The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, June 18, 1762, Page 1

» THE . ' Containing the Frefbeft Advices, . From Tae LONDON GAZETTE. PererspurcH (in Roffia) February 23, 1762, 9 be following is the Copy of a Declaration delivered a few days fince by the Emperor’s order to the Imperi- al, French, and Seoedifb Minifiers refiding bere. DECLARATION. 1S Imperial Msjefty, who, upoa his acceffion to the throne of his anceftors, looks upon it to be his principz] duty, to extend and augment the welfare of his (ubjeéts, fees, with exireme yegret, thst the flemes of the prefent war which *hns already ~ ¢ontmuced for fix years, and has been for along time burthenfome to all the powers en- gaged in it, far from tending now to a conclufion, are cn the contrary gathering frefh ftrength, to the grest migfortune of the feveral nations; end thag mankind has fo much’the more to {uffer from this fcourge, as the fortune of arms, which has been hi- therto fubject to fo meny viciffisudes, is equally ex- ted to-them for the future, W herefore his Imperial M¢jefty, compaflionating, thro™ his humane difpofition, tlie effufion, of innacent blood, and being delirous, on his part, of putiing a flop to fo great an evil, has judged it neceflary to declareto the courts ia ailiance with Ruffia, that, preferring to every confideration, the firft law, which God prefcribes to Sovereigns, which is the prefer- vation of the people intrufted to them, he wilhes to procure pesce to his Empire, to which it is necefla- ry, and of fo great vzlue; stthe fame time contri- bute, a8 much a3 may be in his power, to the re- eftablifhment of it throughout ell Europe. ¢ It is in order to this that his Imperial Msjefty is v yeady to mike a facrifice of the conquefts made by i¥he arms of Ruffia in this war, in hopes that the al. Yied courts will, on their part, equally prefer the re- . ftoration of peace and trauquility, to the advantages weohich they might expe& from the war, and which shey cannot cbtain but by a continuance of the ef fufinn_of hitnan biood. And to this end his Im. perial Msjefty, with the beft intention, advifes them to employ on their fide, all their power towards the accomplifiment of fo great, and (o falutary & work. P IE ADE LR HAI" 4, Tuge 3 By Captain Hazlewood, fram Martineco, we learn, that when Admiral Pocock left that fland, be bad a bout 12,000 land forces with bim ; but 1hat be was to touch at Antigua ard St Chrifiopkers, where, it was Jaid,be would get a reinforcement of beteween 2 and 3000 men more, whiie and black. and expelted a regiment of acks frem jamaico: I hat General Rufane was Ileft v at Martineco, with absut 5000 mien: and that tewo "darge Freuch [bips bound to the Miffifippi, & a Spanifb - fbip of 16 carrioge guns,bad been latelycarried in there by our Men of W ar. N E WY ORK, Miya24, Fridey lait Cap:. Buyvank, Mafter of » Brig belon- ging to this port ceme to town trom Philadelphia, having errived there a few days bolfore, inCapt. lre- * " land from the {{le of Miy : He failed trom thence laft winter, bound for Africa, but on the z5th of March beiween Goree and Senegsl, was taken by a French privateer belonging to Martinecn,who allo tookCapi- | Mocre of Philadelphia, and a Stip belongisg to Lon ' don, Hollowell, maiter, (Major, her former Capiain ~ being drowned st Senegal) whom they kill’d in cold y blood, after the fhip flruck, end then put the;moft of ! - .the crews of the three veficls afhore on the ifland of ; St. Jago; where they remained uniil they wese ta- ken off by Cepr, Ireland above mientioned Cept. Buyvank informs us, that a French. man of wir of 40 gunz,bound to India with flores,was late- { 1y caft smay on theilland of Sc. Vincent’s, and that ¢ the Ceptain, with molt of the principsl officers, and \ & two thirds of the whole crew, were drowned ; They | Admiral Saanders, with 18 fail of the line, 3 fire “fhips, 5 bombs, and ss msny ingates and floops, as | niade his number about 36 fail, wescenizing in the } Y ox Guatt of Gibraltar, the 18.h o'Maich, for theToulon +»*and Carthagena (quedrons, heviog received advice of t their j,;mjtv:w:} and Being at fes ; their joint force y faid o be 12 thips of the line, and 5 frigates: That { ¢~ they had advice at Gibr that Englith vefiels in i Spanifh, ports were difcharged ; and thofe at Malaga, { wich thz Baglith confuly expelled daiy 21Gibralter 5 | And that the Bellons (rigate, on her paflige from England for Gibraltar, off of Bayonne, fell in with and tooka French merchantmean, of 24 guns,. belon- Y ging to Marfeilles. 1 Tuelday laft arrived the Sloop.... Brothers, Capt. i Psul Biicome, in 11 Days from Bermuda. He left at that Place the Ship Hero Capt. Sprouc of this Port L FRIDAY, Jouxe 18. 1762, -+ New-Hampfhire - The BReTurEN of the ancient * e g (who had fome Difference with his Men, moft of whom were gone to theGovernor to complain . Allo tie Sloop.....Capt Rabinfon likewife of this Part, who fome Time ago received Damsge by running .onsthe Rocks, but was repair’d szd would be ready to pio- ceed on his Voyage in afewDays. 'There has been ® great Scarcity of Provifions in that Ifland for {fome Time peft, nor have they yet received a {ufficientSup- ply. The Confpiracy among the Negroes was entire- ly fuppre{s’d, a few of the Ringleaders having been executed. By the Schoomer Byard, Capt. Maffenburg, juft arrived, who left Virginia on Thurfday laf}, we bear it is fear'd there that bis Majefly's Ship ArundelCapt. Manwarning, fatiow’'d there, who bas been out 0% 4 Craife for a long Time, and bas not yet been beard of, is either lof} or taken, Capt. Brown who Jailed from Antigua the 12th of May, repsris, that before be left that ifland, Genmeral Monckion was arrived there. Since aur laft fell dovon ts Sandy-Hook, his Majofty’s SBips the Intripid, Chiferfield, and Porcupine floops, with 13 tranfports, having on board bis Maj fly's 46th regiment, four independent companies, and about 1000 Provincial Troops ; and we bear they are to [ail in a few days, and that they are to be commanded by Colonel Burton. By letters from London we learn, that on the 17:b of March laft. the Lords of Appeal reverfed the fentence of 10 weffels beloxging to North America, that were lately takin and carried down to JFamaica, in their woyages to and from Mento Corifte. B O-§ T O N, June 14. We hear thet Capt. Leech Harris, in a new Snow from this Place bound to Jemaica, is teken by a French Privateer and carried into Port au Prince on Hifpeniola. A Schoouer bound out on & whiling Voyage, ......c Bickiord, Mefter, was lately caft awsy on Seil Ifles ; the Veflel fiove to Pieces ; but the People, 14 .in Number were taken up by a Fithing Velflel, in which they arrived here on Tucfday laft. Laft Friday Noon s young Child tied up in a2 Handkerchicf, was found in a Dock at the North Part of the Town, fuppofed to bave been murdered. Friday lsft arrived here Capt. Barns from the Weft Indies, and informs that Capt. Fielt in a Schooner belonging to this Place, and a Brig belonging to Phi- ladelphie, having touch’d at Martinico, were lately taken on their paflage from thence to St Kirs 1 ... Alfo that the French had cut cut of Francois Harbour in Martineco, an Englith Sloop of 10 Guns, which had on bosrd 85,000 wi. of Ceffee. By a Vefle] arrived at Newport laft Tuefday frem the Welt Indies, we have Advice that Adm. Pocock, with the Fleet and Tranfports uader his command, pafled by the North Side of Hifpanicla 27 Days be- tore ; and that three Englith Men of War, part of the Fleet, were feen by & Durch Veflel in chace of two French Men of War, ftending to the Northward. In a late Letter from London, by the laff Ships, a Gentleman writes as follows. L HE Operations of the War are carrying on with their former Vigour ; and great Fleet has lately failed, in ail Probability to artack the Spaniards in fome of their diftant and moft valusble Settlem: nts, which muft qickly bring them to Realon .....Aff:irs in Germany, by the Dzath of the Czarina, are like to take & favourable:Turn, Ia that Part of the World sll fides are fufficiently. tired of the War, where it is generally agrced, the next Cempuign will be the Jeft. Thus all things go on as well as we could reafonabiy expe@. It is true the piotralling the War, at any Rate, ata Time when we thought ourfelves at the Eve of Peace, fomewhat alarmed us ; but we are nothing dsunted, and un- animous to proceed with Spirit; having the fatis- taélion to know, that our Enemics have far greater Reafon to with for a Period to the Calamities of \Var then we.”. ..... Saturday laft drrived st Nintafket Rozd from Pif- cataqua, his Msjefty’s Ship Lsuncefton, of 40 Gans. Yefterdsy Afternoon embsarked from hence for Halilax Major General Joun Henry Bastipe, his Majefty’s Chief Engineer in America, Laft Friday Morning sbout One 0’Clock » Fire broke out at the Bake Houfe of Mr. George Bray, st the upper End of Williams’s Court, in Gornhill, which had got to fuch aHead before it wasdifcovered, that the fame, together with his Dwelling Houfle, all the Furniture, Bedding, Cloaths, &c. with sbaut 150 Barrels of Flour were wholly confumed ; the Family “GAZETTE > Nume. 298 [Werks fince this Papei b, L was firft Publith’d. ; Foreign and Domeflich. having but juft Time to fave themielves,..., the Fire being commuricated to moftof tie Dwellirg Houfes, pum aad Out Houlesin (sid Court with other Biiiid- Ings contiguous they were fcon in Flames ;5 .the Place where the Fire begsn was covfined end @ flicul: of_ Acce{s, but the Engines of the Town togeher with thofe of Charleftown and Ciftle William which kindly affifted, being in excelient ‘Order for playing, end the Fire Officers and Inhabitants ercouraged by. the Prefence of his Sxcellency the Governor, exert- Ing themicives 10 & grest Degres, a Siop was pur, thro’ the Favour of Divine Providence, to the Pro- grefs of the devouring Flames much foorer than our, Fears luggefted ; as it is much Subftance has been’ !ofi. and {tveral Families turned out of their Dwell- ings, but no Lives were loft..... It is melsncholy to obferve what s confiderable Part of this Metiopelis has been defolsted, and how many new Objeéts of Charity have been crested by thefe repeated dilsfters 3! this being the third confiderable Fire, befides the great anc, which hes happened ia this Town within the fhort fpace of three Years, ' ~ The following Families who lived in theCoart are by this tersible Accident now burnt out, viz. Mr. George Bray, 1 Mr. Eph. Copelsnd, juns Mr. John Popkins, T Mr. Jacob Thayer, = Widow Slater, 1 Mr. Benjemin Loring, Mss. Jane Day, T Widow Gould, and Capi. Arthur Noble, 1 Mr. John Barker. Mr. Samuel Holbrook, I ’ We hesr #from London thst the Petition of the’ Suiferers in the Great Fire to his Majefty, has been gracicufly received, and we flill flatter ourfelves, thaé they may in proper Time be recommended for Par- lismentary Relief. A To the PRI'NTERS. Wallingford, in Conne&icut, May 27, 1762 As the Relation of the follawing Catsftrophe man>” ifefts the wonderful and furprizing Effe&s ofElect- ticalFire,pleaie to give it sPlace in your nexiGuaerte,) N the Evening of the 25th Inflant May, beteveen the Hours of 8 ond g ¢’ Clock, the Houfe of Mr. Gil& Hall of this Town, was firuck with Lightning; the Difeharge of the Cloud refembled the Sound of the Ex plofisn af @ Number of large Cannon. ke Flame ap-+ pears to bave firfl firuck theTop of the Chimney, which, divided it, (although'a great Number of the Bricks gave. W ay to the Force of it ) the greateff Part of the, Flafb, fruck (rebounding from the Chimney) a Rafter on the Backfide of the Roof of the Houfe, run down theRafter, and jbivered it almoff te Picces 5 from thence into one of tbe principalPofis,andirent it very much,expended it - Jelf into open dir, in a great Meafure, driving off the Boards and Shingles, although fome Part of it rum down the Poff into the Kitchen, and confiderably byre a Negro Wenchabat flond mear [aid Poft ; it melogd, Jome Peater that bang upom the Poff, run through & Shelf of Pesvter, and melted each T bing at the Places where it entered and went from it ; went through & Partition into another Room,and through a Bag of Flax- Jeed, making a large Hole, (and perbap: by it, was, as st were in Part abforbed) broke feveral Earthen ‘L hings, and whot remained, it is fuppofed went thro”, fome Cracks into the Cellar. The other Part of the Flafh that firuck the Forefide of the Roof of the Houfe, run dowr a large Rafter, Jplit cff fome great Pieces, one Picce in Particular 7 or 8 Feet long was thrown balf acrofs the Garret, and one End forced thraugh the. Clapboards ; it run frem thence thro’ the Tenant, it is. the’t, into a Poft, forced off the Cafing, and fome large Pieces from tbe Poft, went off into the CellerWall and thro’ a Heap of Sand ; it unbinged feveralDoors, broke upwards of 40 Squares of Glafs. The Houfe being new, and no combuflible Matter bring near the Places. that were Bruck, it did not take Fire. The viewing which Devaflation,brought to myMind that ancient Saying,....Jovis omnis plens,..,Gop affu- atcth all the Powers of Nature. And alfo the Words” ef a Minifier once of thisTewn,but now inGlory, tobick 4 think 1bave beard were to this Purpofe, *“Every one ought when be fees a Thunder Cloud arifing, to fay to bimfelf, perbaps that Cloud is charged with a Thun-} der Boalty and Arrow of Death for me. J. B Paris, Feb. 15. On theanth inftant died at the Abbey du Boir, aged go, sn Englifh Ledy, Dzughter ot James I1. King of England, and Sifter to the Cheyalier de-St. George, She was fupported there by the King's Manificence, without sny Mention being made of it. Her Corpfe was removed with great Pomp, followed by many Englifh, Scotch, and Irifh Lords, to the Church of St. Antopy. d honoursble SOCIETY, cf free and scceptedMASONS, are herebyNotified to meet at Mr.Parry’s | PP S = AT can