The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, September 21, 1759, Page 1

iy ’ ~ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. THE N ew-Hampihire | Cor;/a:’niflg the Frefheft Advices e e MANIFESTO To the Province of CAN AD A4, By His ExceLrency FAMES WOLFE, Efg; Major General, Coloncl of Fuot, and Commander in Chicf of Mis Britannic Majefly’s [roops, ferving up the River §t. Lawrence, {I¢ &, HE King, my Mafter, highly offended at the Conduét of France, and to rcfeat the infolent Treatwent that has been of - fer’d his Subjefls in North America, is re- folved to check this arrogant and hoftile Proceeding. A well appointed Sca and Land Force has therefore penetrated into the Heart of Canada, in Obedience to his Mazjeity’s Commands. Hrs Britannic Majelty's Intention is, that all the moft corfiderable Pofts, of which the French are pof- fefs’d in North “dmerica, thou'd be defiroy’d. And you behold me here, at the Head of an Army, ready to execute his Majefty’s Orders ! Tue Hufbavd-men, Peafaots, Women, Children, and the Reverend Body of the Clergy, are not the Objecls of His Majefty’s Wrath ; nor is his Arm raifed againft any of tb:m ; on the contrary, forefeeing their Mifery, and concerned at their ushappy Situation, he cffers them his powerful and proteCting Hand. THE Inhabitants, may fafely return to their Houfes, with their Families, they may be happy in their {cveral Pofleflions, they may follow their Religion inviolably ; and I promile to proteét them, Provipen they do not direlly, nor indirefly, interfere in the Quarrel between the two Crowns,—f{o may the Canadians enjoy the Blef- fings of Peace, amidft the Tumults of War.— Bur fhould a fruitlefs and unavailing Spirit {o far prevail, as to prompt the Canadians to appear in Arms, let them know,that the Calamities and Horrors of War await their Prefumption { I wirr not defcribe the Excefs to which an enraped Soldier may be carried, the Defcription would be tco horrid.—My Troops are yet within my Power, and the Inhabitants of Cazada will be fafe if they are not imprudent.— ARE the Canadians ignorant of their prefent Situati- ‘on ? A refpefable Fleet, and a powerful Army, cats off ali the Hopes of Succour, wich they otherwife might kave expected fromExrope : And another Army threat- ens them on the other Side the Continent.—In fo cri- tical a Situation, can they hefitate ? What can they ex- pe&t by Oppofition ?—perhaps, fattering themfelves with Succefs, they will not accept the favourable Terms I offer : What is it then to me, fince thcy themlelves are the Caufe, if they behold their unhappy Families expofed to the Inclemencies of the Winter, and perith- ing for Food, —the Vi&tims of their own Imprudence and Obftinacy ! Itis encugh for me that I have cau- tioned them, and let the World be Judge. - The extraordinary Cruelties which the French have practis’d upon the American Subje&s of Great Britain, would jultify the molt fevere Reprilals : —But the Brizon, naturally generous, difdains fuch lowly P:oceedings. His Religion enjoins Humanity, and his Heart with Pleafure obeys the plezfing Precept. LsT then the Czuadians determine.—On one Side behold England (whole Sincerity is well kaown) offer- ing them her powerful and proie@ing Hand, fecuring to them their Effe&s, aad indulging them in every Pri- vilege : On the other Side, behold France, inert, and incapable, abandoning them in the moft critical Cen- jun€ture :—And tho’ fhe has.fent them /ome Succour, what other End has it an{wered but to make the un happy Canadians more acately {enfible of the powerlefs Hand of France, which forwards their Defiru&tion, in- ftead of contributing to their Relicf. Tue Inhabitants moft determine—their Prudence muft di®ate—for their Fate depends on their Refolves. GIVEN at my lead Quarters in the Parifb of St. Lawrence, on the Ifle of Orleans. ® 5ok ok e ek sk sk ks sk ok ok ks ko ok ok BOST ON, September 17. Extraft of a Letter from the Commanding Officer at Arnapolis Royal, dated duguft 27, 1759. ~—‘¢ We have plenty of Live Stock here, as the fa- mous Morficur Beaulalel’s Party feems to be employ’d in fupplying us with live Caule ; having taken from them fince we have bzen hereupwards of 100 Head : — No longer ago than a Fortnight, about 50 or 60 of the French pafs’d at fome Diftance by this Fort, with a large Drove of Cattle, they came to the Water Side, and challeng’d us to give them Baitle, which was im- mediatcly accepted, we drove them off, tock ten Fire- 1759 o S i = oy Tocks, a Number of Blackets, Coats, Juckets, &c. and thirty odd Head of Buliocks, and returned fafe the next Day ; had afine Auétion, ard the Plaader will amount to at lealt /. 1500 old Tenor. Extral? of anather Letter from the Same Place, Aug 28. ** On the 4th Inftant,four of our Men, being Indians, went down the River wichout Leave, in a lasge Fioat te get Wood, and the Enerny came upon ’em, and tock or kill'd three, one made his Elcape 2nd got into the Fort, but was wounded. —OQn tac 5th Major Tapley with one Hundred Men . detach’d in purfuit of "em, but retarned on the 7th without feeing the Enemy. — The Names of the Indians kilied or taken,are, Solomen Ned, Pilot Sowemcog, and James Horn.; J:leph Da- vid, wounded, but got into the Fort. N. B.. Capt. Mayhew bad the Command of the Party of 60 Men, who took the Catt'e from the French, as they were driving them from Cape Sables. Lalt Wednefday came to Town by Land from Saco, feveral Perfons who arrived there on Saturday fe’nnight from the Bay of Fundy, where they had been to view fome of the Lots of Land, granted by his Mzjetty to thofe of his fubje@ts who may incline to fettle in Nova- Scotia.—By them we have an Account, T'hat our Pro- viacial Troops at the feveral Garrifons at Annapolis- Royal, Chiegre&o, St. John’s &c weie ftill in good Health. That Capt Cartis being feat cut w:ha Party up St. John’s Ruver, efpy’d a Carce with two Frenchmen therein, who endeavoured to efcape, but were fired upon, bcth wounded and taken. Capt. Curtis brought one of them (the other dying of his Wounds) to Licutenant Colone! Asbuthner, who com- mands at Fort Frederick : The Prifoner informed him that ke had a Family which wou!d fubmit to the En glith, if they could have Proteftion : Accordingly after his Wcunds were healed, Col. Arbuthnot, with 130 of theTroops in Whale Boats,fetout with him ; but couid find no People where they landed ; there were zo (mall Houfes, which they burnt, after taking out the Bedding and feme of the Furniture : They then proceeded al moft as far as St. Ann’s, when going into a Creek they faw three Veflels ; a large Sloop or Schooner, and two fmall Schooners, which were thofe taken above a Year ago, and have been there ever fince : They brought off the two Schooners, after loading them with the Stores and Rigging belonging to the large Veflel, wihich could not be gat off, as there was not Water enough to float her :— Our Informants cou'd not tell who the Veffels belong’d to ; bat heard the fma!l ones formerly belong’d to Cafco-Bay ; one of them is gone to Halifax. Colorel Frye has fent out a large Party frem Fort Cumberland by Land to Pequot de Jaque, and the Monckton Schooner is gone toaflit them. Weduelday laft one Chriftophier Dorfey, fell into a return’d Ciftern joft drawn from the Siill, ina Diftill Houfe at the South End of the Town, and was fo terri biy fcalded, that he died in a Day ortwo after. We hear from Newpoit, Rhode Ifland, that laft Morday Evening came into that Port, a fmall Brig, taken by the Capts. Seymour and Seais'of New Yoik. Extratt of a Letter from Crown Point, ¢ s to the Situation of this Place ; it is in jummer very agrecable, buing almoft lurrounded by Lake-Champlain ; bur 1 dare [ay, it will be excifive cold in Winter — T he Scil is preity good, and the Fronch bhad Jome few Settle- ments round it :—The Fort avhich is building is nigh where the old one awas ; it isto be a rigular Pentagon, awiih three Out-Works, (ufficicnt to contain 1000 Men in Winter, and more in caie of Neciffity. —Our moving de pends on General Wolfe's Succefs. One of our Indians and one of Rogers’s Rangers, are gone by Land to Gemeral Wolfe, for akich the lndian is 1o have a 100 Guineas. The Road cut to No. 4, will be wery uleful for our New- England Forces to go home ; as alfo to jupply the Fort aith frefh Provifions, it being not abive 60 or 76 Miles from hence.”’ We hear from Wellington in Conne&icut, That on the 1ft of this Inftant at Evening, Daniel Royce and Benja, Glazier, went in queft of a Bear that had made his Appeararce in the Neighbourhoed, when Glazier difcovered fomething to move in a Corofield, and imagining it to be what he was in putfuit of fired, and fhot Royce thro’ the Breaft, which put and End to his Life in a few Mioutes. And from Kingflon in the County of Worcelter, we aifo hear, that on Tuefday laft one Mr. Stephen Clark of that Town, being in his next Neighbour’s Field watching for a Bear, bat his Neighbour coming out faw fomething move among the Corn, and imagin- ing it to be one of thofe Creatures, fired at it, but upon his going to it found tkat he had thot Mr, Clark dead upon the Spot. F oreizn and Dof?zefiicfi. By the moft autheasic Accouats from Time to Time received, reiating to the Strength and Deftination of the Enemj’s Forces, it appears = That General Wolfe is cppas’d by full three Quarters of the Force of Canada —'T'bat on the Side ot Clwego, there is no Fortrefs bat that of La Galeuwe (which is of but little Strength) to oppufe the Army of Brigadier Gage on their Paflage to Montreal, whese there is sow only a Nainber of 0id Men, Wemes and Children—That the Troops which .37¢ at and near St. John's, are thole which retired trom Ti:ondc:o;& and Crown Point,” updn the Advance of our Grand Army under General Amberfi-—That the French Naval Fobee on Lake Chimiplain is ac prefent inconfiderable, a Veflel of 10 Guns being Commodore ; but a Veflei of greater Force was a building—So that it appears that the Fate of Canada has and does depend, uader Providence, either upon the Advance of oar Grand Army, an Army at prefent with as much Health, Spirits and Unity as ever was known—or the Procce- dure of General Gage‘s Army and our Indians, towards Montreal, which muit make {uch a Diverfion in Favour of General WoLre as would more than probably give him the Opportunity of reducigg Quebeck, and all the Country around We have been for fome Weeks impaticntly expelling to hear of one or other of the Army’s moving, which if pradticable, and not beyond the general Plan, will doubilefs be the Cafe——When this good News arrives, the Betts will be fix to One, that Canada avill be reduced this Year ; to the immortal Henour of his Mzjefty’s Miniftry, Generals and Troops; the uciver{al Joy of all North-America ; and the who'e Brit:th Empire, Extract of a Letter from Crown Point, dated Sept. 7. I bzve nothing now at prefent to offer, Jave that a [mall Party of our Rangers hawe brought in 3 French Prijencrs, from the other Side of the Lake ; they are Sol diers and Germans by Birth 5 wery fiupid, ignorant, flarved Fellows, and bring mo Intelligence that may be depended upon. Howewer, they fay, that for a long Time, they beard nothing from Quebeck, till juff the Day bifore they awere taken, a Report came from Montreal, that the Siege avas raifed, and the Englijo gone 5 but that gains no Credit bere, as we know Juch Reports are moft commonly [pread about in Canada, when Thirgs go wverft aith them.—Ge- neral Wolfe and Aimiral Saunders's long Silence furprizes all wery much—Qur Scout is not yet return’d from Quebeck —Yefierday about Dujk, there avere 3 of the Encmy’s Bat- teaux dijcovered about 8 Miles off —d large Brigantine that will carry 22 Guns, is launch’d at Ticonderoga 5 a Jmall Sloop and @ Reddoe or Floating Battery, 6 [mall Reddoes, or Prows, awith one large Picce of Cannon in each, are ready.~— 4 Party is gone to try to burn fume of the Enemy’s Sloops.—General Amberfp is going om acith Improvements of all Kinds here.— All awe bear from Lake Ontario is, tkat they were preparing to wifit Cadaraqui and La Galetta ; and perbaps Montreal.— s to the Ar- my bere, I can awith Truth affure you, that it is the quiet= eft, foberefl, moff laborious, and indufirious (as well as bitherto ) the moft bealthy Camp 1 ever Jaw, heard or read of. If General dAmberft’s Plan, avith Regard to Crown-Point, is adbered to and finifbed, this will in 2 or 3 Years, become the cheapeft, fafefp and mofl comfortable Garrifonin the KING’s Dominions— It is about the Lati- tude 44. and the Climate very good, centrical to every Part of the Britifl Colonies, from Kenncheck to Delaware Ria wer ;5 ard in Time, there avill be 3 or 3 different Commu- nications open’d betaween it and the Settlemints, and one from this Lakey by a fhort Cut to Lake Ontario, as well as @ Jmall Settlement projecied from bere, to the Head of Wood- Creck ;5 avbich will not only fupply the different Forts avith Provifions, but fuccour them in Cale of Need, till the Country gathers. There is a great deal of good Land in this Neighbourbood, anda the Climate more moift, and not Jo Jubject to parching Droughts, as on the Sea Coafls, and is extremely well wonded and awatered. From the Ser- Jeant awho ook the lafl 3 Prifoncrs, as avell as from the Prifoners themielves, ave learn, That the French bawe for- tified a little Jfland above Qo Miles from hence, and 15 Miles this Siae Fort St. Fohn’s, called Lifle de Noin, or Nutt, and have made it wery firong awith Fafcine Battes ries, and 70 Pieces of Cannon —1 bis Ifle will be 1he more troudlefome to reduce,as it cannot be regularly approachids the Channel on each Side is wery narroaw, and buh Shores (fer @ great Way Inland ) quits a Sawamp ;5 but when the General bas a Mind to go, be awill find another Way.— T his neav Fortification is owing to the Enemy’s getting in a Fleet this Year 5 otheravife they had no Cannonto fpare 3 but they have now got enough of them, as alfo Officirs, Sailors, Sails, Rigging, (Je. for their Sloaps en the Lakes And 1 am perfuad:d that, bad they mot got any. Supply Jrom Old France this Year, ae jhould have been in quiet Pofli flien of Canada, lorg 'ers newn.”