The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, April 7, 1758, Page 1

“s - FRIDAY, Arrir %. 1758, Nuwms. 79. GAZETTE. Narhanael M Coyp. . Containing the Frefbefp Advices s By- His ExcELLENCY BENNING- WENTWORTH, Ef7; Captain General and Commander in Chief, in and His MajesT s Province of NEw -Hame- sHirEe, 77 NEw ENcrLanD, ! ¢ & g ' " A PROCLAMATION. » IS MAJESTY having nothing more at Heart than the Profperity of His ASpt‘)’je‘as, and to repair the Lofles and appointments of the Tat Year'’s Campaign, is determined by the moft 3 {igdrdu’s and extenfive Efforts, to avert, with the lefling of GOD on His Arms, the Dangers impend - ing on North America;' relying on His faithful Sub- je€ts in North America 1o co opperate with,-and fe- cond to the atmolt of our Ability, the large Expence, and extraordinary Succours fupplied by our Mother . Country for our Prefervation and Defence. In order to carry the War into the Enemy’s Coun- try as far as Montreal and Quebec, His MajesTY is gracioufly pleafed to require the Aid of Tawenty houjand Men from the New- Ferfeys, New- York, and the New England Governments. The Legiflatare of this Government having Re/oi- wed ta levy and pay Eight Hundred Meén, to be em- ployed in this Expedition ; I do_ hereby promile and engage, that all fuch able bodied and effeétive M2n, as fhall enlit under Perfons that receive Beating Orders from me, fhall be entituléd to the following Pay and Rewards, wiz. _ Each Non-Commiffion Officer and privite Soldier fhall receive at the Time of his Enlitment Taventy- two 8killings and Six Pence Sterling Money of Great- Britain, as a- Bounty ; and at the firt Mufter, a Blankut and Thirty feven Shillings and Six pence more of like Money, to furnith himfelf with Clothes ; and fariher, that each Non:Cg‘mmiflhn Officer and Sol- _ dier that fhall fo voluntarily enliit before the twen- tieth Day of 4pri/ current, and proceed in faid Ser- vice, fhall have the further Sum of Sewen Eounds ter Shillings Sterling, paid to him ?orhis legal Reprefen- tative) provided Canada, by the propofed Expedition, is fubjeéted to His Ma)esTv’s Government ; and " alfg that the private Soldiers from the Time of their . Enliftment, fhall receive Six Pence Sterling per Day for their Subfiftance, till the King’s Provifion is iflued to them ; and that they fhall al{o receive before they march, One Month’s Pay, which is Taventy fevin Shillings Sterling for a private. : That they fhall not be obliged to ferve longer than the firlt Day of Nowember next, unlels the Soldiers raifed in the other Provinces of New England thall be longer detain’d in faid Service. That no - Perfon that fhall enlilt and proced in faid Service, fhall be liable to have his Body arrefted, ftay’d, 'or imprifoned, during the Continuance of {aid Service, for a lefs' Sum than Ten Pounds Sterling. And I hereby call upon all Officers, Civiland Mi- lita®, tq ufe their utmoft Influence to encourage and promote this Service, fo eflfential to the Liberty and Being of this Country. Given at the Council-Chamber in Portfmouth, the firt Day of April 1758, In the Thirty firtt Year of the Reign of oiir Soverepign Lord GEORGE the Second, by 1he Grace of GOD of Great Britain, France and Ireland; KING, Drferder of the Faith, &c. By His Excellency’s Command. B. WENTWORTH. THEODGRE ATKINSON, Sec. : * GOD Save the KING. %k %k ok %k sk sk %k ok k ok %k k %k %k k K k k X KINGST ON, in Jamaica, January 7. T HE taking the under mentioned French Flect awith " only One Man of Wan being Jo much talked of in the 1fland, we hope the folloaving Account awill be agree- able to our Readers, awbich ave can affure them is authenticy bawing 'veceived it from indifputable Authority. & N Saturday laft arrived here his Majefty’s fhip Augufta, Arthur Forreft, Efq; commander, with-nine prizes, as in the following lift, being a fleet ' from Port au Prince, richly loaded with indico, fugar, " coffee and cotton,. and taken by Herfelf Alone, hay- ing parted with the Admiral and Princefs Many two Days before. Ships Names, Le Mars, La Theodore, Le Solide, Le Marguerite, St. Pierre, Mourice le Grand, La Flore, La Brilliant, 200 20 La Nanette, 4 Brig. rz0 [¢) ~ 10 This is fo extraordinary a1 hing, that really one ftands amazed to confider how it was poflible for onz fhip, without the leaft aflifante; or one friend in view, to take fo many ; and no doubt there muft have been much good luck, as well as extraordinary management in the aftion. Rut how much more are we ftartled, when we are told this was perform’d within 3 miles of one of their principal barbours, PetitGuave, in a narrow channel, betwixt two thores, the Ganave and St. Domingg, and not one could get Fetch either way, tho’ they atiempted it, and moft of them prime failers. ' If we durit venture to pro- neunce on the difpofitions of providence, one would be apt to confider this as a recomipence for the gallant and difinterefted combas maintained Iaft cruize, with Kerfaint’s fuperior {quadron; aghere this gentleman had the honour to command. - At lealt the thought muft afford pleafure to every. Briton ! That the lot has fallen upon him, who with three fhips of war at- tacked 7, from the-principal of glory alone. [t is faid, the Merchants at Port Reyal offered one Hundred and Eighty Toujand Founds Sterling for the Prizes, with their Cargoes, taken by Captain Forreft, but was refufed.] : _ But thefe are not ali the fervices performed by his Majefty’s thip the Angufta, in the late cruize of three weeks. Dec. 14th, after feparating from the ad- miral in the chace of a floop, which efcaped, fhe perceived a fhip.in Tiberoon oy, which they flood to attack, but when within a random fhot of the fort, the encmy fet her on fire : Next morning fhe took 2 floop with fugars, bound to Coracoa ; and in the afternoon perceiving two privateers in Lillet bay, fhe immediately gave them chafe, thefe put to fea, and werg luckily turned in the more again by the admiral and Prince{s Mary, who now joined the hol. low, and fending their boats and tender to affift, the 2 privateers wete taken : The laft was well defend- ed from the thore, and as pretiily attacked by the admiral’s tender, (towed in by the_boats) who took her out. Toall this we muft add the burning of a brig laft Wednefday fe’night, at Donna Maria bay, in coming down with the Hornet and the prizes ; all which, according to Sir George Walton’s method, may be thruft-into the margin. Same day came in his Majefty’s floop of war the Hornet, Sampfon Salt, Efq; commander, who in his cruize deftroyed a French Pacquet off the Cammites, and brought in with him a fmall French privateer fchooner of 6 guns and 30 men. Tuefday arrived at Port Royal the fhip L’Eveille, Jean Robert L’Cofte, commander, a letter of marque, mounting 18 carriage guns, 6 pounders, burthen 560 tons, and loaded with flour, bread, Bourdeaux claret, and fundry other merchandize ; fhe left Bour- deaux the z5th of laft September bound to Louis- bourg, but was taken the 22d ult. by the captains Hopkins anc Millar, commanders of two Northward privateers called the Providence and T'rue-Briton, after an Engagement of near 7 hours, wherein 6§ were killed on board the privateers, and four killed and woanded on board the Eveille, among whom was the furgeon who had both his Hands, and the fleth from one of his thighs fhot off,- by which mif- fortune her wounded men were left in a miferable condition, and muft inevitably have perifhed but for the capture. . : BasseTERRE, in St. Chriflophers, Fanuary z5. On Monday came into the Roadsof Bafleterre, a fmall Schooner, bound from Martineco for St. Eu- ftatia. She was taken by Capt. Richards, in the Hawke, a Privateer of Antigua. On Sunday was font into the Road of Bafleterre, a retaken Snow called the Southen. She was bound from Virginia 108 70 14 B 40 35 35 22 18 12 12z T4 12 12 1o 359 300 300 330 for Barbados, but being taken by the French, was rétaken by a {mall Privateer of Antigia and another of Montferrat. CHARLESTOWN, South-Carolina, February . On Sunday came in from a Cruize, the Privateer Foreign and Domeflick. S e e Lyttleton of this Port, and Stanwix of Philadelphia ; and bro't in with them the Sloop Charming-Polly, John Stratton, Matter, of and from Jamaica, which they feized going to Port au Prince, with Fren<h Prifeners, Provifions and Goods. The Snow , Gifford, Matfter, from Ja- maica, for London, is put into this Port in Diftrefs. February 16. We learn, that as foon as the French Privateers that are carried into Antigua, are con- demned, the French have a Number of Agents there from St. Euftatia, who, by bidding high for them with their Stores, purchafc and return them to Mar- tineco and Gaudaloupe. Oo Satarday laft the Wolf King, and the re@t of the Creek Indians that came down with him, fet out on their Return homewards, bighly fatisfied with their Reception here, with the Governor’s giving them jult Weights and Meafures to prevent their be- ing impofed upon by Traders, and with the Prefents that were diftributed amongft them.—While thefe Indians were in Téwn, they faw all his Majefty’s Troops under Arms, and were very much pleafed with their Appearance. On Monday laft arrived here his Majefty’s Ship the Nightingale, from New-York. The Jane, Capt. Cooper, (a fine new Barmuda Sloop) from this Port for Jamaica, was taken by a - French Privateer, in a Calm, and carried into Port au Prince ; whence fhe was immediately fitted out with 14 Carriage Guns. The Mafter of her writes -that the French have 46 Privateers out of Hifpaniola; and that they havealfo 64 out from Martineco and Guardaloupe. Lerters from Providence of the gth inftant fay, that the Dutch Ship Copeman Tromp, taken by Capt. Mac.Daniel of New York, was condemned there : Thatthe Fox and Goldfinch Privateers of New-York had fent in a large Snow from Miffifip- pi for the Cape, laden with Lumber, which had made a gallant Defence of fivé Glafies, in which her Capt. was killed ; the was called La Rochelle, of Rochelle, and had a Letter of Marque : That a Flag of Truce was juft arrived from Port au Prince, with zo En- glith Prifoners, who faid, that Admiral Coats kept two of the principal Ports in Hifpaniola, conftantly blocked up ; and that it was hourly expeéted by the French, that he would beat down fome of their Caftles, &c. And that the Speedwell Privateer, Capt. Kemp, of that Ifland, had taken and brought in a Sloop laden with dry Goods, which pretended to be Dutch ; by which they learnt that g Frigates were already arrived at the Cape, and a Fleet of the Line, fuperior to Admiral Coats’s, hourly expelted. NEW-Y O RK, March 27. [Friday Night laf the Albany Poffi came to Town, and bra’t us the following particular Account of @ Bartle betaveen the famous Rogers, and the Enemy, on the 13¢th of March, Inflant, viz ) Fournal of a Scout of Capt. ROBERT ROGERS. March 10th, 1758. HIS Day fet out on a Scout, to march to the Neighbourhood of Carilong, in Company with Capt. Pringle, Lieut. Rouch, Enfign Bellfore, three Voluntiers; viz. Meflieurs Creed, Kent, and Rightfon, one Sergeant and one Private, all of His Majefty’s z7th Regiment, and a Detachment from His Majefty’s four Companies of Rangers quartered on the Ifland near Fort-Edward, viz. Capt. Bulkley, Lieuts. Phillips, Meors, Grafton, Campbell, Pottin- ger ; Enfigns Rofs, Wait, M*Donald, and White, and 164 private Men—marched to the Half way Brook on the Road towards Lake George, and en- camped there that Night—11th, We proceeded as far as the firft Narrows on Lake George, and en- camped on the Eaft Side of the Lake,and after Dark fent outa Party three Miles further down to make Difcovery of any Enemies that might be coming to- wards our Forts : The Party returned without any Difcovery ; kept Parties on the Lake walking all’ Night, befides Centries at all neceffary Places on th Land,—12th, Began our March at Sun rife ; and "when we had diftanced our Encampment three Miles, we {aw a Dog run a crofs the Lake ; whereapon I fent a Detachment of the Party to reconnoitre the Iflands, thinking that the Indians might have laid an Ambaufh there for us, but they returned withont difcovering any further Signs ; upon which T tho’t it expedient to put to Shore and lay by till Night,” is to defire that no Perfon would entertain, or truft in cafe the repents of her Evil Ways, and will return treated, without any Upraidings of her former Mif- Natbhanael Mec Coy of Epfum, in the Province of New - S R 7)) <C [~ from her truly affe@iopate and Toying Huf- to me, and behave as a loving obed:ent Wife eught condud, her upon my Account j for that I will not pay any 19 do. Dcbis fhe fhall co Hampthice, and refufes to live with me, as an obedi- et Wife, my Wife, lawful Hufband 1758, dpril 3. , fhe fhall be kindly received, atd tenderly - band, £, But from the Date hereof, Conuadl 5 This agreable to the Marriage ped from me her has Elo to News Ten. per Ticker, w5 swell as for Dolldrs, 62 - . & Newsvry LOTTERY TICKETS to 4 So/d by the Printer hereof for New Hampihire Bills of Credit 8t 3 1.