The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, October 12, 1759, Page 2

S - - A — .a gt > “ 3 NS . o i L -aa.’c;::_,h_v o sote s Ao % SIS e 2 e W i o ‘~ ". ) : a BOSTON, O&ober 8. former Regiment i3 retarped, &nd have deflroyed 1 By a ve{Tel in 27 days from Wedntlday laft the Great and General Court or Affimblyof Magzwzine and a fmal Village ; buthave fuffered con- Tuiks Mland, we laaro, That this Province met at the Court Houfe, being the Day fiderably : Our People have got ail their Cannon from the Nimble Nine Pence, - #hey awere laft prorogued to by Proclamation, when His Montmorancy Camp, and are quitting that Poftthis fmall Privateer Schooner of Excellency the Governor was pleas’d to make the fol- Day : It is faid that the Troops are going above the Swivel Gunsand 30 Men, be- lowing SPEECH t0 both Houfes, viz. ;I‘own, to deftroy the Ships there : Our People have longing to Aatigua, in Comi- . ; ; : een {o near as to fee them ; but they are hauled over Ppany with a fhallop alfo be- Gentlemen of the Council and Houfe of Reprefentatives, a thoal Place, that we capnot comeyat them with our longing ta? the fapme Elgee.™ . " B Y the wery interefling and important Ewents awith~ Ships, fo muft defizoy them by Land it we can : There had lately boarded and feized bich it hath pleafed God to fucceed His Majefy’s is a Detachment of 500 Men failed Yefterday down 2 fine large fgow of 14 Guns, Arms, ave fee the Britith Empire again »ifing in the River, to deftroy a!l they can on the South Side as belonging to New York, juft America; and by the wife and prudent Conduéd inder which low as Ifle of Bec : we have deftroyed all the Houfes as fhe was coming cut from they fill continne to al?, we may bope, if we perjevere tothe and Barns for fome Miles down the River on theNorth the Mount,deep loaded with End for awhich we took up Arms, to Jee it fo eftablifbed Side : We have burnt and defiroyed a great Part of the Sugar, and carried her clear as that awe may no more fear the Power or Treachery of Town of Quebeck, in one Night about 200 Houfes in off ; the was met by the above the Enemy in Canada.—As I mofl heartily congratulate the beft Part of the Town. Our People have often 'Veflel 40r 5 Days after, beat- yom on thefe Ewents ; jfo I would encourage you to remain Skirmifhes with the French, but to little Purpofe : The ing up for Antigua. fiedfaft in thefe Hopes, and to al@ under this Spirit and French and Indians often turn Hogs and Sheep out to In the lormy Weather we Refolution in all that may be required of you for this Exd. the Edge of the Wood, that our People may be drawn had here lat Thurf{day, Capt. —— By General AmherR’s Letters to me you awill fee what into s %nare, which they fometimes are and killed.— Campbell ina Sleop bound the immediate Service requives of you.—1t is with great Several Deferters have come to us at different Times ; hither from the RiverSt. Law- Pleafure 1 can acquaint you, that the Parliament of Great- they all agree that the French have between 14 and rence, was caft away on a Reef Britain bawe enabled His Majefly to recompence His Colo- 16000 Men + Some Letters have been intercepted by of Rocks near Monhegan, at nies for their Serwices according as the active Vigour ard U8, giving an Account of Niagara being in our Pof- the Eaftward, ’tis faid fhe had Sirenuous Efforts of the refpeGive Provinces fball appear feflion : One Letter mentioned that 10 lb. of Bread on board upwards of 1500 wt 40 merit. fells for a Piftole ; and complains of great Hardfhips.” of Bever, befides Tallow and AmongfR the many bappy Events of this Year, there are Extra& of a Letter from Point- Levee, Sept. 4. Hides, which with the Veflcl _ none in which the People of this Province will partake, —% Our Batteries are ftill playing upon the City of are entirely loft, butthe Peo- =~ ' § with more fincere Satisfaltion, than in fecing the Rovar Quebeck, and it feems to be beat to Pieces. General ple, with great Difliculty, fa- Heir to the Protefiant Succeffion arrived to full Age ; Murray hath been 45 Miles above the Town, and has ved their Lives. On board and upon this, 1do mofi beartily congratulate you. deftroyed a confiderable Magazine, and a vaft Quantity Capt. Campbell were Paffen- Gentlemen of the Houfe of Reprefentatives, of Cattle of the Enemy’s ; and we have now a Rein. gerstwo Regular Officers, who The Efiimate of the current Sevwices lye before you 5 and forcement gone ebove, both of Shippieg and Troops, were wounded in the Attack 1 hawe direcied the Treafurer t0 lay bifore you the State of Which will enable them to deftroy all their Shipping and made upon the French In- the Supplies for thefe current Serwices, and for the Pay- Settlements ; fo that upon the whole we fhall leave them trenchmencs near Quebec, the ment of the Troops in the gemeral Service : As your own in very miferable Circamftances, and doubt not but 31t of July laft. - Senfe of the Serwice, bas already induced you to make fuit- fhould the War continue another Year, we thall make The fame Day Capt. Snow- able Provifion for thefe ; Jo 1 am [jure your Senfe of the 3n ealy Conqaelt.-Yefierday General Wolfe finifhed ton, in a Brig from Lifbon for Benefit, as awell as Hanor, that the Province deriwes from decamping on Morancy, and is now cncamped on Peint Rhode lima, wo Jag been out but 29 Days, was calt away the wery high Credit of it’s Treafury, will lead you t2 make Levee. Good any Fund that may require your prefent Confideration. Sept. 4. Since I finifhed my Letter we have News on the back of Cape Arn, the Upon my Building the Fort at Penobfcot 1 did, at your from Genéral Amherft : And as it is {aid he is within Veflel and Gargo Ioft, and the Requeft, difmifs the Garrifon at Brun{wick. I bavenow & Week’s March of us, it hath diffuled a univerfal Joy Mate and one Hand drowned. alfo @relted the Difmiffion of the Garrifon at Pemsaquid : throaghout the whole Camp ; fcarce any doubting but Two of the failors belonging From the fame Defire of Javing every Thing 1 can vo the that we thall make a finifhing Stroke this Seafon.”— to the above Veflzl are come Pesple amidfp their many beavy Burdens, I hawe dtrefied Extra& of a Latter from Crown-Poini, September 20. to Tawn, and inform that they ‘ the feouting Parties at the Lodgments on the Weflern Fron- -—"I Hereby fend yon an Acccunt of fome of our left the Captdin indifpofed at A} siers to ke difmiffed, as that Part of the Country is now prefent Proceedings here. — Crown Point is Salem. entirely cowered by the Operations of the Army in thofe almoft an Ifland, compafled by Lake Champlain, about In the above Storm, Captain Parss. Asd I foould hope as the Meafures taken in the 11 Miles round, all clear Land, and as good a Scil as Obrian in a Ship from Axtigua Eaflers Part fball produce their Effe&2, 1 may be able 1o any lever faw, and a great many Houfes on it, bat for Pifcataqua, came to Anchor | dilmifs flill more inthat Quarter. Butin the mean while none Inhabited fince the Commencement of this War, off Cape Ann, but upon feeing f you will remimber that as the Enemy’s Home is defiroyed, The old Fort is of no Strength at all :—It will be a Capt. Gibaut, in a Snow from they muft feck their Suftinance Abroad ; and that Winter Place of Strength before we have done with it, worthy Lifbon, ftanding in for Salem, to be called Crown-Point.—We are making an he left his Cables and Archors Inroads both on our Eafieen and Weflern Frontiers from Addition of 4 Forts to that Place, and each of them as and followed hLim into that Canada. ftrong as Ticonderoga Fort is.—We have builta large Harbour, where he is now fafe | ; ; Brig, of 22 Carriage Guns and 18 Swivels; fhe carries on the Flats there, Gentlemen of the Council and Houfe of Reprelentatives, zog Tuns, and xégo Men, and is to cruize upon Lake Extraft of a Letter froma Gen- j 1 hawve direfied the Secretary to lay before you all Jych Champlain.— We have alfo built a Vedfel, which we tleman at Lifbon, to bis Friend A Papers as aill require your Confideration. call a Floating Caftle ; which mounts 10 24 Pounders, bese, dated dug. 17. 1759. ' The State in avhich infolvent Debtors find themfelves 2 18 Pounders, and 2 13 Inch Mortars ; is of 300 “ Jull now an Exprefs came | after baving [furrendered their Perfons and difcovered their Tuns, 2nd finithed as ftrong as Wood and Iron can fromMadrid, with an Account y Effec@s to their Creditors, upon the late AZ for the Re. make her ; and contriv’d fo that *tis impoflible for the of the fpanith Monarch’s De- ) lief of Debtors and their Creditors, deferves your Aitention; Enemy to board her : She rows with 40 Oars on each ceafe, to convay this News to i1 the Sealon in wwhich they bave made the moft dcfiruftive and you may depend upon my 4(fijtance in any Remedy which Side ; and has two large Mafts, and {quare Sails with Epgland': Our Packet isor- , you can apply for their Relief, confiffant with equal Juflice running Rigging ; {o that in fhort ro Ship can Jay along d@red away immediately. I ; %0 all their Creditors both in England and Here ; and Side of her.—Here there are likewife 5 Row Gallies conclude Don Carlos will “quit which mount 18 Pounders, each of them one ; the Gun Naples gmmediately, to take is placed fore and aft and fires out at the Head ; they pofleffionof the fpanith Crown: row with 14 Oars on each Side, carry 30 Men each, how he may fland affeCled and can fight and go well :— The Experiment was {eems-yet doubtful, and what porary, is expired ; and will, as you will obferve from tried this Year, on July 13, whena Party was fent con- Turn in Afi'erairs this Alteration Jome of the Papers laid before you, require your Confide- fiting of 300 of cur Army, and one of thele Row. may make, Time only can dif- Gallies, along with a Party commanded by Major cover.” ration. ; | O&ober 3d, 1759. T. POWH&“. Campbell of the old Highlanders ; who on the f{ame By a Gentieman from at a Place Louifhourg we are-informed, {, Y Capt. Hewes from the River St. Lawrence, we Day were met by a Party of goo French, ‘. that as they were coming out s confifient with His Majefly’s declared Will in the Dif- allowance already made. | The A& for providing Quarters for His Majefiy’s Troops A and Recruiting Parties awithin tbis Province, being tem- ! | have the Pleafure to hear, That Enfign Hutchins, calied the firft Narrows, on an lfland on the Lake.— ’ who was fent by General Amheift to General Wolfe, The French at our Approach, were glad to fee o {mall of that Harbour, they faw a i, arrived at the Army on the 4th of Sept. He was, by 2 Party of us there, not expeting {uch a Thing as an floop going in which they ! the Governor’s Order, efcorted by Lieut. Howard, a 18 Pound Cannon in our (mal! Fleet, came out to re- knew to be one of the Vefiels Serjeant and four Men, from Fort Weftern on Kepue- ceive us, and immediately killed 3 Rangers and two fitted out there to go in Pur- fuit of the French Privaleees beck River. This Mr. Howard is the Perfon whom the Indians, and wounded feveral more in our Boats : But ; . Governor fent out laft Year as a Surveyor with Capt, to their great Surprize, the 18 Pounder fet (o woik ; which had taken fo many Veflels near that Coeft ; and W Nichols, to reconnoitre the Road to Chaudiere, of and in l¢fs then a Quarter of an Hour they were all ran which he made a Survey. ning away, fafter chen they came vp: lu this Afiair that at fome Diflance from Extrafl of a Letter from Point-Lewee, Scpt. 1. the Enemy loft 3 of their Battoes, and all the Hands herthey faw a fchaoner which & —- ¢¢ Befides the Sutherland, Capt. Roufe, and three killed or drowned ;— This was the firft Experiment they 1:'j=?glned to be one of | Frigates, there have been 11 other Veflels great and ever try’d with a Row Galley, and prov’d effecinal.— tho= privateers takea by ber, fmall, gone above the Town : We have had Amherft's Major Rogers is goue out, with 207 Men, towards as fhe :«‘ppcafd to them to : Regiment and one Battalion of the Royal Amesicans up Montreal ; but is not returned as yet ; and what Suc. have b rgx_xch Colours fiy.!_"‘vg. ‘ ] there wnder the Command of Geaeral Murray ; the cels he may have, is yet unknown. Extrafi ! B