The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, June 11, 1762, Page 3

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$hould fo foon capitulate. Tt muft be confeficd the Eoglifh are brave ; every place. maft yicld to their ‘Arms : Ithas been faid upon Change on this occa- = fion, that if HELL produced fugsr, the Englith i would conquer it, provided the French were to de- . fend it. 3 ‘April B. By Advices from different ports in Spair, _ . the Enaglifh - fhipping remain in the feme uvncertin 4+ ftste ; nothing having been yet 1efolved on by the Spanifh Court. : It is affured, by letters which arrivéd en T uefday from Lifbon, that the Portuguefle had between 30 and ) 40,000 men in their pay, snd that 28,000 lew muf- j ™ kets have been received from hence. 1ol : Laft Night an exprefs, preceeded by feveral horfe. menand horns, arrived trom the North st White- '€ bl with fome expreffes ; the contents of which sre not known. March 23. The exprefs from Genersl Monckion not srriving till two 0'Clock Yefterday Morning, it { was not made known till Seven o’Clock, juft as his &y Mgjelky was going to take his Ride ; which, how- ever, he poftponed on theé joyful Occafion. e Yeflerday theie - waz 2 nnmerous Court at St. ‘¢ Jemer’s to compliment his Majefty on the Succefs of his Arms at Martinico ; the Royal Standard at the ‘Tower was hoilted, and the Shipping in the River difplayed their Colours an the Occaion; at One o'- Clock the Park and Tower Guns werg fired, and the ‘Evening toncluded with [lluminations, Bonfires, &c. Merch 13, Tbz French Court promifed the Spa- miards, that their Taulon Fleet [ball appear in the { + Moediterranean by the Firfl of May, with a ¢osfiderable ( Numbr of Land Forces, fome think to befiege Gibraltar, others with more Probability to reduce Corfica. . A Letter [rom Hamburg, dated February 19, /a5, the King of Denmark was making the greatef Military Preparations, to opps/e the Emperor of Ruffia’s Defigns againft Holfiein, wha is determined to profecute bis Claim e 80 the utmofl. His Danifb Majefly bas folicited the .~ AffiRance of 4 neighbouring Power, but has been ab- | ¢ folutely refufed. : "'~ Tbhe French army in Germany is to be more numerout #bis year by 13,000 men, than it was laf year ; and if the [eafon will permit, the campaign will be opened at 8be heginning of April. ; : R March 19 Letters by the laff Dutch mail mention, ' 2bat an exprefs was arrived at . Berlin, with advice, that part of the Garrifon af Schweidnitz, vobich con- Jifedof about 2000 Ruffaws, bad refe againft the Auf srians, and saken entire poffeffion of the place, which. they immediately put into the Hands of the Pruffians. Letsars from the Hague of -the 42b inf. advife; that - tbe report of.a tongrefs at Augfburgh is revived, and . 8hat it was affured that fome of the Miniffar Plenipoten- 'V fiarieshad receiv'd orders from their refpeltive maflers 20 pripare themfeloes 1o [et out for that place for the opening the Jaid affembly in May. & It is fa:d the Jecond expedition flect is to confifl of 10 men of war, 3 bembs, and 2 firefbips, and that it will be git ready by the latter end of dpril, aud be un- der the command of Sir Edward Marhe. Mar(hal Bfoglio and bis Brother the Count have been bsnifh:d to their Eftates in the Country : The former is deprivéd of his Commaiid ih Alface, and the Iater of the Goverméde of Caffel. M de Etreea has accepied the Command of the French Army in ' Germany, jointly with the Prince Sowbife. . . We hear that all the Portuguele Ships in ou} rts are ftopped, st the Delfire of - the Portuguefe ‘Edvoy. : A Spanifb fhip vas latedy taken by one of oir sisen of s wwar, and carried into Gibraltar, which bas 100,000 gicces of eight on board. & " to be tarciwith got ready. to take under their Con- voy 40 Sail of Tranfports, with Engineers, Lnd Farces, Stores, &c. for Gibraltar. of War, atiér fceing the Convoy fafe in that Porc are to join the Fliet now in tlie Mcditerranean under Command of Admiral Saunders. The Tranfports . are safterwards toTeil to N. York or Csrolina o re- ccive Inftru@ions from Gen. Ambherft; or the Com- mander i Chief upon that Station, with refpeét to parircular Services they are to be employed in. According to the Igft Letters from Spain and Por- tugel, the Spanisrds will certsinly have an Army of 1 150,000 Men resdy to act offenfively,on theFrontiers of Purtugal, by tite firft of March. i, Trercnow remains of regular Troops in Great j Britain 23,500, Miliia embodied 22,500, regulsr | Troops on the Irifh Eftablithment 15,000: in all §9.000 befides the Militia of Ir¢land, which is for- ming. T%\cy write from Hunover. and Brun(wick, that || /Ny had been informed by Prince Ferdinand,that the c*aing of Prufiia had no longer anyThing to fear from ,‘ the Ruffians, and that the Dutenr would foon declare in favour of England ; thai 40,000 Ruilisns would be taken into Bridith Pay and join the Allied Army; J and that, in, Conlequence théreof, 12,000 Britith . Troops would be recatled, to be employed as Oc- y cafion might require ; and that the Troops of Hefle ' “wpd Brunfwick would join Prince. Henry’s Army, if .Q,flie Negotiation between the Courts of Beslin and | ' Yicnaa fhould prove sbortive, © 7 T | » @ Maich 13. Eight or ten Ships of Warare ordered - The faid Ships - ‘The Miniftry feems (0-sgree with Mr. Pitt, that America can only be congitred in Germany ; tor the War, we hear, is to be prolecuted in That Country with the dtmoft Vigour. PHILADELPHIA, My 2y, On Tueldsy Iaft cthe Philade!phia‘Packer, Caprainn Budden arrived here from London. = He paried wiih Capt. Bradiotd, fdr chis Plsce, the 25k ult. off of Madeira. Capt. Lamont on his Paffage from Jamaica, fpoke with & Privateer Brig, Capt. Thomaes, belonging t Antigua, who had 2 {inart Bngegement with aFrench Privateer Sloop, in which feveral of his Men were killed, fome badly wounded, and his Veflel much demsged. / , By Capt Murray from Providénce we learn, that & Spanith Brig and Schooner,loaded withDryGaods, were lately carried in there by fome of their Priva- teers, - The Liverpool, Lavigne, from Liverpool to New- York, is taken, and carried into St Maloes. The Beuleh, Capt Gibboms. of this Port, was ts- ken on her Paffage from South Carolina 1o Losdot, by s Beyonne Privateer. LE'WY ORK, May 31. Friday laft the Brig King George, Capt. Shand, errived here from Martinico, which Place he left the 14th of May, and informs us as follows, viz. That on the 6th [nftant, Admiral Pocock with his whole Fleet, confitting of 200 Sail, and sbout 13,000 Land Forces, took their Departure from that ifland, and "twas fuppoled were deftined for the Havanneh ; that it was faid the Admiral gave the Captains of Tranf- ports and other vellels belonging to the Fleet, perti- culer Inftruiona to be vigilant in obferving Signals, for that they had a narrow Paflage to gq thro’ ; that ohly twoMen of War and threeRegiments of healthy Troops were leftat Mastinico ; that 1300 fick snd - wounded were [odf to erbatk for this Place ; and that his Excellency Brigadier Genersl Monkton, our Governor, failed from Mattinico for this his Gover- ment, the gth Inftant, in a Frigate, but intended to toach atAntigus,Gaudsloupe, &c. in his Way hither. " Captain Shand fays, thint & Diy or two before he {ailed from Mourtinico, a Report prevailed there, of & Brig from Philadelphis being taken off that Ifland. Robert Frafier a Seaman belonging to one of his Mijefty’s Ships now here, in going on board the Snow Johnfon, laft Thurdsy Night, as fhe lay at theWharf, fell-into the Dack, snid was drowned be- fore any Perfon could sfit him; as it blew very Hird, and rined st the fameTime....[n the fameGuit s Pettyauger overfet ‘in the North River, by which Accident sMan, sWoman end aChild were drowned: Twa very valuabie French fhips from St. Domingo gre carried down to Jamaica by ihe Boreas Frigate. Thurlday Afternoon his Msjefty’s 46th Regiment arrived here from Albany., And Several Veflels wirh Connedlicut Pravincial Troops arrived here fince our laft. _ Yefterday the Captains Doran snd Tollmdn, irri- ved here in 20 Daysfrom Aatigus; By them we heve Advice, that 8 Number of Negroes belonging to that Ifland had concerted a Scheme in order to become their own Mafters, but the Plot being difeg- V¥ered they were taken proper Care of. Within thefe few Days paft, {even or eight Sloops have arrived fromi Albany with Regular Troops. . ., BOSTON, Jine 7 . Capt. Green for this Port fail’a in Company with Capt. Hunter, end may be hourly expetted ; they came out in Compeny with feveral other Veffels bound to Americs, under Convoy of the Desl Caftle n of War bound to Africa. : The following French and SpanifhPrivateers, have lately been taken in the Chanel,and carried into Port, The Roman, Dubert, of Dunkirk, of 16 Guns,and 1z0 Meti by the Effex Man of war. . The Corbere and Augufte,ofSt. Maloes, of 14 Guos each, by the Tartar Frigate. TheVillevesu, anEaft Indisman,;homeward bound, end the Squirrel Frigate, of 10 Guns, and 80 Men, for Martineco, by the Fame and Lion Men of War, The Epervir, of Bayonne, of.12 Guns end 150 Men, by the Bellons and Jund. [The above Priva- teer, on the 24th of January, took the Wolf, Whirty from Marblehead for Lifbon} . A Privaicer, Name unknown, taken by theCoven- tty Man of War, and ¢arried into Kinfale. ' The Sequire, a Privateer Snow of 10 Guns and 69 Men, by the Adventure Man of War. Friday Night laft Cept. Hubbard arrived here in 19 Daysfrom St. Marting, who failed in Company with the Capt, Putnam and Knights of Salem, Capt. Gorden of Marbléhead, Capt. Jones of Porifmouth, and Capt. Harlow of this Port, Mr. Forbither of this Town died on board Capt. Hubbatd two Days after he left Port. We hear from the Town of Hollfs.' that sbout s Fortnight dgo the Houle of Mr. Williara Pool, with & grest Part of hisHoufholdSubfance, wis'confumed by Fire. : Saturdey left the Brigantine......., Capt. M'Gee, from Liverpool, bound so New-York, pus in hérg, havieg fprung aleak, T T U w omeE i A {ew Daysago cne Willism Comberford, ¢ Pre- vinciz! Soldier at New-Yoik,lcft hisLife in attempis ing tofwim from o1 e of the Tranlpors. " The tollowing Affair ewhich'laely bappemed atDaw. vers in toe County of Fff.x, is relatid as Fall: . 4¢ three Children were fetiing at a*Door of a Hozfe, an Adder ¢ame from 8 Pond tbat was about 20 Rods dif tant, and feized the Hand of ane of the Children abrat tewo Years old, and fwallowed it as far a5 the Brij, and immediately twified it's T ail round the Chi 'S*sLegeg upon which the athér two Children ran into the Houfe affrighted, where eoere 3 oF 3 Women, who ran to the Door, and difcovered the Child in the absve Condition, woben ane of thel¥ omen fqueez d theThroat of the Adder, by which theChild was leared : "bel oman tarried the Cbhild into theHoufe, when the adder chaced ber roun® the Room feveral Times. but being difappainted of ir's Food turned about and biting itfelf, jweilid 19 a confs derableDegree, and died © L be Child wa: not poifomed,, nor did it receive any barm. | A 4Letterfrom London ofthe 8:h of April, meni- ons two of the Guns, being fent into Plymouth, by his Majelty's Frigate ZEolus ; and that another Privatcer of E+Y Guns, had been fent into Portimouth. . PORTSMOUTH. Fridey laft His Majefty King GEORGE ther Third enter'd the 25'h Year of his Age ; on which joyful Occifion His Exccllency our GOVERNOR, gave an elegant Entertainment to the Members of His Majefty’s Council and the Houosable Houfe of Reprefentatives, and « Number of other Gentlemen, at his Seat in this Town, where his Majefly’s and other Loyal Heslths were drank. At 12 o’C{ockth# Guns at Fort Willism and Mary, and on board the Man of War and Maft Ships in this Harbour were dilcharged. h ; : Port of BOSTON, June g, 1762, g _ Entered In, Brown fromConne&icut. McLean from Nova Scotis, Doyle from Quebec. Thacher from Nevia, Tarbox’ from N. Carolina. Gorhsm from Virginis: Glover from Maryland. Patten from New Providence., Gibbs from Martinico. EHubbart, from St. Kitsrs Crawford from Glafgow. Silver and Gold ver and Gold, to be given for STERLING BILLS on the Cregits of this Province, inthe Year 1759, Dated either the firflt of January, the fecond of April, or the fiefl of November inTaid Year, and allow the Intereft on the fame : Alfo, Dollérs will be given for thole., dated January firft 1760,redeemable in theYear 1763 N. B. Alioany of the Sterling Bills, Dated either in the Year 1761 or 1762, to be excharng’d for thofer Dated January iirft 1760 redeemable in the Yesr. 1763, and allow 15 per Cent difference for the Bz change : Inquire of the Printer. ‘ rRoviNce of New HAmPsurrz! NOTICE is hereby given to’ the Propriétors of Leavit’s Town, {0 celled, in thed Province afore(sid, thet unlefs they pey in the Charge, wrifen on [sid Townfhip, for laying out faid Towng into Lots, by the Firt Tuelday in July next, at Twelve of the Clock, 80 which Time the Meetingy of the 8th of June aforefaid is Adjourned ; fo muchy oftheir LANDS “will be Sold a3 will pay faidkf Charges ; which they may depend upon. North Hampton, = Abrabam Drake. Colle&tor: June 8th. 1762: =~ Dawiel Samborn, Pro. Clerfl Province or New Hampsuirg. NOTICE is hereby given, to the Proprietors of Old Dunftsble, That Fefrpb Blan- thard, ot Merrimac, E'q; has prefer'd ‘s Petition o the General Aflembly of this Province, fetting forth,/ that faid Proprietors had a Meeting on the 15th Day, of O&tober left, by Adjournment; the Moderstor chofe at the firft Meeting not attending, another wzé chole, and sfter that w Clerk to faid Proprietors, the Legality of which Choice is difputed : the faid Pe-i titioner prays, that fome Perfon may be appointed to call and govern « Meeting of faid Paoprietors ; that that Officer may be fettled; the Day sppointed for the hearing the Petitioner thereon, is the 23d Day of June Inft. if che Affembly be then fitting, it noty then on the third Day of their fetting next after, TO be Sold if dpplied for in 1o Dl’l, the Brig Free Ma/os,Burthened about go Tons,/ a very remarkable Prime Sailing Veffel, fitted for the; Ses : Inquire of Fames Bret on bosrd faid Brig; oF the Printer hereof for further Information, BE SOLD AT PUBLICK VENDUE at the Houfe of Mrs. 4nm Fomes, nesr the Mill Dam, on Friday the 25th of this Inftent, st Six 0’Clock Afternoon, fundry forts of Houfhold Furniure, two Syits of Mens Cloaths ; and & Pew in the South Meeting Houfe. - : TO . BE SOLD ‘A HOUSE LOT in this Towspleausly itaned ; Tr qure of the Printer Enemy's Privaceers of 22.and 16

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