The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, July 7, 1758, Page 2

-, e o s N > - > A St S BOSTON, Y3 Publifhed by Order.’ Part of a Journav of the Pro- - ceedings of the Fleet& Army. - 1758. Y Mbarked on board the Na- 28th May. mure, Admiral Bofcawen, and met the Dublin Man of War of 74 Guns off the Harbour, who had on board General Amberft 5 we were likewife joined by the Troops from Lunenburg, and Ge- neral Bragg’s Regiment, 2gth. The Wind fair and veryfine Wea- ther, we counted from the Maft-Head 156 Topfails, the exaét Number that failed from Halifax with us. goth. Fine Weather the Wind fair, made the Ifland of Louifbourg by 4 o’Clock in the Afternoon, the Admiral made the Signal for the Fleet to come under his Stern. 31ft. The Ifland appears very plain, the Wind at N. and by E. prevents our get- ting in with the Land. A Signal mgde to chafe two Sail a head ; Capt. Rous and the Shannon for that Ser- vice. The two Sail proves to be the two Sail under the Command of Admiral Hardy. ift June, The Wind not fair for get- ting into Gabarous Bay, we were near enough to diftinguifh Houfes and Tents o1 the Shore : The Gramount Frigate fent by the Admiral with the Quarter-Mafter- General on board to make Difcoveries, joined us To-day ; they informed the Ad- miral that they had feen {ix Line of Battle Ships in the Harbour of Louifbourg and 5 Frigates 5 that they had obferved a Body of Indians encamped in Gabarous-Bay. Capt. Rousin the Sutherland returned from Gabarous Bay, he informs the Ad- miral that there are 13 Ships at Louifl bourg, but imagines twq only are Ships of the Line ; they had Colours at all their Batteries and Ships, and fired many Guns on feeing Capt. Rous; he faw a great Number of Teents on the Shore but thinks they had no Body in them. 2d June. Came ro an Anchor in Ga- barous Bay at one 0’Clock ; faw thirteen Ships in the Harbour, they fired two fig- nal Guns and hoifted their Colours, there arc two or three Encampments where the New-England People landed before. General Ambherft and Brigadier Law- rence weng to reconnoitre the Shore with the Quarter Mafter General. This Afternoon a Prifoner taken by the Trent Frigate on being Examined fays, that when he left Louifbourg they had but two Frigates and three Two Deckers ; .that the Garrifon including Men; Women and Children did not exceed ten Thoufand, and that the Bay was Entrenched in every Place that they expected we wou'd Land, he likewife fays that ‘there is five Regi- ments in the Garrifon. The Generals were fired at from the Shore. An Indian acquainted the Governour of Louifbourg that he had been at Halifax and Paddled round the Men of War in the Night, that he reckoned Nineteen, but the Merchant-Men was fo numerous he, could pot count them. They were in great want of Bread during the Winter, but were relieved in the Spring from Quebeck. " Twelve Rockets order’d to be fired at different Places to Night out of Boats to Alarm the Enemy. : 3d June. This Day too bad for the Troops to Land. The Kennington Fri- gate Brder’d to Silence & Battery of two - Guns at Freth Water @€ove,the Firing con- tinued all Day ; they wounded two Men on board, the only Damage done as yet. 4th June. Three Men kill’d in the Night on board the Kennington by the Battery on Shore. Violent rain and blow- ing Weather with Fog, the Sutherland and Trent in great Diltrefs, occafioned by being {o near Shore when the Wind increfed. 5th June. The Weather ftill Foggy, and the Surfftoo great to Land, General Lawrence and Brigadier Wolfe gone to reconnoitre- the Shore. 6th June. An Attempt was made this Morning to Land, but without Succefs, oc- cafioned by the violent Rains, Fogs and Surff that ran along Shore. »th June. A vety fine Day, but the Surff too great to Land. _ Saw a Jarge Body of Men hauling (as we imagined) Cannon tothe little Cove where we propofe to Land. 8th June. The Signal was made by two o’Clock this Morning to Land, the Men were in their Boats by four o’Clock, and on.their Way to the Cove, the Ene- my let them come within half Mufket- fhot of their Intrenchments, and gave us fuch a furious and terrible Fire from their great Guns and Small Arms, that it was hardly poffible for the Men to continue in their Boats, many of them were fhot to Pieces and feveral killed by their Small Arms; but on a body of Rangers and Highlanders getting on their Flanks, which they forgot to cover, they immediately gave Ground, which gave our Soldiers an Opportunity of getting into the Cove and taking Poffeffi- on of their Works ; where we found feve- ral Pieces of Cannon, and of the Number a 32 Pounder, we found the Body’s of one Hundred and odd French Regulars, and two Indians, which our Rangers fcalped. We took threeOfficers and thirty Prifoners: We took poficflion of feveral other Batte- ries that they had deferted on finding we had gained the Pafs. Their Magazines of Powder and their Suttlers grand Tent for fupplying their Army entrench’d f«om Louifbourg to'where we forced their Pafs, fellinto our Hands ; the Soldiers got two Thoufand Lo#ves, feven Bags of Bread, one Hundred Kegs of Wine, and as many of Brandy ; they alfo got feven Hundred Dollars and other Things. s By the Entrenchment near the Water we found a ten Inchand a nine Inch Mor- tar mounted, and about 3 Hundred Shells loaden, the one Iron and the other Brafs, and feveral Barrels of Powder. The not knowing the Country prevent- ed our curting off fifteen Hundred Men from the Garrifon, that were pofted on the Water Side, ; On feeing us from the Town they burn- ed all the Suburbs, and fired feveral 32 Pounders at us, gth June. The Quarter-Mafter Gene- ral bufy in marking out the Ground for the Fncampment, which from the Right to the Left was tho’t to be about three Miles, 1oth June. Employed in getting Pro- vifions for the Army. : A fmall Party from the Garrifon was at- tacked by our Irregulars and obliged to Retire with the Lofs of three Men killed. Nothing extraordinary happen’d from the roth to the 14th Inft. excepta Party of Four Hundred Men from the Garrifon* at- tacked our Picket from the Woods, in which Skirmifh we killed Seven, and took one Prifoner, we had two Men killed and Mr. Lilley of Hopion’s wounded in the Shoulder; N. B. reth June. Brigadier General Wolfe marched with two Thoufand Men by four o’Clock iz the Morning ta take Pofieffion of the Light ibufe Battery which the Enemy had abandoned, carry- ing off what Cannon they were able, and deftroying the reit. . 15th June., Two fix-Pounders was fent this Day and placed in the Center of General Warburtorn’s Regiment on the left of the Line. Extralt froma Letter of General Lawrence, to bis Excellency the Governor. ““ I have particular Pleafure in affuring you, that the Companies of Rangers raifed in New-England, behaved at Landing fo as todo great Honour to themfelyes, and the Country they came from."” Extraéi of the Proceedings of the Fleet and Army upon the Expedition againfi Lotis- bourg, frem the Time of their Departure JSfrom Halifax, to the 15th of June. 1758. He Afternopn of our Departure from Halifax, viz. Sunday the 28th of May 1758, we were firft joined at the mouth of the harbour by Lieut.General Brag’s regiment from Chignedio, and the troops from Lunenburg, and foon after by his majefty’s thip Dublin, commanded by Capt. Rodney ; Major General Amberft, ap- pointed to the command of this expedition came paflenger in the Dublin, and as foon as he joined the flect immediately went on board of Admiral Bofcawen’s fhip. We purfued our voyage for the Ifland of Cape - Breton, and made St. Peter’s the 1t of Fune, and the gd at 8 in the morning, came to anchor in Cabaroufe bay, on the eaftern fide, at g o’clock his majefty’s thip Sutberland and feveral of the frigates warp’d in fhore, and began to fire on the enemy’s batterics and intrenchments between the white point and frefh water Cove, and likewife the Ken- nington frigate that had the good luck to get into the Cove, and fired with great fuc- cefs, the enemy return’d the fire from fix pieces of cannon and their mufketry. Orders were immediately given out for the troops to land, by fignal, but the wea- ther continued fo thick and foggy, and fuch a prodigious furf and f{well on fhore, that it was quite impraéticable to attempt be- fore the 8th of Fune. The Admiral and tranfports were at an~ chor in Cabaroufe Bay, Sir Charles Hardy's divifion at anchot before the port of Loz- ifbourg,and the tranfports that had on board general Bragg’s regiment were fent to Lis- tle Lorembeck, not only to make a feint, but land if praéticable. At three in the morn- ing of the 8th of Fune the fignal was made to land, notwithftanding the fwell on fhore was very great, and the troops were all in 1 < the long-boats and row’d to the place of - .. | rendezvous a little before day, agreeable to the difpofition made by the General ; and the fignal for attack was made about 5 in the morning ; upon which the men of war began immediately to fire upon the enemy’s batteries and intrenchments, and the boats row’d in to the fhore, under cover of their cannon, but on their approach to the fhore fuch a prodigious furff ran that wet many of the men’s arms,and the officers and men themfelves. were forced to leap into the - water, fome of them up to their middle and fome of them higher, in the midft of the enemy’s fire, but the grenadiers rufh’d on with a foldier like fpirit, reflolution and . bravery, returning the fire as warmly, and were well feconded by the highland regi- ment and light infantry, which did greac - fervice, the remainder of the grenadiers landed with all expedition, and the fire from A V4 A LK .