The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, July 28, 1758, Page 4

b, . “¥rom the LONDON GAZETTE. /* MonNbpay May 8. CAPITULATION of SCHWEIDNITZ. 1. YT jis demanded thatthe whole Garrifon, with” A out Exception, ‘fhall be at Liberty to march ‘out of the Place with two Field Pieces for each Bat- talion ; and, befides this Artillery, with two Mor- “tars, and 126 Charges for each Cannon, and 6o for each Foot Soldier and Trooper. The Garrifon ‘fhall keep its Baggage, fo that it (hall be permitted them to come for what cannot immediately be car- ried off ; and they fhall march out with Drums beat- ing and Colours flying. y Refufed ; as well as the fecond and third Articles. The Whole Garrifon are Prifoners of War. They thall be permitted to march out with their Arms, and Colours ‘flying, by the Gate Striegau, and tofile off, thro’ the King’s Army; but they fhall afterwards lay down their Arms ! and al] the Horfes ‘belonging to the Cavalry fhall be faithfally delivered up, with all -their Accoutrements, to the End that the Pruffian Cavalry may receive them, and condu&t them to Breflau, and from thence to the other Places of their Deftination. ‘The Officers of the Gar- - rifon fhall have th€ir Equipages granted to them, and the Subaltern Officers and Soldiers their Haverfacks ; but relay Horfes are refufed. 1I. Relay Horfes fhall be granted, Gratis, to the Officers, who have not enough themfelves, to tran{- port their Baggage to the neareft Fortrefs belofiging to her Imperial Majefty. Refufed. ITE he Garrifon fhall be efcorted, by the near- eft Route, to the faid Fortrefs. Refufed. IV. It is demanded that the Garrifon may take with them the Military Cheft which is here, for their Entertainment. Refufed. They muft deliver to the King’s Com- miffary of War, all the Imperial Chefls, as weli as thefe of the Regiments. V. That Bread and Forage be furnifhed the Bat- talions and Squadrens which fhall gosout of the City. Their Subfitance fhall be proyvided in the Places to which they fhall be condudted. VI. That the Sick and Wounded be well treat- ed, and provided with all they fhall want ; that Pafl- ports fhall be given them as foon as they are ina Condition to {et out for their Regiments ; and that an Officer fhall be permitted to remain with them in the City, to take Care of them, Care fhall be taken of the Wounded, but they . fhall be Prifoners of War as well as all the Garrifon. VII. That all the Pruffians, who have been made Prifoners before or daring the Siege, fhall be Jooked upon as fuch, and exchanged in Confequence Man for Man, againt thofe of the Garrifon, who have been takea this Night. Refufed. Al the Prifoners who are at Schwe- idnitz, fhall be delivered up To morrow Morn- ing at Eight 0’Clock ;-and the Reverfals of all thofe who bave been releafed upon their Parole thall likewife be delivered up. VIII. That the Garrifon may take with them Aix covered Waggons, which fhall not be vifited un- der any Pretence whatfoever. Refufed. IX. That the Magiftrates, and all thofe in her Imperial Majefty’s Service, fhall keep their Employ - ments ; and that thofe, who do not choofe to remain fhall be free to quit theirs, and retire with their Effe@s. Rafufed. This depends upon the King. X. That the Provincial Counfellor, who was found in the City before it was invefted, and »vho has not been able fince to get out of it, may now re- turn to his Eftate. He is at Liberty to ftay in the City, or go into the Country, but he fhall deliver up the Archives, and all Papers which concern the City and Circle of Schweidniiz. XI. That the Garrifon may remain foar Days here, reckoning from the Date of this Capitulation, to take the neceflary Arrangements for its March. The Garrifon fhall march out the 18th, at Eight o’Clock in the Morning. XII. As foon as the Capitulation is concluded, a Gate fhall be delivered up to the Pruoflians. The Gate of Striegau, and that called the Peterft- hor, muft be delivered to them this Day. XIII. It is required that the Pruffian Troops may not be permitted to enter into the City, “before the Garrifon be gone out of it ; and that the latter be not in any Manner infulted. : The Imperial Troops fhall not be infulted by anyb Means. XIV. That the City preferve all its Privileges, and the free Exercife of the Catholic Religicn. This depends upon his Majefty. XV. The Commandant engages upon his Ho- nour, faithfully to difcover all the Mines of the Places and all the Magazines, of what Nature {oever. This Day and To morrow, all the Magazines and Chefts fhall be delivered to the King’s Com- miflary. The Artillery fhall be delivered to Colonel Dieskow, and the Plans and Maps, as alfo all that relates to the Fortifications, as well of Schweidnitz as other Places, whether they ‘belong to the Emprefs Queen, or private Per- fons, fhall be delivered to the Colonel of the Eongineers, de Balby, tg whom dilcovery fhall ‘be ‘made, of the Mines and Works under ‘Ground. XVI. TheCommandant demands alfo Permif- fion to fend an Officer immediately to his Excellen- cy Marfhal Daun. Granted, XVII. And that Hoftagesbe given on each Side *til the Conclufion of the Capitulation. Schweidnitz, the 26th of April, 1758. ¢ L. Count de Thurhaimb, Lieutenant General. Baron de Krottendorft, Major General. Major Baron de Wallis, remains here as a Hof- tage ; and Major d’Embers, remains in Ex- change, in the City. De Trefkow, Licutenant-General. Descrirrion of ScHWEIDNITZ. SChweidnitz, tbe Capital of a Dukedom of the fame Name, in the Dutchy of Silefia, lies in 16. 25. of Eaft Longitude, and in Latitude §50. 47. 26 Miles South of Breflau. It was ceded to his Pruffian Ma- jefly, with the reff of that Dutchy, in 1742, and was taken by the Auftrians in December /aff : The Garri- Jon Jurrendered Prifoners of War. His Pruffian Ma- Jefly bas blockedit up ever fince bis late glorious Succefs, and it furrendered to him again on the 16th of April 1758. B0 0 #0 O +0 +0 0 40 +0 0 +0 +0 0 +0 40 +0 0 O 0 0 Lo @ NP 30 o Ne - Aprél 15. The Rifing-Sun, Peak, a Maft Ship from Pifcataqua for Plymouth, is pat into Ireland ; fhe had been miffing fome Time, and upwards of 40 per Cent. was given to infure her. April 18. The Laure] privateer, capt. Lee of Lon- don, and the Friendfhip, Elwell, from Cadiz to New- England, are both taken by the Mimy privateers of St. Maloes. April 21. The Bofton, Cartwright, from Cape-, Fear to London, is taken and carried into Bayonne. April 22. The Antelope man of war has bro’t into Briftol a French fhip of 300 Tons, from Bour- deaux to North- America ; fhe is a letter of marque, laden with provifigns, flores, and 18 foldiers. The French people fay, they parted 2 days before with 14 fail, under convoy of a frigate, bound to Canada, but that four fhips,whether men of war or privateers they did not know, they left engaged with them, and they apprehended the Englifh fhips muft take moft of the fleet. A Dutch thip, of Rotterdam, of 700 tons, laden with ftores and foldiers for America, is taken by the Defiance privateer, and fent into Briftol. The Fidelle, from Bourdeaux to Canada, is fent into Falmouth, by the St. George privateer, captain Robfon, of London. The Union, from Cadiz to New England, is tak- en and carried into Lifbon. The St. Patrick of Cork for Jamaica, Dominick Sarsfield mafter, is taken by the Jupiter privateer of Bayonne. They had takena {now from Halifax, Mitchel commander, bound to London, with tar. Three days after they were taken they met a Dutch thip, from Surrinam, bound to Amfterdam ; the captain of the privateer put capt. Sarsfield, his mate, 3 men, and 6 belonging to the Halifax fnow, on board the Dutch fhip, which they brought into Dingle : She was five months from Surrinam, and out of 40 men they have now but fix living. May 3. Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Gage is ap- pointed colonel of a regiment of rangers in America ; lieutenant colonel James Murray to be colonel com- mandant to the 16th or Royal American regiment of foot ; major William Farqubar to be lieutenant colonel of Amherft’s. May 4. Four Hundred Men of the Royal Regi- ment of Artillery, with their proper Officers, under the Command of Lieut. Col. Defaguliers, are to march from Woolwich for the Ifle of Wight on Thurfday next. They will decamp every Night on their Way to Plymouth. We hear that Capt. Lockhart, of the Chatham, lately launched at Deptford, has a roving Commif- fion, for ten Months ; and that Sir'Edward Hawke has complimented him with 300" pick’d Men out of his Fleet to ferve on board the above Ship. 1t is rumoured, that a foreign Ambaflador hath de- manded certain Conceflions t6 be made by Great- Britain, otherwife the King his Mafter would declare War againft this Crown : And that An{wer was made him, That his B. M. was very defirous to cultivate Friendthip with the King his Mafter, and with that View had already made great Conceffions, but would not make thefe in Queftion : That if he chofe to declare War, Great- Britain was prepared, and the fooner he did it the better. 3 This Morning the Right Hon. the Lord Anfon fet out from his Houfe at the Admiralty, to take on him the Command of the Fleet. ] Some Lettets by Yefterday’s Dutch Mail fay, that the King qf Pruffia had paffed by Olmutz, and was marching at the Head of 50,co0 Men direcly to Vienna. T The Lords of the Admiralty have appointed the Stirling-Caftle, Capt. Cornifh, to carry Col. Haldane to his Government of Jamaica. +* 3 Difpatches have very frequently pafs'd of late be: tween our Court and that of Madrid ; the Refule of which we muft leave Time to difcover. The Lizard {loop of war is arrived from a Crujze off Breft,where fhie had been cruizing for intelligence; and brings word, that there are only fix thips of the Line and three Frigates it that harbour, It is faid that a Jarge French man of war, driven on fhore by Admiral Hawke, is totally loft off Fort. Fouras, it Bafque Road, but moft of the erew are faved. By . the Death of James M‘Longhlid, on the 16th of April, in the 136th Year of his Age. He ferved as a Serjeant in King William’s Army at the Batde of- the Boyne in Ireland ; and being afterwards difbgnd- - ed, he worked at his Trade of Shoe-making, and lived a fingle Man to the Age of 87 ; and has fince been'a Mafter Shoemaker, at which 7 ‘e he has acquired a handfome Fortune. May 6. According to the laft Advicesfrom Rome)] the Bithop and Prince of Breflau, who was*in Re- treat at the Noviciate of the Jefuits, has been dif- turbed there by an Exprefs, informing him, that his Pruflian Majefty has ordered all his Moveables to be fold and confifcated ; and having feized and fe- queftered his Revenues, had made a Prefent of them to his Brother Prince Henry. The fame Letters fay, that a Report very ftrongly prevails, as if the King of Sardinia had rejeéted a certain Mediation, and was on the very Point of attacking the Republic ofGenoa. We learn frem Carthagena, that the whole City was furprized there lately by a fingular Accident. The French Admiral, M. de la Clue, havipg given Orders to all the Ships.in his Squadicn to give a ge- neral Salvo upon Holy Saturday, when, by the Ring- ing the Bells, they knew that the Hymn Groria 1n EXCELsIs was {ung at Mafs;: the Bullets not being drawn in the Redoubtable, a 74 Gun Ship, fhe fired a Broadfide on the Souverain and Centaur, by which many were killed and wounded, 'and both the Ships- were difabled. 3 ; May 10. We hear that Capt. Durell, now at Halifax, on board his Majefty’s Ship Diana, is by his Majcfty appointed an admiral, of which notice was fent him by the laft packet. We hear that the Foudroyant, lately taken, is ordered to be fitted forthwith for a flag officer, and that a number of feamen will fhortly fail to man her and the Orpheus. They writegrom Vienna, that upon the Arrival of an Exprefs, with the News of the Surrender of Schaveidnitz, and that the Garrifon were made Pri- foners of War, the whole City was in the utmoft Confternation, and gave very little Attention to what the Court publithed in the Gazette, of Marfhal Daun’s being marched to fight the King of Pruffia. May 10. We hear that the Court of Spain has fent over a Complaint about the late Rencounter in the Straits, “pretending that the” Neutrality of her Coalts have been violated upon that Occafion, fome of Admiral Ofborne’s Ships’have beerd, during Part of the Chace or Engagement, within Gun fhot of the Shores. We hear, that for the future, his Majefty’s fhips “of war are to {alute each other on their meetifig at fea, &c. during the war, with éleers ; and that no captain is to falute the admiral, &c. any otherwifg than by cheers: Admiral’s fhips only, are allowed to falute each other with guns. This regulation will make a prodigious faving of gun-powder, it is faid, to the amount of 70,0001, per annum. We hear that there was lat Night upwards of 3 millions fubfcribed, on the annuities and lottery fcheme, and it is thought, it will be filled by to-, mMOrrow noon. \ It is faid that nine troops of huflars, belonging to the nine regiments of horfe, are to be employed on the expedition now meditating. Sir Edward Hawke's fquadron will be ready at Portfmouth, before the Troops are. ¥ 5 Private Letters from Ferrol inform us, that they work Night and Day in that Port on the Equipment of 1€ Men of War, which are to go ount with fome Tranfports, and take on board a Body of Land For- ces,which fome Folks think are deftined for the Weft- Indies, and others fuppofe. them to be defigned to help the French at a dead Lift in Europe. o ———————————————————————————————————————————————————— e . 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