The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, August 21, 1761, Page 2

The 7tb Inflant the Gyueral Wall Pactet, Caplain Rodinfon arrived at New York, in fix Weeks and tb(u Days from Falmouwth, by whom we bave the following Ldvices from the pablic Prints. HAMBOURG H, Mey 28. ! ~F arein a very untoward fituation. If we fa- vour one fide, we are threatned by the other ; and the moft fteady end uniform condutt can- not fecure us from thrests of refcntment by one or other of the powers engaged in the war; and what adds to our misfortune is, we know not where it will end. We are indeed every day flattered with the hopes of peace, but fear thefe hopes will deceive us: Every appearance around us carries the face of war ; and this campaign will be the moft bloody one thst we have feen yet. The powers at war have indeed appointed a congrefs to be held : all we know, is, that fuch pro- pofals have actually been mede and sccepted ; but the sccountsto be festled, are of fo intricate a nature, that it will be difficult to adjult them. Marfhal Broglio and the Prince de Soubife have re- ceived all their reinforcements, which amount to" up- wards of 140,000 men. Prince Ferdinand’s does not exceed 60,000 ; fothat, asthere is {o great a difpropor- tion in point of numbers, it is imagined the Allies will keep moftly on the'defenflive this campaiga. Prague, Msy z1i ‘General Haddick has taken the command of the troops lately under the orders of Gen. Gualco. Thefe troeps will foon join M. Daun. Gen. Campitelli followed the King of Pruffia to'Silefia with ‘100r 12,000 men. Gen. Laudohn, who retired on the King of Pruffiv’s approzch to Hauptman{dorff, has -entered an advahtsgeous camp there, where he will wait to fee what the enemy will undertake. There is a very ftrong gerrifon in Glatz, well pro- vided with sll neceffaries for a long fiege. It istho’t “that the King of Pruflia will not carry 'his arms thither, but rather that he will draw near to Lufstia. Lower Siléfra, May 24. The King of Pruffis is fill nesr Striegau, with the main body of bis army, but %his Mijelty- has detached Gen. Gol ze, with 14 battali- ons, and 21 fquadrons towards Glogau, probably to watch the motonsof the Ruflians. Leipzig, May 23. y gone with part 6f his army towards Bauzen, which has obliged M. D:un and Gen. Lalcy to make {ume motions which miay bring on a very ferious affair. Paris, Junez. ‘The lofs of Belleifle, if that fhould happen, will ferve only to animate our court to make new efforts. The King withes for peacé, but he would - 'have an equifable and fafe pesce. 'The sdvantages which the enemy msy gain, will not facilitate the ne- gociation of a peace. All the reports of 2 fulpenfion of arms sre groundle(s. The fquadron. fiuing out at Breft will be more for- midable than has been imagined. ' The courthas fent otders to add to the men of war fitting cut at Roche- fort, two fhips of 8o guns, one of 70 guns, and two pra- mes, the whele are.to be ready by the middle of next month, and M. de Belanc is to have the chief command. L (&) N D o N Fune 4. 1t is(2id that the Grand Signior has atually wioie a letter to taeKing of Pruflia, wherein he affures him of his utmoft aflitance to bring the two emprefles to reafon, and cbtain him an honcurable peace ; for which purpofe he had 100,000 men ready to take the Field, which were immediately to begin their operati- ons againft the Ruffians ; and if that was not fufficient ke would put himfelf st the head of 100,000 more, and march into the Emprefs Queen’s domidions. Latters from Dantzick by way of Hamburgh, advile that an order wag come to the General of the grand Rauffian army, to fend 40,000 men back, on sccount of the Turks having uncxpcétedly entered the Ukraine. Private letters from the Hague fay, that the Marfhal Duke de Broglio had received orders from his court to detach 10,000 troops to the French cost. A few Dys ago was met near Portmouth, guarded by a party of the. tzain, a great number of carriages, forming a line above & mile in length, loaded with bomb-fhells, wheel barrows, and other implements for a fiege ; which ere (o be embarked for the Ule of snother expedition. A Gentleman st Newmarket has laid a wager that he will provide a man that fhall ride 100 miles a day, for 29 days, on 29 horfcs, for 1000 guiness. Fune 5. Laft week the wile of a tradefman ncar Whitechapel church, being taken ill and given over by her dcélor, fent for hey hufband, and told him of a hoard in a cellar in the mint, whereupon fearching he found fourteen dozen of fine 3l. 125, pieces, and sno- ther in Spital ficlds, both which amounted to 1050 L Juxe 8. The Bertin French ftorefhip bound to In- dis, lately taken by the Hero and Venus, is ordered to be infpeited in the dock at Plymouth for a purchafe by the government, 'which will make an addition to eur navy of a very fine third rate, fhe being quite new, and longer by three feet and an half than any of our 74 gun' fhips. The Dutch mail brings nothing interefting. The Portuguele have taken the alarm from the warlike pre- parations of the Turks, and are arming. The Bruflels Gazette informs us, that advice was bro’t to Paris, by aletter from Vannes of the 1zth ult. that M. de St. Croix, when he {ent the Englith Commodore u prefent of garden ftuff in return for his wines,polite- ly fignified to'him, thatif the Ladies, whom he could difcern on board the Admiral’s fhip viewing the place Itis reporied, that Pr. Henry is’ with telefcopzs, were defirous of having 2. nearer View of it, they might come athore ia perfell lecurity ; he would do his utmolt ;o entestain them, and even make ® ball for them. Yefterday forty five large tranfports were tsken up into the Government’s fervice. Op Tuefday lsft Commodore Sir Piercy Brett re- turned to the Downs in the Newark, with the Miner- ve, Biddeford, Lynn, Outer, and Flamborough’s prize. He= had been on the coaft of France to reconnoitre it, upon a report of abody of 3000 men beirg affembled, under a pretencef attempting «n invzfion ; but it is all evsporated ip Imoske. Yeflerddy 300 bead of catile, broight from Wales, sgent over Weiminfier bridge, for Port[- mmb{?&‘ he embarked for Belleifle, for the ufe Furog Letters from Paris obferve, that their bopes ?'1 affiftance from Denmark were entirely diffi- Tated 3 teflate of the finances rendering the onditions of the treaty impoffible. i Alkeetters from Vienna intimate, that f::,e co#rt [ssms to have very little dependance on be approaching congrefs, becaufe, [ay they, no- thing is yet [eitled, whereon to found any Preliminaries. They write from the Hague, that all the of- ficers of the army kad received orders to fiay with their regiments, and thafe who were ab- Jent on furlough tojointhem immediately. Such orders ( fay thefe advices) prove,the apprebenfs- ons we are under, from the proximity of the French and allied armies, leaft one or the other Jbould make an incurfion on the territory of the Republick. . Ewvery dther precaution is taking, by repairing the fortifications, and reinforcing the garrifons of the fromtier towns that are expofed. The following Gentlemen bave been appoins- ed Vice Admirals for the urdermentioned places, and bis Majely’s letters patent bave been granted accordingly. William Henry Littleton, Efg; for the ifland of Famaica. b: Henry Popple, Efg; for Bermudas, or the Summer Iflands in America. Francis Bernard, Efg; for Maflachufetts- Bay, in New- England. Artbur Dobbs, Efg; for Nortb Carolina, Sir Jeffery Amberft, for Virginia. His Majefly bas alfo been pleafed to appoint Jobn Raitay, Efg; Fudge of the Vice Admiral- ty Court of South Carslina. By accounts brought by a courier from Pe- terfbourgh we learn, that there was no founda- tion for the late report that a large body of Ruffians bad received orders to return from Ger- many to Ruffia : that on the contrary, thofe troops were in full march for Silefia, to fecond the operations of the Aufirians. Four French Turkeymen bave been taken and fent into Leghorn by an Englifb man of war. Tley were bound from Mar/eilles for Alexandria richly laden. \ Several Gentlemen of Fortune are preparing ta\{ail on a party of pleafure, and take a furvey of i Belleifle, and a flsap is fitting out for them. \A train of artillery, with a detachment of the royal vegiment, will-march in a few days from olwich, to gmbark on the fecond expedition. June 16. By a Letter from Belleifle we afe informed, that General Hodg[on, the reff of fhe Englilh officers, and the Chevelier de St. Croix, all dined togeiber in the town of Palais, om Monday laft. The King bas been plealed to appoint Major General Crauford to be Governor of bis Ma- Jepy’s Ifland of Belleifle. June 18. Seven fhips of the line are ordered to fail immediately from Portfmouth, 1o join Commodore Keppel. By advices from Belleifle we learn, that when the garrijon furrendered, there were only two guns remaining in the citadel fit for fervice ; that three large breaches bad been made in the wall 5 and that the reduilion of that place bas coft us but 4 1000 men, S L.-O N D O N, JuneaS. The prefent Dearth of News from Ger- many is not’ altogether unaccountable. If , any Beliel may be put on outward Appear- ances, the Sittation of the King of Pruffia feems critical ; and it is probable we may fhortly hear of an Action from him. Hitherto he has been making forced Marches, and other Motions, in order to bring the Eremy to fome Decifion. The hard fought conteft of Silefia is now almoft reduced to a Point 3 and the King feems refolute to determine it. If he gains a Victory in that Country, its Fortune as thofe which followed the Battle:-of Rofbach. The Progrefs of the Ruffians will be checked, and the Aultrians will be obligs ed to take Refuge into their ownDominions : While Saxony will be expofed to the future Progrefs of his Arms. But if he lofes a Bat- tle, it may be feared, its Confequences to him will be as unpropitious. as thofe which fuc- ceeded the Battle of Collin, The Ruffians will be elated at the Succefs of their Allies, in whofe Hands Silefia muft then inevitably * fall ; and Berlin once more be expofed to the Incurfions of both Auftrian and Ruffians : The Swedes too may catch Spirit from fuch an Event, and other States be influenced in their own Conduét. - But if we may believe whatis told us in fome of the foreignGazettes, the King of Pruffia has provided againft the doubtful Iffue of fuch a Tranfa@lion, by his late Treaty with the Grand Signior, the Con- tents of which are at prefent an entire Secret. As to the Allies it would be abfurd to ex- pect the Newsof any Coup-d’eclat from them. Their Actions, it is eafy to be difcovered, will entirely coofilt on a defenfive Plan ; and if they can prevent the French from entering Hanover, it is all that can be defired of them. We may believe Prince Ferdinand will not hazard an A&ion except upon extraordinary good Circumftances. It was the Maxim of a wife General, not fo much to aim at mak- ing many Battles, as by hisMotions to bring a whole Campaign to a ‘happy Iffue. The two French Armies will by far out number him ; and their principal Views, it is not to be doubted, will be to furprize or to furround him. In this Situation it is extremely re- quifite he fhould have the beft Intelligence of their Intentions, no matter what it would coft him. With this Advantage, it is proba- ble he may fruftrate their Defigns ; and, withoutit, he may be enfnared, and his Army ruined. It is with Pleafure we hear of the intend- ed Promotion of Admirals. For who will not rejoice at hearing of the Names, Bretr, Tyrrel, Keppel, Howe, being added to the prefent Lift ? It is reported, that Monf. de St. Croix had goo Men killed, and 300 wounded, during the Siege. Letters from the Hague advife, that it was {aid by feveral foreign minifters at that place, that the congrefs was put off. Fune 12, Thur(day being the Anniverfary of his Majcdty’s Birth Day, when he enter’d the 24th Year of his Age, the Morning was uthered in by the Ringing of Bells, and firing the Guns on bostd the Ships in the River ; st Noonthe KING and the Royvar FamiLy received the Congratulations of the Nobility, Foreign Miaifters, &c. There never was a more brillant Court on any Occafion. Such an amazing Number of Jewels which the Lacies wore, as Nofegays in their Bofoms, &¢, weie {carce ever collcéted at one Time. Moft cf their Cloaths were Gold and Silver Brocades. The Guns in the Park and at the Tower were difcharged, and in the Evening feveral curious Fireworks were played off on Tower Hill, St. James’s Square, Leice(- ter Fields, Kew and Richmond, with Iiluminations in Houfes, and a grand Ball at St. James's. N E W-Y O R K, Augut 10. A Commiffion is come over in the Packet, sppoint- ing Cadwallader Colden, Efq; Lieutenant Governor of this Province,in theRoom of the Hon. James De Lancey, Efq; decealed, ) \ . .