The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, November 26, 1756, Page 2

—:JMJC«A""““““' BN I ot “ vl 0 N D O N . Aug. 28. We have received a confirmation of the dread- ful fire at Conflartinople, with the following particuiars ! ““ The 4th of July the public was informed, that the Sublime Porte having had knowledge of the defi.ns of a “great number of feditions perions, found means to_cut them all off in one night : notwithftanding whick precsution, the next night, at half an hour paft eleven, we had the molt terrible corflagration ti at ever hzppened here ; for in the fpace of 48 hours, which the fire lafted, 25.coo houfes were reduced to athes : moft of the coin magazines, which were well filled, have a/lo been confumed : bappily for us that there are {ome yet left in that part of this unfortu nate city which has efcaped the fury of the flames, and fe- veral more in the {uburbs of Pera, Galata, Tophara, &c. Abundance of peopie perifhed in the difafler that deftioyed their goods and houfes, vpWards of athoufand fick or de- crepid o/d men and children alfo perithed : many, fecing their all confumed by fire, in a fic of defpair ruthed into the flames. About a icore of Janifiaries, who were mak. ing the utmoft efiorts to flop the conflagration, or erdea- vouring to fnatch: people and goods out of the fire, loft their lives. Next to Divine Providence we are indebted to the aflivity of thole brave troops that more mifchief was not done. This.corps, encouraged by the example of their Aga, and animated befides by the prefence of the Sultan and the Grand Mizir, did wonders on this fatal occafion : the Viz'r in particalar is highly to be commended for the good order hekept in fuchia {cene of confufion and defola- tion, by pofting gnards st all the avenues of the feraglio, ar{enal and magazines, in number {efficient 1o keep fcdi- tious ai.d evil minded people in awe. The damage is im menfc : fomie compute that it cannot be'lets than feven millions of piafers. Charliflown, (in Seuth Carolina) Ofiobir 21 . The Number of Cherckees that' came to Town on the 8th Inflant, was 183 : T'hey were received in Broadeflicet by ore of his Majefly’s Independent Companics, -the Charleflown Regiment ef Foot, and Tmop ot Horfe, thro’ whom they patied, and had immediate'y an Audicnce of his Excellency the'Goverrour in Couvcil. They afierwards kad two other Conferences with his Excellency, in which they gave Affurances of inviolable Fidelity to their Brothers the'Englith, and that they would take up the Hatchet a. gainft the. French, and ali other his Majefly’s Enemics ; And having received their Prefents lat Satusday, on Sun cay they fet out t0 return to their Country, very well fa- tlefied. PHILADELPHIA November 11 Lxtradl of a Letter from Carlifle, Nowimber 8, 1 756. “ Laft Week a Party of Indians were in the upper-Part of thi County, but a few Miles from M‘Dowel’s Mili, where they barbarcufly murdered and mangled a Number of the Inhabitants, and as is fuppofed, have taken fome Children Captives. Kilied 12. Miffing 8. ‘“ Samuel Perry was killed laft Wednefday Afternoon as be was going to puat his Horfe to Paftare about 1 Mile and a half from the Fort, and had with him a little Boy ; but neither returnivg that Night, 14 Men were fent from ~the Fort, belonging to Capt. Potter’s Company, who found faid Perrry fealped, and -his Body covered with Leaves ; and on their Return were Way laid by about 30 Indians : » ‘ el L B, 4 AN i, pogliien ) - Thefoldiers difcovering the Enemy on every Hand; gave . the firit Fire, and fay they wounded fome; but.were foon ~ broken and put to the Rout, 4 of the foldiers being killed. on the fpor, and 2 m:fling, as mentioned in the abode Lift." . We have Advice from Lebanon, in Berks C#unty, that on the 3d [nftant a Fire was feen about 7 Miles from faid Forz, fuppofed to be at the Hoafe of John Finfher : Upo which a Party was detached, who, oncoming to the Plac found Finther’s Houfe, Barn, Qut houfes and a confiderabl Quantity of Corn on Fire, but faw no Ingians, nor “an Body that had belonged theré. They difcovered a great many Tracks which they followed,. till they came to the Houfe: of Philip Cu'more, whofe ~Wife, Daughter, and Martin Fell, his Son 1 Law, were all killed and fcalped : and Fell’s Wife, with a Child about a Year old, and 2 Bo about feven Years old, were miding... They then {ent No» tice to the Fort of what had happened, when the Captain with fome more Men went' out, but'coald not- find the Eremy ; however they carried all the neighbouring Wo- men and Children to the Fort, to the Number of about 6o, We bear aifo fiom a Fotg rear North Kill, in-the {ame County, that a Child was carried off by a Number of In- diavs the fame Day : That Lievt. Humfreys with a Parry, went out in Purfuit of, and next Morning came up with thein, at one Nicholas Long’s whofe Houfe they had fet on ['ire, had kilI’d twoold Men, one of whom was {calped, and would have deftroyed ten Women and Children, that had got into the Cellar : That they then engaged the In- d:ans (zo in Number) and put them to the Flight, two of whom it was thought were badly wounded. And that they extirguithed the Fire, and got out the Women and Children, and caiiied them to the Fort. Lieut. Huamfreys had one Man woanded, andihis own Coa: (hot thro’ in four Piaces, They breught off 2 Gun and Blacket. dians had all red Hars and red Blankets Capt. Bowes from lafbon, advifes, that it was geperally believed there that the Spaniards would join the French in the War agaiuft England. ; N E W.Y O R K, November 5. Monday laft, about 400 of the Royal American Regi- ment arrived here from ‘A:bany, and are now encamped in _ the Suburbs. Southwaid. The fame D2y Captain M‘Cullum, in the Snow Olive< Branch of this Port, arrived here in nine Weeks from Briftol = He failed from thence the 7th of September, in Company with the Ship Bofton Merchant, of Bofton, and about ten Sail of other Veflels under Convoy of his Majefly’s Ship Prince Edward, John Evans, Efq; Commandcr : ©n the firft of November Inft. Capt. M‘Cullum was chafed by a Snow 70 Leagues to the Eaftward of Sandy Hook ; but by erouding all the fail he could pofiibly carry, got off. Exiralt of a Letter from an Officer in Skirley’s Regiment, at Quibeck, in Canada, Sept. 27, 1756, We hear they are foon to march to the ¢ This isthe firft Opportunity 1 have had of writing to - you, fince our Misfortune. We were taken by Capitula- tion, by the Marquis De Montcalm, who got within oge Mile and a half of our Fort, before we difcovered him. The In- - v - » . o), He had a great Number of Men, and a fine Train of Ar- < tillery, which feon made our Commander furrender, he well knowing our bad fituatien. I was upon a Detachment: at an out Fort, by which means 1 loft all my Bagga‘«;vg, s M N iy - PRI