The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, December 17, 1762, Page 1

FRIDAY, Preumsrz 14. 1762. . ’{W'ceks ftfi&fl?fis'—f’nfil ‘ New-Hampfhire \ Containing the Frefbeft ‘Advi(:.e:, B O 8 T O N, Dewember 13. LEoff Friday ¢'nnight the Duke ot Cumberland Packet b N Boat, Capt. Goodridge, arrived -at New York, in . feven Weeks from Falmoush voith the Oftsher Mails, by whom we bave the following Advices. . L ON D O NO&c. : To the KING’ moft excelleat MAJESTY. ‘% The bumble Addrefs of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and . a 'S Spirit and Humanity of the Britith Nation. - v Commoni of the City.of London. mons of your city of Londow, in common council affembled, humbly beg leave to : ‘v 7E your Msjefty’s ever dutiiul and Joyal fub. A, W jefts, the Lard Mayor; Aldesmen tnd Com- L congratulate your Majsfty upon the late figasi fucceis with which it has pleafed the Almighty to blefs your Majefty’s ‘Arms in the Reduion of the Havannah and its Dependeacies (moft properly fliled the Key bf the Spanith Weft Indies,. and long deemed impreg- % mabie) under a Capitalstion that does Honor to the ' the Acquifition of immenfe Riches,and sa irreparab .Blow to the Trade and Naval Power of Spein. A b Conqueft that gives sdditional Lafire to an alresdy Sglofious xnd fuccefsful War, and which canzot but “ <" It is with the higheR Pleafure we'refle@ upon the L %5 Value and Tmportance of this Conqueft, stteaded with le frike Terror ints an Enemy, wot only unprovoked, it infenfible to the repeated Inftances of your Ma- ) jeMy’s good Will, Friendihip, and Moderation ; and . ronvince him, that there is no Attempt how arduous foever, but what, ‘planned and direéted, by the Wil- dom of your Majefty’s Conncile, may, under ths Di- vine Providence, be effeted by the Harmony, Aétivi —and Abilities of fuch Commanders, snd the:Va- lour, Zesl, and Emulation of your Fleets and Armies, regardlels of any Fatigues or Dangers, wherever the Glory of their King end Country is concerned. May the Poffeflion of this very valuable Conqueft, together with other happy Confequences of your Ma- jeRy’s Meafures, thus wifely and vigoroufly purfued, prove the Means of effe&tually defeating the ambiti- ous Views of your Majefty’s Enemies, aad of forever diffolving the late slarming Compa& of the Houie of B:urbon, calculated to deftroy the Commerce of your Sutjedls, wnd replete with Danger to the Exiftence of your Majefty’s sacieat and natural Ally, and ta the Independenee of the reft of the Powers of Europe, And wedseg Leave humbly to affure your Majetty, that your Telihful Citizers of Londen, animated by ‘the warme®t Senfe of Daty to your Miyjeity, and thair Country, will, with unwearied Cheerfulnefs, contribute their utmoft Efforts to ftrengthen your own repeated Lofles and Diftrefles, fhall be difpofed to liften to fuch Terms of Accommodation, as your Succefles; and fuch as may eff:étuslly fecuie the Trade and Navigstion of your Sabje&s; and pre- To which Addrefs bis MAJBSTY was pleafed to returs the fotlowing mf} gracions ANS# ER. I tiful and loysl Addre(s, and for the continued Proofs you give me of your Attechment to my The thle Conduék, unwesried A&tivity, and exem- plary lemony,.%! my Commuenders by Sea andLand, pever becn more uoys, then on the prefent Ocesfion, @ jired additions! Glory to the The flea . of :hy 'People, end their Zeal for the Honour 6f my Crown, will, I truft, this juit War by an_equitable, glorious and lafling Pesce tenfive T'rade and Navigation of my faithful Subjedts, are, and ever will be, the conftant Objeéts of my un- L O N D O N, Otoberg By Advices in {'own it is certsin, that our Nego- Majcfty’s Hends, until your Enemies, moved by their Royal Wifdem fhall think adequate to our gloricus vent the cxiamities of & future war. Rewmrn you nty cordial ‘Thanks for this very du- Perfon and Government. and ‘the inuipid Valor of my Flects and Armies have Britith Ar upder the Blefling of God, ensble me to terminate The Profperity of the City of London, and the ex- wearied Care and Attenion. cistions with the Minifters of France and Spain is & “delaysd, parily on account of the ln:ter’s demanding . 'm Reftitution of the Hlind of Luba ; which our ~ “Court is determined not to sgree to,without an equi- _volent Satisfaction to defray the Expences of theWar, ‘into which they foolithly hurried themiclves through «the Chicanery of France. \ " A certain Officer has offered a Bett of 5ool. that there is' no Peace within 12 Months from this Day, to 100 Guineas, Heis 2 Genileman of greatAbilities, ~ gad well scqusinted with Affairs, g GO | DL Extraf of @ Lutter from Lifbon, dated the 18¢5 ult. « Lait week came down priforgs,Countde Lippe’s Linguift, « Portuguele, for currying on a corzeipon- dence with the Spanisrds,and informed them of cvery proceeding of our army, and deceiving the Count in resding letters that he received from the Prorwguefe Govémars, oficers, &c. By which the Count anda number of troops, had nesr fallen into 20 ambulcede axd been cut off. Tueldsy s duel wes Sought st Bagfhot heath, be- tween & Nobleman snd « Member of Paslisgien: ; which began by retreating a few fteps -k, and, st s proper fignsl, firing of their piftols which luckily did ne execution ; -=nd the gentlemen being convine- ed of esch others coursge, the affair was smicably adjufted. - : The news of s battle in Portugal, is every day ex- pe&ed. On this a&tion will depend whether there is to be & peace or war, as in all probability it will prove nearly decifive in its confequences. ; The Duke de Nivernois, the French Ambaffador, bas taken 2 grestHoude inGrofvenor {quare to refide in We hedr that Capt. Harvey, in the Dragon, in his paffage from the Havannah, fell in with and took & French Frigate trom Old France for Newfoundland, having on bosrd powder and balls, alfo foldiers, two Indian Chiets, with & great number of {Calping knives, hstchets, &c. : By our frefheft Advices from Portugel theSpaniards are brirging all their Forces into the Field, f: ordes to make s grand puth ageinft the Englith and Por- tugusfe, on which Account they have drawn all their Troops out of Chaves, as allo the Gerrifon of 6000 Men cut of Almeids. ; Letters alo from Oporto {ay, it is very much fearsd that Plece will fall before the End of the Month. Vefterdey’s poft broaght advice from. Liverpool of the lafs of his Majeity’s thip Scorpion on that flation. 1t is Taid the whole csew pesithed and 73 dead Bodies bave been csft on fhore atthe ifle of Man. - " “The laft letiers received from France by the way of Hollnd inform us, that what ftopt the negociation was, Thet when the Duke of Bedford propofed & Ceflation of arms in Portugs!, under the gusranty of Frarce 3 the Marquis de'Grimildi declared, that tho® he was charged with full powers, he could not agree to that propofed withour further inftrutions from his Court. The return of the Courier he had difparched for'them was impatiently expeQed. Ogtober 5. They write from Corke, that they had received an account by his Msj:fty’s fhip Bleft, Capt. Hey, srrived ot Kingfale from Beilcifle, that a conipi- recy was forméd to betray that ifland to the French the nzth ult. but wss found omt the day before : 8 Prieft, fome of the French inhabitants, and about 20 Englith foldiers, were the principsls 5 which was difcovered by one of the lstter ; Their plan was to fpike down a battery of 1z Guns, that defends s bay a little to the eaft of the citadel,z good larnding plsce, where s large bady of French troops, ready on the main to {ei) a8 foon as the fignsl agreed on was given, were to difembark. When the thips failed from Bellcifle the trisls of thofe greitors were begun. Since this difcovery, the Governor had ordered that none of the bosts fhould fith. ' Ofber 8. The chisf engineer at Schweidnitz is one Cribovel, & Frenchman. The King of Prufia hath committed the direion of the fiege to one Le Febre, enother Frenchman, who hath fo. long carried on a prpes war with Criboval on the attack and de- fence cf fortrefles. They are now friving to confirm their theories by pradlice. ? We hear from Spain, that the French Miniftry have been for fome time peft inftigating the Miniftry of Madrid to ettack the Portuguele fetilement in Brazil, Their force at Buenos Aryes is not fufficient to over- run the Portuguefe provinces : They depended on ficet and fuccours from the Havannah, But we have happily defeated their views in that part of the world, as well as fruftrated them in Portugsl, The lofs ot fo many Britith officers in Germany ou the 2zt paft, is grestly to be regretted, efpecisily as fo much blood was fhed on {o trifling an affeir... How different are the fortunes of men under the difpeais- tion of Providence ; We fec one efcaps thro’a thouf- and military perils, enriched by his Valour, honour- ed his King, and beloved by his Copntry-; | yet. hie brother perifhes in bis firft attempt againt the enemy. M A DRID, Augift 24 UR Court has given over the Thoughts of be- fieging Gibraltar., Our, Miniftry, will content themfelves with reducing Partugely . 7 - oy Now 524 - { was firft Publifhed. Foreign and Domefiick HAGUE O&cher 1. ETTERS irom the msimy of the 25th pat A bring 2a sccount of & very obftinste and bloody affair, which happened on the 2:ft, betwezn the corps under the Marquis of Grinby, evd Gineral Zaftraw, pofted a: theBrucker Mahi Upon. theOhme, near Amonebourg, and a psrt of the French srmy. Thke Prench Generals de Cefhies, and Starsfeldt, are faid to have been dengeroully wounded therein. The tollowisg is the moft exa& account we have received of that s&ion, The enemy having on the rgih ‘&t 1sft month cond fidesably reinforced their right by msrching th‘ . wacle Corps de referve towards Dechenbsch, snd pofting the greateft purt of their army between Houtzneufen and Bauebech. Genersl Wingenhiem had tsken pofleflion of the beigiis of Dannernde, with Aolefeldi’s and Goldacker's brigsdes, cight fqusdrons of hanoverians, and feven battalions of the {sms troops which had compofed the corps under the Hereditary Prince ; 4 fquadrons of General Bock’s corps; snd the Carabineers occupied the heights of Rodeken : Beckwith’s brigade, thofe of the Engliflx guards, and of Malfburg, the heights ofLangenfiein 3 and general Wiflenbach that of Staugenbsck. The reft of the army remsined in its former pofition, from Bodenhaufen to Betigeldorff, whilft the corps under Lcukner, Conway, snd Gilfae, lsy between Watz- bich and Western. Y In the night between the 20th, and z1ff, the enemy relolved to get pofleflion of Amoneburg, which was defended by one batulion of Crufe and 200 Commonde’s. With this view they raifed {eve~ ral batteries, =nd tock pofleffion, in the migh:, off the Brucker Muhl, where they raifed a (mall bresft-, work, snd 2 Rind ot trench to fecure the entrances A redouby on this fide of the river, snd juft oppo- fite the bridge, was defended by 100 men, whom they attacked in the Morning, bui withour being sbie to carry it. They placed at ine {eme time fome cannon, st the foot of the hili of Amenebcurg, =buus 200 paces from the bridge, in order to bear on the redoubt. It sppeared, that their irtention at firfty in taking poffeifion of the mill, was only to cut oif our communicaiion with Amoneburg; but the fogy with the fire of their cannon,giving it the appesrance of a defign of more confcquence, we brought up feveral pieces of artille y. Lord Granby’s whole corps moved that wey : Genersl Wiflenbach marched to Kirchyn, and eight batiallions and four (quadrons into the Wood of Stautzenburg. In proporion as the number of our cinnon increaled, that of the e- nemy did fo likewiie, till they hed brought up zo pieces of heavy antillery. On our fide all theH« ffan and Buckenburg, and helf of the Hanoverisn ariil- lery, was placed upon the height of Brucker Muhl 3’ and from break of day till dark night, a moft tersible firing continued withour intermiflion. We muzintain-| ed the redonbt, and the cnemy the mill Hi{toyyf believe, can fcarce furnith 2o inftance of {o obftinate s di‘pute ; in which the lofs on either fide may eafily be conceived to be confidersble. = The troops in the redoubt were conflantly relieved, after having fired 60 charges : and towsrds ihe clofe of the day. feven teen compleat batcalions had been employed on that fervice. The redoubt was expofed to the fire of the enemy's artillery at the diftance of about 300 paces § and to that ofall their fmall arms, within 30 pacea Diftance ; befides t'at the troops, coming and going,' were obliged to march near 400 paces, expofed to the enemy’s cannon, losded with grape fhot. The enemy’s fitustion was nearly the fame, excepting that the mill afforded them rather more fhelter. This, in general, is the whole affsir. The oldeft foldiers fay, they never {aw fo fevere & cennonsde’; fince, though there were near fiity pieces of cannon em ployed, their execution was confined to the fpace of about 400 paces; and not only the Fire of the artillery, but the mufdaetry too of the two oppofite pofts, was not intermizted a fingle inflant, for near 15 hours, Towards the conclufion of the effair, the pumber of the killed and wounded, at the entrance of, and in the redoubty on our fide, feemed to ex cesd*§00; [fo that the troops, which csme there latef in the day, made u/z of the dead bodies to raife the ‘parapat 4 Jistle, which was slmoft leyelled ; and within s very [mall compafs, 1700 of the enemy’s cannon ball -have been fince taken up. While the encmy were attacking the redenbt, they played like~ wile {omhe batterigs on Amoncburg, and afleulted it three times, but withcut fuccels. On the 22d every, thing was quiet, and the works oo both fides repaized, without the leaft Molettation, . 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