The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, August 13, 1762, Page 1

s THE .FRH\]L.;A?.Y,-. AUGUSTI3 1762, Conzaining the Frefbeft- Advices, PORTSMOUTH, Augult 12. -~ Treindefiinedior Porcugal ardagred tpifet oue 6. Friday Morning, Six o*Clock. _ relt’y for Perincsth.........., Wé hear 1000 young Men Extraél of a Letter from a Gentleman in Bofton to bis Friend in this Town, dated loff Monday after the Boffan Papers were publilbed. :’LAST Thurfday’s New Zork Paper is juft come to hand, from which we have the following Apvices, viz. That the Queen of Hungary is dead.—That the Euglith at _ . the Havannah, had intercepted and taken 2 waggon loads of Money.—Thgt a veffel' had arrived at Philadelphia from adeira, which brings intelligence of a veffel being arrived v there from Leghorn, the Mafter of which informs, that he faw the Englith and Spanith Fleets engaged off Cadiz, confifting of 25 fail of the Line each.—That the Spaniards had taken feven Towns in Portugal 5 and that the Portuguefe commanded by General Crawterd, had a {mart Engagement with the Spanith Army, aod defeated them, tho’ they “were five to one in Number.—~This Paper ‘alfo contains the King’s Speech, &9c. e et ST L VR o e e SR EE s e T2 < By the Duke of Cumberland Packet Boat, Capt. . Goodridge, wbo arrived at New-2ork on Sunday the 1ff of this Infi. Auguft, in fiz Weeks and four Days from Falmouth, we * bave extralled the following Advices, viz. L ONDOQN, Msy 28 - N the zoth paft Couns Schwerin, adjutant to the King or Pruffie arrived at Breflsu, prececced by feveral poftilions, with the treaty of peace concluded and figned at - Petesiburg on the §th of May N. §. Oa the 21u ais Proflisn Majeity geve agrand entertzinment st his bead quarters at Betterlon, 0. all the Gener:l Officers of his Army ; st which the hesith of the Em- peror of Ruflis was drank, under feversl diicharges of ertillery. On the 24th the peace was proclsimed at Berlin, smidit the cordial Acclamaticns of a vaft con- courfe of people. Al that wgs publifhed on this oc: cafion of tic_ congerns. of the Treaty. was, that Pruffia and Pomerania are reftored to the King. " On Sunday morning - lsft, sbout .9 .o'clock died at Moer Park, in Hartiordfhire, the Right Hon. Lord ANSON, ot Soberton, fiift Lord of the sdmiralty, sd- mirsl, and commander in chief of his Msjziyls Fleet, one of his Maj:fty’s moft. hon. privy coencil, and elder brother to the trinity houle, 8 Houfe, and Fellow of, the Royal Society. - " May 27.- Yefterdsy his Gracg, taé; Duke of New- Caftle refigned his office of Fi.ft Comenllioner of the Threalury. We hear that his Grace wicwga Letter on this occafion to the Lord Muyor of ‘Ldnden, end ano- ther to the Chairman ot the Eaft India Company. . This nobleman has ferved his Sovereign ang jhe Public with inviolshle fidelity end intcgrity, throuzh' s losg feries of years, end with a dificterefledne(s . wapessiled;, has expended near 500,000l of hia fortune, +%% - - Tt is reported thas the sbove Noblema#) on being offered a penfion of 6oocl. per aonum, mede tiie fol- lowing declsiation, truly becoming & Britith Spirit :— « No ( faid bv) it fhail never be (aid, tiat honelt sfier (pending five hundred ¢htoufend pounds in-<his cquntry’s fervice, at laft reft;ned tobecome 8 peafiene:,” They write from the Flague of the 18thy that they were informed by letters received” that day irem. Ham- birg, that fevers prevsiled to fuch a degree in that city, that near fixreen hundred perfons had died in the fpsce of ten or twelve days ; that the (ame diforder had ep. peared at Aliena ; and thst at Seralfend fifty or fixiy perfons were carried ¢ff by it in a.dey! The Prince of Mecklenburg, third Brother to het Mij:fty, and the Count of Lidpe Buckebourg, who je 1o commead the Briilh Troops in Portogal arrived in Town Yeclterday......Barracks a-e built for 15,000 Ea- glifh Trocps about 3 Miles from Lifbon, on s bedusi- ful Spot of Ground e any in that Kingdom... .Six Bat- talions are ordeied to Beleifle, all theForces there being orderéd to emburk ior Portugal..... The Officers of ihis overnor. of the Charter . in Portugil hnp‘gqmppehlunj}fqlvq with Horfes and . Accountrements, who defiyh 10 sttend their King as Volun cers, withoui sy Pay, =~ - . . Leuers trom Patis fay; the invefted Miranda, : [See mere Loniqg ard_ Foreign News in mext Page) PHIL A BX2ALPHIAL Fuy 29 By Capt. Philip/ow from Guadalinpe we are inform'd that the enemies privateers are very thick about that ifland aid Martinico = That Caps. L' Efiach in o French pre vateer, bad cut out of the barbour of Petit. Plain thi flop Refolution, Capt. Patterfon, bound to this port : That the prople on baard the privateer faid,they bad taken teo brigs belonging to Pbiladelpbia : And ‘that faid L'Eflach bad alfo taken, about that ifland, near 20 [ail of veffels, gredt and [mall ; one of which is the government Slop withSsl- diers, going to (bift the garrifon Capt. Pbilipfon waschafed of the tapes of Virginia by @ floop, wbich be ook 10 be a privateer ; and [poke with s vt ffel from Virginia, by which be learnt, that there were a privateer flosp and Schosner on the coaf, wbich bad 1shin & [now from Virginia and ranfomed ber. O Saturday laft one of our pilet boats came up,eoith 1he difagreeable news of a privateer being on cur coaff. And on L bur[day morning, asCapt. Magnas Miller, in the brig Lovely Lays, bsund to Barbadss, toent out of the capes, be Spuiudé have altually ewas attacked by a floop, who gave him ber broadfide 5 upen - whick be immediately bauled bis wind, and fired bis flern chace guns, the privateer purfuing, and firing ber bow ¢boce, .and continyed im that manner as lirg as they could b¢ feem, but a3 it was thought the Lovely Lafs gained on the privateer, we are in hopes fbe basgot clear. Capt, File, in abrig belonging to Poole, is arriv'd bere. §‘b€ was beusd to London from Antigua, and fail’d the 6h of June, with the flur, but was Joon after Vaken by 4 S;)u_'tfib privaleer, and retaken by Capt. Soull, in 4 St. Coriffiopier,s privateer, and the Diana of Rbode fland. NEWYORK, Augup 2 Yeflerday arrived bere Captain Maore, ix 1g days Srom tbe Havanmabitiz. corfirms 1he forwer intelligence, and adds, that tbeé&'afl/c wasexiremely battered 5 that the Spaniards were obliged ta move tbeir cannon frong fide t» Side to play on oxr people 5 and that it was expeited it would furrender in a Day or two: That theSpanifb fbips bad furnifked a great Number of men for ihe defence of the Caftie:‘Ihat a perfeit barmony fubfifled betwoeent the army and fieet ; and that we kad there a1,000 feldiers-capable of doing duty. ’Tuwas faid the Captain of Mosre Caflle was kill’d, ard bis Place fupplied by a Cap tain of ok of the Men of War in th: Harbsar ; and that the Day be.come away vuf Troops bad opsuei & Bustery on the Fort at the W[} Sideof the Harbour. Tbe Captains Mar/bal, Stevenfon, -and 4 other veffels arrived at Jamaica from Martinico, the 42b of Tuly, with provifions for the army at the Havanab, for swhich place they, were to fail about the 10th. By Capt. Geedridge eve learn, that the General Wall pockzt, Capt. Ayres, wa: taken by a French privateer of vz guns and 0o men, after an-exgagement of'§ bours, on ber paflage from thence for Falmouth, and ranfomed for 500 guineas; 1bisis the third time this packet boat bas been taken twice by tbe [ame privateer ;... Several tho fand dollarstbat were [hipped by our merchants en b:ard faid jbip were Javed, and that ibe fbip with the cafb twas arrived at Faimoutd B O 8 T O N; Auguftg. Wednefday laft the large Manfion Houfe of Captain Timothy Stevens of Roxbury, was entirely. confum’d by Fire, occofioned by a Spark from the Ckimney falling on the Roof. The, Houthold Furniture and every Thing, except what was in the Cellar, faved: By Veilels from Halifax we havean Ac- count that one of our Veflels, 2 Snow from Dartmouth, laden with provifions went into St. John’s, where fhe was feiz’d by the Enemy, {tripped of her Sails, and a Midhip- man and fome [Hands out of one of the French Men of War, were put on board : But the Mafter of the Snow ltaking an Op- portunity, when fome of the Frenchmen - wrgnt alhore, procur’d a Number of Englifh- mgf) who belenged to the Gramont Frigateg : ’ SRl NUMB 'gp\'fi_v“'[:Wnk's fince this Parik & | NeW-Hampflni‘ gg.; g G AZE i v Foreign and Domeflick, =y was firt Publith’d, - i - cut thé Cable, and ftood aut of ‘t‘hc.tHalb ' s there being a Suit of Sails on board, they '\ kept -bending them the whole Time the Enemy wete firing on thém from!the Shore’: The Soow was_arrived at Halifax, with thre 3 vi L . ~ vy VR A ¢ & { S 3 Midfhipman and fome of the Frenchmenion | board. 531 “ : “We allo hear, thit & Vellet belotging & Rhode Ifland, "deeply loaded, went into ] John's, withi all her Colours out, fecing Enx glith' Colours' flying at the Fores and on board the Ships,not knowing thePlace was int the Enemy’s Hands, till the Mafter went on board the Admiral’s Ship. - Monday laft arrived here Capt. Maddicks in the Ship Anne, frem Dartmouth in En-, gland, who failed in Company with a Num: ber of Veflels bound to Néwfoundland, un-~ der Convoy of his Majefty’s Ship Antleope of 50 Guns.—Capt. Maddicks, on his ftancs ing in for St. John’s, was becalm’d, and a Shallop came off with fome Englith People;- who informed him, that the French were in. Poffeflion of that Place ; whereupon he ftood* | away for this Port. Woe hear a Snow is arrived at Cape Anae, with 150 Paffengers on board from New-- foundland. . Sl And on Tuefday latt arrived here a Sloop from Newfourdland with about 50 Mea Paffengers, 16 of whom made their Efcape from St. John’s in a Boat, a Fortnight aftes-— thac Place furrendered to the French ; they - inform that the Enemy had already ereéted thre¢ new Fortifications there, and had alfo greatly ftrengthened the old For¢ on'the Lapd fide :—That they bad fent to England, ik . two {mall Veflels, the Englith Garsifon which they took there, confifting of about 8o Sol- diers 5 and that other Veflels were preparing to carry Home the Merchants-and Seamen i —-That they were ficting the Gramont Fri- gate for thé Sea 3 and that no Englith Vef~ - fe ! had come into that Harbour fince the, - French had Pofleffion of it :—That the Antilcpe Man of War having received In-. telligence of St. John’s being. in the Hande of the Enemy, landed near Marines on the: Ifle of Buoy, at Ferriland; where thereisa good Fort, and the only Place that held ouc when the [{land was taked by the French in Queen Anne’s War ; and thattlie Antilope afterwards went te 8St. Mary’s Bay :—That - the French had fitted out no Privateers of any Confcquence, but only a few fmall Crafe . which were gone to the Northward,and had deftroyed the Settlements at Conception Bay," and were proceeding to Trinity to .do the: fame there 3 both of which Places the In- habitants had deferted with moft of their Kf- " : fetts :—That the French General had iffued - a Manifefto, fignitying that fuch of the Ins. .* habitants who did come in-and fubmit them="" _ felves before the 25th of July,fhould if takeny™ be treated with ‘great feverity :==That the, -*- French gave out they expected to be joined by 6 or 8 Spanith- Men 6f War, and alfoa* . \f Number more from France, and that they were determined to keep Poffeflion of the Place.— , ‘ [ For more News fee the lajt Page, ] i _,..1 B { g 3 3 i & e ! & - o . oy § )