The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, October 28, 1756, Page 2

PARTIS, July 17, HE' Count de Lannion is to remain at Minor. ca, as Governor, with 6oco Men, and the reft of the Army to return to Provence, and the Fleet to Toulon. The greatet Rejoic- ings have been made upon the News of the furrender of Fort St. Philip, and Te Deum will be fung next Sunday. Lifbon, July 6. It was fondly hoped by mamy that the late Earthquakes had put an End to the Court of Iequifi- tion in this Kingdom. that the Clergy are as tenacious of Power, however ac- o quired, as other Men. On the zoth paft there was an _ Anto de-Fe, at which 2 Man and a Woman were burnt l-—] alive for relapfing into Judaifm. = E ©:NDro W Juyiz General Blakeney is expected in Town in about 10Days Time, where it is not doubted but he will meet with an ample fhare in the Honours of his Country. Fuly 24. Letters have been received from fome Captains S of the Mediterranean Fleet, in which they fay, that they v figned the Refolution of the Council of War, to retura to Gibraltar, not becaufe they approved of fuch a ftep, but becaufe they forefaw that they fhould throw away the King’s Ships and their own Lives to no Parpofe, if they ventured another Engagement under fuch an Admiral as B. To perpetuate the glorious Deferts of the brave old Buakeney, whofe well earned Honour fhall immortalize his noble, tho’ untitled, Name, I would propofe, that this brave and truly noble Veteran {to contraft the infamous - Reception afligned to the honourable, tho’ ignoble B—g ) = . fhall make his Retorn to his King and Country by a public t— Entry through the ftreets of London.—Whata aoble Sigat o~ would it afford, and how juft the Reward ! to behold this € venerable Hero heading the Remains of his gallant and un- ok daunted Garrifon over Weftminfter Bridge, with Drums = beating, Colours flying, and all the Honours their Valour and Condu@ have ex:orted even from the Enemy.— The O fervice they have performed, though defeated, defervethe Honours of a Triumph !— When before was fo gloricusa £, ftroggle in our Country’s Caufe ?—The Evemy themfelves o bave acknowledged it by the moft honourable and unparal- lelled Capitulation they have fo generoufly granted ; and :F fhall net thefe Heroes reap this Tribute to their Meric ? > * furely they will, were itonly to teach fature Cowards, that while they are dragged as they deferve to condign Punifh- ment, the Brave, though defeated, fhall be honoured with the Victories Due. If Blakeney fupports his Hold till HAWKE arrives, as from the latet Accounts there is Reafon to think he will, and he thould live to come home, all this World can afferd As he is from Ireland, I am for {ending JIUOJA ® noge uy [, W‘ w ’-’ P Native Country, and have a Monument of Gold erefted ™ for him. We are well informed, that a certainigreat Perfonage, } “within a few Days paft, publickly declared his Opinion of a late memorable tranfa&ion in the following Words ; ¢ It is not poflible that Byng and the Reft of them fhould be fuch Cowards; I Am SOLD. We hear Mr. Byng bas mothing to alledge againft any pne Officer in the Fleet. Aug. 17. We hear that fince the Aftion on the zoth of *g1n0tut1.40 But thefe People did not coufider- May, off Mahon, the French fquadran has taken feven or eight homeward bound Erglilh Merchantmen, PHILADELPHIA, Ofcben 1 Extra& of a Letter from an Officer at Winchefierf’atfd O&ober 4, 1756. ' “ On Saturday laft 1 received an Indian Scalp avkich was taken by Copt. Spotjwood, of our Regiment, avith a Party of 20 Minutes with at lafl 70 of the Encmy, whom they met the Allegeny Mountains, tosk all their Baggage, and turned them back aith the Lofs of this Scalp, and feveral awoxnded, Col. Wajbington, 1belive, avill proceed, after quicting the People of dugufia, ts Roauoak, to fer bow the Chain of Forts. goes on, and bopes to mect the Cherokees on their Way in, as we bave had certain Information of their feiiing out awith Major Lenwis. We have no further Accounts from Augufia.”, Extra& of a Letter from Lancaiter, Ofleber 12, 1756. ““ The Prifoners and Scalps taken at Kittanning are bro’s bither ewith Faceb's Horn and Pouch, and many Belts of Wampum. ~ There feems to be no Doubt of bis being killed. The Prifoners bhawe been examined here by the Gowernonr. Tbey Jay that Turner, the Corporal at Fort Gramwille, avho ordered the Gate to be opened to the Enemy, was put to Death by thé Indians when they got him to Kittanning. They tied bim to.a black Poft, danced round him, made a great Fire, and having beated Gun barrels red bot, they run them thro® bis Body 3 they tormunted bim thus near three Hours, them Sealped bim alive 5 and at lafi beld up a Boy, avith a Hat;b:f}g in bis Hand, to giwe bim the finifbing Stroke.” We have Advice from Eaton, in Northamton County;’ that an Indian and a white Prifoner were come in to Fort.! Ailen, and had informed the Commander, that 10 more Indians were within z Miles of the Fort ; and that Kin Teedynfcung, with a confiderable Body of Indians, and 11 white Prifoners, were at Wyoming, in order to come- in likewife ; but baving heard that the Englith defigned to coatinue Hoflilities sgainft them, he was to remain there till he thould know what Reception thofe he had {ent down met with. By a Letter from Fort Cumberland of the firR Inftant, I have Account, that cne John Adam Long, who was ‘carried off by the Indians the 3d of April, from about Fort Wafhington, had efcaped thither, be was taken by the Party that killed Lieut. Bacon, who returning met 1 50 Indians at the Bear Camp. . This was the Party which engaged Capt. Mercer ; they had he fays, 8 killed on the Spot, and one died of his Wounds. Shingas was then wounded alfo; and ‘has been under Cure ever fince at Du Quefne. They brought thither 17 Scalps, and report- ed that they had defeated 200 Englifh, which was believed by the French, as they found in Captain Mercer’s Pocket- Book, 7 or 8 Commiflions. Long was kept 20 Days at Du Quefne, during which many Prifoners were bro’t, one whereof was roafted alive ; and twe others butchered in a moft (hocking Manner, at that time there were only 200 Men in the Fort, but on the 1ft of June they received a Reinforcement and Pro- vifions in 400 Battoes. He was then carried to Venango, where he flayed a Week. Here the blind Captain and 40 Men were pofted, and a great Number of {quared Logs were drawn together for a Fort. Hence he was conduét- ed to the Dackaloons, 40 Miles higher up the Ohio, from whence he efcaped the middle of Auguft, and has eves fince been on his Way thro’ the Wildernefs, ' 50 Men, who all ¢fcaped vithout the leaft Hurt, the' mgag:( ; 1 !