The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, August 24, 1759, Page 2

PHILADELPHI!IA, Auguitg. We have advice from Barbados, thata Negro Fel- Jow, on the 2gth of June, received fentence of death tliere, for attempting” to fet o fire Bridgetown. He was hanged, his head cut off; and ftuck on a Pele ; his body dragged thro* the Town, and then burnt. > *T'he Prifoners of a flag of truce lately arrived at that Ifland from Martineco, give an account of 75 veffels being catried in there in a little time ; which fcems very extraordinary, confidering the large Englith flcet we have in thefe feas. N E W.Y ORK,Augult 13. Juft before the General Wali Packet Boat left Fal- mouth, the Groyne Packet arrived and brought Ad- vice, That the King of Spain was in a fair Wey of re- eovering from his late grievous Indifpofition. The Earl of Halifax Packet Boar, Capt. Morris, was repairing at Falmouth when the Geseral Wall failed, and it was thought would come off about the 20th of June with the Mail for that Month. The Concord, Capt. Jacobfon, the Noble Galley, Capt. Manchefter ; the Neptune Capt. Rofe ; the Ex- bury, Capt. Woife, (the two laft with cloathing) were to leave London for Neiv-York abeut the zoth of une. 3 On Wednefday Evening laff, Mr. Prefcott, Aid de Camp to Gerera! Amherft, cam= to Town from Crown Poiut, on his Way to London, carrying the very agree- zble and interefting Intelligence to all his Majelty’s TDominions,of the General’s being in the quiet Poflel- fion of the Fortrels at that Place, which he entered the 4th of this Inftant, AUGUST, with his whole Army, the Enemy haviog evacuated thg fame fome Days be- fore, firft having blew up the Citadel, and one of the Balions. The Fortifications were very trifl'ng, as they ware overlooked and commanded from f{everal Emi- pences. The General has ordered another to be built which he tells u: wi'l cover the whole Country . Oa this Occafion the Cannon onFort George were difcharg- ed, and this City handfomely illuminated. There being no other Packet Boat here but the Ge- neral Wall, who arrived on Tuelday, fhe was immedi- ately ordered to getready to carry Mr. Prefcott over, and Yefterdey fhe fell down accordingly, and carried the Mail with her. Brigadier General Gage is gone to take the com- mand at Niagara ; and we hear that Sir William John- fon is foon to join General Amhberft with his Indians. We are told that when onr People tock Pofitflion of Crown Point, not more than four or five Pieces of Cannon could be found, and nothing elfe of any Value : They had fet a Match to a {mall Magazine that was in the Fort, but the Soldiers extinguifhed the fame before it tould do any Damage. BO ST ON, Aupul zo. Extrafl of a Letter I’rofl Barbadoe, July 15, 1759. ¢ Our Commeodore granted us bat ene Convoy this Year, not being able to {pare any Ships from the Ser. vice before Mr. Bompar went out of thefe Seas, who has done for {ome Months paft what he pleas’d with 7 Ships of the Line and 4 Frigates, tho’ we had 17 of the Line and Frigates in Number to make up 30 Pen- dants under his Command ; but whether Bathfuinefls, or what, we know not, prevenied his deitroying the French Fleet : Now they areall f{aii’d either for St, Domingo or France, loaded with Sugars.—It’s to_be hop’d when ke is cali’d Home, he'll be able to givea better Account of him{elf than any of us thick he can. Qar Trade ha: (uffcred more fince the Attack has been riade agrinft Guardaloupe thap it has done during the War. They bave carried into Martineco near 200 Sail of Veflels, and they have 70 Sail of Privateers out there, that nothing can pafs the Seas for them, and not one of our Men er War Cruiziag to retake any Thing, We never had 2 worfe Commander out this Way, and vo Man ever had afiner Opportunity of gaining Ho- nour.” The following Charafier of C—m—e J-—n M e, awas found the Night after bis arrival at Barbades, on all the Tavern Dotrs there. He isthe Emblem of Fear, The Foe to bis Country, The Enemy to Courage, The Scorn of the Vopuiace, The Scandal ¢f Britain, The Pairon of Cowards, The Contempt of good Men, and The Ruin of the Navy. In fhort, but Words are wanting to {ay what, Say all that’s mean, low, bale, and he is thar. Puiro VeErITATIS, Puivo Justiciz. Tuefday Morning Lieut. Hatchins of oné of Msjor Rogers's Companies of Rangers, came to Town from Crown Point ; all that we could learn by him was, That [is Excellency General Amherft, and moit of our Army were at Fort Frederick, or Crown-Point, which helefi 6 Days before, hearty and in high Spirits; and that they were getting their Provifions, &c. over to the Fort :—That the Brig and Echooner buildingin Lzke Champlain were in great Forwardrefs ; and the Rangers conftantly employed in making Difcoveries of - the Enemy.-——That as he came thro’ Aibany he was informed, that the Prifoners taken. at Nisgara, were expedted in two Hours in that City, .cfcorted by a Pagty of Englifh Troop: and Indians, which laft were drefs’d with the French Officers Cloaths, which they tools in the Fort.—The Number of Prifoners was 704; there was alfo many Sca'ps bringing with them ; but the exatt Namber he did not hear. By the Courier from Albany we learn, That on the 1:th Init. the Priloners taken in the Fort at Niagara, cor{ilting of 639 ‘Men, were brought in there, and went oo board Veflels the next Moraing and (ail’d for New York ; thofe that were taken in the Wood Fight near Niagara, are ftill there amang our Indians, who have about 300 Scalps, and 2re alfo foon expefted in Albany : The above Priforers were ail likely Men and moftly Canadians. We alfo learn, that General Am- herft has fent fome Indians and two Officers from Crown Point acrofs the Woods and Lake, to General Wolfe at Quebec.—That the Army were in Perfelt Health and high Spirits, and defirqus of nothing more than to be kept warm while they were at it. General Amherft was getling in ‘readinels to proceed down Lake Champlain, to St. Joha's, where "tis faid the French are determined to make a ftand. \ By the laft Accounts from Monto Chrifto we hear, That Monf. Bempar is certainly at Cape Francois, and that his Fleet is fo fickly, that 1200 Men died in about 5 Weeks ; 500 of whom 'tis {aid died in 1z Days. Saturday latt a Man came (0 Town from the South- ward, who tells us that he had been a Prifoner at Mont- real for fome Months pait, but all the Men at Montreal being ordered to Quebec, he mide his Efcape from thence, and got fafe to General Amherfi’s Army at Crown Point in 15 Days, and gave the General what Informaticn he could relating to the French at Mont- real : He was 9 Days coming from Crown-Point, which makes 24 Days fince he left Montreal. Extract of a Letter trom Louifbourg, Fuly 24. —¢ General Wolfe’s Army landed on the Ifle of Orleans with the Lofs of onlv one of Gorham’s Ran- gers ; foon after detached Brigadier Monckton, with 4000 Men to take Pofleflion of Fort or Point Levee, which he effeted with the Lofs of a few Men pick’d off by the Indians in the March. He erefted there two Batteries to play upon Quebec, at the Diftance of 1 Mile and a quarter. That the French'have 3 dif-, ferent Encampments outfide the Town, which our Men of War, Frigates and Bomb Ketches have obliged them to remove to a greater Diltance from the Shoar : By the Number of Tents it’s imagin'd they are 12000, and are encamped and entrench’d on the Banks of the River St. Charles, which they feem determined to maintain, as General Wolfe muft crofs that River be- fore he can inveft the City : He was to land the whole Army the 8th uit. leaving the Batteries at Point Levee, with the Magazines on the Ifland of Orleans to be guarded by 4000 Marines and Sailors, ——The French have 3 Frigates and 14 Tranfports, which brought few Troops and little Provifion, as they were moftly laden with Merchandize, Wine, Brandy, &c:” Extra@ of a Letter from the Weftward ; ““—1 am furprized at your having heard nothing hardly of General WOLFE : He is in Poff:ffion of the Ifland of Orleans, and entrenched bifore Quebec 5 and his Soldicrs baws been ravaging and burning the Country for 50 Miles round it at times., He avaits for ihe near dpproach of General AMHERST ; throwws now and then a fews Bombs Sor Diwerfion into the Ciiy, one of which fired their Ca- thedral and burnt it down. And it-is reported, that HE bas _fent the Governor of Cangda Word, that he will have him alive or dead before He quits the Piace, &c.—7he Army marched dug. 5, frem Ticonderoga to Crown Peint, in order to prepare furtioir, and fo to move foravard.” The 14th of July 4 large Barn at Perth-Amboy in New- Jerfey, witha great Quantity of Rye in it, was fet on Fire by Lightning, and burnt down to the Ground, From Dorchefter, about 8 o’clock in the Evening the 12th Inft. the Meeting Houfe there wrs much damag’d by Lightning, which firuck the Spire, and defcending tore off great part of the Boards and Shingles, thiver'd the Rafters of the Steeple, &c. to pieces, from the Top to the Bottom ; and one of the Pillars of the Balcony raoved out of its place, and others greatly damag’d. That about the {ame Hour at Medford, they had one extraordinary Clap of Thunder, and the Heufe of Capt. Stephen Wiils was firuck by the Lightaing. About Sun fetof thefunie Day the Barn of Mr, Ebenezer Sadler, of Graftun, took Fire by Lightning, and was prefently confumed, with a confiderable Quan- tity of Grain, and the beft Part of his Hay. The Great and General Court or Aflembly of this Province, which ftood prorogued to the 2gth Inflant, is further prorogued to the Nineteenth Day of Saptember next. By a Veflel at Cape Ann, from St. Chriftophers, we have an Account, that they came out with a Fleet of 300 Sail of Merchantmeat, bound for Eurepe and thefe Northern Colonies, on the 26th of July laft ; they were convoyed by fix of his Majeity’s Ships of War, By Capt. Shepherd who arrived here iaft Thur(day in zt Days from Barbados, we are inform'd, That 1 Ship, 6 Snows, 10 Brigs, 5 Schooners, and g Sloops, belonging to the Englith, were all carried into Marti- neco between the 7th of Juse and the 2d of July, 1759. Sundry others were carried into Fort Royal and other Harbours in Martineco. P@R.T SM O-UTH: Laft Wednefday His Majefty’s Ship Crown, of 40 Guns, failed from this Port (where (he has been taking in Mafts) for Halifax. Qe ) e\ W. Clagett, LAWY ER Thinks it neceflary to imfarm his CLIENTS, That he is removed, next r?oor o George Foffrey, Efq; Juft Publiflyd, And fold by the Printer bereof, (at 6 5. Old Tenor) (lU/ESTIONS and ANSWERS ExtzaCed from a Folio Manufeript, in the Arcive of a certain aged Gormsgon, at prelent in the Province of the Mailachuletts Bay ; and with the Au- thor (Herne Kilco) his Leave, new made publick, in order to fet People right in Refpe@t to fome Declarati- ons lately publifh’d, in a Pamphlet call’d, Th. propberick Numbers of DANIEL and JOHN calculated, &c. As allo his own REmarxs in the firft Place, upon the EvenTs attending of certain Pzriobps. ¢& Although the Author obferves, as to ‘he precife Time when thefe Things thall be, 70 BMan is able to fay, and there be Texts enough in our Bibles to forbid the impertinent Enguiry ; yet whea fuch Things occur as the Gofpel regords to be Forerunners of this grand B- vent, then it is nigh, even at the Door In 1760, Gop will be more fenfibly believed to be the grand Governor, Difpofer and Raler of all Things—The Godly, nay the nominal Chriftians, will fee and difcern the Times according with the Predi&ions in the Scrip- tures of T'ruth ; nor will Reman Catholicks be devaid of Aftonifhment atthem, when they behold the bright Appearance of the KING or PRUSSIA, who by this Time fhall be fo illufirious, that the World fhall be dazzled at his Prowefs, Policy, and Succe(s againft the Enemies of Chrift, who are the Romifs Beaff, and the Beaft which rides her Toward the Clofe of the Pe- riod, there will be Signs in the Air, as was in Conflan- tine’s Time, who (fays the Author in a Marginal Note) I lock upon to be a Type of the Kinc of Prufia, who fhall from Signs to him known, &c. &c. &c.—There- fore when the Kixnc of Prafia thall turn his Sword again{l the Bealt, viz, the Heufe of 4ufiria, that bloody Houle, and Pontiff of Rome, he fhall go on and prcfper, and in 1760 it will be manifeft how great and good a Man he is, to the Confternation of a!l Reme’s Memberss —Alfo many other Particu'ars, which will gratify the Curious, and edify the Serious, L —— o e sy SOLD by the Printer bereof, at one Piftereen, A Tranflation of a Manufcript, Found on board a French Man of War, tzken by Ad- miral Bofcanven, in the Year 1755. Intitled, Remarks and Obfervations for filing from France 10 Quckeck, taken from Mcmorials and Journals, depofited among the Marine Articles. (I awbich is fet forth every fland from thelfland of St1. Petersto QUEBECK, avith the Difiances from one to the other i as alfo all the Harbours, Cowies &5¢. in faid River; avbere and where nst is fafe dnchorage, &'c. together with many other things beth ufeful and neceffary for every Comn- mander of a Veffel that foall goup the River ; and alfo for thoje awbofe curicfity may lead them to kwoav, by Accounts from time to tome where and bow far the lect bawve proceeded up the River.) Avso, 4 An exa&t CHART of Canada- River, ( from the Ifland of Awticofle, as far up as Qucbeek) the Iflands, Rocks, Shoals and Soundings, as they appear at Low Water, (taken from the French ) Engraved by Mr. Thomas Fotorflon of Bofien. E__.....___.__.__._._.._ PRAISLE AR g 2 Welve or 14 Load of choice Salt GRASS and THATCH, lying in Little Harbour Marfhes, to be Sold for Ready Money, cr good Cord Waod, delivered 2t Mr. Seawy’s Landing Place. Inquitc of the Printer hereof. II5 2l e n s s s W Hereas Meflv'rs Caleb Emery, Charles Froft, and Jobn Heard Bartlei, are ap- pointed Commiffioners by the Hon. the Judge of Pros bate for the Couhnty of 2or#, to receive and examine the Claims cf the feveral Creditors ta the Eflate of Hugh Tucker, late of Kittery in the County of York, Mariner, deceas’d, Inteflate, (repsefented infolvent) by Fane Tucker, Adminiftratrix of faid Eflate ; and fix Months from the gth Day of 7u/y laft being allowed for that Service, The feveral Creditors of {aid ‘Eflate are hereby NoriFiep that tke Commiffioners will attend that Service at-the Houfe of the faid Admiriftratrix 1n Kittery aforefaid, on the Jat Monday of Auguf? Inft. and the fourth Manday of September, O@aber, No- " vember, and December next, from 'I'wo to Five of the Clock in the Afterncon each Day ; per Order of the Commiflioners. Kittery, dAugaft 9th, 1759 Caven EmERY, TO BE SOLD By Benjamin Parker, At his Shop-at the Nosth Erd, oppofite Col. HarT’s, Hoice Connefticut PORK, Silver and Gold LACE ; wih a Vaiiety of Englith and Weit India GOODS, Window Glels 6 by 8, g by 7, and 10by 8, i Al g O O PosTsmouTh ; Printed by Danizt FowLe, of whom this Paper iay be had at Une Doliar per Annum, or an Eiquivaleat in Bilis of Credic; Half ta be paid eibunrance,