The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, May 21, 1762, Page 2

® = Lsft Saturday Sc’nnight the Snow Harriot Packst, Capt. Bonnel, arrived at New York from Falmouth with the February Mail, which he leit the 22d of thet Month; and from the public Prints brought by him we have the fgllowing Advices, viz. L O N b Q N. Feb. 3. CCORDING to Letters from Ce- 1762. penhsgen, that Court, betcre the Death of the Czarina, was on the Point of eniering into a treaty with thole of London and Berlin; his Dinith Myjefty having agreed to the propofal made to him, to furnifh the King of Pruffia with 1z coo men, to reinforce Prince Henry’s army in Saxony. On the other hand they write from Vienns, that propofals of peace had been made by the King of Pruffia, through cthe Channe! of the Danith Miniter, which were not much difliked ; and that feveral Couriers had been difpatched from Vignpa to Ver- {ailles on this occafion. It ia not without juft reafon that the Parlisment of T:eland are alarmed for the [afety of that kingdom. Fhurot’s attempt wes of no grest confequeuce : it was neither a neceflitated defcent, or a depredatory expedition : But we now well kaow that the great srmament under M. Conflins, was really intended to make a Defcent at Cork ; and it had been executed if it had notbeen heppily prevented by the vigilance and bravery of the gallant Admiral Hawke; & name fuperior to any title ¥ [n gratitude to their preferver, the citizens of Cork are now preparing to ereét the ftitue of this worthy Naval Commander in full view of their city : It i3 to be executed by the famous Van Nooft, and will be placed on a high Colum, at the mouth of the harbour. This looks as if Ireland was bleffed with the Genius and Tafte of Athens and Rome. It is faid there was s very grand Council Yefterdsy at St. James’s on Affairs of the greateft Importance ; moft of the Members being prelent. We hear that 200 French Prifoners, from Win. chefter Ceftle, have offered voluntarily to go onthe Expedition with Lord Albemarie ; and we hear are accepied of by his Lordfhip. As foon as Sir Joleph Yorke makes & formsal De- mand of the Succours which the States of Holland are bound tofurnifh to England, the Spanith Ambal- fador is prepsring to make & Demand ot 6ooo Land Forces, and 12 Suips of the line, which it is pretend ed their High Mightine{les are obliged by Treaty to furnith to Spain. {f we may depend upon Advices, which hitherto. never deceived us, the Siates of Holland are extremely” embarrafled in refpe to the prefent Comjunélure. They have before them & Mamorial from 2 certsin Crown, pznned in fo unufusl and fo pathetic a Stile, that it has made no (mail Impreflion upon theirca pitat Starelmen ; and it is thought would make {liil a fronger Impreflion upon the People, if it was made public. ; Sir George Pocock is preparing to fet out on en important Expedition, which will determine the Fate of the Spanith War. The Admiral will hoift his Flag on board the Namur of o Gune, but the other Ships, of which his Fleet will confiit, are not yet appointed. The Namur is the Ship which was commaaded by the late gloiious Admiral Bolcawen; and it is not doubted, but that his brave Succe(for in that Ship will make her as tremendous to the Spa- niards. as it was under his Predecefior to the French, Feb. 16. A Daily Paper of this Day has the fol- lowing Parsgraph : “We can saffure the Public from undoubted Authority, that the prefent Emperor of Ruffia has deiired Mr. Keith to inform the King his Maler, he has fent Orders for his Troops not to act againft the King ofPruffia ; the goodConicquences of which may be eafily guels’d at ; and among the firlt of thofe is, 25 we can affure the Publick, that a Pecace between tie Queen of Hungary and the King ' of Prallia, is very near finithed, and it is expetted that the nex: Mails will bring & Confirmation of it. Feb. 18, Qsders ace fent ovex to Ireland for putting the feveral Fortrees on the Sce Coaft of that Xingdom in a State of Defence, and dor feveral Regiments to march to the Sea Coafls. The Danae Frigate, Capt. Martin, is arrived at Portimouth from Gibraltar, In her Paflage fhe fell in with & large French Frigate, or Privateer, off the Cosft of Portugal, which fhe engsged very {martly for upwards of 3 H wurs 5 but ss fhe had four rich Ships under her Convoy, then in Sight, snd having eighteen Men killed and forty two wounded, feven of which are fince desd, and feveral more mortally wounded, and the Ship very much damaged both in her Hu!l:and Rigging, it was thought moit prudent to defift] in order to take Care of her Convoy, which dhe brought fale. into Porifmouth. The Danse mounts thirty eight Guns, It is fuppofed that the Fiench, liad a great Number of Men killed, as many desd Bodies were feen lying upon Deck. y The Expedition Fleet is gencrally belicved to be deftined for the Spanifh Weft Indies. The Second Expedition Fleet is ordered to be got ready for Sea by the beginning of next Month, Cork, Feb, 4 By a private Letter from Lifbon e hear, that the Spaniards have ordeied 11 Sail of Men of War to be laid up st Cadiz, for Want of Men end -Stores; which are sccordingly hawled above the Carrecoes. Admirgl Saunders iz off that Port with a Jarge Fleet, tot eat Terror of the Ichebitants, who are endewvo o {ecure their ef- fels from the Couvfequences of @Bombardment. Monday the Welt Indisgfieet failed cut of the Harbour, but by celitrary Wiads put back the next Morning: They got und ay sgain this Morning. Friday feveral Corpor ho are sgpoinied Ser jeants, and {everal private Men as Corporsls, were draughted from the two Regiments quartered here, to {erve in the new Regiments to be torthiwith raifed in this Kingdom.. And, we hear, every marching Regiment is to have s Company of 50 Men, moftly young and adive, with three Oificers, two Serjeante, &c. draughted to ferve as Corps of Light Infantry. e 1 R E L.A N D Strabane, Dec. 21. There wasno imall difficulty on the Sheriff, in getting the fenience psffed on M’Naghten executed ; for there was not a manto be found in Scrabsne who would take off his bolts. The executioner, an old man, was brought from Cavan. M’'Nsghten’s defign was, &3 he called ir, to have broke his own neck by & fudden jerk ; {or which pur- pofe, he went up to the top of the ladder, and cak- ing the rope trom the cld hangman, put it about his own neck ; then letting himfelt fall fuddenly, broke the rope. In the interyal,between breaking his own rope, and being sccomodated with one from the neck of his own comparnion, he faid, that Lord Fer- rers’s oblervation was true, That there was more in the terrors of death, than death itfelf.----He was drefled in 2 very flovenly manger, and (for what reafon it is not known) would wear no other cosat but that in which he committed the murder. He told the Sheriff, that it was expected he fhould make a fpeech, butthat he never intended it ; and delired he would make that declaration ia his name. He in- quired of him, Whether his hesd was ordered to be puton ihe geol? and {cemed much comforted when the Sheriff told Lim it was not. He (ent for fome of his profecutors, and told them he forgave them ; but it did notsppear that he afked forgivenefs of any. Innifkilling, Dec. 22. M’Naghten, as foon as he wa# condemned turned to the jury, and {sid, they behaved like honeft men, asconfidering what the evi- dences {wore, they could rot, without perjuring themfelves, scquit him ; but he declared to the laf, that he died with s clear confcience, as he hsd not the leelt in‘ention to murder any one, much lefs Mifs Knox ; but that he brought & large party with him on purpale to run off with her, as helooked on her - as his wife ; he folemnly declared he wes wounded firft,and that with the ageny of his wound he neither knew, nor cared wlhat he did - As foon as he heard fhe waes kilied he sttempted fuicide, but was prevent- ted by the bsll fslling luckily out of his piftol. Ikt would amaze you to hear how he pleaded, tho’ not for life, as he declsred had he a wifh it wonld be to die, but his intention was 10 clear his charadter, and mske fome exculc for his proceeding........ Mr. Knox and his fon were st the execution, the father in a poft chaife, and the {on ftanding at the foot of the gallows, which I think had been better let slone, &c.” L O N D O N, January 20. We are told, that the French (aid formerly,that an Englilhman was fo vain as to think himfelf equal- to at leaft three Frenchmen : whatever ground there was for it heretofore we know not ; but the French court in part, now allows it ; for in Looking over the French memorial lately publithed,in article X. of their propofal to our court, we meet with the [ollow- ing remarkable fentence ; ‘“That, from the time his ¢ Britannic Msjelty recals the Englith troops from « Germany, his Msjefty of France will caufe doubie “ the number of his troops to return toFrance.”..If this {uperiority- is acknowledged by land, we have lictle to fear from their atiempts at fea. ThePrince of MecklenburgStrelitz waited on their Mijefties at St. Jam¢s’s aboui fix 0’Clock onMonday Evening,and was gracioully received : His Highnefs’s Vifit to England is varioufly talked of : He is a fine young Gentleman, of a pleafing Countenance, and a midling Stature. They write from Paris, that the Duke de Choifeul has {en' Orders to all theConfuls of toreign Ports, to collett Ssilors of every Nation that fhall offer, and bare their Expence to the ficft frontier Town of the Kingdom : AnItalian Maeritime Poweris to furnith them with 10 or 12,000 Seamen ;' Sweden, itis allo {aid, offers to furnifh thein with a cerrain Quantity ot Ships ready fitted out, at 700,000 Livres each. Extra& of a Letter from Figuery, in Paortugal, January 5 1762 ¢ A few Duys paft a Privateer put into Bayonne ; on the Captnin’s going afhore, was made a Priloner, and a File of Mufketeers, withOfficers, {ent on board, to bring the Suils and Rudder athoye ;the Lieutenant being agpri(cd, by fome Means what had happencd to his Captain, confined the Officers, cut his Cables, and put to Ses, through a conftant Fire of theirGar- rifons ; he fent the Soldicrs afhore, with Notice, that they muft expe@ their Officers in Return for his B N, o 40 o R ™% < . 2 ™ R RO ¢ C i e = Captsin, or they fhould fhare the fame Tresimeny with whicii they treated him." Fed 13 Yeitetday fe’onight was buried 210 ‘ey, in the Weft Riding of Yorkihire, in her wedding ibifs, and in the gg'h Year of ber ege, the wife of Michzel Sted, wno is now 100 years of age, and wes fervant in the family of the laste Thomass Pulleyn, of Butley, Elq; upwards of 70 ycars. He has tour fons and two deughters now living,ihe youngelt of whomy is upwards ot Go. ; ; BManckefier, Feb. 9. On Friday {e'nright, ebout fx in the Morning, died Sarah Tomlinfon, of Sutton, near Prefcot ; and on the {ame day her hufband was married at St. Helen’s to & widow gentlewoman of Suiion aforelaid. S — e e Charlefiown, South Carolina, April 17. For this week paft a very fulpicious veflel hasbeen feveral times feen bothto the N. and S. of this Bar, fuppoled to be a Spanith privaceer : She i3 a brig. of 12 or 14 guns,tew of which fhe thews, with black fides, boot top’d white, and a horle head painted white. Thurfday fhe chated Mr. Duval’s pilot bost great part of the day, after being fo near that one of the pilots inher wae going to board and oaly preven- ted by difcovoring her deck to be full of men layirg Rat on their bellies ; when the pilots haled her they were anfwered in broken Englith, that the came from Providantia. When fhe gave ovér chace, the ftood off to the S. E the wind then blowing at E. by N. ? St JOHN’s (ANTIGUA ) March so. His Majefty’s fhip Woolwich, Capt. Bayne has ta- ken a fnow, bound from Cayenne toBourdeaux,rich- ly Jaden, end fent her to St. Kitts. The fhip Nancy, Capt. Bare fromAfrica, is loft on Sandy-Ifland, but the Negroes all faved. His Majefty’s floop,Antigus has tsken twoPertiau- gers, bound from St. Euftatis, with beef and powder, alfo a fine Spanith floop, pierced for 12 guns,but had only 6 mounted, and carried 34 men; which prizes are carried into St. Kius, The Pettiaugers were bound to Granmada ; the Spanifh floop, calied Giorious, to Margarius, with flour, &c. 1 ; PHILADELPHTIA May6 Yefterdey Captain Smith arrived here in nine Wecks from Port{imouth, by whom we have Pspers to . the 224 of February ; from which we have extradt- ed all that is material, and is as follows, viz. . HAT Admiral Saunders, with bis whole Squa- ?‘ dron, was cruizing off of Cadiz, with Orders to alt offenfively - That the fecond Expedition om Foot, was to confiff of 12 Men. of War of the Line, five Frigates, and a Bomb, with about 6ooo Land Forces © That by Letters from Copenbagen, thar Court, before the Death of she Czarina, was on the Point of entering ints a Treaty with thife of Londom and.Berlin, bis Danifp Maj:fly baving agresd to the Progsfal made to bim to furnifb the King of Pruffia with 12,000 Mew, t9 reinforce Prince Henry's Army in Saxony : That the Honvurable Cel. Howe, and feve- ral other Officers, appointed to go on a fecret Expediti- on.were fet out for Portjmouth: [hat a Difign bad beer: difeovered of blowing up the Magazine at Port/mouth, and feveral Per[ins taken up that were corcerned im the wicked Attempt: | hat Advice. it was [aid. was received from Spain, that all the Britifb Ships thae swere flopped in their Ports, are ordered ta be relesfid ; and that ail the Merchants Lffeéls, e are alfo re- leajsd, and the Embargo intirely taken off. That it was expelted Admiral Saunders would attack Cadiz, which, it was thought, wonid not be @ very diffcunis Congueft 5 and that if Cadiz was taker, all'the Ships of War in the Caraccas muft be difiroyed, or fall into eur Hand: and likewije all tbe NavalStures in that Royal Yard : kat the Grand Expedition, fime thought, was acfizn’d agairft La Vera Cruz 5 but others, that it was certainly deflined for the Havannab ; and that the Eari of Albemarle, Col Keppel. and Commo- dore Keppel, were to command the Land Forces: [o that Jfrom the united Ffforts of three gallant Brotbers, that Succefs might be expefled againft Cuba ‘which the brave Aamiral Vernon was not able to obtain the laff War, from she Dijunion of a divided Command : That the Expedition Fleet was viclualled for the Weff Indies, and ordered 1o be got ready by theFirfl of March : That Spain declared War againfi England in form the 18th of Fanuary: That the Neapoiitan Refident, as the Court of Great Britain bad declared, by Order, that bis Mafter's Defire was to remain meuter 5 and thag be did not accede to the Bourbon Family Iscaty with Spain. P“ Tbat Sir Robert Keith, the Britifb Minifter a Peterfourgh, bad intimatea how advantageous it would be for both Nations to renew the (reaty of Commeres Jubfifiing besween them = That from Haveiberg News bad been received, that a Sujperfion of Arms was’ jo- lemnly prociaimed, by Sound of | rumpet, ond. gnaer @ Difcharge of all the Artillery, between the Troops of his Imperial Majefly of all the Ruffias, axd thofe of the King of Pruffia : That the Graid Signior bad de- manded aPaffage through Poland for a numerous Army, that is to march to the Affiflance of the Pruffian King? Thas His Pruffian Majefly bad received a Latzer from 4 ',