The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, August 8, 1759, Page 2

sbe Fort, [ome large Mortars, tws of 10, and one or two of 13 Inches, alarge Number of fhot, thells, &3c.—Their Ovens, fafficient to bake for all_our Army, are unburt ; fine Barracks of Stone and Mortar with only their Roofs off — In fhort, they went off in fuch a Hurry they never balf compleated what they defigned to do, and bave lzft us a fine Fort, which needs but little Repair, which we are now upon 5 they forfook it when they bad 400 Soldiers.— Last Sunday {Fuly 22d) Monfieur Bompart, Brotber I bear 20 tbe French Admiral, who then commanded with 2 or 3000 left it with the Garrifon I bave Juft mentioned, but where be went I know not, — My next will be from Crown- Point.” From Albany we learn, that a French Prieft, named Picquet, moved on with the Enemy to Olwego, till jaft before-they began the Attack, exhorting the Men "to do their Duty, and advifinrg them to give the En- glith no Quarters. otk On Tuelday laft a Veflel arriv’d at Marblehesd, the Mafter fays, That fourteen Days before he gotin, 25 Leagues to the Southward of the Hle of Sable, he met a Sloop which had been then 30 Days from Gib- raliar, bound to Bofton; the Captain inform’d that they had Advice at Gibraltar juft before he fail’d, That the French Fleet confifting of 12 Sail of Mcn of War of the Line and near one Hundred Tranfports had fail'd from Breft, but their Deftination was not known: The Sloop is not yet arriv’d,but expeéted everyMoment when we may bave & more particular Account of this Fleet. Extraft of a Letter from NIAGARA, dated July 14, 1759. ¢ We left Ofwego the firft Inft. our Ar- my confifting of the 44th and 46th Regi- ments, 200 of the New- Yorkers, the Grena- diers and Light Infantry of the 6oth Regi- ment, and the Indians,which were 600. Af- ter a pleafant Paflage we arrived and landed within five Miles of the Fort, the Evening of the 6th. Our Indians, the Grenadiers and Light Infantry,immediately went off towards the Fort, to reconnoitre the Ground : The French made a {mall Sally, but our Indians charged them fo fmartly, that they foon re- tired.—In this Skirmith we had but one Man flightly wounded by a Cannos Ball, and a Mohawk Lad kill’d, and we taok five Prifon- ers : By our Intelligesce the Garrifon confifts of 10e@ Regulars, 500 Canadians, and about 30 Indians. Our Time has been taken up in the neceffary Freparations for the Siege ; cur Approaches are order’d within 200 Yards of the Fort, and we fhall open two Batteries this Night ; and then we hope by the divine Goodnefs, the Affair will be foon determined inour Favour. The Fort has kept up an in- ceffant Fire upon us : We have loft only 4 Perfons the Indian Boy included, and 12 wounded. Mr. Williams the Engineer is one of the Number wounded. The Indians behaved to the entire Satisfaltion of the Ge- neral and Army. The Senecas join’d us here ; fo chat we have now 846 Indians in all, who keep all quiet about us : They have made an Excurfion to the Falls, and found the Store-Houfe burat, and every Thing de- firoy’d ; they have been likewife to the Store Houfe 8 Miles off thisPlace ; theFrench run vpon their Approach. They took a great deal of Plunder, and deftroy’d all they could not bring off.” Friday laft a Cutter return’d here from re- connoitring the Coaft, who fail’d fome Time ago in order to make Difcovery of theFrench . Fleet, but faw nothing of them. Good NEWS from the Fleet and Army befieging Quebeck. Saturday lait Capt. Jones'arrived here in nine Days from Halifax, and by Let- ters from thence dated the 23d of- July we learn, that Capt. Mc Donald arrived there the Day before from the Ifle of Crleans, which he left the r2th, and brought the following agreeable Intelli- gence, viz.-- That General WoLFE had landed all his Army confifting of up- wards of Ten Thoufand Reguiars on a Point of Land, projeGting wich the Ri- ver St. Laurence, and fronting the upper End of Quebec, on a rifing Ground ; at theExtremity of thisPointGeneral Wolfe has erected two Batteries, one of twenty 24 Pounders, and the other of eightcen Mortars : Thefe Batteries overlook the lower, and are upon a level with the up- per City, diftant from the former three quarters of a Mile.--- That our Camp is pitch’'d in a Valley, at an inner Part of this Point, and a full Mile from the Bat- teries ; notwithftanding which the Can- non from the Ramparts of the upper City throw their Shot a full Mile beyond the Tents.---The 14th of July the Bat- teries were to be unmafk'd, and three fixty-gun Ships were-oppointed to attack a fmall Encampment, {ome Batteries and Out-works at the lower End of the City, while the Centre of the Place is to be entertained with three 3-Deckers, and two Bomb-Ketches.---When Capt. Mc Donald come away we had not loft a Man.--That the French have three Men of War, and fifteen Sail of other Ships, all hauled as far up the River as pofiible, and out of our reach at prefent.---That their Army is comnfanded by Monfieur Vaudreuille, and lies encamped behind the City, but in what Numbers he could not tell, tho' they are all well known to Gen. Wolfe, as Deferters come in daily. ---Capt. Mc Donald further fays,-- that in going up the River we had a Snow and three Schooners put athore, one of the Schooners was got off, and the Snow and the other two Schooners were totally loft, but their Crews and Cargoes all faved. Another Letter fays, that a French Frigate was taken by our Men of War. t i et Jit et e o ol Foft o Rl S FRANCE. HIS Kingdom iscertainly the moft powerful 1 the World. The French Monarch is a defpotic : Prince, and is generally ftiled by the Pope, The eldeft Son of ke Church, and by Foreigners, The Mot Chriltian King. The name of the prefeut King is Lewis XV. His Metropolis is Paris, and his Court is at Ver(ailles. The Nunaber of the People in France is computed at tweaty Millions, and the Inhabitauts in Paris at ninety five Thou- fand Perfons. The eftablifhed Religion is Popery, which grows ftronger every Day, through the Authority of the King, and the Conftitution Unigenitus, The Force of France are,in Time of Peace above 240000 and in Time of War 450000 Men, befides the moft formidable Fleet in Europe, En- gland excepted. "The ordinary Revenues of the Crown amount to ten Million Pounds Sterling, and they are increafed at Pleafure. By the Salique ILaw, the Females are excclud- ed from the Throne, and the Succeffor is called The Davpuin, and he is declared to be of Age when fourteen Years old. The Univerfities of France are twenty, and are in the following Towns : Paris, Orleans, Rbeims, Poiftiers, Bourdeaux, Angers, Nants, Caen, Bourges, Montpelicr, Cabors, Valence, Aix, Avignon, Lion, Grenoble, Douai, Pont, Moufon, and Toleufe. Belides thefe three is the Academy Francoife, and the dcademy Royal of Sciences, an Academy for Painting and Sculpture, an Academy for Architeffure, and the Gobelins, where all mechanic Arts are ex- ercifed and improved. The French are a gay, warlike, and tur- bulent People, feldom dejeted by Adverfity, and ingolerably infolent in Profperity: They exceed all Europeans ia Courtefy and Compli- ments, and are remarkable for Cringes and Flattery. A Frenchman is not tormented with Jealoufy, but on the contrary, inclines to go with his Wife in all Companies, and is proud of feeing her admired, courted and loved. The Fréench Language¥is a Mixcure of Latin and German, and is fpoken in ‘moft Courts of Europe. The principal Ports in this Kingdom are Calais, Dicppe, Havre de Grace, Honfleur, Rouen, St. Nalo, Brieux, Treguer, Morlaix, Brest, Audiern, Port L’Orient, Port Louis, Vannes, Nantz, Kochelle, Bourdeaux, Bayonne, Marfeilles, Touion, Antibes, and Pers Mabon in Minorca. France hath a temperate and healthful Air, ard produces in abundance Corn, Wine, Qil, many delicious F1uits, and almoft every thing defirable in Life. The chief Manufaétures are Velvets, Brocades, Lace, Cambric, Ta- peftry, Lawn, Woollen and Siik of various Kinds ; Alamodes, Leather, Gun -Locks, Sword-Blades, and all Sorts of Arms, Toys, Tapes,Hats, Paper,and Thread. TheFrench Trade increafes exceedingly, particularly in - Italy, Turkey, the Weff and Eat-Indies, and the Sugar Trade is in a greac Meafure mo- nopolized by them. Their Fifheriesare alfo very confiderable, and they have lately had a great Share in the Herring Fithery on the Coafts of England and Sketiand. There are three Orders of Knighthood in France : The Order of St. Michael, the Order of the Holy Gbof2, and the Order of 82. Lewis. Thereare three States in France, namely, the Nobility, the Clergy, and the Citizens ; but it is above a hundred Years fince any Diet has been held here. The principal Provinces of this Monarchy are, 1. The Ifle of France. 2. Orleans. 3. Li- ons. 4. Champaigne. 5. Burgundy. 6. Dau- phiny. o Provence. 8. Languedoc. 9. Guienna. 10. Britany. 11. Normandy. 12. Alface. 13, Loraine. 14. Barr. 15. Frenche Comte. Be- fides all thefe fruitful Countries the French poffefs a Part of Flanders, fome Townsin. Germany, lialy, and Law-Navarre. In Afia and Africa they have many Forts, and they are exceeding powerful in America by the Poffeffion of Casada, Florida, Louifania, and Acadia. The Kings of France,” Spain and Naples, are of one Houfe and Blood, and as long as the Court of Verfailles can fupport its fuperi- ority in Eurepe, Spain and Naples will not only look upon the French Monarch as the Chief of the Houfe of Bourbon, but in great mea- fure be governed by his Counfels and Com- mands. Thus in regard as well to the exor- bitant Power of this Houfe, as to the interior Strength of Frasce herfelf, this Crown will certainly look for perpetual Conqueft, efpe- cially in the prefent War, when almoft every Court in Europe favours its Views ; fome thre’ Intereft, others by Money or an Appre- henfion of Danger. The critical Situation of the German Af- fairs feems to offer this their ambitious Neigh- boursa good Part of the Aufrian Netherlands, to recover Silefia, as a Province of much more Ufe and Importance to the Emprefs Quicen and the hereditary Dominions, than ‘thé Towns in the Netherlands, Neverthelefs the moft Chriftian King does not, I appre- hend, defpife thefe Towns, as the dear bought Barrier of Great-Britain and Holland, natural Union of Europe, the Intereft of France is intirely oppofite to that of AusFria, Exg- land, Holland, Ruffia and Sardinia. oyt W et ) e e ) et ) \TN ) OST about three Weeks pait ~ pear Mr. Gn‘fitl)’s, the third Joint of a Black Ebony German Flate, with an Ivory Ferrel at one End. It can be no ways {erviceable to any one but the Owner of the other Joints: If it be found and left with.the -« In & < Printer hereof, he will fatisfy for finding and retarcing thie {ame. YY) | Printed &y D. Fowle.