The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, December 1, 1758, Page 1

’ 'FRIDAY, Decemsir 1, 1758. T H E R N D O N September 1. Tbe following is @ Tranflation of a Letter written by bis Majefly to bis Highnefs Prince Ferdinand of Brunfwick, on the Battle of Crewelt. i ‘HE Succefs which the Almighty was pleafed to grant to my Army, under your Highnefs’s Command, on the 23d ult. gave me the higheft Pleafure, 4 efpecially receiving the Particulars of it by your Highnefs's Letter of the z4th, and ver- bally from my Adjutant General Von “Rheden. 1 tannot therefore omit my fincereft Acknowledss ments to your Highnefs on this Qccafion, as it 1s, ander God, to your wife Meafures and unparaliell- ed Manceuvres, that this Victory is to be afcribed. ¥ want Words to exprefs my Senfe of the Service you have performed, and my Admiration of your extraordinary Abilities exerted for Me and the com - mon Caule, with equal Zeal, Magnanimity, and Succefs? My Joy is greatly heightened to find that the Hereditary Prince of Brun{wick had fo great a Share in the Succefs of that glorious Day. Your High- nefs will inform that worthy Prince, that he had be- fore my Efteem and AffeCtion, and by this frefh Proof of his AQivity, Valour, and good Conduét, he hasnow acquired my Admiration. " 1always had a good Opinion of the Troops in general under yoar Command, and particularly of myown: And I am now fo confirmed in it by what - vour Highoefs writes to me, that ‘I make rot the ‘saft Doubt, that, under fuch a Leader, who has ained their entire Love and Confidence, they wiil t all Times chearfully do their Duty, like brave and honeft Men. I defire your Highnefs will make known to batk Officers and Men, ¢t Thoughts I entertain of them. . What yoor Highnefsis pleafed to mention of the Behaviour of Lieutenant General Oberg and Major General Wangenheim, gives me. great Satisfattion. 1 cannot conclade without acquainting your High- nefs, that in regard to the honourable Mention you make of Licutenant Colonel Schulenbourg, I have Jordered him a Colonel's Commiffion. « ] remain with Truth, &c. &c. “GEOQORGE REX"™ A Letter from a Perfon lately returned from Confine- ment ai Bayonne, gives the foHowing Account of 1he S réatment of Briti/h Prifoners at that Place.” ! fiFTER being ftript by the Privaieers, they are o - force® to lye onthe cold Boards havirg two unds only of Straw allowed them in a Fortnight, and no Blanket or Hammock. Many of them, poot Fellows | have little or nothing to cover their Nak- ednefs. Officers are allowed eight Sols (or 4d En- glith) a Day ; bat twenty Sols per Day is fcarce fuf: ficient to keep Sou! and Body together ; for they are pot permitted to go to the Town to buy their own Provifions, and at the Caftle they are grofly impofed epon. For a feparate Apartment from the Sailors each Officer pays two Livers per Month. Nene of them is admitted to go ugon his Parole, unlefs he can procure Bail for 3000 Livres. Secldom a Week “afles but fome Prifoners is ran into the Leg or ‘Thigh by the Centinel’s Bayonet, for the moft trifi- ing caufe. Five Prifoners, endeavouring to make their Efcape, were difcovered by the Centinels, who calling for more afiiftance, the Prifoners fell down upoit their Knees, imploring Mercy. The Guards fceing them in a defencelefs Pofture, boldly drew i:dir Scymetars, killed Four of them outright, and *aft the other for Dead with the lofs of his Right ifand ; and for this Picce of fignal Bravery they were commended by their Officers. Another Prifo- ner had a very dangerons Wound given him by a Centinel’s running his Bayonet into his Thigh, be- caule he had omitted the Ceremony of taking off his Hat, and crefling himfelf, when he came to the Well to draw Water. With refpe@ to myfelf, I bad bribed the Centinels to carry me to Spain with ¢ Four others of my Acquaintance. The Commander getting Notice of it, refolved that we fhould have 2 ®frec Paffage as far as the great Ditch, and that there he would plant a File of Mufqueteersin a Bufh to Fire vpon us, it being neceffary, he faid, to facri- fice us, in order to intimidate others from making the like Attempt. I luckily was informed of his Defign in the Evening by a Maid of the Houfe. Hampfhire Containing the Frefbeft Advices é;jv Nums. 113, GAZETTE. Foreign and Domeflick. © . However, I was afterwards confined in a2 Dungeon under Ground, and there loaded with lrons. 1f you acquaint them that Freach Prifoncrs in England arenot fo inhumanly treated,their Reply 1s, That they believe it ; but it is more cuat of Fear, than Good nature. Iadeed I muft do the prefent Commiffary, M. de. Freme, the JuZice to fay, that as far as lay in his Power, he hath always behaved with great Equity and Civility towards the Prifoners. "The Bayonners have not the Humanity which ma- ny in England have, to raifc Contributions for the Relief of the poor naked Sailars, The French pride themfelves much on being the politeft of Nations ; and certainly they are fo, if Politenefs confifts in fine Compliments, and external Geftures of the Body, without any Tntention to perform what is faid. While in Subje&ion they are the moft fawning and infinuating ; fo far indeed as to make a gonfiderable Progrefs in gaining the Hearts of our Britifh Ladies. Thas I am informed, that a French Prifoner is fel- dom at a Lofs for a Partner at an Affembly ; while an honeft Englifhman is bot little regarded. Such is the Foible of many, that they can relith nothing but what is Frenchified. I only wifh that fuch were to experience them as much as their humble Servant has done. R: C: P. S. As moft of the Merchants in Bayonne are become Bankrupts, they make great Complaints againft the Authors of the War. There are at pre- {ent about twenty two Privateers belonging to Bay- onne, from 16 to 28 Guns. They are all in the River, and are to cruize Four ar Five together. Sept. 5. The King of Pruffis, before he fet out from Bohemia, wrote to his minifters of ftate at Ber- lin, That ke had heard they were packing up, in or- der to remove further from the dangers, which they apprehended threatened that city ; that they need not be afraid, as he was in hopes, thro’ the affiftance of Divine Providence, to ftrike fuch a blow amongft his enemies foon, as would relieve him,and furprize all Europe.—The next nev® they heard from him, to their great furprize, was that he had tranfported an army of 15,000 men in waggons, and behind the cavalry, to Cuftrin, 50 German miles, equal to 229 Boglith miles, in nine days,and was going to engage the Ruffians. Some fortifications along the coaft of Suff:x are ordered to be repaired, and fome armed vefie!s to be Rationed upon that coaft, to prevent any furprize from the eneray. : Sept. 9. By letiers from Stockholm we learn,that they.are repairing in all hafte the fortifications of the city and harbour of Gottenburg, the Government apprehending that before the prefent troubles are over, the Danes may calt a longing eye on that im- porsant place, or an Englifh fleet pay it a vilic, to reward the Swedes for the unnataral zeal to forward the defizns of Ruffia and France. By a private letter from Drefden, dated the zoth of Auguft, we are informed, that in the night of the 17th the Auflrians propofed to attack the whole chain of the Pruffian pofts at once, but were fo gal- lantly received at the two firft, that after a fruitlefs attempt, that lafted an hour, they began to retreat on the appearance of a ftrong corps of cavalry, and by endeavouring to avoid them, expofed themfelves to a mofked battery, by which feveral hundieds of Croats and Pandours were deftroyed. Some letters from Vienna intimate, that the prin- cipal bafinefs of Count Kevenhuller, who came thi- ther lately from Paris, was to inform the court, that the French find it abfolutely impofiible to recruit their army in Germany, and therefore expett that his Imperial Majefty will exert his authority to ena- ble them to raife men in all parts of the Empire, as the Freach forces at entirely as auxiliaries to the Germanic Body. Sept. 12, Two Holland Mails are juft arrived, which bring letters from Liege, advifing, that the Prince of Ifeobourg,commander of theHeflian traops, having received {ome large reinforcements, had at- tacked a corps of the army of the Prince de Soubife, ' and gained a confiderable advantage. They write from Drefden, that M. Daun feemed to have laid afide his plan of relieving Saxony, and was marching towards Silefia. W hen the Ruffiaps raifed the fiege of Caftrin, to join the main body of their army, they found a great part of the country round laid under water (by means of fome fluices which the governor of the place had the command of ) and it being in the middle of the night, great numbers of fhem were drowned. Letters from Hamburgh pretend thar all the ar- chieves of Pruffia,Pomerania,of the Marche of Bran- bourg, and even thofe of Berlin, were deftroyed y the bombardment of Caftrin. London, Sept. 10, We hear that his Majefty has been pleafed to appoint GRNERAL AmBErsT Go- vernor of Louifbourg, the 1fland of Cape Breton, and its dependencies. PHILADEULPHIA, Nov.16. The laft Account we have of General Forbes is; that on the 3oth ult. he was at Stany Creek, on his Way to Loyalhanning. A Letter from Loyalhanning, dated the 25th &f O&ober mentions more of their Artillery being fafe arrived there from Rays Town, and that they ex- pedled to march for Fort-Duquefne in a few Days. Tuelday laft Capt. Gibbon arrived here. He was Paflenger in the fip Kingften, Capt. Bendall, from Jamaica for this Port, and informs us, that faid Vef- fel was taken the 3d Inftant, by the French Frigate mentioned in our laft, ranfomed for Two Thoefand Pounds Serling, and foon after loft on Chinkoteague fhoals, but part of the Cargo faved : That a fnow was loft near the fame place, believed to be Capt. Condy, from Boflon for this Port : That Capt. Ben- dall made the 17th Prize the Frenchmen had taken on this Coaft ; and when he left the Frigate, a Sail’ hove in fight, which in all probability, would foon be brought to, as the thip fails very faft ; and it was thought fhe would cruize on our Capes, ’till fhe got one or two Vefiels. It is {aid, among others, a Veflel from Providence, bound here, is taken by ker, feared to be Capt. Shurlock. From Jamaica there is Advice, That Capt. Falk- ner, in a 20 Gun fhip, has taken, and carried in there, the Frigate that had the bloody Engagement with the Britannia Privateer, Capt. M’'Pherfon, of this Place ; two otker French fhips, and a Datch- man, al richly laden from the Cape : That many other Prizes had alfo been fert in, among which feveral Datchmen, and all condemned : That the Captains Dailie and Gardner, from hence, were ar- rived atthat [fland : That Capt. Dailie, on his Paflage on the 7th of July, in Lat. 22. 5z. took a fugar Veflel, bat for want of Hands to Man her, was obliged to let her go : That on the 13thin the Night, between Hifpaniola and Heneaga, he fell in with a very large French fhip, bro’t her to and or® dered the Captain on board, threatning to fink him, if he did not ; which the daftardly Frenchman com- plied with, tho’ he mounted 24 Guos, and had above 150 Hands ; but Capt. Dailie, after knowing his Strength, very prudently fent the French Captaib, with 12 of his Hands he had bro’t with him, back to his Veflel agaia, and made all the Sail he could from her : And that off the Eaft End of Jamaica he was chafed by a French Privateer ; but on his mak- ing ready to receive her, fhe theered off. Captain Dailie had 13 Hands on board, and mounted only, fix fmall Guus. From Providence we learn, that the Recovery Privateer of that Port, has taken, and carried in there, a French Privateer, of eight Guns; alfo a French Polacco, from Old France for the Weit 1ndies with a valuable Cargo on board. N EW.Y O R K, November zo. Wednefday Morning was fent into this Port, by the Captains Haley, Dale, ¥alantine and Leycraft, the Polacca, Conception, from Cape-Franceis, for Nantz, loaded with Sugar and Indigo. She was taken the zoth of O&ober, when the above Priva- teers were left in purfuit of a fhip and a Snow. The fame Morning was fent into this Port like~ wife, the fhip St Jacques, from Canada for Cape- ¥rancois, of 18 Guns and 60 Men ; taken abouta Month fince by the fhip Oliver Cromwell, Captain Nicoll, of 16 Guns, and not more than 50 Men, he having before man’d two Prizes. The next Morning the Privateer Brig Columbine, Captaip Lane, returned here from a Cruize: He bro’t in with him a fnow, formerly the Jevou, Capt. Heyfham, of this Place, which he cut out of a Har- bour, the 6th of O&ober laft, in the Streights of Bel- lifle, 15 Leagues to the Weftward of the Ifland of Bellifle, in Company with his Cenfort, Captan Do- ran, from whom he parted in a Fog.