The New Hampshire Gazette

March 31. By a Letter from an Officer of great Distinction in the allied Army, dated Minden, March 21. there is Advice, That 15,000 Prussians have joined the Allies, and that the Army now consists of 60,000 Men :- Not to flatter ourselves (says the noble Letter-Writer,) you will find within these two Months, that the French who have been in Germany will be destroyed totally ! You cannot imagine (adds he. ) what a calamitous situation the poor Creatures are in, half starved, and not having Stuff enough to cover their Skins : the Covetousness of their Generals has ruined the Army ; minding only to enrich themselves they did not give Bread to their Men, by which Seventy Thousand of them have actually perished. - It is hardly credible, and yet it is true, that they have made Conquest of a Country without allowing the Conquerors Victuals and Drink. The King of Prussia treats all his Affairs with such Secrecy, that no body can say a Word about him. -All I know is. that his Army certainly consists of 160,000 fighting Men, so that the present Year seems likely to me to be very Bloody.