The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, March 11, 1757, Page 1

. - Friday, March 11. 1757 e he Neg-Hamp, 1re PSSR LIDOLSSS S DIV IHPED LR With the Frefheft Cfarleflown, (South-Carolina) December 30. ' 7>& N ‘Saturday laft the Privateer Brig Pliny, Capt.- Stoddard, bro’t inherea rich St. Domingo: % Ship bound for Bourdeaux, of zao Tons, laden, with Indigo, Coffee,Sugars, &c. which fhe took” on the 23d ult. 6ff Bermuda :* She'is called La Com- plaifance, Francis le Bran-Commander, had a Letter . of Mart, and came out from Cape Francois in Com- pany with 35 otheF rich Ships, underConvoy of 4 Men of War, who were going” home with them. » Capt Stoddard fell in with 5 Sail of the Fleet, but as they. all fieefed different Courfes as foor ds they faw the Privateer,no otber fell to his Lot but the Complaifance. Monday Jaft returned from a Cruize, bis Majeftys’ St'p Winchelfea, commanded by John Hale, Eiq ; Onb the 4th Inft. Capt. Hale took a Paflfage Boat laden with Bricks, from Cape Francois for Port Dauphin,. fldvi‘c_@ ' ~~~ wwhich the French ranfomed ; on the 6th, he alfotook: Le Don d’ Onnvire, Methurin Fayard,Mafter, a large Snow from Quebec for the Cape ; and on the gth, he.. chaled a large Ship of twelve 6 “Pounders, and 8o Men, intothe very Ha:bour of the Cape, quite under the Cannon of fome of the Forts, where he battered' her fome Time in View of a great® Body of SpeQta-: tors, and did confiderable Damage to her Rigging - The fame Ship had before‘engaged an Englith Pri- vateer 100 Leagpes off the Land, when the firlt Capt. had his Head fhot off, and feveral of the Crew were killed and wounded, . .. - On Tuefday put into this Port, the Sloop Mary- Ann,Robert Salmon Matter, from London for Bofton. _ The fame Day arrived here Capt Tucker in fifteen_ Days from Bermuda, whe as he came out fpoke with a Snow going in, thathad been taken by a FrenghPri- vateer, which had taken fo.many Englith Veflels, 50, . Leagues to the Eaftward of that Ifland, that they weré, obliged togive the faid Snow to the Prifoners, to get tid of them. » A Perfon on board the Snow defired Capt. Tacker to make it known here; that David ifring was taken by the faid Privateer. v . | Fan. 6. Orders have been iflued by his Excellency the Governer, that the feveral Regiments in this Pro- _ vince have Notice to be in Readinefs to march ppon the fhorteft.Notice. ; LT Y We have certain Advice, that a large Brigantine is failed from Campechy, with Orders to take every Eoglith Veflel fhe can catch inthe Bay of Hunduras ; and that two ftoat Xebeques are fit:ing out for the fame Parpofe. : % -~ A large Slodp belonging to New York, William Smith Mufter, another Sloop whereof one Davis, Ma- . fter, and another Englith Sloop, are taken by the Spa- /niards and carried into Campechy. The Lettets found on beard the Paflage- Boat Capt. Hale tock on the 4th ult. were moftly dated. the 3oth of November ; give moft deplorable Accounts of the , Situation of Affairs at Cape Francois, and reprefent the Ifland to be in greatDifirefs for Want of Provifions, &c. and their Trade as totdlly ruined. Capt. Hale lock’d feveral Times into the Harbour of the Cape, but did not fee one Man of War there, fothat they muft have been fail’d either forMiflifippi,or elfewhere, The Letters found in the fnow fromQuebeck, contaia @ifeveral vaunting Accounts of the French Arps on this Continent : One of them dated O&. 23, fays, they ere then preparing to befiege two Places of Impor- Jtance. { Fan. 13. On Tuefday arrived Capt. Adams from "Providence, who informs us, That Capt, Canton, in'a Bermuda Privateer, had fent in there a Dutch floop laden with Indico and Coffee, from Cape Francois for Coracoa, the Mafter of which honeftly declar’d +-that his whole Cargo was French Property. - Fan. 27. His Majefty’s Ship Kennington command- ed by Dudley Digges, Efg; is juft putin here, and we heat will fail in a few Days for New- York. ~ " Laft Monday arrived here the Privateer fnow Muf- queto, of Hallifax, Capt. Pennel, from a Cruize of fix Weeks, having bro’t in with her a French Brigantine from Martineco for Bourdeaux, richly laden, which fhe took to the Edftward of Bermuda. She is called La Lureaux, Pierre Genfea, Mafter. _ Feb. 3. Letters from New-Providence advife, that on the 211t ult, arrived there Capt. Geary fromAnti- gua, and bro’t an Account, That jult before he failed from thence, a Man of War of zo Guns, in 27 Day from England, touch'd there, {ent Exprefs from Admiral Knowles, to inform the {everal Governorsin the Weft- Indies, that 7 Sail of French Men of War, [ NuMs. 23~ GAZETTE, Fore{gfl and Dameflick. . with f{everal Tran{ports haviag 1500 Land Forceson board, might be expeéted to attack fome of our Colo: nies in thofe Parts, as he had difcovered by Letters on board a French fhip then joft taken : And that to pre- pare them for their Reception, be (the Admiral) fent that timely Notice, by the Exprefs, immediately upbn® his coming at the Intefligence : That the Man of War did not anchor at Antigua, but proceéded to the other Iflands : And that General Thomas, upoh receiving the Advice, immediately difpaiched a Schooner to Admiral Frankiand, i Other Letters from Providence fay, thata Flag of Truce was arriv’d there from St. Euftatia, to claim the Dutch floop fome Time fince taken by Capt. Beak ; and bro’t _an Account, that juft before fhe left that Iftand, a Duch Man of War of 40 Gunsarrived, i a fhort Paffage from Holland; with Orders, that all the Dutch Colonies in the Weit- Indies thould be immedi- ately fortified and put into the beft Pofture ot Defence, a§ the States ‘General would foon be obliged to“tdke Part in the prefent War betwéen' Gredt Britain and France. That they have now 4 Privateers out from Providence, and more fitting : ‘That his Majefty’s Sloop * Jamaica, Capt. Thompfon, arrived there the 6th ult. and {ail’d on a Cruize the 14th. . * Feb. 10. Weléarn from Georgia, that the Chicke- faw Indians lately attack’d four French Boats on the Halbama River, took two of them, killed four Men, and bro’t off 60 Horfe-loads of Plunder. . From the Motions of the French in thofe Parts, "tis not impro- bable,that they have’in View fomeAttemptupon thefe Southern Provinces, and thé enfuing Spring may per- haps be the Time ;_ for we know from Europe, and alfo from St. Domingd, that Abundance of Troops and all Kinds of Implements of War, have been along Time’ fending to Miffifippi, and We have been told, that 4 great Number of Boats are continual'y employ- ed in carrying Cannon, &c.'up that River : We thould’ therefore (as the moft likely Way to defeat Attacks ). be prepared againft them oo all Hands, let the Enemy come when or where they will. . . The fame Day arrived Capt. Linthorn, in 39 Days from Lifbon, by whom we learn, thattheTyger Priva- teer of Briftol, had been obliged to put in there to refit, kaving received a whole Broadfide from the lower Tier of a French 74 Gun Ship, which fthe ‘came vp with in the Night, in the Bay of Bifcay, in Company with a- nother Ship of 64 Guns and 2 Frigates, after having dogged them two Days miftaking them for Merchant Men ; that they fteer’d for America, and did not once alter their Courfe to chace the Privateer ; and that the Tyger, in 12 Hours after parting with them, {poke with Admiral Knowles, who bad 10 Ships of the Line with him, and immediately ordered them to give Chace. The Harwick took and fent into Lifbon, 4 French St. Dothingo Ship on beoard of which was Capt. Clement Coayers, who was takén fome Time ago in his Paffage from Jamaica to this Place, and is fiow arrived here in Capt. Linthorn. _. On funday arrived’ here Capt. Lightbourn, in 12z Days from Bermuda, who informs us that a Privateer fchooner, of 14 Guns and 70 Men, belonging to Ha- lifax, had taken and carrted in there a rich French St. Domingo thip. _ : THRILADYELPHRTIA Febizq4! On Friday laft arrived Captain Condy, from St. Chriftophers, by whom we have the following Advi- ces, via. That about the 16th or 18th of laft Month, ¢ight Sail of Englifh Privateers failed from that Port, in order to attack the Ifland of St. Bartholomew, Capt. Cook, in the Cicero, of New-York, Commodore : That they got there the Day after they fet out, and immediately attacked and took the Place : That in the Engagement, a Sloop bélonging to New- London, Capt. Gale, accidentally blew up, by which 18 of his Men, and as many of Captain Cook’s were killed : That they took in the Harbour three French Priva- teers, and carried them to St. Chriftophers: That three of our Privateers were left to take Care of the Place, ‘Capt. Cook having erefted an 8 Gun Battery in the Harbour, of the Guns which belonged to Capt. Gale’s Sloop : That Capt. Cook received a flight Wound in his Arm, and feveral of the Enemy were killed : That our Privateers in general behaved well : That the Commodore had returned to St. Chriftophers in a fine French Privateer Schooner he had taken before the Engagement, and was gone to Antigua to receive the General’s Orders relating to St. Bartholomew : That the Freach had geceived Advice of the Dutch of the Defign of our Privateers againft them, the Night before they arrived, and bad got the Guns of one of their Privateers athore, in order to ereét a Bat- tery : And'that the Inhabitants on the French Part " of 5t. Maruins, expelling an Attack, bad:left their Habitauons, and carried their Effeéls to the Dutch Quarters. 7he taking of the abowve Ifland muff be of great Scrvice to ourlrade, as it was a general Rene dezvous for French Pricateers, and bas a fine Harbour, in avhich Veffels may'ride fafely in agy Hurricare. Capt. Condy further advifes, Thac Capt. Acney,in a StChriftophers Privateer, had taken a French one, of 4 Carriage and 6 Swivel Guns, with a Prize Sloop fhe had with her, and brought them isto that I{land : That Capt. Bithop, in another Privateer of St. Chriite+ phers, had taken a French Sloop, bound from Mar- finico to St. Euftatia, and fent her in there : And that a Snow belonging to Barbadoes, had been taken by the French, but retaken by Capt. Cook, of the fame Ifland, and carried into St. Chriftophers. To the Publijhers of the PEnNsyrvania GAZETTE, GENTLEMER, ; HE Corporation of the City of Philadelphia havs ing tho™t it their Duty to teftify their grateful Serfe of the Services done this. Province, by the Courage and Condutt of Colonel Armilron and Men under his Command, ix to Kittanning, you are requefted 1o ing Letters on that Subject ; 1} and Corporarion to the Co the other from the Colonel in Anfwer.t vices of fuch a beneficial Nature, require the warmeft Acknowledp ments from all true Lovers of their Couns . try, as ‘'well in Juftice to thofe who perform them, as to kindle up a like Spiric in others ; and it is equally for the Honour of thofe who cenferduch “Acknow- ledgments and thofe who teceive themy that it fhould be done in the molt publick Manzer. 3 Yo Colonel Jonn ArMsTRONG. SIR; 2t : THE Corporation of the City of Philadelphia greatly approve of your Conduét and publick Spiritin the late Expedition againft the Town of Kittanning, and are highly ‘pleafed with the fignal Proofs of Courage and perfonal Bravery given by you, and the Officers and Séidiers under your Command, in the Demolith- ing of that Place. I am therefore ordered to return you and them the Thanks of the Board for the emi- nent Service you have thereby done your Country. I am alfo ordered by the Corporation to prefen: you, dut of their fmall publick Stock, with a Piece of Flate, ‘and a Silver Medal, and each of your commiflioned Officers with a Medal, and a {mall Sum of Money, to be difpofed of in the Manner moft agreeable t0 them ; which the Board defire you will accept as @ Teftimony of the Regard they have for your Merit. b Signed by Order, ~ Fanuary 5, 1757. Arrwoob SuuTs, Mayor. ' Tothe MAYOR, RECORDER, ALDERMENGnd COMMON~ CounciL afthe Corporation of the Cityof Philadelphias GENTLEMEM, . YOUR Favour of the 5th Inftant, tegether with the Medals, and other genteel Prefents, made 10 the Officers of my Battalion, by the Corporation of the City of Philadelphia, I had the Pleafure to reccive by Captain George Armftrong. . . ; The Officers employ’d in the Kittanning Expedi- tion, have been made acqudinted with the diftinguifh~ ing Honour yoa have donc them, and defire to join with me in acknowleging it in the moft publicManner. The kind Acceptance of our paft Services.by the Corporation,gives us the higheft Pleafure,dnd furnithes a frefh Motive to exert oarfelves on every fature Oc« cafion for the Benefit of his Majefty’s Service in_ge- neral, and in Defence of this Province in particular? In Behalf of the Officers of my Battalion, 1 have the Honour to be, Gentlemen, Your moft obedient, aud obliged bumble Servant, Joun ARMSTRONG, Carlifle, Fanuary &y 1757 NEW-YORK, Feb. 28. : This Day Week arriv’d here Capt.DanielSeymour, of the Sloop Delight, in 4 Weeks from Jamaica, from whence bie failed in Company with Capt. Edwards.of Philadelphia, Capt. Philipfe of Bofton ; Capt, Brown of Virginia, and a Snow belonging to Rhode-Iftand,of y ' which ‘ T - N pdi P