The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, June 9, 1758, Page 4

L ON D O N, Marh 31. Extra? of a Latter from a Gentleman in Zell [a City of Germany, 30 Miles North of Hanover] #0 4is Friend in Lordon, dated March 9. : SIR, ‘ S I find my fundry Letters did not - come to your hands,wherein I gave you a fuall account of what has hap- . pened here fince the French have been in the country, I fhall repeat the fame in this Letter. ¢ Since the 14th of ‘Auguft we have been plagued with them here. ~From that time we have had 40 Troopers quartered in our Houfe, whom we have been obliged to furnifh witir Beds, Fire, Candles and Greens. They have ruin’d our Houfe, Furnitare, Gardens, &c.—They have taken by force our Hay, Corn, &c. and left us nothing ; fo that we were obliged to fell and kill our Cows ; and fometimes we have been three Days together without a morfel of Bread.—This misfortune has happened to every Body.— We have been robbed befides of our Pewter, Copper, and many other things of value.—We are a ruined people in this conntry, and know not how we fhall or can maintain ourfelves and get Bread for our Families.— What we have loft amounts to many thoufand Crowns ; nay, “we -cannot yet juttly tell what our loffes are. The Hofpital of St. Ann’s, the Orphan-houle, with the Children in it, and the whole Friken Wiefe is burnt by the French. Almoft all the Houfes before the Gate called Helen Thore, Jook like fieves, where the Cannon-balls went thro’. The calamity is general, fo that the people cannot help one another. < Itis now ten Days fince the French left this place, and our T'roops took poffeflion of it. Some of them are quartered in our houfe : We muft give them the fame :that the French ufed to have, and every body does it cheerfully, as faras lies in his power, for they are our Friends. The people here die very faft. ¢ Deas Friends, What can we do? We muft have patience, and thank God it is no worfe : He will raife up fome friends to our aflitance. All our trade is gone, and no body knows what to begin with; for every thing is dear, and hardly to be had for love or money. ¢ On the 14th of December the French burnt, jult behind our houfe, fourteen veflels from Bremen, laden with vi€tuals ; fo that we expelted every mo- ment to fee our houfes on fire. The lofs of thefe veflels amounted to more than 550,000 Crowns, and nothing was faved out of them ; {o that the Mer- chants at Bremen have been great fufferers thereby. « Now that the French are gone, our houfes look like dung holes and jakes ; and where to begin to clean or repair them we koow not yet. I am not able to give you a true defcription of our circumftan- ces ¢ it would melt the heart of a Barbarian to be- hold our condition ; for nothing is left us but life, and what is life without fubftance ?‘tho’ I hope God will be our beft help ; he knows how to find ways and means to fupport us. . < [ have been this week in the Country, and have found moft people there, as I may fay, naked : they creep together like fheep,to keep one another warm, and they have nothing left to live upon. Moft of them have loft their Cattle, Horfes, Waggons, &c. Cocks and Hens are a great rarity. But, no doubt, our gracious King, whofe life God long preferve, will have pity onus. ... < To dwell alittle longer on our prefent fituation;; I muft add, that the Freoch have left here above 380 fick ; they lie in the Cattle, but will be removed to their proper Hofpital which is the Riding houfe bere : they have their own Phyficians and Surgeons. They have alfo left fick, more or lels, in every place where they have been. We have likewife fome thoufands of Prifoners to feed, which is a great bur- then to this Country. To their forrow they fent laft year 119,000 men from France, and now they have not 46,000 left : the reft died in the Hofpitals, or fell in battles and fkirmifhes. To day we hear that they have pafled the Wefer ; fo they have quitted our Country, for which God be praifed. ¢ Gur Ramparts and Fortifications here are ruined ; and our Woods and Gardens look fo much like wil- dernefles, that few know their own Property. « I do not atall envy your happinefs in living in a tranquil and plentiful Country, but with I was there. Your’s, &c. F GRS g Part of a Letter from Leipfic, Feb. 10. «—Having thus difpatched private concerns, I fhall not take up my time nor your’s with public affairs, as you may fee enough of this in all news papers : but finding there is yeta corner in my letter not filled up, I'll tell you a fory, which muft be known to fome perfons in your country, though probably it has not yet come to your ears : '{; LAST fammer an Englifh gentleman of good fortune (not lefs than 3000 fterling a year) der the King of Pruffia. He was 2 gallant man, and willing to acquire experience among fuch fine troops as the King of Pruffia’s : but he uniuckily miffed his aim, by appearing with equipages too fplendid, and keeping a table too expenfive tor the Praffian way cf living ; in fhort, he lived” too much in the mo- dern Englith way. Therefore he was always kept at fome diftance from the camp ; his ‘charge gene- rally was to take' care of the hofpitals, where he be- held nothing but fcenes of milery, the difmal fruits of war. Impatient at this ufage, and eagertobea fpectator of fomething elfe, he expoftulated about it to marfhal Keith, who made a report of it to the King ; but no change was yet made in his poft. In fine, the battle of Rofbach was fought without his being an eye- witnefs of it : he knew nothing of the affair, but from ‘the wounded men brought to an hofpital in a neighbouring town, which, as ufual, he was appointed to guard : and having again exprefled his difcontent, the King at laft very civilly thanked him for his zeal to ferve him ; but told him withal, that his manner of living did not agree with the fru- gality and hardinefs of his "troops ; that the great Tigure he made, fet a bad example to his officers ; and cordially advifed him te refurn home, if he did not choofe to conform, in all points, to the ftriét dif- eipline of hiscamp : and accordingly he went back to England, where I daubt pot but he may make a good officer, and a good foldier too, tho’ he could not be accounted fo among the Pruflians, Fromthe Universar Macazing, forMarch,1758. The abjconding of the Prince Bitbap of Breflau having occafioned warious reports, the Court of Berlin bas judged it proper-to publifl the letter he awrote to the King before bis departure, and His Praffian Ma- Fefly’s anfwer toit 5 of which the following are tranflations : “SLRFE, H E refpe&fal attachment and the fidelity l with which [ have behaved all the time I kave had the honoar of living under your Majelty’s glorious domination, made me hope that I fhould conftantly enjoy, to the end of my days, your * good graces and proteétion ; and that I fhould ever be free of {ufpicion, on your Majefty’s part, by my circum{pe&@ condu, every way agreeable to the gratitude [ owe you, and which I will perfevere in all my life. Neverthelels, I have been extremely grievedte find, by the letter your Majefty was pieal- ed to write to me from Naumburgh in Saxony, Sept. 22, 1757, that I have not been abie to avoid fo unhappy a fate ; and your Majefty has ever fince gien me tokens that deprive me of all hopes of re- gaining your favour. The pain I have felt from thefe refleétions and confiderations is fo exquifite, that I had conceived the defign of repairing to Rome, and waiting there the end of this war, that I might be removed from every fituation fimilar to that which has hitherto brought fo many misfortunes up- for your withdrawing, the moment of my approach to Breflaa, the very moment wiacn Heaveo grants to oy juft arms the moft fignal fucceffes. Prefled by the emotions of yourconfcience, am’teling your- felf already calpable, you put your{eil uader the pro- tefticn of a power with whom [ am at open and declared war ; and now youa dare to tell me your- felf the refolutions you are come to, glofiing it over with the moft frivolous pretexts, and fubjoining toit falfe proteftations of a fidel:ity wherein you have fai- led in the moft effential points. After fuch irrita- ting procedures, I cannot but confider you 2s a trai- tor, that has gone over to my enemies, and has vo- fantarily abandoned a poft, to which you ought to have been attached from the fingle ‘confideration of the duties of your ftation; and there remains no- thing to be done on my part, but to take the mea- fares I fhall think propereft, and abandon you to yous fate ; being perfnaded that a condut fo unpardona- ble will infalliably receive the punifiments due to it, and that you cannot efcape the divine vengeance, nor the contempt of mankind, who, however cor- rupt they may be, are not yet fo far degenerated, as not-to abhor traitors and ingrates. Breflax, Feb. 15, 1758. Freperrck.™ EN G E A N I Liverroor, March 3. Lalt Week a London Tradefman who was upon his Rounds, invited a few Frends to dine with him at Jane Hatton’s, the Legs of Man, in Prefcot, and had ordered a Couple of fine Ducks for one Difh, to entertain them with, which were accordingly put to the Fire, a recruiting Officer coming in foon after, and feeing them, infifted on having them at his Table. The Cook informed the Londoner of the Captain’s Refolution, and he ordered her to let him know when they were ready to draw from the Spit,which fhe did ; whereupon theT'rade{- man and his Company, defcended into the Kitchen, where the Captain drew his Sword, and fwore, the firlt Perfon that offered to touch the Ducks fhould be facrificed to his Refentment. The Londoner took up the hot Spit, and they both agreed to de- cide it in the Court before the Door, as the Kitchen was not large enough for a Battle. A great Num- ber of Speétators gathered round them, and 3 Fighe enfued, in which the courageous Officer received a Wound in his left Arm, by the Spit, which obliged him to call for Quarter, to the ne {mall Diverfion of the Company ; and upon his defiring to have a Share in the Supper, was refufed, as that had been offered nim at firft, and he rejected it with Difdain. Wuitsy, March 5. By Letters from Captain Cockrill, beloaging ta this Port, dated at Oporto, Ja- nuary joth, we are informed, that as he was cro{- fing the Bay of Bifcay, on the 22d of Janvary, he was chafed Ry a fhip of 24 Guns, which he took ‘o be a French Frigate ; but that before fhe came up with them the faid thip overfet, and all Hands on board her went to the Bottom. Next Morning hg v faw a little Veflel coming out to fea, with an Ig on me, notonly from your Majefty, but alfo from # tention (as is foppofed) to fith ; but when this Vief- the Imperial Court ; for Breflau having furrendered to the Imperial arms, I had a few days after an ofr- der from her Imperial Majefty, by the Commiffary Count de Kollowrath, to repair to Johannefberg, there quietly to wait the iffue of this war. Seecing afterwards that the troubles were alfo reaching that place, I refolved to remove from thence to Rome, as the only courfe I could take under my difficulties ; and as my health, the rigoar of the feafon, and the diforder in my domeftic affairs, did not permit me to fet out direitly on that journey, I tarried in the mean time at the convent of Capuchins, hereat Ni- colfburgh, where my conftant retirement among thofe good folks, whofe reputation for a diflike to the affairs of this world is well eftablithed, will fkreen me, I hope, from any {ufpicion on the part of your Majefty. But fince I now find myfelf able to un- dertake that journey, I would not fail to inform your Majelty of it, befeeching you to be perfuaded, no- thing but the misfortaue of having incurred your dif - pleafure has urged me to this ftep. However remote I fhall be from your Majefty’s perfon, I thall yet preferve that fidelity and inviolable gratitude which I owe you, together with the moft refpetful fubmif- fion, with which I have the honour to {ubfcribe my- felf, Your Majefty’s moft humble, moft faithful, and moft fubmiflive fubje, At Nicolfburg, Fan. 35. 1758 The Bisuor of BREsLAv. The King's anjwer to the above letter. ¢« Monfieur the Prince Bifhop of Breflau, ¢ [ have received your letter of the 3oth of Jan. the contents of which might have furprized me, had I not been already prepared for it by the in- gratitude of your paft conduc, which has been at- tended with circumftances too remarkable to admit of your difguifing it to yourfelf. Jultas I was ad- vancing with my army to ftop the progrels of my e- nemies, and to deliver Silefia, you were forming the defign of quitting that Province, which ought to have reminded you of my benefaclions. You choofe fel drew near them, the all on a fudden run along fide of them, and boarded them with about 30 Men, on which they endeavoured as well as they could to fecure their , Hatches, and betook themfelve: to their clofe Quarters, where they continued to defend themfelves more than 8 Hours, during which Time they killed 10 Frenchman, and wonnded {cveral o- thers, without any Lofs on their fide, except two of their Company being flightly wounded. At laft, having got two of their great Guns to bear on the ' French floop, which lay along fide of them, they fir- ed into her, and in a few Minaes fhe {unk outright, and every Man on board her perifhed. This dif- hearined the French Men fo much, that 14 of them who yet remained alive on their Decks, immediate- ly called out for Quarters, and delivered themfelves up Prifoners of War. Thefe were accordingly fecu- red, and next Day puton board an Eaglith Man of War, that Capt. Cockrill fell in with in the Bay. L O.N- D Q. N, Matwh 28. By freth Advices from France we are informed, that they are thipping a vaft Quantity of Garlic for America; and by the Induftry, James Collingwood, jult arrived at Plymouth from Cork, we have an Account that there are now at that Port, ten Dutch and Swedifh Vefiels, taking in Provifions for diffe- rent Ports, the Mafters of which are Englith, Irifh and Scots, and the Sailors are Foreigners ; but it 'tis not the leaft doubted that they arefor the Ufe of the French in America ; the Irifh Beef and Batter will be a great Help to the Garlic in making Soup ; and as the French are a polite and complaifant Peo- ple, it is to be hoped that they will not look upon us as Enemies and Hereticks, but as good Chriftian People, and that we follow the Rules of the Scrip- tare, to blefs them that curfe us, and even feed our Enemies to zut our own ¥'hroats; though it is thought by the beft Judges, had Provifions not been export- ed from Ireland, it would have hindered the Effufi- on of much Blood ; and nothing but Hunger will humble the great Difturber of the Earth. came over to make the campaign as a voluateer, un- e o e e e s omr——— i 1 ol e e PorTsmouTH ; Printed by D, Fowvs, of whom this Paper may be had for One Do/lar per Ann, or an Equivalentin Bills of Credit ; Half to be paid atEatrance.