The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, June 26, 1761, Page 2

el — < Thurfiey the 186 I, the Brig Prine ‘Georgs; Capt. Fare, arrived at Bofton, frem_London, bu:‘-.'afl *from Portimouth in 7 Waeks _and 4 Days ; and from - “an Boglith Print of Aptil _25th, we bave the folloso- “ing Intelligenie, VIZ. From the LONDON GAZETTE. HAGUSE, Arilvs 12§87 @S HE Profliin midifter'here has received 2 7 2 £ 2% the confirmation of a confiderable ad- ek s+ >} vantsge giined over a part of the army {95 -+ > %5 Of she einpire near Saslteld, on the zd @ ¥ 4 98, by the'Profin Generals Schen- Fr4ibidr @8y kendorff sad Sybourg. The imperi- alifts, to the amount of fix battalions &nd’860 horfe, commanded by two Generals, had form- kd. thiemfelves o the heights of Keimberg sear “Ssblield; where t 'y had placed their battcries upon “the approsch of Genersl Schenkendorff. Genersl *Syboarg advenced on the other fide, diflodged the ene- * my from the'poft- of Schwartze, where they had “two “bitalicas. The Pruffians sttacked snd -routed them, *and infifcly difperfed all chat were aot Killed or taken. “The'enemy had ‘one Colonél, one Maijos, 29 other c@gers, and above 8co men teken prifoners, with four “paiz of colours and fix pieces of cannon. - Thofe who ~tted went towards Greffenthal, Geaerai Schenkendorff “twes to march towards flgyen». : e ; General Gonway, and'Lord Frederick Cavendifh, et out g ‘20 Ddy for 'the Head Qarters of bis Majefly's Army at "*}’adc?hrfl. ke o ; 1”_”, . """ Many Letters mention great Damage baving bappened "Vig Spain, by Edrthynakes, on the g1 ff paft, 4@5 i inf. " V'iI E N N A, dpril3. ":YESTBRDAY; thic Count de Lofymphsl prepared a grand entertdinment, st which the Emperor and Emprels condelcended to-be prefent. Juft as they were fitting down to"dinner, the prince(s of Anerfperg, going «.:80°take¢ bher chair by the Emperor, funk down in his , arms, and notwithRanding sl poflible afliitance was in- “‘Runtly given, the never breacthed more. Their Imperisl Majeflies immediately returned o the caftle, and the <réft of the gue:ts to cheir feveral hoafes, without tafting “‘she dinner. - The Ludy, who wasin her 53d yesr, is greatly regreted; The Emperor took fo much pleafure in her converlation, that hs would always have her Jet By bim w publc enteriinmant. %) - "MECKUENBOURG, April 4. A diftemper o- “mongft the cattle makes great ravages in the beiliwic. of Dargun, Nieukalden and Doberan ; and sn epidemical fickdefs prevails in the town and bailiwick of Lubz, avhich hag carried off feveral people. O HANOVER,; April 10, g : " 'The Marquis of Granby’s depsrture for England, ‘and the insétion of the twe' armies, occafioned the ge- ‘neral rumaoiir of 4 ful on-of -arms ; bug there is-no- thing in it If the tréops remain inaflive and are oblig- 4 to go into guarters.of cantonment, it is becaufe the sountry is Bare of provifions and forage. - Near 2000 of our Rorfe bave perifhed wishin this fortnighs. The mugizines on both-fides are but flenderly pravided, by reafon' of the prins ‘taken by esch partyto diftrefs their adverfary’'in this articie. The places adjecent to the two armies are fiiled with fick'snd wounded, and for Went of proper accommodations; many more of them di_gsthn:, Tecover. . ; +"Some French prifoners, who had enlifted in curtroops ksve Licen bro't to'thisplace from Ultzen, and imprif- oned. - They rad - plotted to kill the -guard, fet fire to the town, and make their efcape smidft the confufion, - HANAU, #4nlg : _According to the laft letterd from Caffel, that capital has fuffered confiderably by: the late fiege. The mag- hificent inclofure near the gate of ‘Moulin, and that of Anncberg, are entirely riined ; and in the city there are feverel ftreets -and ‘quarters where a fingle houfe. is fcarcely co be found that has not been damaged by the ¢annon br the hombs. A frrall magezine of powder which blew up the fecond day sfter Opening the trenches, ‘ogeafioned grest demage, - - i «...n . PARIS, ( in France ) 4dpril 10. The French King bas ewrote a Letter tothe Arcbbifbop of Paris, defiring ng‘m to order To Deam 'te be Jung in all the Churebeés of bis Discefe for the Advavtages gained by bis. drmy wnder Marbal Broglio ; which Levier concludes thys s < It is te the Gud of Armies voe are to returs thanks - at the altars, for the Advantages be bas deighed'te difpenfe to sy Letws foin theréts the moff ferwint Prayers, that be may touch the Hearts of our Enemies with the Calami- %725 occafianed by the Scourge of War, and difpofe them to biften to Propufitions of Peace, wherein 1 foall ever be reddy to.acquefee, for the Good of Mankind and of the, Puople whom 1govern. - Invwriting this Lester; my Inten- tien is, 1hat you canjs Te Deum, &c. e, . Ar Verfailles, the 3d of April 1761, . .. Signed LOUIS, Aiwiralty Office, April 27. His majelty’s fhip the Blonde, commanded by Capt. Cipe Finifterre on the 27th of February, fell in ‘with a lage veffel about 400 tons. burthen, with 18 carrisge ;guns, and 75 men, bound from Bourdeaux to St. Do- ngo, which fhe took, after near an hours engagement and carried into Lifbon. : LONDO N. Whiteball, April 21, Sundsy morning the 1gth inft. arrived Capt, Ellis, of the Efcorte, snd Capt. Rook, Aid de Camp to Major Gengrsl Hodgfon, with letters from Commodare Keppel and'Genersl Hodglon, to the Right Hon. Mr. Secretary PITT, of the ‘12th and 33th inft. which give an sccount, that on the 8th they bad"atiempted to land part of the sroops under General Fedglon’s commend st Lomuria bay, but-that it had Kennedy, - ‘being ‘off’ }_l’tb thought proper to dehift fr}om that sitsck. Fasther ‘sccounts are fhortly expelled. J~ BOUGH the astack, snd e bupe thr conguiring, z she ifland of Belleifle, cven at this late time, will undoubredly-be of great fervice 1o England, yet bad it beem done at the beginning of ths war, it wedld more (en= Jibly bave alfefted tbe enemy, and mire muterially bave anyswered oarinterefls. Far-be it frim us-to prefume to bl me the prefems adminifiration's we will mot lay this aegless of exccution [o important a meafure pecaliarly ta them, but rasber thofe who Juffered Minsr¢a to be saken Jrom the want of true ixtelligence, and coem wben they received iv-diwbted its autbenticity, sho* aif the re Eurdpe were sonvinced of its veracity: fo Bédeifle, no douts, lay darmast, though s moft inviting ebjedd, either Srom a want of knowledge of its importance, or 12 fome dbingsverfs. . Pisyit is; that $his imporsant ifland was wot" - taken laft year. It would not furprize us wben we are . told, that the enemy bad planted acheveaus: di frize inthe water, which prevented the flat bottomed boats returning 19.tbe tranlports, dfter shey bad been floated up the brink of the bigheft breach by the full tide, if we vemember what was carrently reported in Scotiand is Nevimber lafi -namely, that the fecret expedition was going to make a congurf of the ifle of Betleifle : bowever, it is not improbable but that the trosps may, by this time, bave'cffeited a fafe landing, end got- footing on the. iffand ; and that “theugh they are wot provided with artillery 1o reduce Palais,or La Bourg, the capital and only materiel fortification. iz the ifland,they may neverthelels be detormined to maintain thesr ground, againf? the attempss of the garrifon to difledge them. They will doubtlefs receive.battering eannen as_foon as:poffible, and thep we may expes? to bear, thas ¥ ayban's fortifications ‘will be found infarior to Britifb valeur ; and in a little time ofter, we foall be convinced of the importance of this ifland : the squipping of flects at Bref will ceafe, becaufe the énemy there will mot only want a'road te go in and oxt with [afety, but alfo materials to build their fips, and Sores for them - all which are brought thither from the Jouthers parts of Framce, by a cbannel between Belieifle “and the continent, a navigation our men of war are tatally ignorant of, becaufe the French charss are falfe, and deceive thess. ~ This ifland lies oppofit to Port Lowisand L'Oriens, and abfolutely commands the entrance into their- barboars, by ittheFrenchEaft Indiacompany wonld them [uffer greatly, 5/ they are mot totally ruined, for their fbips would e er be abig ta get in and out of their ports.: the river Villaine, and the gulph of Morkian, are alfe commanded by.tbis ifland, and the French communication-betsoeen their morthtrn and fouthern ports woald be emtirely cut off = all the dangers of our fbips [plitting on the rocks of the Car- dinals, ali the difmal borrors of a bay flation, would be ro- movéid ; toe barbeur of Palais wonld offird a [afe and maff “sonvenient afylum for all our [bips in bad weather, who aredeflined to wateh the greas eweflern coaft of France. Jeis fruitful and bealthful, and may be as well preferved in the poffelfion of the Englifb, as they now bold theiflands of Guernfey and. JFerjry. 18 isthe largef ifland on the Prinil Coup, and of menre imparrance to that Ration thay any of ber ports, becaufe it is the key to fo many, and com- mands fo. muth of the main land. Iy fbort, of a)i the ¢z - peditions sobich bave been fint ot of England, at the ex- pence of many millions, during theje laf! fixty years, none way eper fent 20 execute fo advantageoss a plan to England, a5 that now gone 40 make a conqucft of theifle of Belleifle s and if ee are fo fortunate 10 ‘accomplifb this wife defsgn, Tbope our segeciators will resain the fame fenfe of its im- portance ‘wben they treat on peace, as. our minifiers bave done when they propofed the flep to bake it ; and if it be granted us by the terms of peace, we buge [uch ufe will be made of it, asfball prevent a cunwing and treacherous enemy Jrom privately making preparations, to begin anotinr war, They write from Cologn, that people woere lately come 40 that city, whe give ont that they are 700 years oid : they fay they came from Damafens, from whence they paffed tbroagh Cracovia, and from thence bither ; they are bare- Joot, badly cloathed, and live only on bread and water ; they Sorered notbing but il news, wars, inundations, and con- Jagravions andthat the eworld will have an end in 1773 ; they talk Latin, Greek, Hebreso and Chaldean ; they woere ot firfR imprifined, and the common people veported they bad broke their chains. They bave been banijbed this city and its territories, and are now foaping their way towards Rome. ; : Extract of a letier from on beard thé Rippan, off Bref, dated March 27. “ His Majefty’s thip Rippon, of fixty.-guns-and 380 men, Copt. Edward Jekyll, Commander;-being on s cruize on Monday March gth; fell in-with two French men of war, one ot which; afrigate ( taken to be the Comet of thirty-two.guns.) came near about fix in the evening, and hoilted ‘Englith colours ; iwe bore down upon her, but (he wore inftantly and made fail, and s night-came an, mide fignals to her confort ( faid to be the Prothee of fixty four guns and 800 men, lately from ‘Brell ) by firing fky-rockets. ey “ Next morning -at day bresk we difcovered three foil to'the windward, and chaced the largeft, who flung out a-private fignal, which not being anfwered,the chace borg sway with all she fail the could crowd ; at near fix in the afternoon got within fhot of her, and hoifted our colours, upon which the chace hoifted a french jack ather enfign ftaff, fired a. fhot, which was returned by thres cheers from our men, &nd then crowded away again ; the two thips kept firing their fiern and bow chace guns at esch other till 9. « At half pat nine the Rippon cams up with the enemy, and running along fide, gave him her broadfide, and fmall srms from the poop, within piftol fhot, and both fhips continusd in clofe engegement for thre¢ hours % _fsvoured by the dark and hizy weather we. ‘offin d Iqual. We piarfued him till 4 o'clock with, our 43 30. N. and longitude f1. 4. R S i DN e : / and a hslf, fomegimes in dgucf,qtm;u&fingfi«yd onhe ayathe; §t bletv Yery hard all the time, and-the fes running high it was [cldom we’ could open ourfower deck ports, sad thep fhipped fo much water. that the cfficers and men on ‘the deck were frequently. upto their knees ; one of our lower deck guns burft, killed eight’ Tnen, #ad wounded eight more, being & twenty four . pounder. The enemy’s thip was full of mukeiry from ftem to Rern, kept s continual fire of [mall asms, and trom their fwivels on the tops, upon our quarter deck and poop ; our marines under Capt. Gardner.on the Poop retdined it back again to them. very. brifkly. } " “The enemy during the whole time of the sétion, ‘endesvoured, at every fhift of wind, to make his efcape but did notfucceed till near two. in the morning, when ; e got fails flying about. snd rigging fhot to pieces, and then Toit fight of him." : 1 His Majelty’s thip the Kero, commauded by Willi- am Fortefcue, and the Venus, commanded by Capt. Thomas Harrifon, on the 2d In@. in_ the atitide of _ i W. fell in with- sind took a French Eaft India thip, calied the Bertin, pierc- - .ed fo; 64 guns, mounting 28, and mannéd with 353 men, forty-three of theq foldiers, belonging. to ithe French Eaft India company; from Port l.z_"_ahnt, bound to the Iflede France and Pondicherry, ladem with ordnance and naval {tares and merchandize, and twenty-four thoufand Dollars. -She fajled in company with the Valiant Eaft India thip of the fame fize'and force, and the Fidelle frigate:of twenty four guns, be- longing to the company,on ihe twenty eighth: paft.Capt Fortefcue fent the Venus with the: prize to. Plymeuth, where they arearrived, and went in' queft . of the other India thip and frigste.: - e The Venus has alfo bro’t to Plymouth the Lionpsi- vateer of Bayonne, of fix carrisge gums, and twelve fwivels, and cighty- five men, which fhe took the 6th infl. in lat. 46. ge. and long. 50. 50! W. - The pri- ‘vateer had been out g days, and had taken nothing. April 11. A numbeér of letters by yefterday’s' mail, particularly from Aleppo, of the 3th of February {ay, that Pondicherry was tsken By the Englifh. - ' Two:veteran regiments more, with two hundred of Bourgoyn®s dragooris are ordered forthwith to followr the expedition to the ‘French coaft. The tranfports for the fecand expedition, are ordered to fail immedi. ately for-the Downs, where the rendexvous of the ficet is to be ; the'land forces to be émployed, are faid to be five regintents of foot, and a draught of grengdiers from the guards ; a third expedition is faid 10 be going on, and tho’t to be ready to fail in aboat three weeks, to confift of twenty fail of the line, befides frigates and t;l;eflxi o,‘_Em'd to be commanded by Sir EfiWARD An allignce offenfive sad defenfive is on the point of ieing concluded between the courts. of Madrid. and ifbon. . " o ‘The following are {aid to be the Preliminaries.of & pesce, for which it is expeted a congrels will fhonly be beld, viz. the French are togive npall North Ame- fica to'the Englith, who are to reftose Guadalope, Sea- negal and Goore, and give 500,000 . ‘in confideration of the thips tsken by them before war was proclaimeds The various sccounts .that have been given of his majefly’s intended marriage, and the ladies appointed, &c. are mere inventions without the leaft foundation. It is faid that 3000 troops arc coming from: Ireland; to go on the fecond cxpedition, - and that orders are iffaed out forthwith to raife 3000 Men. ‘ April 21, Sunday laft being the day for going ont of mourning for hiy late Majefty, there was & very numerous and brillisnt court at St. James’s ; and his’ Majefly afierwards dined with the Princefs Dowager at Leicefter houfe. ' G April z4. The Ocean man cf war launched on’ Tueiday laft at Chathain; is locked upon as one of th bef built fhips in the navy ; flie has a figure head, re- prefenting Old Ocean, the God of the feas and rivers, with an urn in his bands, out of which he is uring the rivers into the fea, atterided by young Weptune, Nereids, Tritons, &c. moft beautifully carved, painted. and finithed in @ mafterly manner. : A frefh contra® for tranfports has taken place, to about the number of thirty. ; Tuelday above 200 horfes pafied over WeRtminfter bridge; for @ravefend, in order -to be thipped off for the army in Germany. : April 25, By the Dutch mail which arrived this morning, we are informed, that the Pruffians ere every where 'in motion; and that their troops had gained feveral.(mall advantages over the Auftriany.in Saxony. We arc informed, that & French courier arrived here early this morning from Paris, with-difpatches from: ' that court to the Ruffian Ambaflador. : The Plenipotentiaries who are appointed for the - congrefs, are getting ready their baggage, equipages, &c. and its tho't they will fet out very foon for the Hague. ; $ias Some pasticulars ofthe Ensgement between his Ma: ‘jefty’s Ship Vengeance and the Entrepanant Privateer, which was, taken and carried in Plymouth. Capt. Nightingale gives the following relation of his ° engsgement with the Entreprenant : That he got: clofe along-fide of her at five o'clock in the sfterncoy < GH