The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, November 2, 1759, Page 2

— e P R 7 P ‘gme naifof heir country 13 almoft who'ly im- You muft be Jenfible, $ir, that what I Jay to pafiible, the obliging-them to carry goods from yox may become not only ufcful and hanourable, but one part of it to another was treating them as perbaps mecrfJary with Refped 10 what you knewv, they truly deferved. Sl and of which 1 fball fay more in my private But the plan at prefentin execution, I pro- Later. M. Duc de Belleifle. teft, is more like a reward than a punifiment. L OVR B0 B For altho’ they are fent to America (where I Aug. 18. Laft Night [everalOfficers arrived would not choofe togo) yet, the making foldi- in Town from Germany. - ; ers of them at all, is indulgiog the genius of We hear that Lord George Sackville is ar- their nation, and rendering'them of real fervice rived in Town from Germany. tc Britain, which ought, by ho means to have We hear that the General Officers taken in béen done. Nay, it is giving'them a fair.op. the late Engagement are ordered to be fent o- portanity (which they will certainly take) of ver here asfoon as poflible ; as aifo the Colours regaining the favour of their fovereign by théir and Standard, , valour, and of winning back agdin, for their .. We hear that Gen. Hulke is appointed Com- friends at home, that antient drefs, without mander in chief of the Englith Forces under which there is no poffibility of enduring the Prince Ferdinand, and will fet out ina few rigour of their climate, . .« Daysfor the Army in Germany. . It will be faid, perhaps, that more than one We hear that the Infantry of the Allied Ar- half of the Highlanders are loyal, and were ac- my fired only five Rounds ; and fought the reft tually in arms on the fide of their king and of the Time with their Bayonets fixed ; which country in the time of the rebellion, and there- occafioned {o_many to be wounded. fore deferve to be as mach encouraged as any We hrear that Marfhal Contades offer’d the other of his majefty’s fubjells. Colonel who was fo fortunate as to take his For my part, after what has happened with firong Box, containing his Papers, one Million, refpe@tto the Highlanders, very few things of Louis d’Ors if he would return them ; which could give me furprize. Itis more than prob- was nobly rejeted. From which Circumftance able that if general Kcith had furvived the war, the Publick may judge them to be of very great it would have been forgot that he had rebelled Confequence. . . . . . = &% 5y agaioft his king, when he was fully feventeen *Tis faid that when the French King heard yearsold. Nay, if the good natare and gene- the News of the Repulle of the Pruflians, be rofity of our new fyltem continue at the rate it immediately flew, with great Joy, to the A- has begun, I would not lay the odds, that the partments of Madam Pompadour, to whom he old Earl Marfhal, as they call him, Keith’s bro- had fcarcely communicated the joyful Intelli- ther, will not be recalled, and permitted to die gence, when his Majefty was called oat to re- in peace in his own country. But mark it, good = ceive the Account of Marthal Contades’s De- cous<rymen and friends, and lay it up in your_ feat ; both Exprefles being received within lels memories, that O. M. haberdather, venturesto than an Hoor of eachother, . .. ., foretel, that if thefe fame Highlanders are not St. JOHN's, Antigua, Auvguit 11. 1759. . all fcalped by the Indians, or fold for flaves to Capt. Ogilvie, of the Ship John and Sukey, the planters of the fugar iflands, they will fow arrived here on Thurlday lalt from Philadelphia the feeds of prefbyteriani(m fo deep, and diffufe in Company with the Hawke Privateer of the fpirit of war fo wide in North- America, New-York, of 14 Gans. They fell in with that it is two to one if a fingle colony of them three French Privateersto windward of this all remain under the Britith government, fo long. Ifland ; one of 16, another of 14, snd the third as the fhort period between the prefent war, of 8 Guns ; which, (as Capt. Ogilvie had " no and the year two thoufand two hundred and chance of elcaping by out failing them) they fifty nine. [ To be continued. ) offered to engage but the Privateers declined e e e e e e e e et et e e e el e — coming to altion. Froi the Lonpon GazerTE, Aug. 18. A few Days ago a Letter of Marque Sloop Whitehall, Auguft 18. belorging to St. Kitts was boarded by a French Among the Papers which were taken at Det- Pettiaugre Privateer of 35 men nearPortGeorge mold on the sth Iaftant, by his Majelty’s in Grand Terre, but the Sloop’s People not on- Light Troops, an original Letter is found ly cleared their Decks of the Morfieurs, but al- from the Marthal Dac de Belleifle to Marfhal - fo carried them and their Veflel into Port Contades. Dated Verfailles, July 23, 1759, George. in which there is the folldwing Paffage. Two Flags of Truce have lately arrived from Am flill afraid that Fifcher fet out too late : Martineco (one at St. Chriftopher’s and the o- It is, bowewer, wery important, and very ¢ffen- ther here) by whieh we hear of a very extraor- tial, that we /bould raife large Comtributions. 1 dinary number of Prizes which have been car- Jee no other Refource of our moft urgent Expences, vied into Martineco in a very thoit fpace of and for refitting the Troops, but in the Money awe time. The Lilt has not yet appeared ; but may draw from the Enemy’s Country ; froms ahence fome Gentlemen who were Prifoners only a awe muft likewife procure Subfiftence of all Kinds, Fortnight fay, that upwards of 40 were ca_med (independently of the Money) that is to fay, Hay, in during that Time. Guadaloupe in particular Straw, Oats, for the Winter, Bread Corn, Cattle, is greatly infefted with Privateers : They an Horfes,and even Men to recruit our Foreign troops. * thor in the Bays, and cruize round every part The War muft not be prolonged, and perbaps it may of the Ifland ; which makes it very dangerous be meceffary, according to the Events awhich may for Merchantmen to pafs from one Port to a- bappen betaween this time and the End of September, nother in that Ifland. 3 to make a down right Defert before the Line of PHILADELPHIA,O&. 18 the Quarters, which it may be tho't proper to keep Our laft advices from Pittfburgh are of the during the Winter, in Order that the Enemy may Third luftant, when all was very quiet there, be wider a real lmpoffibility of approaching us : the Indians behaved prodently, and the Fort At the [ame time referving for ourfelves a bare going on faft, which we hear isto be a Pentag- Subfiftence on the Route, awhich may be the mofi on, with Calemates & Magazines. Bomb-proof. conveniint for us to take in the middle of vinter, From two Letters by the Packet, dated the 10 beat up, or [eise upon the Enemy’s Quarters. tith of Augult ( of very good Aathority ) we That this Object may be fulfilled,] caufe the great- learn, That though Prince F erdinand’s whole eff Affidaity to be aled, in preparing what isme- Army, before his late Viftory, confifted only ctffary for Baving all oir troops without Exception of 48,000 Men ; yet that great General, un- avell cloathed, awell armed, awell cquipped, and known to the Enemy, detached 20,000 Men, avell refitted, in ewery Relpe?, before the End of under the Hereditary Prince of Brun(mgk, to Nowember, <vith new tents, in order that, if it occapy a Particdlar Place, on thé ether Side of be advifeabls for the King's political and military the Wefer (where he thought the F rench muft Affairs, you may be able to affemble the ahole, or pafs, if it pleafed God to grant him Vitory) part of your Army, to all offenfively, and aith with Ordérs, on that Event, to attack them a Vigour from the Beginning of January; &5 that you fecond ‘I'ime.— That Maters being thus wiay have the Satisfallion to fhew our Enemies and difpofed, Prince Ferdinand, with the remaining all Europe, that the French know how to aét, and 28,000 of his brave little Army, having infen- carry on War, in all Stafons, avhen they bave fuch fibly drawn the Enemy,'much fatigued and har- & General as you are, and a Minifler of the De- rifed, by Marches and Counter Marches, to the partmunt of <war, that can Jorefee and concert very Spot he had defigned, immediately attack- Matiers with the General, gt ed their united Forces, and totally routed them, after a bloody Engagement of fourFHours—That upon this the Freach croffed the Wefer aa eight Budges, which they inttantly deftroyed ;, but being unexpelledly, aitacked by the & ince of Brunfw ck, fiey were again entirely d .cated ; though their Confl:ict was not fo leag, nor fo bloody as that with Prince Ferdinaad, they flying precipitately, expecling that Prince Fer- dinand weuld crols the Weler after them and put them between two Fires, : N E W.Y O R K, Ofcber 22, Extrad? of a Letter frem ©)javego, dated Qacber . 8, 12 0’Clack at Night. ‘¢ This Evening about 6 o’vieck, returned from a fcout of 15 Days, Capt. Louteridge, with 14 Onondaga Indians, bringing 2 fcalps and 3 Priloners, by whom we have the following ac- counts : That on the 18:h of September, Que- bec furrendered o Brigadier Townfend. '['lie three Prifoners, on feperate. examinations, unanimoufly declare : That two Canadian Of- ficers came exprefs to Monfiear Le Corne, at La Gallette : the firft to inform him, that on the 16th.of September, General Wolf had at- tacked Moxtcalm’s Retrenchments in three Co.- lums ; and after a very bloody engagement hag forc’d them : That Montcalm was killed ; an of the Regimentof La Sarre, (who were Mont- - calm’s favourites ) only 5 Men had efcaped : That Wolfe and Monckton were both killed : That Monfieur de Ramfay, the King’s Lieut, at Quebeck, furrendered the Town to our army, on the 18th of September, with 6eo Prifoners : That Vaudreville, and Levy had, after that attacked Brigadier Townfhend ‘again, with 10,000 men, in order (if poffible) to re- cover Quebec again ; with the lofs of 1500 men. , They add, that Vaudreville and Levy are now at Rivier Jaque Quarter, balt-way be- twixt Trois Riviere and Quebec; that almoft all the Canadians are run away to their farms, in order _if poffible, to fecure a litile of their ) YL MDD _ ¢ Asthefe Prifoners accounts are very diftin&k and particular, and they are -all Frenchmen from Old-France, and intelligent fellows, we give the more credit to their reports. ¢ 4 § T O N, Otober 29. . A LIST of the Killed and Wounded at the Plains ,of Abraham, near Quebec, the 13t Sept. 1759 ! Killed. General WOLFE., ’ Wounded, Brig.Monlfton : Col. Carlton, Quarter MafterGeneral: Major Barry, AdjutantGeneral: Capt.Smith, Aid deCamp: Brigade Maj Spittal, AMHERST'S Regiment. ; Killed, "2 privates, Wounded, Lieuts. Maxwell, fenior and junior Skeen,& Rofs, 5 Serjeants, and 5z Rank & File Bracc’s Regiment. Kilkd, Lieut. Cooper, 3 fergeants, & 5 privates. Wounded, Capts.Curry, Spain, Millbank. Lieuts. Evans, & Ruxton. Enfigns, Fairfax & Edgarfoa. 4 Serjeants, 1 Drummer,and 89 Rank and File. Orwax’s Regiment, Killed, Lieut, Mafon, and 6 privates. Wounded, Captains, Maunfell, and Gardner. Lieuts. Gore, Allen, Marturin, and Cockburn, 1 Serjeant, and 28-Rank and File, : Kenneoy’s Regiment. Killed;, 3 privates. Wounded, Enfign Jones, 2 Serjeantr, and 18 Rank and File. LascevL’s Regiment, Killed, Lieut. Seymour, and 1 private, Wounded,Capt Gardner, Lieuts.Peach, Gwynet, Ewer,andHenning, Enfign Dunlap, & Tawmie, 1 Serjeant, z Drummers, and 26 Rank and File, WEEBB's Regiment. Wounded, 3 privates. ANSTRUTHER's Regiment. Killed,Enfign Tottingham, t ferjeant, 8privates. Wounded, Capt. Bird. Lieuts. Kemple & Grgnt, Enfign Dainty, 3 Serjeants, and 80 Rank &File. : MonckToN's | Regiment. Killed, 5 privates. Wounded, Capt. Holland. Lieuts. Calder, Jeffries, and Shaw. Enfign Cameron, and Steel, 2 ferjeants, 1 Drummer, and 80 Rank and File. (o LAWRENCE’s Regiment. Wounded, 2 privates. = Fraser’s Regiment. Killed, Capt. Rofs. Lieuts. Mc Neil, and Mc Donald; 1 ferjeant and 14 privates. Wounded, Capts, Mc Donald and Frafer. Liea- tenants