The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, April 27, 1759, Page 1

v . EFRIDAY, APRIL 27. 17%9. T H E . NeWw-Hampthire . Comaifliflg the Fre/be/} Advices Ly O-NZB O N Extra&t of a Letter from Capt. William Nicholls, of the Duke William Tranfport, Penfarze, [a Martet Town of Cornwall, firuated 8 Miles Eaf of theLand's- end, and 65 Miles S. W. of Laurcefiin] Dec. 16. 4 E Y NDER the greateff afiiftion, 1 acquaint you. | bave been obliged to leave the Duke : William, with 300 French inbabitants on - board, from the ifland of St. Fobn's North America, to fink aboat 35 leagues froiz the Laxnd's end, PWednefday the 13th infl. about 4 0'clock in the after ternoon, and believe fhe could nst keep above water till dight at might. We failed from St. Fobn's on the 5th of November, and on the 2qth, our fhip (prung a leak, and in a fbort time had five feet water in the bald, but baving two [pare pumps on board, and a great many bands to bail, in about 24 boars gained on her, arnd kept ber in this fitnation about 8 days. On the oth, being mare moderate, hoifled out. the beats awnd fodder'd the bip, by which mecans the leak flopped, [o that we could heep ber with one pump comtingatly going, having bove every thing off the decks and out of the bold we poffibly ecould to eafe ber 5 but om Monday the 11th, the leak broke cut again, and notwithflanding the four pumps, and fuch a vumber of bands bailing from every batch- way, they could not keep ker, fo that by Wedne[day marning about five o’clock ber bold was full of water, and left off pumping,and baiffed out the boats with great difficulty, that in cafe any fbips came in fight we might Jave our lives : At nine in the morning we faw tw90 Jips fleering towards us, which gave us great bopes, we hoifted the figral of dfirefs, and fired a great many guns, but they hoiffed their enfigns and kept away from us ;3 we then cut our mainmafi, to fbew them more per- Jeltly our difire/s, but they tosk no_notice of us, going clear away. At eleven a [now paffed by, viewing our unhappy fituation, and hearing our guns as plain a5 we could Jee their men on the decks, but be bebaved as the other had done before, by ranning away from us. The French then gave over all bopes, and faid, God had forfaken them, and they were refigned to death, As in the term of the woyage under our misfortunes, they bebaved with the greateft intrepidity, fo as in their laff moments they behaved with the greateff fortitude 5 for feeing our- attempts were frufirated, they came and em- braced me, [aying, they were truly fenfible, that I, with all my people, had done all in our power to fave the fbip, and our lives, but as I could be of no farther fervice to -them, begged I wonld feve my own life and my men. Taking their prieft with me, whom [ put ints the bsat before 1 went myfeif over the flern, there being fo much Jea the boats could not lay along fide ber, afrer we were in, the boats laid off the fbip about balf an hour, when their cries and wavirg us to be gone almoff broke our kearts. We then left them obout four o'clock in the afternoon, being ourjclves in a moft unbappy fituation, being 34 perfons in number, upwards of 30 leagues from the Land's end by our reckoning, and our whole provi- Sfions amounting to about eight or nine pounds of bread, aur provifions in the gun roim being all expended, and the bold full of water, our mainmafl cut away, culd get nothing from thence. In this melancholy fituation it pleafed God to condnlt us [afe te this place. ““ On Tuefday Capt. Sugget, in the Vialet, with 500 French on board, koifled a fignal of difirefs, bis fore- yard was gone in the fling, and bis mizen maft cat away ; I [pske to kim the night before, he told me be could not keep her with bis pumps, [o that I am afraid te foffered likewife. AN 1 bave to comfort myfelf ander this misfortune is, being fenfisle [ did all in my power to fave the fbip and lives, wobick the poor unbappy [ufferers were truly Jenfible of, and which made them fo willing to let us go 5 if they bad not, [o great a fuperiority as 300 to 34 might eafily have bindered us. Feb. 6. On Friday laff Edward Bofcawen, Efg; Admiral of the Blue, was, by his Majefly’'s command, Jworn of bis Majefly's moft bonourable privy council, and took bis place at the board accordingly. Extra&t ot a Letter from Samuel Whie, Efg; the Britifh Conful at Vigo, Dec. 17. ¢ Four days ago came in bere aFrench privateer calied the Faworite, Capt. Saurnel, who, on the 27th ult. be- tween Cape Ortugal and Gape Finiflerre, fell in with an Englifb brig, pirk flern, about 100 tons, boarded ber, and found only tews Genoele on board, and fecing the veffel bloody on the deck, and in the cabbin finding that all the papers bad been thrown overboard, direétly fuf pelted they had murdered the captain and crew, and taxing them with the fad, they confeffed that they bad killed the captain, bis fon, and every joul, being leven in { @l "The cruel way they perpetrated this maffacre was e e as folliws : Each of thefe villains was indfferent svatches, cue in the mafier's, the otber in the mate's. He that wes in the mate's watch went dizon with them to fleep, and waited till be found them all faff afierp, then cut all their throats, end fiabbed them in [everal parts of the bsdy, and left them all dead. Tke captain being on aeck, knew nothing of all this. This fellow then came upon deck, and tald bis comrade what he bad dime below : Upon which they baoth at once fell upon the captain, and cleaved D dowonm ewith a batthet 5 be- ing mot quite dead, they finifp’d him with a muffet ; and then the man at the belm they cut in twr; and fo made an end sf them all but the captain’s fin, who was left three days crying for his fatber. Che third day they faid, that asbe jqualld like a cal, they would dif- patch him likewife ; jo they cut the childin twr. The veffel is fent toBayeux in France, with thefe tws villains in ber. Ske was, they fay, the Peggy, Capt. Forman, wwas coming from Carolina to Lifbon, and bad got within 60 leagues of the rock at Lifbon, when this borrid bar- barity was perpetrated. This is the captain of the afore- JSard privateer's detlaration to the ¢on/ul at Vigo, and Jays it is what the villains confeffed to bim om board.”’ St. JOHN’s, Artigna, Marcd 14.1759. N Saturday Jaft his Majefty’s Ship Amazon, William Norton,Efq; commander, bro’t in a French letter of marque floop of 8 guns. This floop with four others, failed from St. Euftatia laden with Provifiens for Guada- loupe, at the time the prohibition to export. that article was in full force ; and would probably have effeéted their defign of re- lieving the enemy, had not Capt. Norton fortunately met with them in the Night be- tween Defeada and Grandterre 5 on which they all ftood away on different courfes, which prevented theAmazon’s taking more than one ; however the reft were fo dif- perfed, and our Fleet at that time, in fuch a fituation, that ’tis hoped they will be wholly difappointed in their defign. The floop taken is called [.a Marie Catherine. We hear that the gentlemen in the coun- try have no lefs diftinguithed themfelves than thofe in the town did, by their gener- ous f{ubfcriptions for raifing volunteers to ferve in the expedition againft Gaudaloupe and Grand Grandterre, March 17. About 150 volunteer Ne- groes, to ferve in the expedition againft Guadaloupe, were offered yefterday at the court-houfe, moft of whom are ftout a&ive men, and expert in the ufe of the fire-lock; and tuefday next is appointed for appraifing the reft that may be offered. March 21. Our lateft advices from Baf- feterre are of the 15th inftant, at which time the garrifon had received no diftur- bance from the enemy, who feemed to re- main in the very fame pofition they were in before our troops re-imbarked, except ftragglers, who every day came down to the town, and other places near the fort, and would fometimes fireinto it. Four or five negroes came in almoft every day, and one white man, a regular foldier, alfo came in, and reported, that all the French regu- larsin theifland amounted to no more than 120 Men. It was only the houfes neareft to the fort our troops deftroyed at the time they re imbarked, fo that the governor’s houfe and others are ftill ftanding, Small parties of the enemy entered the town in two hours after our troops had lefc it; and itis believed, the two following nights car- Nums. 134. GAZETTE. Faraz'gn and Dome_/}icfi. -~ ried off many valuable effc&s that had been buried. The troops were to be landed at Point Peter the 14th or 15th inft. in order to attack Fort Louts, which is fituated to the fouthward of Point Peter, on an emi- nence too high to hurt fhips in the road, and therefore two batteries have been e- rected below : but there is not depth of water enough for large fhips to approach them. . A proclamation has been publithed ia Antigua by his Excellency Gen. Thomae, dated the 6¢h inftant ; importing, That Maj. Gen. Hopfon, late commander in chief of his Majefty’s land forces upon the Ercfent expedition, having propofed to his xcellency the raifing fix companies in the iflands under his government (each com- pany to confilt of one captain, thres lieuts. four ferjeants, four corporals, and 100 pri- vate men) that each officer thould reccive the fame pay as the oflicers of the King’s troops, and each privace man three “bitts 2 day : that arms, cartridge boxes, and am- munition fhould be delivered to fuch com- panies at Guadaloupe : that they fhould be victualled in the fame manner as the re- gular troops, be under the abfolate com- mand of Gen. Hopfon, and employed by him in the moft advantageous manner for the King’s fervice : that a proper number of furgeons and medicine chefts fhould be fent for the faid companies to Guadaloupe from Antigua at theexpence of his Majefty: that all fuch negroes as fhould be kili’d or maim’d, thould be paid for by his Majefty, according to fuch appraifments as fhould be made thereof before their embarkation, by perfons to be appointed by his Excel- lency ; that tranfports fhould be provided at the expence of the crown for fuch ne- groes ; and that they fhould at the like expence be victualled in their paffage to Guadaloupe. Two packets are arrived at Antigua, in a fhort paffage from England, and bring advice that Feur Thoufand men are imme- diately to be fent as a reinforcement to our army againft Guadaloupe. Thereis advice from Guadaloupe, that the fquadron, with the army, had failed from Baffaterre, except what is thought ne- ceffary to leave for fecuring the fort, &c. His majefty’s fhip Rippon has fent into the road of Baffaterre a prize floop. Ano- ther has been taken by the Britannia and Earl of Loudoun. Letter from Barbados, dated March 15: ¢ On the 1oth inftant arrived here his majefty’s thip Emerald, Capt. Cornwall,in 49 days from Spithead, with 44 veflels, for the different Iflands. They came out witls the Weft-India trade, under convoy of the Hamptfhire, Capt. Norbury, and this fhip with the Kinfale ; and they were to have touched at Fayal, to put on board the Kin- fale 6oo pipes of wine for the army and navy on the prefent expedition ; but partfd with them two days after they left Spit- head, and have not heard of them finc:,! tho® thefe fhips beat five days off Fayal..”. ¥ vy