews fent immediately to Breft, to man a Fleet fitting out there. Part of a Letter from Y armouvru, March 24. ¢ This Morning a Cutter from Stade, landed here ¢ the Lieutenant of the Seahorfe Man of War who ¢ {et aut direétly for London, and fays the French are ¢ totally defeated in a Battle near Hamelen. March 29. A Number of Ships are ordered to be taken up to carry Stores of all kinds ta the Lee- ward Iflands and Jamaica ; from whence fome grand Proje&t is foon to be put into Execation. A private Letter from an Officer on board the Seahorfe intimates that there is the greateft Probabi- lity that the lictle Army marched out of Embden, muft fall a Sacrifice to the Hanoverians. * They write from Venice that a Comet appeared there the 26th, 27th, & 28th of laft Month, which was feen at the fame Time at Rome, and is thought to be the fame which happened in 1685. : March 31. By a Letter from an Officer of great Diftin@ion in the allied Army, dated Minded, March z1. there is Advice, That 15,000 Pruffians have joined the Allies, and that the Army now con- fifts of 60,000 Men :—*¢ Not to flatter ourfelves ({ays the noble Letter- Writer,) you avill find within thefe tawe Mantls, that the Frenck who bave been in Ger, many will be defiroyed totally ¥ You tamnot imegine {(addshe,) what a calamitous fituation the posr Crea- tures are in, balf flarved, and not hawing Stuff enough 20 cover their Skins ; the Cowetoufnefs of their Generals -bas ruined the drmy ; minding only to enrich themfelves #hey aid not give Breadto their Men, by awhich Seven- ty Thoufand of them bawve alually perifped. I is bardly credible, and yet it is true, that they bave made Conguefl of a Cokmtry aithout alloding the Con- -querers Viltuals ‘and Drink——~The King of Pruffia treats all bis Affairs with fuch Secrecy, that no body can_fay a Werd about bim.— All I know is, that bis Army certainly confifls of 160,000 fighting Men, Jo that the prelent Year _feems likely to me to be wery Bloody.” Exirall of a Letter from a Gentleman in Spain to bis Friend in London ; T H E Spaniards are fitting out fix Ships of the Line and two Frigates for the Sea, at Ferrol ; four of the Line and two Frigates at Carthagena ; and fix of the Line and two Frigates at Cadiz; at which Place, it is faid, they are all tojoin ; and about the Middle of April to proceed to the Weft- Indies. Meflienrs ——, of Cadiz, have contra@ted with his Catholic Majefty o vi€uoal this Armament with Provifions ffom Ireland.’ We hear that Sir Edwaid Hawke, who failed out of Plymouth Sound on Moudsy, is goue to tlock up the French Fleets fitting out at Rochefort and Breft. Sunday Night about Ten o0’Clock -died at his Houfe-in Duke ftreet, of a Mortification in his Bow- els, the Moft Rev. his Grace Matthew Hutton, D. D. Lord Archbifhop of Canterbuary, Primate of all England, and Metropolitan, Prefident of the Corpo- ration of the Sons of the Clergy, and of the Society for propagating of the Gofpel in foreign Parts, Go- vernor of the Charter houfe, and one of the lords of his Majefty’s moft Hénourable Privy Council. Extraf of a Letter from an Officer of one of the Erench Eafi-Indiamen lately arrived, to a friend at the HAaGuE, and from thence fent to a Merchant in "LoxNbpon. , ¢ Jult before we failed from Pondicherry, fires broke out on the futface of the fea, three leagues from that place, with the utmoft impetuofity, throw- ing up pumice-ftones, and other combuftables, and forming an ifland of a league long, and of the fame breadth, which increafed to a confiderable height, with a volcano, making a moft hideons noife, like thunder, or great guns, and a cloud proceeding from it, breaking into {mall rain of fand inflead of water. This prodigy was firft feen by a fhip’§ crew belong - ing to this place, who thought at firft it had been a, water fpout ; but coming nearer it, faw a prodigious flathing of fire, which {melt of Brimftone, and heard a moft aftenithing noife ; afterwards a vaft quantity of fith was perceived dead on the {ea, and appearing broiled. Sailing a little farther, they met with fuch quantities of pumic-ftones, that it was hardly poffi- bie to make thro’ them ; at the {ame time they dif- cerned land, but it appeared to them as a cloud of fire and fmoak on the furface of the fea, and the cloud afcending into the air, diftilled in fhowers of rain, which brought abundance of fand on their fhip’s deck, and being nigh the flathes of fire, and hearing the noife, they were under great confternation ; “but it plealed God to fend them a little breeze of wind that brought them from it. Another fhip failed round it, and they were fo becalmed, that the afhes proceeding from the vaft fire fell on their deck, and they were in great danger of being burnt.” March 31. - By a fhip arrived from the Spanith coaft, we have an account that the Britifh fquadron under the command of Admiral Hawke, was feen croifing in the Bay of Bifcay the zoth inft. April 4. We find by private letters from- Paris and other places (bro’cin the Flanders mail) that the French have loft three men of war in the late engage- ment off Carthagena : the Foudroyant and the Or- pheus are taken ; and the Oriflamme, who was fup- pofed to have efcaped, was diven afthore near Alicant, and has likewife fell into the hands of Admiral Ofborne. By other accounts of this affair it appears, that the Oriflamme man of warran afthore at Cape de Gatte, to prevent being taken by our fleet ; and that the crew. were taking out her guns and flores ; bat the fhip is loft to the French, though not gained by us. By Advices received from the Mafters of fome Dutch Veflels lately arrived from Lonifbourg, we are informed that the Governors of Louifboargh and Quebeck, had been abliged to threaten with Military Execution all fuch Inbabitantd as fhould attempt to remove themfelves or Effe&ts from either Places, for which Numbers of them were preparing, on account of the great Scarcity of Provifions, and Fear of fal- ling into the Hands of the Englifh. We hear that feveral regiments of Britifh troops are to be tranfported to the Continent, in order to keep garrifon at Embden and other maritime towns belonging to the King of Pruffia; whereby he will. be able to bring more of his own troops in the field : befides which affitance, his Pruflian Majefty, we are fill told,will be fupported by afquadron in theBaltic, Plymonth, March 25. The day after the Wind- {or took the French Eaft India thip, fhe fell in with three fail of Frénch men of war, but they never of- fered to fpeak with her, and by the courfe they fteer- ed it is judged they were bound for America.(fi April 5. Many People fill think, that the French Ships fo much talked of are in the Pofleflioniof Ad- miral Ofborne ; s they muft have been heard of by the French Court before this Time, had they put into any Port of France or Spain. Itisfaid fome Ships have Orders to proceed to fecond Commodore Moor’s Expedition againft Mar- tineco and Guardaloupe. ¢ A Lift of more than zco Officers in the Army ig prepared ; and we hear a Petition” will be offered to his Majefty for leave to go over immediately as Volunteers in the Service of the King of Pruffia. -Advices from the kingdom of Samarcand, by the way of Bender Ric, onthe north eaft fide of the gulf of Boffora, fay, That an infinite hoft of men, women, and children, attended by numerous herds of cami, oxen, cows, theep, goats, and affes, are making their way into that kingdom,from the regions far firetched north-eaftward of the Cafpian fea, beyond the fandy defarts of the kingdom of Bokara, Several particalars - arerelated concerning thém, viz. That there is a per- -fon amongft them cloathed in white garments,with a plate befet with precious ftones on his breaft, a mitre on his head, with a venerable grey beard reaching down to his girdle ; to whom all ranks and degrees pay an implicit obedience : That they abftain from all nourithment and labour every feventh day, and keep the new and full moons with great mirth and feftivity ; and laftly, that they make frequent repe. tition of the words, SALEMm HAxkaposn. Charlefionwnm, South-Carolina, April 13. ; Yefterday arrived here a Veflel in -9 Weeks from Cadiz, the Mager of which confirms, that great mili- tary Preparations were making in Spain : And adds, that no lefs than'22,000 Barrels of Irifh Beef had been contratted for, befides large Quantities of other Vicuvalling-Stores, and 47 Ships of War, from 80 to 36 Guns, colleéted together, and fitting out with all poflible Expedition, at the Part of Cadiz alone. WILLIAMSBURG, '4pril 28. By the beft and lateft Accounts from the Counties of Bedford and Halifax, we are informed, that the favage Enemy have killed and captivated upwards of 70 Perfons,and burnt and deftroyed feveral Houfes . and Plantations ; that the upper Inhabitants of thofe Counties have chiefly deferted their Plantations, and. flock in'great Numbers to the lower Counties for Safety and Protection, leaving their Provifions and flocks behind them, which the Barbarians have the Ufe and Benefit of. PHILADELPHIA, May 11. : We have Advice from Georgia, that Capt. Robin3 fon, in a fmall Privateer belonging here, has carried in there, a Dutch Sloop and Schooner, laden with- Sugar, Coffee, and Indigo. In a Letter from Barbados, dated the 19th ult. it is faid, That on the 16th or 17th of lak Month, Capt. Devereux in a New-York Privateer, brought into Karlifle Bay, a French Privateer of 6 Carriage, and 12 Swivel Guns, Capt. Browne, of Martineco,which makes the third Time he has been carried in there in a fhort Time, having been twice taken before by the Speaker, Capt. Middleton. 4 Extraét of a Letter from Carlifle, May 2, 1758: “ On the z7th ult. one Thomas Baird, who was carried off by a Party of Delaware Indians, made his: Efcape from them at fome Diftance from the Al- legheney Mountains, and informs as follows, viz. That fome Time before, he, his Wife, and Thomas Potter, were furprized by five or fix Indians, who rufhed into the Houfe upon them, but that they for- ced them out again, when the Enemy fired two Shot through the door, and broke in at the Roof : That Potter cut off three Fingers of one of them, and kil- led another by a Stroke on the Head: That the Indians then took them away, and, after travelling a little way, killed Potter, and a Child of Baird’s: That after this they went through Conecocheague, by Sarp’s and M’Cord’s Forts, the Path Valley, and the Shades of Death, where they difcovered Captain Thompfon with-a Party of Men, on which they fled to theMountains, murdered onhe Samuel Hunter, be- caufe he could not run faflt enough, and ufed him (Baird) moflt barbaroufly : That he knew feveral of the Indians, particularly James Lingonoa, Indian Ifaac’s Brother, who, with others, purfued after fe- veral People in Marfh Creek : And that the Cap- - 3 tain of the Gang told him he was at-one of the In- . < - dianTreaties with this Government, and fhewed him™ a Medal he received there. NEW.-Y O R K, Mayis. \ The Savages bave lately pick’d up a few flrag? ~ gling people about the Town of Halifax, fent, no Doubt, by the French, for to get Intelligence of what they were doing at that Place. Extraél of a Letter from Madeira, dated April 1, 1758, ¢ Juft now arrived a Letter of Marque Ship from Briftol, and brought in a French Ship loaded with »