The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, January 23, 1761, Page 1

FRIDAY, Fanuary 23. ' : THE New-Hampfhire - Containing the Frefbeft Advices, o ———— e i et ettt PORTSMOUTH . Uzspav laft being the Day appointed by His Excellency our GOVERNOR, - for Proclaiming His Majefty KING GEORGE the Third, the fame was obferv’d with all poflible Demonftrations of Joy on this happy Occafion, which could be expected from a Loyal People, when the Proclamation - #)giqb,fonom below) was read wich a-loud oice 3 His Excellency’s Life-Guard and the Militia attending at this Great Event, which made a genteel and handfome Appearance— After which an elegant Entertainment was given by His ExceLreEncy to His Majes- TY’s "CounciL and ‘the other Gentlemen - prefent. The next Day the Bells inTown tolled on Account of the Death cf his late Majefty King GEORGE the Second, of ever blefled Memory, when Divine Service was perform’d at Queen’s Chappel in the Forenoon, by the Rev. Mr. BrownE ;3 and in the Afternoon by the: Rev. Mr. Lancpon, at the Firft Parifh Church in this Place. ' By His ExcELLENCY BENNING WENTWORTH, Efq; Governor and Commander in Chief of His Majefly’s Province of New-Hampfhire, in New Eogland, a#d Vice-Admiral of the fame. PROCLAMATION. " HEREAS it bath pleafed Almighty GOD 10 call to His Mercy our late Sovereign Lord King GEORGE the Secand, of bieffed and glorious Memory, by whofe Deceafe tbe Imperial CRO W N of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, as alfo the Supreme Dominion and Sovereign Right of the Province of New-HampsHirE in New Eng- land, and all other His late Majefly’s Domini- ons in America, are folely and rightfully come 1o the High and Mighty Prince’ GEORGE Prince of Wales : : E therefore the GovErNoOR and CounciL, with Numbersof the principal Inhabitants of thisProvince, . do now hereby with one full Voice and Con- fent of Tongue and Heart, Publith and Pro- claim, that the High and Mighty Prince GEORGE Prince of Wales, is now, by the Death of our late Sovercign - of happy and glotious Memory, become our only lawful andrightful Liege Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of GOD Kinc of Great: Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Supreme Lord of the faid Province of Newt Hampfhire in New-England, and all other His late Majefly’s Territories and Dominions in America ; to whom we do acknowledge all Faith and conftant Obedience, with ail hearty and humble Affeétion ; befeeching GOD,* by whom Kings and QuEeens do reign, to blefs the Royal King GEORGE" the Third with long and happy Years to reign over us. : Given at Portfmouth tbe Twentieth Day of January, 1761. B. WENTWORTH, GOD fave the KIN G. T R T Tl T W v L O N D O N, Neov. 7 A letter (aid to be written by the King cf Piufliz, to the Marquis a’Argens, from bis Msjefty’s head quarters at Hamdorff, near Bredlin, Aug. 27, 1760, hss beenin- tercepted by the Ruffians ; and the following is atran{- lation of it. : « At any other time, my déx Marquis, the affair of the 15 h would have decidod (t campaign-; At prefent the a&ion is no more than & {cfnch. A general engige- ment muft determine our faté, It will foon happen, according to appearances ; #ad them we may enjoy onr- felves, iftheiflue ofit be_‘woamhle, Mean while, I thenk you for the fincere part you take in the lazad- van'age gained. Many wiles, and much addrefs, were required to bring on that aétion. Dos’t mention dungers the Iate affair coft me only acoatand aherfe: This was buying vitory cheap. I never received the other letter you fpeak of. We are in a manner blocked up; as to cur correfpondence, by the Ruffiins on one fide of the Oder, and by the Auftrians on the other. ~ A fmall combat was neceflary to clear the way for the Stage coach, which, I hope, hath delivered you my letter. i I never was in fuch an ugly fitustion, as I am this campaign. Belicve me, nothing but & miracle can en- able us to furmount all the difficulties which I forefee. I thall certzinly. do my duty in the action. But, my dear Marquis, elways remember, that I do not defpair of Fortune ; and that in my plans-Iam obliged to leave too much to chance ; for want of means to form more folid proje€ts. I have the labour of a Hercules to un- dergo at an sge when my firength leaves me, whes my infirmities increafe, and when, to tell you the truth, Hope, the fole confolations of the Wretched, begins to fzil me. You are not [ufficiently acquiinted with affuirs, te form a clear idea of all the dangers that threaten the State. I know them, and corceal themn, Ikeep all my fears to myfelf, and communicate to the Publick only my hopes ard the few pieces of good news I can tell them. Ifthe blow I prapofe to give fhould fucceed, it will then be foon enough,my desrMrrquis,to maniteft curjoy. Tillthen, do not let us flastes ourfelves, leaft a piece of bad news fhould fink our fpirits too much. I Jead here the life of a military Monk. I have many things te think of. = The reft of my Time I devote'to leiters, which are my confolatian, as they were that of the antient Confuls. D &ators, &2. I know not whether I fhall furvive this war : but if I fhould I am fully re- {olved to pafs the reft of my Days in retirement, in the bofom of philofophy and friend/hip. As foon #s the correfpondence is more free, you will do me a pleafure by writing ofc’ner. I know not where we fhall have our quarters this winter. My houfe at Bre{'su was defiroyed in the late bombardment. Our enemies envy us even day light, and free air. They muft, however, leave us fome place ; and if it be fafe, I fhall rejoice to fee you. Pray, Marquis, what will become of the peace be- tween France and England ? You lee that your nation is blinder than you imagined. Thele fools lole Canada and Pondicherry, to pleafe the Queen of Hungary and the Czaring. Heaven grant that Prince Ferdinand may pay them well for their. zeal. The innocent officers and the poor foldiers, are the chief fuflercrs by thele things ; the perfons who alone ave culpable feel nothing of them. Thefe are matters that happened to occur ta me. I amin the frain of writing, but I fee I muft mzks en end, that I may not tire you, or negle&t my own bufinels. Adieu, dear Marquis. Your’s fincerly, &, ‘The late glorious acquifition inNorth America, with- ocut bloodfhed, can never be enough extolied. There will now remain po neceflity for avy more troops than to garrifon Quebec, -Montreal, and lome other pofts 5 and the army may, end very prabably willbe tranfport- ed to the South, and attempt the reduttion of the enly remaining colony of the French-on the Miflifippi: Till that is efl<&@:d there can be but lit:le hopes of quieting t ¢ Indians at the back of South Carolins, as the French will never ceafe to fpirit them up to commit ravages on that colony. ( %> What a fhining Page will the future Hiftory of England sfford ; when, treating of the Years 1759 and 1760, Louifbourg, Quebec and Montreal, taken in America ; and allthe North Parts of that vaft Empire, reduced to the Obedience of George II. Senepal and Goree confefs the Britith Power in Africa, Guadalupe,, callsus Mafter—T he Battle of Wandewalh in Afia, in- forms the World what has been doing there ; and in Europe, let Minden fpeak. - . - Extralt of a Letter from Paris, Ofto, 28. Arfhal Belleifle hath received another Letter ad- drefled to the King from the Court of Berlin, on the Subject of Peace. The Marfhal is not the only Perfon who prefles the King to pat wn end 15 the War, A lady, than whom none is betfer reccived at Coyt, but who bath not, for lgag timz, jeemed 1y oedili farien XU LG WEEKS finca8is Parea 'T > NuMe. 225 § yaish pobitued, -~ GAZETTE Foreign and Damefli@é. | .with any ftate affairs, alfo folicits his Mdjefty to prevail ¢ with th.e Emprefs Queen to accommodste’her differences with the King of Pruflia, and to try every methed to bring about a peace with England. It is affured, thag it ‘'was by the fuggeflions of this lady, for whom ‘the King hath & particular regard, that his Masjefty called the Council which was held on the 26th, to confider of the means of briaging sbout.a general pacification dur- ing the winger 3 ‘which furpriz:d the members of it the. more, as it was but afew days before, that his Majefty declared he would liften to no terms of pesce tilkhe obtained full fatisfaltion of his encmies. But in this Council it wae propoled to fend Tome perfonsto Lon bz to feel the pulfe of that Court, and learn what part of their conquefts they were difpos’d to reftdre ; and to try to obisin a fufpenfion of arms. It is faid that M. Belleifle named M. Durand to be fent over, as he knew the country, and was well relpetted by many pérfons of the firft diftin&ion in it.— - The Bruffels Gazette tells us, that fince the lofs of Canads, which draws with it that of the French furr- trade, they talk at Paris of making hats of filk mixed with wool or flax. Part of a Letter by way of Fournal, from an Officesrin Gen. Amberfl's army, Sept. 5. i760. : ¢ Friday,- -At night [ was prefent at a fight which quite overeame me : The rangers bro’t to the head- quarters a number of families, confifting of old men, women, and children, who had come ia for fesr of our Indians. As foon as they knew the General, the Wo- men with a prodigious number of children, fome at their breafts, got round him, crying out, Les Saxvages, &¢. He told them in Freach, they had nothing to fesr, for he commanded an Englith army ; and his orders were fo ftrong, and he was fo fully convinced of Sir William Johnfon’s humanity, that none of them would be hurt by our Savages. The tender manner in which he fpoke to them melted me before I was @ware, but on Jooking round, I found all the fpeélators in the fame condition. , Here was a Grandfather prefenting fT- fpring to the General, 8 Mother, .+ } bresft, and two or three at her knee Law!ing = the mother weeping, while the fathor was exdoan to confole them.—The General order’d wicluals drink for them ; a large fire was t: t and they fet all around 3 the men begun to- light their - pipe-, and there sppeared a farisialtion in the counte- nance of the whole: Many of them were fent ioto the deferted houles (for (hele families Iive on the other fide of the bay) but a great many of the women and children chofe to flay st the fire before the General’s tent, and indeed he had a2 numerous family.—The cruelties com- mitted on our frontiers were at once forgot every one was melted into compaflion at the miferable fight ; and. even the very Rangers whofe hearts are none of the fofteft, feemed glad when they were ordered back without their prifoners. There are 120 Out Parifbes .in Canada, and abput, Orne Hundred and fifty armed Men in each Parifk, Which amounts to 18,000 fore hig tent, In Quebec 760 Drois River 350 Montreal 6oo Total 19.650 PHILADELPHIA,Dec18. Capt. Goodwin, in § weeks from Jamaica informs, That the men of war on that flation are conftantly on the cruize ; notwithftanding which a French privatcer a few Days before he fail'd took 5 Prizes off Kingfton, one of them s New York Sloop.—That on his Pallage he came acrofs @ Providence Privateer Schooner of 10 Guns and only 27 Men, who sbout 25 Days ago met with a French Privateer Sloop of 12 Guns and 85 Men, when. the Frenchman, after exchanging = few Shot, grappled him on the Larboard Quarter, and a very, fmart Combat enfued, in which Monfieur and 17 of his Men were kill’d, the reft oblig’d to row off, end Icft = Irélhode Iind Brig to be retaken by the Providence: an., We further learn, that a French 74 Gun Ship had got into the Cape, after being, on her Pafiege, 3 different Times attacked and fought by three different Englifh Men of War, one of 50, one of 40, and ene of 50 Guns, who pelted her handfomely, notwithftanding her {uperi- our Force, kill'd many of her Men, and wounded her Mafts confiderably. Luckily for Monfieur, an Englifh 6o Gun Ship, cruizing wear the Cape, did not come 8- crofs her, Capt. Valentine, in the Bofcawen Privateer . Snow of 16 Guns, of Néw. Yqik, enfifing off the Cape at the Time, gaveher Chzce, and got almoft 100 near when the lower Porty were opening, which -obliged k;;!l to make all the Sail be could in queft of fomething clfe. Dy Cept. Faiis from Jamaics, we have advice, that Captsin Flroudhmfi, from.thence for this pore, was taken by a French privateer fchooner 3 which fchooner w:s sfterwvards tiken by the Boreas man of wafs tsd s