The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, December 15, 1758, Page 1

FRIDAY, Decemsrr 15, 1758, THE New-Hampthire . 'Contaz%ing the Frefbeft Advices From the LONDON GAZETTE Extraordinary. Publifped by Authority. WuiTenarL, Monday September 18, 1718, ATE on Saturday Night laft, an Exprefs arrived £ 4 with the following Letters from the Right Hon- ourable Lord Howe, and Liecutenant General Bligh, ‘to the Right Honourable Mr, Secrétary Pitt, dated on board the Effex, off St. Cas Bay, on the Coall of Biitanny, in France. Eflix off of St. Cas Bay, Sept. 12, 1758, A SIR, N myp Letier of the 7th, I bad the Honour to in. Jorm you of the Movement of the Fleet from St. Lunaire to t4is Bay. The Reimbarkation baving commenced, at the Lieut- enant General’s Reguefl, upon kis Arrival aith the T 00ps on this fhore Yeflerday in the Morning, the former Corps awere taken off without any confiderable Iuter- ruption from the Enemy 5 but, in their Attack upon cur Rear Guard, the Coptains Rowley, Maplelden, Pafion, and Elphinflone, (commanding under Capt. Duf the different Divifions of the Flat Ltats ) waiting to es3- bark avith the Grenadiers, awere made Prifoners. My own Objervation of the wery refolute Bebawiour of ‘thafe Captains, and of Capt. Duff, beirg confirmed by the Report of the Land Officers concerned in that fervice, 1 cannot omis this Notice of it. The other Particulars ef our Lofs, refpecling the Qficers and Men belonging to the fhips of War, is added in the Liff anneied. Fudging the Anchorage of this Part of the Coafl to be mo avife proper for the Fleet to remain in at this fea- Jom of the Year, till the further [upplies provided could be taken on board, if fent for, and the Troops put again into & prapn'_flate of ferevice ; lam t/)erefore preparing, . wwith theLivutenant General's Confent to return for that Purpole to any Juch Port as 1may be firf able moft « conveniently to gain in England. am, Je. HOWE. P.S. His Royal Highners, awbo avas pleafed to be prefent at theEmbarkation, continues in perfeé? Health, Lifi of the fea Officers and Men killed, wounded, Ec. at the Reimbarkation of the Troops from the Bay of St. Cas, on the 11th Day of September, 1758, Eflex, v feamen kill'd and 1 wounded, Rochefier, Mr. Sonsmerwille, freond Licutenant, ¥ Blidfpipman and 7 feamen kili’d, & 11 awounded. Portiand, Capt. Maple/den, taken, Mr. Lind/ay, Midbipman, avounded. Montague, Capt. Reaviey, [flightly avounded, and taken, and z feamen awounded. Falom, Capt. Paflon, taken, ' 1 Jeaman avounded, Salamander, Capt. Elphinflone, taken. Speedwell, 2 feamen wounded. Total, 8 Seamen killed, and 17 wounded. SIR, The Effex, Sept. 13, 1758. Mentioned in my laft Letter to you, that it was neceflary, on Account of the fafety of the Fieet, to ga to'St. Cas, being obliged to quit the Bay of St. Lunaire where we difembaiked,for fear of being drove on thore againft the Rocks, the Wind biowing hard upon the fhore. Accordingly we marched the gth to St. Gildan, the 1oth to Matignon, to meet cur Fieet, which jay out beyond St. Cas Bay, to get Frovifions. T'hat Evening | received Intelligence, thzt there were twelve Battalions of Foot, and two Fquadrons of Horfe, at Lambale, on their March towards us, which came frem Breft. Having con- fulied the General Cfficers upon this Occafion, they thought it the belt Way to retire to St. Cas ; upoa which I fent off immediately an Officer to acquaint the Commodore with it; that he might give Crders for bis Fleet to put into what Bay he thought beft to reimbarlk at ; and marched the 11th, at Four 0’Clock in the Morning, to St. Cas Bay, where the Fleet put ip, and had their Flat Bottom Boats athore ready to receive us. The Troops marched into the Boats as faft as they arrived. In about an Hour after we be- gan to embark, we {aw the Enemy begin to appear on the Heights above, and foon after they begaan to fire on us with their Cannon, but did not attempt marching down, till almofit all the Troops were re- imbaiked except the Grenadicrs, which made the rear Guard of the whole,who marched up to oppofe their Advancing, and behaved with great Bravery “and Refolution, till, over powered by Numbers,they were at laft obliged to give Way, and retire to the Water fide,til] the Boats could come in to take them, + ¥ where they fuffered much by the Enemy's Fire. We have loft fome Officers and Men, which muft e— always be the Confequence when there is an Enemy to oppofe cur Larding or cur Reimbarking. We have loft between fix and feven hundred Menkilled, drowned, and taken Prifoners. The Lilt of the Officers, I fend you inclofed. - I 2m afraid General Dury is killed, as he is not down in the Lift fent me by the Dake D’Aiguillon. Lord Frederiek Caven- dith is among the Prifoners, and weil. The Cfficers mifiing or kill'd are about Ten, whofe Commiflions I thail ilt up, in Confequence of your Letter. I fhall do Juflice to every Regiment in the Filling up the Commiffion, and fhall not prefer my Nephew, Lientesant St. George, to hurt any Regiment. Lieutenant Colorel Wilkinfon, of Lord Robert Manners's Regiment, is killed. I fhall only men- tion the Majors Names, according to their Seniority, who are ali very deferving Men ; Major Prefton of General Cornwallis’s Regiment ; Major Daulha of Lord Charles Hay’s Regiment, who was Mzjor to the Grenadiers on this Command, and behaved well ; Major Remington of Lord Robert Manners’s Regiment. ‘T'he prefent ftate of the Troops makes it necefiary to return to England. I am, ‘&2, THOMAS BLIGH. P.S. I received jult row a Letter from the Duke D'Aiguillon, that chere aze about three or four Huadred Prifoners. Li& of Gficers taken Prifoners. Guards. Lord Frederick Cavendith, Lieut. Col. Pierfon. Capts. Dickens, Hyde, W, Lieut. Col. Lambert. Enfiga Sir Alex.Gilmour. Capt. Pownal. Lord Geo. Bentinck’s. Capt. Heathcote, Lieut. Shearing. Cornwallis’s, Lieut. Thomplon. Loudonn's. Lieut. Price, Efingbam’s. Capt. Bromhead. & Denthire, Manners's, I Wolfe's, Capt. Myers. . Hlfe’s. Lieut. Rofe, Lambton’s. Capt. Revel. Lieut. Grant, Richmond's. Lieuts Price. Lambourn, doubtful. Grenadier Guards, Capts. Bridgeman, Matthews, Cafwell, W. Lit of Officers killed. Msejor General Dary. Guards. Capt. Walker, Enfign Cocks. Loudoun’s. Lieut. William{on, * Hay’s. Capt. Edmonftone. Efingham’s. Lieut. Sandys. Manners's. Lieutenants Moore, and Wells, Richmond’s. Lieut. Drummond. Grenadier Guards. Capt. Rolt. Manners's. Lieutenant Colonel Wilkinfon, 200~ N DY 1OF WL Sept. 21. Several Letters by the Dutch Mail not only bring a confirmation of the warlikePreparations making by the Turks againit the Ruffians, but alfo acd, that they are aflembling an Army to invade Hungary and Tranfylvania. On Friday His Royal Highnefs Prince Edward arrived in Town, and foon after waited on His Majelty at Kenfiagton ; as did alfo at the fameTime Commodore Lord How, and General Bligh, who were both moft gracion{ly received. We are aflared from good Authority, That in the late Battle between the Proffians and Ruflians, there were not lefs than 54,000 killed and wounded on both fides ; and that Gereral Brown who was reported to be killed, is only wounded, and like to do well, Private Letters alfo advife, that the French are marching towards Hamelin, to befiege that Piace, bat that the Regency of Hanover having received Intelligence of their Defign, had erdered fome Re- giments to advance that Way, and likewife had fent Orders to open the Sluices there. The Lords of the Admiraity have fiationed a Fifty Gun thip to cruize in the North Channel, between Ireland and Scotland, in order to proteét the Trade of thofe Parts from the Infults of the French Privateers. The Camp at Brompton is expefted to break up next Week, and it is faid the Men are to march to Portfmouth, to embark on board the Fleet fitting out for the Coalt of Guiney. His Prufian Majefty, "tis faid, marched his Troops as far in 5 or 6 Days, as his Enemy’s are uually 12 or 14 Days performing, by which means he either has, or will quite defeat Daun’s Plan of Operation. : We hear that a ncble Lord Major General in Lieuts. " Whyly, Capt. Napier. Nuwms. 11358, GAZETTE Farez’gn and Domeflick. his Majefty’s Service, lately come frem America, has demanded a general Court Martial, By fome private Letters bro’t Yefterday by the Spasith Mail, we have an Account, that the Britith Minitter there, had been aflured, thata late Report ipread, that feveral fhips of War were fitting out to join with the French, was entirely without Founda- tion ; his Catholick Majelty remaining firmly refol- ved to maintain an exaét Neutrality in the prefent War béiween France and Great Britain. PHILADETLPHIA,Nov. 30. Since our laff ave hawve had feveral imperfe& Accounts ¢f a Skivmmi/b betaveen a Party of our Aremy, and ano- ther of 1he French, near Loyalhanning, from which the beft dccount awe can at prefent give, is as follows, viz. ¢ That on the i2th Inftant Col. Wathington be- ing out with a Scouticg Party, fél in witha Num- ber of the Enemy, about three Miles from our Camp, whom he attacked, killed one, tcok three Prifoners, an Indian Man and Woman, and one Johnfon, an Englithman (who 1t is {aid, was carried off by the Indians fome Time ago from Lancafter County) and obliged the rcft to fly : That on hear ing the Fire at Loyathanning, Colonel Mercer, with a Party of Virginians, was {ent out to the Affitance of Col. Wathington, who, coming in Sight of our People in the Dulk of the Evening, and feeing them about a Fire the Enemy had been drove from, and the two Indians with them, imagined them to be French ; and Col. Wathington being under the fame Miftake, unbappily a few Shot were exchanged, by which a Lieut. and 13 or 14 Virginians, were killed: That Johnfon being examined, was told, he had forfeited his Life by being fowad in Arms againt his King and Country ; and the only Way left to fave it, and make Atonement, was, (0 give as fail an Information of the Condition of Fort Duquefne, and of the Enemy, as he could ; which being found to be true, his Life fhould be {pared, and in Cafe of Succefs he fhould be well rewarded ; but thatif he fhould give any falfe Intelligence, or not fo full as he had it in his Power then to do, he would certain- ly be putto Death in an extraordinary Manner: That upon ‘this Threatning asd Promife, Johnlon faid, that the Canadians, who had been with Mon- fieur Vetri at Loyalbannipg, were all gone home ; that the Ohio Indians had alfo returned to their feve- ral Towns ; that the Attempt made by Vetri, at Loyalhanning, was only to make us apprehend their Strength at Fort Duquelne to be very great, where- as they were really very "weak there; and added, that our Army would certainly {ucceed : That the Indian Man, being likewife feparately examined, his Relation, we are told, agreed with chat of John- fon’s ; 2nd they both faid the French were very fcarce of Provifions, as well as weak in Men : That upon this Information, Colonel Armftrong, with 1000 Men, and Part of the Train, was ordered to - march the next Day, and the General defigned to have followed the Day after, with the whole Army, but was neceflarily detained till the 17th, when he certainly marched, and we hope is now in pofleflion of Fort Duguefne.” We have the Pleafire to inform our. Readers, that the Sicknefs and Defertion that was {aid to be in the Army, is not near {o great as has been repre- fented: Thatthe General marched from Loyalhan- ning 4300 effe@ive Men,all weli,and in good Spirits, befides Indians, and left afirong Garrifon there, and at Ray’s Town, &c. And that there is the great- eft Harmony among the Treops, who, we hear Jove their Officers, and obey them chearfully. What feems to confirm the Truth of the Enemy being in Want of Provifions is, that it is faid Vetri, and his People, on their Return from Loyalhanning, were obliged to kill and eat feveral of our Horfes, whofe Skins and Bones were afterwards found by fome of our Men. On the 17th Inftant M. Chateleau on our Coaft, tock Captain Joyce, in a Snow, bound in here from Antigua, in Latitude 37, and crdered the Veflel to Augufline. Captain Joyce made the 26th Prize he has taken, haviog got aRhode- Iflander, and a Veffel belonging to New London, .befides the dhip for New. York, (Capt. Anderfon) fince he tock Capt. Gardner. i N E W.Y O R K, December 4. In our laft we acquainted cur Readers of the Ar- ¥