The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, November 5, 1762, Page 1

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THE Nevr-Hampfhire Containing the Frefbeff Advices; The fillowwing News is extrafted from the London Papers which came in Capts. Adams azd Ball from London, azd Barilet and Gardner from Briftol, viz. L O N.D. O N, dsgafl) 14. ¢ HE latt letters from Germany infinuate, that the; whole Freach army will inall probability redre to the firong camp of Bergen, near Francfort,and content themlelyes with throw- inggarrifon: into feveral trong places upon theRhine. Thetonly difficulty forefeen isthe extricating Count ) de Stsinvilee, 23 the forces under his cemmand can- not poffinly fabfift for any. lengih of time in Caflel. The young Prince is faid to be as- finc a child as ever was born. . Extraf of a Letter from Paris, Auguf 10, “By Lettess of the b:ft Auathority from England we are 'informed, that the Preliminary Articles of Peece have been already figned there, but the Mat- ter-is s yet kept fecret here,until he finslRefolutions of the'Court of Madsid are communicated to our Migiftry. ! i ¢ It 15 (sid that allCanada is to be ceded toBiitain ; Moartineco & Guadaloupe reftored to France, the Pruflive Territorier, corquered by France, to be given to the Houle o' Auftris ; and Silcfia to be yield- ed tothe Pruflisn Monarch, »s he poffeffed it before the Commencement of the War.” . Tt Report of sn spprosching Pesce prevails very ftrong this Day, about itheRoyalExchange, snd gains great’ Credit. * ° His Grace the Puke of Bedford is expe&ed to fet owt far France fome Time this Week. Letters in Town fromMadiid, dated the 2gth ult. fay the-Negocistion for & Peace batween the Courts of France and Great Britain is a&ually at 2n Ead, the Térms offered being utterly rejeéted, an curPart; in confequence of which a Courier was difpatched from thesace in ail Haite to theCourt ofFrance, andExpref- fes, at the fame Time, fent to Cadiz, Ferrol, and Carthagens, for the immediate Sailing of the Fleets from thofe Ports. : ‘Auguft 23:. Her Majefty and the Prince of Wales are fo well, that the D:ums beat snd Mufic plays sgiin when Guard is relieved at St. James’s. By & lste Account of the Captures made by the French on the Britifh Subjeéts, it appears, that from Jahtiary 1761 to the prefent Time, they have taken ». 812 Ships in all, among which are 60 from Virginia, sffrom Newfounland, 36 from Caroling, and 231 from Jamaica. His Grace the Duke of Marlborough is Married to Lady Caroline Ruflel, Daughter to his Grace the Duke of Bedford. ‘We hear that feveral more Men of War will be ordered for the Eaft Indies, in order to attempt the Reduftion of the reft of the French Setilements in that part of the World. ; . According to Letters from Hamburg of the 13th Inft; the Emprefs of Rufliz had sffured the King of Denmark that the defigned to live in good Harmony and Friendfhip with him ; but would not give up the juft Claih the Jate Emperor her Confort had to Part of the Diraith Holftein, which would be demanded of him as foon as hirSon Prince Paul Peirowitz is of Age.: ' Charaser of the Emprefs of Ruffia. The Emprels is about thirty three years of age, of a fine fizz and fhape ; her complexion is charming, her eyes bright and fignificant, her manner of addreis fs full of dignity, yet ealy and engsging, owing chiefly ta'n mak excellent underftanding and lively imsging- tion, which fhines in every featurs, and excites the gdmiration of all who behold her. There is 8 com: manding {weetnels in her voice, exprcfive of great beiievolence, which fixes the sttention, snd wins the hesrt 3 and it is with wonder that fhe is fometimes feen talking with almol every foreign minifter, in his own langusge. Her Misjelty excels in every sc- complifhment that adds grace and besuty to one fex, andis acquainied with the moit of the fciences that gre ufeful znd ornzmental in the other : She haslong bozn the delight of the people over whom fhz now reigns; the has ftuddied sheir genius, and wil maks gheir good her principal care ; and as her Mujelty is known “to have a particulur-régard for the Britifh nation; we may reafonably hope, that no bad coafe- uences will arife to us from the late revolution ; gut that the ‘ancient fijend{hip and good hamarony, {6 long fubfitting between the two nations, will. be preferved and improved to their mutual - benefit snd advantage.] “Peterfourgh, July v4. The Senajor Caunt Wor- FRIDAY, Novimeer & 1762, Sy $¥ gry W SotoTe: o FATE onzsw and his Dsughter sre bathunder Arrelt in the Coun’t,Houfe. M. Wolkff, ihedste Emperor’s Se- cretary, snd Mefl. Godowiin and Melgonow, hisAid- de Camp, are clofely confin’d: PrinceGeorge ot Hel- ftein was taken into Cuftody onithe Day of the Revo- lution, and even infulted by:the Soldiery ; but the Empre(s bath ordered him to be teken out of the Dungeon into which be was throwa st firft, and to be confined in his own Houfe: It is reported that Count Beftycheff will be reftored to his Place of High Chancellor. ¢S Extracts from the Proceedings of the Senate, of the fame Date. “ The Senator de Panin having reported to the - Senate, that the Emprefs having refolved to attend the Funersl of the late Emperor Peter IIL. he ap- prehended thet har Imperial Majefty might be too much affe@ted with fuch & Sight, and might give her- felf up to en Excels of Grief, and the more fo,as fiace the Death of that Prince fhe had not ceafed trom Tears ; and that thereiore he had inConjuntion with the Hetmen Count de Rafomowfky, endeavoured to diflusde her from profecuting herlntention, but with- out Effe€t, Upon which theSenate, in aBody,fearing the unbappy Confequences with regard to her Ma- jefty’s Heslth, waited upon her'to defire her to re- pounce her Defign, snd that, at length, {he conlen- ted, though with great Regrat to comply with the humble Reprefentations of the Sepate, which has ac- cordingly been netificd to the Synad.”’ Peterfparg, Fuly 25 Count Wororzow is confirm- ed in his Office of Chancellor : At the fame time Leave is given to the late: Chancellor Befluchef, who was banithed by the Emprels Elizabeth, to return hither. Young Count Munich, sppsinted by the late Czar hie Minifter at the Court of Siockholm, is ordered (o remain here, to be employed otherwile, it being the Empref(s’s Pleafure that Count Ofterman fhall continue to refide at the Swedith Court. All the Holftein Offizers, who have been dilmifed from their Commends, receivedOrders on the 21t to quit the Capital the {ame Day. Thole of them who were born in Livonia are to return to their native Coun- tries,and all the reftare to leave the Empire. Some of the latter sfked to, be employed in the Ruflian Troops ; but this was refufed. The Emprels hath caufed iz to be declared in form to the Pruflian Minifter, That fhe would fulfil the Tresty coocinded with the King of Pruflia by the lsté Emperor Peter IIL Aug. 21, By letters fromParis, dated the sihInft, we have advice, that three Tranfporis with 1'roeps, got out from Bourdeaux the 1t inftant st night, and as they have proceeded on theirVoyage, Three more were watching the fame Opportunity. They write from Breflau, chat they are {ending a great Train of Ariillery, and many thoufandFafcines, to the Army before Schweidnitz, in Which the Auf- trian General Court Gufco commends, with 22,000 Men. The Kirg very artfully foffered that Garrifon to be reinforced, by wiich theArmy ‘ofCount Daun is much werkened, and ss-his Majeity isat the Head of 55,000 of the very beft Troopsin bis Service, it is more than prob:zble he will not wait il Field Marfhal Count ‘Duin receives ithe Reinforcements which he expe@ts from Hungary, but will atteck him in his prefen: Pofition, though thatis reported to be very ftrong - [f he fucceeds in that Attack, cr if the cautiond Marfhal fhould reiire, Schweidniiz will be immediately bombarded ; and counfidesng the Num- ber of Men, init, there is good Resfon to believe it will not hold ‘'out manyDsys ; more e/peciaily when the Hepes of 2 {peedy Relief no longer fubfift. ' Iiis reported, that the King ‘hesfent-to” hisBrother, Prince Henry, full Power to 2ét a3 he fhali ¢hink fir, in'con- fsquence of which is is helieved thagDreldgguyill ‘be atiacked. g s Exiralt of a Letter from oz board cne of #he Ships ' ¢ which teok the Héxm@iner . oah e s HERE was ull the Realon in the Waorld -to’ : fulpec & that theSpanitidihad (omething more: ‘than Lintnsnd Wolleaabout them, secor: dinply by-a Search which” war made, without eny Rudenefs of Infuli, no incosfidersble Sumwas found very artfully conceated in feveral parts of their Ap- parelic.. There was a Pricft of & very montified Al pec, and ‘who, in Accents po lgfs, mortified, begged he might be permited to teks with him 2 or '3 of his Devotion:l Bocks ; for sbout all other Things he wad very indiffzrent. | ‘No’ Difficulty iwas "made’ ‘of this ; but the Caricfity of a peuy O Ticer prompting him to lock into onc af the Becks, he found it very, - NuMe. 318 [ Weeks fince this Pabik { was firft pixb!ifli’d_. : “ G A Z E T T E Foreign and Domeflick. weighty, on which firiking a Knife into the Cover; it pierced omly the Lesther, which being ripped ¢ff, behold s bright Exhibition of Quedruples, or four piftole Pieces, inlaid in every Side of thePafteboard ! ‘The Book, ftripped of its Cover, wes given to the Prieft, with this Complement, ** That ebout the Co- ver he was, to be fure, very indifferent, end now the Bock would be of lighter Carriage to him.” : The Cover is kept as a Curiofity. It is {sid that his Royal Highnefs the Pricce will be bsptized by the Name of GeorGE IReDERICK Avcustus, snd that their Royel Highnefles the Dukes of Cumberland and York will be Sponfors 3 but the latter, it is {aid by fome, is to {tand only 21 & Proxy for the King of Pruffis, at the esrncit Requeft of thiat Monarch. The Croud of Lzdies that flack to Court every Day to fee the Royal Infant,and tafte of herMasjefty’s Ceudle and Cake, is, 88 may be fuppofed, innumers- ble. It is reported, that the daily Expence for Cake amounts to upwards of 40 1. "The Conlumption of Wine upon this joyful Occafion is more than ‘can etfily be conceived. Some Exprefles were received from Germany this Morning, the Contents of which were immediately communicated to his Mejefly. Sir Edward Hawke, with the Squadron under his Command, errived at Torbay on 'T'uelday Morning from off Cspe Finifterre. Yefierday a Lame Duck of one of the Tribes of Ifrscl waddled off from Exchange Alley, asit is faid for s Difierence of about 30,000 . g This Day slfo, enother Lame Duck is gone off, having been terribly crippled afier the (xme Maaner. At Mt sl NSNS NS N ) St NN Nk NS NG PHILADELPHTI A, Oftober 21. TERMS of CariTuLaTION propefed by theFreach Gasrilon andTroops, st St John’s, inNewfoundland. I. ~§ HE French Troop fhall furrender Priloners i of War. - (dgreed to) o LI, The Officers, fuperior snd inferior, fhell retaint th(fir Arms, for to keep their T'roops in Osder, ' : " (Agreed to) JAI Proper Veflels fhall be provided, in theSpace of a Month, to carry' the Officers, Grenidiers, and Soldiers, both wounded and not wourded, to the Coaft of Bretagne, in France. (4greedto: Jord Colvil will of Courle embark them 83 {oon he poili- bly can IV. The Effetts of the Officers and Soldiers fhall be . preferved to them. (His Britannic Majeity’s Troops never pillege.) The Gate will be takenPofle{lion of thisAfternoon, and the Garrifon will lay down their Arms. Signed, Wm. AMHERST, Le Comte ’HAUSSONVILLE; This is alfo to be figned by Lord COLVILLj and fhall remasin in full Force, A Camp before St. John’s, September 18, 1762 N E W.-1. 0 R K Ofsher 25: On Tuefday Morning laft Col WILLIAM AM- HERST, who had the command of the Land Forces at the retsking of Newfoundland, arrived here cn boardHisMajefty’sShip the Eaterprize Capt. Houltor. A Spanith Prize Ship arrived here fince our lait, teken andent in by & Weft India Privateer. Chafleftown, (South. Carolinz) O¢tober 2. Since our former accounts fromNew Previdence, the following prizes have been feniin there. L’Emersude, andLaPerle, two cf theFrench king’s frigates, lent-to the merchan's, from the Cape for France, very richly laden with fugars, coffee and in- dige ; by the {now Genersl Shirley, Cept. Freach. They failed from the cape the 7th ult in compsny with 5 French fhips of the line and 2 other frigstes, Jaden with mexchandize bound for France, but were o put & Spanifh regiment of 60o men sfhore at Si. }xgo de Cubs, in their wey. Four officers and sbout 30 men, of the fecond divifion of troops fent from New York for Havannah, that were tsken by the French, were on boardL’Emeraude and Perle. The French loft two of the tranfports they took out of that divifion and likewilé one of their frigates. The capiure of two of the French kipg's frigetes by one privatcer fnow, is pretty cxtrmordinary : The’ relazion of that affsir, as given us,is, ¢ that ‘they both ¢hafed the. Genersl Shirly, and came up with! her ; that v lucky fhotiromithe fnow happened tacut down the colours of one of the frigstes, afier whici® fhe boré down upen the gther, 'which fuppofing the firlt had (ur‘mdcud, foon lowered hers 5 (hen Cupts e ¢

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