The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, April 27, 1759, Page 2

Fromthe Lonpon MacaziNeg, for January 1759, Totbe M O NI T O R. Prefent you with a new-year’s gift. It contains I a brief account of the memorable year 1758, in which we have feen the Britith flag reftored to its antient dignity, and our enemies obliged to yield up the dominion of the Jeas to the {uperiority of the Britith navy. A year, which will forever record the wifdom of our national councils ; the condu& of our officers, and the bravery of our men employed in the public fervice both by fea and land ; and the chearfalnefs with which all ranks of people contributed towards their fupport. A year, which will be moft feverely felt by all thofe that diretly or indireltly wentured to diflurb the peace, and interrupt the trade of the Britifh dominions, Or 0 carry on a clandefiine commerce with the enemies of Great Britain. A year, which has demonftrated, by the great increafe of its commerce, that the frength and riches of the nation depend upon thofe meafures, which have been taken to prote? our mawigation, and to beat all oppofition out of the feas. The plan, laid down by the minifiry for the operati- ons of that year, was to fecure this ifland from an invaffon, and to defeat the fchemes for ruining our colonies in America,in preference to any intereft of our allies on the continent ; tho’ not without paying a due regard to thofe treaties, and that intereft,which require theaid of Britain in defence of the /iberties of Europe in general, and the proteflant interefl in particular, For this purpofe, they did not apply to Hanover, He/ffe, nor to Holland, for a military aid, to be tran{- ported into Britain at a moft extraordinary expence, to guard our coafls againft a French invafion: A mea- fare by which former minifters had /awifhed away the riches of the nation, expofed the Britifh courage to the ridicule and contempt of the enemy, encouraged them to befor over a difarmed people, terrified by every report of their motions towards the coaft of the chan- nel, and'endengered the common liberty of thefe kingdoms, by placing our privileges, property and lives, under the prote&ion of a foreign army : But, They provided for the internal fecurity, by confti- tating a regular and aweil difciplin’d militia, whofe ex- pence does not amount to a ¢eath part of the charge of of ten thoufand foreign troops imported ; and whofe ftrength is ten times more to be relied on. The bireling Will jfee in time of danger ; he who takes up a weapan for felf defence, wi/l die, rather than be made a flawve. Our fleets were not locked up in the ports of England to wait the motions of the French armaments and pre- parations to waf? their armies into this ifland in flat- bottomed boats ; neither was our army augmented to confume the national treafure in idlene/s at bome, and i unprofitable expenfive encampments and parade. The Briuth navy was permitted to carry its power into the ocean, and the army to enter inte aflual fer- vice. The happy fraits of which councils have been gathered in the congu: f# of Sentgal ; the acquifitions in Norih America; and in the damages done (o the enemy on the coa/? of France, exclufive of the deftruttion of the French navy, and the total ftop put to their trade, both in their own and neutral bottoms. Yet thefe great and glorious advantages are no more than an carnelt of the fuccefs expected from the vigorous meafures already taken, in purfuance of the fame plan of cperations. *Till then the Britifh Lion was not at Jiberty to make ufe of his natural weapons, to exert his firength ; nor in a fituation to prove his conduét and courage. A long feries of pacifick meafures had almoft worn out the weterans, and the fleet and army were too much under the command of fine gentlemen, whofe gaieties, pleafures, jJelf indulgence, and connefiions with men in power, who preferred any meafures to a neceflary war, were bad incitements to military glory. Yet that innate courage, which will always difcover itelf in the Englith when led to aftion, was no fooner deli- vered from the toils which has for many years kept them in a {tate of ina&ivity, but we faw them brawe all dangers . St. Maloes and Cherburgh have felt the power of their arms : St. Casis 2 monument of their intrepidity ; and the undaucted refolution with which the landing was made at Gabarus Bay, in the face of an enemy deeply and ftrongly entrenched and forti- fied, thews that our feamen and foldiers only want an opportunity to convince the world, that they are the dejcendants of thofe beroes awbo conguered France, and for many years maintained the dominion of the fcas. How far thefe meafurestended to compofe all mur- mutings at home, and to influence foreign fates in our favour, is readily feen in the uniting of parties for the promoting the national intereft,and in that weight which our advantages have amongft fome perfons a- broad, who might otherwife be induced by family attachments and Gallic intrigue, to join our encmies. By thefe meafures our encmies are deprived of thofe means, without which it will be impeffible to continue a war, which they began to ruin their neighbours, T heir navigation is entirely ruined, 2nd their device to avail themfelves of the friendfhip of Dutch carriers has tarned out not only to their greater lofs, but alfo has given England &n opportunity to convince a. treacherous ally, that whoever, under the cover of a -neutrality, take upon them to counfe!, aid, or fupport the enemies of Gureat-Britain, muft expeé& to be tregged as her profc/fJed enemies, when taken in the alt of covering the enemy's Property. Their diftrefs in Erance is not to be defcribed : The new marner of attacking them has thrown their minifters into confufion ; their councils always depend on a land war ; their fyftem was to divert England from her natural advantages at fea, by drawing her into continental operations. There they had nothing to fear, every rupture was fure to turn to their ad- vantage at a general peace ; and during the war, they could increafe our fears and expences by difturb- ing our internal peace, eiher by aétual invafions or fomenting rebellions. But the moment this {yftem was broke through by our miniftry, who could not as ufual be drawn into a continental war, as principals ; and the French were made to feel all the weight of our ftrength, where natare enables us to maingain a fuperiority ; their councils, which have been cried up fo much for u7a- nimity and confiflency, were divided, confufed, and ren- dered incapabie of doing any thing effectually, either for invading us, or defending their own trade and dominions. Nothing has profpered in their cabinet; nothing {ucceeded in their operations, either by fea or land, during the whole year. Their merchants are no longer able to fupport their credit, their manu- fatures are at a ftand, and their whole land mourns at the ravages made by the diftrefles of an inglorious, bloody, and ruinous war, From this time we bave not been terrified with re- potts of a French army to snvade us and cat our throats, We have had no heart burnings at home about raifing of money to carry on a war for the fole advantage of fome petty ally, neither have our trade and com- merce been expofed to the force of our enemies, nor to the intrigues of our falle friends The flourithing flate of our colonies, of our iflands, of all our Jettlements, and kingdoms, both for their im- ports and ezports, in the courfe of the year paft, has never been equalled. Our merchants and manu- falurers,our planters and our navigators, were never in {o fair a way to ferve themfelves and their country. Both riches and feamen increafe under the proteétion of a well regulated and appointed navy. The nation that can beft proteét their trade will always be moft eapable of finding the finews of war ; and the moft extenfive navigation is moft likely to turn out the greateft number of able bodied feamen, without whom a maritime nation cannot fubfift. Therefore we have nothing to fear, either in re- gard to the fuccefs of the war, or to the goodnefs of a peace, if we perfevere in the councils and meafures that have put us into fuch 2n advantageous fituation. An unchangeable refolution to purfue the war on the plan it is now carried on muft baffle all the attempts of a confufed, enfeebled enemy. But if we giveup, or negleét our intereft at this time, not only France, but Spain, and every /ittle republic,will infult our mer. chants, interrupt our navigation, and defpife our flag. What has exalted Britain to its prefent power and glory ? Its nawal firength duly employed. What has humbled France ? The Britifh Power by fea, levelled againft her thipping, her coafts, and her fettlements. What has made this nation refpe&able to the reft of Europe ? Her formidable fleets, and wife miniftry. What multiplies our riches at home ? The care that is taken of our navigation. Should our expe&tations be crowned with fuccefs from the fame meafures, which are now taken to compleat the pulling down of French ambition : Should we live to hear of the repeated firoke of the expedition againft the French fett/ements on the coaft of Africa, and in North and South America : Should we repeat thofe defcents made on their coafts laft year, and extend them to the fouth of France, at the fame time we might land a fufficient body of troops on the weftern coaft to mainwin their ground for one campaign : Verfailles would tremble ; our friends in Germany would be permitted to purfue their particu- cular interefts againft their oppofers,and Britain would be able to prefcribe fuch a peace, as would put i¢ out of the pawer of a popifh combinaticn,ever after to difturb the tranquility of the proteftant ftates, or of the united force of France, Spain, and Holland, to contend with Britain for the dominion of the feas. s %k % % 3k %k %k % %k % %k % %k %k %k % %k %k ¥ % PHILADELPHIA, 4pril 12, Extral? of a Letter from Antigua, March 17, 1759. ¢ This Evening we have Accounts, which Ithink may be depended on, That fome Days ago His Ma- jefty's Sloop Barbados was chafed by 8 French Ships ofthe Line,and 2 Frigates,about 10 LeaguestoWind- ward of Martinico ; and it is fuppofed they are are rived there. This, I prefume, can have no great Effe& upon our Guadaloupe Expedition ; and it is generally hoped Fort Royal will not be ftrong enough to proteét thofe Ships againit the Superiority of Com- modore Moore’s Squadron. North- America Priva- tcers, well manned, weuld be of Service here at this Time, & they might make it well worth their while." The Subflance of the other Letters from Antigna (which we have had an Oppertunity of feeing) is pretty much as follows, viz. That 1%was thought there was not above 1000 of the Enemy (White- Men) under Arms on Guadaloupe : That our Army landed fafely on the Back Side of that I{land, without any Lofs, where they had it in their Power intirely to cut off all Supplies from the French, and intended immediately to attack them : That Commodore Moore, who, it is faid, was going to Martinico with moft of the Capital Ships, had offered great Encou- ragement to all Privateers that would join the Fleet ; That in Antigua they had raifed a great many Volun- teers, white and black, to go to the Affilftance of cur Forces cn Guadaloupe,and that fome Ships lay ready tocarry them off : That a Number of our Soldiers, who got fick foon after their Landing, were {o well recovered as to be fit for Service again ; That it was the general Opinion the Enemy muft {urrender foon after the 22d ult. (when Capt. Jones left Antigua) And that two or three of our Ships had been at Do- minica, and deftroyed the Forts there. " 7 N E W.Y OR K, April 16. Friday laft His Majelty’s Ship the Lizard, of zo Guns, Capt. Doakes, arrived here from Portimouth, which fhe left the 18th of February, with the follow- ing Ships under Admiral Saunders, bound to Louif- bourg, all of whem the Lizard left about five Weeks fince off the Banks of Newfoundland, fo that in all Probability the Fleet may be arrived at Cape Breton by this Time, V1Z. The Neptune of go Guns, with the Flag, Admiral Saunders ; the Royal William of 84 Guns ; the Ori- flame of 74 ; the Shrewfbury of 74 ; the Stirling Caftle of 70 : the Medway of 60 ; the Dublin of 74 ; and the Alcide of 70 ; together with three Bombs, and three Firefhips. There were two other Ships of the Line came oat with the Fleet bound up the Streights. Saturday Morning lat His Majefty's Frigate Trient, Capt. Lindfey, arrived here, and broughtin a Tranfport Ship, they both belonging to Admiral Holmes's Fleet : And Yefterday Morning one other of the Fleet ("a Tranfport) alfo came into Port. The Trent parted with the Admiral four or five Days af- ter they fail’d ; and on the z1ft of February being in- Company with His Majefty’s Frigate the Veftal, the latter efpy’d and gave chalfe td the Bellone Frigate of France, richly loaded with Sugar, Indigo, and Ccffee, befides Plate, &c. dire& from Martineco ; and after a fmart Engagement was taken, jbut the Trent was not able to come up to the Veftal's Affitance. The following is brought by the Trent, is an Extra& of a Letter from Capt. Hood, Commander of his Majefty's Ship the Veflal, ot 20 Guns, to Capt. Schomberg, of the Diana Frigate now in this Har- bour, dated at Sea February the 22d, 1759. “ Being a bead of the Squadron Yeflerday Morning, I faw a Sail to the §. E. and gave Chace ; at 11 1 difcovered the Chale to be an Enemy, and made the Sig- nal to the Admiral ; as 1 did that for being able to Jpeak awith ber : At Half paf Tawo, I began to engage the Bellone of 32 Guns, and 240 Men, awithin Pifiol Shot, and continued a wery clofe Alion till Half paft Fiwe, wbhen being difmafied, all but ber Fore mafl, fbe JSiruck. Hur Lofs 1 cannot afcertain, as the Prifonirs Jpeak differently about it. Howewer, the Slaughter was great, as my Officer when e tock Poffffien, found 32 dead upon the Decks, and abowe 40 awounded. The Vefial had frve killed, and 22 wourded, but not a dan- gerous Wound among the Whole. Ske is a King's Fri- gate, from Martinico, came from thence in 7o Jmall Hurry, (as didthe Florijant, and another Frigate of the Jame Force with the Bellone, called the Great) on the Appearance of Mr. Moore on the 261h in the Morning of lafp Month, This Frigate was chafed by Three of ir. Moore’s Ships. Yow'll think it extraordinary, but true it is, when I began chafing bim, be was Jo far in 1he Winds Eye, that 1 could not _fee above Half his Courfes out of the Water ; I newer fore reached upon bhim a Point the awhole Day, but got up with kim, by dint of going to the Windward.” Extra@ of a Letter from S¢. Kirts,March 23, 1759. ““ Our Troops have made no further Progrels at Gua- daloupe than you formerly have been acquainted aith, Monficur Bompar arriving at Martineco with a Fleet of 7 Sail of the Line and two Frigates, fome fay ten of the Line, occafioned Commodore Maore to Jend Orders to colledt bis Ships together at Prince Rupert’s Bay, at Dominica, ahere they are rendexvouz’d. It is Jaid our Commodore is going to Windward in queft of Manfim.r Bompar : they left at Baffiterre Guadaloupe, a Garri- fon of 600 Men, the Fort with the additional Works fo it, being wery firong and tenable. They alfo bawve left at Port Louss at Grandterre, 200 Nien, the remainder of the Troops are on board the Men of War as Marines. As our Fleetis fuperior to the Enemy’s, w:e kope our Commodore awill not be afpamed to face them.” ; His Majefty's Ships the Mermaid and Succefs, juft arrived at South-Carolina from England, have on board each 20,cool. A The Belloae Frigate it's faid failed fromMartinico