The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, November 4, 1756, Page 3

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"§ [ I ’ f 4 Tof their Country ; they were abliged to fubmit to bring a Stain up6n their Nanon, which neither Time nor future Conduét will ever wipe off while Hiftory records the Annals \ } of the Pefent Age.— Thus fell St. Philip’s Catle, and the Hland of Minorca, of which we were Malters 47 Years. :» A braver Man never marched out from a Fortrefs he had ) fo long defended ; himfelf, his Officers and Men lament- ing their hard Fate fome havmg loft their All, butin an heroic Maaner. No Neglect can they charge themfeives « with ! They were abandoned, and Pofterity will blath ! The French being near, the Befiegers were conftantly fup- * plied with whateverthey wanted : Had the brave Brake- NEY received the Supplies and Refrefhmeats that Richelicu « did, all France would not have conquered him. Oh Byng ! , Oh Byng ! what doft not thou owe thy difhonoured, thy luffermg Country ? Itis reported that the Sea has broke in and ruined the +new Rafon at Dankirk, which has employed fome thou- fands of Workmen for fome years paft. “This Bafon was intended toreceive Ships of War when purfued by an Ene- £ . iy and to be the grand Sally Pert, as it were, in their Wars with Englan On Monday next early in the 'Vformng, the fineft and larget Train of Artillery,-ever known fince the late glo- risus Duke of Marlborough’s Time, will be fent from the ' Towerto B) fleet common near Weybridge in Surry, where aCampict « and his Gr;r:e the Duke of Marlborough. - The Royal ceffion at the Eond of the New.Road near Newington Tt is faid that ups.\ards of 1 30 Carriages, and- 1 urfpike. abo {{ 1oce H »rfi» will be employed in th's Proceflion, ouf 31, 'The Popu' zé: and indeed the better Part < ©fthe Nation, is fny_d’y enrag’d at our’ Admiral ang s i RBehaviour, r‘war there is hard y a I'own® of Note in the Kingd&m but Las burnt him in Efligy; and fuch is the ge-° neral Opinion of the Nation at prefent concerning the Lofs » of Mivorc2, and the Infamy cal upen the Britifh Navy, by his {candalous Behaviour, that Addrefes are every where spreparing and many already prefented to his Majeily, de- firing a parliamentary Enquiry into the Caufe. 'The Peo- " ple in France are {aid to be in high Spirits, and continually laughing at the anu‘h there, upon our late Condyét in- the. Mediterranean. On a cirtain Moft Admirable Admiral. F you believe what Frenchmen fay B—g came, was beat, and run away. Beiieve what B—g himfelf hath faid, He foaght, he conquer’d, and ke fled. To fly, when beat, is no new Thing ; Thoufands have done it, as well as B—g ;- But no Man’ did before B—g¢ fay, He conquer’d, and then run away. B—g, ghereforc is, without a Fable, An Admiral moft Admirable ! Aygu/l 5. The following Speech was made by Sir Edward Hawke to the Officers of his Squadron at Gibral- . tar, on taking the Command from Mr. Byng, and hoifting his Flag. It-was tranfmitted from an Officer there to his - Friend at Bath, dated July 8. 1756. ‘ Gentlemen, I fhall i ’troublc you with few Signals, The French we mufi fight. o be formed, commanded by Sir Jobn Legonier Regiment of Horfe Guards Blue, together with feveral Chnp.;n es of the Train from Woolwich, are to efcort the’ ku(‘( tocns, or 1ia Boats, who are expe&ed to join the Pro- ¢ I fhall givethe Signal for clofe Engagement and expc& b ¢ that every one wiil go as clofe as 1 thail. = There are on! iy §h§ ¢ two (.hoxces, Fight, or be Hangtd > N 3‘ Baffeterre, in St. Chriflopher’s, -Scpt, 22. On Monday o9 pafled by here; in her Way to Antigua, the thip Mafla- :g\‘; chufetts. She is faid to have been freighted with provi- & 3 T fions and military lores for the ufe of the French at Cape Francois, by a very eminent perfon in §r. Euftatia ; bat the crew being all Englithmen, they on their paffage con. ficed the capiain, and thought that they ought to carry fuch a cargo rather to an. Englifh port than a French one. \ PHILADELPHIA Ofober 21 Thurfday laft his Honour the Goverror ‘returned from the Frontiers, having taken the neceflary Meafures, and given proper Direétions for patting the {fame into a-better Polture of Defence. There is Advice that the Freach and Indians at Obi threaten a grand Attack on Fort Augufta at Shamokin, i Revenge forthe Deftru&tion of Kittanning byCol. Armftron Iirom Eafton in Northampton Coudncy, we hcar, 'I’hat the [ndian Chief Teedyufcung, has in Purfuance of his*En- Montlerrat,Goo \5.Carolina,Rigly f. gq 5 0" Cleared Out, Baoéerfar Cafca, B/zmt for Ba Bfl)d gagements at the late Conference in Eafton, fent in four § & Prifoders, viz. Henry Hefs, William Wecler and beOrgefl:\ o Fox, taked from Lower Smithfield initiiae Coanty, and':: %fl“" Samuel Cliff ord, taken at Diaoga, after his Efcape from the 'S g g French,whotook him [rifoner at the Engagement with Col :3_ Bradftreet> Teedyulcung, himfelf was commg down with I N a great Number of Indi ans to treat with this Government 5 for eflablithing a Peace, but on hearing of fome falie Re- § To° poris that the Englith defign’d only to.trapan and defticy.3 -3 them, he flopt at Wyeming, and fent only ten Indians for- 3 :31 ward with the four Prifoners, to know the Truth.— Thofe . Ry ten Indians are returned to hinm, well pléafed with the Re- 5.3 ception they met with from Major Parfons at Eafton, and .52 the Moravian Brethrea at Bethlehem, and Teedyufcung ARY with his Company are foon expeéted there; - % § We have Advice from Hanover Townthip, in' Lancafter County, that on the rzth Inftant about - 0’Clock in the Morn,ng, one Noah Fréderick, being at Plow there, was fhot and fca' ped by a Party of ten Indians, who camed away three of his Children that were in the Field with him aftef having taken from his Houfe what they tho’t proper. His Wife and another Perfon made their Eftape. NE W.Y O R K, Ofcder 2;. A Letter from Marylard dated the 10th Init: nventions, thdt the General Affembly of that Province have voted £ . 2000 to be laid out in Wheat for the Ufe of the Army - under the Command of his Excellency the Earl of Loudon; and that a large fhip loaded with Wheat was to fail from ’ raéter. Eatred Out, Fos i I, "& E itoed ln, hob; Guppy, Mac,%bum, wnd Wh‘t lucayore (.G thence for this Port, about the zoth Iufiam ; and is, upon B her Arrival here, to be fitied out for a Privateer, be ng .o built for that Purpn(e E We hear, via Bermuda, lhat the fi,nOX fh Cruizers in the § Weit Indies have taken many Prizes, Bme very. rich ; and =) “, in particular that they had taken 14 or 16 fail of Duich g = Veflels, and fent them into Antigua: fu :? ’ In the Night on the t1th of laft Month, ina fireng Gale ¢ § of Wind; a Brigantire from St.Euftatia bound ¢ e Ho land, 2 § drifted on thé {outh fide of Bermuda, -and the Peope allZ] “:,\; drowned, except the Boatfwain and a Negro Boy, whoW : were faved in a miraculous Manner,as the Place they came on fhore were very high Rocks, Veilel and Carpo loft. Eostosn, To j y/I(d oK ~O ) R i &

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