The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, July 7, 1758, Page 1

< A [y (. ™ | I )/ l w 4 % 1 ‘\ q e b A 4 % - LA} 4 g 4 » ' “« ) f 73 Pribay, Joiy 7. 1758 N e\‘V-Hampfhire Containing the Frefbeff Advices A Letter from Paris, March 27. Dear Sir, AVING an Opportunity of convey- ing my Thoughtsto ;ou on Public Affairs, without rifking the opening of my Letter at any Office in this King- dom, I gladly feize it, as I find no " {mall Plebfure in committing to Paper what we dare not publickly talk of ; befides that of gratifying your Curiofity. If I do not give you full Satisfattion, or if my Sentiments and Notions differ from yours, yet T aflure you that 1 fpeak impartially, tothe belt of ‘my Knowledge ; and you’ll pleafe to refle&, as an Excufe for my Defes, that a Frenchman cannot ‘think like an Englithmen, in ail Points. » » To comfort us in the Midt of our Difficulties and Difafters, it is confidently given out, that we need not be in any. Pain for Louifbourg this Year, our ~Miniftry having made timely and fufficient Provi- fion for its Defence. 'I really believe they have not ‘megleted that important Place ; but whether they “have fufficiently ‘provided for its Security, is a Quel- tion which Time can beft decide : The Solution of it ‘depends upon the Force which your Government in- tends to'employ againft it,and the Abilities of the Officers [ent upon fuch an Expedition. ; It is hard to defcribe the Dejection vifible in all Faces for thefle feveral Weeks paft, on the arrival of every Poft from Germany and Holland. Even at Court they ‘cannot conceal the Perturbation of their Minds; for when they would make any Body believe that our Affairs will fpecdily take a better Turn, they do it not with that vaunting air which is peculi- ar to ourCourtiers ; a certain unufual Serioufnefs and Diffidence accompany their Boafts, in Spite of all their Endeavours to puta good Face upon the Matter. ; How different this, from that Species of infulting Confidence and giddy Alacrity which appeared in all Countenances laft Summer, while the Army of Obfervation was conftantly giving Way as faft as our T0ops advanced, and the King of Pruffia was look- - ed upon as an undone Prince, in Confequence of his notable Mifcarriage at KollinI Our Politicians of every Clafs, then made a Partition for the Pruffian Dominions, whereby the Houfe of Auftria was to have all Silefia and the County of Glatz, with Eaft- Fizeland, the Datchy of Cleves, Pruflian Guelder- land, the County of Marke, Meurs, &c. The Swedes were to get all Brandenburg Pomerania ; the Kingdom of Pruffia was to fall to the Share of the Ruflians ; the King of Poland was to be reftored td his Elettoral Dominiens, which were to be enlarg - ed by fome Diftri@s adjacent, to make him Amends for his pat Loffes and Sufferings ; and His Pruffian Majefty was to be reduced to the Station of goor Mar- quis of Brandenburg. Asfor the EleQtorate of Ha- hover, our Court intended to keep Poffeflion of i, *till they fhould bring England to fubmit to fuch Terms as would have ruined that Nation’s Trade foréver ; And had the Englith been flubborn enough to continue the War, after a!l this Mifchief had been done in Germany, our Miniftry would have tarned all the Shipping of Holland againft you, and invaded your Country with 4o or 5c,000 Men, and pethaps have got the Swedcsto join them in the Projeét. You'll readily allow; Sir, that the Profpett was very fair, after the Conclufion of the memorable Convention of Clofter Seven, and that it was nataral for us to be mightily elated on fuch 2an Occafion. Our Military Gentry in particular, uled to be very free with their Jokes on the Auftrians, calling them Blunderers, dreaming Sots, Snails on a March, Bun- glers at Sieges, Poltroons in Battle, &c. &c. and boaft- ed how they would trim the Pruffians whenever " they fhould come up with them : But alas ! when they did come to aétion, they made a more fhame- ful Figure than the Auftrians ever did. The more fenfible Part of our Officers did indeed allow the Pruffians to be very good Troops, but did pot at all doubt of bearing them down by Dint of Numbers, and forcing their rath Prince to fubfcribe the Terms . that fhould be impofed upon him by our Grand Monarch. We have lived to be convinced that we formed a wrong Judgment of that great Prince. We are fen- fible what we called Ra/®nefs, is {fuperiour S4i// and Fortitude. 'The Battle of Rofbach overturned all our Proje@s in Germany ; and we were Thunder-firuck. 2 X when we heard, that in 2 Month after, he had de- feated and ruined the grand Army of Auftria. Bat what has been done to retrieve our Affairs ? This mighty Kingdom, which has jultly boaflted of being fuperior in Strength to any Power in the World, has not been able, fince the sth of November, to re- gain the Superiority it loft in Hlanover. One ofour Generals, inftead of applying himfelf to mend Mat- ters, earneftly importuned the Court to be recailed, after he had filled his Pockets, and may poflibly be allowed to fink into Oblivion and Obfcurity with his Treafure. H Beleaguered by a fupericur Force at Sea, and hard preffed by a fuperior Skill and Bravery on the Continent, we are'at a Lofs how to bear up on both Sides. We have loft the Flower of our 1'rcops in Germany, and the Draughts of Militia fent thither, tremble already at the Name of Pruffia ; Nay, the Hanoverians, Heffians, &c. fince they are under the Dire&tion of a Pruflian General, feem to be as for- midable to our Men as the Pruflians themfelves, their Courage being whetted by Refentment. We cannot hope to crofs the Wefer, and puth on to the Elbe; our Refource lies in Retreating to the Rhine ; which may indeed fave our Army, but will leave fome of our Friends expofed to the Mercy of the Pruaffians, who will not fail to ftrengthen themf{elves by raifing Recruits and Contributions in their Countries ; and thus the War may be brought home to our own Doors. We tremble for the Ecclefiaftical Eleftors in particular ; and as for the Houle of Auftria, we muft leave the Ruffians to fave it, if they can, or will, Were we to be puatto maintain a Land War in Flanders againtt the Auftrians, Englith and Dutch, it would give us no Uneafinefs ; for, at the Worll, we could find them Employment there for Seven Years *til they grew weary of it : But we dread the Plans of Operations of the King of Pruffia, as we find by dear bought Experience, that his Head alene, is worth more than 100,000 Men. It is indeed ex- pected that Marfhal Belleifle will put our Military . AfFairs in better Order, and it muft be confeffed, he has a fine Genius for the Department lately confer- 1ed on him : But at the fame Time, we muft ac- knowledge, with heavy Hearts, that there are more good Heads, and good Hands too, in Pruffia, than in rance. Befides the material Alterations expeted fram the wife Management of Marfhal Belleifle, we build muchon the Afliftance of Spain, . 'Tis certain the Court of Madrid has been inclined to favour France ‘eveg fince the Commencement of thefe Troubles, and by its Neutrality hitherto, has done no fmall Service to our Commerce. And as our Difficulties increafe, the Spanith Miniftry may now think it Time to giveus a good Lift, in Confideration of be- ing well requited for it. is fome Truth in the Report, I'hat they will make the King a Prefent of Twenty Men of War, to be mann'd by our People ; and that in Return, his Ma- jefty will deliver up Minorca to them 3 and thus they will make an Acquifition of that Important Iland, and ftill remain Neuter ; forit is imagined the Englifh cannet fairly break with them on this Account, fince every Prince has a Right to fell his Ships to whomfoever he pleafes, or give them in Exchange for what he can get for them. But let the Englifh take it as they will, I cannot think the Spaniards have built fo many Ships of War within thefe three Years, without intending to employ them fome Wiy ~againft England ; and if they don’t choofe to be direflly concerned in the War, they muft make them over to us. We may pofiibly find Hands enough for them ; but then we muft call in our Privateers, and take the Men out of them. There is another Thing which would give us in- finite Satisfattion, and raife our drooping Spirits ; but I am told it is no longer to be hoped for : Countrymen, it feems, are grown fo fond of the King of Pruffia, that they will chearfully affift him in any Way the Government fhall judge expedient, whether with Money, Troops, or Ships 5 and {fo it is in vain for us to expet to hear of any more Ad- drefles againft Conneétions with the Continent. Your's, &Je. Hacue, (in Holland) April §. Since the News of the Difgrace of Count Beftucheff, we have Jearn- ed the following Particulars concerning it, viz. That during the Emprefs of Ruffia’s Ilinefs laft Summer, Therefore I believe there . Your - Nuwvs. 93. GAZETTE. Foreign and Dome/i)‘ck. < ke received a confiderable Sum of Money from 2 certain Court, and immediately after fent a pofitive Order to Field Marfhal Apraxin, to bring off his Ar- my from the Territory of Pruflia ; and that this Ge- neral hax declared he retired only in Confequence of that Order. The Emprefs was {o exafperated when the heard of this laft Circumftance, that fhe fent for" Count Beftuchef, ordered a Subaltern Officer to take his Sword from him, and alfo to frip him of the Enfigos of the Orders of St. Alexander Newiky, and St. Anne. All his Papers have been feized. Parte, (the Metropolis of France) April 14. The Attentiolto>f our Minifiry to our Marine and the De- fence of the Coafts is greater than ever. The Mar- fhal de Senelterre, who commands at Rochefort, has ten Batalions and two Regiments of Dragoons under his Command. The Count de Langeron, Lieutenant General, fets out in a few Days for Bour- deaux, to command on the Coafts of Guienna, with a Power equal to that of Marfhal Thomond.. Mar- fhal Richeiieu will follow him immediately, and hava the Command of the whole. The Marquis de la Chatre is to command in Upper Britanoy. ALTENA, (@ Port Town in Germany, fituated on the River Elbe, built by and Jubjec? to the Danes ) April 21. By Letters received Yefterday from Dantzick, we arc informed, that a Body of Ruffian Troops had advanced towards the Suburbs of that City, with a Defign to take Poft there : That the Inhabitants, who, in Confequence of the Promifes that had been given them, did not expe& fuch a Vifit,were throwa into a great Confternation, at the Approach of thofe "I'roops, and had fent a new Deputation to Genersl Fermer on the Occafion. Thefe Letters add, that they waited impatiently for the Return of the De- puties ; but as they fufpeied the Ruflian General would pay no Regard to their Reprefentations, they were taking proper Meafures to put the City in a Pofture of Defence,and were firmly refolved torepel Force with Force, if drove to that neceifity. L0 N D@ N Sorid1xs The lat War which continued eight years, coft GreatBritain 59,899,119/, of which (befides our A{f- filtance in Germany to fupport the houfe of Auftria) The Emprefs Queen received of Britith Money £. 2,433,000 The King of Sardinia 1,300,000 The Elettor of Saxony 100,000 The Regency of Hanover 1,847,223 The Landgrave of Helfle 716,850 The Eleétor of Cologne 72,892 The Ele€lor of Mentz 43,100 T'he Elettor of Bavaria 98,422 The Duke of Brunfwick Wolfenbuttel 83,260 The Emprefs of Ruflia 167,881 : Total 6,867,630 Such drains as thefe, if they fhould be opened every ten years, would help greatly to prevent the acqui- fition of exorbitant wealth ; and confequently all the avarice, lugury, and effeminacy, which are the cffedis of . it. Letters from Germany Account thus for Beftuchef’s Difgrace : When the Houfe of Auftria was inti- mately Connelted with Great. Britain, Count Beftu~ chef was a zealous Friend of that Houfe, and did it fignal fervice : And continued to ferve it on all Oc- cafions after the Peace of Aix la Chapelle. Vienna and London being no longer in the fame Syftem, Befluchef adhering to his old Principles, which com- prehended the true Interefts of his Country, remain- ed an Englifman. We hear that the Sum of 15,0001. a Year will be granted by Parliament, for five Years, for repairing London Bridge ; and that all Tolls granted for that Purpofe will be abolifhed, ~ §t. JOHN’s i Antigua, May 31. _ His Majefty’s Sloop ANTIGUA, Capt. Cod- rington, has.retaken a Schooner bound from Surri- nam, to the Northward, laden with Melafles, Sugar, &c. and fent her into Englith Harbour. The Maflter of a Veffel lately arrived in a TI'lag of Truce from Martineco {ays, That a French Fri- gate which formerly carried 40 Guns, arrived there, baving been chafed off Louifbourg by an Englith Squadron, and obliged to throw moft of her Guns overboard to make her Efcape.—It is hoped jome other Ships of War and Tranfports, which, ip is fard werc with her, are taken, il