The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, January 12, 1759, Page 1

\ e‘l‘b‘i A v ‘ ¢ ~a FRI\DAY, JAnvAaRrY 12, 1750, THE = A s . - 1 Neyr-Hampfhire Containing the Fre/befi Advices ot e ——— e % 1, Friday laff the Ship Happy Return, a Letter of Marque moantirg 20 Guns, Capt. Peter Mc Tag- gart grrived at Bofton in abaut ten weeks from Lon- don, by awhom we have the following Advices, viz. Paras, ( the Mctropolis of France ) Sept. 10. OT .a fiogle word is Ipoken here of the lofs of Cape Breton. A profonnd filence is obferved on that affair ; which wears no good alpett. Some of the difcontented afk, Wisat do you fay of the taking of Louifboarg ! s it poliible that fhame fhou!ld be the poition of iie nation ? What diforder in the Government 2 Ilow can fuch ceep fecurity prevail every where, when every thing threatens you ? It is true, that the Englifh were in a il lefs excufable fecarity,when we threatned them vith the expedition again®t Minorca 5 months before we undertook it. But their blanders are no excule for ours, nor will they repair oar immenfe lofies. DRESDEN, Set. 20. Rince Ferdinand of Pruflia is dangeroufly ill of P a fever at Schweidnitz. The Uraflian huflurs did not content themlclves with defltroying by fire the caltle of Plorten, belonging te count Bruhl, the kisg our fovereign's primé minifter ; they Lave fince burnt down this nobleman’s fisc country houle « at Krochewitz, between Meiffen and Torgau. Monday laft bhis Majefty received, by a courier from general Dohna, the news that the Ruflian ar- my, uader the command of general Fermor, had begun to make its retreat from the New Marchs c.>f Brandenbourg, towards Poland : That the firft di- vifion had marched on the 15th, and the fecond and third were to follow the 16th and 17th, The Ruf- fians wou'd have returscd by Pomecrasia, but tha Pruffians have prevented them. The fame lc:t;rs alfo fay, that they have left behind them, in the city of Lanfberg upon the Wartha,-aboat gooo fick and * wounded, and 1coo mea in health to take care of them. StoLre,( fuljel to the King of Pruffia) Sept. 24. ,The Kicg of Pruffiz has received News from Sicfia, which cccafioned 8 motion in his Army. >Tis even faid, that he is him{eif fet out with a part .4 © it for Silefia. The Prince of Baden- Dourlach is ++ 0 marched towards Baatzea. Extrai of a Letter from Drefden, Sept. 20. ¢ Alihovgh ths King or Prussia bas not jyet pffid the Eibe,yet ditackments are fent over every day, wha marrawly awatch the motions of Count Daun. “His Pruffian Bl ¢ for paffing that viver with his whole army 5 jo that Count Daun mufl eitber retreal from Stolpe, or fiyht thre King of Pruffia. The army 20 b in a wery critical fituation, Bubemia may, in.ali probaiity, be cut off .’ s From the bead quaricrs of l,m,'jf"fl.u' Daun, at St:.’pr, Srpt. 20. The 16th iolt our advanced pofts, and particularly that of Gen. Laudon, were actacked by the esemy, and by their fuperior foree he was obliged to change his fituation, and take poft upon the rifi,g ta fecurc bis rear, and his -ommanication with t! The attackcon- &tinucd frog two ige the, morning till ten, during which time, the g:" onad Raics. L > S AN B S ey, ol ) 'y is making every aifpojition pojfioie. aof the empire is Jfaid as their retreat into ¢ grodnds near Durnfuchs . o army aroty. ing was very briflk. Our weunded aud mifling, dors net exteed too men ; but that of ‘the-enemy mull be much aore confiderable. ‘T'he enemy having made feve- % other ‘motions, from which we mutt infer, that bey would be tempted to attack the army, the Mar- thal weat to the camp the 17th to reconnoiire the fituation of the enemy. The 18th feveral accouonis were received at the quarters, that the king of Pruffia had detached from his army and that of prince Henry, a body of 15000 mea under the cammand of Gen. de Wedei, to drivg the Ruffians il Swedes out of Brandenburg. s 0 ND O Q&aber 5. agc lofs killed, § (A8 head N. in the late unfor- the rear guard of the Englith army had been into the:fea by the French troops, the fire o ridus, that the boats were afral ance of the Englifh Sc!diers, tiil Lord Howe, per- ceiving their backwardoels, and fufpefling the caufe, . we‘t himfelf and ftood vpright in the boat, amidft al®che fire of the enemy, in order to encourage the y ohier boats to advance. T'his brave aQlion had the defired effe&, infomuch that there were nore in the NEWBURY LOTTERY TICKETS Sold by the Printer here whole fisst that did not foilow the Commadore’s ex- ample, by which many lives were faved, which otherwife muft have been loft. Oé. 7. It is ramoured, that the tranfports to be employed in the pew expeduion are ordered to be vitualled for fix moanths, and that the objelt of this expedition is Martimco. Martinico ds extremely ftreng and populous. Guardaloupe andGrand Terre, which are {eparated only by a rivulet, and therefore are always confidered as v Hlaad, would be no difficult conqueit. Guardaioupe lies in fight of An. tigua, and makes about forty thoufard hogtheads of fugar a year, befides ram, cottan and ginger. Bafs Terre is the capital, which is fituated in a bay whick forms a pretty good harbour, and is ind:fferently for- tified : the extent of the two iflands is about thirty- five miles, and, in molt places, fixteen miles broad ; round which are feveral good bays, of which Port Lewis in Grand Terre is the belt, and always fmooth water, where a defcent couid bz made with the greatelt eale, as there is not a fingie pieee of cannon to oppofe it. There are not above three thouland Frenchmen in the two iflands : indeed they might arm fome negroes, but they would all probably de- fert, as they are almoft ftarving ; and, befide the force we thall fend from heace, above two thoufand volunteers might be raifed in Astigua, St Kit’s, Nevis, Mentlerrat, and Virgin iflands. Almolt all the three decked fhips are going to Plymsath to join Admiral Saanders. We hear that the French Army, on their retreat to Caflel, obliged the inhabitants to put out jliumi- nations for the vi€ory gained over the Englith, on the French coaft, on pain of military execation, ‘The Lizard man of war isarrived at Plymouth, and has bro’t in a French frigate, late the Hanover- Packet, from Bourdeaux for Brefl, O&. 9 'The Therefa irigate of and for Havre de Grace from Martinico, is taken by the Achilles man of war, and brought into Piymouth. The Uuicarn man of war has taken the Duke d’Harcourt privateer of Dunkirk, of eight guns, ten fwivels, and fixty men, and brought her into Piy- mouth. The Sonthampton man of war has taken and car- ried into Kinfaie, ‘a large French privateer of 20 guns, and 210 men, belonging to Bayonae. A large Datch fhip is brought into Brillol, by the Drake privateer ; another of 600 tons, is fent in by the ['rial privateer ; and a third of 600 tons, is fent in by the Severn privateer. Aifo a Datch fhip of 800 tons, is feat into Cork,by the Dreadaought pri- vateer, They are ail {aid to be frem St. Euftatia ; they are laden with fugars, coffce, and indigo. 10, faid orders are come down for the Royal George of 100 guns, Union go Nepiane 9o, St. George go, and Newark 8o, to join, as falt as poflible, Admiral Saunders, who is expected to fail this week for Plymouth, Ocfober 14. They write from Drefden, That the Emprels Queen, who before the prefent war tho't that (by hc"’!iiap:: with France, Ruflia, Saxooy and Sweden) fhe fhou'd foon bz able to deftroy the King of Piuflia, and divide his country belween her- {eif and her allies, was now {0 well convinced of her millalke, that fhe had {ent 2 miaifler there, to inform himfelf upen what conditions his Pruffian Majelly was willing to come to an accommodation ; and that the faid gentlemaa was thes allually in that Cl:y. T'he Nancy, Merrifon, from Glafgow for Boflon, ! Ie : PR p Portjmouth, O&o. foundered on the Ceaft of Ireland,ihic people’s lives faved, We hear that commodore Keppel failing orders. The Duke of Mariboreugh privateer has taken and carried into Leghorn, & very rich prize bound from Smyrna to Marfziiles. The Viftory, Daniel, from New Lrgland for Gibraltar is taken and carried into Cadiz We hear from Copenhagen ¢hat a Ruflian man of war of 64 guvs, is loft on the Danifh coalt and all the crew perithed. The Briftol Packet, ——, from Befton is arrived at Briftol, A thip, New England buiit, laden with merchant goods, is broke to picces near Haxtlcpoolfl, and all the crew perithed. s fleet is under ———— of for Bills of Credit, af Nums. 119, . T T Ei¥8 -~ - Foreign and Domeftick. s e i O:7.18. A moft thocking murder was commited at Hambleton ou the hill, a viliage near Uakbam in Rut'andfhire, vpou the bodies of Anne Woods and Robert Broome, .two poor aged cottagers, John Swanfon of that weighbourhcod. Woods had employed Broome to trim a h himfelf, weat tothe hedge witha hat arm 3 bue beforg kit had gt threr partsef the he met the oldwoman teturaing homs from the man ; and without ary previous faiutation, knogked her down with his hatcher, He then went to the place where the poor man was at work, kesocked him down in the bike manner, chopt of° hLis head wiih his hatchet; opencd his body and plucked out his heart, which he wrapt up with the head, in a piece of old rag. He then returned to the dead corple of the woman, cut down her flays before, cpened her body, and puliing cut ber hcart, bound wvp both the hearts and head together, which he carried home, and hid in a chelt under his own bed. The officers of the parifh, recziving information that Broome wag murdered, immediately turned their {ufpicions upon Swanfen,and went the fame night to Swanfon’s houfe, and being admiited, charged him with the murder, who, after flanding dumb about three minutes, con- fefled the whoie ; and that Robert Broome’s head, and both hearts lay concealed under his bed. He was fecured immediately and committed to Oakham goal. It appears by all the circumllances of this murder that the man was mad, and deferved to have been cocfined long before. Admiralty-Office, O&. 10, Capt. Douglafs of his majefty’s fhip Alcide, gives an account in his ietter of the 8th inft. that having reccived intelligence of a French frigate called tie Felicite of 36 guns, aad a flate called the Robufle, of 24, being failed from Bourdeaux the 1oth of September; he, with his majefty’s thip AQleon, ftecred a courfe to intercept them ; and on the 15th, 20 leaguss to the weltward of cape Finiftere, they came up with and took the Robuite, theFelicite having left her the night before. She is laden with {ix 24 pounders, twelve of 18, fix iron mortars, 3000 fhells of 13 inch diameter, coz- dage, canvas, {lour and {everal other flores, for the ufe of the French men of war at Hifpaniola. There is aifo an account that his majelty’s fhip Lizard, Cape. Hartwell, has taken the Dacd’Hanover, a French frigate of 14 carriage and 20 fwivel guns. WHiTEHALL, OQober 14. Dy a Letter from Admiral Bofcawen to Mr. Secre- tary Pite, dated Louifbourg Harbour, the 135 of Sept. laft, the folloaving dAccount of the Inbabitants on ibe Ilaund of St. Jobn bas been received. Paoint le Frince N. E. River St. Peters North Point FViff and North Rivir e— o= — 4100 Lieutenant Colonel Lord Rolle awrites to the Adwmi- ral, that molt of the faid Inhabitants had brought in their Arms. T he Admiral’s Letter further contains, that by the 1./1 Accounts he canget, the jaid Ifland of St. Jahn has been the only Supply for Quebec, of Corm and Beef Jinee the FVar, excipt what has been brought [rom Europe,havizg at prefent abowe 10,000 barned Cattle, and many of the Ishabitants declare they grow each of 1hem 1200 Bufhels of Corn annually 5 they hawe no o- ther Market for it but Quebec : It has been and Afylum of the French Inhabitants from Nowa Scotia 5 and from this Niand bas been conflantly carricd on the inbuman Praéiice of kil ; of Novas, Q 3] [eIN] 00 GO0 o [*] — — — — — — — © R e O ng the Englifh Inbabitants Scotia, for the fake of carrying their Scalps to the French, who pay them for the fame : Seweral Scalps wvere found in the Governour’s Quarters, wwbin Loid Relio tock Pofliffin Berlin, Oct. 7. By Authority., Accordin lait Letters from Saxony, which are dated the Inft. Marfhal Dzun continues to keep his advaatag ous Camp at Stolpe, withcat venturing (o cone out of it, tho’ he hath confiderably reinforced it by calling in the Troops. The King endcavoured (o draw on a Battle with Count Daun the 27th uit. but was preventcd by Laudon’s precipiately retreat- mg 3 L.12 Old Tenor per £..1 o =