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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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A French former prisoner writes from Hamburg on May 31, 1758, lamenting French military setbacks in the war, praising the Prussian king's victories for the Protestant cause by sea and land, reflecting on divine punishment for pride, and doubting rumors of Cape Breton's capture.
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Extract of a Letter from a Frenchman, who was Prisoner on Long Island, dated Hamburgh, 31st May, 1758.
We arrived here safe after a happy Passage of six Weeks. I find the bad Success of our Arms; you can now say the Protestant Cause has gained the Victory, by Sea and by Land; your Prussian King is really an Alexander, and I believe more. We have begun well and finished unlucky. The Hand of God is heavy upon us, we have been too proud of our good Success, in the Beginning, and we have forgot the Author of it; but he is a pitying God; I hope he will remember his afflicted People, and the same Hand with which we have been punished shall comfort us. I believe this Year will be a Bloody one. They say the Isle Royal, or Cape-Breton is taken, but I hope not.
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Hamburgh
Event Date
31st May, 1758
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bad success of french arms; protestant cause victories by sea and land; rumor that isle royal or cape-breton is taken
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Frenchman reports arrival in Hamburg after six-week passage; notes French military defeats and Protestant triumphs; praises Prussian King as surpassing Alexander; attributes setbacks to divine punishment for pride, hopes for mercy; anticipates bloody year; doubts report of Cape-Breton's capture.