The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, July 10, 1761, Page 2

Friday laf drrived a8 Bofton Cupt. Aitken én 8 Weeks . fi?m a"hfgbw, and Sunday Capt. Rolger, ‘in 8 Weeks from Londot, which be left the 8th of May : From the ‘publick Prints to the 7th of May we bave the following Intelligence, viz. Fhom the LONDON GAZETTE Extraordinery, Kol ‘WarredaLL, Adpril 30. *HIS morning the Hon. Captain Barrington, com - " ' mander of his Majefty’s thip- Achilles, arrived . with the following letters from Major General Hodg- fon, and the Hon. Commodore Keppel, to the Right Hon. Mr. Secreary Pitt. : .81111:‘]1{ Sour &'clock in the morning, April 23 1761, S1R, $1 Kave juft had & note from Commodore Keppel, A to inform me, that a frigate will fail this day for Englend, I have only time te acquuint you, that his Msjefty’s troops under my command larided yefterday at f{vc :- The enemy’s sttention was o diftrated with our attempts of landing at different places,where was the lesft appearance ef our being able to fucceed, that it gave Byigadier Lambert an opportunity of climbing up a rock with ‘w corps I had left with him for that purpole, if pra@ticable. *The difficulty of mounting had made the enemy leaft attentive to that'part. Beauclerk’s grenadiers, with. fheir Captain, Paterfon, got up before they faw what wasintended. They immedistely marched a body of 300 men to attack him. The grenadiers maintsined their ground, il the reft of Brigadier Lambert’s got up. We took 3 brafs field pieces, and fome wounded piifoners. It is impofiible for me fuficiently to com- mend Mr. Lambert’s conduét and gallant behaviour on the occafion ; and take the liberty to beg you will per- mit me to requeft you will recommend him to the King, as an officer, deferving his Majefty’s favour. . Captain Paterfon has lott his arm. I believe our lofs is not above -3o-kill'd,’ T -am afraid you will not read this fcrawl, as I write it in the field, the troops being on their march, I am &c. S. HODGSON, Vabliant, in the toad of Belleifle, April z3, 1761, SIR, ~ ¥ Had the honour to wrrite you a letter by the Atzon I Frigate in which I gave you but little hopes ;- fince which time, the Genersl and my(elf having confidered, that by astempting a place, where the mounting the yocks was juft poffible, and where-the enemy were no otherways prepared, from the impracticable appearance it had to them, than by a corps of troops to annoy the boats in theattempt, that it carried fome degree of hopes with it ; and by making a difpofition for the attack of their intrenched Bays, and at Sawzon at che fame time, which the arrival of the tranfports wich the light horle enabled me te do, we might poflibly gain a footing., I have now the gresteft pleafure in acquainting you, that Fas Majefty’s troops have made good a landing on the rocks near Point Lomaria ; and cannot fufficiently com- mend the fpirit and good behaviour of the troops in the attempt, and the judgment with which Sir Thomas Stsnhope, and the reft of ‘the Captains of the King’s Ships, direéted the fire upon the hills. ; ; Capisin Barrington baving been employed in many of.the operstions of this fexvice, I have fent him with this letter 5 and beg, Sir, to refer you to him for the Particulars. I ‘have the Honour to be, &c. ; A. KEPPEL. N. B. The A&=on {rigate, mentioned in the begin- " ning of this letter, is not yet arrived. The foliswing are ‘the letters whick were received on the 19th inflant from Major General Hodgfon, and the He- nourable Commodore Keppel, relatie 10 the firff attempt againfl the ifland of Belleifle. Onboard the Valiant off Belleifle, April 12, 1761 8 IR; i Have the honour to acquaint you, that his Majefty’s I flaet under the command of commadoreKeppel, and ‘the tranfports with his Majedy’s forces on bozrd, came toan ancher in this road on Tuelday the 7:h init. about 12 o’clock:: Soon after their arrival, [ went with the commodore to take a view of the coalt, and we agreed, at our return, that the port of St. Andro appeared to be the beflt place to make a defcent, and it was {ettled, that 8ir T'homas Stanhope, with fome of his Muj=fty s thips, and the t:anfports, with Stuart’s and Grey’s batalions and marines on board, fhould make s feint st Sawzon, at the fam¢e time chat we mades realattack at Si. Andro, Then it was tpo late in the day to do more than give the neceflary'orders for the troops, deftined- to and firft, to be ready to.embirk early in the morning the flat- bottemed boat I might attempt a landing as foon as the thips Rdd fiiffuced a four gun battery, which com- manded the enm#& of the bay. This was foon done by the Achilles, after fhe took her flation. No time was then loft togo in wich the boats with the grena- diers, and the regiments, ordered for this fervice ; but whenwe entered the bay, wefound theenemy o ftrongly intrenched on each fide of the hill, which ‘was o ex cefiively fteep, and the foot of it fcraped away, that it was impofiible to get up the breft work. After feveral unfuccefsful efforts, feeing it was impracticable to force the enemy from their lines, I thought it advifeable to defit, Major General Crawford and Brigadier Carleton exerted them(elves as much as poffible on the occafion ; zhe latter is wounded on the chigh, but ina good way of doing well. -The lofs we fuffered in our retreat was verylincopfiderable, as the fire of the fhips covered it.: ‘T'he weather has been fo bad ever fince the eighth, that I have not bzen able to ‘get returns from the feveral corps, fo I cannot alcertain our lofs, but I believe there arc near fire hundred kill’'d, wounded, and prifoners, the ifland once more, and if we can difcaver any part whercon 2n attempt canbeimade with the lealt pro- baniity of fuccels, we thelf pke & (écond’ trial. - I caa- not help oblerving to. you, {hac the whole ifland is a fo;ufi;‘m:n, ;nd- vhiat, the likle ratuse had lefe 0 make icfuch, hasbeen amply fujplied By art ; che enemy having been “at work upon &%@e Sir Edward Hawke appeared belore it laft wineer.” . I have the hononr to inf you, the greatéit har- x{;on{dhxs f\;bfl(it;l i;:etween’_thc two fervices : and [ ould not do jullice to-the Commander and Officers.of his Majeily's gefit‘ 1 didne gn&?-‘fifii time inform you, thatthey have dfifie&@ to the utmoft of my wifhss, in carrying on the quntioxt parfunt to his Majefty’s inftru€ions.” I have the hoaour'to be &c. ; SHEDHOLM HODGSON. Valiant ;n éb" Great Road of Belleifle, April 13. 1761, § > Had the honor of writing-you the 2gth of March, when I left Spicthead : [t was €rom that time to the 6th inftant before the wind came to the gaftward, (o enable the flzet to fleer’ in with the cosft of France; and thet evening I detached fix Frigates;.in hopes they might in the night get {o ftatian’d, as ‘to cut off the enemy’s communication wich the main land. The next moraing the fleet pafled fouth end of. Belleifle, clofe along fhore ; and at one of the Bays by point Lomarie, the General and myfelf thought a defcent might be try'd; butasthe wind was foutherly, if'could not ?oflibly be attempted at that time. At twelve o'clock the whole fieet anchored in the grest, road,-when immediately [ went with General Hodglon te the northern pare of the iflind, to be as well informed of the ftrength of the enemy's works there_as the time would sdmic; and while we were upon this neceflary fervice the fhips of war in the road were preparing the flat bottom’d boats for the recepiion of the troops, but by the time we got back, it was too late in the day to make any tial. The 8th, the wind north eafterly, the bosts being ready for the reception of the troops, the fignal was made very early in the morning for them toaffemble at the Rendezvous ; and three fhips with two bomb veflels were ordered to pracezd round the poins of Lo- maris, at the S. E. part of theifland, snd atzack the Fort and other works in the Sandy bay, .rouad the before mentioned poist, the place the General and myfelf had egreed to have sttacked. Capt. Barrington in the Achil~ lesgot placed fick, and foon filenced the fire from the Fort and from the fhore, and then, as he was dire@led, made the fignal for his baving done fo, when the troops in the boats were puthed to the landing, with great brifknefs and {pirited behaviour, atthree different places near to each other, by capt, Barton, who I ordered to command the boats ; bat the difficulty of getting foot- ing, and the enemy being firongly enwenched on the heights, and in the little Fort, the troops foon met with fuch a repulfe, thet it became neceflary, as well as pru- dent, to defilt from the attempt for the prefent, and retire. with the flac boats, in which they were well covered by the fhips and bombs. One of the flat boats landed 6o of Erfkine’s grenadiers, who got up a very difficulc place to the top of the hills, where they form- ed with great fkill, but were {o immediately routed by & much moie numerous body of the enemy, that all attempis to fuccour them was ineffefusl, any further than the beats bringing from the rocks about twenty of them. While all this was tranfacting, Sir Thomas Stenhope, with four fhips of War, the battalions of Grey’s and Stewart’s, with five hundred masines in tranfports, were oppofite Swanzon, at the Northern part of the ifland : Tuefe troops were embarked in the boats, if pofiible to divert the ensmy from the principal objeét. A gale of wind coming on very quick after the retir- ing trom the fhore,has occafioned fomuch damage among the tranfporis by lofs of anchors and flat boats, that it takes up a very confiderable time to put things in a way to attempt what further may be thought prsicible. The lols ©f Aat boats in the gale is 22, which will rea- der the force cf landing much infertor to what it was at firft atrempied with. While the repairing and adjufling of thefe defefts is in hand, I hope ‘ome fpot. mizy be agreed upon, where we may pe more {ucceisiul ta the attempt than we were the 8o, batif net fo, I hope Lis majefty will believe I have had nothing more ut heart, than the exerting the force entruft:d tayme, in's minner mofi conducive to the honor of his arms : Ihave incloled you, Sir, an accoun: of the lofs the feamen fuftained in the ettack of the 3ib, and general Hodgfon would have fent you that ¢f che troops, but it has been fuch canftant bad“weather cver fince, that it has been jmpoflible to calleét it. A KEPPEL. A Lif of Officers and Seamen killed, vizunded and mifjiag, at the Attack made wpou Belleiffe, Zprid 8. 1701, VaLianT, one midthipman, eigh: ‘camen”killed. Lieut. Gregory, twe midfhipmen and 20 (esmen wounded. One midfhipman, and 18 camen miffing. Vesvvius, Five feamen killed, feven dit. wounded, ZETNA. Lieut, Jarratkilied. A. Keppe!. Our court it is {aid are fo fully fatisfied of the g:eat utility of our being mafters of Bellellie, that the fzcond expedition now fitng out is crdeied thither with a reinforcementof § or 6 complest regiments, and foms battalions.—Belleifle is about 18 milesin length, anc 7 in breadth, and at the diftance of about 19 Englith miles fram Rochfort and Rocheile ; and abounds plen- I Mefl defite'Mr. Keppel ttow;th TS alhse tifully with all the conveniencics of life. From rae LONDON GAZETTE; Arrit 23. T be foltotoing Declaration, iy 15 name, and on the part of ber Majefly tie Emprefs Queen of Hungary and Lshe- . gja, was made and figned at Raris the26th of Barch 1761, by ber Minifier at thatCourt, the Count of Starb. emberg, and was detiverod at London the 31 of March, by Prince GalitZin, envoy extracrdinery frum he Ema prefirof all 1hé Raffias. ~: - Br % » DECLARATION of ker Majefty the Lmpress Apf- lick Queen of Hungary and Bokemia. THE difpofitions ‘tor peace, very sgreeable to the fentiments of ail the parties engeged inthe war, which the kings of England end Prufiia fhewed 1afE year, haviog met with difficulties, which have-prevent- ed their fuccels, the courts of Vienna, Peterfbonrg, France, Swckbolm, and Warfaw, are unasimoufly agiced to invite thofe of London and Pruffis to- refume a negoci.xtion fo falutary for the hay pinefs of the waorld, and which muft interelt the humanity of all the powers at war. ! ; - In.this view, and in order to their being sble to pro- ceed to the se eftabiiliment of the peace, they propofe the aflembling of a congrefs, t0 which they think it may be proper to admit only the plenipotentiaries of the principal bellegerant parties, with thofe of theii ‘al- lies, If the kings of Epgland 2nd Prufia adopt this method, her majefty the emprefls queen, the emprefs of Ruflia, the moft chriftian king, the king of Sweden, the king of Poland, ele€tor of Saxony, propofe the city of Augfbourg for the place of the congreis, obferving that their msjefties poine out Augfbourg no otherwife than as a town within diftance of all parties concerned, which from its fituation, sppears to fuit with the convenience of all the ftates ; and that they will not reje@ the choice of another city in Germany, if their Britannick and Pruffian majefties may deem it more convenicnt. The empre(s queen, the emprefs of Ruflis, the mof chriftian king, the king of Sweden, and the king of Poland, ¢le@or of Saxony, declare, mpreover, thatthey have cholen the plenipotentiaries, who will be entrutt- ed with the care of their interefts at the congre(s, in hopes that the king of England, the king of Pruffis, and their allies, will on their part, [peedily make choice of their refpe@ive minifters, that the negociation may not be deferred. - 4 The fimplicity of this declaration, which, - for the genersl welfare, the courts of Vienna, Peterfbourg, France, Siockholm and. Warfaw, have determined to make to the courts of London and Berlin, gives. them hopes, that their Britannick snd Prufiian - majefties wilf be pleafed, by 8 fpeedy an{wer, to make their fenti- ments known, upon an objedt (o effeniial to the repofe and happinefs of Eurape. : Done at Paris, she 261b of March, 1761, by order and in the name of bir imperial, riyal and apoflolick majefly. Count Starchemberg. - N. B. A like declsration with this, in the name, and on the past of their majsRies the emprefs.of all the Ruf- fiss, the moft chriftian king, the king of. Sweden, the king of Paland, eleCor of Saxony, bas been made and figned on the fame dsy with this; to wit, thatof the emprefs of Ruffia by prince D. P. Galitzin ; that of the moft chriftian king by the duc de Choifeul ; that of the king of Sweden, by Baron Scheffer ; and that of the king of Poland, by M. de Frontenay ; and they were all delivered at London st the fame time, that is to fay, on the 31t of March, by Pr, Galitzia, The follosing counter-declaratisn was'figned at London the 3d inflant, and was delivered to prince Galitzin, envoy exiraordinary from the Emprefs of all the Ruffias, 1o be tranfmitted by bim te Paris. ; COUNTER DECLARATION. HE difpofitions of his Britannick and Pruffian ma- jefties, for the re eftablithment of the general tranquility of Europe, having been fteady and fincere, not having undergone any slteration through. the fpace of time, which has-elapled fince their declaration'of the 25th of November 175g. Their majefties therefore with fatisfsétion, accept the cffer of the aflembling a congrefs at Augfbourg, coniained in the five declarations made at Paris - the 26th of March laft, and delivered at London the 3ift of the fame month, in the name and on the part of their mejefties, the emprels queen, the emprels of sli the Ruffias, the moft chriftian king, the king.of Poland, - eleftor of Saxeny, and the king of Sweden. The courts of London and Berlin equally scquiefe in the claufe of this declaration, which relates to the rale that is propoled to be laid down, in regard to the: admiffion ot che plenipotentiaries, who fhall have & right (s be received at this. eongrefs, For the réft, as their z2al for the advancement of the falutary work of a general pacification, perfeflly correl- ponds with that which sppears to animaie the couris of Vienna, Pecerfbourg, Verleilles, Stockhiolm, and War- {faw, their Britannick and Pruffisa msjeftics will: not deiay to name inftancly their pleniporentiaries, being difpofed to concur with one and the fame pace, in eve- ry thing that may accelerate the opening of the congrefs which has been offered to them. .. In the mame end by order of the King. LonpoN, April 3 1761 ) BUTE, N: B. The fame counter declaration as this fer the empre(s of Ruffia, the mott chriftian king, the king of Sweden, the king of Polend, eletor of Sixony, was made and figned the fame day as this : and they were all delivered ac the fametime, to prince Galitzin, to be tranfmitted by him to Paris, : i