The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, October 20, 1758, Page 2

throughout all Eerope; even in Holland, where ‘they now murmur fo much at our fejzing their Ships -earrying French Property, Britith Credit is fo much improved, that our Bank Notes, which .were lately . (it is faid) at-2 large Difcount there, are now gene- sally received-as fo much Cafh upon their Exchange Annapelis, ( in Maryland, ) September 29 By a Gentlemen from Frederick Town, we hear That a Perfon was come in there from Ray’s Town,, who gave them an Account, that 2000 of the Forces aunder Brigadier General Forbes, had advanced as far as within Fifteen Miles of Fort Duguefne. We are in Hopes foon to give aur Readers an Acsount of the Reduétion of that Fort. PHILADELPHTIA, Ofabers. A Letter from Fort-Hunter, dated the 15th ult, mentions, that a few Days before, one Walter Bell, and -his Son, were killed and Scalped by the Indians in Flanover Townfhip, Lancafter County ; and that another Son of faid Bell’s, and a Soldier, were car- ried off by them. ! ) Yefterday arrived here the Privateer Schooner Knowles, Captain ‘Turner, from an unfuccefsful - Cruize.—Capt. Turner left Monto Chrifto 30 Days ag0, and informs us,that on the z4th of Auguft they had a violent Hurricane. After the Hurricane be fpoke whth Capt. Harrifon in a Privateer from New.York, who informed him, that he ‘and the Spry Privateer of this Port was in the ' Hurricane but efcaped well.—The Spry was chafed for a ‘confide- rable Time by a French 74Gur Ship but got clear, the Frenchman had taken the Sterk Sloop of *War of 14 Gans. Capt Gibbons, from this Port bound to Jamaica, was fpoke with after the Hurricane, having' received fome Damage in her Sails, &c. The Lark, Capt. Gardner, aifo” bound to' Jamaica -frocs this Port, was fpoke with off Crooked Ifland, all well. g N E W.Y O R K, Oftober g Monday laft the Privateer Dukeé of Mariborough, Captain Richardlon, returued into Port. We have the following melancholly Account of the Difafter which obliged her retur: before the Cruize was out, as taken fromthe Journal, viz. “Seprember 13. 1758, ¢ in Lat. 1 —g0 Long. 62—c0 Weft, the Fore- ¢ part of the Day a freth Gale and large Sea from ¢ the N. E.—At Two P. M. hove to under a ¢¢ double reefed Mainfail, Head to the Southward. At Four gat down the Main top Yard, and Crofs Yard, and ftrack the Maia top matt.—At 12 at ¢ Night camge on to blow a violent Harricane of ¢ Wind, with Abundance of Rain, was obliged to cut away the Main malt, and—parted with the Main boom A< One in theMorning got before the Wind and Sea under the Foremaft, then fhip ped a large Sea over the Stern, which carried away the Starboard Crutch,Baracadoe, HenCoops, Bullz Head of. the Cabbin, the Binnacle, Wheel,: toge:her with the Firft, Second and Third Lieun- tenants, the Mafter, (who were ftanding on the Quarter Deck) and {even of the common People; none of whom were faved, eéxcept the 3d Liear. ¢ Malter, and two of the common Men ; the Sea “ alfo at the fame Time hove the Veflel on her “ Beam Ends. At half paft twoput the Helm ¢ a-port, which wore her Head to the Eaftward,and fhe righted. The Violence of the Gale increat- * ing, was obliged to part with the Foremaft, and ¢ lay her Hull to the Mercy of the Wind and Sea. The Seas friking fo vialent under our Stern,were obliged to lighten her abaft, by throwing over- board our Powder, Shot, and all the Small Arms, together with fix great Guns, and Swivels, The Names of thofe loft are, Thomas De Laney, 14t Lieut ;. Samuel Cottoe, 2d Lient. Hugh Came- ron, John Cannon, Thomas Folliot, William Emmet, and Rabert Brown,'’ -~ O the fizft of September laft; in Lat. 32, about 50 Leagués to the Haftward of Bermuda, Capt. Stoddard, in the Greyhound, of this Port, on nis Way to South Carolina, with only 45 Men, and no Dodtor, fell in with alarge Ship under. Spanith Co- lours, and on his giving her a Gun to bring too, fhe fired her whole Broadfide (of 14 Twelve Pounders) into the Greyhound, by which Captain Stoddard re- ceived three dangerous Wounds, and Richard Harris and Chriftian Yonga, Seamen, were killed, befides five others wounded ; and fertunately falling in with Capt. Richatdfon on the Morning of the 13th of September, he was carried on board to have his Wounds drefled, but in the Evening was feparated from his Veflel, in the above mentioned Gale, and is come in with Capt. Richardfon. Monday alfo was feat in here, by the Royal He.- fter, Caprain Dale, 2 Ship from Canada bound to St. Domingo ; her Cargo very trifling. This Ship was one of the firft Prizes brought into this Port at the Beginning of the War, was bought by Captain Blair of Philadelphia, and was retaken on a Voyage from Newry to the Iflc of May, and carried into France. € - - - ‘e ] « . L] L - L1 <6 - L < By Lettersfrom Bermuda we I¢arn, That the Privateer Brig Lord Howe, Captain M'Clond [‘fitted out at Rhode Ifland, but partly owned by Merchants in New-York) has taken and carriéd into that Ifland a-largs Dutch Ship of 169 Feet Keel, loaded with Foo Hogfheads of white Sugar, 150 Hogtheads, and many Birrels of Indigo, befides Cotion, &c. The Ship is faid to belong to Holland, and that fhe has been at Coracea, but that it is generally believed the Cargo is French Property. If this Ship be con- demned without Appeal, the will certainly prove the beft Prize that has been taken'in the American Seas fince the Commencement of the prefent War. Letters from Bermuda of the 12th of September fay, that the above ""effel belonged to the Dutch, but that the Cargo was ablolutely French Property, and it was expeéted weuld be condemned. On Saturday Capt. Billings arrived here in 26 Days from Montferrat : On the 28th of September, in Lat. 37, 38, hefell in with a Fleet of about 100 Sail, ftanding to the S. E. with the Wind at N. E. and mwoderate Weather. By Capt. Tucker from York River in Virginia, we ledrn, That onSunday the 24th of September a Fleet of about 100" Sail'was to leave that:River homeward bound, ander Convoy of Capt: Legge, in a forty Gun Ship, and four very large Ships Qrrying Letters of Marqie each, and allowed tg wear pendants. This is no doubt the Fleet feen by Capt. Billings, in Lat. 37, L. yo. flanding foutheaft the Wind being about N. E. : In an A2 of the General Affembly of the Prowince of Neaw Ferfey, paffed the 1 2th of Auguff at Burling- ton, we find the following remarkable Paragraph, which we think can’t be diftigresable to our Readers 1o infert here, asit mufl pleale every true Lower of bis Country. -2 ’ XXI1. ‘¢ AND avbereasit’s not only firiftly juft, § but bighly prudent, to reaward and encourage juch A AEs of Martial Bravery,-as have a Tendency to difire/s the Enemy and defend ourfddves : And whereas it’s credibly reported, thas one Fohn Van Tile, @ Serjeant in the Pay of this Cobony, with a Partyof nine more under bis Command, hawe lately exertedthem- lelves againft the common-Bnimy upon the Frontiers of this Colony, in a fignal Manner ; and that a Lad, aged about fewenteen Years, firkamed Titfort, when purfued by the Enemy, fbot one of them, and fecured bis Retreat Srom the imminent Danger awith awbich be was threat- encd, lofing bis Gun : "L bereforve, as a JjufkReaard to the above Perfons, and to excite others to imitate their heroick Example, Be it furtherenafled by the Authority aforela=, That it foall and may be laavful for the Pay- Mafler aforefaid, and he is hereby direfied, to pay anto the Jaid Jobn Van Tile, the Sum of Trwenty Spanifh Dollars ; and to each of the Party under bis Command, the Sum of [en Dollars a piece : And to the Jaid Lad, firnamed Titfort, as aforelaid; the Sum of Thirty Dol- lars : And foall alfo procure for,.and prefent the Jaid Jobn Van Lile, and the faid Lad, firnamed Titfors, with a 8ilver Medal each, of the Size of a Dollar, avbereon (ball be inferibed the Bufl or Figure of an Mu- dian profirate at the Feet of the faid Van Tile and Lad ajorefaid, importing their Viltory over them, ond to commemorate their Bravery, and thir Country’s Gra. titude on the Occafion. Which Medals, the faid Van Tile and Lad aforelaid, fhall or may wearin View, at all juch publick Qccafionts awhich they may bappen to attend, to excite an Emulation;, and kindle a martial Fire in the Breaft of the Speitators, fo truly effential in this Time of general War.” : N E W-LQ N D O N, Sgpt. 2q. Extra of a Letter from a: Gentleman in the Army, to his Friend in this Place ; Dated, Camp at Lake George, Sepr. 16. 1758. T és avith great Concern 1 abferve, by repeated Ac- I counts, that there is g general Uneafine/s and Mur- muring in the Gowermments, occafioned by our an- '/ll(tfflflll Attempt upon Tijondaroga. , 1 am informed, by gaod Autbority, that it is afked, (and 1 confefs it is a planfible Dueflion) Why do the Army remain in an-unadltve Encampment at the Lake, are our Armies never to effelt any Thing ? &c.—=1am extremely forry Jo little Notice is taken of the aife Hand of GOD, and the Rebuke of Heawen, in that Difappointment, and think till God's People are brought to a more Jubmifive, humble and patient Difpofition of Mind under the afffiéiive Difpenfation of Providence, they are not qualified to receive fpecial Inflances of the dizvine Favours, nor bave they any Reafon to expel them.—But bave the Army indeed been doing nothing, or rather hawe tbey not done much, and been fucceeded by the divine Prowvidence 2- For though the Difappoini- “‘ement at Tjondaroga, wwas indeed an bumbling Rebuke, yet God hath in Fudgment vemembred of bis Mercy for us, and for Subflance granted the wery Mercy defir'd, Jought and pray’d for, only in another Way, which is thought by wery good Fudges, to be in it’s Confequences, more for bis Majsfly’s Serwice, and the united Intereft of the Goveruments, than the Reduétion of Tijondaroga would have been, and they have great Reafon on: their Side avho think fo. For By this Aequifition, we bave taken 60 Pieces of Canmon, 12 Pounders, bilf of tkich awere mounted, and 16 Jmall Mortars, avitl a great Ruantity of Provifion defign’d for the Lrosps at the Ohio, 7 Veflels in the Harbeur unrig’d, ana two fine Veflels at dnchor full vig'd, avith a Freafure in Furs and European Goods faid to amount to mear 80,000 1. Sterling : By this propitious Ewent, Ofwego is again recover’d into owr Hands, the Enemy by the Lzl of the Veffels, bave loft the Sovereignty of the Lake,'and their Communication with 1heOhio is cut off, and theirTroops there mufl bé in the maff difireffing Circamflances for wwant of the Provifion taken at Cataragui, wbhich was the grand Store Houle for all theirSouthern & Wefiern ‘Settlements, And if ave improve thisvaluable Aiqui- Jfition, as weought, by rebuilding Ofwego, we recover the Fur Trade, and fhall be able to maintain our sn. doubted Right to the Lake, and the Obio Couniry, in Confequences of which there awill be a great Changing of Sides aith the Indians, and particularly she Six Na- tions will be our faft Friends, becavle it gives us fingu: lar Adwantages to protedt them. Now all this can’s Sail ‘of difconcerting the French Schemes, and breaking their Meafures'for casrying on the War, and finally, . ... “prevent their long wifl’d for Sowereignty of this Congi- ent. Succefs, and how much are tbe Enemy perplexed and difireffed by it 2 And can you eall'this doing nothing fon bis Majefiy's Service, are not the Advantages, of this Ewent, to the general Intercf of the Gouvernments quite obwious 2 Even Envy itfelf would be afhamed to de it. But by whomhawe thefe Advantages been gain'd? Why ! by the wobole, and not merely by any fingle Parp of the Army alone, for the unfuccejsful dttempt on Tix jondaroga, by the ower ruling Hand of divine Provi. dence, gave Occafion for, and opened the Way to great Succe/s againft our Enemies. Our Attack upon Trjon- daroga, obliged them to recall one Levey, a great Par- tifan, with a Body of Troops actually on their March Jor Cataraqui, #0'the Defence of their Fort at. Tijonda- roga. The great Lofs e fuftain'd in the Attack, and the certain Intelligence of a Reinforciment, made onr Retreat advifeable, and 1 think, awithout Fiattery, i# was wife Condult in his Excellency Gemeral Apgr« CROMBY awith fo much Secrely and Difpatch to Jend . a Detachment of ths Army to Cataraqui, and at the Jame time to keep the main Body of bis Troops encamped a? the Head of Lake George, by awhich Means all their Force nwas collected at Tjondaroga, and all their At- tention turned that Way. Had the whole drmy march'd that Way, it wuauld bawe given the Enemy a prodigicur Advantage to bave dijappeinted. the wbole Schime by - turning their whole Force that Waj, which by the Means of thrir Shipping they mufl have had it in their Power to effel2, But juft fuch a Situation of the Ar- my, and fuch & Conduéi in the whole Affair ar was matural, and bad an apparent Tendency to Succefs, was taken, and futceeded accordingly, and ewen vur Enemies own great Policy in it, awhether our Friends will or no. _ And will not a righteous God hawe juft Caule to be offended at the Ingratitude and finful Murmurings of biz People, at a Time whenbe bas _fo glorioufly ‘appear'd JSor the Difence of the Proteflant Caufe in Europe, and bas granted. fuch fignal Succels to bis Majefly’s Arms at Louifbourg, and to the Detachment -of this Army Jemt to Cataraqui. Weare conlcious we did our befl, and that the Army, both Regular and Irregular, give Jufficient Proofs of true Bravery., Will not God, I Jay therefore, be as much offinded at fuch Marmurings and Complaints againft the Condult of this drmy, (whole Loyalty to the bef of Kings, and Aff:Zion to their Coun. 1ry, is not to be doubted) andthe Realin of whofe Con- dull they knowrmathing of, as be awas with the Chils dren of lfraelof old, avhothereby made it even neceflary Sfor Ged to continue bis. Frowwns and Punifbments on them for forty Years in the Wildernefs. : E H . Your's, {Je. B O.STON, Ofber 16. Poftlcript of a Letter from a (Geatleman in Phila delphia to one in thisTowngggted Sept. 28, 1758, INCE fealing my Letter we have an Account from Loyal Hannon, of the Defeat of the Party 1 mention’d being gone out under Major Grant.— What Aecounts are yet come in feem to be very imperfe&, and we are in Hopes the Affair is not {o bad as fome Letters reprefent it, as they differ one from another ; but the Subftance, as nearas I have been able to colle@, you have below,— ) Mpjor Grant with 38 Officers and 8oo Men {et out from Loyal Hannon (I think the gth Inftant)and on the 13th encamped or halted within 8 Miles of Fort Du Quefne, from thence he fent an Engineer with a Party to a Hill-which commands a View of the Fort, to reconnoitre, who, on their Return, in- formed him of a PiquetGuard at fome Diftance from the Fort ; wherenpon he immedmtely fet forward with Defign to cut off that Guoard, and to draw the Enemy out of the Fort, that he might obferve their Numbers and Strength : But having Notice of his coming, the Guard retired into the Fort ; upon which, being difappointed in that Enterprize, he b pofted And, what a vaff Advantage bave we by this . <«