The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, May 22, 1761, Page 2

Y A more particular Account of the March of the Armyunder Prince Ferdinand, and ic Advantage he-has gained over hisEnemies. WESTMINSTER,Feerfly;;.E : g HIS Day an Exprefs arrived at the Ear "Pgi’g fig ofHoldernell’s office, with letters ot the ae [y &2 21t inkt. from the Hon:Major Gen. <> T ¢ 2o Yorke, his Majefty’s minifter at the o 77 7 =% Hague, with a particular account of the B operations of his Majelty’s army in PEIBEE ' Ifefl'e, dated the 16thinft. from Nied- “enftein, the head quarters of Prince Ferdinand of Brun- fwick. g e The army affembled on the gth, inft. at their diffe- rent points of rendezvous on the Dymel, the Rhine and in Saurland; Pr. Ferdinand went the [sme dly'to Giefmar, where Lieut. Gen. Gilfac had marched with the corps under his orders, the next day the troops halted and the difpofitions for the motions of the whole were communicated to the Generals. 11th, The army marched in 4 colums, elc?_x column preceeded by a vanguard of picquets, formed into bat- talions and fquadrons, and commanded by 8 General. The Generals were Lieut. General Gilfac, the heredi- ‘tary Prince, Gen. Breidenbach and Sporcken. At Cal- tleberg, Gen. Breidenbach took 100 prifoners. * “QCn the 12th Gen. Gilfac marched to Deutenberg, where the vanguards of all the, columns rejoined, an.d were augmented with fome cavalry, and the Marquis of Granby was appointed to command that corps. The hereditary Prince cantoned his corps about Zulchen ‘from whence he went with a few battalions to Fitzlan, .and attacked it with great {pirit but without efi'c%, for -they made a refolute defence. Ou the 13th Gen. ried- enbach took pofleflion of a magazine of 40,000 rations a: Rothenthal, and advanced to Mnrp.urg,‘whlch he at- tempted without fuccels, and was kiiled in the attack. “The lofs of this excellent General is greatly lamented. General d’'Oheim has been appointed to fucceeded him. ~14th, Lord Granby enter’d the village of Gudufbcr‘g, where he found fome provifion and forage. The ga:riion of zoo men retired into the old caftle. Yefterday morning fome bombs having been thrown ‘into the town of Fritzlar, Col. de Narbonne offer’d to cupitulace, it the moft honoursble terms were allow’d him ; which were granted him in confideration of his brave defence, upon condition however, that tl.xe garri- fon fhould not lerve during the prefent campaign; the * commander having refuled to fubfcribe to that conditi- on, a brifk cannonsde was begun again, and coniinued for half an hour, after which the terms were accepted. Yefterdsy the enemy attacked the port of Gentzungen _near Feldberg, but were repulfed with the lofs of two officers and twenty oldiers. We have further accounts, that Guderfberg had fur- yender'd to the Marquis of Granby ; and advice juft re- ‘ceived from Gen. Sporcken at Thomafpruck, upon the Unftrut, we likewife learn, that he in conjun&ion with the Pruffians, had attacked the Saxons in thofe parts, and befides cutting & great number of them to pieces, he 'had taken five Saxon battalions prifoners of war. Whitehall, March 3, ‘This day another exprefs ar- sived from Masj -General Yorke, as follows. Prince Ferdinand's Head Quarksrs at Haufen, Feb. 12. The .commandsnt of ritzlar having accepted the .conditions offer’d him, marched ou: of the town with his corps confifting of gb5 men, befides 105 wounded. On the 17th the army advanced to Ober Volchu z, the van took pofieflion of the pafs of Felifberg, and General Zaltrow of the pafs of Neider Mellerick.—The here ditary Prince got before hand of the enemy, and took ‘pofl:ffion of the poft of -Hoburg. The Prince of Sch- ‘aumbourg Lippe, took the command of a great body of the army which remainded near Caffel. ‘The fame day our troops enter’d Melfunger, Whl'Ch M.. Broglio ‘left the evening before, in order to repair to Hirfchfeld. The enemy had only time to deftroy a part of the mag- azine there, a confiderable quantity of meal and forage fell into our hands, alfo another confiderable magszine at Obar Morfchen. M. d’Oheim having learnt the 17th, that M. de Mau- peon was with his corps at Sachfenberg, put himfelf in motion the 18:h, to march towards the enemy, whofe advanced guard he met with between Sachfenberg and Neuenkirchen, it was immediately attack’d and rou:cfi, M. de Maupeon licutenant general, who was there in perfon, was tsken with a licutenant colonel, five officers and 5o foldiers ; upon which the enemy fell back to- wards Hallenberg, and M. d’Oheim returned to Frank- enberg.. The fame night Maj. Scheither attacked and _difpers’d a detachment of the enemy near Pabberg, and took 4 officers and 140 prifoners. ; On the 1gth the enemy abandoned Hitfchfeld, and fet fire to the magazine, our troops enter’d the next day, and faved great part of the.magazine, which had con- fifted of 80,000 fucks of meal, 50,000 of oats, and a million rations of hay: The French troops which left that place in the night, and march’d towards Fulda, were 15 battalions. All the artillery and baggage of the five Saxon bat- talions mede prifoners by General Sporcken, likewife fell into his hands. "Onthe 19th, News came from M. de Sporcken (by Captain de Borch, his Aid de:camp,) That M. de Luck- ner attacked the 12th, the French and Swifs Grenadiers, who had paffed the night under arms, in the wood of Dorne, over againft his advanced pofts at Aberode and Buckewride. He pufhed them as far as the Heights of Egerieden, where they gain'd a thick wood, which,. . R SN B * \ count de Solms had fortified by felled Trees, They cannonsded each other. The enemy received Rein- forcements from the Quarters on the Werra, and thofe of the Saxons. e Thenight coming on, M. de Sporcken eculd not af- femble his Men, [o as to undertske any thing againft the Enemy ; he contented himfelf with making fome Changes in the Difpofifions of his Quarters, and [0 pufh the pofts farcher on. The Skirmithes of this day cott him forty men in killed and wounded. The lofs of the Enemy was more confiderable, and four officers and 50 of their-Men- were taken. M. de Sporken put his Troops in order of battle the 13th, at 7 0’Clock in the Morning, upon the Height cailed Eifberg ; but having found the Enemy confide- rably reinforced ; that they had occupied all the woods where the Horfe could notaét ; and that the troops of his Pruffian Majefty were at the diftance of three Marcaes, he refolved to pafs the Unftrut at Silberhau- fen and Hortfmar, to draw near them by forced march. The corps ofPruffians advanced the 14th to the height of Langenf{alize, which was occupied by 3000 Saxons. M. de Sporcken occupied the villege on the left Side of the River Unfirut, with the troops of his firft line, and drew thofe of his fecond line as near it as poflible. He agreed with M. de Sibourg, that the Pruflian trocps fhould pafsthe Unftrut at Merxieben, whilft he pafled itat Thomafbruck, and M. de Luckner at Bol- ftedt. In the Nightthe Bridges, which the enemy had broken, were repaired. ' The Pruflian Cavalry got through the paffage of Mercklelled, while their cannon was battering the town of Langenfal ze, Eight Sqnadrons of M. de Sporcken's firft line pafled at Thumatbruck with a Bridge of Chal- feurs, and a Squadron of Luckner’s, whole whole corps could not pafs, the warters continuing out all the day. In the mean time the Pruffian Cavalry fell upon the Enemy, who were going out of Langen(aitze ; and M. - de Sporcken’s corps did lo likewife upon the Troops which were coming down the Hill to their Affiftance. M. de Sporcken computes the Enemy’s lofs that day at 5000 men, at the fame Time that his own fcarcely exceeds 1000, Lieut. Gen. Hodenberg was wounded ~and taken prifoner. ‘The pruflians took 3 Battalions, and 7 Pieces of can- non ; and M. de Sporcken’s troops took two Battalions and fix picces of cannon, Hamburgh, Jantary 27. The Duke of Meckien- burg who had lately retired to Lubeck, is returned to Schwerin, the ufual place of his refidence, efter having agreed with the Piflians with regard to the contribu- tions they had required, which have been reduced to 1,500,000 crowns, one third of which, it is faid, he has egreed to pay himfelf ; the reft by the noblefle and inhabitants of the country. b 2O N.-D vO N, Jan'27. Extraft of a Letter received at the Hague, from Madrid January 2. €€ HOWEVER defirous the King might be to employ his mediation for reconciling the powers at war, that matter isnow dropt. On'the con- trary, requifitions being made to the courts of Vienna and Verfailles, to finith certain regulations with refpe& to ltaly, and the an{wers received not being agreeable, his Majelty hath taken his refolution to ufe the means which God hath put into his hands, to fettle thofe matters himfelf, either amicably or by compulfien. In confequence of which, itis not doubted but 2 war will be kindled in Italy, which will coft much blood. ¢The Spaniards fee with pain the many favours granted to Itslians; and cabals are forming.—1It is given out that the King takes no pleafure in Spain ; and in order to get back to Italy, wanis to place Don Lewis on the Spanifh throne ; and to make himfelf defpotic in the greateft part of ltaly, and deprive the Duke of Parma of moft of his clsims. Itis added, that the courts of London and Turin have been already 'found- ed, to know how far they are difpoled to a defenfive treaty, that the King may be able to oppofe them of Vienna and Verfsilles, if they fhould fill perfift in the anfwer they have given, viz. That they fhould not think of thofe matters while the German war continued.’ Extraf of a Letter from the Hague, Jan. 27. —«* s~ HERE has perhaps been nonaval action this war, in which the reputation of the Englith arms has been fo duly imprelled on the minds of a portion of all nations, as that which happen- ed the 24:h inftant, between the frigates Felicite and Richmond, the cannon of the combat being fairly heard at this place, which was about eight Englifh miles from the fcene, and which terminated within three quarters of a mile of the fhore, near a village called Frecheyd. « Captain Dennel, of the Felicite, behaved till his death with all the perfevering coursge of a refoluie commander ; 2sdid the fecond in command, who was more happy in elcaping, and who left his fhip with the colours flying, when fhc was a perfet wreck : that had not the fhore taken her up, fhe muft at that inftant in- evitably have foundered, as near 200 fhot had lodged in her hull, and the greateit part near and under the water. The concourle of pzople of all denominations that locked down from the Fague, and the neighbour ing towns, to be [pectators of the altion, were in mul- 'titude only to be equalled by a vaft army. The prince, all the foreign minifters, gentry, &c. were prefent ; nor was there a horfe within the diftriét, on the faturday or [unday, but what was employed to carry fomebody to fee the tranfalion ; and it being fine and clear wea- ther, they were particularly gratified in the novelty. ¢ Monficur D’Affry,the French minifter, bas promif- R, L e e s <7 ed to recommend the furviving Captain of the Felicity, Mogfizar Laugarrou, to his cour:, to their paricular’ notice. He has made remonftrances to the fatesGeneral, sboutthe infrallion of the neutrality of their territories ; and rhe Dutch min'fry fent ff Captain Blackwell of their guardss with a letter to remonltrate with Captain E phinfton, who, as we are informed, hzs fent them a. judicious reply, which is properly fupghbreed. “ The ftates likewife gave orders to their Strand- » Mafter, who is the proper officer on that cccafion, to interpofe in hoifting Dutch colours on board, znd in faving the wreck ; but it was too late, for before thefe orders counld bz executed, the was on fire, and confumed to low water make, which as fhe keeled was on one fide deftroyed too near the keel, c r ‘¢ MonfieurD’Affry, notwithftanding his great chagrin | in fecing his mafter’s (hip, fent on an important fervice, fo unluckily deftroyed, and the number of wounded brought on fhore, among which was the brave, dead Capt. Dennel, ... : could not, amidft this affefting fcene, decline doing juftice to the magnimity and condu& of the Englifh commander, who from the beginning to the end afted with a determined heroifm and judgment, that could not be furpafled. ¢ The fuperior feamanfhip and manzuvres of the Englith in the Richmond, was apparent to all, as fhe was equally afhore with the Frenchman, and within her, notwithftanding the other was ftranded, and the Richmond got off. i ‘ ‘¢ The Felicite came originally from Breaft, laft from Dunkirk ; took in part of her cargo st Havre de Grace, which confifted of cloathing, flour, wine, brandy, cor- dage, and other naval ftores for the colonies ; and was proceeding north about. Her confort the Harmione being loft, the Felicite had not only her own, but the other’s packets and difpaches, befi’:fles ‘her paffengers, which were numerous, and fome of them Governors. “ General York, who viewed the tranfattion, - and slways moft fenfibly feels for the honour and welfare of his country men, feems greatly elated at this good fuceefs, which appesrs hourly more important, and omits ~no circumftance faw, that if the breach of neutrality is difputed, the Frenchmen was an equal aggreffor, and that the’ Englifh thip being athore, fired for her own preferpation, and ceafed when the enemy did. ... In fine, thé Hol- landers, who in thefe perts are well inclined to the Englifh, are not difpleafed with the cataftrophe of the French fhip, asa cafual rencounter upon their coaft.” Feb. 12. A4 very firicking Likenefs of His Majefly, done by Mr.Ramjay, is fent to the Tower for the Engraver of the Mint to make a- Die, which the next Coinage will be firack from. 13. The follswing are fome further particulars of the retaking of the bip Audrey from New -York. The two gentlemen and the two boys rofe upon the Frenchmen, and- an attack began about feven at mght, and lafled till nine in the mornirg. Inthe fray three of the Frenchmen were killed, and the other nine furrendered “themfelves. The gentlemen bebsved with great hamanity to the Frenchmen after they bad gained poffeffion of the fbip, in driffing their -wounds, &c. notwithjlanding the ill treatmeut they had reccived from them at the time of their being taken, firip- ping them of every thing that was valuable, and even their wearing apparel. . This treatment was the means of kind - ling a fire in their breafts againft them, which put them upon this defperate defign of being reveng'd. Had they been defeated they could expelt mo mercy 16. By letters from ‘Lorgan, of the 218 ult. we are told, that the numbers of recruits that bad jrined their re- [pellive regiments in that city and neighbourkood were amazing 5 that every private boufe wqs crowded with foldiers. little boufes having fix or feven, and la rge ones Srom fixteen to twenty [ix, and that it was the fame both at Leipfic and Enlenbourg. Tbe Pruffian infantry (fays thefe letters ) is already aug- mented, and the cavalry is quite compleat, thofe that want- ed borfes being remounted. ~ They make a fine appearance: and we may venture to affirm, that bis Prafian M.jefly never yet took the field with fuch a numerous army as be will have the next campaign. : Admiral Pocock bas kiffed his Majefly's band on being appointed Admiral of the Blue, in the room of the late Admiral Bofcawen ; andit'is faid wili have the command of the grand expedition fleet now preparing to fail. The collettions made on Friday at the Rev. My White. - Sietd's Tabernacle, and the Chapelin Tottenbam ccurt, for the fufferers by the late terrible fire at” Boflos, in Neew- England, and the plunder'd Proteflants inthe New Marche of Brandenburg, &Fc. amounted toupwards of five hund- red and fi ty pounds. : g 23. It is [aid the young Prince of Pruffia will make the next campaign under the King bis uncle 9 be Right Rev the Lord Bifbop of Lindon is faid to be at the point of death. ; Theywrite from Turin in Dauphiny, that on the 18th- ult. at night a dreadful flirm arofe, whic- lafled till 19 - in the morning ; foon after which a terrible nmoife was beard, which was followed by a cloud of [mike that pre- ceeded from a Gulpl which had opencd at about one bund- . ‘red paces from the convent of the- Ur/fuilnes, near the ax- tient torrent of the Tabourin : fparks iffue from it, and great quantities of fmoke, which [mells greatly sf fulphar. The coronation it is certainly [aid, will not be till Au- guft or Septemler. - . An Officer of Gen. Amherft’s army has fent to his Lady in Scotland, an Indian Woman, aged 21, taken at Lake: Champlain, whom for fine Shapes and Fes-- ‘tures' few in England can equal, and who has an -excellent Eye inPainting. { \ \ ‘ | b § i to confirm what thoufands / | ] ] 1 ]