The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, December 2, 1757, Page 1

s " Power : . aré able to deftroy them. W aleq =2 - ¥ % B O S T O N, Noamber 28. Wednefday Jaft the Great “and General Court or Affembly of this Province met here © And on Tharfday His Excel- lency the Governor was pleas’d to make tie following SPEECH, viz. Gentl:mun of the Council, and Houfe of Reprejentatives, HEN I Jaft met you, it was upon a {ndden and alarming Emergency, to pravide for fuch Expedients as might remove the Dan- ger that was then upon the Country. ; I now call upon you, at your ufeal Time of Meeting, to deliberate upon, and form fuch a penmnanent Syftem of well grounded Meafures 28 mpv pot e the Ceintry 10 the tengerous 2 12wz of Ciipuidry Expedients and Shiftings off of Dangers when they are near ; but may found its being and its Well being on fuch wife, fteady and uniform Courfes as may keep them far off. When you fee the Enemy poffefs’d of every Pafs and Poft, and Mafters of the entire Water communication thro’outthe whole Country ; you will fee how firmly they hold theCom- mand of theContinent : Wheh you confider theirAlliance and Afcendency over the Savages ; you will fee‘how firmly they hold the Command of every Indian on the Continent : When you confider this Command (as it is) united and effeive in its Power ; and feel how great that Power is ; what it has done, and it is prepared to do : If the Fadls themfelves will not convince you of the Danger you are in from the Enemy, my Word cannot. When you confider the State of this Country, whether it be not labouring almoft to its utmoft Strength under the Weight of Taxes ; and whether it be in any fuitable or effetual State of Defence either in its Fron- tiers or its Militia ; in any State of Defence to which the Liberties, the Lives, the dear bought Property of the People can b faithfully intrufted ; If your own Eyes will not con- vince of the Danger you are in from your own helplefs Con- dition ; my Words cannot. If you are cdnvinc’d of thefe interefting Traths, and it much imports the Safety of the Country that you, Gentlemen of the General Court, thould be convinc'd, you will then by Law providethat your Frontiers may be effeCtually covered ; That your Militia may be'a real and attual Defence. The Country has People, Spirit and Abilities—an effettual Law adapted to our prefent Circumftances, to arm and form them is all that is wanting : This Remedy lies, Gentlemen, with you, and whether you will apply it or not, is your Bufinefs and pot mine. Under the unhappy and defe&tive State you arein, I can do my Dauty, for I ¢an do72ll that is in my And all that is in my Power, however ineffeGtual that may be, I will do, to maintain and defend this Country. But if ycu will by Law provide for the effe€ual Execu- tion of fuch Powers, as your ever valuable Charter gives yoa to ufe for your Defence, and the repelling of an Enemy that fhall attempt or enterprize the Deftruétion or Invafion of the Province ; I 'wiil then from a Confidence in the Courage and Spirit'of the People be anfwerable for the Safety and Well being of the Province. ¢ I do not call cpon you to go intd” Expeditions and offen- five Meafures, that [ know would prove fraitlefs, that would wafte the Treafure, and exhauft the Strength of the Pro- vince : I do not call upon youto fight for Parts of this Country, lealt you lofe the Whole ; 1 advife you to fave your Strength, to colle& your Force, to treafure up your Money, till God by the Courfe of his Providence fhall call us forth, One and All to wreck his Vengeance on the Break- ers of Peace, the Violators of Faith, the Enemies of Liberty, " ithe French in Canada ; when that good Time fhall‘ come, we know that One and All, we are willing, one and all, we All that can be hoped at prefent, and all that I do hope from you under the Circumftances to which the Enemy and yourMisfortunes have reduced you, is, that you will in the mean Time provide for the Defence of this Country that your Fathers have left you ; and that you will not in the mean Time give up that good old Caufe for which they have fo often bied. Gentlemen of the Houje of Reprefentatives, On thefe Principles I recommend to you in the firft Place to examine into the State of this Defence, and to take Care, as far as comes within your Department, that no Monies be Bpplied to ufelefs or waftful Meafures; that the Service of the People be not frandulently or caufeleflly employed ; next, as your Taxes are'and muft continue (while the Enemy thus prevails) very great and grievous, that-you be not quite ex- haufted, to examine into the State of thofe Refources whence they arife ; and that yod eftablith the fure and lafting Iatereft of the Country on that T'rade which is founded in Oeconomy, which is founded in the Profits that arife from your own Produce, Labour and Exports. . To this End I fhall lay before you fuch Matters of In- formation as-are come to my Knowledge, and fhall direé&t the Secretary to lay before you all fuoh Papers as may be of Ufe in your Deliberations. I have dire&ted him to lay be- fore you the Earl of Loupoun’s Letters to me, propofing as a Plan whereby much may be faved to this Province, that I fhould fend him fome Companies of Rangers in lien of the Tréops now in the Pay ot the Province at Fort Edward, And, I makena doubt, you will provide accordingly, as by this Meafure, only Part will be expended of what muft have been othgywife yeceflary to kegp theRegiment il March, i Dart faved to e Province. By uny Letter es | prarafed tg " ford in Surry. Nums, 61, . g '"GAZETTE, ontaining the Frefie® Advices I» O-N D>»0 N Sept. 3. At the Aflizes for the County of Somerfet, fe- ven received Sentence of Death, and four, condemned at the laft Aflizes were ordered for Tranfportation for fecurteen Years, and feven others for {even Years. Sept. 8. Friday laft absat two in the Afternoon, Luke Cobb, aged aboat 55, for Horfe ftealing, and Richard Chap- mah, aged 63, for Houfebreaking, were cxecuted at Guild- On Sunday before their. Execution, fifteen Sons and Grandfons of Chapman, came © the Goal after di- vine Service, dined with him, and took their Leave of him; and at their Departure he dcfired four of his Sons to attend at the Gallows, and take Care of his Bady, which they did, accordingly. ——mrChapnier wwady 4 log s presh to the Speg. tators, and admonithed his Children to take Warning by his untimely Fate. Sepr. 13. At the Affizes held at Norwich in the Coun- ty of Norfolk 33 Prifoners were tried, fix of whom received Sentence of Death. Sept. 15. Yelterday the Seflions began at the Old Bailey when 19 Perfons were tried, two of whom were capitally convifted, 10 were calt for Tranfportation, and feven ac- quitted. - Extraét of a Letter from an Officer on beard the Rawen, to bis Friend in London, oheerncls, dug. 24. ’I‘HE it of this Month, as we lay at Anchor off Oftend (where we had blocked up two French privateers, one of 20, and the other of 14 guns) an Englith pacquet came out from thence, and enquired whether we had obferved the thips crufing off and on the day before. Upon our acquaint- ing the captain of her, that we had feen fome fhips, but took no very particular notice of ’em, he alfured us, that there were two French frigates amongft them, one of 36, and the other of 40 guns, and that they were in high ‘xpeltations at Oftend of their arrival, in order ¥ relieve the privateers which were blocked up there, and drive the Englith fhips from their coafts. The day following we had again fight of them. Our commodore capt. Taylor, of the Seahorfe, a 20 gun fhip, with the Raven of 14 fix.pounders, and Bonetra of 8 four pounders, immediately weighed sheir anchors, and fet all the fail they could croud after them. The frigates lay to for us, and our commodore led the way. We had the pleafure of coming up with them about half an hour after twelve in the morning, when our commodore, being the headmott thip, hailed them ; they anfwered, very boldly, from Breft. Upon this our commodore backed his fails, hailed the Raven,and informed us they were the two frigates, and that he weuld immediately open the ball. = He accord- ingly began it with the greateft martness imaginable, and continued it for upwards of half an hour, when he was obli- ged, as he fays, to back this fails, and drop aflern of the Raven, upon account of his rigging being fo much fhattered by the enemy’s thot, which indeed were moft excetlively hot. The Raven happily bio’t her guns to bear upon thé ene- my’s quarter before they cos d fire a gun vpon us ; however, we foon afterward were obliged to lay along fide of the 36 gun fhip within piftol fhot, in which {iruatioo we continued for near three hours fingly. 'The 40 gun frigate, who had the day before (very fortanately for us) loft. her mainmatft in a fudden guft of wind,made a fhift however to lay ber, broad- fide direftly a head of us, and during the whole time kept a conftant fire with her great guns, which were {o well directed, that moft of them either tock our hull or rigging.” "This fhip did us the greateft damage, and killed and wounded moht of our men. The Bonetta fired her guas very brifkly, but were not pointed fo well as I coold have with’d ; for molt of them, inftead of annoying the enemy, fell on boaid us; but this did us no manner of damage, the {hot having expended their ftrength before they reached us. The Seahorfe, after repairing her rigging, &c. which in- deed took up a very confiderabie time, came up to our al- fiftance, and fired fome guns at the largeft thip ; but by this time the French were (o heartily tired of their fport, that they tho't it neceflary to retire or theer off. The truly birdve Captain Bover received a wound in his fep, the boathwain was killed on the {pot, Mr, Adftone, sur mate, had his left arm fhot off, and was wounded in hiz fece, and the back part of his head, though he is likely to recaver. We had (hiee private men, who foon died of theit wounds, and & mere,who in all likelihood will recover. ; Not to exaggerate this affait, W2 €ap with the greateft trath aflure youa, that ‘we had sot (g much whele eanvas (a our fails, as would be fufficient ta make & pair of trowfers 4 our rigging quite fhattered, a great part of our capiters ear. ried away, and feveral fhot'in our topmafts, This was dane by the 36 gun thip, who, being very lofty, earried moft of her fhot over us. She had 4t leaft 256 fhesi at fimall aittie s her compliment was 500, and during the whole engagerent the element {feemed to be in one continued blaze. As you know we fight our guns (tho® a fleop) between detks, and were obliged 4t {o early an hour, when we engaged, toshave lights fore and aft, the enemy took us for a two decker ; otherwife, as they have fince declared, they would have given us fuch a reception, as would have obliged us to fe¢ France ; and indeed I much fear, had not the night favoured us, fo 43 to deceive them, but not paving a particular view of our inferior force, this might have been the cafe. An Account of the Engagemens of the Terrible Privateer, Capt., Death, and fome proceeding Jubfiquent thereto, {rom an Of- Sficer lately brought from S{. Maloes to England by Cartel. OON aftgr ‘we failed f] ¢ Foreign and Domeflick. . fhip our deftroyer, who, in {pite of all our efforts got in be- tween us and-our prize ; the prize was {oon taken ; then we bore all their attack, which was furious enough, particularly in regard to their {mall arms ; for having a number of ma- rines on board, as well as a great number of feamen, their round tops were crouded with men, who kept a perpetual fucceflive fire, whereby we fuffered more confiderably than by their carriage guns, they being very ill ferved ; however, "their mufketry deftroyed our ‘captain of marines, with all hie* men, the lieutenant and two or three only excepted ; the feamen were alfo fo much annoyed thereby, that nogping but innate courage could have fupported them in keeping the deck ; but yet we cominued, as the enemy termed it 3f* tercipsds, o moft infernal fise, in which we conld veiceiy deftroyed great numbgrs of their men, whom" they threw overboard as faft as kill'd. At the'time of the engagement, we had 40 men confined to their hammocks, unable (o give the leaft affiftance in our defence ; which, with the 15 on board the prize, and the 20 which died foon after our failing, reduced our fhip’s complement to 75 in number ; notwith- ftanding which, ail that were able did their daty as became Englithmen. each endeavoaring to outvie the reft. Our men fell 2pace, numbers were wounded, and the enemy ready to board us, when our brave captain afked us, whether we would fight it out, though he believed it was over with us, being overpowered in number, and by weight of metal : The general voice was to difpute it flill longer, which gave the captain much pleafure. The boatfwain at this time, as he was vowing the fhip fhould be fought to the laft extremity, was deprived of lif¢ by a mufket ball pafling through the lower part of his body The colours were fhot away in the engagement, and ther not being men enough to man half the gans, firing cealed o our fide, as a fignal that we would ftrike, it being impofiibl4 to defend the fhip any looger ; and her mafts, yards, ang rigging being fo much damaged. as to prevent our getting away ; notwithftanding which, the enemy kept a perperua firing, crying out, with many imprecations, Strike your pen dant, and lower your top flail halliards, or ave will” fak you for they were fufpicions we fhould endeavour to run fron them ; after which the brave Capt. Death received a mutke ball, which entered juft below the navel, and paffed throug] his body, of which he died the third day after we were tak in our paffage to France, to the great regret of the farvivin crew. b The enemy having got poffeflion of our fhip, with ti:edeag which lay upon the deck, threw overboard thofe alfo who. only loft 2 leg ; fothat nene of the wounded were faved, b fucs: as 0ad legs to flanS uprighs ©r were bat Qigl:l o ded. We were then aii removed on board the enemy”: fhi and clofely confined to the hold (which was almoft fuil ¢ catks) the remainder of that day, and the fucceeding nigh without a breath of air, or drop éf water to drink: The was crying out, 2nd begging for air and water, but withoy effe@t ; fome were crying out for others to urine in the fhoes, but that difagreeable liquor was exhaufted from thel kodies. In the night there were fuch calamitoos fpeech and lamentations, that the human heart . cannot conceive, t} lips utter, not rhetorick defcribe. One Daddy Pullen, 13 to bear mifery longer, had got his knife from his pock with intent to cut his throat, but being unable to unciafp gave it to another for that purpofe, who immediately, beif young and healthy, threw it behind the butts ; and in morning, when they were ordered upon deck, 27 of th were found dead, being fuffocated for want of air and Jiqug many others were obliged to be carried upon the decit; capable of fpeech for an hour or two ; 7 or eight others d}: in the hofpital at St. Maloes : The furvivors (thofe feven ¢ eight inciaded) to about the number of 56 were fent, fri to. St. Maloes, and fome to Morlaix : Curs, from St. Mz'c arrived lately at Plymouth, pennylefs and naked, but = with great hofpitality from all degrees of people, partictiaj from the Mayor of Exeter, who furnifhed us withgs ftockings, &c. and alfo from the merchants upon ¢ thiange there, who chearfully and liberally dmtributed for our fupport. ‘The remainder of our crew alfo -PFRCY 2bout the fame time from Morlaix, zo of whom imme¥2* went on board the Antelope privateer of Dartmouth The whole furviving crew from St. Maloes and Mo+ ¥ about 46, among whom are the firft and third lieutenar | | lieatenant of marines, two mates, on¢ midfhipman, | er and gunner’s mate. Our ufage in the French pri very bad, and had it not been for the hamana Femit bur owners from “England,, our imprifonment won been intolerable; the French allowance being fearce coimon meal 4 day. : St. JOH N’s in AnT1cva, Offaler 1. ~‘T'he Tartar, Capt. M'Clane, of this Ifland has & French {idop, and fent her into Montferrat. Ske has ¢ in company with the Free mafon, a Privateer of Montfe casried in a Datch floop loaded with Duck, Cardage, and a Frénch {now from Ma:tineco, bound to Bourde loaded with Sugar, Ceffee, and Cdcoa. The Jennings, a Privateer alfo of this Ifland, Capt. Sh man, has taken-a French foow loaded with Supar av d fee, bound from Martineco for Old France. BasseTERRE, in St Chriflophers, Oftober 12. On Sunday Morning came into the Road of Bafl the King of Proffia, Capt. Gruchy, a Privaiecr Sbig ing to Bofton. : QZoben 19. Paragraph o .