The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, December 7, 1759, Page 1

i FRIDAY DeceMBER 7. 1759 New-Hompfhire |ffevva Qohtaining the Fre/béfl Advices — D U. B L ¥ N, Sepiinber z2. " Y the Eaft India ih:ps atirived at-Kinfale, we learn, that the Eogiifh’ Forces in that part of the. Woild have taken Fort St Davids, Vitzacapatan and Vifac; that Admiral Pocock has takea two French Men of War, viz one.of 74, and the other of 50 guns; nd that our Forces in genesal have been exiiemely fuceelsful againit the French in evéry part of lndia. Extraft of a Later from on board 1ke Hihefier Indiaman in Kenfals harbour. ¢ Our People in Irdia Fad an Enpagement with the French, who were almoft cut off” One of the black Nabobs who pretended to fide with us, ftood ftill till we had routed the French, and then fell to kill and p'under the ran aways, from whom he got great plunder; the French had at that time haif asmany more Eurepe- ans in their army than we. There was on our fide a great many officers killed and wounded, but itis tho’t from the fevere repu'fe the Freach met with, and the Nabobs in their intereil, tha: eur peop'e may relt un- molefted for fome time, h#ving got immen{e plunder from them.”’ ) CHARLESTOWN, (South Carclina) OQober 13. Yefterday an alarm was fired heie, as{sse hear) was prudently ordcred to be done thrcughout the province at the {ame time, when one ha!f of the whole militia, horfe and foot, was draughted, and ordered to hold themfeives in readinels to march and aét as occaefion might require, at a moment’s warning, while the reft are to do duty in their refpeétive diitrills, “during the prefent expedition ; whichis no inconfiderable effort of a young Province ; aad fhews, that notwithilanding our immenfe taxse, dur fpirit¥ are not deprefied 5 on the contrary, that we are (as we always bave been) as zcalous to cxert ourfelves in his majefty’s fervice, as any more powerful colooy on this continent. O&. 17. Mr. Richard Smith, the Virginia trader, who was going to the cherckees with 8o horfe load of goods, arrived here laft funday afiernoon, with a _ cherokee Indian, uaderan efcort of ‘Militia : there-was another Indian with him, who made his elcapeon fee- ing_the provisce in arms, . Mr. Smith fortunately had diseflions to proceed no, farther than to Salfbury in Norih Carolina, tili he fhould reccive farther Ieftruc- tions from Governor Lyitieton, and accordingly iefs his goods there ; but finding 2!l parts alarmed, inlicad ot waiting for the iclliu&tions he expeled, procecded hither immediately. ) : k A A depofition of Johs Reid, @ perfon inlifted in the fervice .of the Honcuisble Edmond Adkin, Lfq; his mzjefiy’s azent, and fuperintendant of the foudicra Indians, taken at Acpufta the gth Day of Odicber inft. fays, that on ftidsy the 28.h of ceptember,laft, when the hon. My, Atkin was giving his grand tak to the Creck Indians atthe Tuckabaichee town, he the fard Mr. Akin was ftruck on the head with a hatchet, by an Indian fellow of tha Cuffitah town, called the To baccg Eater ; which biow he, the deponent, believed was defigned to bave killed ihe faid Mr. Arkin, bat, by a fudden turn thereal, it only wounded him on the head and ‘aim. That the faid Indian fellow was fe- cured and tied by the other Indians. That the matter above related happened about 6 o'clock in the evening of the faid fridsy the 28:h of Septersber laft ; and & 10 o’clock the fame night, he, this depotient, was fent off by the faid Ms. Atkin to the lower towns, to give potice of what happesed, and to prevent the white people there from being alarmed by other more im- peifedt accounts cf the faid matter. That he this de- ponent, beiog {o near Augufta asthe lower towns,tho’t it neceflary to comz down and give the {ame inlorma- tion to prevent the inhabitants being alarmed by a faife account of the maiter. ; 0&. 20. By an exprels which arrived here yefter- day morning from Norta Carolina, we have advice, that Governor Dobbs bhas: fent orders for making draughts from all the northeza regiments of inilitia in his province, to afl againil the Therokecs if neceflary; and that he was fending amununition to thole regiments, and taking every other meafure in the prefent junélure, Now. 1. On friday the 26ih uli.. at 10 0'zigel his Fxcellency the Governor, as commaader in chief of the army. fet out from his houfe, on the expediticn to repel the invafion of and humble the Cherokees,accom- pasied by the bon. brigadier general bull. and col. Howarih, and attended by feveral. of the cfficers ap- pointed for the expedition, the Charleflown and Stono troops of horfe, Capt. Gadfden with the volunteers of the artillery company, and a confider?b?e number of other gentlemen volanteers. Brigadier Bull acceom- panied his Kxceliency to Veronneay’s, and.ihe troops I % of borfe above mentioned attended him chus far. There the Governor found rhe Darcheiter troops commanced by capt. Skene, who with the &uillery men and. other volunteers, atiendad his Excellency to Monk’s corner, F:om-Moack's corner, we hear, «he Governor® conti- wues attended by a number of officers, the artillery- men, and orher volunteers, and miakes the beft of his way ta the general rendezvousat the Congarees,where he expeéis o fiad at leait 1050 of the mibtia ready to ‘proceed with him to the Cheickees. j The fame day, the firlt divifion of the army, which ft cut the tuelday before, with the indians, che artil- “lery, the waggons loaded with dmmuoitios, provifisns, ‘and baggage, &c. anived and encamped on Monck’s corner, about 25 miles {rofa Charles T'awn. Saturday the 27th, his Excellency fet out for the Corner, where he found the firft divifion ail well, waiting for the reft of the provifion that bad been fent up in the fchooners : ‘I'he Indians had behaved very orderly, and the expe- dition feemed to have had a very good effect on them, for they exprefled themfelves content that their coun- tiymen fhould be compelled to give us fatisfallion, if they would not do it otherwife ; the Governor made a fhort {peech o them, and then proceeded on. On Wednelday the 31t ult. his Excellency, with the volunteers, arrived at Mrs. Mercier’s at the Con- parees ; where, it is thought, he will await the arrival of the horfz vuder Major Walter, and of the fisft divi- fion of the army, &c. On thurfday maining the 1ft inflant, the faid firlt divifion decamped from Mosck’s corner, and marched, with the Indians, the artillery, 113 loaded waggons, &c. &c. for the Congarees, and “they are expeted to arrive there as monday mext. The Governor, and the whole army were in perfett heaith, and in high fpirits. According to Calculations made by feveral Gentle- men, it iscomputed, that the expedition to the Chera- kees cannot coft this Province lefs than zo,500 1. Sterl. er 140,000 l. Currency. : Our Letters from Barbados, dated the 1oth of Oc. contaia the following pasticelers, viz . That the day before a veflel arrived there from St. Eoftatia, advifing that many captures were fiiil carried into Martineco, notwithtanding the vigilence of our mea of war 3 that a dutch fleet was arnived at St. Euftatia and Curacoa, under convoy of an admiral and feveral dutch men of war.; aod that 5t. Uierre’s af Martineco was almoft totally burnt cown, by a fire that broke out in an apo- thecary’s fhop, which confumed neas 200 buildings, and all the merchandize, coififting of dry goods and provifious ; the jofs fcarce conceivable as to value ; and that the inhabitants had thereupon deciared to the french general, that if the ifland fhou!d b attacked,and the englifh would grant them the fame terms as the Guardelopeans had cbtained, they would {urrender themfelves., We have an account of M. Bompart's {ailing from Cape Franccis the 17th of September lalt, wih his whole {quadror, corfifting of 7 fhips of the line fiom 74.to 64 guns,and a fmall frigate of 22, all deeply laden with indigo and fine fugars, infomuch that all the large thip lower tiers of ports were cauiked in : they had 11 of topfail veflels and z floops under their convoy, all which were french excepe a fhip of about 600 tans,that came from Bourdezux under fpanifh colours, and was rcturning in the fame mabner. The pilots that carried M. Bompart’s fquadron clear of the keys, left it the 24th off the Caicos’s, in a privateer fchooner of 6 {wi vel guas, that had been imprefled to carry them back to the cape : the fchooner on her return craized off Teik’s Ifland, in oirder s pick up {omething by the way, having with the pilots 16 hands ; but a Bermuda letter of marque floop, of 4 carriage guns, and 10 men, commanded by capt John Pearman, on the zgth, fee ing her at anchor, fired a fhot at her, and fhe ftivck d1- reclly, capt, Harvey of this Port, being at Terk’s-Jfland at the fame time bro’c two-of the {chooner’s people with him, and from them we have this information. Tuelday evening lalt arrivéd off this bar. and on thurfday came in, his majelty’s frigate the Treat, of 28 guns, commanded by John Lindfay, Efq: from the river St. Lawrence, this frigate is come to ttay-here 6 weeks, if there arc merchartmen evough that will then o home under her convoy ; otherwife fhe fails for England imincdiately. "Now. 5. In eurlaft, we took fame particular notice of the artillery company. We have fince leaint, that the detachment therefrom which aitencs hisfxcellency, and who are all volunieers, wiil nor, doring the prole- cution of thisexpedition,colt ihe province ove fathing, this public fpirited company beifig refulved to defray all their expences the wholc time. T A, Nowms, 166. ‘GAZETTE. Fereign-and Domeflick. PHILADELPATIA,Nov.22, Cn Satwrday & the Hon. James Hamilton, Ffqs our povernor, arrived hetefrom New Yark. He was -~ met on the road, and accompanied to town by a great number of the principal inhabitants of the place, when his commifiion was read at the court houfe, in iie pre- fence of a vaft concourfe of “people. And yefterday his honour fet out for Newcaflle, By Capt. Read from Sauth-Carolina, there is ad- vice, that one of his M:jefty’s (hipsof war was arrived there, in which was his Excellency governor Shitley, in his way to hisgovernment at N. Provicence. Capt. Dreflon from Teneriffe, advifes that.a Freach 74 gun fhip, which efcaped from adm. Bofcawen, had put in there, much fhattered, fhe had 50 men killed, and go wounded. An Englify man of war of 5o guns and three tranfports, bound to Goree, alfo touched there for Wines., The follawing is faid to be a Copy of awhat the late General WOLFE delivered (o his Army the Day before the Battle, dated on board the Scutherland, Scpt. 12.1759. ¢« =y HE Enemy’s Forces are now divided ; great Scarcity of Provifions in their Camp ; univer- fal Difcontent among the Canadizns 5 and the fecond Cfhicer in Command is gone to Montreal, or St John's, which gives Reafon to thick that General Amberfl is advancing into the Colany. « A vigorous Blow fliuck by the Army at this Junc- tare, may determine the Fate of Canada. Our Troops below are in Readinefs tojoin us ; all thelight Infan- try, Artillery and Tools, are embarked at Paint Levy, and the Troops wiil land where the rench feem leatt toexpell them. The firll Bocy that gets on Shore are to mairch direQly to the Enemy, and drive them from any litt!le Poft they may occupy. The Ofiicers muft be careful that the fucceeding Bodies do not, by any Mif- take fire upon thofe who go befife them. The Bat- talions muft form upon the upper Ground,and be ready to charge whatever prefents itfelf. When the Artillery Troops are landed, a Corps will be left io fecure the landing Place, while the reft march on, and endeavour to bring the French and Canadians to a Battie. ¢ The Officers and Men will remember what their ountry. expe€ts from them 5 and what a determined Body of Soldicrs, inur'd to War, are capebie of doing againft five weak French Battalions, mingled with dif- orderly Peafantry. | « The Soldicrsymuft be attentive and obedient to their Officers, and refolute in the Execution of theit Duty.” - L N BEW-Y ©:R K, Nov.z6.:"; xtradl of a Letter from Crown Point, dated Nov. 16, I belicve I fhall bring my next to you myfelf, I expe& to fet out for home to* morrow with the Jerfey Regiment. Yefterday came in here from Canada about 3co prifoners, a number of officers included from different parts of Canada, who were taken at different times, from -4 years ago uatil 2 months ago. As for particalar news they bring, I will not undertake ; 'tis like yon may have it from fome of the Officers, better than I can inform you. Our floops arrived here this day with two French flcops they have been raifiag cut of the water, where the French had fonk them. Captain North, arrived at Annapolis, in Maryland, on Sunday the 4th Inft. in Lat. 24. Longitade 26, from London, faw 37 Sail of Ships, 20 of which were Capital Ones ; and not in Latitude 3z and Longitude 64, as mentioned by a Veflel arrived here dire&ly from Maiy'and, where Capt. North arrived. [This might pofiibiy be Tyirel’s Fleeg «f Men of War and Thranf- poris bound for tha Weit Indies,] ‘Thyrfday iaf, the Lettes of Marque Ship Jupiter, Samust Dull, Commander, arrived here from London: I» Latitude 44 16 Longitede 23, 59, fiom London, he took the Snow L'Efperance, from Bayonre, bound for Quebec, and ranfomed her for £. 7c0 Sterling : She aiterwards procesced for Martineco, imagining Quebea was in the [Hands of the Englith, “E ROk S O NY December 3. By the laft Accounts from Quebec, which are to tha 2cth of Ofober, we are affured, That our Trocps aie healthy and in high Spirits ; thofe who vere eithier wounded or infirm being feut to thefe Paits for Re- covery. AL Thorfday Morning died of a Fever, Licuterant Kemrrie, of Msjor.General ANSsTRUTHER' Rey ment.—A young Gentieman remarkabie in his P'r feffion, and much efieemed by ail his Acquaintance, His Remains were decently inter’d on Friday, a Can. pany of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, being under Arms. : Lad B R e Bl