The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, June 16, 1758, Page 2

“Mapaip, (in Spain) February z1. Councilscon® tinue very frequent at Court on the Subject of fome Difpetches received from France. The three Ships of the Line 2nd five Frigates built at Ferrol,are ready for Launching. We don’t remember to have feea Naval Armaments {o confrderabie as ‘thale attually going ‘on in this Mosarchy : “The Day is fixed for the Ufficers aud Seamen to go on board. The Num- ber of Hands employed in the Docks and Yards at Ferrol has been lately increaled.—1f our Court does not intend t®chime ‘in with the Meafures of France, we cannot account for thefe Military Preparations. Cork, March 13. Lalt Thurfday Evening the Trade for the Weft-Indies,confitting of 5o fail, failed under Convoy of the Antelope and Trial Men of War. By the Captain of a Veffel who arrived here Yef- terday in 48 Hours fronr Breft, we are informed that three 74 Gun fhips had failed from thence laft Thur(day, it1is fuppofed for the Eaft-Indies ; that ten Days beforc a 74 Gun fhipand two Frigates of 32 Guns each, with 12 Tranfports, laded with pro- vifions, had f{ailed, itis fuppoled for Louifbourg ; that about 14 (hips remained in the Harbour, eight of which were in great Forwardnefs for fea, and that they were ufing the uumolt Diligence to equip the others. : BRIES T O, Aprily. The Pheeaix Privateer Capt. Read, is arrived in Kingroad from a Cruize, and hae brought in the Granard Privateer of St. Malo, of 12z fix Pounders and 55 Men. She had been out but four or five Days, and had taken two Colliers from Wales, one of which was bound from Cazrmarthen to Loandon, commanded by Capt. Nees. The Phoenix took her the 24th ulc. in Lat 48. The fame Day fhe {poke with a Dane, who left Bourdeaux the 18th, bound to Hamburg ; the Captain informed the Privateer, that 24 large Ships under Convoy of two Frigates and one armed Ship of fixty Guns, would fail from Bourdeaux for Canada in about zo Days from the 18th. The Wiltthire Privateer of this Port has taken an outward bound Snow from Nantz for St. Domingo, and fent her into Kingroad. By a private Letter from on board the Windfor Man of War, we are inform'd that the arrived lalt Week at Plymouth from a Cru'ze, and brought in the Pacifick of Nantz, Capt. Dumaine, bound from the Ifle of Maurice 1n the Ealt Indies to Port I'Ori- ent, laden with Coffee, Logwood, &c. She is com- puted to be worth 150,000 1. Sterling. The 1ndi- amen parted Company with another a few Days be- fore, and as Admiral Hawke is cruifing in the Bay, fhe may probably fall in with his Fleet. 'The 14th e Windfor and her Prize fell in with three of 80, 74 and 60 Guns, fteering aon ; and the Frenchman they fuffered th - many, Raflia and Sweden, but with regard to the Conditions they are yet a Myftery. Mzveh z3. Some Letters from France tell us, that they have Advice from Madrid that a Spanith Fleet, confifting of 32 Ships of the Line, lay at Ca- diz, and the other Ports of that Kingdom, ready to put to Sea ; but its Deftination was not known. March 25. Tuefday the 21ft Inftant came into Plymouth Sound a loop of War ; butas it blew very hard no Boat could come athore from her ; however it is faid fhe is come from Admiral Ofborne with good News. And they write from Truro, in Cornwall, that a Veflelisarrived there from the Mediterranean, which confirms the Capture of the French Men of War by Admiral Ofborne. : March 30. A French Privateer, called the Bo- logneze,belonging to Dunkirk, is taken by the Race- Horfe Man of War, and carried into the Texel. According to a Letter from Paris, by the Way of Brufiels, dated the 17th of March, the Court of Ma- drid could not refufe, at the prefling Inftances of that of Verfailles, the Declaration that has been made on the State of Affairs ; but that notwithftanding this, the wifer fort of People do not count upon any Thing more than the good Offices of the Court of Spain, and her availing herfelf of the prefent Conjantture, to carry fome favourite Points of her own in Ame- rica, for which the has long wanted a proper Oppor- tanity. An Exprefs is faid to be arrived which brings' Advice of the Dzath of the King of Sardinia. March 31. Though fome foreign gazettes have told us, that orders were come down to Breft for fitt- ing out z2 fhips of the line, with four frigates, fome bomb-ketches, and 1g tranfports ; and that 14,000 1and forces are to embark in this fleet, not for Ame- rica, but for a fecret expedition much nearer home, as they infinuate 5 we have the pleafure to find by private accounts, that they are not capable of equip- ping any fach naval force at Breft ; that they have but two men of war in that harbour ready to put to fea ; that the thips fately returned from Americaare laid up, and the failors had leave to go to theirre- {pedtive habitations ; ard, in fhort, that there is but httle probability of their being able to make any confiderable figure at Sea this year. The reafon of this, we apprebend may be, that France cannot well snind bufinefs on both elements at once 3 and as they per- ceiwe it impoffible for them to rifeto an equality avith Britain af fea, while they have a land war upon their bands, they will make their greatefi efforts on the con- tin.nt, boping that if they can, aith the affiffance of their numerous allies, bear down Prufia, they fball afterwards be able to difiate terms of Peace to England, and make themlelves ample amends for whatever they may [uffer in their trade and colonizs—1It is further obferwable on this occafion, that the mighty navy which Louvis X1V. bad at the time of the Revolution, was raifed during the indolent, luxurious, and corvupt reign of Charles 1L, and notwishflanding the dreadful blow 10 the French marine at the battle of La Hogue 1} of May 16Q2, by the bravve Admiral Ruf- g engage Tourville, the French Admi- L in the morning, and the fire Lo the afternoon, when the gway for their o7 Extra& of a private Lettcr from M advid, 1! « The whole of thofe formidable Armargnts, which are to fail out of our Ports thg)¥ €2r, amant to no more thaa this; a Squadron tm:mrd theCufts in the Summer, and to prote&® our Trade fromihe Cerfairs ; and another Squadron which is to faillin Auguft, to meet the Flota from America. We have this Moment received Advice by a Courier, that the French Squadron from Toulon, fent to reinforce that of M. de la Clue, in the Harbour of Cartha- gena, has had the Misfortgne to fall in with the Englifh Fleet of 18 Sail, and are taken. April 4. Several circumftances, not known be- fore, are {aid to be received by the laft Mailsdfrom America, which fet the condutt of the commander in chief there, lately {uperfcded, in a very favour- able light. It iseven faid, that an exprefs has beea fent with orders for him to continue in command, His lordfhip had fettled the plan of operation; with the feveral provinces, in order to make a bold puth early, betore the French could receive any great re- inforcements ; which, by the fufpenfion of fo eonfi« derable 2 perfon juft at the time of its being vo P pat in execution, may be defeated. April 6. An Exprefs from the Hague arrived laft Monday, and we hear has brought over the King of Pruflia’s Ratification of the Convention for the Ope- rations of this Campaign ; according to which, Eng- lasd is to fupply him with a certain Sum of Money, tranfport a few Regiments to garrifon Embden and fome other Maritime Places, and hkewife fend a ftrong Squadron into the Baltic ; on the other Hand, his Pruffian Majefty is entrufted with the whole di- . reftion of the Land Operations againft France. ~ In confequence of the above Convention, we are told, that five Millions are to be raifed by Subfcrip- tion, and one Million will be taken out of the fink- ing Fund ; it being refelved that the Caufe fhould not be ftinted this Year, as it was thelaft : {o that we now hope a fuccefsful Campaign may terminate the War, and * a large Expence be found the moft frugal Plan of War.” ’Tis faid the Spanifh Ambaflador has received a confirmation by the way of Flanders, of two French men of war being taken in the Mediterranean by Admiral Ofborne, and another driven afhore and beat to pieces. The Brilliant Frigate has taken and brought into Plymouth, two French privateers, viz. Le Nymphe of Granville, of 20 guns, and 180 men, and the Vanquer of Dunkirk, of 12z fix pounders and 120 men. A French Snow Privateer, of 8 Guns, and 56 Men, is taken and brought into Yarmouth Roads by, a Sloop of War. ; Tranflation of the ODE avritten by the King of Péus: SiA, immediately after the Villory gained, over the combined Armies of France and the Empire, a? Rofbach ; avhich was Jet to Mufic, and performed in the Queen of Pruffia’s dpartment at Berlin, the Jifth of laff Maonth. I H theu on whom the nations call, Father, and Lord of all, Wncreated, undefin’d, Whom the rude Indian worfhips in the wind : : : s thou wouldft be term’g