The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, August 17, 1759, Page 1

\ V i it i1 [l P "w $in S Y PAE o A - ES | B Al r g s ez T e T ey iy TR & .'R'FI'ISAY, AvGUsT 17. Y7350. ' s e e e e o s ADGUST, 13 : - Tburfday laft Capt. Coomes arrived at Mar- bltbead in 40 Days from Lifbon, by whom we bave the following Advices, Viz. From the Lonvon GazeTTE. Kenfington, Fune 8. T HIS Day the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons, of. the City of London, in Common Council af- fembled, waited on His Majefty, aod being introduced to His Majeity by the Right Hon. the Barl of Effex, one of che Lords of His Majelty's Bedchamber, Sir William Moretan, "' Kat. the Recorder, made their Compliments 1 q in the fellowing Addrefs : ; " To the King’s Moft Excellent Majetlty, The humble Addrefs of the Lord Mayor, Alderimen, and Commons of the City of London, in Common Council affembled. May it pleafe your Majefty, - yE your Majefty’s moft dutiful and loyal fubjeéts, Lord Mayor, Aldermen,and Commons of the ; , City of London, in Common Council affiembled, humbly beg leave to con- - gratulate your Majefty on the fatisfaction of feeing your Royal Grandfon the Prince of Wales, that great objeét of your Majefty’s ",ltergal care and folicitude, arrived at his age of Twenty-one years, mature in all the accomplifhments that can add luftre to his high dignity, or command the love and ve- neration of mankind. - Long may his Royal Highnefs enjoy the henefit of your Majelty’s falotary precents and example,and continue to make your Ma- jefty the amplelt returns of filial duty and " refpe€t. May his Royal Highnefs live to emulate the virtues that have endeared your Majelty’s facred perfon and government to a free people ; and may there never be want- _ ing one of your Mujefty’s illultrious race to perpetuate the bleflings we derive from your aufpicious Reign. Permit us, moft gracious Sovereign, to em- brace this cpportunity of affuring your Ma- " jefty, that no hoftile threats can intimidate a people animated by the love of hberty, and infpired with a fenfe of duty and affeétion to your Majefty 3 who, confiding in the Divine Providence, and the experienced wifdom and . vigour ef your Maijefty’s councils,are refolved to employ their uimoft efforts towards ena- ~ bling your Majefty to repel the infults, and defeat the attempts, of the ancient enemics of your Majefty’s crown and kingdom. ‘fo which addrefs his Majefty was pleafed toreturn this moft gracious anfwer. HE cordia] exprefiions of your conflant attachment to my perfon and family, are very agreeable to me ; and I return : * ° you my hearty thanks for this frefh matk of your zeal and affetion. 1 have the utmolft confidence in the fidelity and Tpirit of my people, and I truft I fhall be well enabled under Divine Providence, to "defeat and fruftrate the moft daring attempts of the ancient enemy of my crown. They were all receiwed very gracioufly, and bad the bonour to kifs bis Majesty’s band. " dfter which bis Majefly was pleafed to con- fer the bonour of Knighthood on » Thomas Chitty, Efg;, Alderman. Matthew Blackiston, Efg; Alderman. William Stephen- fon, Efg, dlderman. james Hedges, Efg; Town Glerk. New-Hampfhire Gont_éinir:g t.}){e Frefheff Advices e e— . LONDON, Fute . _ Seville Houfe, June 9. This Day theRight Hon. the Lord Mayor, Alderman, and Com- mons of the City of London, in common Council affembied,waited on hisRoyal High- nefs the Prince .of Walcs, and being intro: duced by the Re. Hop. RoBert Lord Bertie, one of the Lords of his Royal Highnefs’s Bedchamber, Sir William Moreton, the Re- corden, made their Compliments in the fol- lowing Speech : % . . To bis Royal Highnefs the Prince of Wales. | May it pleafe your Royal Highnefs, OUR Royal Highnefs baving bappily at- tained your -age of twenty one years, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons, of the city of London, in common council affem- bled, bumbly beg Leave to compliment your Royal Highnefs upon an event fo pleafing to the King, aud jo very interesting to bis Majefly’s Saithful Subjests. : But permit us, Sir, at the fame Time, without offending the modefly which fo eminently diftin- guifbes and adorns your eharafer, to exprefs the yet greater pleafure we enfoy in bebolding your Royal Highnefs poffeffed of every wirtue and . acipmplifoment which we bad reafon to prefage from the excellence of your genius, and the good- nefs of your difpofition. When we confidzr your Royal Highne[s’s ex- emplary piety, your dutiful deportment towards the King, your refpellful affeition for your august Motber, your carly knowledge of the con- Ritution and true interefis of thefe kingdoms, and your folicitude for the bappinsfs and prof. perity of the people, we form the most agreeable profpelis, and refleft with gratitude upon the wifdom and attention that bave been employed to cultivate thefe noble fentimemss inyour prince- ly breait. | May they more and more endear your Royal Highnefs o bis Majesty, and bereafter be ex- eried in a bigher [phere in prejerving the reli- gious and civil rights, bappily entrufitd 1o the proteiiion of bis Majefly’s illufirious boufe. To which bis Royal Highnefs was pleafed 1o . return the following Anfwer : My Lord and Gentlemen, Return you my bearty thanks for this mark of -your duty to the King, and attention to me. You may always depend upen my warmefp wifbes for the profperity of this great city, and Sfor whatever can in the leaft promote the trade and manufaitures of my native country. They all had the honour to kifs his Royal Highnels’s Hand. L, 8:-N B O N May 26. Yefterday &’nnight his Majefty’s frigates Thames and Venus fell in wich che Arethufa a French frigate of 36 guns, be- tween Breft and Rochtort, which they tock after a fmart engagement, in which the Are- thufa had 6o men fiiflr-d, and the Thames 15. ~—The Arethulais elteemed one of the beflt failling frigates in the French navy, and was with three more frigates from Breft, recon- noitting the coaft. By this frigate we learn that there were at Brefl 21 men of war, rea- dy to put to fea, and 6 or 7 more- would be ready in a few days. The John Galley, Jarvis, is arrived at Dover from Bofton,after being taken by a St. Maloe’s Privateer, and ranfomed for 8oo |. Fune 9. We hear from -Hamburgh, that the true caufe of the flownefs of the Ruffan army arifes from thieir being but indifferently ®Nvwms, q@ GAZETTE Faré{g’rz and Domeff ick. provided with military ftores & ammunition; a fupply of which they expeét by their feers and if ¢hat does not ariive in time,-it may o- verturn all che operations concerted for thig campaiga., ; Letters from Spain advife, that 145 Spanifh men of war are arrived at Cadiz from *Car- thagena, all ready to fail, but their deftinati- op not known. RS : We hear a fquadron will Be fent immedi- ately to the coaft of France, t0 watch the mo- tidne of the Fretelvin carcasanei. - Ina few days the four battalions of guards will march, and fevera] regiments have recei- ved orders to march in grder to encamp. A Soldier under care in the Royal Infirma- ry at Edinburgh, was difcovered fome days ago to be a woman. She has been three years in the fervice, without the leaft (ufpi- cion of her fex. and managed matters {o dex- trioufly, that tho’ fhe lately married a wife, fhe had the addrefsto keep her ftory flill a fecret from the regiment. draughts were made for Germany, the ex- prefied a grear Inclination to be one of them, from an ardent defire to ferve undera Pruf- flan General: She was extremely alert in all the manual exercife of a foldier, was fober and attentive to her Duty : In fhort, till che difcovery was made, fhe was always looked ‘upon to be one of the beft men in the troops: Though the King of Pruffia during the prefent Campaign has hitherto coatinued feemingly inative, he has by that very inac- tivity tThewn himifelb'to he a great Gencral: As the Auitrans expelled the greateft things would be artempted by him, they according- ly colle¢ted togccher the whole of their force to oppofle him, whilt he by detachments from his Army deftroyed the Ruffian Maga- zines in Poland, which has, no doubr, put it out of the power of the Ruffians to a&t fo vigoroufly as they might otherwife have done; it has emabled Prince Henry firlt to make a fuccefsful incurfion into Bohemia, and deftroy the magazines and raife contributions in that country, which muft greatly diftrefs the Au- ftrians on that fide ; and 2lfo to make the late incurfion into the circle of Franconia, in which he has not only deftroyed feveral confiderable magazines, but has raifed con- tributions, and diftreflfed and greatly weaken~ ed the army of the Empire. Had the affair of Bergen between Prince Ferdinand and the French fucceeded, his whole fcheme had been compleated and the powerful armies which feemed bent to {wallow him up this campaign, would have been obliged to reiiie for want of fubfiftence, and thus he mighc have conquered withouta battle. Landfbut, May 24. On the 21ft inftane, about three in theafternoon, a corps of about 6000 Auftrians, partly regulars, commanded by the Generals Loudohn and Cuifruck, ac- tacked the lictle town of Liebau on both fides, having ferit parties thro’ the woods for that purpofe : and, the free battalions of Angen= elli and De Verger having retired towards the camp, the Auftrians took pefféffion of Liebau without oppofition. Oa the firlt no- tice of this, the King of Pruflia immediitely “ordered the troops to rmarch, which orders were performed with great alacrity and expe- dition ; and his Prufflan Majefty wentin Per« fon to the place of theattack. The Auvftri- ans feeing the good countendnce of the P;uf- 1at When the late-