The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, May 2, 1760, Page 3

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¢ 4 the roids of an old houfe dead. Crowg Coust, Golden Lins near Ceipplegate, where ,.2 whole ftack of chimneys and part'of a hoa's fcli in: ‘Mot of the firees, alleys, lapes, cours, &c. are firewed with incumerable large and imall tiivs and bricks ; A man of 70 Years of Ags was dug out of | i’s feared it has I donc a great deal of damage among the fhipping in the river, and elfewhere, : ; Alarge body of Troops will fhertly be affembled in the Ifle of Wight. . Extratt of a Letter from Portfmouth, dated Feb. 17. ' ¥ { /% ¢ ! » i I ) 1 » 3 « Saturday the Commiflioner’s yatch carried the Lord Kinnoul on board his Majefty’s fhip Windlor, in order to proceed t6Lifbon in quality of hisMzjelty’s Ambaflador. 0 ; “ Same Day arrived his Masjefty’s fhip St. George; fhe [prung all her Mafts in the late hard gale of wind. They parted from Admiral Bofcawen in the hurricane, afier fecing the Royal William's - foremoft go overboard, and otherwife 1n great diftrefs, snd has not been heard of fiace ; but as the Royal William is a véiy good fea boat, we arc in hopes fhe has weath- ered out the Siorm. ' : * The fame day failed from Spithead his Maj=lty’s fhip Namure, in order to proeeed in qaeft of Admi- ral Bofcawen. . «s At Spithead, Admiral Dusell, with twenty-one v fhips of war.” They write from Biifto], that on Friday morning many of the fhips in Kingroad were by the high winds drove on thore ; the Eagle frigate for London drove trom her anchers, and i’s faid fhe is funk. We “ear that the feven Eaft India fhips in Margate Roads received no damage by the late high winds, " that on Sunday they got fafe over the flats, and was this day expe€led at their moorings in the River. Extraft of a Letter from Gottenburg, dated Fan, 16. ¢ We hear taat Monf. Thurot with only part of his litcle fleet, is yet at Bergen (in Norway) greatly " tired of his expedition, as well as all his Officers, snd ' doubtlels his people more {o: believe they would - "much rather be prifoners in England.” Lord F— has three of his wardours to attend him .while he is in the tower ; and it is now faid, a Lord . High Steward will be appointed to try him ; that his “trial will be in Weftminfter Hall, in the fame man- ‘ner as the rebel lords; and It is faid, his trial is fizxed “for the 18:h of March.’ By the'laft accounts from Mr. Mitche), the Britith ““minifter in the King of Pruffia’s camp, we find that this'monarch was gone again to Freberg, and :he he- redicary Prince of Brunfwick was ftill pofted at Chem- nitz ; and his Pruffisn Majelly feemed to be yet waiting for a fair opportunity to0 attack Marfhal Daun. _» Itis {aid Col. Morris has been killed in a. duel in “the Highlanders. e, - day arrived an exprds' from Port/month, ’ which has brought letters which came on board two men of war arrived there with a packet from New- York and difpatches of importance. % Some letters from Bruflels import, that the court of Vienna bad fent corders to the government of the { », Aultrian Netlierlands to raife four new Regiments, i \ w \ - why ! | 3 . a4 Yefterday at 6 in the Evening an Exprefs arrived ' #.; M «Philadelphis, efcoried by 35 of the Chicfs in order to'have them ready to z& inthe fpring in Germany : *Tis however added, that propofals for 8 general accommodation were now confidering on, by the a*orefaid court and that of France. Leers from Paris pofitively aflere, that the King of Spain has purchafzd the claims of the houle of Auttiia, the Datchies of Parma and Placentis, for 24 - millions, payable in tweive years, at two millions each year. 5 ; They write from Magdebourg of the 27th ult. that the King of Pruffis’3 exprefs orders had been received there, for muking, wih ail poffible diligence a- great pumber of baggage waggons, carriages for cannon and mortars, tacines, and feveral other implements of war; which were immediaely fet about with v the utmolt vigour, the armics being to take the field ®gain very eaily in the fpring. The Ramilies, Capt. Taylor, of go guns, and 734 men, Wes loft in the ftorm on the rocks near Piymouth ~+and but twerty {ix men and one midfhipman faved. The new Landgrave of Hefle Callel, fome motths ago, at the King of Pruffia’s requeft, figned an inftru- ment, whereby he engaged incafe of the death of . the Landgrave his father, to fulfil lizerally all the ftipulationsin the trearies fubfiffing between the faid ‘Landgrave and the King «f Great Brisain. . The Landgrave ofHefle has wrote a very compliai- © . fant letter to the King of Great Britain, imploring his Maje(ty"s prote@ign of his country, affuring him of his adhering to all'the engsgements his father had entered inta for the good of the common caufle, and ' that he would endeavcur to furnifh a farther fupply Af men.—As will Ikewile another Proteftan: Prince in Germany: fo that much-may be expe@:d from e next Campaign. ¢ the Admiralty office, with . Advice that Admiral Bolcawen has been drove back to Piymornth in the. laft ftormy weather. PHBILADELPHIA,Apil 17. < Fort at Pittfourg, March z1, 1760. "¢ This Day M jor General Stanwix fet out for of the e Ohio Indisns, 4nd 50 of the Royal Americans The Prefence oi ihe Gereral has been of the uimeit Coa. fequence ac this Polt during the Winter, 'as well for cultivating the Frieedthip <nd Alliance of th= In- dians, as for contimuing the Fortifications, and fup- plying the Troops here, and on theCommunications. ‘The Works are now quite perfet, according to the pian, from the Ohio (o the Moenongahela, and 18 Pieces of Arullery mounted on the Baftions, that cover the Jithumus ; and Cafemens, Barracks, dnd Store-houfes are #lfo compleated fur -a Garrifon of 1000 men and Officers ; o that it may be now aflere- ed, with very great Truth, that the Briufh Dominion is eftablifhed on the Otio. The Indians are carrying onavaft Trade with the Merchants at Pityfburgh ; and inftead of defolating the Frontiers of thefe Colo- nies, arcintirely empioyed in encruafing the Trade and Wealth thereot : The heppy Effects of our Mi litary Operation, this Way, are alfo felt by about 4 T'houfand poor Inhabitants, who are now in quict Poflcfiion of the Lands they were driven from, on the Frontiers of Penfytvania, Marylard and Virginia. From Winchefier we are informed, that feveral Parties of the Cherokees have made Incurfions into Augults County, in Virginia; that a Detachment of th: Virginia Regiment, under the Command of Capt. Gift, has had feveral SkirmifRzswith them, in which he slways repuifed the Enemy, and kept the Field, tho' with great Lofs of Men ; and thatin thofe Skir- mifhes (everal of the Cherokees have been killed and fcalped. : We have ddvice from Albagy, that two men had muade their efcape from Forc de Troit, and got fafe to Niagsra; who inform, that the French there were in great want of provifions, and had fent all the fol- diers and moft of the inhabitants to Miflifippi for a fopply. , B O ST O N, April 28, Extrat of a Letter from Crown Poins, April 4, —*“ On the 31t ot March there was a {mall par- ty of g men acrofs the lzke a fithing,who before they could get to their boats, were all taken by a party of French and Indians, without firing a gun on either fide ; in this {mall party there was three officers, Capt. Tute of the rangers, Lieut. Fortifcue, and Enfi. Stewart of the 27th regiment; the private men cen- fifts of 3 rangers and 3 regulars, thofe favages have killed none of the party. The Jzke is almoft clear of ice, and in afew days we exp:@ the floops and brig down from Ticonderogo, which will cruize sbout znd watch the enemy’s motions. We learn from New London, that the Captains Taggart and Rogers, in two veffels of war, with fe- veral tranfports are arrived there from Halifax, to carry a number of ferlersto Nova-Scotis. ~ And, ‘From Weft-Haven, that on Sunday the 13th inft. a fon of Capt. Benjamin Smith, sbout 5 years old, ac- cidentally fet his cloaths on Fire, and all the family being atmeeting except two or three {mall children which could not exiinguifh the fire, and beiore any help could arrive, the cloaths were burnt off the child’s back, and had fet the houfe on fire ; the child was fourd zlive, but burnt all over in fuch a terrible manner, that he died foon after. Saturdey laft Cepr. Witty artived here in 5 weeks from Oporto, and advifes, that the day before he came from thence a veflel arrived there in g days from Ireland, the mafier of which informed, 1’hat Monf. Tharot had landed 1500 men vpon fome part of that coaft, where moft oi them were foon afrer cut to pieces by the inhabitants ; and that fome Englith fri gates cruizing in the Itifh Channel had fell in with his{quadron, and had taken and deftroyed the whole of them ; fo that (if this account be true) Monf. Thurot’s enterprize has twrned out wich as ittle ho- nour to the Erench nation as M. Cenian’s laze boaft- ed invafion did. S 1 . By Capt. Davis who arrived here laft Staurday ia 9 Days from Lou fbourg, we l:arn, that a frigate which had winter’d at Halifax, being bound up to Quebec, met with & thip from England, bound to Halifax, who informed them that there was a cefla- tion of arms between the Englifh and French: This sccount he had from the People at Loyifboarg. We hear fram Halifax, via Louifbourg, that they expect 8 [ailof the line from England, and that the parade of the whole fleet wonld be at Louifbourg. Laft Night a Perfon came to Town from New- Yeork, which ha left laft Wednefday Night, when no Packer was arrived. PORT SMOUTH We hear that Doflor Josnua BraxerT of this Town, was Married to Mifs Hannan WaippLe of Kittery, an agreable young Lzdy, the 14th ult. We have certain nd undoubied Information, that a worthy and compaffionste Gentieman at Exeter, in this Province, whofe Name is not certainly known, Fu: into the Contribution Box, at the Rey IMr.Rogers’s Weeting Houfe, at a Collettion for the late Suiterers at the great Fire in Bofton, Tsventy Pounds Sterling, equal in Value to Five Huhcred Pounds Old Fenor, notwithftanding a large Dwelling Houfe with all the Furnitare, and Provifions were confumed by Firs, in the faid T'own the Week before, and three Famulies burnc out, who muft b relieved., Li;‘_’t Satwerday arrived here Captain Butler in 20 - e e W Days from Se. Kiits, in whem eame Pafitngers, the C.puias, Bradiord asd Hunter of Bolton, Stapleton of Newbury, ani Parker of this Place. Fieet was not arrived there, tho’ hourly expected. * Yeiterday Noon came to Town a Gentleman trom Botton, wuo informs, Thac a Man of War of 50 Guass is arrived ac New Yosk, in whom came Paf- fenger Col. Amberit with Orders to pufhon the War . with the utmoit Vigour ; and that a large Sum of about One Hundred and Thirty Thoufand Pounds Sterling i3 on board faid Ship to detray tne Charges of the War. : % By a Leuer from Governor Hamilton of‘i’hilade.l- phia, to Governor Pownall of che Maflachufe:ts, we are informed, that the Affembly there has voted Fif- tcen Huudred Pounds,for che Relief of the Sufferers in Bofton, by the late dreadful Fire; equal to Four Thoufand Dollars.. . From the CONNECTICUT GAZETTE. The following Lines may perhaps, to Some, appear almsf? out of Sealon... They migit bave been Jent much Jomer-indeed..... But it will never be too late to think of, and extol the Memory of a HERO, who may jully be Riled (under GOD) the Coagxerer and De- Jerder of North. America. On the DEATH of General WO LF E. R/ HenCarto view'd the generousMarcus dead, Who for his Country, and for Virtue bled Without a Tear, the noble Romar cry’d, “ I thank the Powers above ! I’m [atisfied Tie nobier BriTon’s Paffion rofe in Death, Afk’d for his Country with his lateft Breath ; ‘Through gaping Wounds, whiltt ebbing Life retir'd Atev’ry Groan, for his dear Friends inquir'd ; His hovering Soul, refus’d to claim her Skies, *Till from the Field, the Shouts of Vi&'ry rile ; Th’ exuling Shous peirc’d deep his dying Ear, He geatly rais’d his H:ad ; reviv’d to hear His Country fafe 5....And is the fate ? he cry’d. 1 thank my GOD, ..look’d up,....and [miling dy’d. Worth fachas urs, deferv’d a heav’nly SPHERE, And Death commitfion’d flew to land him there. Fame, found thy Trumpet, from the Heros Tomb; Tell future Britons. and the Age tocome, T'he certain Road to true, to lafting Fame, That to be gr-at, and virtuous. are the fame. NOV. ANGLICUS. CUSTOM-HOUSE, PrscaTaqua, May z. ! Entered In, Brig Ambherft, Edward Batler, from St. Kitts. Brig Sally, Mark Furnald, from Barbados. E Brig Greyhound, Ebenezer Hobbs, from Ditto. Slocp William, Benjamin Odiorne, frem Ditto. Sohooner Newcattle, Zacheus Jones, frorh N. Carol) Sioop Eadeaveur, John Grant, from Antigua. Sioop Duck, Benjamin Donnel, from Philadelphia. Snow Gen. Townthend, M., Bunbury fromSt. Mar:ids. Cleared Out, -4 Schooner Refolution, Sam. Dalling. for N. Carolida. Sloop Ranger, John Ingerfol, for Halifax. Brig Antilope, john Clark, for Barbados. Brig Polly, Henry RuRt, for Tortols. NOT ICE is hereby given that the Annual Town Mecting ftands Adjoiirned ’till Monday next the sth Inftant, st Three o’Clock P. M. Likewife the Sile of the FERRY is put off ’ti!l Monday Evening next at Six 0’Clock, P. M. ( to fec if the Town will order a new Boat qr Boats) and then to be Sold at. Union Hall, sgreeable to the Ad- vertifement la Week. Port/moath, Moy 2. Ends the Co-partnerfhip of DaveENPorRT and WENTWORTH. They-therefore defire all Perfons that have Accounts ftill open, to come and clole them immediately. : TO BE SOLD, By BENJAMIN PARKER, At bis Store at the North End of the Tomn, (_Hoice good INDIAN Corn, and Ifle of Shoals Winter RISH. [89] TO BE SOLD, A Commodious large FARM at 1 reafon~ole Rate, lying in the Town of Hollis in New-Eizmpthire, within half a Mile of the Meeting Houls, conizining One Hundred and Fifty five Acres ; with large Improvements and comforta- ble Buildings; a good Grift Mill and Fulling Mill thereom, being the only one in faid Town. Any Perloa that has a Mind to purchafe faid Fars or Part of %, as it lies very commodious for dividing into Parts, and will fuit any Tradefman or Farmer, elpe- cially & Clothier, Cooper, or Taylor, which Trades ate very much wanted in faid Town. For further Inteliigence, enquire of Samue/ Cumppings, Blq; Capt. Benjamin Abbot, M. Stepben Powers,: or Mr. Avel Wetfler, all of faid Holhs. [89] A Silver Knee-Buckle was taken up in Town & few Days ago : The Owner thereof may have it again by spplying to the Printer. Tae Englilh Oy A adh ®

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