The New Hampshire Gazette

Leipic, in Germany, Sept. 1. Sunday about Ten in the Morning a Body of 15,000 Prussian Troops entered this City very unexpectedly, and, after taking Possession of the Gates, placed Guards at the Town-House, the Castle, and the Public Offices. The main Guard was placed at the Market-Place, where they planted Twelve Pieces of Cannon: Soon after these Troops entered the Town, we were informed that four more Prussian Regiments were arrived on the Glacis, and cantoned near the Gate of Halle. The Inhabitants in their Consternation, occasioned by this unexpected Event, did not open their Houses, Shops and Ware-houses, on Monday Morning, but at Ten o'Clock Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick, who commanded the Prussian Troops, published a Declaration or Manifesto, containing his Prussian Majesty's Motives for entering Saxony. His Majesty protests before God and Man that on account of his personal Esteem and Friendship for the King of Poland, Elector of Saxony, he would not have proceeded to this Extremity, had he not been forced to it by the Laws of War, the Fatality of the present Con-juncture, and the Necessity of providing for the Defence and Security of his Subjects; assuring with great Sincerity, that his Troops enter not into Saxony as Enemies, that he marches them into it only for his own Safety. and that of his Dominions: and that he hath given Orders that they should observe, agreeably to his royal Intentions, the best Order and the most exact Discipline.

After the Motives which have constrained his Prussian Majesty, against his Will, to take this Step, he desires nothing more ardently than the happy Minute that shall procure him the Satisfaction of restoring to his Majesty the King of Poland, his Hereditary Dominions, which the King hath not seized, and doth not occupy, but as a Deposit which is, and always shall be, sacred to him.

Major Bilderbeck having given Notice on Sunday Night in the King of Prussia's Name, to the Deputies of the Corporation of Merchants, that they were to pay all Taxes and Customs only to the Order of his Prussian Majesty, the Deputies waited on Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick next Morning, at Eleven o'Clock, who received them very politely, repeated to them that from that Day all Contributions were to be paid to the King of Prussia and not to his Polish Majesty; and assured them that they might depend on his Friendship, Protection, and Care to maintain good Order. The same Day that Prince took Possession of the Custom-House and the Excise-Office; and ordered the Magazines of Corn and Meal to be opened for the Use of the Troops.