The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, August 6, 1762, Page 2

K12ving pablifped in our laft the Arcsint of " 3be Martsrdom lately at Toalsufe in Franee, and in this Paper given a Relation of the Cruslties exercifed towards a Family i tie jame Town.; we fball infert the fol. lswikg Remarks on ‘the Craclty of the French ; which may perhaps be timely on dnotber Account, viz. the Encouragement the Frezch General ‘bas gion to the In- babitanss of Neswfoundland to fubmit, that “tbey foall b2 treared as FRENCHMEN. ( % 7E have feen, sand it cannot be too often repested, for it ought to be deeply eograven on our Minds, and the Minds of our Children, that tbe French jeok én us as & Nation of Hereticks, who are gt anly their Encmies, but alfs the Enemics of Gud, whom, they declare, they think Iémx Jetves bound inConfeience to difirey,as impioss Wretches.. A blefled Religion wuly ! [his isFrench CrariTy & Popilh Humaniry ! H:d old Pagani(m {any Thingin itfohor- sible and deteftsble | What would the Ma- hometans, of Indoftan, think of Chriftians, & their Religion, if they were to read this moft impious and hellith Declaration ! If ¢he Chinefe were to [ee it, would they not root out of their Kiogdom the Profefors of this diebotifm, this Dodrine of Devils, thefe inhwman Principles, and sil the ia- fernsl Furies, the Priefts who teach them, 4n defance of common Sanfe, and common Hamanity..... The French declare, “We ‘are Enevies to Ged, as well as to them, and tbercfore, they are bound in Conjcience to de froy Juch impivas Wresches.” s not this infinunting that they think, they fhall merit ‘Heaven by imitating Hell? According to ‘their own: Account they comceive, they fhall be damned, if they do not murder us. Whst fhocking Blalphemy | What horrid ‘Impiesy ! They reprefent the great and good Cresioi, a5 giving Heaven, asa Reward for ¢he moft horrid Villanies and detcflabie ‘Crimes ! ‘Tantam Religo petuit [uadere ma- dorum. When old Paganifm lifted the mur- “derans Knife to the Throat of Iphigenis, Grown ripe for 6r44ql Ty, To bribe the Gods, ond byy aWind for Trey 3 It wis doae with Horror andReluctance ; ‘but Popery ins holy Buschery, shat teaches, “that Heeven can be gained, and Hell fhun- ned, only by commisting the moft bloody Tragedies snd deteitableCrimes ; which are exccuted with repiurons Joy, retber than with Relo@snce. Doubtle(s, if they hed the power, we fhould foon fee the dread- ful MufMacre, formely in Ireland, repeated in England. ‘Thgy ooly wan: Qpportuni- ties 1o a8 over again the fame bloody Tira- - gedies. A Reverend Divine of the Church of England tells us, that Con Mahony, sa Trith Jefuit, at Lifbon. iv his Book, which he priuted therein 1645,8ddrefles hisCoun- trymen in the following Manner . “ My . desr Irit, (fays he) perte the Work of y;;'r Libcr&y.’y kill all the Heretics, and all who st them. From 1041 ta 1645 you Rilled 1§0,000Heretics,as you acknowledge. . X wauld to God you bad illed all, which 'ou piuft do, or drive them out, that our {gly Land be no longer plagued with fuch « basboraus Generation.” Could old Belzs- bub, have uttered a more dreadtul, impious and harrible Speech 7 How muit he have . 'grinned horsibly / » ghaftty Smile ! * to Rave heard the internal Daclaration of his owa Popith Flamen’..... * Milton. PHILADELPHIA, July 22. The Ship William and Mary, Captain Nicholfon, and Brig Grace, Cspt. Ritchie, ' aré arrived here from Gibraltar — Thele Veflels were two of thofe detsined inSpain * fince the beginning of the Spwnifh Wer, ' and releal:d by Ocder of thet Court. By a Gentleman who came Paflenger, weare fyvoured with the following Intelligence, ¥i2. Thata Dutch Man of War arrived st Mualegs sbou the firft of May, and inform- _ &d, that 12 Ships of the Line, end 4Frigates srere preparing for theSea at Todlon, with the wemott Expedition, and it was thought vrould be resdy to fail for CartRsgens, ehoat the latter End of May ; That there were 12 Ships ¢ “the Line at Cadiz, befides Prigates, and 4 of the large Ships were sc-, ‘tislly fallea into the Bay, Manned end ready for Sea : That the Spwith Army going sguinlt Poriugal, confiited of 41,000 Mer, snd was encemped st Zamora ; General Soris, who commanded it, is faid to be recalled, snd the Conde Mirandia, Minifter at the Court of Poland, is ordered to the Command thereof: That there were fome Defertion smong the Spanith Troops, and many more would follow 2s Opportunity cffered : Thatthe Portuguefe Froatier Gar- rifons are well plWided, and that their Ar- my smounted to 30,000 Foot: That about the 24:h of May they heard at Gibraliar, that two new railedRegiments were erriv’d at Lilbon from Ireland, and more daily cxpecled ; slfo a fine Trein of Artillery, snd a Camp was marked out for the En- glith Troops a few Miles fiom Lifbon : That there were 3 Sail of Portuguele Men of War of the Line ready for Sea : That the King of Spain psd iffued an Edi&, for- bidding all Trade by Sea for three Years, if the War lafted folong: That the Spmith Nation was much diffatisfied with theWar: That 17 Sail of the Line, with 6 Frigates, and 3 Bombs, were at Gibraltsr, under the Commaind of Adm. Ssunders, and Com. Breet and Amherft, who keep a good lock out for the Carthagens and Toulon Equs- drons, which were expected down : That it was faid two whole Regimants had Jeft the Spanifh Army, snd joined the Portu- guefe ;: ‘['hat the former were in much Want of the Neceffaries For an Army ; and thet s French Privateer of 2z Guns was fent into Gibraltar. The HERO Privateer Capt. Appowen, is fallen down on a Cruize aguinft his Ma- jefty’s Enemies. NEW Y ORK, Julyz6. When His Majefty’s Snip Gofport,Capt. Jarvis left Englaind, which was the 6th of May, they were in duily Expe@ation of Vifit from their French Neighbours at Dunkirk ; for which Purpofe, "twas faid they had colle&ed & valt Number of Flat- bottomed Boats, amnd sbout 30 or 40,c00 Men ; that Commodore Moie had' pre- poled 8 Scheme for entering the Harbour of Daskirk, and deftroying every Ship and Veflel there ; that 30 Englilh Frigues and 2o Ships of the Line, were daily cruizing off that Place ; that his Majelty had given Admiral Hawke a fpecizl Commifiion, whereby he was impowered to difpole of sll the Ships in the different Harbours of England a3 he pleafed : that Adm. Anfon wat dying et Bath ; that the Duke of York had hoifted his Flsg on board his Majefty’s Ship the Blenheim, snd that Lord Howe was to accompany the Duke (in Cale he went to Ses) 1 faid 8hip; that Advice wiss reccived in England thst four French Men of War had got out of lome Part of Frapce and were déftined for America, and thet 6 Englith Men of War were immedi- ately fentin Purfuit of them ; snd that his Roysl Higbnefs the Duke of Cumberland had offered hit Service to commend all the Troops in England. [ We lesve our Readers to/judge, whether the sbovemen- tioned French Ships ere not thofe that have taken Newtoundhmd: - Since our Jaft, the Privateer General Monckton, Captsin Sinnot, and Schooner Flying Herlequin, Capt. Right, failed on a Cruize againit his Majefty’s Enemies. Thur(day lsft two Ships srrived here from Coik, in 60 Days, loaded with 2700 barrels of pork, 2nd 1000 fiikins of Butter, &c- for the ufe of his Msjelty’s Trodps on this Continent : They dailed from Cork the 23d of May, in company with 19 other fhips, all loaded withProvifions for Quebec, under Convoy of his Maj:fty’s Ship Aldbo- rough, of 20 guas, Capt. Graham, and the Tamar {lop of war. Oa the 27th of May they fell in with 7 fail of Daich fhips from Batevia for Amfterdam. Fridey laft errived here Capt. Craig in 26 days fram Jsmeica : The 10th Inft. he came paft the Havapnah, at sbout 2 leagues diltance, sad the fsme Day ipokc with a fmall privateer, called the Black River Capt. Miller, wha informed him, that the Englifh army had been above three Wecks landed Lovlg VW, st the Havannsh, erd had kept s moft 75 - ceffint fite moft ofthat time “sgain®t ‘the Moore Csitle, in which he faid they had made tomeBréeches,and that the Spanjsrds coniinued to mske a very gallant de’ence. - B 8 N, Auvguft 2. News from the HAVANNAH. €)Y Capt. Jefeph Gardner, who arrivé& st Newport, Rhode Iflend, laft Fri. : day from Jamasics, but lsft from Ca- jere Bey, 2 Leagues to the Esftward of the Havannah, on the Iflend of Cuba, in 15 Duys, we have the following genersl Ac. count of the Operations of the Britifh Flegt end Army ageinlt that Place, viz. That the whole Fleet arrived there from Martinico Eh‘ 7th of Jume, and the Troops hndfl immediately withous the lofs of & Man,and in four Days tock Poffeffion of the Country round the Havanosh ; that they began to eret Batteries agsinft Moore Caftle, which is on the Ealt Side going into theHar that on the 1t of July our Bmexinbm opened and kept a conftantFire at theCagtle ; thet the fame Day, st 8 A. M. hiaMajcfi,?; Ships Cambridge, of 80 Guas,Capt. Goo- ftrey, the Dragon of 74 Guns,Capt Harvey snd the Marlboro, of 68Guns, Capt, Bnrm; run in snd came toan Anchor clofe under the Caftle, at which they kept & continual Fire till 1z o’Cloch, when they were oblig'd to haul out, the Spaniards having flood to their Guns and fired very hot ; the Cam- bridge had ber Captain, ‘hfici and one of the Lieutenants kill’d, and upwards of 100 Men kill'd or wounded ; the other Ships had alfo s great many Men kill'd and woua- ded ; that our Batteries were #ill firing st Moore Caftle, which they were détermined to Storm in 3 Days, if it was not delivered up before that Time, ourPeople having got their ScalingLadders all ready for that Pur pofe, which if they could once accomplith, they make no Doubt but they fhould have the Town very (oon ; that there is #Spanith Admirsl and feveral Men of War in the Harbour; and have (unk three Ships at the Mouth of it to keep our Men of War from goingin, ' e Capt. Gardner further informs, thet he failed frem Jamaica on the z5th of June, with theFleet forEurope,confilting of sbout 140 §ail, under Convoy ofComodore Dou glais ; that when the Weet came off the Havannsh, on theirPsflige thro® the Gu'ph, Admiral Pocock ordered all the Veffels to come to sn Anchor, and informed them that he fhou!d detain them 8 Days : In this Time Cspt. Gardner went afhore,and from a high Hill about 8 Mile from the Britith Encampment he could difcern only five Spanith Men of War in the Hatbour ; that the Englifi hed nine Batteries open conftant ly playing on Moore Caftle ; that he heard while athore, that the Governor of the Ha. vennsh had {ent & Flag to the Britith Gene ral, to inform him, that if he fpared theCity he would furrender upon the tsking of the Caftle ; that although the Englifh had an Encampment on the Back of the City and Batteries ereted, yet they had not fired up onfiit, the Tow? being in their Power to deftroy st any Time ; that he heard there w‘e““’fi““ & from both Sides: that it began to ba fickly in our Camp; end that we hed loft & grea: meny Boildiers in kill'd snd wounded fincs they landed...., A young Man who ‘came Paflegger in Capt. Gardner, who waa the luft athore, fays aHo, that the Moare Caftle was very much battered ; and that theSpaniarde fup plied the Fort with their Negro Slaves,shey conftantly keeping :Number cheined to the uns; Captain Gardner,being in & {mall Veflel, flip'd away before the 8Days was out which the homewsrd bound Fleet was to be de tained at the Havannah, (o that he had fiot an Opportunity of . bringing & more circamftantial Account of the Proceedings ot our Forces at that -Place ;but we may foon expet to hear the Iflue of this impor tant Enterprize, as it was faid, they were making Preparations to Storm the Caftle by Land, whilft fome of the Ships attack’¢ it by Ses, which was to be done in « Day ot two aftet Captain Gardner failed, - g -