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FRIDAY, jurLy zo. 1759, T H B - New-Hampthire Contaz’ning the Erefheft Advices CHarLEsTOWN, South Carolina, May 1z. Ccording to Letters received Yefterday from A Gentlemen of Repute in Roan County in North Carolina, upon the North Borders of this Pro- vince, many horrid Murders have lately been ‘committed by the Indians, on the Cadkin and Catawba Rivers.—TheNumber of People killed,in fome Letters, are faid tobe 13 0r 14, inothers 17 or 18 ; and the Mourderers are fuppofed to be Cherokees, tho’ they may as well be Shawanele, or of thofe Indians who were prevailed on to quit the Ohio with the Garrifon of Fort Du Quefne—— T'he Catawba Nation was greatly ex- afperated on this Occefion, and as foon as they heard of the Murders, fent out 30 of their beflt Warriors under Capt. Matthew Tool, in purfuit of the Enemy. Inthe meanTime all the Frontier Inhabitants are much alarm- ed, many of them have defifted planting, and others are enforting themfelves. Howevsr alarming thefe Ac- counts may be, we are not without Hopes, that if the Murderers are cven Cherokees, the Little Carpenter will, by keeping his promife, reftrain, if not effetually put a ftop to, fuch Violences for the future. . May 16. On Wednefday laft the Young Lieutenant, a principal Head{man & Warrior of the Lower Creeks, with his Son, and four other Creek Indians, arrived 1a Town : He was very gracioufly received by his Excel- lency, and, with the others,received handfome Prefents, both from the Public and a private Hand. This Headf- man was formerly in the French Intereft, when he had, and ftill has great Influence and Power among hisCoun- trymen. The Realon of his Journey hither, wasto attach himfelf to the Britith Intereft, of which he has given the ftrongeft Affurances. He was never here before, and exprefles great Satisfallion at what he has {feen, fo much fuperior to any Thing he had beheld amongft the French, even at Moble and New Orleans, that he fays, *“ He never faw * any Thing till now.” With the others he had been paying a Friendly Vifit to the Cherokees and Catawbas, and informs us that the Cherckees had follicited him to join a party of them W10 were gaing out againft the white Men, to revenge the Ueaths oi fome of their Friends and beloved Men, kilied on the Frontiers of North Carolina o1 Virginiz, about 18 Months ago, which he refufed,and endeavour- ed to perfuade them to defilt from their Refeniment : But they informed him, the Quality and Rank of thofe kiiled, was fuch; as rendered it impoflible : And on Fri- day Advices were received from Salifbury, in the Yad kin fettlement,in Rowan Conaty, North Carolina, that ’ a Pasty of Indians had come intg the fettlements about- the Waxfaws, and committed feveral Murders ; The Militia were raifed, and on fearching the Houfes where the Indians had been, 18 white People were found killed, and 8 more are miffing. No Advices have been received from the party of Chickefaws that went out after the ran-away Shawanefe : The People in the back Settlements are much alarmed. May 26. The Chickefaws, who lately went in purfuit of the Shawnefe that were removing from a Settlement they hsd made near the Halbama Fort, to join ancther Nation of Indiaus called Caucofkees, refid- g on the North Side of the Miffifippi, near the new French Fort lately ereéted in the Foik of the Guabath and Cherokee Rivers, are returned from that Expedi- tion : Of which we have the foliowing Account, viz. That on the 4th of February laft 140 Chickefaws, with Mr. John Brown, and 4 Pack horie Men, fet out to attack tne Shawancfe : but after travelling 19 Days in fearch ¢i their ['racks, were obliged to ret n, the fealon being fo fevere, that feveral of the Indians were Froft- b.tten, and others were taken fick. Mr. Brown and 3 Indians only, continued the fearch, and difcovered the Enemy : On their Return, they reported the Difco- very they had made to the Natioy, who reccived the Information with Joy : and on the 8th of March, Pya- mingo, a noted Warrior, having pathered 200 [ndians, went a fecond Time in Purfuit of the Shawanefe, with Mr. Brown, and one Pack horfeman. Oa the 4th of April, towards the clofe of the Evening fcme Traces of the Shawanefle Camp were difcovercd, and Mr. Brown propoled attacking it immediately ; but the Chickefavs ubjefling to a Night Engagement, as they would be liable to kill one another in the Dark, the Attack was deferred tili the next Morning. The Shawancfe were nearer than the Chicke{aws imagined, and difcovering their Enemy firft, threw up a Temporary Fort before Morning. It wasa (mall Square, the Number of In- dians in it fuppofed to be about 270,and made of Sticks, Brufh and Logs, faced and lined with Baik of Tress to a caofiderable Thicknefs. Indians are not accufiomed 1o attack their Enemy in this Situation : However, on the sth early in the Morning the Chickefaws began firing on this Fort, and kept up a continual Fire till Noon: They made fevera!Breaches in the Breal woik Yiflerday arvived berg lal &) it Reating and Robinfon from Famaica, abo fuiled from thence the and heard continually @ mef lerrible Crying and Gron- ing till about 12 0’Ciock, when the Voices heard in the Fore were very few : They then examined whether they were {ufficiently piovided with Ammunition (o finifh their Work, bat finding that many had fired Go Rounds, and no Bullets left, they concluded to draw off; and did fo, firft tying 2 Shawanelfe Woman, which they had taken Prifoner, to a Stake near the Fort, and fet- ting Fire to her, to'{ee, whether her Countrymen would ccme out to relieve her, but no Shawanefe coming out, the Chickelaws gathered up 240 Horfes and Mares, being all the T'reafure of the Enemy, and returned to the Nation with them, without attempting any thing more. The Chickefaws had twa Men killed, and fix defperately wounded, in the Altion ; but_believe they have near totally deftroyed the Shawanele. Fune 2. On Tuefday laft 45 Charraws, Part of a Nation of Indians incorporated with the Catawbas, ar- rived in Town, headed by King Johnny, who brought to the Governor the Scalp of a French Indian, which he bad taken near Loyalhacning. He, and feveral o- thers that are with him here, were with General Forbes during the whole Expedition againft Fort Du Qnefne. Their chief Bufinefs {eems to be to fec his Exeellency, and receive Prefents. Laft Friday Night the Province Ship of War King George, Capt, Hallowell, belonging to Bsflon, came in there Jrom a Cruize 5 on bis Retarn be met with a Snow from Brifiol for Virginia, having on board a Number of bis Majefty’s fewen Year Paffengers, who bhad been out 5 Weeks, and from the Mafler be got a Briflol Paper of the 12th of May, from which we bawe the following. H 4 GUE, (in Hilland) May 4. AVING received no letters from England fince the 12th ult. we are extremely impatient and un- eafy to know what hath been done with regard to our fhips. = We le&rn from Amfterdam and Rotterdam that it hath been propofed there to burn all the Englifh fhips in their harbours if the fentences pafled at Doors- Commons fheuld be confirmed by the Lords of appeal. Beriin, April 28. We have received advice that Gen. Fouquer, marching from Leobfchitz to Troppau, had cut in pieces and diffipated the numerous parrifon of that p!aé:; that the enemy loft on that cccafion 315 Hungarian foot, 2 Captains, 3 Lieatenants, 12z Ulans, and a Chaplain of the Grecian religion. The fame advice adds, that 50 of our Huflars have made themfelves mafters of Jagerfdorff, which was alfo aban- doned by its garrifon, and that the General was conti nuing his march towards Hoff,where was a confiderable magazine, e N DO SN May 10. The Earl of Leicefter packet-boat, Capt. Morris, is arrived at Falmoath, from New-York, after a paffage of 30 days. W It is faid the Spaniards have opened,or will very {foon open, a Port in Hifpaniola, with leave for all nations to trade to and from it. : By fome private Letters from Bohemia, there is an account, that they have had very bad weather of iate, which had caufed Marfhal Daun to order the troops un- der his command to go into quarters of cantonment ; and that the faid General had received orders from the court of Vienna, not to attempt a bautle till he is joined by the Ruflians. The deltruélion of the great magazine at Budin by the Piuffians, @ a much more fevere blow than all the reft, inafmuch 2s it was of near double the value. Itis forefeen, that if the Proffians carry their point, and make another irruption into Moravia, as they did laft year, Marfhal Daun may pcfiibly be obliged to hazard an engagement. for want of fubfiftence, which will be little lefs than ftaking the fate of the houfe of Auftria on a fingle battle. We hear that the three depaties from the States of Holland fet out Yefllerday morning on their return home, greatly diffatisfied at their reception here. Sonie letters from Lifbon of the 1t of May,infinuate, that they had received an account there, that the com bined troops of Spain and Portugel, had been entirely defeated by the Indians of Paraguay. A rumour prevails as if fome Overtures had been made for a Peace between the Courts of Peteifburg and and Berlin, thro’ the interpofition of a Prince, whofe dominions are in great danger of fuffering, if the War thould continue. We hear the Bonetta Sloop, coming to England with difparches from Guadaloupe, founder’d at Sea. We learn from Germany that hardly a day pafies in which the troops are rot esgaged; the hereditary Prince of Biunlwick diflingaifhes himfelf by hiis a@ivity in fuch a manner, that he is become the terror of kis enemies, As a proof that many perfons have furwvived after biing fm"pu{,' ave éan nfih'ze ous readers, that four Highlanders » 'fi _GAZETTE o P rork of lafi Munth, Nums. 146. Foreign and Domeflick. are lately arriced from America, in order for admiffion into Chelfea Hofpital,avho had been fealped and left for dead. The pope bas iffurd a decree, allowing the Bible to be tranflated into the language of ali the catholic countries., We expest interelling Neaws from Saxony, Prince Henry being marched to attack the Army of the Empire on one Side, whilft Prince Ferdinand fulls an it on the other. : St. F O HN's, in Antigua, Fune 6. We hear that Mr. Bompar has been reinforced by two Ships of the Line, and that Commodore Moore failed from Dominica three Days ago. June g. Commodore Moore has been at Bafleterre in Guadaloupe with all his Ships, except the Naffaa and Raifonable ; and is failed again from thence, but whither is uncertain, though it 1s generally fuppofed he is gone to cruize off Martinico, to cover the two Fleets that may be hourly expetted down from Barbados. June 13. The Sloop Betty, J. Rains, Mafter, was cut out of Rofeau inDominico the 7th inft. by a French privateer and carried clear off. —Commodore Moore was at Baflaterre yefterday. Jwme 16. A French Flag of Truce arrived here yefterday with Englith Prifoners, by which we learn that M. Bompar has certainly left Mzrtineco, but whi- ther he is gone is uncertain—It is faid his thips are al- motft filled with fygars, .. . Capt. Solley who failed from hence about 10 days ago for North Carolina, was taken a few leagues to the Northward,and is retarned in an Englifh Flag of Truce which arrived from Martineco on Thurf{day ; together with Capt. Wyat,who was taken in fight of Point Peure in a {loop belonging to this Place, and many oihers ; but a compleat litt of the prizes lately carried into Martineco we have not yet received, tho’ all the pri- foners agree, that 75, or 80, have been carried in fince the middle of January ; and, what adds to the fting of this bitter account, we have the mortification to find that the braveft men have fallen vi€ims to this common calamity., The defence. many of ocur merchantmen made,wotld have deone honour to men in amuch higher ftation ; but in particular, the cafe of Capt. Poppleton of the fhip Griffin from London, moves cur pity and regard. 'This brave, but unfortunate man, had 14 finall guns, 25 men, 4 boys and 4 paffengersin his fhip, when he was attacked with great fury by two privateers together, both of which he beat, and,with great flaugh- ter, obliged to run away ; but the day following, before his damages could be repaired, two others fell on him with equal fury ; but no better fuccels ; and he had Hardly got clear of thele, before two others renewed the combat, at a time when his fhip locked more like one defeated and conquered, than as ready to receive a fuperior foe ; but courage fupplied every want : one of thefe he reduced to a wreck, and fhe made cff ; and the boltfprit of the other was carried away, when a fire- ball, thrown in at his cabbin window, blew up his fhip, and himfelf perithed in the fiames ; only 10 of his peo- ple being faved. Fune 16. T he following is a Copy of a Paper ahich the Mafler of a VefJel bro’t up Yeflerday fiom St. Euflatius, and which we leave our Readers 1o judge of as they think fit. St. Euflatia, June 8, 1759. ¢ By a Brigantine arrived here this Day from Ma- deira, in 27 Days, we have the following advices which may be relied on. The King of Pruffia has obtained a Vi€tory over the Riiffians, and was flill in purfuit when the exprefs came away.~—The Englifh and allied army have alfo defeated the French ; tho’ not without the lofs of fome of our beft troops ; but the Victory was compleat. Admiral BOSCAWEN has taken four (ail of French men of war of the line, and burned upwards of two hundred fail of Tranfports in the Bay, near Rockelle, Admiral Cornifh with four fail of the line, and fix Indiamen, outward bound, was at Madeira when this veflel came away.—Four {ail of men of war with the outward bound Weflt-Indiamen were 2lfo there; and brought an account that a Fléet of men of war and tranii\orts forthe reinforcement of Commodore Macre’s {quadron was juft on the back of them, and were daily expeéted at Madeira. ; ; The Swedes have declared war againfl the enemics of Profiia and Great Eritain, The King of Spain not dead, bat fpeechlefs. ; The Dutch are not to carry on any commerce with the enemies of England in the Weft Indies. Upon which all Dutch appeals are determined in their favour where the dhips have proper documents. One or two French men of war taken by the Englith cruizers, befides the above. - Note, T'wo of the fhips under Admiral Cornith were in Bofcawen’s fquadron when he bornt the enemies. tranfports, &c. 2nd joined the admiral in the Bay, by which he got this Intelligeace.” in Company with 120 Veflels bound fo different Porti, 3

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