The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, May 28, 1762, Page 2

e . D e . e P A RETIMONTH Laoff Morday arrived bere His MajeBly's Ship Lan- cafter Captain Afirick, Commander, baving under bis Convoy three Maft Ships, tewo of @wbhich arrived the Jame Day, viz. Captains Hugget and Mallard, Copt. Datling in the otber arrived at Cafeo Bay in the After- noon of the fame Day. In the Lancafter came Paffenger, ¢he Hon. James Neviw, Efg; Collefor of this Pors, and'a Number of other Poffengers came in the above Ships. ' By the Maft Ships which arrived we have the Jollowing Advices down to the 18th of March, extraBed from the Londin Papers, VIZ. LONDON. ADMIRALTY OFFICE, March 15. IS Mujefly’s Ship the Effex, commanded by Capt Schomberg, being upon a Cruize, on the gth inft. took off Uthant the Romsin of Dunkirk, ¢ French Privateer of 20 Carrisge Guns, moftly Six Pounders, befides Swivels, with 130 Men, commanded by M. de Cock, and has fent her into Portf{mouth. , His Majefty’s Ship the Tartar, ‘commanded by Capt. John Knight, being alfo upon & Cruize, on the 7:h inft. fell in with and took the Cherberus Pri- vateer of St. Maloes, of 12 Carrisge and 10 Swivel Guns, snd 105 -Men; and on the ioth, sfter & ‘Chace of eleven Houre, took the Auguitin Privateer of the fame Place, having 10 Carriage Guns and 80 Men, and isarriv’d at Portfmouth with the Prizes. Letters from Madrid of the 23d ult. advife, that the Court of Spain‘is preparing for & confiderable Embarkation of Troops, and that the Officers are particalarly order’d to take as little Baggage s pof- fible ; but it is not‘mentioned whether ,the intended ‘Expedition is'to be in Europe or America. They write from Paris, that the French Forcesin Germany will confit of 13,000 more Men next Summer than the laft, and that Orders are fent to the General Officets to prepare for openning the Cam- paign very early. ; Tney write trom Bruffels, that 300 Recruits lately paffzd by there for the French Army on the Lower Rhine, and that they were to be followed in aMonth's Time by 2§ or 30,000 Men. . ‘I'be Yarmoutn Packet, Harrifon, from Cape Fear, jgarrived in the River, efter being taken and ranfom’d. Msrch 18. On Tuefday csme Advice of the Death of the Dutchels Dowager of Brun(wick- Wol- fenbuttel (Mother of Prince Ferdinand, Commander in Chiet of the Allied Army) on the 6th inftant. They write from Paris of the 2d inftant, thst George Pitt, Elg; Envoy Extrsordinary from the Court of Grest Britain, to the Court of Sardinis, took his Rout through that City, where he was pro- vided with the neceflary Paffports, and had feveral Conferences with the French Miniftry. A French Snow fram St. Domingo, Burthen about 90 Tons, leden with Sugar, &c. is taken by the T'rial Privateer, Capt. Gwin, belonging to Briftol, and fent into Falmouth the 13th inftant. : The Hon. Commiffiorers of his Majeflty’s Cul. toms hive eiteblified a Cultom Houle st Montreal, inthe (ame Manner es that at Quebeck. Port/mouth, March 16, This Morning his Ma. jefty’s Ship Prince Edward fail'd with the Trade under her Convoy for Gibraltar. Came up to Spit- head the Hanter Sloop of War, with the Trade un- der her Convoy from the Downs, Feb, 26. The Bruffels Gazeute fay, that the Ac- counts that hawe been publithed of the Spanith and French Navies are erroneous, and that the true State of the Spenith Navy confifts of 75 Men of War, and that of France 82, (o that their united Marine smounts to 156 Men of War; which the Author of that Gazetee has the Affurance to affert, is & Force fuffici- ent to deftroy the whole Navy of Englend. March- t. - Letters from Vienna of the 13th ult advife, that they began “to entertsin Hopes that the Preliminaries for & Peace between that Court and the King of Pruffis, will be fettled by the Beginning of April. Couriers arrive daily from Breflau ; and, it is faid, that the King of Pruffia has obtained the Confent of the Court of London to make s feparate pesce : But notwithftanding cthis, preparations are carried on with much Vigour to open the Campaign. eurly in the Spring, in tele the King of Praffis can not be brought to reafonable Terms by Negaciation, The Parlisment of Normandy have iffued again(t ed quite gnconcersed ; 2nd faid, being hanged would five him the Trouble ot fecking tus Bread. ;i March 4. Letters from Genos, of the -4'h 't import, that they had received there & Copy of the Propolals offered by the Court of Spain to the King _of Portugal, relative to theprefent War with Great Britain ; the Whole couched' in fuch a f{riendly " pescesble Manver, ;as moft Faithful Majefty cannot -in‘Reafon reje m. According to Letters®rom Naples, the Mines of Calabris have produced ‘Gold and Silver, of which they have already coined~500,000 Ducats ; snd the ‘Government of the Two Sicilies had formed s Pro- “je&l to dig lor Jewels and precious Stones at the Foot -of Mount Veluvius, where they pretend there ase great Quantities, i They write from Copenbsgen of thesoth ult. thut the Officer who commanded lately theConvoy in the Mediterranesn, and fuffered the Danifh Flag to be infulted by being vilited by an Englith Man of War, was ordered immediately upon his Arzival to be ‘under an Arreft. Letters from ‘Tadiz advife, thit the Marquis de “Catholica was hourly expeéted there to take the Command of & Squadron of thirty Shipsof the Line; and that it was firongly Yeported, that the Ifland of ‘Corfice would foon febmit to the Spanith Yoke. A Spinith Polacre, frof the Carraccas bound to ‘Cadiz, is taken snd carried into Gibralidr. I¢’s faid 'fhe hes 120,000 Dollsrs on board. . Lettérs fromGermany of the 1gth ult. ifiport,thit ‘the Mifery and Diftsels of ‘the Inhsbitants of Hefle, ‘Waldec, and Paderborn, ‘were beyond ‘Expreffion tbeing ftripp'd of ‘every Thing they had, and the Winter being very fevere, many of them have a&tuslly ‘died for want of the' Neceflaries of Life. Cawfand, Feb. 28. Thewsft Quantities of Tess -that are run into the Weftern part ot Cornwall $rom ‘Dutch Ships, &c. greatly hurt our Trade : It is fold ‘by the Retsiler for 3:: 6d. per 1b.: fo_that Tess from ‘Guernfey will not snfwer now. We -had fixtesn Veflels Cargoes imported this Menth. Madrid, Feb. 26. A Body of 18,000 Men are ‘upon their March towards Cadiz, to proteét that Port sgeinft the Attempis of the Enemy. Other lefs confiderable Corps sre filing off towards Portugal. The Difpatch.which isufed in fitting out our Fleets is incredible. Upwards of 14000 Hands are employ- ed in our Dock Yards for that Purpole. % The King has fent Orders to his Minifter at Vi- ‘enns, to engage for his Service s greast Number of ‘German Officers, and particularly Engineers, snd has given him an unlimitted Commiflion with regard to the Pay, or ciher Advanieges which he is to al- low them. > We have it from good Hands, that the French Fleet which lately fgiled from Breft with feven Bat- talions of Land Forces on boeard, is to join one of our Squsdrons, (in what Latitude is not known) sod that this united Fleet is to go end attack the Englith before Martinico. Lifbon, Feb. §. The King’s Troops are going to be sugmented to 30,600 Men. The Forts at the Mouth of the Tagus, and slong the Coaft are repair- ing ; end his Majeity has made a Promotion of Sea Officers. From all thefe Difpofitions, we apprehend that we fhall not be permitted to remain neuter in the War between Spain and England. : On the 27th of laft Month, at Eight in the Even- ing, a Shock of an Esrthquake was felt in this City and Neighbourhood, but happily it. did no Damage. Naumbaurg, Feb. z2. This Moment we receive the News, that the Imperial and Royal Troops have attacked and diflodged the Pruffisns from the Poft of Lomatich, and burnt the Magszine which they had tranfported thither from Magdebourg. : We have allo spother' Piece of News, more im- portant, but leis certain, that Prince Henry after lo- fing the Magazine at Lomailch, hsd abandoned Xet zenhsufen, and was retiring to Torgsu sod Wit- temberg. The Dty before Yefterday the Pruffians fent 56 Waggons with wounded Men from Leipfick to Magdebourg. Toulon, Feb. 15. The Squadron fitting out here will confift of ten Ships.oi the Line, fifteen Frigates, #nd three Xebeques. It's Deftination is faid to be, to join & Spanifh Squadron, in order to lay Siege in the Jefuits an Arret much more rigorous then thag of .concert to Gibralter by Ses, while & Spanith Army the Parliament of Paris of the 6th of Auguft. The Commifioners of the Cuftoms have sppointed Mr. Weflon, belonging to the Searchers Office, to be Colle&or, and M. King, belonging to the Secretary’s Office; to be Comptroller at Quedec. Oxford, Marck 5. Yefterday was held the Affizes for this County, when Shadrack Smith, for robbing and ftripping & Girl in & Lane near Chalgrave Ficld, was found guilty, and received’ Sentence of Death. This Convi€¥, who was a Gypley, ufed the young ‘Womaen very craelly, and moft probably would heve murdered her, had it not been for the Interceflion of his Son, s Boy sbout ten Years old, whom he had along with him, and who has been ever fince under fsparate Confinement,in order to have his Teftimony, and prevent his being tampered with. In his Return to Prifon, sfter Conviction, this poor Wretch appear- befieges the Place by Land. And it is thought that snother Spanith Squadron may astempt a Defcent upon the Coafts ot Scotland or Ireland ; which will certainly be the beft Method of making War with the Englith. It is fuppofed-the flat bottomed Boats end other Preparations going on at Dunkirk, are with the View of acting in Conjun&tion with the Spaniards. Paris, Mar¢h 2. On the 8th-ult. . Woman in the Parith of Sieft, near Dax, was delivered of three Boys and & Girl, each as big as if it had been a fin. gle Birth ; and three. Days after, when the letters came away, they were all likely to live. Caffel, Feb. 20, On the r3th a French Sutler, who had fold to the Soldiers for found Meat the Fleth of Cattle that had died of themlelves, was ftrip- ped to the Wiilt, tied to a Cart, and was then brand- ed on the Back with the Letters G A L, witha red hot ror, a3d i fist condition was drove thro’ all e Streeis in the Mew and Old Town, and 2z the Euad of ¢2ch received 15 or 20 Stripes. There is a grest Maovtality emong the French in this City 3 for & Remedy of which the Governor makes the Men march in Bautalions with their Knap- {scksicp their Backs. Dubltin, Merch 9. We hear that socoo Romen Catholicks are to be raifed in this Kingoom, te con- fift ot five Regiments of 1000.Men cach, to be fent to Portugel, commended by Irith Otficers of the fsme Religion, end fubjédt to the Civil abd Militery Laws of GrestBritain & Ireland. On Thurlday laft died Mr. Dorfet, Tallow Chand- ler in Brick Lane, Spittlefield. "Among other Le- rgacies he has leit nine Diffenting Congregationstcodt, esch. i Newesfile, Feb. 27. On'Sundaey. there was o pro- digigus Fall of Snow here, snd by the Violence of the Wind it was driven into ‘fuch vaft Heaps, that the Lanes'and hollow Places were all filled. ‘Manv People loft their Way in the Snow, it being tols’d ‘about with fach Rapidity that it blindéd them, snd feveral others perifhed in it, viz. two Men snd & Woman nesr Aldftone ; two Women near Lan- chefter, and one near Harlow Hill ; allo ‘s, Womaa ‘going from Bywell to Darwent, perithed by the Severity of the Weather ; and when found, her 'Face was crufted over with Ice, in a remarkable Man- ner. Three young women, belonging 1o Otley, in Yorkfhire, were found ftarv’d to Death in the Snow on Farnley Moor in thst Parith. Himburg, Feb. 19. A Letter from s Foreign Minifter is handed sbout here, in which are thefe Words ¢ ¢ Before the End of two months, Tran- ¢ quility will be reftored both in the North, and in “« Germany ; shd, what may furprife more, this great *s Work will be effected to the intire Satisfalion of ¢¢ a1l the Belligerant Powers.” Bruffels, Feb. 22, Tt is reported that Msgazives are to be formed in this Country for 60,000 French T'reops, which sre to be Commanded by the King in Perfon. It is certain that there are 50,000 Men cantoned in the Neighbourhood of Dunkirk. Hague Feb. 23. Baron Grofle, Envy Extrsordi- nary from the Czar to the States General, had gotas faras Helvoetfluys,in his Way to Landon, in Quality of Minifter Plenipotentiary from his Czarian Majefty; when a Courier from Peterfbourg bsought him = Couater Order, in Confequence of which he returned here Yefterdsy. Itis faid that the Count de Woron- zoff, Nephew to the Grand Chancellor of Ruffis,and lately Minifter from that Empire to the Court of Vienns, will be invefted with the fame Charaer to the Court of England which Barron Grofie was to have had. Genoa, Feb. 4. The Corfican Rebels receive con- tinual Supplies from the Englifh, with whom, it is poflible, that we fhall not long be Friends. Two Englith Engineers are amived at Aleris, a Port which the Rebels poffefs. We hope to be afiiftec by France, who for that End hath already affembled & Body of Troops in Provence. Florence, Feb. 6. At the Requeft of the King of Spuin, the Pope has lately granted a Licence to the Subjects of thst Kingdom to eat Meat four Daysin the Week in the enfuing Lént ; which became ne- ceflary, after the ftri® Prohibition contsined in the Declarstion of War of that Court, to introduce Sale Fifh iato any Port of that Kingdom. Copenbagen, Feb. 13. Orders are given out here for raifing a new Regiment of Huffars, of Six Squad- rons, of 120 Men each ; the Command of which is given to Count Moltke, the Grand Marfhal’s fecond Son. X Cologn, Feb.76. This Day the DireCtor Genersk of the Hofpitals at Franckiort was brought hither in Irons, under a Guard, snd lodged in the Prifon of St. Gereon, being accufed of having robbed the French King ot & great Sum. Hague, Feb. 26. We hesr from Paris, that Marfhal Broglio, and his Brother the Count, have been bsn- ifhed to their Eftates in the Country ; and thet the former is deprived, at the fame Time, of his Com- mand in Alface ; and the latter of the Government of Caffel. It was not yet certain, to whom the Command of the French Forces in Germany would be given. Madrid. Feb. 2. Asthe Importation of Englifk Goods is prohibited,theDutchAmbaflador has prefen- tedMemorials,to obtainTime for theDutchMerchants to countermand the Englith Goods they had order- ed for Spuin, and to difpofe of thofe that sre on the Way. We know not what Anfwer he hes received., Mean while Orders have been fent to releafe two Dutch Ships that were detained at Malaga. Naples, Feh. 7. The Redoubts which are meking to protect our Harbour from the Attempts of the Enemy, are carricd on with great Difpatch ;sand the fame Diligence is exerted to complete the Entrench- ments slong the Cosfts, which are planted. with Abundance of Artillery. We infer from thefe Stepe, that the Court forefees that the King of Spain will -oblige it to take Part in the War between England and Spein. As in that Cafe Sicily would. be equally expaled to the Attempt of the Englifh, the Miniftry