The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, September 22, 1758, Page 2

“lere the firft who feitled at Senegal and built Tawo Forts. The French made themfelves Mafliers of them in 1678. 1In 1692 the Englifb leized them ; but the next Year the French retook them ; and have kept them ever'fince. The principal Commodities wwhich the French import from this Settlement are Gum fenega, Hides, Bees Wax, Elephants Teeth, Cotton, Gold Duff, and Negro Slaves, Oftrich-Feathers, Ambergriele, Indigo, and Civet. At prefent we are forced to buy all our'Gum [enega from the Dutch, who purchafe it of the French ; and thefe fet what Price they pleafe onit. But as the Trade v Africa is now open, and will, it is hoped, ewer re- main fo, the Price of this waluable Drug, wbhich is Jo much uled in feveral of our Manufaliures, will be greatly reduced. The Importance of this Conqueft is ap- parent to every one, but its Advantages awill be felt with much Pleafure by our -Manufaures. The Lords of the Treafury have granted a Li- cence for the immediate Importation of ThreeHund- red Thoufand Pounds Weight of Bohea Tea, on Account of the Great Advance on that Article. Extraft of a Letter from Paris, May 28. “ The Count d’Affry, our Minifter at the Hague, has fent hither an Exprefs with a Copy of the follow- ing Letter, written by the King of Pruffia to the Count de Podevils his Minifter for foreigh Affairs. ¢ My dear Count, the Clouds will {oon be dif- perfed, every Thing promifes clear and ferene Wea- ther. You will {oon be able to take fome Relaxati- on from the Fatigues of your Office ; for we are on the Point of figning a Fourth Treaty of Peace.” According to private Letters from Vienna, the Duke of Aremberg is to command the Army of Pro- te&ion, which is affembling to cover that Capital. The Pruffians fire upon Olfmatz with 120 Pieces of heavy Cannon, and 4o Mortars. The Garrifon ¢onfifts of 7500 Men, and are faid to be well provi- ded. It is confirm’d that the Ruffian Minifter re- commends ftrongly a Pacification ; which, however, feems to be alittle hard of Digeftion ; though there are, in the Imperial Cabinet, Perfons of Diftinction inclined to Peace. Fane 21. Letters from Paris, by the Way of Bruffels, fay, that the Court is extremely embarrafled: That the Siuers Paulmy and Rouille, the one Secre- tary at War, and the other for foreign Affairs, have defired Leave to refign, and obtained it : That feve- ral Perfons have been lately fent to the Baftile, for talking too freely of publick Affairs : And that Masfhal d’Etrees has publifhed a Vindication of his own Condu& ; to which is oppofed an’ anonymous Paper, entitled, “Free Thoughts of thofe who have Heads, on the Conduét of thofe who have none ; ™ in which there are a Number of ftrange Fatts and bitter Reflections. : They write from the Hague, that the extraordina- vy Sitting of the States General, which began on the 21ft of May was to be consinued ’till the 8th of June ; that there was a great Ferment in the Affem- bly : that Six Provinces were for making the Aug- mentation of 13,000 Men ; and that the Town of Amfterdam alone oppofed it. . The Liverpool Privateer, Hutchinfon, has taken a French Privateer of 200 Men, and cartied her in- to Cagliari. : Some of the gentlemem, who about nine or ten months ago, as was mentioned in the papers, were feized with the {pirit of wedlock, and took off in fuch hafte feveral young girls, are now feemingly on the ftrain of repentance ; groanings and lyings-in, being a charge by no means to be borne ; and fits fo uneafly on the mind of one in particutar, that the amphibious hero took it into his head to givé his la- day a too early uprifing, by the dilcipline of the horfe-whip, and fsvoured her father with a black- eye for interfering. ' The following z'?!be Form of the Oath avhich the King of Pruffia hatk demanded from all thelowons through- ouf the Eleclorare of Saxony. ¢ In the Name of Almighty God, and by his Holy Gofpel, I, N. N. do promife Fidelity to the moft Serene and moft Puiffant Prince Frederick III. King of Pruffia ; and that I will contribute my at- moft to promote his Interéft ; that I will Difcover whatever may tend to his Prejudice, and every Breach of Faith, as foon as it fhall come to my ‘Knowledge ; that I will alfo endeavour to prevent it, to the utmoft of my Power ; and that I will in all Things, behave in the Manuer above promifed, and fo that I may be able to juftify it before the awful Tribunal of God. So help me God.” CuarLEsTowN, South Carolina, Aug. 14% The Account of what befel the letter of marque fhip New Grace, Capt. Carr, from Philadelphia, as fhe was coming up from the bar laft monday, com- prehending a feries of very extraordinary proceed- ings, (fuch as, the firing upon her by .two men of war then lying in Rebellion-road, to oblige her to bring to, when it could not be done with fafety, whereby Robert Shannon a fore-maft man on board the New-Grace, and one of his majefty’s fubjeQts was e killed, and another man belonging to the faid thip wounded ; they afterwards boarding the fhip, by a rumber of men of wars boats, with armed men, who as foon as they had entered the thip, followed the example of their Officers, fired their fmall-arms wherever captain ‘Carr’s men had fhat themfelves up (which they gdid as foon as Shannon was kill’d) their coatinuing fo to fire for fome time, tho’ no re- filtance was made by the New.Grace’s crew, who ‘could bave killed many of the men of wars men from her clofe quarters ; the pointing and firing one of her 4 pounders down her companion; the im- ‘prefling the whole Crew of the faid Ship ; the feiz- ing of John Green, fecond Captain of her (who had been abfent all this,while) as foon as he returned from clearing'her at Fort Johnfon, and putting him in Irons; the taking of Capt. Carr out of his Ship on Wednefday Night by armed Men, &c. being too long to be inferted in'this Week's Paper, the Pub- * lication of it muft be poftponed. PHILADELPHTIA,Sept. 7. Capt. Chancellor, én 25 Days from Medeira, ad- vifes, that a Veffel had arrived there from Vigé, which bro’t Advice that our Troops under the Duke of Marlborough, were landed at Morlaix, and that Admiral Anfon was off of Breft with a ftrong Squa- dron, among which were nine three deckers : That the two Governors of Senegal, with 300 People were arrived there in an Eaft India Man : And that 17 Sail of Spanith Men of War lay in a Port near Vigo, but all unrigged, and no Preparations making for Sea. ‘ Extraft of a Leiter from S. Carolina, Aug. 4, 1758. ¢ The agreeable Indian News we have from Georgia is, that the Creek Indians are in excellent Temper, and the Wolf King, with 200 Warriors, is going on an Expedition againft a New French Fort on the Cherokee River. If thefe Indians once ftrike a Blow, we fhall have 2 moft warlike Nation in Ac- tion. They frequently vifit Governor Ellis, who improves every Opportunity to excite a becoming Spirit in them, and to which the prefent Expedition isattributed. Bat notwithftanding all this, Joqulki, Meletchi’s Son, has been prevailed on, by the French at the Helbame Fort, to go to Moubile, and is now there.” The Portmahon, from Halifax, one of his Ma- jeity’s Ships of War, isin the River. ¢ The curious Fire-works, propofed to be played off on Thur{day Evening latt, as a Rejoicing for the Redu&tion of the Ifland of Cape-Breton, and its De- pendencies, to the Obedience of his BriTannick Majefty, were obliged te e deferred, on Account of the Weather, till Monday Evening, when they were exhibited in the féllowing Manner from a floating Caftle, ere€ted on Stages on the River Delaware, having a Tower on the Right, with three Tier of Guns, and the Infcriptions BoscAwen and Am- HERST thereon ; alfo a Tower on the Left, with the Inferiptions Harpyand WoLrrE ; in the Center a Citadel, with GEORGE.REX, a perpendicular Wheel, the Sun, and a triangle Wheel, on the up- per Tower, and a 8t. George's Flag on the Top of the Spire, reprefented in Fire work. On the upper Part of the Curtain, CHARLES FREDERICK, Kinc oF Prussia, over two Tier of Guns, ten in each ; underneath which, on the Left, GENERAL LawreNnce ; on the Gate was PirT and WaiT- MORE, inclofed by a fluted Column on each Side, with a full Entablature over it. 1. A Rocket was fired from the Caftle as a Signal. 2. A Cannon from the Shore. 3. GEORGE REX, with a flaming Flag on the Citadel, f{aluted with 21 Guns, and three Cheers, the Bells ringing GOD Save Tue King. 4. A Rocket from the Caftle was fired, and the Engagement began from the Shore, under French Calours. 5. The Fire from the Caftle was returped by a Number of Cannos, Shells, &c. and on the Attempt made from the Caftle to ftorm the City, the Befieg- ed fprung a Mine, but after fome Time furrendered ; the French Colours were ftruck, and the Englifh hoifted. 6. The Rejoicings on the Surrender began from the Caftle, by firing a Swarm of Rockets from Tow- er AMHERST, 7. A number of Rockets played, as fex de Foye. 8. The Horizontal Wheel in WHiTMORE"S Gate, and the perpendicalar Wheel, in the Citadel. 9. Mufick. 10. A Swarm of Rockéts from Tower Wovrre. 11. The Sun, with a triangle Wheel, in the Cen- ter, on the Citadel. 12. A Number of Rockets, as fex de Foye. 13. A flaming Indian, armed, coming out of Wauitmore’s Gate, with a Motto from his Mouth, BriToNs sTRIKE HOME, the Bells chiming, and the Band of Mufick playing BRITONS STRIKE HOME. 14. A Swarm of Rockets from the Citadel. 15. A Number of Sky and Water Rockets, &c. were played off, with a general Dilcharge of the Cannon, with 3 Cheers, which concluded the whole ; s S A o S50 LN Tl < every Thing being condufled with the“'utm’o& De- «corum, without any Accident happening, notwith- . ftanding the vaft Number of People prefent)” NE W.Y OR K, September 11. By Advices from St. Auguftine 2s late as the 25th of Auguft we learn, that no more th#® 40 Dragoons arrived there with the new Governor from the Ha- vannah ; that there were no new Fortifications ereét- ing there; that they were repairing a fmall Platform of 4 Gunson the 5. W, part of the Town, that had been built 40 Yearsago, in order to intimidate the Creek Indians, who were at that Time troublefome Neighbours to them : that the whole Garrifon con- fifted of only 480 Men ; that all French privateers were forbid the Port of St. Auguftine ; and that by Advices received there from Spain as late as June, i appeared that his Catholick Majefty was not the leaft difpofed to enter into, or be concerned in the pre- fent Broils in Europe or America. ; Yeflerday about 120'Clock the Albany Poff came to Town, after riding in an extraordinary Mannes to bring us the following important Intelligence of the Juccefs of Col. BravsTREET’s Expedition on Lake On- tario. An Exprefs firft brought the Account to Albany on Thurfday laft from the GreatCarrying Place, on the Road to Ofawego 5 but the Pofft was then difcharged, and a Gentleman there fot out direftly to overtake bim, awbhich be did-after 20 Miles ride, and inclofed the fol-, lowing : : Extrac of a Letter from an Officer who was in the Expedition with Col. Bradfireet on Lake ;)nltario, dated Ofwego, Auguft 30, 1758. R, Hawve the Pleafure to inform you, That 1 arrived bere this Day awith a Brig under my Command, deeply loaded with Farr, Skins, Bale-Goods, Li- quors, &5c. &c.&c. The Brig is the Jame that war saken from us by the French at Ofwego two Years ago, 1 bave not time to be wery particular as to the Siegd of Cadarague, or Frontenack ; but fball inform you, that on the 25th Inflant at Night, we landed, and invefied the Fort ;— the 26th awe mounted tavo Cannon on an Eminence, which awe kept conflantly firing on the Fort ¢ the 27th Col. Bradftreet ordered 1200 Men ((almoft one half what be had with him) round ths Fort, and mounted two more pieces of Cannin. ¥ 'swas ow this Command : We found the Enemy's Fire werybot ; bur towards Night they fived mofily over our Heqds, and only killed one Man and awounded eight : the Veffels awbich lay in the Harbour kept a conflant fire up, bup were filenced by our firfl Battery : they aitempted togo off by making Sail, and going dovon the River raus rence, but by the Hotneys ol inr fire, noers obiged at to take to their Boats, and let the Veffels drioe wobich awent afbore about five Miles below the Fort, awhere wwe Jent and got them off :—= the 28th the Foriawas given up to us on the jollowing Conditions, wiz. That the Garrilon fhould go to Canada on their Paroli of Honour, and rétarn an equal Nunber of our Men to Frrg William Henry :— And that the Governor of the Fose, (whoa isthe third in Command with the French ) fbould return Col. Schuyler in bis Place :— I am, in Hafle, " Your Humble Servant ommme— The following Particulars of this happy Turn, we have in another Letter that was inclofed ‘with the- foregoing, viz. That about 150 or 200 Prifoncrs aere takin, and 15 killed, with the Lofs of only three killed on our fide, and 17 wounded : that our People bronghe off between 80 and 100 Pieses of Cannon ; burnt five of their Veffels 5 levelled the Fort to the Ground, and defiroyed 2000 Barrels of Provwifions :—that the Per- Jon mentioned in the foregoing Letter to be the third in Command with the French, avas the Licuttnant Gover- nor of Canada, (as {poke of in our laft Gazeite to be bound thither on a Treaty).— 7hat Ci/. Bradftreet bad proceeded on awith his little healthy fucce/sful Army, but no one kpew whither, only imagined to be againf? Qwegarchi, or Fort La Galette,” about 4§ Miles below Frontenac, on St. Laurence River, and about 160 miles Jrom Montreal ; that the Plunder got at the Fort avas aorth 70,000 L. Sterling : And, that.there was a Jurprizing Alteration in the Bebaviour of the Indians at the Great Carrying Place, for the better, B O S T O N, Scptember 18. Wednefday Iaft arrived here frofn Louifbourg, his Majefty’s Ship the Captain, commanded by Capt. Amberft, in which came Major Gegeral Jeffry Am- herft, who had the chief Command of his Majefty’s Land Forces in the late fuccefsful Expedition againtt Cape Breton ;—=FHe was received and congratulated upon his Arrival here, with the Reipeét and Efteem S due to fo brave a Commander :—The Guns at Caftle” -. William, and thofe on the Batteries in thisTown and at Charleftown, were difcharged on this Occafion, and the Bells of the Town were ruag ; in the Even- ing there was Bonfires, dnd a great Variety of Fire- works play’d off. which came out under Convoy ¢f the Captain Man of War, are alfo arrived, having on board the 2d Batcalion of Royal Scots,General Forbes’s, Lafcelles’s, and Webb’s Regiments,and alfo Frafer’s Highlanders ; they arrived here in good Health, and were all dif- embarked on Thurfday Morning and encamped on Between 30 and 40 Tranfports