The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, November 3, 1758, Page 3

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Monies, though none of them could demand any, and fo intended to have treated you, could you have aéted the Gentleman. Suge you cannot forget Mr, Samuel Hughes, Merchant, went with me more than { once toyou, in order to be my Bond{man, for my ftanding to thggAward., . 2. Should your Friend in Briflo/ be like his Friend in Boflor, 1 deipife his Acquaintance, lke your Writings, if they were a Folio, believing it would not appear much more pompous than my Advertifement. 3. AsIintend to be at Por¢fmourh To mosiow, 1 * may chance to {ee your Friend there ( if any) and fo may be able to judge of you ina proper Light likewife. : 4. It’s true I hed Tears at your Houfe when you mentioned Mr. Perkins attaching my Vefiel, &c. and faid I was obliged to you for your not doing the like ; however, Samuel Wentwarth, Efq; of Biflon, who paid Mr. Perkins the Ballance of his Account, is a Judge of your Condud in that Affair; the true Reafon for my fheding Teears was, the mentioning of that Affair brought to Mind fome of the many un- happy Trials and Diftrefles I have worried through. And the Reafon why 1 take any Notice of ¢his'pa ragraph is, becaafe it was the only point in which I knew.yoe advanced any Truth, and fo was willing to give you the Credit of it. 5. The Gentlemen that reads this public Account, and the Account you are to print, will be able to judgeof a Fa%t. Youare Benjamin Havrrower, Ard Sir, 1 am Roserr TRaILL. P. S. Mr. Hallowell, provided you can find any Gentleman in the Town of Boffon, or any Man but you, that will {ay I have not in every Degree, Man- ner, and Refpe, ( faving wheo providence put it out of my power to pay agreable to my Intentions) treated them in a moft genteel and honourable Man- mer, and that I have not made all the generous Of- fers to you that were neceffary to induce you to fet- tleAccounts amicably, I'll publickly afk your pardon, and defire the World to look upon me in the fame Light I now look upon you; and being in Hopes you would have left your Accounts to Men, afked eight or ten different Gentlemen if they would un- dertake to feitle your Aecount and mine, and they all to a Man told me they would willingly render me 2y Services, but faid they would not be concern- ed with Mr. Hallowell on any Terms. Be careful bow you anfwer this, or enter into a paper War with me ; for I can draw a Piture to the Life when 1 have an Original to take off from. As thisnow is anly the produce of fudden, hurried, and worricd Thoughts, fo you may believe it’s only a meer fha- dow of the picture you muft expe&, Sir, from R .T. ' PorTsmovti, New. 1. 1758, Mr. Benjamin Haliowell, ' 2% Sir, / ] APE- feen your long Letter to your Friend bere, H'w/}a delicvered your's of the 23d ult. awhich was % inclos’d therein for me ; avhich pleafe to excufe wny anfavering particularly this Pofl. By one Paragraph in it, find your San’s Name was Samuel, that told you, 1 dinitd myfelf, and nct nty Name Sake Mr. Robert ; as 1 thought, and bawe faid, therefore fuppofing that 1o be faft, 1 ajk his Pardon, Sor making fuch a Miflake. Really.Sie, on.account of your extreme gord Wife,and Jome of your Offspring, ¢/pecially. that avarthy Friend Capt. Bevjamin,it gricwes me,to think of what you bawe @lready obliged me to do. Foolithnefs may clafe your Eyes, and Prudence and Duty muft avifely fout their Mouth’s 5 Howewver, they capnot Lut be fenfidle of my Offers to you 5 and of your imprudent Refufals from 2ime to time to me. And as you intinded to treat e in the Manner, asmentioned in mine of the 29th ult. all avbich 1 bave noo from under your Hand ; 1 could do no-lefs in Vindication of my awn Charader, than to lay a true State of the Affair before the Pablick; 1 Jay en‘account of your Family, ar aforefaid ; lct me recom- tnend it to you as a Friend, to leave it to * Gentlemen 5 Whether You or 1 is toblame in our Procecdings 2 If they chance to find it’s you, only Jay in the publick Papers, 1 have not treated Robert Traili as I ought to have done ; and fign the [fame. If they find-l am cuipable, 1 will fign any Acknow- ledgement, you, or they fhall order 5 awhich will put a Stop to my further Intentions 5 which otheravile, rely on my Honour, Nothing fball . But this being done, fball be fo much my own Friend, as to hawe no more to do awith Mr. Hallowell, and fo much of the Gentleman as never to los the Affair be mentioned again, Sir, by Robert Traill. 2.To any three Gentlemen that frequents either Mr. Dowle’s or Mr. Sawage’s Offices, giving Mr. Hughes an Opportunity to be prefent. PorT of P1scaraQua, November 2d, 1758. Enter’d in, Doliver trom St. Martins. Cleared out, Mofes for Wcit Indies, Williams for Halifax, Keiting for Jamaica, and Barnes for Louifbourg. ' " § o UL v i s T W, o g e “ w i » PoiTsmouTa, Now 2d 1758. Mr. Bepjamin Hallowgell, Sir, ; : ' 73/ SOUR’s of the 30th a.’rfl?“fmid_' of Senfe.and ? Truth) came to Hand in Cparfe.: The Contents : 1duly soted. * Which thssgh tnjuff with Re- gard'to me ; yet fouuld nst have iakin any No tice of it, in this publie Mianner, had ywu not there bafely and unfairly taken wpn yow o rofiedl on two of my Friends, Men whofe Charalicss re fo well hnown, that it would be needlefs for me ta have jaid-any 1bing in Vindication of,---- bad the Letter becn wrote even by a Gentleman of Charafier. sy ki Your Affurance in mentioningy or binting at them Gentlemen difrefpelifully, [urprizsg #e ; your Sewle of CharaBler islefs if poffible, than your Commen Sexfe, 1pnd. It'strue, I teld you.I would not- put Pex to Paper aboat our Affairs, and thar | dejpifed you. . but what was the Occafion of it ? why, your Reporting 1 bad denied myfelf. and had [but myfelf up in Bofton, after I had bsen five or fx Days there waiting on you with all the Offers I could think of to irduce you to Jettle our Accounts. In Time 1 may anfwer it particularly s for the pre- Sent fball only fend fume Copies of ik to Bofton tocon. Sfirm your Weaknefs- and Bajenels ; and to jufi'fy my Condut in expofing you to the World again in this public Manner On the whole, if you din't comply with 1y * Ad- vice to you, in mine of vhe 1f} Inflant, yow wiay repent when tao late 5 and depend o having a [ Picture jent you by the firft Packet from England after my Arrival there, as my idle Time on my Paffige Home fball be Jpent in drawing one. Your twa laf Letiers to me will be anfwered diflindly in a proper Time. Sir, by Robert Traill. [] His Grave, my Pen, has broken, His Eyes, my Ink, fhall opes, * Unlefs, of Senfe he thews {ome Token. B e William{burg, in Virginia, September zg. Capt. Jobn Ellrgood is arrived at Norfolk from Madeira, awbich Place be left the 12th of laff Month, and.adviles, that the Day before a Veffel arrived” at that Place from Cadiz in four Days, from wbhence be failed ynder Convvay of nine Spanijh Men of War of the Line, and the Day after they wwerc joined off Cape St. Vincent by 15 athers from 64 to 74 Guns, tavo Frigates, one Bomb and tavo Firefbips, and immediately direfied their Courfe forsGape Finiflerre, avbere it is fuppoled they will be met by another Squadron from Ferrol, and fram thence proceed in order to join the French. Capt. Ellegood further informs, that-the Madrid Gaxette of Fuly 16th he faww the /allarw‘in?‘ Paragraph: #‘Ox the 12th Inflant arrived an Eafl- Indiaman, awho has ¢ confirmed the Account of Madrafs being taken by the « French. B O S T O N,O&ober so. Laft Monday Morning Capt. Froft arrived here from Newfoundland, who informs, That Capt. Darby in a Letter of Marque Ship, in his Paflage trom Briftol to Newfoundiand, tock and- earried ia there, a-Snow that was from Fiance, boand to Ca- nada, which had on beard befides her Cargo con- fitting of Bale Goods, &c, alarge Quantity of Mo- pey, Plate, and 2 Tranks of Waiches. Capt. Darby met with her near the Streigkts of Betleifle. ; Monday laft at Noon theGuns at Caftle William, thofe at the Batteries in this Town and at Chdelel- town were difcharged, and his Excellency’s. Troop of Life-Guards mufter’d, and went thro’ their Ex ercife and Firings, the preceeding Day being the Anniverfary of the Coronaticn of our molt gracious Sovereign King GEORGE the Second : At one o’ Clock the fame Day the Guns on board the Nor- wich Man of War in Nantatket and the Thurloe arm’d Ship in this Harbour, were difcharged on this Occafion. ' The Day following on the Return of His Excel- lency Major General AmpERsT fromAlbany to this Town, the Guns at the Caltie and Batteries were difcharged. This Morning his Excellency Gen. Amberfl em- barked on board the Proviace Sloop of War, Capt. Saurders, bound for Halifax. Extract of a Letter from the Oncilla Carrying Place, OQober 12, 1758. ¢ —The grand Sachem of the Oncida Indians was with us at the taking of Fruntenack, he was one of the moft Chriftian Indians I ever faw in my Life, conltantly at Prayers, talking of Heaven and a future State, and faid if we go on Praying the Land would be ours, and he would help us all that he could. Friday laft he took kis Leave of us, and {aid * if he heard of any Thing he would let us know it : at 1 o'Clock he with threz others bidus farewell, but before he got half aMile from cur Encampument, be was fhot dead,one taken and the other two got in : The Capts. alarmed went out, and found the poor King fcaip’d, and brought him into the Fort, but could not come up with the Enemy : The General order’da Coflin to be made for him, and gave his Wife white Linnen-tolay himoutin ; and on Ga. turday ia the afcernoon he was decently bur'ed in the North Weit Baftion, 3 Cannon fired over him, and the Indians perform’d their ceremonies by drinking of Wine ; the Oneidas are determined to have Satisfaltion for fo greata Lofs : The fame af- ternoon an Indian who belongedto Mejor Ingeifol, and who was taken at Lake George 1747, came in, - baving made his Efcape from the Party that kilid 1he ' King, be fays, he was cairied to Canada, and has liv'd wich Indians ever fiace, that the Party coa- fifted of 100, and only 5 Frenchmen ; that they could have kiil’d feveral white Men, and did not want to, but had got the Perfon they wanted —* Laft Wednefday Capt. Miller ina Ship arrived DLere in 5 Days, with Difpatches {rom our Forces-at St. John's River in Nova Scotia, by which welearn, That Brigadier General Mopkton had almoll finilh- ed a firong and capacious Fortrefs, jult above the Entrance of that Rver, in the fame Spot where the French had fome Time ago ere@ted a Fort, which _they afterwards demolifhed.~—That the French and Indians continued to retire further up, s our Rangers continued to advanse in their Scouting, in which they difcovered feveral of theif Huts and Fields, &c. which they had defested.— Thata Number of Vefs fels lay ready to carry a Body of oar Troops astar vp to the Head of the River as they pofiibly could, where *tis faid, the French had got up the two Vei- fcls that were taken from the Englih fome Tims ago in the Bay of Fundy, and afterwards improv'd as Cruizers.— That thefe Troeps were to proceed, as foon as Maj. Morris had join'd them from Cape- Sable: That irom thence an Exprefs arrived the 17th of O&ober Ini'ant, with an Accourt, That Major " Morris and Capt. Gorham with a Number of cuc Forces had taken at a Place called Capefle, 70 Pri- fonersand about 100 Cattle ; among the Prifoners was a FrénchPricft, who has engaged, upon granting them fudemnity, to bring in 200 more to fubmit and furrender themfelves ; and 'tis faid, he is accord- ingly gore with a Party. of oer Troops, with a Flag of Truce, for that Purpofe. By a Veflel which arrived here this Morning in 4 Days from Halifax, we have the followingExtrat of a Letter from thence, dated the z4th Inftant. “ We bave Advice from Louifbourg by a VefJel from Belfaft, that Lord How bad landed at Cherburg, de- Sroy'd the Shigping, Arfenals, & c. that the {own waz ranfomed for 25,000 L. Sterling. The Damage compus= ed o be done to the French is five Million Sterling.— Tbat the French bad made Quertures of Peace awbick were rejedted, *till the Court of Great-Britaiy bad keard from America —1bat the Man of War awbichk avent Exprefs from Admiral BoscaWEN cvith an dc- count of the Surrender.of Louijbourg, was arrived after a Pafage of 20 Days ; on which glorious Piece of Newus great Rejoicings awere made all over England.— ' bat kis Cathalick Mzjefiy bad demanded the [wo Fremch Menof War taken in the Mediterranean by Admiral Ofborne as being taten under the Cannan of bis Fort.— T bat Mr, Prvr told the Ambafador that what the French alledg’d aas nat true.—that the French awere avelcome to retake thim if they could.—That the Kiug bis Mafler awould beextremely farry this dffair foould caule @ Rupture between the twwo Crowns 5 but if ig did, be was prepar’d. PORTSMOUTH We hear from Falmouth in the County of York, thet Capt. John Bunker of the Sloop Elizibeth, who faiiid from this piace the 21ft ult. bound to. Cafco- Bay, loaded chiefly with Englith and Welft Indiz Goods to a confiderableValue, on the Saturday atter off Cafco, diftant about three Leagues, his Sloop fprung a Leak,and the Water gained {o faft on them, that he with the other Hand that was with him be- tock themfeives toa Canoe, the Sea running very high, butin a quarter of an Hour was taken up by Capt. Andrew Bennet of Calco, or otherwile muft have perifhed in the Waves ; and from the time of their firft difcovering fhe Leaked, was not more than one Hour before the funk to Bottom in about 40 Fa- thom of Water. v Thafe Perfonis who are Indebied for this Paper in Stratham, Exeter, Kingflon, Chefter, Lon- donderry, Hampfed, Plafloro, Fc. are defired to pay Mr. Samuel Evans, (who Rides as a Carrier through thofe Towns) which will oblige the Publifber bereof. Province of New HampsHIRE. : T he Superior Court of Fudicature, which by Law awas to fer the 14u5 nflant, will be- ddjourned 'till Tuefday the 12th of December next : Al Perlons concern’d are to take NOTICE, and govern themfelves accordingly. Thurfday the 23d of this Inftant, is appointed by Authority, to be obferv'd as a Day of Public THANKSGIVING throughout this Province. ORK LOTTERY TICKETS to be Sold by the Printer hereof, e TR l (RO, ORI N S e e Jageent orgwmncs. 1 <ilied § ,,.‘ .‘-.,fi . wawQUll.d !.tnv; maws b ITGREY i’!‘fflfl CIPTINge LA g . i T T 2 Men 4

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