The New Hampshire Gazette

The subject of Invasion rendered
From London, July 4.

The following is given in a Morning Paper as an Extract of a private Letter from Paris, dated June 18:--Bonaparte intends next week to set out for the Coast: and as he is to return before the 14th of July, the common belief here is, that, should wind and circumstances permit, something will be undertaken before that period.

"The day before yesterday, extra-couriers left this city for Holland, Boulogne and Brest, with orders for our naval Commanders to seize the first opportunity of putting to sea, and coute qui coute, land in England, as many troops as possible, so that, before the coronation ceremony, an invasion and victory may be announced.

"Our Brest fleet is nearly as numerous, & the Texel fleet not much inferior to the English blockading fleet.--But both in our fleets and flotillas, are some chosen ships, containing picked and desperate crews called enfans perdus, who as an advanced guard, are to try to create confusion among their enemies, by boarding &c.; and, by it, permit the remainder of their fleets and transports to escape, & to land their troops in England. Every man of these crews, who survives, is to be created a member of the Legion of Honour, and to receive a pension.

"On board these ships are, besides combustible matter, of a new composition, which are said to be inextinguishable.

"According to what I have heard in conversation with the French Naval & Military officers, the Brest fleet is intended to invade the West; the Texel fleet the East: and the Boulogne the South of England. As to Ireland, they say, it would fall by itself, if they were victorious in Great-Britain.

"These particulars are no secrets here, but talked of in our first informed societies."