The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, June 26, 1761, Page 3

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i " o qusrters of an hour, in which time the 'Weéngeance was five times on fire (twice, as was im- © #gined, from the enemy’s wads fetting fice to the main “wigging ) “That the Vengeance's rigging snd fails being * ““then fo much fhattered; chat the thip was not under cosi- " 'mand, the enémy ran his bowlprit over his tafarel for boarding : That he was therein prevented, end the Ven- * < gesmce freer'd off} to repair her rigging and fuils. As " “foon a5 the fip was in condition, Captain Nightingale “ got'up sgain clofe to the'enémy, when the engagemesit . was renewed for #n hour, when the Entrepranant fheet- ‘ed off snd bore away : That the Vengeance being & . “fecond time difabled in her mefts and rigging, was fome “timie in wearifig : That at lengeh the wore 3 and Capt. J!ningde got again within piftol fhot of the enemy, -#nd renewed the engagement, which contistied for an hour and a half, when the enemy called for quarter. The Entreprenant had 15 men killed, and 24 wounded. The Vengeance had fix killed and 27 wounded, moft of ‘ghem-dangeroufly 5 and two of them are fince dead. : t Liong ago one of our cruifers ranging it alohg the “Spanifh fhore; inthe bay Bifcay, met with.a fmall vel- i+ fel, which hoifted Spenifh colours, on which the Com- 'mmgnder of ehie Englifh fhip was (atisfied without examin. . ing farther. But one of his' Lieutenunts defiring fhe night be browght to, in order so purchale fome lemsiis, a1 fhe . ?fipgoisd Spaniard, o‘;“bpibdigfi fpunsl.;:r,: soibls athazemént, ‘s French _pfime”tr of one carrisge .ldvl&n;n; whofé ‘praiftice it bad beén to lay clofe in e; and “fu way.. Inftances of this kind often Heppen. The lalt f_‘ L2 mfimthmamqu& oot ife fuch ‘defencelels fhips as fell in her . mifcarried in their attempt to fand &t the bay of Bifcay. - ‘T'his ifland of. Belleifle commandsin fome. meafure, the Fiver Vannes, wheie leven Freach men of wer have, for ¢ long tinte, been: blocked vp by an Englith fleer; all which will probably be deftroyed, in cafe our troops . fucceed. in their atempt to land upon Belleifle; or any pirt of the coalt-of France in thet-neighbourhood.: PHILADELPHIA, June 11, By feveral Letters from Lifbon, of the 2gth and goth of April, there. is Advice, that the packer bosts be- twixt Dover and Caluis, have x free paffages by which Jt is ifagined thats Treaty of peace was on the car- pet, tho' all inilitary preparations and_intended expedi- tions were profecuted with the utmoft vigor.. Alfothat o Freiich man of war of 60 Guns, and a frigste of 36, had been cruifing off the rocks of Lifbon, snd had chaf- ed in there two Englifh #rigstes ; and-that Captain Kennedy had Tailed (for Gibraltar, it was tho’c} for fome of our inen ©of war 0 come and endeavour to take We have advice from Cadiz that fix . fail of Spanifh imen of war of the line, with abour 4000 land: forces on bosrd fsiled from thas plece two monthsagh, faid 40 -be for the. W taken feverakEnglifii veflels.” ; ! “NE WY O R K, Jone15. L Taelday laft arrived here the Brig' Duke of York, Capt, Chismbers; who informs, ‘that his Majefty’s fhip We ote in duily expnff;hon oEreecwmg Foisher ot ~counts from out, late expedition ; and the rather as thdy . vesed by the fixth of July nexc. Firench privateers ‘were eruifiig off fiat port, snd bad Lo o PORTSMOUL B . Fridiy Night she 1 2th Tujiant, a3 one Mirs Gofi of Rye, "w0as iroffing the Bridge at Little. Harbour, be- 8y firse _Accident fell betovetn the Piank, and was drosowed ;3 be Jas left a ¥sfe and Jeveral furall Children. ™ . We bear tbat~up the fiukib liftant was Merried o Lreenland,, Major ‘Thonigs. Desnj. Efy; of - Exeter, 1o Mrs. Katherine Odioyue; labe of thisdewn. . & + LUSTOM HOWUSE,: PiscaTaqua, funs 23, .-Botered: Inwapd:s, -~ ° - ¢ ' S!:hooncr]?umond. R Keating; from Newloundiand, Sioop Fricndthip, Nicholes Tucker, trom Mesis. - . Clesred Outwards, Sloop. William, John. Bartlet, for Barbadys, = * Sioop Annss, Thomas Bond, for Rhode Ifland, - " WANTED BY Major . JONATHAN MOULTON, of Hampton, 20 good HORSES, to be de- livered to him at Hampton, the 15th Day of July next: And 20 fat OXEN, tobe deli- ANl Perfons Indebted to, or that ave -y Demonds on the Efgte of Themas Robixty, lase of Dever, inthe Provinee of New Hampjbire, Maginer, deceafed, are defired: to fettle the jame with Abigait, Roberts, the Wikww of faid deceafed, and Adminifirasor o bis Eftate. Dovhr, June 24. 1765, ° s i PR i et A A A Ao i o Fis, Capt: ' Wheeter," had taken the Oriflime, a French 64 Gun fhip, the™ hiad but 46 mounted, the being losd- ¢d witli fores; &c. for Martineco. ‘Capr. Wheeler was killed in the engagenmicnt. o . Onthe 3d Inftant, Cipr. ‘Chainbers fpoke with & fhip from Goree; “with about * §0” Slaves ¢a- bourd, bound intg Virginis, who informed him, that Captain .waz.a Spenifh gilleon being met with at fea by one of .. Durmen of war, was convoyed into Lifbon, becaule fhe- hoifted Portugnefe colotrs, and the ‘other Kad omited Memorial prefinted to the Sintes Gewersl, in'regard to. =~ 3be Felicite fripats; by 4bs Coant &'Afry, dmbaffador . .. TO BE SOLD i S By Benjamin &’ Stephen Patker,, A Fine Aflortment of ENGL 1S H-and EAST. INDIA GOODS, fuitable for the - Seafon: (48] TR W Y B FOUR High Mightinzfes have bees informed of 4 - what pafled on the 24th ult. with regard t6 the Prench frigate the Felicite, which being purfued #nd sttacked by three Englifh fhips of war, was forced to - fhelter herfelf, by running on thore of Gravefande. - " @ Tt was before the eyes of 8 multitude of inhabi- tanteof this country, whom curiafity carried to Grave- " fande. that the Captsin of the ‘Englifh. frigate the Richmond, behaved on this occofion in- an unhesrd of “imaneer. The Captain of the French frigite being “called to, to firike, madean(wer, that he would furren- “‘der on no terms, ss he counted upon the -fafe-gusrd of the neuntrality oblerved by your High Mightineffes in “the prefent war. Regardlels of this declaration; and in “contempt of the moft (acred laws, the Captain of the Richimond took pofieflion of the frigate, aiter cannonad- ing her in fuch a manner that feveral of the balls came up § gréeat way in the Downi. He hoifted . Englith colours on bosrd the Felicite, took away every .thing that could be reimoved, deftroyed the mafts and rigging which his éannon” had fpared ; and finding he could _po longer continue his aitrages with impunity, deger- “#gmined tofer fire to the frigate; which was done sccord- ?““YUpon the ‘notice I. fent to the King my Mafter of thefe things, his Majefty commanded me to afk your High Mightinefles to procure him reftitution of the Falicite frigste with her cargo, an indémbification for she lofs whichhis Msj:fty snd the Owners bave. fuf- tained by this urjuft violence of the Englifh. LA - e His Mijcly is not only perluaded, that yaur High Mightinefits, confidering what'yowrowe to your- felves, and to the onour of the Republic, will requirc, from the Court of Liondon reparation not lefs authentic than juit, for the infult offered to ‘your Sovereignty,, and to your neutrality, “sd for violation of your terri- ory on this ocesfion. : ¢ Bt his Majeity further expeds, from the equity. el £siendthip of your High Migh:ioefl'es, ‘that” you will tike efficacious meafures in Englsnd, to procure him due fatisfaction. - -Lmufk not omit informing your %}x fightinefles, that she King thy Mafter io extreme- ly nfible, mot only of the grders given to prevent, if it'were yet time, the infult offered them, and the pillag ing and feucing fire to the French frigate'; but alfo of the behaviour of the fubje@ts of the Republic on that’ occafion, and the affitance his people received from hfi?’l‘fli’ King my Mafter hath the more ground to expedt thgt the Republic will take the moft ferious fleps in d;: affair, as they Have great resfon to be pleafed writh chiat fingular prote€tion which the trade and navi- gation of their fubjedts enjoy in France. Your High Mightirefies have s “frefh proof of the King my Maf- ter's favour towardi you, in his ordering the fhip Een. drigt, with-her garo, to be reftored with damages and eofts,”. . Hague; Feb: 16" 1761, Comte & Affrey. A French privateer of ‘22 guns s taken off Flam- borough kead; by his Majefty’s Ship A&eon. ™ The Unien, , from New England to Spain; is taken by & privaceer. belonging to Bayonne. Entraét of a Letser from Paderborn, April i1, 4 The allicd army, and that of M. Broglio, continue guiet in their quarters of cantonment, agreeable to thé ceflation of hottilities. » Batrald of a Letter from the Hagae, April 1%. 4¢ The Auftrian; French and Ruffian minifters here, wait with impatience for the confent of their coufts to the fcheme of pacificstion lately offered by the court of g | s . London, which failed from Pordmouthhe fame Time ' London, < And 'tis' the generdl opinon, thatz congrefs, for amicably adjafting al} differences among the powers ot war, will be held in the courfe of next month.” Nicoll, in @ brig:belonging to New York, hsd been cut off on the voft of Guine=by the Slaves. - By the Philadelphia Poft we have advice, that 3 num- ber of -tranfport vefféls were taken up there. -+ Yefterday motning “strived“here ‘the fnow Dublin, Capts Moore, imw. piaflage of 'two months and three Pays from Arch'Angel, one of the Northermoft ports of Europe, in: the Ruffisn dominions. In Lst. 41. 8, he fell in ‘with the Letter'of merque thip King of Pruffis, Capt.: Thoinas Darlifig, from London, who ordered him to fend his boat on bosrd, threatding to fink him imnvediately if he did 'not ; &t the fame - time fired three guns at him @ Atcordingly the mate with 4 hands went'off, who getting along fide, and a very hexvy: les, the boat ftove, whéreupon the Captain of the privatcer ordered her to cus loofe and fet a'grife. The fgid Letter of Marque had taken juft before Cagt. Buckmatter, in & flaop from Momi Chrifto, belonging o Rhode-Iflsnd. Fh ' & " The fame Dny a {chooner with Conneéticut foldiers on board, pafled by.this city in her way to Albany. The fix companies of the New Jerfey Regiment embarked the end of 1aft week, on board proper veflcls, and have fince pafled Wy this city, in their way to. Al: bany : It is faid they are near compleat. - Vefterday General Monckton arsived st hig featat Ghreenwich, from Philadelphia. e RS DG I June: Re. "Monday Ialt a pumber of the Troops raifed in this Provirice for his Majelty’s Service; embarked on board Tranlports, and the next Day fuiled for Halitax. We hear from Nortgn, that on the 1 1th-Tuftant died there, aficr a long illnefs, in the 62d ¥Year of his Age, the Rev. Mr. Nathaniel Leopard, formerly Paftor.of the firlt Church in Plymouth. 2 Thurfday laft the Province Ship of. War. King George Capt. Hollowell, [ail’d from Nantsiket en & Cruize. By a Velfel srrived laft Week from Sursinem, we - have Advice that two French privateers are. cruizing' off the Entrance of that River ; one of which bad lately taken Capt. Brett in a Jarge Schooner bound from hence for that place, the peaple they landed ar:the Mouth of the River, but the Veflel, ’tis faid, they fent to the - ‘ Grenades. : i Thurfday laftaChild of Capt John Bakerof Roxbuty, about 3 years old, feil into s Tub in.which was abont 6 Inches of water; #nd was drowned. By s Gentleman who' came Paflenger in Capt. Fart from London, and who was.in Franceatthe Time they received the News from Belleille, of our Treops being repulfed in their attemptto land at thate-plece, -informs;- that the French appesred highly elated -t their fuccefs; - end gave out, thatthey had killed 500 of our Men, and: tsken 300 prifoners, with the Lofs:of but 100 on'their fide ;.. , that the Garrifon at Belleifla confifted af about 2009 than a Capiain, [ the Field Officers being at:Dinsnt, 10 . Miles S. of St Malo’s, ] and thar: the French Troops " were marching down tc that part of their Coaft. How- ever, it will nos be deubted in: England; but that our _Troops would, at the next Attenips, Take good their " landing and carry the Ilund. Extral of o Lester from Lifoan, dpril 16. « TwoFrench.men of war, the Achilles of 64 guns; and Ruffin of 32, bave been-cruifing. off our bar for fome days, they chafed in our 2 ctuifers, the Surprize " of 20.and Hosnct.of 14, They may do much milchief before any thips of force sppearto cope with them .’ We hear & Stiow is arrived ‘at’ Rhode Ifland from ‘ns Capt. Farr who is arrived here. “they .will raife, if .any. . Law: en, but that there wasna Officer there higher- . the .fame. All Perfons Indebted to, or that have any Demands-on the Eftite of Eduner Seaward, ~{enior; Inte of Porifrvsth, Calker, deceafed, are defired to bring in their Accounts to Licutenant Geerge Hunrrift Admidiftrator to faid Eftate, in order for Sertlement. 8 All Perfons Indebted to; or that have any Demands ‘on the Eftate of Zeckariad Leach, late of Purtfmonth, deceafed, are defired to bring in their Accounts 10 James Leach of ‘Falmouth in the Proviuce of the Maffachufetts Bay, Shipwright, Adminiftrator o faid Eftate, in orderfor Settlement. N. B. The Ac- counts mey be lefe with' Efizaberh Leath, st the Honie of the faid deceafed; in Pirt/mouth aforefsid. e OB SOLD. L By JOSEPH BARRELL, At the STORE of ROBERT TRALL, B(q; scer 166 : . Work Hoafe, ; A fmall Affortment of Englifh GOODS, which: he will difpofe of for Cafh, by Whole- Sale, #s cheap a3 can be boughs in BOSTON, and’ by Retale as-chesp as can be-bought st any Store or Shop in Town, without Exception: ‘148)- , . Province or Nzw-Hamprsnirs, WHEREAS Application hath this Duy been made to tne the Sublcriber, one -of His Majeity’s Juftices of the Peace for faid Province, by the OQwners of one fixteenth Part of the Shares, Rights of Interefts of the whole Townfbip of Amberf, formerly Soubigan Weff, or Narragsnfest. No. 3. inthe afore- faid Province; defiring me.to- NOTIFY and CALL s Meeting of fsid Propri¢tors, as foon ss mey be : THIS IS THEREFORE TO NOTIFY il the Proprietors of the sforefsid Fownthip; to' meet at the Meeting Houfe in faid Town, on Tuefday the z0th of June Current ; then and there to aét-and vote on theé following Articles, iz, P AN 1ft. To fee if the Proprietors will Vote; that the de= Jinquent. Proprictors that have not paid their Dues, thall pay a proporiionable Part, according to what others have paid. - 2d. Tofeeif they will Vote to raife Money> to defray Charges, and 'to pay any Debts, and how much 4d. To cheofe Affeflors. to: affefls.the fame, if voted. - 4th;, To choofe s Colleftor or Collectors to colle&t and levy the fame, sccording to gth. ‘To choofe s Committe¢ to difpole of the Money .fo - raifed and levyed, in fuch Manner as the Propiietors thall Vote from' Time to Time. 6th. To sgree upon & Method for calling’ Meetings of faid Proprietors for Time to come, snd to pafs 2 Votz for sth. To pafs « Vote or Votes &t faid Meeting (if the:Proprictors think hit J to confirm, ratify and eftablith any former Vote or Votes, and Trsniaélp- ons, formerly done or tramfadled, st any former Mect- ing or Meetings of the faid Proprietors. - 8th. T'¢ choofé & Committe to feé that ‘there is ho Strip or Wafte made .of the Timber thet-is on the ‘common or undivided * Liads, snd to profecute any "that’ {ha Trefpsfs- ofh (aid Lands, gth: Po fee if the Proprietors will ¢hoofe & . Committe to fee~how much common or undivided ' Land there is in Zflg‘bwnsb ; 6‘i o s ok Dated at'Derryfie lay 18rh, 17647 oall e el fmm GorrE, _‘}'fijfiu of Pt.dft. xCol. 1, in Front of this Paper, for palitate,r. palliste

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