The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, June 6, 1760, Page 1

¥RIDAY, June 6. 1760, THE New-Hampfhire Lontaining the Fre/bq/f Advices £q.+ B O:S T O N,. June 2. : Since ourlaft arrived bere Capt. Noble in 6 Weeks from Glafgow ; Capt. Hunter from Newcaflleing Weeks ; Capt. Binney from Liverpool in 32 Days ; Captains Evers, Willon, and Watt from London, but laft [rom Portfmouth in 34 Days.—And from the Edinburgh, . Liverpool, and London Prints to the 12th of April, as aljo from the Exeter Fournal of the 19th, (which Jaft came by the Way of Newfoundland) swe bave the Sollowing Advices, Viz. " H A GUE,. Marh 8. N the 18:h inftant the Deputies of the States General invited Major General Yorke, his Majefty’s Minifter Plenipo- tentiary, and M. Hellen, his Pruffian Majefty’s minifter, to a conference ; in which they were acquainted, that their High Mighti- -proper that the court fhould .go again and refide at mefles had taken the refolution of offerirg to the belli- gerant powers the town of Breda for holding a con- grefs for treating of a general peace ; and were defired to convey this propofal to their Britannic and Pruflian Mijefties. The minifters of the other belligerant powers have likewife had the fame communication made to them.. k Notwithftanding the advantages the French pretend . to have gained over the Englifh in Afis, all the corref- * pondence upon the Exchange of Amfterdam agreee in confirming the defeat of M. D’ Ache’s fquadron by . Admiral Pocock ; and that the former had been ob- liged to fly to the lile de France, in a very fhattered _condition, without having been able to putany thing of confequence on fhore at Pondicherry. . . Peterfburgh, March 4. . Our military preparations are carrying on with redoubled ardour ; our recruits - are every dey coming in here from the interior parts of the kingdom, and are {ucceflively fent to the army. As itis ftill expefted that the Englith will fend 2 powerful flect into. the Baltic, we are taking proper _meafuresto have a fleet ready for fea in a fhort time, _and provifions are already buying up to vitual it. Count Soltikoff, who is arrived from the army, waited yefterday on the Emprefs, and was gracioufly received, and had the honour to be admitied to her “Majefty’s table : as foon as he has concerted with the minifters the plan of operation for the enfuing cam- “paigo, he will return to the army. Toulon, March 4. Ttisreported that 12 or 15,000 men will be lent to {ecure the coafts of this province, which the Englith, by their prodigious preparations, feem to threaten. . Vienna, March 12. The grand army under M. Daun will obferve the motions of the King of Piuflia, while Gen. Laudohn aéts in Silefia. As to peace, we hear nothing, except that the for- mal anfwer of the three allied powers to the advances made thiree months ago by their Britanuic and Piuf- fian majefties, is going to be fent to them, if it has not been slready fent. Hanover, March 13. Advfces from Saxony im- port, that the king will forthwith take the field ; and . that his forces confift of 129 bartalions, all complete, and 203 fquadrons,which ae to be divided into thiee srmics ; viz. one in Silefia of 44 battalions and 52 . fquad:ons ; another in Sz:xony of 62z batalions and 106 {quadrons ; and the third in Pomerania, conlifting of 23 battalions and 45 fquadrons. : . Leipfic, March 12. Every day brings us fhoals of delerters, moft of whom enlift with the Pruffians. Berlin, March 18. On the tzth inft. M:jor Po- dewills of Schorlemmer’s regiment, with a detach- ment of 3200 dragoons and huflars, furprized at Arenf- wald a bedy of 1400 coffacks, end {lew a colonel, a lieut. colonel, and 8o private men, and made pri- “foners of a captatn, a quarter-mafter, a furgeon, and 27 privaze men, and brought away 49 horles. Our lois confifts only of three fubalterns and fix private men killed, fix wounded, and two mifling. Paris, March z1. The lofs of our three frigates tinder Capt. Thurot, was not comparable to that of their commander. Since the term of his life was fo neatr, how much better had it been facrificed for the good of his country at the hesd of the Breft fleet ! . Tt is pretended, that the court of Peterfburgh hath fignified to that of London, that ifan Englifh {quadron appears in the Baliick, they will endeavour to fink ;ggxn, bat that they will not moleft Britifh merchant ips. ; Paris, March 24. 'The Marquis Defgouttes, who £cmmanded our fquadron at Louifbourg, when the Erglith conquered Cepe Breton, has been degraded from noblefle, and his titles burnt by the hands of the common hangmen ; befides which, he is con- démned to 21 years imprifonment ag Bicetre: the conditions may be. ... 'T'wo confiderabie trains of Paris, March 30. = Jt is wery certain, that the court will do its utmof} to megociate ¢ peace, . bowever hard Tbe Kizg is determined to put an end 1o the war, the confequerces of which maff cir- tairly be fatal., It is affured that the preliminaries bave been fent to M. & 4ffry, sur ambaffador at the .Hague, wwho is charged to make the moft of them. ke whale nation is greatly pleafed o find the: King difpsfed t0 peace, and expefls foon a [ulpenjion of arims. Ratisbon, April 1., We biave a report here of a very fharp fkirmifh in the Upper Silelia, between a detachment of the torps unc?rMzeneral Laudohnand fome {quadrons of Pruffian huilare, undér Major Gen. Werner ; which its confidently reported ended to the advantage of the latter, who made great numbers Priforers. Berlin, March 28. The King having thought Meagdebourgh, the Queen and the Royal Family fet out this day for that place. : artillery fet out lately, one for Silefia and one for Saxony. Hague, March 30. ,The minifters who refide here n the part of the Kings of England, France and, and Pruffia, difpatched the day before yefterday each of them an exprefs to their refpetive courts: and it is prefumed. they carry fome new propofitions of peace. Amfierdam, Marck 16. Our letters from Copen- hagen affirm, that the king of Denmark has flacly refufed a pafizge through the Sound for an Englith Squadron, and declared, that if they attempt to force their way, all the ports of Denmark fhall be thut again@t the Eaglifh men of war. So Mr. Mautert would bhave it : Cork, March 27. Yefierday failed the fleet for New York, Halifax and Louifbourg, under convoy of his Majefty's fhip Nightingale of 24 guns, Capt. Campbell. ) L:0; N D ©O"N, X <+ March 28. By aLetter from Paris, by the Way of Holland, toa Merchant in this City, there is Advice that the French Kipg, notwithftanding the ill Succefs of Thurot, has granted to his Father, in Confideration of the Son’s Conduét, Bravery, and Death, an addi- tional Penfion of oo Livres psr Annum. ; It is now faid, the demolithing of Dunkirk isto be thePreliminary of a Peace between the Allies & France. March 29.. Two frigates wita flores and men are failed from Marfeilles for Martineco. There is certain advice, that 7 privateers are failed frem Dusckirk, and. 7 cutters from Calais, and 2 privateers from St. Malcks, of 24 nine puunders and 380 men each. The French navy being prevenred from adting, they leem to have in view to ruin our trade by a great number of privateers. 3 It feems to be an even wager that L— G — 8 — will be honorably acquitted. j ey The mafter of a fhip arrived laft Friday fromBremen brings advice, that on the 22d inflant, when he was coming out of the river Wefer, nine large Englith tran{ports, with Britifh infantry on board, arrived there from the north of England. April 1. They write from Paris that & treaty is concluded between the Emprefs Queen and the King of Spain, of which only two_articles have as yet tran{pired. By the firft his Catholic Mejefty cedes to her Imperial Majefty the towns of Prombino, Porto, Hercole, a- d Orbitello, which are as it were the ramparts of Tulcany on the fide of the fea. By the fecord the Emprefs Queen rencunces sll her pretenfions to the Daichies of Parma, Placentia, and Guaftalla, It is faid that M. D’Ache, the French Admiral, who fought Admiral Poccck in the Eaft Indies, was killed in the engagement. It was yefterday faid,that a treaty of peace is altually agreed on between his Pruflian Majefty & the Swedes. On Sunday morning 2500 cavalry and 3000 infan- try embarked at Gravefend for Germany, and before noon got down to the Nore. . ‘April 5. On Tuelday died st Portfmouth, Capt. Holbourn, of his Majefty’s fhip Newark, atter two days illne(s of a mortification in his bowels. . Some letters from the Hague fay, that the Moft Chriftian King having [(ecretly confulted a great Minifter, being in difgrace, on the prefent fituation of affairs, he had honeftly an{fwer’d, That nothing but an immediate and lafting peace could fave France: It is faid his opinion has had(fuch weight, that expreflcs have been difpatched to Peterfbourg, Vienna and Stockholm. ; They write from Geneva that they are in great expectation there of a fpeedy peace, having received / ot é 2 S0y 3 Nums. 192. GAZETTE. Foreign and Domeflick. - large commiflions from Bourdeaux, Rochelle, snd .other towns of France, for goods in the clock and jewelling way for the Weft India trade, which had been totally ftapped for fome time. s There is a report that the Duke de Broglio, iad attacked Prince Ferdinand’s army, and had been repulled with confiderable lofs. . Allo, That on the 1oth of March, Prince Henry marched with 30,000 men to sttack the Ruflians. Yeiterday the Court Martial on Lord George Sackville ended ; and the opinion of the Court will foon be reported to his'Majefty. . Thurfday the Fame and Achilles men of war failed from Plymouth for Louifbourg, who have on board a company of Miners to deftroy the fortifications of that Place. : , A Letter from Portfmouth, dated April 1. ¢ On Sunday failed into the harbour, the Belleifle, the Blond, and theTerpfichore, French prize frigates. ¢« The Devonthire, Capt. Darby, (the Swiftfure, Sir Thomas Stanhope, the Montague, Capt. Rowley, and Rochefter, Capt. Burnett, are ordered to America. ¢ All the men of war of 70, 80, and 9o guns, zre order’d to be got ready for [fea with the utmoft expedition.” .. . : W ey : The General Wall packet boat; Lutteridge, who was taken, after an engagement of an hour and a half, the 8th of March, by a Bayonne privateer of zo guns, in lat. 43 d. long. 33 m. 20 leagues to the weftward of the weftern iflands, and ranfomed for 2500l 1is arrived at Falmouth from New York. , There were two other privateers.cruizing in the fame latitude. Extraé of a Letter from Paris, dated March 2z. ¢ There can be no doubt but that M. Lally b s been defeated,. and .that the Succours M. d’A > he landed at Pondicherry are not more than [ufh =t to {fupport themfelves againft the Englifh ; which malkes us very unealy, not knowing what fituation our aifaisrs are in, in that country. « The Diademe and Souveraine are fitted out -a¢ Breft and Rochefort, to carry to our Iflands M. fs- Vaffor de la Touche, appointed Governor of Mar:! nico, and M. de Cluny, the new Intendant of San Domingo.” ., : A Letter from Paris, dated the 21/ of March, jays « We are all full of thePeace that is upon the point of being concluded between our court and that of England. ~The Propofals made by England are not publickly known : but they are faid to be juft and realonable ; fo that when the congrefs is begun, the negociations won’t be tedious. ;Some members of the council, who are fufpeéted of being in the Aultri- an intereft, do their utmoft to protraét the war ; but the true friends of France infift on the neceflity of puttiug an end to it as foon as poffible. : France is . almoft reduced to & fate worthy of compaffion: with- out money snd without refources it is impoffible for her to hold out.—The Duke de Broglio writes for money in the moft prefling manner, and we can fend him none in lefs than ten or twelve days ; too long a delay for a General, whole chief bufinels is to feize every . favourable moment as it, offers,”. : - J The following is faid to be an authentick Lift of the Forces that art to, take the Field in Germany this Year, if no Peace can Jpeedily be made : Auftrians and Troops of the Empire - - 200,000 French, inclading the Saxons and Wirtembergers Ruffians Swedes 110,000 100,000 25,000 O 435,000 On the other Side, Englith, Hanoverians, Prufiians, Heflians, and Whalfenbuttlers, under Prince Ferdinand 100,000 their King : .. 70,00 Prince Henry .. 40,00 General Fouquet ¢ 35,00 General Manteffel . 16,000 ©G6 0 _ Danizick, March 16.. Weare well informed that the King of Pruffia takes diation of England to conflent to a Pruffians, under ; i 261,000 Ballance againft us == == . 174,000 The sccount was ‘nearly the (ame the two laft years, and therefore we may ftill hope to baffle all thofe enemies, in fpite of the odds in their favour, efpecially it a ftout fleet be fent up the Baltic. According to fome letters by the laft mail, the he- reditary prince of Brunfwick is to commsnd & flying camp of 20,000 men, and will direct his opgrations sgainft the army of the Empire. ‘ ‘ A French privateer of 6 guns is driven athore near Calais. e differs m Prince Ferdinand is in own. - kn n is not yet Francfort, March 22, the operations of the prefent campaign. ftom Magdebourg advile, that Prince’ sotion sith the greate part of his fosces, but his fofure with him in opinion in almoft every thing relating to by or- #u a good ftate of health, as:the King of P'ru tho’- he is. *del prign, .5 as to negle@l the having a proper place to ~otcommand this cam his Pruflian Majelly, thew that he is not retreat 1« . Leiwe m,. Henry The prodigious works carrying on at Leipfic, reat event in Saxony, King of Pruf- n a decifive engagement, . Daun has not taken one t g ;tain that the Mi’ 4% e truft to appearances, e c y expeit prefls to sccept of 2,000,000 crowns, and = From the 22zd ult. ¢ court of Vienna, if fhe will not confent to-a-peace ; but the chancellor, whofe credit is great, overturng in an hour what coft the other 10. et b e niadt b gl April 7. ut-in order-to facil Bruffels, y earneft to prevail” may hourl and it is as certsin that f1a has laboured to Lrir flep b party, Y- L] - or,12ds fter, labours to ftrengthen h 1 and many of the courtiers are ver mprefs of Ruffia with the Em the Englith min y . offers her two abandon the finite pains, thro’ the me- 1r , to induce the B His Majeft owns, half on the figning a definitive peace : txeaty, and the other half in four years.. Mr. Ksith milllions of Cr atg -an action with hi 4