The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, October 8, 1762, Page 4

LONDO N, Yuyr4 ' Letter from an Officer in the Prince of -Seubife's Army near Caffel, cobers thty were driven by the Britifp Legions, dated from the flying Camp, June 26, 1762, te a Friend at Rofbach. HILE [ fee nothing about me but broken thighs, fplit fkulls, ghaftly looks, dejeéted countenances, and hungry fogidves, it is difficult for me to command fo much prelence of mind, as is necefiary to acquaint you with the principal circumftances of our bloody and fhameful defeat. Yefterday was the day that our Jaurels were to have renewed their withered ~bloom, our-bellies to be filled with Englifh roaft-beef and pudding, the tarnithed glary of our-monarch to recover its luftre,and all -things to be fet right. ‘But alas ! alas! the event has not anfwered our expectations : and indéed, in this event there is fomething extraordinary. The hoftile army approach- es. They fee us, and we fee -them ; and “yet though we fee them, they furround .us by furprize. You will afk how can that .be ? You will imagine perhaps we were all afleep, No, but we were dreaming, though awike 5 and reveris exhibiting a variety of - vifions, kept our fenfes in a ftate of abfence from the objeéts that were fo near us M----1 d Et---s was dreaming upon the means of bhumbling M --e¢ P---r, and leading S---fe imperceptibly by the nofe, without thewing his play, as ‘B --0 had done; fo that when Prince Ferdinand made his attack,he ftarted like a man awaked out of a profound fleep by a {fudden noile, and cried out,**Madam, - « it is not fo.---1 always atted in concert ¢ with the Prince.—Morbleu! Am1 to be ¢ facrificed like B'-v0? Your Excellency’® fays an Adjutant that heard him rave thus with his Eyes open *““i3 not at Verfailles; we are yetin the ficld; you may be indeed foon in the antechamber—but youare yet in the field. And—there—fee ! they advance.— Who, who?*’ fays the Marfhal. Ferdinand “and Granby, replies the Adjutant ** It s good, fays the Marfhal, let me follow, that 18 to draw the relation, eome hither ; and alfo the other able pen, whom 1 have hired to compofe my memorial againft S—e, Lord, Sir, this is- the time to fight—you will have leifure enough to fcribble after- wards. No friend, no ; ’tis now too late to a&,—befides, | am a ftranger to the coun- try ; a glorious retreat is our only refuge. Xenophon’s retreat with the ten thoufand, ¢id him as much honour asif he had gained ten thoufand viories ; and’® —his bones were whole. “‘Is our baggage fecured. No, !Sir, it is Turrounded and taken. Well, per- < haps, fomuch the better—we are too much given to drefs—officers ought not to be ,i.,,__,'.geans. Sound the retreat : To Caflel, my oys, 1o Caflel—we’ll make thofe Englith dogs run—after us at leaft.” - While d Et—s was enjoying his vifion and fecuring his retreat,his princely affociate was alfo in a trance, ftanding upright, and a vifion of the glory of France was prefen- ted to his enraptured fight. He faw, or he thought he faw, two bright planets in con- jun&@ion. Mars, in the form of E.—s, and Venus, in that of Pomp—r, and hailed the. .tutelary ftars of the moft amorous and war- Jike of nations. 'The tender pair were in- volved in a2 perplexed pigce of net work which no hand could open or unravel ; a wenerabl= tribe of magicians ftood by them who amaufed their anxious moments, and ‘by the force of feveral enchanting wounds, -gurned blood into money, poverty into giches, and pain into pleafure, Mars was ~gates, and ‘carried .into Gibralear, ot of hisclement, Venus was in - hers, fhe ‘had-alfo drawn Mars into it, and her point was to lead him there : 8he had placed for this purpofe,round the voluptuous Hero, a band ef Sybarite Generals, who foothed his foul to pleafure, expofed the folly of the bubble glory,finging, in gentle firains, that -male legions were made for-fhew, and-fe- male for enjoyment :—Soubife beheld the pleafing fcene, and was juft going to cry out * Long live our Mars; with his lovely Fair ! Long live his finging and dancing Sons, who carry the marks of honour on their back, and difpute with the Foe a pofteriori,”” when the alarm was given, of * the approach of the Britith and German legions, then remembering the. plains of Rosbach, he faid, ¢“My boys—let us act in charadter——down with your arms—let us end as we begun—there is fafety in fight —let Fame fay what the pleafes—let Louis frown, his frowng will ftrike. d’Etrees, and [ fhall be employed again to renew the im- mortal ftores of Rosbach and Granbenha- gen.” ‘* By this time the Generals, Colonels, and Captains, who had been dreaming of promotion and caballing, who had beheld, and even that only in vifion, foup maigre and onions,were awakened from their trance, and head over heals united their velocity in preferving from danger the amiable and fprightly legions of Louis the well beloved. But as, unhappily for us, the Allies knew how to ufe their legs as well as their®fwords, and were alting inftead of dreaming, we .gained lefs from our velocity than we had fondly expe&ted. Inftead of our vifions, the Allies made themfzlves malters of our rea- lities. The military cheft ‘is gone ; the baggage of the Marfhal Prince and the Marfhal Count is taken: The Englith Dragoons, the Hanoverian Huffars, and the Light Troops of Scheyter, returned with their pockets full of Louis d’ors, and hav+ left us nothing but poverty and fhame. It is faid that our princely commander, an- imated with a prophetic fpirit of reafoning fagacioufly from things paft to things. fu- ture, had placed a confiderable part of his treafures in the hands of the - pation againft which he'is fighting,if I may ufe the term. This might lead me into fome curious fpe- culations,— but—whgt ? another alarm— we muft fly againg-a paity of the enemy is again within fights and as I bear the retreat beating, .lsmuftsbreake off thus abruptly-- Adiey; Pear Si;;.’: L O N RO N, Fune 28. On Sunday, lalt’thé RightHon. the Earl of Bute took,hie sfatvagient at St. Martin’s church,*and on Mondhysthe oaths at Weft- minfler hall; in‘order’ €0 qualify himfelf for the Hgh poitiof Firft Lotd ofithe Treafury: The brave Col, ¥ienry Townfhend that fell inGermany, in attehpting to get athore at Guadaloupe’ when it was taken, had the misforeenerof *falling over board, but his black ‘jumping over board faved him : and in theJaf campaign ¢n Germany, he was fhoy, throtighiBhe arm.’ The Hasmoine, a Spanifh regifter Ship, which "lefg Liinia the .6th of January,bound for Cadiz, was'taken the 21ft of May off Cape Si. Vincént, by three Englith Fri- Her cargo is faid-to confift. of near 32 millions of money regiftered, and the unregiftered te be likewife: very confiderable, befides 2000 ferons of cocoa, and a great deal of other valuableé: merchandize. PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, . [ Dwelling Houfe and Land] ° 1 uetday next, NOTICE is hereby given, That there 'will be expos’d.to Sale to the higheft Bidder, o ¢ ' the late Houfe of Samwel/ Evans, in Pormouth, on Tueldsy the Twelith Day of O&tober next, at Four 0’Clock in the Aftérncon, 8« LOT of LAND where faid Houfe ftands, being about Sixty Feet in Breadth, -~ fronting on the Street, and carryiog that' Bresdth runs back' Ope hundred snd twenty Feer. 'Alfo about thigze ACRES of Lend lying nesr the Town Train- ing Field, fo called, nesar the Dwelling Houfe of Capt, Bdward Cate, with:fundry Houfhold GOODS, to be feen the Day before, and at the Time of the Sale. The Corditions of Sale tobe then mede known. N. B, The Sile to be at feid Houle. Ao e Qs s o, ) SN PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. A LIST or Affeflment made on the Non Refident Proprietors Land, living out of ihe ‘Tawn ot Pelbam, which-is now due, is as follows, viz, Col. Fobm Tyng, £.2.6 4. and Wilkiam Brows, Efq; £. 1. 1. 84. ] Now ifthe above Perfons do mot pay the feveral Sums affixed to their Names, together with the Charge of Advertifing, to the Subicriber in {sid Pel- barm, fo-much of their Lands will be fold at publick Vendue, to the higheft Bidder, et the Houle of Mr. Jobn Fergufon, Innholder in faid Pe/bam, on Wed- nelday the 27th Day of OZober next, at One 0°Clock at Noon, es will be fufficient to difcharge their rg- {psQtive dues. ° Nath. Gage, Collebtor. Paibam, September 23. 1762, e v ! IR IR e g A SRR M IS SR All Perfons that have any De- Demands on the Eftate 6f Captein Richard Rogers,® late of Starks Town, ( {o called) decesfed, are defir'd as foon as may be, to fend in their Accomptsite Fames Regers, Efg; of Londenderry, Adminiftrator to {sid Eftate, in order for -Settlement. And thole Indebted to faid Eftate are defired to make fpeedy Payment. [as v Lo b oy ) e\ ] \ompmad TO BE SOLD at Public VENDUE, Thirty four Acres of Land, lying in Exeter, about two Miles and a half from tie Mecting Houfe, and by the st Rosd that lesds to Epping, adjoining to Land F Mr. Epbraim Ro- dinfon, being 2 Trat of good Lend, well water’d and wooded, and part thereof under Improvement: Seid Vendue is tobe holden on Tuefday the 19th Day of Ofober next, sttwo of the Clock in theAfterngon, 2t the Houle of Mr. Fonatban Gilman, Innholder in Rxeter. - Conditions of Sale to be feen st Time and Place aforefaid, September 28 .h 1762. sy g[UST PUBLISH D, nd 1d st the Printing Oflice in this Town, A BOOK entitled, AN HEROIC POEM ; From the Taking of Minorca by the French, to the Raifing of the Siege of Quzhec by GENERAL MURRAY : with Marginsl Notes ; being s very complest Hiftory of the War.....Printed in London ; .and Re printed’ in Portfmouth, Price Tawo Skillings and Six Pince Sterling.... It has been highly recom- mended by Men of the beft Senle, Judgmen: snd Learning.....There not hevng been any Periormance to equal it fince the War began. The Author of the shovs Performance declares... ¢« My fole defign is this; (‘fir'd by « love of my country 1 and a generous eftezm for all who have fought, bled, or dy’d for my country’s caule!) to excrt my utmoft efforts, to inroll in the lift of fame their names ; to call them forth in the faireft point of view ; and drefs their amazing aflions ! in all the elegance of harmonjous numbers, and pogsic truth ! to warm the heart of him thas teught and lives! to give ¢ juft, deferv’d encomivm, on the worthy war- ring dead ! and inipire with heroic fentimesnts, the foul of every youth which reads, snd hath not yet been respirg the honcurable harveft of martial glory. f- :~—~——~ Juft Publifh’d, fold by the Printer, -~ > e - ’ A new Edition of Z7atts’sPfalms, A few ‘of WarTts’s Hymns To be Sold at the Printing. Office in this Town pA LI Printed by D. FowLE. : Cor\mned (et S \rypod i D ~ v 4 »! -