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Y &3 » Containing the Frefbeft Advices 1 ’ Py 3 R " thatour prefent armaments are fict inferior to thole, V ~ /] . - s+ FRIDAY, Fesruary 9, 1759 s 22 HE . Ney-Hampfhir T this S azgTTE, No. 116, an Account was publifh’d of the Cuiduét of the KinG oF Prussia, and the Manner in awhich this great Warrior governs bis Army, taken from a Paper entitled, the Mf)xz:v'.cr ; bere fallorws an Extralt from the fame, which per- bapi avili bz an agrsable ddditiyn to that. Tothe MONIT OR. SR, HILE the world rings with. the viClories ‘)‘/ gbiained by the Prusian HERD, and wila the atchicvements of the Britith arms up- on the coaft of France, it can be no im- propriety to attempt an itluliration of the meafures ‘by which afovereign, who has neither trade, nor revenue, nior extent of domiaions, to enzble him to maintain an army fufficient to contend with the fu- perior force and riches of France, triumphs over the united foree of the moft powerful nations.on the continent: And by a (pecimen of Englith chivalry “jn the reigns of Epwaro the Third, and Hesry the Fifth, to fhew that there is no need of rumerous armies to chaftife the infolence-of the French : Aad which have eternized the Fame of the Britith foldiery at Crefty*, Poiftierst, and Agincourt. e Amongt which I fhall only felet fuch Expediti- ons, as may, in fome mealure, animate our prefent operations. ) ; When Edward the Third, in the year 1346, in- aded France, he marched up almoft to the walls of Pa-is, with énly 30,000 foor, aad 2500 horle ; and with a detach ment of gooo foet, his fon, the prince f Wales, about fixteen years old, gained a compleat ory over 120,000 French commanded by their Jing in perfon. : Edward in his way to Paris, in d¢fiance of one of J -+ the greateft armies that éver had been feen in France sevenged the blocd of feveral noblemen, whom the French had put to death, by beheading the chief altors in that bloody fcene, and plundering end burning all that food in his way, And in his return towards the coalt, being aobliged to force the Soame, defended by 6000 regulars,.he entered the river firft, and fo animated his men, by crying ou’, He that dowes me, let bim follswo me, that he forced a paflage, 2nd opened a way to the plains of Creily, where the L French king' was defeated by the prince of Wales. Which viflory was followed by the redullion of Calals. | : - But this i far inferior to the cxpedition, which the prince of Wales undertook in 1356, who, with an army of no more than 80co well difciplined fol diers, penetraicd into the very bofecm of France, to the gates of Burgefle in Berie ; and from " thence feiched a circamierence thro® Turenne, Poiftou, to curdeaux in Stantoin ; and being met near the city of Po'@iers by a French army of 66,cco men and upwards, commanded by their king in pesfon, “.not only routed them entirely, bat flew 6coo fmmon men, and took 100 pair of colours, . zoco znights aad gentlemen, one archbithop, five eails, nany other great lords, the king himfelf, and his Son Philip. 3 . The conqueft of France, by Henry the Fifth, _vas undertzken with an army that coufilted only of 1000 fpearmen, and 24,000 guaners. FHe firlt (e .ured a retreat at Harfleur, which be made a place »f arms, and then marched with zooo horfe, and 13,000 foot, to befiege Calais. In this march he * Crefly, a town in France in the province of Pi- ardy, made memorable by the willory obiained by Ed- ward the L11. King of England, over the French, 1346, 4 Poi&iers, the capital of Poi&ou iz France; being one of the largeft cities in the kingdom— Near this city (F.dwa_rd the Black Prince, fonof Edward L1, King of Erngland, obtaincd. a decifive vidory over the French, and took Joha, King of France, amd bis fon Phillip; Vifoners, and brought them over 1o England. y 1 Agincourt, @ willage of the French Netherlands, juhare Vienry V., King of England obtained a «widlory ower the Erench, Anno 1415, || Calais, the capital of the Pais Reconquis, in the province of Picardy in France, [ituated or the coafl of the Englifb channel, takin by Edward 1L, King of ssugland, Anno 1347, and lof in the reign of Queen Mary, dnno 1557, 1t may be overflowed 0% the ap- troach of an tnimy. SRR s ‘l 1 T 4, i - o b — country, from wl forts of provilions i ad Taid many ambulhes harralied, days, to pafled thro’ 2 carried off ali road:, fecured all the in the woods by which he wx aud his foldiers were obliged, for twe feed upon roots, nats, and Leiries, @nd to drink ditch water. However, he p1ifucd his rout rowards the town of Calais, tho® he was fure of meeting with 150,000 hdle, which flepped him in @n advaatage ous poft near Agincoust, in t22 eountry of St. Paul, under the cendaél of the conftabie of France. Ee- ing forced to fight, this Britith hero, neither daunted by the feeblencis of his mce, nor by the advantags- ous fi;uation of the enemy, nor yet by the vaft fupe- riority of their numbers, cifpofed his little arivy with fo much condu@, and {o animated them with his prefence and behaviour, that they gained a com- pleat vi€tory, having flain 10,c00 common mea 8oeo pricces, nobles, knighis, and gentiemen, with the lafs of about 400 men only, and tao geneial officers. Thas we may obferve, that the batls is not al- ways to the ftrong, and that the way to power is not to run into immenfe expences for equipages and ulelels commudities, when we go out (o batdle ; bat to obferve fuch a coadult as to retrench the fuper- fluities and vices of our military equipments ; to gain the hearts of the foidicis by good ufage ; and fo to manage the operations, as to draw from the enemy’s teiritories a large fhare of the charges of the cam- paign. And frem hence we may ezlily {form an idea of the courage and ftrength of the I'reach, when at- tacked in their own country, and of the fuccels we have reafon to expe from the prefent mealures ex- ecuted againtt their cosfls. If the fuccefs of the Pruffian avms is owing to the condut of their fove- reign ; and if the vi€lories gained by our kings over the Freach in their own country were the fruits of let our armies follow - 0" tinua their wildom and couragey thofe great cxamples, and we need not doabt of the like fuccefls. PHILADELPLUIA, January 25. Capt. Kidd, from Lifbon, on his Paffage fpoke with the -Bienheim Privateer, of London; of g0 Gars, and 300 Men, who had taken, and {fcat o, feven Sail of Duichmen, 2ad was thea after fome cutward bound Eait India Men. N He allo fpoke with tha Ship Aop, Captain Thomas Hatton, from Jamaica for North Carolina ; all well on board. On Sunday, the Seventh [uftaut, the Houfe of Mofes Dickey, in Paxton, Lancalter County, was burnt to the Ground ¢ his Wife, one Child, and a Perfon that worked with him, were burat to Death ; another Child; by jumping cut of a2 Window, broke its Thigh Bone ; and a Chird fo badly burnt, that it was thcught it could not live. Mi: Dickey twas the only Perfon that elcaped, but net without being a good Deal fcorched. He loft Lkewife fe- veral Hundred Pounds in Money, and every Thing that belonged to the Houle. EHis Mill and Out- hioufes were {aved. On Tuefday laft was taken up here by Richard Colihired, of William{barg, ia Virginia, and com- mitted to the Goalof chis City, one William Young alias John or James Gordon, en Safpicion of being concerned in a Marder and Robhery committed foine time in O&ober laft.in North:Carolina; when, it is faid, 700 Piftoles were carried cff. N E W Y OR K, Janvaryz2, On Tucfday lagt, afier diligent Search, grounded on a violent Suipicion, the Sum of I, 18,00 in Mo- ney- was found concealed in a Hole in the Wall of the Houfe of one James Willon, of this City, Ta- vernkeeper and Stone Cutter ; which, on the Con- feffion of the faid Wil{on, before Alderman Living- fton, appeared to be the Cafh ftolen the Tueiday be- fore from Capt. lfaac Sears, as mentioned in our laft : Willon was thercupon immediately committed to Goal, and it being thz {upreme Term, the Grand Jury found a Biil againit him, when he was accor- dihgly tiyed, convi@ted and condemned ; reccived his Sentence on Saturday, and is to be hanged on Friday the gih of Febraary sext. He did not give the Court much Trouble ; for, pleading guilty, the Jury bad no Occafion to withdraw. b Friday Night laft, his Excellency Major General Abercrombie, embarked on Board the Kennington Man of War, Capt. Jacabs, for England, and early when GAZ Nuwnme. 123. lél the next Morning the Cannon on Fart George were difchaz; 18 a-CQ iment paid b's Lxceilency’s Emba:kati s returned by the ~7an of Wae, c two or three I'ranfport Veflzls with fick and wounded Soldiers on “Board, going homeander Convey of the Kennington: -~ One of the Hands belonging to the Privateer Brig Hawk, Capt. Morley Harlfon, of this Place, came to T'own fince our laft from Cape Fear, where, he fays, he arrived in a French Ps Ship, taken by the Hawk, ia Company with a Cape Pear Paivatces fome littie Time ago. Sheis Joaded with Sugar, Iadigo, . Capt. Ramfey, bound from England to NewYoirk is blown ¢ff the Coalt, and put into Bermuda. Capt Monford, from Beiiafl for Louifbourg, being blown ¢if the Coaft alfo, is arrived at Ba: bados. N E W.P O R T, January 23. Wedanefday lak came into this Port, in Ballaft, a Prize Ship, taken by two New York Privateers, on her Paffage from Quebec to the Caps, frem whence fhe fail’d the 34 of O&ober. The fecand French Capt. who came in her, gives us the following Ac count : That faft Summer 42z Sail of Tranfports ar rived at Quebec ; all of which, except three depart- ed from thence, befcre he fail’d : That a French Mzn of War of §o0 Guns, was forced on the Labra dor Shore, and entirely foft : That there were 135,- coo Soldiers at Quebec ;- ‘I'hat the Inhabitants were under a great Confternation, as a Vifit from the Eoglith muft oblige them to {ubmit ; and that the Deftrullion made by the Englih Men of War at Gafpee, befides the Lofs fuffained, was otherwile a Misfortune, as they were not {opply’'d with Fith at the City, though they had plenty of other Provifions. BOSTON,; Februarys. By a Gentleman from Providence, we learn, that Capt. Cock in a Privateer Sloop belonging to that Place, had taken and“fent in theie Jek Week, a Schooner of about 70 Tons, having on board 60 Hogftheads of Sugar, and fome Ccffee ; fhe was bound from Cape Francois, and the Captain pre- tends fhe is Danifh Property ; but by fome Difco- veries made, fhe 1s L.ke to prave a good Prize, Capt. Coock had aifo retaken a Sicop from Connellicat bourd to the Weft Indies. We have alfa an Account wrote from Providence, That within 10 Days, no lefs than 11,588 Squirrels were fhot i the County of Providence ; and that at the producing the Heads, 1500 Horfes were at the Tavein—The Heads of the faid Squirrels meafured 29 Bufliels and half, The New York Privateer Brigantine Sampfon, being at Providence, was drove down the River, in the violent Storm on Friday 7 night, the People be ing moltly afthore,was caft away ncarColling’s Farm, LaftThurfday Morning Capt. Freacharrived here in 4 Days from Halifax, who informs, That two Sloops bound from the Eaftward toAnnapolis JRoyal, withWood, the Mafters Mc[arland and Read, foun. der’d at Sea in the late fiormy Weather, all the Peo- ple except one, were taken up by Capt. Tucker in a Ship from Lifboa, bound te Marbichead, who ar rived there lall Iriday. We hear that the following Gentlemen were fet- tied in the Miniftry in the Month palt, Jan. 3d, the Rev. Mr. Nathan iolt, at Danvers. 1oth, Mr. Elias Sinith, at Middleton [aear Salem.] 17th, Mr. John Searle, at Stoncham. 31it, Mr. Llzur Holyoke, at Boxferd. We hear that the General Affembly in their pre- {ent Seflion, haveVoted the Sum of Tawo Hundred &S £ty Pounds Sterling, for the ere@ti- g a Monument in FVeflminfler- 4bbey, [in England] in Memory of the Rt. Hon. George, Lord Vifcount Howe, who unfortunately loft his Life in Defence of his King and Country, in the late Attack at Ticonderoga. - PORTSMOUTH. Friday Morning laft about a Quarter pait Two o’ Clock, a confiderable Shack of an EARTQUAKE was felt here, in the neighbouring Towns,Bofton,&c. The fame Morning a large Ship of 20 Guns, lay- ing in this Harbour, laden for the Weft Indies, by*. fome Accident tock Fire, but by a timely Difcovery of the fame, and the Vigour of the Inhabitants, it was happily extinguifhed, without very confider- able Damage. ¢ Lately taken up on the Road, the Wing of a Riding Chair, Enquire of the Princr, ant, Tnf? ity A 6 7o 1Z2 y ~ar Fha N ¢e of New-Ham i oy EMELY%¢f the Pr () v be GENERAL As £ [ ) ) 13 cellency the GoVERNOR bas further Adjour: B, 3 H; I3 bivl &Ub a v il

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