The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, January 5, 1759, Page 2

“ies, of fmall arms from (he tops, 'poorg.a,andgan‘g-" “boards, were aiflo poured into her in fuco a manner that every fhot muft take place ; and her men, as before being driven from their quarters, fhe remain- ed without any maoner of help, and give us time (3 give her a fecond dofe; The wind then (pringing up fheer’d her round, and brought her ftera-to us, on which fhe fet her main fai!, hoifted all the {ail fhe “could croud, and made cff, favoured by the night. . Our condition was as follows : The tiller rope fhot away ; all cur braces and bowlins goae ; our “fails a back, and torn to pieces ; our mafts, yards, and ftanding rigging damaged ; 2nd having no com- mand of the thip, were reidered incapable of fol- lowing her. . The 38 gun frigate, when ever fhe had an op- ‘portunity, raked us fore and alt. We had the misfortune to have Capt. Tyrrell wounded, by having 3" fingers taken off his right hand, with {everal contufions en his head, arms,and body : Lieutenant Harris of the marines, and Mr. Winterbotne, mafter, were aifo wounded by the {ame fhot. Mr. Marfha! the firit Lieutenaant, who behizved during the engagemeot like a true Englifh- 1211 and a brave officer, was kill’'d. Weleft 7 men, kil'd ; and had 46 wounded, of which 2 are fiace” dead, ‘There was neither an officer nor man bat what haved like a truz Briton, and did his duty with thz urmoft pleafure and bravery. But we cannot fay any thingin praife of the French : They loaded their guns with far langrage, pieces of caft metal, a-d other mortifyic 1 rubbifh ; and fired chew’d Balls from their {mal pioduce. Their juches long, end notch'd on each fquare to make them danperows. la (hort, their behavicur was {o far from what might be expefed from the king's f'pe, that we can compare it to hothing better than tuat of pirates, or the woill of privateers. St. O HN's ( dntigua) Novemler 4. A Scheorer bound ficry &t. Euftatia to the Gra- r=d¢s hat been fent in Ly the Prince of Wales priva- tzer, Capt. Gwyn, 2nd the Fly, Cept. Lefily. *La& pight the Jano and Lyou privateers Selong- ing to this place, Caplains Stepherfon aud McLane, amrived from a Cruize: Capt. Stephenfon fpoke with langtage is a fqaare bar of iron, 4 a Frepch flag of truce ander Guardaloupe, bound to- £t. Kins with fcime Englith prifoners, wioinfermed him the brigantine privateer Prince of Wales had beentzken ty two French piivatecis of 14 guns a . picce, after a moil defpurcic epgagement of three hours and an ha!f 5 ia which, Capt. Gwyn had 6 men kiiled and a great many weanded » And his veflel was at [aft towed iz being reduced to a wrecl, The enemy will usdcubrediy o fine a vel- {cl as the Prince cf may be of the g timely retakca. *Tis alfo faid that the Toptham which laiely ‘aitar privateer beloaging o taxen by the enemt Now. 8. Yefterday arrived fror Cliriftophers, Captain Ouflow acd Captain Sacheveril, two Gainea Ships belonging o Liv $rom Calabar to this Flace, who ha to be taken by two French privatecrs, in iand, abous 14 days ago, aud carried iutd lsupe, after an engsgement of two hoursacd a half, by the Don Quixote, a privatser brig of 16 fix and our poanders, 3¢ (wivels, and 125 men, Capt.Ton- guy ; and the Marquis de Baurneau, a floop ¢f 14 iour pounders, 26 fwivels, and 120 men, Captain Rouraois. The Cargo of the one confited of 322 Slaves, 2 tons of ivory, 28 ounces of gold, and about 001, fietling in returned goods ; fhe mounted 6 fixand 6 two pounders and had 29 men ard boys, the other had 10 four and three pounders, and 23 mica ; her cargowas 17g flaves, 6 tons of ivery, and 2001, flerling in returned goods. Yefterday his majetty’s thip Weolwich, Peter Par- ker, Efy; commander, brought in a Dutch briganting loaded with fugar and coffee, bound frem St Do- mingo to St. Eoftatia. On monday laft his majelly’s floop Antigua, Da- niel Deering, lifq; commander, brought in a French privatcer fchooner with § carriage guns)f 4 fwivels, and, 23 men, Neow. 11. The Privateer Lampoo, Capt. Palmer, has taken two {loops, richly laden, which were parc of the fleet that fail’d from St. Euftatia under con- voy of three French Men of War. PHILADELPHIA, December 21. : From the Camp at Loyalbanning (now Furt Ligexier ) Decemb. 6, 1758. « I congratulate you on the fortunate Conquelt of Fort Duquefne ; the Terror of our Arms has frightened the French either to Miflifippi or Prifque Ifle. You will, no Doubt, be furprized to hear of their abandoning a Fort which had been fo much the Terror of thefe Provinces ; but your Wonder will ¥ 4 arms, of which we have famplesto” Jocofely talking together, ceafe, when yeu bear, that the unburied Bodies of ~ourdear brave Feilow Soidiers, who fell in Graat's Engagement, fliewed the Grouad for three Miies, and to within 100 Yards of their very Forr, The unhappy Prifoacrs were barct on theiwr Parade, 1as FrencaOficersDeholding the cruel Sight, and laugh- ing atthe inhuman Sceae. The Deferter, who was talzep Captive from ouvr Frontiers, fayr, that oue of the Highianders zforded them the' higheft -Delight, he not belng able to bear their Butenery, without making fuch a Noife as grearly plealed them. No Wonder then thatthey thould dread the juit Refent- ment of the Army. From this Uiaze let the applaud- ed Titles of Polite and Humase, nt mose honour the favage Frencamaa. Hands, Fect, skalls, and Bones were picked out from the Rains of the Fort. After fach (more than (avage) Ufage, what might they not expelt from an enraged Army 2" N E W .Y O R K; December 23. Wednelday laft acrived the Biig Bell Savage,Capt. Lewis, in 28 Days from St. Thomas : He informs us, That abogt the Middle of November, as Capt. Taylor, in the Privateér Snow Dreadnought, of this Port, was cru zing off Guadaloupe, two ftout Sloops, of 12 fix Pounders and 100 Men esch, (all Volua- teers) were fent out in order to take him, when a hot Engagement focn commenced ; bat Capt. Taylcr gave the Monfiears fuch a warm Reception,that they were obliged to put into Port again, with the Lofs of a great Mumber of their Men,and many weunded. The Dreadncught macuats enly 16 fix Peunders, and had not more than 80 Men cn board, when the Engagement began, not one of which was killed. Sunday the 17th Inftant, dicd-fuddeniy at Bufh- wick on Long lfland, Mr. Nicholas Fulkifon, aged 80, of that Place : 1t is faid, he was remarkabiy healthy all his Life Time, and on that Day had eat a hearty Dinoer, after which he walked to one of his Neighbours,and while they were fitting at Table, he filently dropt his head, and was no more. Tuefday lalt His Mejelly's Ship the Kennington, Capt. Jacobs, amived hers fiom Doilgn ; flie has breught the Furniture 21.d Siores belonging to bis Exceilency General Amugrer, which f{oon after were landed and carried inio Fort George, whers we hear, his Excellercy intends to refide. To General AMTHERS T, By a Yiozag GENTLEMAN. Mugrat, while Crouds attend you on yourWay The Debt of Love and Gratitude to pay ; To greet the Hero, Hzzv’a was pleas’d t'employ, and give our Ccuntry Joy 3 in the grate(ul Throng, T'rituie of a Song : Song obtain thy gentle {ile, While thus ihe bids you welcome to cur lle. Hail, Amus save ! illuftricus “Hero, hail ! Fain wou'd the Mul2 rzpeat the pleafing Tale ; Fain wou'd fee in to gz Numbers tell, Heow lace yeu dhowCare Exeronfel; But well the kn {ifulis Applaule, To are fo zealo his “ountry’s Caunfe: T'ho’ juit, thy modelt Liuth wou'd not approve, landing Straln of Gratitude and Love Greatdi Th’ app > (3 like thine from confciousWoerth receive Superior Joys to theiz thie Mufe can give 3 Vet ch ! indulge her w i st Oh ! may her vv’n'!‘ - masge .ile fie would Her Country’s Obligations and her own. Much we're indebted to thy mastial Ekill, Thy prudeiit Condult, and delib’rate Zeal ; No wild tumtilteous and ungovern'd Rage, No frantick Ardor fir'd you to0 engage ; Prudence with Zea! combin’d your Scul pofleft, And fteady manly Cowage fir'd your Dreail Like Fabius §, Rome’s wife General of old, Tho' brave and attive, yet rot rafhly bold, Tender of Lives, and circum{pe&ly flow, Cautious, but fure, yeu gave ihe deltin’d Blow ¢ Weil haft thou done, thy thankful Country crics, Y7ell has thou dene, thy Sovereign reglies ; A Prelude to the Plaudit of the Skies. Go on, brave Amherlt, fill may’ft thon enjoy, Thy Prince’s Love, and give thy Country Joy : BeveathHeav’nsSmiles, oh [ may’ft thou {litl advance Aad humble more the tow’ring Pride of I'rancs ! Glaorious, in Arms, ftill triumph o’er our oes, And with frefh Laurels yet adora thy Brows 5 Seii fhine in Britain’s Caufz, and may thy Name ; Grac'd by thy AQions, mect a deathlels Fame ! Sic optat, fic Vaticinatur, NASSOVICYS. - §me Ty graximus ille €5 Unns gui mobis canélando reflituis rem. Virgil, We are told, that a Dutchman living between Phitzdelphia and Briftol, a few Days ago inhumanly butcher’d his Wife to Death ; and thac after he had committed the horrid Criine, he weat up i Garret, and there bung himfelf with a {m ‘The Coroner’s Jury haviag fat on the W in the Virdi® Wilful Murder in the Hulband, it was tho't had abfconded : But on fearching ihe known, Houfe in order to take an | (3s the Family confiited « and his Wife) to ther oo him {winging inthe Loft. RO S/ BT By the Wedkly Accounts 8 appears that ficia Janua) 1759, there has beea buried in ow:, Whites 467. Backs 57. IVai!, 524. Bap:ized in the feveral Chuiches; I8 b We learn from flalifax, that an Officer belonging to one of the Men of War lying in the Harbour, ha ving been athore with bis Gun after Game, and re turning about Nine 0'Clock, difcharging his Gug for the Boat to come off to him ; the Patrole upon' hearing the Fire, immediately gave an Alarm by, difcharging thcire, and a Shot out of one of them flruck the Captainof a Snow lately arrived these from Ireland, who was walking his Quaiter Deck &nd kill'd him on the Spct. . By a Veilel arrived Jak Week 2t Cape Ane, from St. Eaftatia, we learn, That they had jult received Advice there, that an Bogliflh Fleet of Men of Wae and D'ranfporte, with a Number of Troops on board, might be hourly expelted to artack Maitineco ; this Fleet is tho’t to be that mentioned in our lait, undee the London Head, fuppos'd to be defigned for a warm Climate, Thar{day Afternoon lat a forrowful Accident happened in this Town ; as Mr. Gerfhom Fiag of Lancafler was on a Houfe in Order to find out 2 Leak, and the Houfe being fomewhat wet, the Lad der flipt, when he fell to the Ground, ftruck hig Head again a Blcck, and expir'd the nextMoraing; he has left a Widow and three Children. Captain Michael Gill, from Newfoandland bound & to this Port, with a Number of paffengers, being re- / dac'd to great Neceflities, (by contrary Winds and bad Weather, which prevented his arriving here in Seafon) put into Rhode 1fland lalt Thurfday fe’a- ight, having a tedious paflage of 33 Days. ® At two 0'Clock lat Monday Morning a Fire broke out at the Court Houfe in Providence, ia Rhods-Iland Government, whereby that buiiding was {ooa laid in Afhes, as alfo a Dwelling Houle, contiguous to it : The Quaker Meeting Houfe, and the Tavern kept by Mr. Noah Malon, fultained great Damage by the Fire, but wers nat wholly defltroy'd : The Fire was occafioned, as is generally fuppes'd, by keeping a large Fire the Suturday be- fore, it being an cxresie cold Seafon, (the Gene.®= ra! Court then futing there,) heat the Elearth to fuch a Degres that it carch’d the Timber under it, and continued burniag till Monday Morning before it broks eut : We have not learnt whether any of the Colony or Court Records were deftroyed, or > what the Lofs is computed st ; a fine Library,which . colt a few Vears ago zcoo I Sterling, was deftroyed excepting a few Books waich were lent out. Dr Bowea of that Town was run over by an Engine the Time cf the Fire, whicl bruis’d him in fuch | Mananer that his Life was defpaired of : A Negro Womaa was o frightned at the Fire that fhe died oa the Spot. p S i BTG B S SIS (s ) I'’homas Durant N\ fzaing to go to the 17y Inuics in sbout feven Weeks, defires all Per{ons with whosa he has Acceunts open, to bring them in, in order to Ad- jultmeat moie deflired to pay their refpeflive Ballances, O BE SOLD at the Houfeof tbe Jaid THomAs Durant on Monday the 15¢h Day of Fanuary Iu- fiant, at five o'Clack iu the Sfternaon ¢f Jaid Day, By Publick Vendue,% LL the Goods he has on Hand, confilling of & £\, good Affortment of Hard Ware, azd other Kinds of Earopean Goods, which mzy be view'd at his Shop any Time before the fale.—— Sale to contiaue from Day to Day till finifhed. The faid Duranr laft Friday drop’d-in the i+ Gilver Seal and Watch Key from his Watch il the Finder by returning the fame fhall be laliably rewarded. ‘ A LL Perfons or “ that have any Demands on the Edats of 7 Leawizt, late of Stratham, in the Province o I Hampihire, Cordwainer, de tehi fired o bring the fame to £/ b R | eb*nr’ n Alid Liie Ll miniflrairix of the Eftate o tac order 0 a fetile prt t=ar NRCHL Lacici. r | IN IL.MA - ot -V A Year 1759, C neap o < WS i N3 “wo Pt hereot Uisllie ey ittt e T A v o I‘“...M.‘ ¥V 8 AJOZTY J PO:EE°MQUT_§ : Printed by D, Fowxe, of whom this ?apcv:_' may be bad at Oueb?/zz'} pcr}fifim : or anEquivalentia fii.;S'EfL}EEI{’-;’HfiS bepaid at Entiance. — And all who are Indebted to him are oncg -