The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, September 1, 1758, Page 2

. "We learn from Providence, That Capt. Randal, in the Privateer Slocp "Biack Snake, of thit Place, returned from a Cruize on Saturday Night laft, and brought in «with him a Sloop of about so Tons, Joaded -with Logwood ; bound from Miflifippi 0 Guadaloupe, - Lait Week arrived Capt. -Aborn from Jamaica, being the laft of 17 Sail belonging to this Port, who are now all arriv’d fafe. With much Satisfadtion we likewife ‘hear, that many other Veflels, who were Part of the fame Fleet, have arriv’d at the fe- veral Ports'towhich they refpectively belong. This affords us a very'fenfible Pleafure, in obferving, that our Trade is now well proteéted, while that of the Enemy is every where ruin’d ; which muft reflect great Honour on the prefent Miniftry, zs well as on the Commanders of our £hips of War, S e e KincsTox, (in Famaica) Fune 3. On Monday arrived here from a Cruize his Ma- jefty’s fhip Princels- Mary, Thomas Craven, Efq; Commander,with a Duatch Prize, mounting 32 Gtns. "This Veflel having chafed the Man of War fome Time, the latter affe@ed an Indifference about her, and let Ler come ¢, when hoiiting French Colours, and hailing her in French, give the Dutchman to underfland the was a French Man of War, and the Boat being put out, with fome Irenchmen in her, and a {mart young Fellow that cou'd fpeak French fluently, and dreffed a la Mode a Paris, they went . on hoard the Datchmaa,who received them joyfally, and mformed,that he him(elf carried a French Com- miffion - Which producing, it was carried on board to thew Capt. Craven, who in the mean Time had run out his lower Guns, which by a Turn of the Helm giving the Duichman a fair View of, and hoiit- ing Englifl Colours, the other immediately ftruck without any Hefitation. Fune 10, Saturday laft arrived at Port- Royal the Privaicer Snow Mew Mercury,Capt. Jofeph Consel, from a Cruize, and brought in a French Sloop from Mifliippi bousd to Hilpaniola, loaded with Hides ard Wood. Fure 17. Thurldsy evening arrived his Majefly’s flsop cf war Viper, Houfeman Broadly, Efq; com- mander, add brought in with bim a Freuch Priva- teer brig, mounting 14 fix pounders, thirty fwiveis, with 153 Men, taken one day laft week by his Ma- jelty's thip Lively, off Rifpaciola ; the Frenchmza aniftock the Lively ior a merchant thip,{o pave chafe and engaged, but was foon greatly difabled, and obliged to firike ; there was another Brig in com- pany, faid to be commanded by Moni. Palanqui ; however fhe made off immediately on perceiving the error. Capt.Broadly alfo bronght in a French prize fnow, loaded with rum, fugar, &c. taken coming out of Port au- Prince by his mzjefty’s thip Princels Mary. PHILADELPRHIA, Augufl 17. From Virginia we have Advice, that a Veffel from Glafgow arrtved at Hampton .the 6th Inftant, in fix . Weeks pallage ; and that in ove of the public priuts which the Captain brought, there was an Accouat that the Duke of Mariborough, with 16,000 Foot, and 1200 Light Horfe, had landed at Morlaix, 25 Miles N. E of Breft, and were to march frem thence for that place : That Admiral Anfon, with 18 fhips of the Line, was to go into the Harbour of the lait mentioned place, in order thdt it might be attacked at the fame time both by fca and lLand : Acrd that Admiral Hawke, with 16 Capital Ships, lay oft Dunkirk, by which the Enemy, urcertain of cur Defigns, would be obliged to divide their Force. And we a1 a‘{u'flher informed, that another Veflel bud likewife comee into Hampton, in a fhort paiTage from Fraocy, the Caprain of which bemg examined, agreed exaltly in what he faid with the above Rela- tion. Our Troops, in Landing, it is {aid, were cp- pofed only by about 1700 Militia ; and the Iahabi- tants, on the Ficach Coafl, iu the utmoft Counfter- nation. Extrad of a Letter from St. Chriftophers, july 24. “ Laft Friday and Saturday ave were alarmed by two French Frigates, acko had been cruizing off for fe- weral Days. On Saturssy they toosk the Brig Tyrrel (a Piivateer of Bay badas ) and fome fmall Veyfils, and were once _Jo near as is be fired at frim Charles’s Fort. s The lafi Acccunt we hawve of thefe Frigates is, that ome of them, two or three Days ago, met with the Antigua Privateer Brig, «wha, bowever, got off, but not awithout much Damage. The French Privateers take a great manyPrizes, tho’ they are wery often taken themlelves.”’ By Capt. Aikins, from Lifoon, thire is @ Report, that twwo French Men of War are taken by fome of our Jbips, and carried inte Leghorn. From Lake George there is Adwice, that four of our People, avho awere Prifoners at Canefedage (an Indian Callle above Montreal) bawve made their Efcape, and are veturned to the Lake. ‘They report that the French ave like to buve a bad Harvef 5 that all the Men they pould mufier awere Jent to Carillon, but that many of whem bad come back ; and that the Governor of Mont- real had fuffered the Indians 1o carry Enfign Dovning 1o Caneledage, whe=e they cut bis Ears almoft off, and o:h.rwife ufed him wery ill ; ; Lafl Fight arrived bere Capt. Simpen. in 23 days Sfremdntigua, by whim awe bave adwice, toat the cven- ing he failed, the brig Prince of Wales arrived there in 25 days from Cork, and bro't advice, that the flect under ddmiral Anfon, and the trocps under the Duke of Marlborough, bad taken St. Maloes, and deftreyed 137 weffels, two of which avere men of awar, 40 privatecrs Jrom 40 to 20 guns 5 and that they avsre flill in pof- (ffion and molefling them. Alfo that Admiral Saunders had taken 7 men of war. R From the aweflward we bear, that General Forbes Jet out from Carlifle on Friday lafl for Reas Town, and that part of the army kad poffed the mountains, fo that we may fortly expedt fome important news from ‘that quarter. : NEW-YORK, Augufl 21. From the Great Carrying Place, Augufl 13, 1758. Lieut. Col. Bradfireet is to command in an Expedition this Way of 3000 ilen, detached from the Ariny mow bere of 4500 Men in the foliowing Manner, wiz. Regulars, k55 New Yorkers, 1112 Neay 7{!/:;, 412 Col, Willian:s z Buflen Cal. Doty's : :33 Rbode-lland, 318 Battoeren, 300 Train, 8 Pieces of Cannon, 3 Martars. Carriages, Provifions, &c. go into Woed Creck this Dap 1he awhole march to morreww. What Way or for avka? place defigned isnot known to any Mortal bere, except General Stanwix. On Friday the Privateer Ship Royal Hunter, Fames Fauncey, Comm inder, returned (rom a Cruize, and bro't in with bim a Dutch Skip which be Jeized at Sea the 22dof Fuly lafl, as fbe was an ber Paffage from Rot- terdam to Cape Francois. Capt. Fauncey alfa brought in avith him a French Polaccab, which be tock the 24th of Fuly, avkile in Confort avith Capt. Deveraux, in the §t. Gearge of this Place. She is called La Marie, bus 6 Guns and 60 Men, Monf. Fean Baptifle Fregict, Mafler, bound from Marfeilles to CapeFrancois, and loaded avith Wine, Oyl, Flour, Soap, Candles, Fruit, dry Goods, &c. Saturday Ewvening laft a French Settee, under the Comimand of Capt. Holmes, avas fent in bere by the Pri- wateer Snow Dreadnought, Wiliet Taylor, Commander. She is called the Virgin Lagare, Mon/. Fobn Rogue, Mafler, was bound from #lartinecs, to Old France, and awas taken the zgih of July lafl, in Lat. 22. 25. Long. 54. She bas on board 188 Hogfbeads of Sugar,15020 Weight of Caccoa, befides @ Quantity of Coffee, Indigo, Cochineal, &Fc. Ske had a Mail on board, which fbe Junk before foe flruck ; and gave an Account to the Coptors, that they daily expelied at Martineco, a¥rench Fleet of one undred and 0dd Sail, under Convoy of Jeven Men of War. B O S T:O "N, Augnft 28, Laft Monday Morning arrived here His Majefty’s Ship Nightingale, Capt. Campbell, fram Louis- bourg, but laft from Halifax, with Difpatches for the feveral Governments on this Continent ; by faid (hip we have the following Advices, viz. *HAT on Friday the z1ft of July, aboat Nooa, T either a fhot or fhell fell upon fome loofe powder on board the Entrepenant, which blowing up, fet her Quarter on Fire ; and in lefs than haif an Hour the {hip was all in Flames: The Wind being in, fhe fell on board the Capricieux, fet her on Fire, and fhe communicated the {ame Favoar to the Celebre ; fo that by 4 o’Clock they were all three young ZEtna’s, which had apretty Effe ail Neght long : In the Morning they difappeared.— fatarday Morning we opened our Batteries upon the Left of the Town, confifting of Fourteen 24 poon- ders and & Mortars ; by Ten the Citadel was in Fiames, and moft of theirGuns facing us pretty much humbed ; Mr. Wolfe at the fame Time took poft, at the Foot of the Glacis near the Weft Gate ; here we loft Mr. Murray, an Officer of the Highland Grenadiers. Oa funday Night we fet the Barracks cn Fire, which were burat down by Four the next Moraing. On Tuaefday the z25th at Night, 5o Boats belonging to the Fleet, mann’d and arm’d, went into Lowfbourg Harbour, and about One o’ clock boarded the Frudente and Bienfaifant, took the lalt, and run her up the Harbour ; the Prudente was aground, which obliged our Men to burn her - The Enterprize was asdaring as any Thing weil could be, it was commanded by Capt. Laforey, and Capt. Balfour, with about zeo Men each, who all behaved with the oldBritith {pirit fo peculiar to them; our Lofs was inconfiderable, not above 4 or 5 Men being killed, altho’ the Bienfaifant had 120 Men on board, and the prudente many more : Next Morn- tng the Inkabitants began to fear a ftorm, as all our Boats were ftill in the Harbour ; and accordingly about 10 0’Clock they beat the fhamade, and plac’d a Flag of Truce upon the Breach, and the Firing ha- ving thereupon ceafed on both fides, an Officer came out to demand Leave for the Garrifon to capitulate ; which being granted, the French Govewmour fent tut Foftages with: propofals to capitalate vpon the fame Terms allowed our Governor at Minorea ; which were reje@ed ; and our propofais for their {urrendering ar Difcretion. having been fent in, with no more than Half an flour’s Time to corfider of them (which they afterwards prevailed upon the Ge- neral to continue for One Quartggof a0 Hour more) and were agreed to before the limiied Time expired A Tranflation whereof follows, viz. ARTICLES of Capitulation Berween bis Excellency Admiral BoscAweN, and his Excllency Major Gemeral AMHERST, of the one Part, and his Excellency Monf. le Chevalier de Dreucour, Gowvernour of the ifland -Royal of Louis= bourg, Jfland of St. John's, and their Dependencies » ) HE Garrifon of Louifbourg fhall be Prifo. ners of War, acd fhall be tranfported to England, in his Britannick Majefty’s Ships. II. THE whole Artillery, Warlike-Stores and Provifions, as well as Armsof all Kinds, which are at prefent in the Town of Louifbourg, Ifle Royal,St. John's, and their Dependencies, fhall be delivered, without the leaft Wafte, to the Commiflarigs which fhall be appointed to receive them, for the Ufe of his Britaonick Majefty. [ZI. THE Governour fhall give Orders that the Troops which are on the IHland of St. John’s and its Dependencies, fhall repair on board fuch Ship of War as the Admiral fhall fend to receive them. IV. THE Port Dauphin fhall be delivered to his Britannick Majefty’s Troops at Eight o’Clock To- morrow Morning ; and the Garrifon, comprehend- ing all thofe who have carried Arms, fhall be drawn up at Noon upon the Efplenade, and lay down theie Arms, Colours, Implements and Ornaments of War, and the Garrifon fhail be embasked to be fent to En- gland in a convenient Time. V. THE fame Care thall be taken of the Sick and Wounded, which are in the Hofpitals, as thofe of his Britannick Majefty. VI. THE Merchants and their Clerks, who have rot borne Arms, (h- be fent to France, in fuch’ Manner as the Admiral fhail judge proper. Louifbourg, 26th Le Chew. de DRUCOURY Fuly 1758, In Confequenee of the above Articies of Capitu- lation our Grenadiers went and took poffeffion of the Town ; and the Garrifon 2id down their Arms. On the 10th Inftant there were publick Rejoi- cings at Halifax, in Nova-Scotia, on Account of the furrender of Louifbourg, by the firing of Guns ; and in the Evening, I!luminations, &c. &c. We hear that it was the fuccefsful Capt. Boyle of the Boreas Man of War, who took the two Spanith Store- Vefiels that were bound to Quebeck, as has been already mentioned : They were laden with French Flour, Wine, &c. And according to a Let- ter from Halifax dated the 1 1th Inftant, they were then.hourly expedted there. We hear that his Exceliency, the Hon. Admiral Boscawen has, in a generous and polite Manner, made a teader to us of the province foow prince of Wales, upon our ferding people to mann her, and bring her up. This foow was taken from us by the French laft Year, and has fince been employed by them as a cruizer from Louifbourg, and was in that Harbour when the place furrendercd. ExTracT of a LerTer from Lewifbourg, Aug. 12. — HE French Inbalitants are allowed to carry off all their priwate Effccts, even the meft waluable— The Garrifon are already embarked, the Officers on bocrd the Dublin, avkich wvith 4 other Men of War are ordered ta fail to morrow for Great Bri- tain ; the Inbabitants are alfo embarking :—T o Fri- gates and 500 Men are gone 1o take Poffeffion of the Ifland St. Jobn's, and to bring off the French avhich ave there~—The Dewaflation in the City feems to fall wafl- by hors of the Accounts wihich lhawe been given out con- cerning it :—=As to the Viflils funk at the Mouth of the Harbeur, it bas proved no Impediment hitherto to the Nawigation of it 5 fince the Admiral and bis whole Squadron, both Mex of War and Tranlports are [afely moor’d in the Harbour ; howewer, they have been en- deavouring for fome Days pajt to aveigh them, but have nat yet accomply’d it, and ‘tis tho't they mever would : As to undertaking any Enterprize up the Riwer St, Lawrence, People bere feem to be in Sufpenfe, but that Jome Men of War are to cruizr off the Mouth of the River —The polite Treatment wbich the French have met. awith fince the Reiufian of this Place, bei made them extremely impudent, in particular, an Officer of the firft Rank, taking upon bim the Liberly of firiking the Coxfwain of a Barge awho avas carrying him Prifoner on board the Admiral, be was immediately (" upon peing on board) put in lrons upor Deck : And another French Officer having the Impudence to rur bis Hand under one of the Highlanders Plaids, in an improper Place, the Highlander immediately eafed bim of bis Zrm & éiand; by cutting them off with bis Broad Sword ; the French- man nol contented with this, drew bis Sword, in order to take Rewvenge, bat the Highlander being upon his Guard, Jplit the Frenchman's Head down te bis Sheul- ders, and then cut both Halyes off ! ™ By