The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, May 18, 1759, Page 2

PHIL A DE T P HTA May # Captain Rankin informs us, that on his Paffage he {poke with His Majefty's Frigate Coventry, which, in Company with the Thames Frigate, one of 30, the other of 28 Guns, fe!l in with two French Men of War, of 50 and 40 Guns, whom they engaged {martly for a confiderable Time, and at laft drove them into Uthant. The Sloop Good Intent, Captain Shewbart, of this Port, bound to Providence, in Lat. 33 overfet, when the Mate and Supercargo were drowned ; the Czptain and two Men remained on the Wreck fix Dazys, and were providentially taken up by a Veflel from Lifbon bound to Maryland, being fo far fpent 85 to be urable to help themfelves. Extra® of a Letter from Fort Ligonier, April 17 * It is a Thoufand to one but this Letter is inter- cepted by the Enemy, as the Road is Way laid from Pittfburgh to Bedford. Lieut. Campbell, with 23 Men, and 20 Bullocks; was attacked about 15 Miles from Pittfburgh, when he loft ten of his Men ; but he prudently retreated to a Breaftwork, which we made on eur former March, and which the Enemy after reconnoitering, did not think proper to attempt. He fent off, in the Night, an Exprefs to Col. Mer- cer, who ordered Captain Clayton, with 5o Men, to reinforce the Guard, by which the Remainder of the Party, and the Bullocks, got fafe up.” Extraft of a Leter from Loyal Hanning, April 14. * The Enemy begin to trouble us. Lieut. Miles, with the Party that went in Purfuit of them, track’d them below the Foiks of the Kifkeminetas, but could not come up with them, and was obliged to return, Yefterday a Party of I'rench ard Indians came with- io a Mile of this Place and carried off one Prifoner, enother Perfon efcaped by Running ; but thisis not all, near 30 fick Men of the Garrifon were going down the Country, about 4 Miles from this Place, were attacked, their Efcorting Party beat cff, and obliged to retreat, fome of the fick who bad a little firength crawl’d off, and got in here,bat 11 were fo . unhappy as to fall into their Hands, and were {calp’d by thofe Barbarians, The dead Bodies were buried this Morning.” NEW.Y ORK, May 7. Tuefdey laft arrived here Capt. Cotter, in fix Weeks fromLifbon,having left it the 16th of March. Ten Days before he failed, His Majefty’s Ship the ‘Trident, Capt. Julian Legg, put in there with the Lafs of her Mainmat, as did alfo the fhip Nancy, Capt. Reoke, without a Foremaft ;' the Rebeccah ~~Snow, Capt. Rofs, difmafted ; and the Charming Polly, a large Cat, difmafted, tranfport fhips, who were refitting to follow Admiral Holmes’s Fleet. The Ship Nancy, Capt. Gover, arrived here on Friday laft from Gibraltar, but lat from Madeira ; She left Gibraltar the 1gth of February. Captain Gover advifes, That the Moors had declared War again(t the Englifh ; but that Capt. Millbanks, in His Majefty’s Ship Gurnfey, was going to try to accom- modate Matters with them, and redeem the unfortu- nate Crews of the Litchfield Man of War, a Bomb’s Tender, and a Tranfport, belonging to Commodore Keppel’s Squadron, and who had the Misfortune to be thip-wrecked in November laft upon the Coaft of Barbary, and have ali been made Slaves, and treated very ill by the Moors : That the Swiftfure, Culloden, Jerfey Man of War, with one other of the Line, had failed up the Streights, but with what Defign, was not known ; but it was conje&tur’d by fome, that they were gone for to convoy Don Carlos, King of the T wo Sicilies, to the Kingdom of Spain, the King his Brother being altually dead. Extra& of a Letter from Gibraltar, dated February 15, ** By Letters received here fiom our Minilter at the Court of Spain, we learn, That his Spanifh Ma- jelly was either dead or dying of a deep decay. We expe® here daily, a large Fleet of Ships from Er- gland, in order to join z4 Sail of capital Ships of Spain ; tis faid to bring over the King of the Two Sicilies to take Poffcflion of his Kingdom. * CommodoreKepple’s Squadron we hear is at the Canaries. The Litchfield Ship of War, with a Bomb Tender, and a Tranfport with fome Troops belong- ing to his Squadron, were caflt away on the Coaft of Barbary, near Sallee, on the zoth of November laft ; fcveral perifhed in attempting to fave themfelves ; one Captain, two Subalterns, befides two Lieatenants of Men of War, were drowned, with feveral more : Capt. Barton who commanded the Litchfield is fafe. The Moors ufe our People very ill (that had the good Luck to efcape being drowned) by having ftript them, and forced them to work for a Blanquil (T'wo- pence fterling) a Day. The Emperor of Morocco has declared War againft us ; but permits the Ports of Tangier and Tetaan to be open for Trade. This is our prefent fitnation with the Moors. An Am- baflador is named to go over : and a Conful General, who is coming {rom England in the Room of the late Conful who put himfelf to Death in this Country. + Colone! Skinner, Chief Engineer, arrived here a POR’ 3 ‘ + Priated by owWLs, where this Paper may be hadas Ow I few Days ago, but 'tis not known the Occafion of his coming fo fuddexnly, as we arein great Amity with our Neighbours the Spaniards. ¢ Admiral Broderick is here with 8 fail of the Line. The Privateers here, brought into this port 30 fail of the Enemy’s thips, moftly Neutrals, with French Goods," Yefterday Capt. Wright arrived here from St. Kitts in 21 Days. He fays that the French at Gua- daloupe, continued to keep poffeffion of the Moun. tains, that our Forces there had been very fickly, but that many of them were well recovered, and that in general, they were pretty healthy when he failed; that they had received a Reinforcement of 700Men, (Negroes included ) from the differentEnglith [({lands; and that they intended to attack the French with all their Force, about the 17th of April ; that our Fleet was at Dominico, and by all Accouats that of the French was not f{ailed from Martinico. Since our laft, upwards of 4o fail of Tranfports ar- rived from England, being thofe that came out with Commodore Holmes. The Commodore, in the So- merfet, with the Terrible, proceeded for Halifax as foon as the above Veflels got {afe into Sandy Hook ; and we hear, that, notwithftanding the Fleet was fo often feparated by hard Gales of Wind, only three Veflels are miffing, two of which are fuppofed to be taken, and the other was run down in the Night, but the Crew was taken up, and all put on board the Admiral’s fhip. Colcnel Frafer's Highlanders are now all embarked and moft of the Veffels that have them on board, as we!l as others with Artillery, &c. are fell down to the Watering-place, and fome to the Hook ; fo that we have Reafon to believe the whole Fleet will fail this Week : They are to be convoyed by the Diana, Lizard, Trent and Seahorfe Frigates, and the Night- ingale and Scarborough, of twenty Guns each. Yale College, New Hawen, May z, 1759. THE long expeéted COMET now appears :—If its Tail had been as bright as the Tails of Comets ordinarily are, it might have been {een in December and January laft, a little after fun down : fince that Time it has been round the {un, and hid in its Rays. It was in its perihelion, about the 1oth of March,and then about Forty-{even Millions of Miles from the fun, On the 26th of April it paft by the fouth End of the Earth, at the diftance of about 6 Millicn Miles, and was invifible to the Inhabitants of the Northern Climates for about a Week. I made the following Obfervations of its Geocentric Lat. and Long. though by Reafon of the Hazinefs of the Air, they cannot be precifely depended upon, viz. D H Deg. Min. Deg. Min. April 29 9 Lat. S.36 30 Long. oo 30 Libra. May 1 ¢ 31 10 23 10 Virgo. May =z 29 00 19 3e Virgo. Its prefent Diftance is about 46 Million of Miles from the Earth: It appears in the fouth about 8 of the Clock in the Evening, about 26 Degrees above the, Horizon ; and will appear higher and more weakly, 'till its great Diftance will render it invifible for near 76 Years, when it will appear again. B B L BOSTON, Ma 14. Laft Thurfday Morning a ftone was extra&ed by Dod&. Silvefter Gardiner, from Mr. Cooper, of Attleborough, aged 64, who a few Days ago came to Town for that purpofe :— The flone is {olid and cragged, and fhaped riuch like a Kidney ; it weighed 3 Ounces and an half and 20 Grains, and meafures 5 Inches round lengthways. A few Days before a yound Lad from Newbury underwent the like Ope- ration, and is now fo far recovered as to be able to return home, We have a Report in Town, faid to be brought by a Veflel from Philadelphia, that our Forces in the Weft Indies had entirely fubdued the Ifland of Gua- daloupe, after the Lofs of a great Number of Men on both fides, and that the French were made Prifoners of War : We can't yet learn any particuiars, but if the above Report be true, our Readers may expett a more perfeét Account in our next. We learn from Jamaica, that Adm. Coates with three Men of War were fhortly to fail for Monta Chrifto, in order to put a ftop to the illicit T'rade carried on there from North America. We bave the Pleafure to acguaint the Publick, that the 5000 Men woted by this Province, for the Service of His Majefly in the prefent Expedition, are not only railed and the greateff Part of them march'd to the Places avbere they are deflined ; but that the 1500 voted as an Addition about three Weeks pafl, are now almofl compleat, being raifed abolly by Inliiment, at aBounty of £.10 10s. Sterl, per Man 5 fo that exclufive of up- avards of §00 for the Protellion of our own Frontiers, ave have now furnifp’d 6500 Men for the general Ser- wice of the Year—Add to this Number, ail that bave engaged as Rangers, Battoe-Men, Artificers, &e. &e. and it makes not lels than 10,000 of our mofl uleful In- babitants.m——Such Exertions from Year 1o Year, by a v Province awhich did net comtain before the War, but about 40,000 Males, from 16 to 70 Years of Age, Jeems almofft incredible, ! Extra& of a Letter from Capt. Elias Ellery, (who left this place in a floop laft Sept. bound to Africa) to his Owner here, dated Jamaica, Amil 15, 1759. ““—Soom after I left the Coaft met with bard Gales of Wind, which fprung my Maft ; on the firff of Dec. in a wery heavy Storm fhip'd a Sea which broke 6 or more of the Timbers in the Starboard Wafle, and made ber leak fo faft, that 1 was oblig'd to keep the Pumps continually at Work ; om the 26th loff the Rudder Irons, /o that awe could not fieer at all, and was left a Wreck 1o the Mercy of the Scas ; the Fore beams and fome of tte Carlings fell into the Hold, and the main Beam on- Jhip'd. We had not a Cake of Bread on board for above 3 Months, and but a Pint of Water a Man for 2 Months, and One awithout any : In this Extremity and Diflrefs we continued till the 22d of March, almoff perifbed, when providentially a Smow from Whitehaven bound to Jamaica took us off the Wreck. We took out a few Things, and left the Sloop balf full of Water. ShalltakePaffage next Weekin Capt. Welles for Bofion. We learn from Albany, that an Exprefs arrived there on the 27th ult. which occafioned different Conjettures; fome would have it that Fort Stanwix was befieged ; others that there had been a party of French and Indians feen near the German Flats; however, the two Companies of Light Infantry be- longing to the 44th and Royal Regiments; marched from Albany the next Morning, in order, tis faid, to fcour the Woads. The Tran(ports having on board the Detackments of the T'rain of Artillery which winter’d in this Town as alfo the Mortars, Cannon, and ftores belonging to the Train, have fell down to Nantatket, in order to proceed, under Convoy of his Majefty’s fhip Hind, to join the Fieet under Admiral Saunders. The provincial Troops beund for Louifbourg are all embark’d, and are to fail the fi:ft fair Wind. PO RIS NGOV L H Laft Wednefday Morning Captain Willis arrived here in 7 Days from Halifax, who brings the agreeable News of Admiral Durrell’s being fail’d with nine Capital Ships of War, to cruize at the Entrance of the River St. Lawrence. We have Advice from the Ifland of Nevis, that Capt. Wiiliam Clarke, Commarder of the Letter of Marque Ship King of Pruffia, of 6 Carriage and five fwivel Guns, who fail'd from :his place in Januvary laft, met with on his paffage to faid Ifland, about 40 Leagues from thence, a Frerch privateer of 8 Car- riage Guns, befides Swivels ; and after a {mart En- gagement of five Glaffes, Monfieur thought proper to fheer off ; and being fatisfied with the Reception he met with, made the beft of his Way from them, without returning to take a fecond part of the fame Tune. The King cof Pruflia received no Damage in ber Hull, and very little in her Rigging or Sails, In a Letter from Lifbon, dated Jan. 19, it is faid, that a Number more of the Confpirators concerned in the late Attempt upon his Portuguefe Majefty, were to fhare the fameFate of thofe already executed, in a few Days. [See the Supplement.] Custom Hovuse, Pijcatagza, May 17. Entered In, Schooner Ann, Williams Barnes, from Briflol. Schoontr Friendfbip, Samuel Froft, from Saltortuga, . Brig Abigail, Peter Shores, frem Ditto. g Slaop Profperous, Fames Gilmore, from Ditta. Brig Tortuga, Giles Seaward, from Ditto. Slocp William, Berjamin Odiorne, from Ditto. Slocp Swallow, Mark Furnel, from Ditto. Brig Hampfhire, Ebenczer Hobbs, from Ditto. Schoorer Nathaniel, Sumuel Giodin, from Philadelphia. Schaoner Dolphin, Samuel Briard, from Ditto, Sloop Unity, Shadrick Bell, from Ditto. Schooner Duck, Robert Oram, from Maryland. Sloop Sufanna, Fofiah Tucker, from Ditta. Schooner Charming Molly, Samuel Ratcliff, from Ditts, Sloop Vi&ory, Fames Hall, from Antigua. Schooner Neptune, William Stapleton, from St. Kitts, Slop Nightingale, Nathaniel Newman, from Halifax. Schooner Friend/bip, Hammond Gowen, from S¢t.Martins, Schooner Betley, Mays Greenleaf, from S¢. Crosx. Cleared Out, Schooner Hampton, William Carpenter, fér Halifax, Slosp Melly, Fofbua Moodey, for Ditto. Schooner Pittfburg, Benjamin Hale, for Philadelphia. Scheoner Benjamin, Edmund Butler, for Ditto. Ship William, Fobn Brown, for Barbados. Slaop Bonadventure, Patrick Markbam, for Ditto. Sbip Spring Garden, Daniel Carpenter, for Wef. Indic:. Schooner Ann, William Barsnes, for Ditto. Sloop Fobm, Fobm Beal, for Louifbourg.’ Brig Ranger, Fobn Briard, for Antigua. ity Half (o be paid at Entrance