The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, January 1, 1762, Page 1

¥ { S e 1 G it plhire Nuiss. 274 Containing the Frefbeft Advices, Lo & N33 € W From LLOYD's EVENING PUST. , S the demalition of the fortifications of Dus- kirk will not (iis feared) be. infifted om, a5 e yreliminary srticle 0 2 'Euce wiih France, notwith- {tanding the resfon a noble writur hath wrged in be- half of fuch s requifition ; permit me to inform the \ public,thio’ the chsonel of your u'chthpaper,inat our eaeniies were fo fully convinced of the importance of that place, 83 to caufe s imedal to be ftruck at Paris, when the Euaglilh ceded that fortrels to theFrench in 1671, with ibe isllowing pompous infcription youndit, Fraw Gaiiic, Decks €8 Seazriinz. Fo' B ghth, * The ornameat and fecarity of the French coafts.”” I wifly this hiot mey have its proper effc& ; TRITC : Tothe PRINTER. I N the beginning of the war, before. Mr. P—tt & came into power, we loft the Ifland of Minorcs, "By the ufusl incapicity and pufillanimity of the foul dregs of Sir R.... W.....’s foul and pufilianimous ad- miniftration. After Mr, P....t came to have the di- rection of the war, we sock. Cipe Breton, All Canads, Senegal and Goree in Africy, Gusdiloupe, St. Dominico, ‘Pondicherry, Belleifls, and probably 3 Mantinico. - Wot to insntion the greater “half of the French navy -deftroyed by ours. Al thefe {except Caneds) Monl, ‘Bufly infifted, fhould be reftored to France. M. Pitg infifted that they thould not. Monf, Bully wenta- -way. Mr. Pitt refigned. : ~ N:B. It is reported that a certsin Ambaflador 'refiding here has wrate to his Court, v advife & “Piuricidiam, or bull featt, upoa-this occafion. Tol & Mayor, the Aldermsn, the Common 'Co%nd every individual Tradefmen in the magnificent and moft opulent City of London. My Lord and Gentlemen, 4 E have a report prevails'in this ceuntry,which ; , telis us, the great man Mr. P*** has refigned his cruft 5 let vy, oneand 2ll; fay, God forbid ! Were we not but t"oihér day the {coff, the fecorn, the fpeer of the whofe world ! apon the biink of Tain ? Are wa not now the moit powerful, the moft glorions people upon the face of the globe, full of vilkory, Creaded by evety nation ? Give your dread- ful pavy but crderf,andthey are obeyed with fuccels: fay ©nto, your undsunted, vitorious troops, take a fe- cond Belicfl:, it will be done.....We know Heart of ‘Oaks aré our fhips, Heart of Ok are our Men;.... .. ready proved...The ert of War is ¢ fcience, it is fiot to be fearnt in 2 hurry ; practiceand long expe- - sience tesch the General, the Subaliern and common meh..... We know they have all cheir Jellons ready, upon all,upon every occafion....fs not all this owing to the gredt -«uncorriipted Man, P**? [ As an ifland we sre calenlated to conquer the whole world, -.-Keep up our marine, who can come t0 offend us? B ike but. a gloricus, honourable Peace, it muft be latting. Have we not the Trade of almoft the whole globe in our poffctiion? [ Reve beard a grest end good charséler of Lord Ui®*¢, and I will believe it true beceufe he is beioved by his King, valued .and yelpeQed by the great man, Mr., P¥*%, The beft of Kings that ever filled a Britifh Throne, or any other full of goodnefs! without the leait tinture of guile ; be will hear, he will redrels your grievances, and will paint our, and deliver up the latent ferpents with their tithorous galic fouls......Now weare fit 1o fight the whole world, becaule we are ready....Some will fay. But where's the money.2....Afk a free gift, the King’s coffzrs will be more tban full 5 let ts not %c infuitéd by sny power upon earth, Youmaftin- fitt upon a glorious Pdace 3 You are upon the fpor you can fee a5 wéll as hear ; you mufk ftand up for the whole nation When 2 glorious Peace is ob gained, what are we not. to expeét from fuch alling ; who has nmade choice of fucha Queen, tull of good- pefs ?M:y the kindeft bleflings otHeaven ever guard, ever protett them, as long as health (hall waft the lesfing gale ; and may their offspring fill the Britil %hron: till fucceeding generations fhzll be no more. 4 am, Lord and Gentlemen, amoft dutiful {ubject ta gy King and Queen, fincere lover of my country, a true Brison, and your humble fervant. : PuBLicus. Tt is faid, that orders are gone down to Port- {moith, for the failing of the grand expedition: flect, gotwithfianding what has happened. | qbe foregoing Page, and.the laft, with the aéive Date, and fome ot Puidifotr, provented the [ame. o o Eixtraft of a Lester fromaw Ofcer in e B"‘,P Forgess under Major Fobw “sruack, to bis Friead . in Linden, dated Camp at Ggy2, Feb. 7, 1761, ¢ | can fay verv lictie to iu abou: any thing in this country, bur our exploi.: in war) - having been gonftantly in the neld for twelve Months paft, ' and em now sbou’ O miles from “lengal. « Op the 1 day of Janus-y, we hsd a molt decifive battle with the Moga.'s oops, confifting of zbout 80,000 men, headed by & Prince of the Em- ire. Our army confilted of soe-Europeans, 2500 é&geyc, ‘12 pieces of cautou,.gid ahout 20,600 A Glack 1500pn » 1 ; « The epggethent began abone Il o’clock, aad' betore twd we were mafters of the ficld of battle, it thie French camnon, and {oms¢ bagage. Our priloners confift of 1 great number of Black troops, about 70 or 80 French foldiers, ¢nd feven French Officers ; emong thefe laft is M. Law; whom [ had the hon- our to take and prelent to the Major. We continued ur{uing them clole for feversidays dfter the battle, in which time we gtined feveral sdvantages, Two deys ago the Prince furrendered himfelf to the pro- teftion of the Major, end is now in our camp. He is trested with s great desl of refpeét by the Major, . #nd it i3 faid to have an allowance of & 1030 Rous pees per dey, Heappenrsinall the pomp of an Baft- ern Monarch, tho’ in his looks there is & great deal of dejected dignity. He is expefled to fet out for Batpa in a few deys.” . . ; _ _O#&. 5. Letiers from the Scuth of France, dated the 16th ult. advife thet an epidemical diftemper bath raged at Toulon for sbout two menths paft, which has carried off great numbers of the inhabi- ¢ _tants of thagplace, and that there were few houles that had not three or four fick in them. : They tell us from Genos of the 12th inft. that they had sdvice from Toulon, that a French priva- toet hied taken an Englith fhip honieward bound from Smyrns, and carried Iver into Portmahon ; snd that Lie, was reckoned worth 700,000 livres. y A late refignation has given occafion for many confiderable wegers among the fposting gentry, that areinftation would faon take place. | . . 9. The minifters from Madrid, Naples, and Tu- rin, have frequent conferences at Vienna with the Count de Caunitz, on the afiairs of Italy; end from whet we can learn, the claims in that country muft at lalt be fetcled by the longeft fword, Odtuber g. It is (aid that a confidersble number of Louis d’ores were found concealed between fome planks on bosrd the French out ward bound Eaft Indiaman, tsken by the Briftql privateer, Capt. Read. Two regiments are, we hear, to be raifed in Ire- land, and Commiflions are fent there for that purpofe, Yefterday commiffions were iffued for raifing three regiments of foot: Ic is confidently afferted, that Monf. Buffy, in con- junétion with a certain perfon, during his flay in England, scquired nat lefs than 60,000 . by ftock jobbing ; sand_thst the former has seceived from the King his Mafter & very grea: prefent for his faithful fervicesin England, ! .The fcheme planned by our great Patriot, with relpett to the Spenifh Court, is {sid to have been as foligws, viz......To fend filteen fhips of the line to join that number already uader the command of Admiral Saunders in the Medi erranean, to enter the post of Cadiz, and demand a categorical anfwer from the Spaniaids, for having affifted!the enemy of Great- Britain ; and then, as the exigente fhould require, burn, fink or deftroy. ¢ v O®ober 0. 1 is faid by fome, that the Govers- mint wil raife the fupplies for next year by a propor- tion tax on boufes of 10 b and upwards, to be paid by the tepant quarterly: The above [cheme is much like the feheme of the late Sir Mattheww Decker, Bart. in a Pam:blet publifbed, entirled, Serions Confiderations on high Duties, &¢. by wbich it appears, that, after & fril® ergairy at that time of the jeverdl countrits, the houfes in England only, anrianted to 1,200,000, of wwhich be fuppojed 100 000’ 10 be uninbabited, and 506 000 do be 1nbabited by poor and lesy fort of pecple, of whosh o duty oight to be expelted ; fo that on the remaizing 600,000 boufes, at the rate of 101 per annum, on 48 averags, st will dmount 9.6 millions ; befides 400,000 boufes in Scotland and Wales, which Jfince that time maff begreatly iucreafed it England, Scotland and Wales. . ; : It is Jaid, thae the fame fum will be raifed for carrying on the war next year, as was for the laf; viz. twelve milliens ;. and that a fcheme bas been proprfed Jor raifing the fame at 4 pir cont. for 4@ yaars,and & lottery ticket of 10 (. T be 4 per cemt. for 40 years, they reckon will be wordh, 19 L. and the loteery tickes | | ~fhould feitte 0. : % (Weeks fince this I‘?Apt‘a.'b | b was firlk Publits’d, e GAZETTE ~ Pordign and Demajlick. i l,f: whith mll be éo_ ) ) wi; fni[a‘.h’r oF 100 £ which makis'itequal to the ’pnyz#? 3 per im ifthip - Balleterre, (in St. Chriftophers. ) Sept, 26. , Upon the z4th inttant arrived, afchooner wich fifgar and ‘coffce [ent into, the road of Bafleterse by his Majetty’s thip Dublin's Tender Experiment, commanded by Mr: Low. This {chooncr wes cuc out of the Granades-by Mr. Low, notwihftanding the fire from two batteries. Hc: went in with Lis boat to reconnoitre the place,ind to fee if any veiicis weeve thexe ; but found de more than this Ichooner w8 €y ded and brought off, without any lofs to himictf, but the mafer -of the [chooner was kil- Ied anc one of her men fhotin the fhoulder. 3 PHILADELPHTA, D 7 By's Vedlel fiom Antigus, we hear Cape, M’ Pher- fon, in the Privateer Britannia of this Port, has car- ricd in there two French Privateer Slacps,. of ten Guns u'ch,'regrkoncd worth Four Thoulands Pounds, dand was within Gunfhiot of a third Sloop, ihoughe to be another Privateer. - - His Majefty’s Ship Griffin, Capt, Tuylor, is lof " on the Rocks of Berbuds, in Chale of two oiher Privateers. They are feading their Effiz&s 1o St. Euaftatia, and making every Preparation sguintt an Attack, . . . . The three London Ships, memioned in our laft Paper to be carried in there, are Jaid to be worth 10,000/ Sterling. Above 200 of ¢ar Seamen are in Goal &t Martinico, befides Mafters of Velicls and others, that have the Liberty of walking sbour. | N E W-Y O R K, Dec. iq. . There wis at the Havannah about fix Wecks rgo, no lefs than Twelve ‘Spanith Mer: % War of the Line, a Ship of 60 Guns juft lsun.a®, and anothes _ of the fame Force on the Stocks. Extra& of a Letter from Antigaa, Oficker 16: . General MONCKTON is cxpe@ed here in & fortnight with the fordes'from New York, deftined to_a&t againft Martinico : -and 3c0 feldiers, 8 cfficere, 6 ferjeants, 8 corporsls, and 6 dipms, are draughted off in this ifland, which are to hold themfelves in readine(s tojoirihe faid forces at 8 moment’ ing. The Halifsx Packet who lay at the Hook'Th the Gale, that happened here yefterday weck, came 1o her Moorings on Monddy.. She was obliged to cut her Cable, being unable to Purchafe her Anchor. Captsin John Story, in the Sloop Orlesns, is jult eniived from Lifbon, in g Weeks : Ie reparts that there age 1t Privateers offLifbon, which take many, Prizes,but muft of them are rewaken by the Le Blone, Capuain Kennedy. . - ; B O S T O N, December =8, .. We hear one of the Traniports was caft athore on Plumb Iland laft Tuelday, butdon’t learn any Lives wese loft. P Lift Wednefday a Tranfport Brig arsived here from Halifs<, : 7 - We hear Captain Holmas in a Schooner from Guzdaloupe bound to Newbury, was caft afhore on Thacher'sIftand on W& inefday laft., By a Leuter from Mr. Shubael Nichol{on, one of our Cositing Pilots, we have an Account that « Schooner he was in, belonging to Salem, on her Voyags from Philadelphia, was caft awsy on the 6ih InRant abotit 4 0’'Clock in the Morning, on Mon- tock, the Eaftermoft End of Long ll:nd : The Maiter Jofeph Baker, and the Mate John Tucke,were: drowned ; the Pilotend the three Hinds were faved = ‘The Veflel entirely loft ; but part of the Cargo faved. Since our laft arrived here the Czprains Bals end erriman, in two Traniport Veflcls from Halifex, having on board & Number of our Provincial T'roops who have beencmployed in his Majeity’s Service in Nova Scotia : They failed from thence in Company with five othier Top fail Veflels for this pluce, with the Remander of the Provincials on board 3 eXcepi Detachment cf about 300, which are to continuein his Msjefty’s Service there during the Winter.....:... "There isalfo a De'achment of about 300 of our pro- vincial T'roops which wes¢ in his Majefty's Service at the Weftwsrd,; to be continded st Crown Point this Winter; the others aie returfied homes | ~ Wednefday laft arrived here Capt. Kirkwocd in 4 Erig from Jamaice, in 5 Wecks : anather Brig failed with him for Marbléhesd, the Mafter of her, Captaini Stacy, died two Days before they lett Jamsica. We leatn from Halifs, that Capt. Wier, in s large Sloop from Cork for thac piace, was lately caft away at the Entrdfice of that Hirbour, end Veflel and Cargo entirely loft, but the People faved. ; We hear that two of the Highwaymen which lately broke out of Worcefter Goal, have been taken up and recommiited ; the other tis tho’t would alfo be { oon taken. : ber driicles, foruld bave bean publifecd laf Wik, ut DE ATH bappering in the Fmilj of thie \