The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, September 28, 1759, Page 2

-ately got- under fail with the Pallas -frigate, -and played up to the fhips that anchored clofe to the forts and a battery that fired upon the Monmouth and Pallas, and bombarded them the whole time they were going in; but their boats cut out the veflels, and made fail with them with Swedith colours flying. They prove to be laden with iron, timber, &c. and it is thought with cannon, for the French fleet at Breft.— While this was doing, the Monmouth and Pallas kept a continual fire on the forts, and it feems they drove all the people and foldiers feveral times from their guns ; and returned with very little damage, and no Jofs of men. The Monmouth re- mained oppofite to the forts, till all the fhips and boats were got clear out wich the Pallas. It is impofiible to tell the great joy this gives our brave admiral and the whole fleet :— That two thips fhould take out four, from under fuch a fire. in fight of twenty fhips of the line,ia their own port,and four flags flying! We talk of nothing for the prefent but this brave undertaking, and how well the captains Hervey and Clements behaved in fo dange- rous a fituation, as they had but juft room to work their thips,whilft they engaged fo warm- ly. They fay, that during the engagement, the hills were covered with people. Thefe prizes are juft fent to us from capt. Hervey, who ftill keeps his ftation, to the great morti- fication of the French, who frequently throw theils at our fhips ftanding in to obferve their motions. We all ftood very near the other day, and lay too in fight of their harbour, where the Monmouth with her little fquadron was lying watching them. The French fay they will come and fight us yet ; but we do not believe them ; and if their friends the dutch are prevented from carrying them ne- ceflaries, they abfolutely cannot move. Fuly 31. The report of the King of Spain being dead, is contradi®ed by his Ex- ccllency che Spanith Ambaflador. Auguft 2. Orders are given to place thot by the cannon round the fortification of Portf- mouth ; and itis faid that a great number of forces will be affembled in and near this place, to be in readinefs in cafe any attempt thould be made by the French. The lofs fuftained by the inhabitants of Minden by being pillaged by the French a- mounts to 50,00C Crowns. Augufp 11. Very melancholy -accounts are fent over from different parts of ‘Germa- ny, relating to the difmal fituation of the in- habitants, whofe unhappinefs it is to be where the fear of war is ; one of the letters concludes thus, ““/n the forenoon we have our own troeps ; in the afternoon thofe of the Enemy, who not only deftroy every thing, but even . ravith our wives and daughters before our eyes I” Laft night the higheft demonftrations of joy were fhewn through the whole Town, and the Houfes beautitully illuminated. The Park and Tower Guns were fired as foon as pofible. Admiral Hawke ftill cruizes before Breft, and now and then detaches frigates to take a view of their fleer. Admiral Bofcawen alfo kept cruizing off of Toulon. In the late vain thew of the French Fleet at Breflt to engage Admiral Hawke, the greatelt alacrity appear’d among the Britith failors: Of forty fick men on board the An- fon man of war, all, except three, (who were abfolutely difabled) immediately quitted their hammocks, and bravely ftood to their guns, tho’ exempted from duty by reafon of their infirm condition. Letters from Dunkirk of July 28, advife, that the firt flac bottomed-boat had been ‘launched there, on board of which there em- barked 500 men, with two pieces of cannon, one 28, and the other 18 lbrs, which were placed in the ftern, and every thirg putin order to receive the Princes Soubife and de Croy, and Lieut. General de Chevert, who went on board to make the men perform their new exercife of embarking and reimbarking; but by firing a gun, a barrel of gun-powder blew up, which wounded fome officers, ma- rines and foldiers ; and a contrary wind at N. W. ftarting up, which blew very frefh, obliged them all to get on Shore with all expedition. When the account was delivered by Lord Holderneflc to his Majelty, his Majefty, af- ter a thort paufe, faid, I thank my God for dbis fignal viftory,” and ordered his Lordfhip to write a Letter to his Grace the Archbifhop of Canterbury, to prepare a Form of Prayer and Thank(giving to Almighty God ; to be ufed at morning and evening fervice, after the general Thankfgiving, within the weekly bills of mortality, To morrow, for the glori- ous vitory obtained over the French on Wednefday the 1t day of Auguft at Thorn- haufen near Minden: Letters from Rome of the 30th paft, and from Venice dated the 4th inft. advife, that the King of the.T'wo Sicilies is taken with a heavy melancholy, in the fame manner as his _brother the King of Spain. Laft faturday his Royal Highnefs Prince Edward failed from Plymouth on board his Majefty’s thip the Hero, Capt. Edgecumbe, in company with the Venus, Pallas, Aéteon, Saphire and Southampton frigates, to join Sir Edward Hawke. They write from Nantz, that a Veffel is arrived there from Canada with fome news which feems to be very difagreeable, andis kept from the populace. Great quantities of warlike ftores are now fhipping in the River, to be' fent to Guada- loupe, and the redu&ion of Martineco is here- in chicfly intended. Portfmouth, Auguft 5. Saturday afternoon arrived at Spithead, after a five weeks paflage, his Majefty’s thip Roebuck andBonetta floop, with 46 tranfports, from Guadaloupe : They brought home the officers of 3 regiments, and about 100 Men of each regiment ; the reft were draughted and fent to America. They have left 3000 men at Guadaloupe. Extract of a private lerter from France. ““ We make no doubt but in England you are under apprebenfions of a vifit this fummer from the French 5 but the following may fet afide your fears : As I live upon the [pot, and ars an eye witnels 1o their Proceedings, I can with certainty affure you that at prefent they are not in a condition for fuch an undertaking : True it isthey bave in Brest 21 fhips of the line, be- Jides frigates, but they bave not on board balf their complement of men, and thofe they hbave were many of them taken from the Plow, and are of very little fervice except to make a fhew. They bave [everal times loofened their Topfails as if they intended to fail out and fight the En- glifb, but it was all parade.” Capt. Cavello, a Portugueze, arrived in the River Srom Lifbon, faw 24 Sponifb Skips of the Line cruifing off the Rock of Lifbon. CHARLESTOWN, South-Carolina, Auguft 18. Some Weeks ago a Party of Creek lndians came to Keowee in the lower Cherokee Coun- try, where we have Fort Prince-George,head- ed by a Fellow of no great Note, but intirely devoted to the French Intereft, called the Young Twin, and accompanied by two Shaw- anele : None feemed to know the Bufinefls they came upon 3 they pretended only a Vi- fitor Ramble ; yet it was obferved that the Young-Twin held frequent private Confer- ences in the Woods with the Cherokees : On the 3d Inftant, this Party, with a Number of Cherokees, fet out for the Creeck Nation : Nothing yet tranfpired of the Young-Twin’s Errand till.the 4th, when a wvery fortunate Accident revealed a dangerous Confpiracy, entered into by fome of boch Nations (how many does not yet appeas) to break out aWar with the Englith ; to begin it with a general Maffacre of our Traders, at their grear Bufk, or Green- Corn-Dance, on the 24th Inftant, and to follow it by immediately after falling upon all our poor BacRk Settlers. | No lefs a- larming are the Accounts contained in Letters bro’t by the Exprefs that arrived here on the 1oth Inftant ; but we hope, this Difcovery has been timeoufly made to prevent the Plot being carried into Execution.—Proper Mea- fures are taking by this Government to that End ; and 70 Provincials are forthwith to march from Fort Royal, under the Command of Capt. John Stuart for the Cherokee Nation. In our Paper of the firft of July, we men- tioned the Mortar of the Oakchoy’s, a Creek Warrior of great Influence,being arrived with- in a few Days March of his own Country,from the Cherokees. We have fince Advice of his Arrival there witha Number of Upper-Che- rokees 3 His carrying them to the Halbama- Fort ; ftaying there a Fortnight ; being much careflfed by the French Commandant ; re- ceiving good Prefents there, and a great deal of Brandy to carry Home ; of his Return to the Oakchoy’s-Town, ‘and of all his People being feen there drunk with the Brancy. The Accomplithment of a Peace with the Chatlaws feems now to be out of Difpute, provided the Creeks in general are not con- cerned in the Conipiracy lately difcovered. They fhewed an Inclination to enabrace our Intereft, fo early as when Capt. Pepper. was fent from this Government on an Ageney to the Creck Nation ; and it is probable that a Treaty between them and us, is finally con- cluded by this Time ; that being, as we are informed, one grand Object of the Hon. Mr. Atkin’s Negotiations : The genuine Poverty of the Chattaw’s feem to indicate that they fhould have taken fuch Meafures long fince'; for although theFrench Commandants at Mo- bille, Halbama, &c. may now and then ob- tain a fewGoods to debauch our Indian Allies; |, yet it appears, that the Chattaws in general have been, during the prefent War, deftitute almoft of every neceffary. By the laft Ac- counts the Treaty was fo near ratifying, that feveral Creek Traders were then making ready to carry Goods into that Nation. The Negroes that have been fume Time in our Jail for fecitious Pra&ices, were laft Week examined by his Excellency the Gover- nor in Council ; when Two ot them, viz. Philip Johns and John Pendarvis were re- manded to Jail, and the Reft difcharged. They are now to be tried, agreeable to the Directions of the Negro A&, in the County where their Offences were commit.ed. Johns manifeftly appears to have had very wicked Intentions ; and according to every Evidence that appeared againft him, had communicated his Defign to the moft fenfible Fellows taro’- out the Province, and even in Charles Town, and recommended to. them to do the fame, but it does not appear that his Scheme had that Weight he expeéted ; and to fome of the Evidences he told,that the Indians were to be concerted in theExtirpation of the white Peo- ple from the Face of this Earth. Auguft 25. We have not learnt anvy fur- ther Particulars of the Young Twin’s Plot, than that when heopened it to theCherokees, they rejected his Propofal, and confenteg conditionally only that the Crecks fhoy ftrike the firft Blow : And that one Pag their Agreement was, not to fhew thg Diflike, but make the ftrongeft outwa feflions of Friendfhip to the white ’aill the very Day appointed to murd