The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, June 25, 1762, Page 1

‘. » A " ths Londén Prints #2' the zoth of April, frim FRIDAY, | June g < Containing thé Frefbefi 4 WY NEWYORK, Jue 10, Laff Tuelday Night arrived bere the Hilitax é: Capt Boulderfon, in 6 Weeks from Falmaith, which'be leff'the 25tk of April, and bas brought “which we bavg thefollowing Particulars. From the LONDON GAZETTE. St. JAMES’s, Aptil7. HIS Day the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of London, inCommonCoun- cil aflembled, waited on-his Mjefty; and being introduced by the Earl of Bute, onc of his Majefty’s Principal Secretaries of Stete,made their Compli- < ments tohis Mefty in a Congratulatory Addrels fpoken by Sir Williem Morton, theRecorder, on the Glorious Conqueft of Martineco. To which Addrefs bis Mojeflywas pleafed to return the Jollowing moft gracious Anfower. €C ¢ Thank you for your Loyal and Affeftionate I Congratulations, on our late imporiant Suc- cefs. Too much Praife cannot be given to the Bra- veryand Conduét of my Flect and Army. Youfay sruly that I am dazzled by the Splendor of repesgsd Viétories : The permanent Profperity of my People, as a free and commercial Nation, has always been the Obje&t of my Ambition : What conduces moft to that End, I fhall count my greateft Glory.” They were all received very gracioufly and had the Honour to kils his Majefty’s Hand: Sheremefs, April 14. It is rumoured here, that the Frencn threaten us sgain with an Attack in their Prame, and Flat bottom’d Boats; and that fome Men of War are to be immediataly pleced in the Mouth of the Thames, to ftop their Progrefs, fhould they attempt going up that River ; and others are to lIye in diifzrent S:attons to watch their Motions. L (@) N D O N. April 15. We heer that ia the rich Dreffes which are making up for the Court at Peterfburg, the Pre- ference is chiefly given to Britih Workmen ; and it is faid, fo great is the Czar’s Diflike te France, that he is determined to wear nothing of the Manu‘atture of that Country on any folemn Occafion, particularly on his Coronation. Toe Danith Troops have formed a Chain from the Eloe ¢ the Baliic, to whom his Danifh Majefty has given ftrict Osders not to -enter or invade any Part of Ducal Holftein, by which it was thought the Danes would avoid being the Aggreflors. We are inlormed, that with the intended new Drefs for the Coust, all Englifh Laces are to be worn, which will otally fapprefs that every extenfive Branch of Smuggling, (the French Blonds) and be happy Encoursgement to a very importamt Minufac tory whica would employ thoufznds of our Women, and «ff rd & ‘comforiable Support to many indigent Famnilies, befides cuiting the Sinews of an implaca- ble Enemy. The Eatertsinment given on Mondey by the Lord Myor a: the Manfion Houle, was in every Refped, fump uous, elegant and magnificent, The Ball at Night was opened by the Lacy Mayore(s znd the Ea:l of Errol ; and the Room where they danced being lightened up after a new Manner, the Appear- ance of the Ladies there, was uncommonly brilliant. The Minuet given outwas a /g Martinique ; and in the Deferr, which was moit curioufly ornamented wi'h Palm Trees and Feltoons of Flowers, upwards of thrse Fcet high, was @ Reprelentation of the [{l:nd of Martinico, with the Briufh Fleet riding in T'ri umph round it ; and at one Ead a large Man of War, compleatly rigged and arm’d, all in Paftry, with a Hat de la Touche of the fame Materials, pulled off in Reverence to the Britith Flag. The firft Courfe at Dianer confilted of Six Hundred cover’d Difhes from the Kitchen alone, exclufive ot the P:fties and other Eatables ; and the whole Number of Difhes fent up is faid to have amounied to upwards of Os¢ T houjand. April 17 On the 5th Inftant feveral Tranfports {ail«d for Beileile to receive the Troops on bosrd, defigned for Portugal,and carried over a largeDreught of Engineers, from the Train of Ariillery, to deftroy all the Fortifications upon that Iflind, after which they are to proceed toLifbon to join theBritithForces. Letters from Hamburgh of the gthInftan,import, ghat by Letters from Pomerania they had Advice, ¢hat the Rufian General Romianzow had received Ordérs to march his Troops into Holftein: TheR¢publick of Genoa have advanced a confider- 25. 1762, vites, 2 #ble Sim to the Emprefs Qucen of Hungury, on the Sccurity ot the Dutchy of T'ranyivanis. They wrie from Cadiz, that two of the principal Merchants, Timmerman and Keijy; the former a Hamburgher, snd the later an lrithman, were put ‘nder Arreit there, as it is (sid, for holding a Cor- ¢! pondence wizh Gibraltar, ¢ Sir Edward Hawke fets out T'e morrow forPort(- meuth, to take upon him the Command of the Fleet there, (0 be employed in a fecrer £xpeduion. It is faid at Magdebou g, thas it Pe ce dees not take plece by the End ot May, the Kinz of Pruflia will take Part of the Ruflisn T'roops inic his Seivice, and deiach a largeBedy of Piuffians to the Afiiitance of Prince Ferdinand. They write from Oftend of the 7th Inftant, that feveral Englifh Men of War had blocked upDuakirk, in fuch & Manner that no Veflel could go in or out. April 18. The Emperor of Ruffis pelented the Pruffian Genersl Winne, whom the King of Pruflia fent 1o Peterfburg, ¢ Purfeot 1005, Ducats, towerds his travelling Expences befides other valusblo Gifts. 4pril 20, Letters from Peterfbuigh of the 22d ult. advife that a Peace between Ruffic and Pruffis was on the Point of being concluded ;and that a Qaadruple alliance was expeéted foon o fall between ;lhe Caurts of Petesfburg, London, Beslin, and Stock olm, A private Letter by the lait Dutch Mail brought Advice from Gzrmany, that thePraflians had invefted Schweidni 2, and another firong Body of them had penetrated through U pper Silefia into Bohemia. Capt. Darbay, jult arrived at Plymouth from Leg- horn, off Cape Spartell {pake withAdmiralSaunders’s Squdron confilting of 17 Skips of the Line. Yefterday Gen. Crautord's Biggage, Stores, &c. were embark’d at the Tower for Portugal. Sir Joleph York, has reprefenied 1o the States General, that as the Enemies of the King his Mafter fezined to be meditating an Invafion of one of his Three Kingdoms, his Majefly hoped, as he had al- ready intimated, that in that Crifis theStates General would {ulfil. the Engagements they have alrecady entered into by Treaty. . The Reprelentations made by the Spanith Gran- dees in relpe&t to theBlockade, orSiege of Gibraltar, have been {ully verified ; infomuch that if the Court perfiltsin that Meafure, they muft be obliged to have 8 Corps of Auxilary Troops, Generals andEngineers from Francs. : His Majefty has been pleafed to sppoint Thomas Pownall, Efq; laie Governor of New. England, to be Dire@or General of Comptroll, with the Rank of Colonel in the Combined Army in Germany. Weare told that the King of Spain has declared that the Moment any of the Britith Troops land in Portugal, he will declare War ageinft that Kingdom. Hanover, April g. Gen. Luckner having de- tached 500 Huflars to Heiligenftadt, the Marquis de Lortange marched out ofGorttingen with 18coHorfe, and 2000 Foot, to intercept them, of which the for- mer having Notice, he put himlelf at the Head of 1600 Horle, and having come up with the French General the 16¢h Inft. as he was retreating towards Gottingen, he fell upon his Rear, killed 36 Men, and touk 8o Prifoners, beliides 100 Horfe. Major Wintzingerode, who commanded the HeflianHuflars, in the County of Eich:ficld. M. de Veux, Command- ant at Gottingen, has, on a ludden fet at Liberty the Town's People whom he had imprifoned, by Order, as is fuppoled of his Court, inConfequence ofRepre fentations made there by Prince Ferdinand of Brun- fwick, of the tyrannical Conduct of that Officer. L-O N D O N, April 135. The Iland of Martinico contsins by the niceft Culculation 265 fquare Miles ; Cuba, egainft which, it is faid,ourFicet is going 38.400 ;Hifpaniola 36,000 Porto Rico 3,200; and St Jago, 1,400, The J Aepn, Dixey, from erbleh{‘ld to Lifbon, is taken gqnd carried into Port Paffage. The following newPromotions are madeforNorth- America : Mr. Cox, to be Colle@or of the Cuftoms a: Quebec. Mr. Engley, to be Comptroller at the fsid Placs, Mr, Willism Lee, to be Surveyor like- wife at Qacbec. Mr. Edward Lamb, to beColleétor at Montreal ; and Mr. Richard Okees to be Waiter and Secarcher slfo at Montreal. We learn by fome of the French Officers, fays a ‘Letter from Taviftock,dsted April 11, that theFrench King has' conferr’d the greateft Miarks of Honour, befides a handfome Penfion,upon Count d’Eange, for his gallant Behavigur inthe Eaft Indies. Thoughhe. Nuwme, 29qg ¢ Weeks fince this Paven { was firit Publiib’d. =T GAZETTE Foreign and Domeflick. broke his Parole ; that they sre terribly chagrined at at the Lofs of Mariinico ; but are in grest Kxprétati. 0. fiom what the Spsniards will do, and are meci- tating lome mighty Blow, The Maiquis of Granby having found the Crofs Belts of theSolidiery very inconvenient and fatigucing in° marching, or Time of A&tion, has repreicnicd the {ame toLord Ligonicr, and obtained an Order for the Troops in Germany to carry theirCariouch Boxes in Fromt with & Belr; the Ma:gnis has likewife ob tained new Clothing for the Troops, with an additi- onal Quaniiiy of Linnen and Stockings. A Letier trom anOfficer in theAllied Army,dated Dende:ftadz, April 8, faye, Yefterday a fmariCoan- fl & happended in our N:ighbourhood st Heilingen- ftsdt, wherea Body of oo Huffars were pofted in order to cut off the Communicstion between the Werra and Gottingen. In order to open this Peflage, the Garrifon ot Goutingen fent cut between 3 snd 400 Men, either to feize them, or drive them from thence ; but General Luckaer being spprifed of their March, reinforced that Peft with 1 roo Huffars more, aitacked the EFrench, beat them, end chafed them into Gottengen sgsin,kiiled about 6e or 70,and took :bove zooPiifoners,befides a great deal of their P,under.” Some Letters fromHolland advife, that frefh Broils have heppencd between the Euglith and Dutch at Bengal ; and that the former had madeEncroachments on the latter, ThePruffians are making greatLevies inPomerania and Piuflis, nowwithftanding the Ruflisn Troops srg in both Countries ; and in the latter his Imperial Ma- jefty hes given exprels Orders-for reftoring 300,000 Rubles, which had been levied upon . them ior Con- tributiop, and that the magszines ere@ed there fhould be diftributed gra:is in fuch Manner as may be mofk fervicesble to the Inhabitants, The laft Leiters from the Hague fay, that the Court of Copenhagen have made- frefh Propofals 1o that of Pete:fbargh, which it is hoped will beac cepted, a3 his Danith Majefty is extremely defirous of preferving to his Subjects the bleflings of Feace, though he has omitted nothing that could be dore to provide a Force by Sea and Land for their Pro- teCtion. There are Letters from Lubec dir:éty, dated the laft of March, in which there is no Notics of the Danith Troops having infringed their Piivile- ges. Peace is(aid to be actually figned between the Courts of Peterfburg and Berlin ; and that sn Officer of Diftin€tion had prefented to his Imperial Majefty the Enfigns of the Prufiian Order, fet withDismonds to = very grea: Value. We have received Advice, that the Englith fettled at Belleifle have received Notice to quit the ifland as foon ss their Affair» would permic them ; and thatall neceflaryAffiftance fh uld be given them therein,with an sflurance to the Natives, upon their dutiful Beha- viour, to be left in the pgiceable Pofleflion of what they held 2nd enjoyed on thelfl:nd. They have begun the Embarkation of all the live Caule for different Iikinds in the Weft-Indies. FoA n P ™, A ™) St (Pt PR, [\, From the Lonpou Magazine for February 1762, A& P & B3I : N Englilh maftiff snd & French greyhound quarrelled about a bone ; and while they were fighting, in comes & Spasith pointer who fides with the greyhound. T he fpectators were fhocked st the unequal combat. They pulled the pointer by the tail, and many a cudgel vifited his loins in vain ; till fome one wifer than the reft, faid, let us mske fhort work of it ; throw a halier abomt his neck, - and throttle him. This was no fooner {aid thin done ; the Spanifh pointer immedistely quitted his hold being very near chosked. Upon waich the Englith focn got the better of his flim ant gonift, and each retired to his keanel, the maftiff carrying off his bone with him in trinumph. The M O R A L. The Ifthmus of Darien is the throat and neck of the 8pahifh monarchy. Let a rope be thrown over that as foon 2s may be, which may be done wih great eafe. Porto Bello, Chagre, and Panams, are well known in every part culir. The Englfh have more than fufficient force now in the Wek Indics, to do the bufinefs ; which, when done, sdicuto sil cor refpondence with America ; confuficn 2ad’ diftrefs would pour into Spain ; the Brinfh pubiick-would be vindicated ; and particulats wouid get immeufe riches, ~ The Spanifh poinier would not wag his tail again in a hurry, ’ 5 p £ D I