The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, November 11, 1756, Page 3

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S " Ur Thefe are the words of Britons, 'who efpoufe 80 par‘y v 1 but that of their country ; and would engage in noguarrel, where the-Britith honour and intereft are not concerned. AHON is-gose, and with it gene our TraDE ! Next farewel Liberty, celeltial» Maid ! 2 Bat whence ‘this {udden Gloom ; ‘this deep Diftrefs 2 ’When’ca this rever{e of BRITONS Happinefs ? Ah Ythat's the Queftion ; and 'twere fome Relief, ‘Gou’d we but reach the Authors of our Grief. Wou'd Lords and Commons-give to Juftice Hand, ‘ The bafe Betrayers of this finking Land : Jf not from Nawal Chiefs our Mifery's come, We’ ve {urely Traitors near the Helm at Home. L ON DO N Extralt of a Letter from Leipzig, dated Sept. 2. g Pruflian Troops which were here, left us’ @Bhey arc gone to join the main Body of N fich is faid to be already near the Frontiers’ Hagand to confift of about 40,000.” . "We are credibly informed, that there isa deuble guard ordered to Greenwich hofpnal ; that the " windows, and even the chimney’s and doors in Mr. Byng’s . apartments, are ordered to be barred up ; and that this is dene by his *s {pecial command. PHIL AD ELPHI 4 OfFcker 28. v Since our laft an Exprek arrived here from Shamokin to our Governor ; the Contents of which, we hear, are that Colone! Clapham had received Indian Intelligence, that the French at Ohio were very diligent in colletting their e Idigns together, and fpiriting them up againt the Englith for ¢ Lofs of Kittanomng ; and that there was Reafon to ‘belie)e that both French and Tndians would foon fet out Jin feparaie” Parties, Wk hear from [Janover Townlfhip, in Lancafler County, thiat M Tharfday laft one Andrew Berryhill was killed and * fca'ped there. } ‘We hear from P Men lately quart "enn’s Neck, in Salem County, that four elied and fought there, when two of them were killed on *‘x Spot, and that the ether two are con- "fined in Salem Geal. % N EW.Y OR K, Nowember 1. Twelve Privateers from this Port, are now at Sea, "and v, eight others fiting out in the -Harbour ; fome of which will fall down to the: Watering Place this Week, in order to proceed on their refpe€live Cruizes againft his Majefty’s ’ Enemics ; : HALI1F 4 X, Ofober 23. - The - following Paragraph, taken from a genuine French 5 Lrtter, found ard a Vel awbich was taken 5}’ bis 2 eux in the River St. Lawrence, is here Publick, that the French, inflead of tbe ey Jo much bo:. [} af to the World, not only deli: plty and Blood/bed themfelves, but encourage their 1 - ians to commit the moft unbeard of ‘Barbarities Quebeck, Auguff 20,.1756. o ‘Tbe lifb upon this Continent aresdviven 40 the “Jap EMWmity ; we have Jo [curwily ufed the poor Devyils that they don’t know what Saint to addrels themjelves to, for as you know they are acquainted with but few of them. We récken that fince laff Year we hawve killed 4000 of their Men, befidu what they daily looje by Want and Defertion. " There js arrived 1his Year 3000 Troops, and a greap mazy i : Dewvillieres kill'd theni 400 Men,and brought off 100 Battees. to attack our Frontiers in different move lafl Year ; moft of nwhieh are employ ed at Fort O/'wrgc, which was te be. atiacked by the 1 5tb Current, and awbich - affuredly will not veff? loug. The 1aking of shis Tove ~uill . put us in a Condition of making Incurfions 1o the very Gates of © Albany, andwill render us entirely Maflers of Lake Ontaria, where we were obligedto have Privateers 1o cheque thofe of our Ewemies. In an Affair we had lately upon ihe Lake Mr. Our Indians are animated againfi them even to Fury, and are niver to be glutted with Scalping.” ~ B O 'S T Q N, Nowember 8. The People in New- England as well as in Old, are fill'd with the deepelt Refentment at the fhameful Management in the Mediterranean ; which has occafion’d fuch a Lofs to -3 the Britifp Intereft, as will not be atoned for with the Lives of a thoufand exalted Villains---while honeft old 3 Blakeney’s Name is never mention'd, but with the higheft Veneration and Efteem, that of B--.g is not even thought . of but with Indlgnatxon and Contempt-- Was be a Coward, 3 he is to be pitied and defpis’d? ‘Was he a Traitor, let him "% be hated with a perfect Hatred---If he was cither one or B both, let him be hang’d—this is the Voice of the People, and it is the Voice of Juftice How idle is it for him to .5 think of availing himfelf upon his Orders—If it can be fup- pos'd he had orders nos #0 fight, ought he to have receiv d them ? and when by his own ‘Account be had every way t:e Advantage of the Enemy, eught he to have obey’d them ? It affords Sansfa&xon, that the National Refentment rifes fo bigh ; and that this great Affair as well as_Jfome others of equal Importance, is like to be the Objeét of Par- liamentary Enquiry—What grand Difcoveries may be made, is hard to fay ; but if fome People’s Con}efluresare to be rely’d apon, it will finally appear, that when the trae Cailes of the Mediterranean Misfortunes are thoroughly known, thofe in America will be accounted for thhout any Difficulty. Friday laft was carried about Town' (being the Fifth of November, the happy Day on which the horrid Confpi- ¢ racy of blowing up King Fames the IR. and the Three . Eftates of England was difcovered ; 4 ‘large Body of the 3 Mobility in Town affembled as ufual, and in Derifien to 8 - the three priacipal Confederates in {o hellith an Invention, viz.) the Devil, Pope and Pretender ; as'alfo the Effigies of a certain Englith Admiral, hung upon a Gibbet, with a Wooden Sword on the right Side, and one of Steel run thro® the Body ; upon the Front of the Stage was written in Capitals, Come hither brave Boys, be jolly and fing, Here’s Death and-Confufion to Admiral B—g. This Day the Privateer Snow Bofton, Capt. Ellery fails on a Craize againft his Majefty’s Enemies. There isnow fitting out here a Brig of 14.Carnage Gum, befies Swivels; and therc is upon the Stocks a Ship of 20 Guns, and a Snow of 14 Carriage befide Swivels, fimng with al! Di ifpatch. Laft Friday Night Capt. #hite arrived here from London: He came out a few Days before Capt. Partridge, and on his Paflage met with and pafled through two Fleers, which = he teok to be Fremch, homeward bound from the Weft Indizs: He was afterwards chafed for near a whole Day by a wry large Ship, but happily " got clear.—He intorm % ¢s partly concern beir - Difpatc beliewve '\ = _ S =) o < [~ [} — o -~ 'fl g bor " = Czty going from wuch talked of here 'wi{bm tb:/: Sfew DaJ.f. Paris, Aug. 30. Courm: firqumt/y pajs t},»raug an Lxchange of Oran againfi Gibraltar 3 which is ar..

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