The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, November 3, 1758, Page 1

s tme, what the{ had in View. ' 'f'\f'kffifi?;, 'fiommm \ 32, 1758 THE ‘New-Hampfhire ¢ ¥ " R 0 M E, Y6 he Capital of the Pork’s Territories, and of Ttaly, " iBe Walls about 1z Miles in_Circumference, the JInhabitants computed to amount to 20,000 Souls; 3 ‘:’e Bridges over the River, 20 Gates, and 300 ~antique towers, ftill remaining 3 the city magnifi- ‘cently built, the Streets fpacious, 2nd adorn’d with 306 fine Charches, and a vaft number of Palaces, , zthenu', Colleges, &c. great plenty cf all manner " ‘of Proviions, and the greateft Variety of Wines, “and in the midft of all this Variety, the People are extremely fober, never fitting down purely to drink, and very feldom drioking Wine without Water. Modern Rome flands 14 or 15 Feet bigher than the old City, being built on the Ruins of the former, and much more upon a Lewel than the old : Ci'f)’ was. HE Church has %ot a vifible Head 3 Cardinal Charles Rezzonico, a Vene- tian Bifhop of Padua, being elected on the §th.—Every body knows the dif - : y ferences which perpetually fabfift, not Between the Holy See, but between the Ecclefiaftical State, and the Seigoeury of Venice, on account of the port of Ancana, the boundaries, the inundations : And as to Spiritaals,without going back to Julius IL. or Paul V. that virtuous Pontiff Benedict X1V, thot he had-jaft Reafons to complain of the Venetians ; #nd at the Jait promotion of Cardinals tefufed to give @ Hat to their Nominee. Behold, neverthelefs, the Holy Spirit, for, all things confidered, the finger of God manifeltly appears in it, hath caufed Cardinal -Rezzonico to be ele@ted Head of the Church, and Sovereign of a great State, the heighbour and rival of the %Anetian's. On the h ioft. upon the firft ferutiny, there were qbex’fi‘fl;é!} found 37 voices for Cardinal Rezzonico. ¢ ele@ion was caponi- ¢al. He was &d,wim name he would affume—— He aofwered Clemint X111, Thefather of our new Pope procured a Hat for bim from Clement XI1. thro® Cardinal Corfini, that Pope’s nephew ; and the fon took care to make it known from time to Neverthelefs, the fame vephew of Clement X1L. has made his Uacle’s creature Pope, otte with whom he was often at va- yiance, What ftrange contradi€ions ; what unlocked for things in the bett conneted fyftems | Qur new Pope was born an the 7th of Mareh 16g3. He was formerly Euditer of the Rota. He was msde Car. dinal by Clement XII. on the zoth O&aber 1737, at the nomination of the Republick of Venice. He bad the title of St. Maria d"Ara Caeli (the principal tonvent of the Cordeliers) 4nd was protector of the Iilyrian Nation the Pandours. . He is ill favoured and hunch backed ; but of a firong vigorous eon- Ritvation ; a frefh complekion, walks well and firm; the honefteft man in the world i @ moft exemplary ecclefiaftick, of the pureft mcials ; devout, fteady; - learned, diligent ; in fhort worthy to fucceed the great Benedit XIV. tho® no body certainly ever tho't he would be cilled to fucceed him. _ DrEesDEN, (Saxom) _'fuI{{IS. Ap Auftrian Hul- far, belonging to General addick’s Corps has de- ferted to u3,and given usa Packet which he was en- trufted with by that Geaeral ta General Serbelioni, by Means of which we have difcovered a Schemeé laid by the Enemy to feize on this City, and burn the Pruffian Magagines,which the Count de Schmet- tau purGovernor has fent to Prince Henry of Pruffia; and in the mean Time is taking every poflible Pre- cagtion to prevent it’s beibg executed ; yet we are under the utmoft Appreheniions, as the Garrifon is but of 6 Battalions ; & we find that 10,000 Aultrians fre preparing tO attack us'in feveral Sides ataTime. FrankrorT, (a City in Germany ) Fuly 20, We are affured that Prince Henry of Pruffia, after hav- ing received a'l his Reinforcements, and fent a large Detachment into the Upper Lufatia,began hisMarch towards Carlibad in Bohemia,in order to prevent the Jun&ion of fome Autrian Troops with the Army of the Empire. Haumpusan, July 21. Some private Letters from ., Mecklenburg affure us, that a confidesable Body of " RuffianTroops landed the 12th Inftant, at Stralfund, in order to back the Operations of the Swedes. Paris, July 21, Aa Advice Boat is arrived at Breft in 15 Days from Lovifbourg, brings word,that. the Englifh had linded 18,000 Men at Cape Breton, SN WY e . RN Ny W Containing the Frefbeft Adbi;'ev. ey ‘which Place they wéfe‘Mepng with great Vigatfs . ‘both by Land and See. We have received. Adviee by & Ship arrived from the Ifle of Bourbon, thatn the 3d of Febroary lalt M. d'Ache fail’d from thence with 11 Men of War and 2 Frigates, in order. to execute an Expedition in the Eaft Indies, which will probably fucceed much better than that of the Englith sgainft Louibourg. Covroen, Fuly 25. La§ funday the garrifon of Duffeldorp was reinforced with 2000 men and fome light troops. The governos-is prepasiag 3 train of artillery to be kept ready 10 fet out on the fhorteft notice, and as he expects a farther reinforcement,we infer, that prince Ferdinand has a defigp agaioft the bridge of the French at Devg; and againft the camp that covers it. R From the Lower Rbine, Tely 28. There is very little aiteration in the fituation of the two armies.— That of prince Ferdinand of Brunfwick came nearer the Etfit the 1gth, extending its left towards the vil- Jage of Cappel, and its right towards Zwicken. In the night of the 1th, the garrifon of Guelders fur- prized a poft of Hamovérian hotfe at Stralen, -and ‘catried off 12 men and 16 herfes, and the garrifon of Wefel has likewife feized a confiderable magazine at Dorflen, belonging to.the Hanoverians., . : " Vienna, Jilprs. | The Joursal of our Army is ‘ot yet arrived ; but private Lewers inform us the Generals Buccosw_and Lafcy had within thefe few Days a very fharp Skipmifh with 2 Part of theColumn under General Fougoet, gear Mahrifch Tribeu, and that they killed feveral, and toolc masy Prifoners, With a confiderable:Boety.. . We expe@ the Detail of thisAffair, Defertion i {o great among the Pruffiaus, that upwards of 1200 came @ver to our Army in two Days, and to Olmutz upwards of Soco fiance the fecond inftant. ; P S T We have atlo - Advice that_our Troops gained 2 ‘¢confiderabte Advantege overtiiv Pioflisnsneartiohe- mauth ; but we know not yet the Particulars, The 12th, General St. Ignot ateacked with Suc- cefs, between Bornhzadackand Hollitz, the Colamn of the Pruffian Army condulted by Marfhal Keith. The Auftrian Cavalry were Mafters of fixteen Pieces of Cannon ; but the Superiority of the Enemy’s In- fantry obliged them to abandon the Cannon ; fo that ro other Trophies remained to the Auilrians but two Standards. _The Enemy loft in this Rencounter up- wards of Goe Men, exclufive of their Wounded and Prifoners ; the Atiftrians 400 killed and wounded. Our Croats took befides from the Pruffians, JoWag. gons laden with Baggage, and brought them to Par- dubitz. Bruffels Gazette. 3 g 3 _ Praevk, July 18. All that is known here of the Retreat of the Pruflians is, thatthey fet fire to the Villages and Hamlets through which they pafs ; that one of their Colums had proceeded to Konigf- gratz ; that it hsd ébandoned that Place at the Ap- pmach of our Corps detached to parfuc it ; thaton the 1 sth, General Laudon attacked the Enemy at Hohe- mauth, killed Numbers, and took from them 100 Waggons, with 18 Pieces of Cannon ; that Marfhal Daun was arrived at the famie Place ; that Detach- ments of our Army did not ceafe to purfue and har- afs the other in its March ; and that our Generals were refolved to follow them into Silefia, where they jidged the Enemy defigoed to retire. . Dresoen, Jaly 18, Since the Difcovery made by the Packet of Letters brought hither by an Au- ftrian Deferter, the Count de Schmettau, our Gover- nor, has added fome Artiilery to our Ramparts, and placed two ldrge Pieces of Canoon with a Piquet of f{o Grenadiers very nedr the Royal Pélace and the omancatholick Charch., The Court appearing greatly difpleafed at this Proceeding, and making Complaints ofi the Subje&, were anfwered, that it was thought neceffary to ule fuch Precawiion, be- caiife the Govérnor hed Affurance from good Hands that this City contdined a great Namber of fecret Partifans to the Auftrians. . Y ; Amflerdain, Ju'y 26. The Admiralty of this City have given Notice, that there will be a Canvoy rea- dy by the 15th of Augtft, for the Merchant Ships of this Country, botind to the Mediterranean. This Convoy will fail from the Texel, and efcorts the faid Ships as far as Leghorn. Fuly 28. They write from Conftantinople of the 15th of June, that the Plague ftill made great Havock in that City ; and that icalfo raged 9 fuch a T T wtiidad You GAZETTE | Far‘-eig}z and ‘Domeflick. Degree at Smyrna, that 'moft of the Houfes and Shops were fhu: up. ' Leith, Avg. §. Yefierday zrrived the Chatham’ Man of War, Capt. Lockbart, after 7 Wecks craize in the North, having {een no Privateers : C O R K {(inlreland ) Auguft 14. . Laft Friday a_Veffel arrived here from Fyall, bound for Bremen ; fae failed from Rio de Janeiro in Jaft January, and was there in O&ober, when General Laily, with five French Men of War, and two Frigates, put in there in his' Way 1o the Eaft- Indies. Iis Fleet had loft above 1000 Men from their failing from France, ‘and was then fo fickly, that General Lally was heard to fay, that he could not undertake any Thing againtt the Englith Seutle- ments without a Reinforcement. On his proceeding - from thence, he left an Officer Behind, who tooE his Paffage in the above Ship for Europe, and died on the Voyage ; when, on examining his Papers, a large Packet of Letters were found direCted for the Frepch Ambiflador at _Lifbon, to be forwarded " to Verfailles,which Letters werelaft Night forwarded to their Excellencies the Lords Jattices of this King- dom. The above Veflel on her Paffage met with’ 11 Spanith Men of War on the 24th of Jaly laft, ia’ Latitude 40. oy. Longitade 23. 2. from Londan, Randiog to the S. B. Note, faid Ships were alf’ clean, and every one of them had new Sails. b A Letter from a young Gentleman, on board the cc Eflex Man of War, to his Relations here. : I AM, rhank God, in good Health, We bro't 10 . the 6th Inflant three Miles to the Weflward of Cherburg ; the 7th at One in the Morning the Bomé began 1o play upon Cherburg, and continued playing till Four ; at Half pafi. Four the Prince and Commodore avent on board the Pallas, té cover the Landing of the Men, awhere the Prince fired feveral Guns, ard did the Duty of a Midfbipman during the Fire; at Five & Sour Gt Battery began -3¢ phay en our Skip, and con- " tinued playing till Six, then we aweighed, and Jlookd - more in Shore to the Weflward ; at Eight feoeral of the. Enemy’s Troops of Light Horfe, and feweral Companics of Infantry, came along Shore, from Cherburg, and lodged thempelucs bebind a Wood clofe to the Shore, abreft of our Ships, wikere they imagined we would land 5 at One the Commodere made the Signal, by boilt- ing the bloody Flag at the Fore top gallant maff bead, Jor she Frigates, Bowbs, and other fmall Veffels,which avere clofe along Shore, 1o fire, awhich they did moff in- fernally, and with fo gosd Succefs, that in a JSbort Time awe diflodged the Enemy, fo that there came running out of the Wood, Jome of the Horles avithout their Riders 2 The Brilliant Frigate was fo awell fationed that Jbe 4illed a great Number as they pafed her out of the Wood 5 at Half pafi Ons e landed the Troops, Half a Mile to the Weflward of the Firing ; at Three our Troops bad a few Skirmifes and Bufb Firing, in avhich ave bad fve killed, and fourizen wounded ; there came in To-day fix Defesters : On the 8th we landed the Light Horle and Artillery, betwoeen Four. and Six in the Merning, and before Eight feveral Detachments awere difpatched about the Country ; between Eight and O#ie our Troops tack Pofleffion of feweral Jmall Batte- ries clong Skore, and about Tavo the French left Cher- burg,v-bich our Troops took Poffelfisnof at Three ; there are about §0 Jmall Craft in the Harbour, Juch as Stoops, Brigs, Smows, and. the like, befides the Tyger Privateer of Briffol, a Dane, and a large Merchant- man 3 there are in the Towwn tao large Magazines of Poawder, befides a Number of Brafs Cannon, Captain M Carty, of the lrifb Brigades, was cut in tawo lya Shot in our Cannonading ; there are 24 of the Irifp Brigades come ower o us, and tut three Liifbmen among them, they being compofed of Jeveral Nations, but all the Officers of the Brigades are Irifb. General Bligh is.an Honotr ta bis Coantry, in bis Bebaviour on this Oxccafion. . To morroaw awe blow up all the Batteries and Fortifications, and difiroy the Bafon and Harbour. 1 have taken up Part of #y four Howrs (that 1 bhad to Jleep, awbich is all F bad out of 24, being employed up and dowen ) in avriting this 5 you may deprnd upon the above to be authentic, as 1 bave been an Eye Witneft of all, and tock down the Minutes 3 1 am botb fleepy and weary, fo mufl conclude, Yours, e, 3 Avguft 9, 1758, Rougquies Cannon.”* Cassev, 7uly 26. The French have become Maf ters of all Hefle,which greatly alarms the inhabitants,’ tho" their fears are fofrened by the good difcipling Pr. Soubife Gaafes to be ohlerved among the tocgs, AR A-4 wWien” Jjice PO