The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, January 26, 1759, Page 1

i ‘> FRIDAY, Jawvary 26, 1759. THE Contdining the Frefbeft Advices L. O N D O N, November 14: Tbe following Extraél from the Preamble of General Bligh’s InStruélions clearly fhew the genuine Intention of our late Expedi- tions to the Coaf? of France, T being highly expedient, and of the greateft Ulility, to continue fome Expedition, that may caufe a2 Diver- fion, and engage the Enemy to em- ploy, in their own Defence, a confiderable Part of their Forces deftined to invade and opprefs the Liberties of the Empire, and to fubvert the Independency of France; and, if poffible, to make fome effectual Impref- fion on the Enemy, which, by difturbing and fhaking the Credit of their Publick Loads, and at the fame Time fecuring and proteé&ting the Commerce of our own Sub- je@s, by ftriking at the principal Seats of their Privateers, as well as by difconcerting, and in Part fruftrating, their dangerous and extenfive Operations of War, may reflect Lultre on our Arms, and add Life and Strength to the Common Caule : Our Will , and Pleafure is, that you do exert your ut- moft Endeavours to land,if it fhall be found pralticable, with the Troops under your Command, art or near Cherburg, on the Coaft of Normandy, and to attack the Bat- teries, Forts, and Town of Cherburg ; and in Cafe, by the Blefling of God upon our Arms, the faid Place fhall be carried, and that our Troops fhall.be able to maintain themfelves there a competent Time, for demolithing and deftroying the Port and Bafon, together with all the Ships, Naval Stores and Works, Batteries, Fortifications, Arfenals,and Magazines,thereunto belong- ing, you are to ufe all poffible Means, ef- fectually to demolith and deftroy the fame; - and youare alfo to exert fuch otherEfforts, as you- fhall judge moft proper, to aanoy and diftrefs the Enemy.—— When this Service fhall be compleated, or in Cafe the Attack above mentioned on Cherburg fhall not fucceed, Our Will and Pleafure is, that you do proceed to carry a warm Alarm along the Coaft of France, and to make Defcents vpon any Part or Parts thereof ; and attack any Place, that may be found pralticable, from the Eaftermoft Point of Normandy as far Weltward as Morlaix inclufive ; and you are to carry into Execution all or any of above Opera- tions, in fuch Order of Time, as from the Circumftances of the Wind and Weather thall be moft advifeable, and moft condu- cive to our Service : And whereas the Di- verfion hereby propofed to be made, is of the higheft Importance to the good of the Common Caufe, Our Willand Pleafure is, _that you do continue with as much Vigour, and give as much Duration to the various Operations of the prefent Expedition, as fll.ii” be found practicable and confiftent with the Good of our Service, as we!l from the ftrength and tenable Nature of any Place or Poft, whereof you may become Matfter, as from the Force which the Ene- ~ my fhall colle&t in thofe Parts to oppofe you, and from the Circumftances and fitu- Hampthire I S ation of our Troops and Ships; during which Tiume you are to exert all fuch Et- forts for annoying the Enemy as you fhall judge proper ; and you arein all Cafes to preferve, with the utmoft Attention and Circum(pection, the Communication with our Ships, &c”’ Drespex, Q2. 27. In% faid that the Auftrians have made themfelves Mafters of an Eminence near Pyrna, which the Pruffians poffefled ; killing 19 Men, wounding 23, and making two Captains ard five Lieutenants prifoners. Hacus, Now. 7. Their High MightinefTes have again received Difpatches from M. Hop, our Mi- nifter at the Court of London, informing them that Lord Holdernefle has anfwered him by Word of Moutb, that all cur Reprefentations with Regard to the Infults done to our Veflels by the Englith would be uf¢lefs, as [8ng as their High Mightinefles fhould permit their Subjefis to carry on an illicit Trade, to which it was both for the Honour and In- tereft of Great-Britzin to pat a ftop. i 10 N P e EN Now.g. A Meflenger arriv’d Yellerday from Germany from Prince Ferdinand, and it's fince faid that the Army under Mdrithal Contades is retreated precipitately from Muniter. By a Letter from Dantzick of the 17th of O&t.we have an Account, that the Ruffian General, Brown, with about goco Ruffians of all forts, tuat were wounded in the Battle of the 25th of Auguft, and have been ever fince at Thorn, were fending down the Viftula in Veflels, for eafy Carriage, to Konigs- berg and other Places in Royal Pruffia. The Loan now opened at the Exchequer is for 250,0001. at threeand a Hhalf per Cent that Sum being wanted to compleat the Sum of 8oo,000l. on the Vote of Credit granted toward the End of laft Seffion of Parliament, and which is to be repaid to the Subfcribers in January next, together with the Intereft due thereon. [** The Solidity of the Englith Credit ( fays a French VVriter ) furnithes that Nation with the Means of drawing immenfe Riches from 2 Method of borrowing, that muft ruin a pri- vate Perfon. In France, a Loan creates a Debt, and oftentimes a Want ; in England, a Loan always extinguifhes a Want, and at the fame Time begets an Income. How can the Englith be at a Lofs for raifing Money ? The Paper of the public Funds is, amoag(t them, converted tnto Merchandife and Mo- ney. A Nation mualt be very powerful when all Europe is interefled in its Property ; and England is in that Situation, ‘a Situation in which it has no Rival. An Experience of two hundred Years con- vinces us, that Republican Debts are not much more fecure than Monarchial ones. This Experience proves nothing againft the Republic of England, be- caufe its Aim 1s not to relemble, in that particular, either Republics or Monarchies. Notwithftanding (continues our Author ) the advantageous Notions that Européj to conceive, aflter the laft War, of the Credit of France, it is morally impofiible that it fhould ever ccme near that of England, becaufe it is tounded only on the Word of the Prince ; whereas that of England is built upon the Intereft of the Peo- ple : Now Intereft is always a Motive more folid, and more proper to gain Confidence than Honefly.”] It is faid, that Letters from the King of Pruflia’s Camp mention a Report, that the Hereditary Prince of Hefle Caflel was dead of the Wounds he received in the Battle of the 14th ult. It is faid, in a Letter by the laft Flanders Mail, That the King of France,had been lately under very great'Uneafinefs fince he had been informed Damien had been hired to murder him ; and what added greatly to his Uneafinefs is, that he had learnt he had been fct on to do it by one of too near an Affi- nity to fuffer, and who was too much belov’d by the Priefts to be expofed. Nov.g. Prince Maurice of Aohalt Deflau, af- ter being wounded, was feized in the Battle of Hochkirchen by M. Fellner, Licut. of the Sclavo- nian Haffars, who permitted him, on giving his Pa- role of Honour, to proceed to Bautzen. The Prince made the Lieutenant a Prefent of Six and Fifty Fre- dericks ’Or and a Letter of Exchange for One Thoufand Florins, S GAZETTE Foreign and Domeflick. Noms. 121, We hear that Admiral Bofcawen, when he waited on his Mzjefty, met with a particularly kind Recep- tion ; and that 'his Majefty afked a great many Queftions concérning the Place, the Health of the Sailors and™ Soldiers, &c. and upon the whole ex- prefled an ‘uncommon Satisfadtion.—His Royal Highnefs the Prince of Wales, and Prince Edward were alfo very particuaiar in their Enquisies.——1Iu is rematkable that there has been little or no Sicknefs on board the Admiral’s Ship eitherin going, or coming home, except when they went alhore at Halifax, where about forty fell fick, eccafioned by drinking and others Irregularities ; but that when the Admiral ordered the Sick on board again, they recovered apace, chiefly owing to their being de- prived of Liquor, and to the working of the Venti- Jators, which were of infinite Service in the Prefer-~ vation of the people on board. It is generally thought, that if Ventilators avere more ufed, it avould . prelervethe Lives of as many Sailors in @ Year, as are loft by Accident or in a Battle. We hear that the Union Man of War, of go Guns, which was miffing,and apprehended to be loft, fome Things having been feen floating near Wey- mouth after the late hard Weather, has fince been {poke with at Sea, all well on board. Sir Charles Hardy and Admiral Holbourn arrived in Town Yefterday from Port{mouth. 4 The French talk of a general Armament-at Breft and Rochefort. They allo fay that their Ambafla- der at Conftantinople has wrote, that they need give themfelves no Uueafinefs about the warlike prepa- rations in the Ottoman Empire, as they are defigned againft the Arabs only. A Cheer for Soldiers and Sailors. Humbly addrefled to his Royal Highnefs Prince Edward, the Rifing Prote&or of the Britifh pavy : and to be fung or faid on board all his Majefty’s fhips, tranfports, &c. going o the coaft of France, OME, come, my lads, away to France, ‘2 Let’s fhew the French an Englith dance ; Convince them that we dare to die, ~And in the field of honour lie; Rather than {laves to them become, And truckic tothe Whore of Rome. Courage, my boys ; up to the nofe (The French are our invet'rate foes) Of thofe that dare your paflage ftay, Or in the leaft obltrul your way To Paris gates, that antient town, Sworn to obey the Whore of Rome, Not life, but liberty we prize ; And fo does ev’ry man that’s wife: So good a caufe God will protett, And fave thofe lives which we negleét ; To abate the pride, and to pull down The haughty fons of purple Rome. Or fhould we die a facrifice T’ our country’s laws and liberties, The fhorteft cut to Heaven we’ve found, Where lafting pleafures do abound ; Not to be touch'd or tafted by The Gaul of Auftrian Romifh fry. St. Jobn's, in Antigua, December 6. On Monday laft was brought in a French Petti- augre, laden with Cocoa and Claret, taken by the Britannia floop, of this Place, John Price, Com- mander : The Prize Mafter declares the Britannia fell in with two French Frigates to the fouthward of Montferrat on funday the 26th ult. one of which chafed the Brjtannia for fome Time, and afterward ftood to the Northward : It was fuppofed they were bound to St. Euftatia. And a Prifoner, brought in faid Prize, reports, That the Floriffant has got into the Granades, having 75 Men killed in the late A&ion with the Buckingham, and 167 wounded ; and her Hull miferably fhattered ; but this, the French pretended, has been partly owing to her go- ing afhore at the Granades. ‘ Dec.'13. On Sunday laft, in the Forenoon,Com- modore Maore, in his Majefty’s fhip Cambridge, fail'd from St. John’s Road ; and on Manday Even-, ing the fquadron, confifting of 7 Men of War, were feen from the windwardPart of the Ifland, ftretching over towards the French lflands. PHILADELPHTA, Janvary 11, ” By our lalt Accounts from. the Weftward, General Forbes-was at Carlifle ; and 400 of the Troops,thay