The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, October 6, 1758, Page 1

i UZIDAY, Oérosrr 6, 1758, ‘ T HE ot Tothe Particulars already given of the Battl: of Cre- weld, as inferted in our lafi GAZETTE, we have an pportunity of adding more Circumfiances from a Pampbles juft publithed in England ; which, Jays the Auvbar, ** are egually avonderful, equally hononrable, anf equally true awith the firfi Account taken Jfoon f afligr the Afian, and publifbed in the Londim Gazetie o -8 Eiiraordinary. ks B F AE French were the miferable Rem- { : | nantof 2 flying Army, reducedto Dif- | esfes, pillaged by their Officers, and " frighted by the Spirit they faw in thofe ¥ ‘ who followed them. The properFrench g vha made the Body of the Army, were of this Cha- % . Aatter ; and having their Officers, and difpifing their ¢ wictehed [ives, they obferved no Difcipline. Prince erdimand, with an Army, more terrible from its frifficip?e& ¢hz - Numbers could have made it, follow- +. €4 “ind preffc the frighted enemy, drove them from +£u it o0 ond at Length terrified them from their ¢ “ Canag ac i Inberg. T'he Sitvation of the French i ‘ot Crevelt « 5 an Advantageous one, but very much % - laferigr to at of the Hanoverian Army. * There vere upon the Spot many large and deep Ditehes, which Coant Clermont continued by the " ndé fatigable Labour of the Swifs and Wirtembergers, alowy 5 great Part of his Front ; and all about him thery v areWooeds. The Places where his Camp was 4 yet ~ju:ccflible he fortificd with Barrieades of Trees. k ““! Psince Ferdinand, when he had viewed their ¥ Difveaficion from an Eminence, reprefented it to his ' a5 @t an Omen of Succefs ; he told them Fear “} 2 ven the Enemy this Caotion, and that thefe Ml izs were all they had to encounter. For thefs '3 forced, theTerror of the Enemy would do the : That they mult prepare to be quick in Pur- fur it would, on the Part of the Enemy, be a , t. not & Pight. - “§ " Au Hosr after Midnight, on the 23d, Prince ¢ ldisasd was at the Head of his Forces, and every "hing ~vas in Motien ; two Hours were fpent in rders and Inftra&ions, and after this the Men r Refrelhment of an early Breakfaft. At Arnty was upon its Knees ; and more than thoufand Hearts diflolved at once before the of Mercy ; begging the Almighty’s Blefling sir Swords, drawn in the Caufe of virtugus Li- ‘ 2 , and pure Religion. ) ‘T'he ‘Prince of Clermont received Intelligence ¢ Fremy’s marching up te attack him, from the ~ced Party he had pofted at Anrath. Thefe '\ have been attacked by the Grenadiers of the '1yht Wing, where Prince Ferdinand commanded in rion, but after a general Dilcharge of their Mufkets « ot three Quarters of a Mile , Diftance, they fled to th: Camp, and the Alarm was aniverfal. [* "The Prince of Clermont, who {faw now where ., thp great Attack would be, gave that Poft of Honeur ¥ tg/the £0ifs, who did their Duty, and were cut to } " Pisces. The next Dependance of the French Gene- ’ ¥3l we;, on the Wirtemberg Regiments ; but they, « who h4d been enpaged againft their Wills, took the #dvintage of the Confafion, and went over in a Body Hoemy, with thefe remarkable Words, #e areflants, We woill not fight againfl ourfelves. v this Cobfafion, the Count de Gifors cailed v the Officérs, reprefented to them the Dif- v of being beaten by half the Number, and t there was one among them who did not pre- honourable Death to fuch an Infamy ; and v 19y himfelf between his Men and the Hanove- Tofaouy, he faid, Gentlemen, the Homour of your ereign is at Stake, we will expect you to do nothing avbat ave do ourfelves. Come on, and face 1his Liandful of an Enemy. “ Shame, and the feint Remembrance of their siaral Spirit, led them after him. As he preffed iorward in the moft defperate Part of the Encounter, : Mufket Ball paffed thro’ his Brealt toward the gulder. He flood fome Minutes after this ; and (hen luffering others to pafs before bim, funk foftly to the Growd, as if the great Care that occupied his “Thoughts, was the Fear his Soldiers fhould know it. He was removed to'a Tent, and in the End became 4 Prifoner to the Hanoverian Party, where, in Spite . of.the beft Care, he died the Evening after. s On the other Part, this defperate Encounter was fupported with equal Spirit by the hereditary Prince _of Bronfwick., He preffed on the more furioufly for “/his Refifance ; and perhaps it is no more than Juftice . o s B S ~ - New-Hampthire g Containing the Frefbeft Advices | —— o {ay, that Hiftary does not afford an Inftance of two greater Spirits oppafed in Aftion.—We lcft, upon this fingle Spot of Groond more than 1100 Men, and the French at lealt 5000.—The Common Sol- diers in the French Army wete all the Time difpi- rited, and ready to give up the Confli®, had not their gallant Officers expofed them{elves in theirView to the greateft Dangers. G *¢ The French Squadron of Caiabineers attempted to give a Turn to the Change of the' Hour, by an Agack on the Battalions of Roet and Dreves, They were received by Men whp afled equally the Part of Heroes ; the greater Number of them fell in the Atrempt, and of a few who really did penetrate thro’ the Battalions, not one lived to tell it : They fell every Man by the Bayonets of thofe very Lines which they had forced. ¢ Pwo of the royal Regiments of Horfe of the French feized the fame Moment, and attacked the effian Dragoons and Cavalry. They were repulfed with no fmall Slasghter, but they returned. The Heffians fiood the fecond Shock as refolately as the firlt 5 they loft a great many Mer, but they main. tained their Ground. t «¢ It was now near three Hours this terrible Fire had been maintained 6n both Sides,with greatSlaugh- ter, bat without Advantage, The Hereditary Priace, who commanded in this Quarter, communicated his Thoughts to Prince Ferdinand, that there was but one Way to end the Confli&, which was to make an Affault at once upon the double Ditch which the Enemy lined with their Infantry: “ The Afflaalt was made.' The French defended the firft Ditch with great Spirit, but moft of their Officers having fallen in the Struggle, the fecond was not difputed {o firmly. ©Of goo Hanoverians who made the Affault, only 120 efcaped, but they perfeQed the Bufimefs : They cut to pieces the Re- giment of Champagne, who had been plaeed to op- pofe them ; ard the Prince prove. 2 true Prophet : This Aflaglt determine the Fate of the Adion. The other Hanoverian Regiments in Front purkied the fame Courfe, and rthe Snemy weare thrown into a Conf ifion they never recovered, up the Ground, and Laey never rallied. «« The Hanoverian Foot were eager in Purfuit, but the farther Advantage was loft by the Strength of the Enemy in Cavaliry, and our Weaknefs ; had the Horfe, which England is about to fend us, been here on this Occafion, the Biow had been decifive. « The Hanoverians gave Quarter to all who afked it ; nay, offered it unatked ; and perbaps there has not been an laftance of fo little Severity in a Purfuit on any Occafion. . «« We have cut them off from Ruremonde, and driven them up irto a mountainous Country, where they will find it difficult to fupport theinfelves ; and where we fhall prefs them daily into new Difficulties.” AmsterDAM (in Holland) Fuly 7. The Petitions of the Body of Merchants of Amfterdam, /Dort, Rotterdam, &c. which were prefented to the States. General, aod tranfmitted by Mr. York’s Secretary to London, made but a very flight Impreffion on the Englith Miniftry. They fignified that the greateft Part of the Complaints contained in thofe Petitions were groundlefs 5 for the ill Treatment there fet forth, was occafioned by, the Partiality which the Owners of Dutch Vefiels hewed to France and the illicit Trade they carried nn-in Favour of that Crown, particularly to the Frenc': Colonies, which* conld not have fubfifted but for thisT'rade, it having mani- feftly appeared, by the Depofitions of the Captains themfelves, and their Ships Companies, that their Cargoes, confifting of Cordage, Gun powder, and other Warlike Stores, were configned to Martinico, and the other French Ifiands, which was a manifcft Breach of the Treaty of Commerce concluded in 1674 between his Britannic Mejefty end theiv High Mightinefles ; and that in Confeguence thereof the Republic expofed her Navigation and Commerce to continual Moleftation. This is the Subftance of the Anl~er' given at a Conference to the Datch I.ovoy by 1.ord Foldernede His Lordfhip produced in £ ron! of what he had al- ledged, a Letter from a Fronc’s Merchant at 5. Do- mingo, intercepted by Adiniial Coice in which the Merchant exprefly fays, that 52 Do ngo could not have fubfifted without the Afltance < the Durch, g g Subif. \ who brought them all Necefaries fue iicic They yielded - .~ Nuwms. 103. GAZETTE. Foreign and Domeftick. ence and Defence ; and carried back the Produce of the Iiland to Eucope. LQoN-D O _ July 3. According to private Letters from War- faw, the political Weather in Ruflia has again chang- ed, and the Ruffian Generals have received exprefs Orders to continue the March of their refpetive Armies into Pomerania and Silefia. July 8. From Paris, by Way of Bruffels, we are told, that a new Army is to be formed upoa the Maine, confifting of 40,000 Men, compofed of 1o, 000 Bavarians, and 000 Saxons, in French Pay, ten Battalions of French Foot and the Reft Militia. July 10, The whole Number of Forces that 2re ;to embark, are 10,000, under the Command of the Duke of Marlborough ; and the Horfe to be com- mavoded by General Blygh. The Number of Troops deftin’d to reinforce the Army under the Command of Prince Ferdinand, will not exceed 10,000, both Horfe and Foot, befides 450 Invalids going 1o Embden. They are to fet off by the 16th Inftant. i July 22. Al the friends of Hanover (fay our letiers from the Hague) gave oat, that the French would not remain on the Rhine ; and that, inftead of offering battle,they would not wait to be attacked. Neverthelefs we find, that M. de Condades, tho’ a Lieutenant General only, takes upon him to march forward with an army, which, efpecially in Infantry, is not near fo cosfiderable as is imagined. This clearly proves, that he has reeeived exprefs orders to make a great fhew of doing fomething. They wane, no doubt, to remove the court of Vienna's jult grounds of complaint. ‘Ths Auftrian Mixifters al- ready cry out, * The French have deceived our poor miftrefs ; but they will foor have enough epon their hands.” The Count de Broglio is a'(0 fent from the French army on the Rhine to Paric. e is known to be a zealous Anti-Pruffian,and i: therefore pitched upon to go to Vienna, to perfuide the Emprels Queen of the finceiity of the French Court’s foen tion to exert their utmoft efforts in her favour. The Emprefs Queen, in notifving to the War2 office at Vienna the late revolution ui aifairs in Mo~ ravia, concluded with thefe words : * All wiil pe ‘< well, provided we continue to humble ourfelves ¢ before God.” Some letters from Poland mention, that the Grand General of the Crown was aflembling troops every where : which afforded caufe of much circumfpeétion to the Ruflians. An advice boat is arrived at Amfterdam, in 27 days, from St. Euftatia, with three deputies of that colony, who are commiffioned, it is faid, to petition the Dutch Eaft India company, to obtain fome thips of war to defeat the enterprizes of the Englifh, who keep the ifland of Euftatia in a manner blocked up. Extra& of a Letter from a Gentleman on board the Fleet at St. Helen’s,to his Brather inT'own, July 3. ¢ 1 make no Doubt before this Time you have beard of the Arrival of our Flec: in the Road of St. Helen's, Sfrom awbich 1imagine you would exped to bear from me. “ Aftor awe bad finifed our Bufinefs at St. Maloes, the Troops embas ked again 5 and we lay ¢ Week in the Bay of Cancails, without ihe leaft Malefiation, waiting for @ Wiud, and then proceeded to Hawre de Grace, avbere wve /vwved _urfelves for twe Days, avkich in Appearance put the whole Coafl in the greateft Confler - nation. We then Jailed all along the Coaft, and on / 17:.‘*,«':"1} 7..' 29, anchored in the Road of Cblrburgb. where ave expedied to land the next Morning 5 but the Enemy Jeemed to be too awell prowided for, us to do our Bufinefs in a ffort [ime, and our Provifions being nearly expended, it was 1ho’t proper to defer ihe Attempe, and come into Fort to widual our Ships, wbich «we are doing wvith the greatefl Expedition, and smagine, we fball then pay our Neighbours amother Vifit. The Troops avhich guard their Coaft muf! certainly be prodigioufly harrafled, as they can bawve no Intelligence of our Mo- tans 3 for to day ave appear off the Coafi of Brittany, @ hich caufes them to colle their Troops that Way 3 then in a Day ar tavo we are feen off 1he Coaft of Nors mandy.—1 bis muft be of the groatef} Confequence to the allied drmy 5 and we make no Doubt but Prince Fer- dinand alrealy feels the bappy Effeéls.’ ; There is Advice that Commodore Stevens, with four Ships of the Line, arrived at Bombay in the Middle of O&tober laft. We alfo hear, that 4000 Marats, Cavalry, have joined the Englith in the Kingdom of Golcoada.