The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, June 29, 1759, Page 3

five weeks ; and we hear brings an Account ¢f the King of Spain’s death. ~ Oa Friday the 8th Inftant the fix Compa- nies of the Firlt Batcalion of the Royal Ame- v ficans, who have been at Philadelphia for i fome Time paft, marched from thence to the i Weftward. g | It is reported, (and we have Reafon to ' ‘think not without fome good Foundation for | jt) that Admiral Durell is gone fo far up the River St. Lawrence as to be wichin 50 or 60 Miles from Quebeck, viz. 1le aux Goudres. ' Friday laftche Harrior Packer, Capt Bon- 'I’ 'nel, arrived here in g weeks and 5 Days from ) Falmouth and bro’c. the March Mail, but no News folate as in our laft. : BOSTON, Jume 2z r . Laft Tuefday a Boy about 9 Years of Age, fell off a Wharfe at the South End and was drowned. ~1:'I'he fame Day a Boat overfet in the Harbour, and »a Negro Lad was drowned. ' Extrad of two Letters frem Halifax, dated June 1145 Y and 131h. ¢« On Lord’s Day the t6th Inft. Chriftopher Dyer, of Cafco Bay, Skipper of a Fithing Schooner, with 6 W others, went athore at the N. E. Side of the Harbour, in the South Eaft Paflage, to cut Layers and Brufh to cure theit Fifh on, about 4 Miles from Town, were 4/ fuiprized by a Number of Indians, who came upon them, and killed and fcalp’d five of them, and carried off a Man and a Boy.—The Bodies of the Slain, (of which the Skipper was one) were brought here the next Day and inter’d. ; ¢ The Cargo of the Spaaifh Ship feat in by Admi- ral Darell fome Time paft, is condemn’d ; and the Captain is to have 4 1. a Tun Freight paid him.— On the 11th in the Afternoon, his Majelly's Ship * Trident, of 60 Gans, Captain Julian Legg, Comman- der, arrived at Halifax from Lifbon, and brought in with her a large Spanifh Ship, mounting 20 Guns, a Letter of Marqae, which the todk in her Paffage,bound from Martineco to Bourdeaux; laden with Sugars, Coftee, Indigo, Cocoa and Cottan. : Friday lalt being the Anniverfary of his Majolty’s happy Acceflion to the Throne, when he enter’d xl}e thirty third Year of his Reign, the fame was obferv'd here with the ufual folemnity. : Extraf? of a Letter from Albany, dated Fune 9, 1759. —<¢ Our Army is all marched from this Place, €X- cepting two New England Regiments, which 1 believe ) will march in a few Days:—A Detachment of 4560 Men is {ent to the Weltward, but where deltin’d, is not known ; tho' it’s tho't to rebuild Ofwego. Yel- térday an Exprefs came from Fort Stanwix, who brings ! News of 15 Battoemen being cut off near that Place : And alfo of 3 Woman’s being fcalpt, gnd a Man taken Prifoner, fix Miles from Sir William John{on’s.—No- thing material from the Northward ; all goes on very brifkly ; great Quantities of Provifions have been fent up : And doubt not, if our Fleet meets with Succefs, but our Army will do well in this Quarter ; AsI am of Obinion, that the Succefs of our Army entirely depends on that of our Fieet ; which, thro’ the Bleffiag of God, I hope it may have.” ; 1 Extrafl of a Letter from Famaica, May % ““—We have very favourable News from Guada- i loGpe, they being reinforced with a Fleet from Home, " which may be depended on, as feveral of the London and Cork Fleet fell in with them that ére arrived here % on their Paflage. and very near the Windward Iflands. —VYefterday arrived the Dreadnought, who yvith two * fmall Ships took two French Ships of 28 and 24 Guns, ballatt with Indigo, and three large Dutch Ships, loaded at Hifpsniola, bound to France, which are all o Harbour.—Three Days fince the Wager Man of War fent in a Ship of goo Tons burthen, a Dutch Frenchman, who engag’d the Wager under Duch Co- Jours, kiil'd him one Man, and wounded 7 more, and pulled down his Duatch Coloiirs, hoifted French, 20d firuck cnder them.”— Captain Perry arrived here laft Saturday in 12 Days v from Louifbourg, and brings an Account that on the ¢th Tnftant chey had a very bad Storm there, and were afraid of two Men of War that fail’d from thence a Dav or two before ; and that they were in daily Ex. péQation of hicaring fome important Advices from the Fleet. We hear a VefTel arrived at Rhode Tfland 12t Week, the Mafter of which inform'd, that two Days before he got in, he fpoke with a Vefel which the Day before ., fpoke with three French Prizes, laden with Stores and " Provifions, bound for New York ; they were taken in the River St Lawrence by the Privateer Capt. Little, of New York. g By the Return of the Courier from Albany we learn, That a Man was barbaroufly butchered by the [ndians within 7 Miles of Albany, lall Saturday fe'nnight. A Letter from Albany, dated lalt Monday, fays, That that Morning 500 Waggons with Provifions, un- der a proper Lfcort, were to march from Fort Edward Ty — ry fcr the Lake, which mada "em conj:flure'that the Ar. my wou'd foon move. ' We hear his Majelly’s Slo2p Horaet cams= to an Anchot ls{t Evcoing in Nantafker Road from [1ali%ix. Yefterday Afternoon; Mrs Asicain Erving, Con- fort of the Hon. Joud Ervive. Elq; of this Towa, depasted this Lite, in the 57th Year of her Age. Lait Tuefday a young bian fell from a Veflel, Capt. Waklee, bound in heie from Connett:cut, and was drowied. : / Tue day lafl arvived bere Gapt. Nickels from Halifax, in awhom came PaJerger Capt. Fames Cox, late of the Slosp Sarab and Mally, belonging to Calco, and giwves ile Jollowing Information, that @out the middle of Navemb.r laft he Jailed from Louifbiurg aith a Number of Soldiers Sfor S¢. Joln's, being 36 Perions in all on bsard ; that un the 28th of the Jame Month, 1t being extreme cold flormy Weather, they avere cafl ajirore at Cape Seiaware, or ihe Main, and awhile on the Rocks, 7 of the People were drowned, amang whom was bis Son, the refl aith great Difficulty got afbore, and endeavonrcd to travel 1o Margo- mafh, but after travelling 3 Daye, 22 of *em awere frove to Death, and all the others, excipting bimfelf, loft_fome of their Limbs, they having been avithout Fire or Viciuals the awhole Time ;5 after which 7 Iudians appear’'d awith Spears to kill "em, but aere prevented by a French Prieft, awho reliev’d them avith fome Difficulty : — He alfo informs, that they bad News by the Inaians, that the French in Canada awere in great want of Proviffons, abich awas occafioned by no Fleet coming up this Year, and avere in great Difirefs for fear of the Erglifp coming againff them this Spring 5 that on the 10th of May not ome Ship avas arrived at Queleck from Franmce ; that their Forces of all Iinds auvere called in, and at that time they had no Fire- aworks to burt our Shipsin going up.—And that about the middle of May, he with 4 or § others, after baving un dergone the greai f# HardfLip: and Diffculties imaginable, Jound Means to efcape in a French Schoomer, which had run afoore near the Place avhere they avere, and in akich they got Jafe to Louiflourg. From Albasy we lcara that the Grand Army under General AMHERST, lay emcamped at Fort Edward all in good Health and high Spirits - and "twas expetted woald foon march for Lake George, We alfo learn, That Capt. Lutiridge Las brought in three French Prifoners, who report, That there were 2000 Men ar Crown Point and Ticonderoga, that Monficurs Moatcalm and Vaudril were both gone to Quebec, and that Monficur Levy was to command at Ticonderoga this Summer. A letter from Albauy, dated the 14th Inft. mentions, That the French had lIatelligence of our Fleet being in the River St. Lawrence } thit 26 Ships with Stares, &e. were arrivel #t @ébc ffom France, and that 15 others had been teken. ; Exvraft of a Letter from Louifbourg, dated Fune g, 1759, —-"" I wrote you about a Gentleman who had made his Efcape {rom Quebec, after being five Years a Pri- foner.—He is 2 Man of a moft enterprizing Genius, his Name is Stobow, born in, or near Glafgow, and was a Field Oflicer with Major Wathinjton,—his Tale is long and very entertaining ; I cannot give you the Particulars now, but will endeavour it in my next, and fhall only obferve,— That he appears to be aferfible Gentleman, and his Information isrely’d cn by every Body here,—He immediately made the beft of his Way to General Wolfe, as what he had to communicate might be of very great Advantage.--He left Quebec be ift of May in 2 Burch Canoe, and on-the 11th of the Ifle of Beck he cbferved 14 Sail of large Ships which upon Confideration, could not be Admiral Durell, who they fay here, fail’d the 7th of May ;—There is one Stevens a young Man who made his Efcape with him, who wasa Volunteer or an Officer with Major Rogers, in the Skirmifh that happen’d 8 Days before the Affair of T'iconderoga, and was thentaken Prifoner. ~—He afk’d me if I knew Mr. Griffin of Bofion ? to which I anfwer’d I did, he then defir'd me to inform him that his Nephew Capt. Beach was well ; he was admitted into the Scheme of making off, but refufed.” PO R, S.M -QeU T H: Extra&t of a Letter from a Gentleman at Albany, in the Ariny, to his Friend in this Town, June 12. HE New. Hampfbive Regiment is chirfy arrived, good Agreement among Oficers,— . Men appear in bigh Spirits, thd’ fomething fatign’d by long Marches—Capt. Burbank you hawe duubtlels heard is taken, awith about 30 Privates—Up Mohawt River a’Woman and five Men Filledin @ Battoe by the Indians—We are to leave Albany to morrow at § inthe Morning to proceed to Fort Edavard, JSrom thence to Lake George, ard if our Fleet fucceed, by divine Providence, 1bspe ave frall be condulied to Montreal, — By Report a Number ase going np Mobawk River, /1 to Lake Ontario—General Amher [} is at Fort Edward— This Day General Gage and Col Bradfireet are going.— This Foment heard that Capt. Burbank, with t1vo of his Men, run [rom the Enemy. Wednefday laft arrived here Capt. Granger, in ons of the.Matt thips, from England. Lat Monday a Number of Boys went into Water in the Mill Pond in this Town, when one of them, named John Treadwell, about 12 Years of Age, was unfortunately drowned, by venturing too far from the Shore, and fo carried down with th: ftream. 3% ;:.;.....‘?m»»&' 5 7% In the Poltfcript t0'the lafl Gaketle concerning 1hd Expeditions fince the beyinning of the Spantih War 1759, to. ihe firfl of Fanuary 1759, one wery. material and important EXPEDITION, and avhich acill jor eaer 2 an Morour 12 this Country, was omirted, not throigh Niiflake or Deofion of the Printer, bat avas inferted as e is publitied in the Pennfylvania Gazette of rhe 1ub Ingl. avhich neceffury Correfion it is to be boped il aljo be made ingthar Paper, viz. ; 1745. New-England ExpEDpITION againft Louifbourg, Sir WiLr1am Pep- PERRELL and Ad. WARREN. Succeeded. e e ey ey ey Ay ) S ey s A LerTeRr, &c. from one Gentleman to another. Sig, Barbados, April g. 1759. HE 12/ Packet has b cught an Aecount of the Death of the King of Spain, avkich muft invelve feweral ; Princes in fre/h [roubles, France will not comeeds t2 Don Carlos’s poffiling the Croawns of pain, Naples, and Sicily, but infift that Don Phillip all hold the lsi1r; His Sicilian Majefly awill doubtlefs claim the Dutchy of Placentia, the Reverfion of which avas fecured ta bins by the Treaty of Aix-La Chapelle. On the other fide, the Houfe of Auflria avill endeavour that Parpia, Flacent;.., ahd Guaflella may return to that Principality 5 avkich i) Several other Claims, mufl iffue in a 4} ‘ar ams iending Parties, and all Europe avill beé involord in Troubles, grounded on Intereft 5 for Riligiom wiiil | wiery Jmall Sbare in thele Difpures ; thaupk th ar Opinion is that the Blow i1 firuck at ihe ./’/Mrfi.z;.»t“[.z- terefl, and that the Pope ii at the Bottom of thefe Tumily:, and Confufions 3 awhereas, paor Man, be is no more con- cerned in thefe Difputes than Jack Ketch awas in the Rewolution, or Jonmy Tadpole in ihe Rimswal of Mr. Lowther from bis Government of Basba. dos. But Prophifies, Vifions, and Rewelations, nous poffefs weak Minds ; and the Comet which bas apprared JSor about tem Days pafi, bas firuck Terror ints many melancholy, and fuperfitious People, ths’ its Lippearance this Year avas calculated by Sir 1saac Newron and Mr. WaristoN, and the Fcfiziah its noaw in (biing 26 Degrees of Aquarius) may be redaced to the Ortit of the Comet avhich appeared feventy feven Years ago, being 1082, And 1 foould be glad of vhe Objervations )'.:ru-r Mathematiciany make of its Magnitude, Courle, Situation, and Time of AppeBfanceavith you” PorT oF I'1scaTaqQua, June 28, : Entered In. ] Sloop Greyhound, Samuel Odiorne, from Philadelphia, Schooner Benjamin, Edward Butler from ditto. Hampfbire, Ifaac Randall from St, Croix. st Cleared Out.- Schooner Mattheav, Nathanicl Perkins, for Halifax. Rejolution, Thermas Simpfon, for Weft Indies, Betjey, Mayo Greenleaf, for Halifax. Sloop Elizabeth, Frhn Partridge, for North-Carolira. ———Prolperous, F Gilmore, for Barbadses. W HERE AS it appears by the Mufter Mafter’s Returns, that divers Sol- diers that were left fick, in the refpetive Regiments from which they were inlificd or impreffed, and others that were mufter'd at Worcefter and Springfield, had not joined the Regiment to which they do be- Jong 5 1am direfted by His ExcELLENCY, to ignify to all fuch Abfenters, that they do inflantly join the Regiment rais'd for the Camada Expedition, whereof Zac- cuevus LoveweLL, Efg; 15 Colonel, otber - wife they will be profecuted as Deferters, THEODORE ATKINSON, Secretary. /4LL Perfons Indebted to, or that have any Demands wpon the Efiate of Prilcilla Smith, Jate of Portimouth iz the Prowvince of Neéew Hamplibire, deceas’d, are defired to bring in ther Accounts to Miartha Smith of Portfmouth, Jaminifira- trix on faid E/Z‘m‘t,[or a [peedy Settlement. [4.3} Bresitaw, March 18. General Woperfnow is re- turned from his expedition ; and it is {aid, he found at Pefen a magazine of flaur, fufficient for the fubfiftcnze of 50,000 men for three mouth, which he deftroyed, ic being impoflible ¢o carry it off for wane of horfes. London, March 2q. It is reported, that late lait night an exprefs arrived from the King of Pruffia, and brought the following account of a battle betwveen the King of Pruflia anc the Ruoffians, in which the Raflians Fad 1600 men killed and wounded, and there weee taken 1200 prifoners, 3 field officers, 260 pieces of canoon, 2400 ftand of arms, z¢ {tandards, 15 colours, 6 pair of kettle drums and the militasy cheft with four millions of crowns in it. L e ———— S———— S————— A ——————y W—— e, . i b NEW.HAVEN, L —r e T v i v - e me———