The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, December 14, 1759, Page 1

\ L/ i )/ i ) ' FRIDAY ‘DECEMBER 14. 1759, THE New-Hampfhire Containing the Frefbefp Advices - B ————— e As the MANIFESTO lately publifbed was only a Tranjfla- tion from a French Manujeript, awe are requeficd to publi/h the following, which is * General WOLFE’s Manifefto, As written by Himfelf. To the Inhabitants of CA N A D A. HE formidable fea and Land Aimament which the Pesple of Canada now behold in the Heart of their country is intended by the K ng my Mafer to check the In- folence of France ;—To revenge ihe In- fults offer’d to the Briti/> Colonies, and totaliy deprive the French of their moft valuable fettlementsin V. America. For thefe Purpofes only is the formidable Army un- der my Command intended. Tue King of Great- Britain wages no war with the induftrious Peafant, the facred Orders of Religion, or the defencelefs Women awd Children : I'o thele in their diftrefsful circomftances His Royal Clemency of- fers Prote@ion. The Peouple may remain uomolefted on their Lands, inhab't their Houfes, and enjoy their Religion infecurity. For theleineltimable Bleflings, I expeét the Canadians will teke no Part in the great conteft between the two Crowns : But if by a vain Obiftinacy, and mifguided Valoar, they prefume to ap- pear in Arms, they muft expect the moft fawal confe- quences ; the'r [abitatinns deftroyed, their facred Temples expofed to the Fury of an exafperated fol- diery ; their Harveft utierly ruined, and the only Paf fage of Relief flopped up by a mofl formidable Flect. ~In this unhappy ficvation, and clofely attacked by another great Army, what can the wretched Natives expedl from Oppcfition ! Tuk unparalciled Barbarities exerted by the French agaioft our fettlements in America, might julify the bittereft Revenge in the Army under my command : but Britons breathe higher fentiments of Humanity, and liften to the merciful Di@ates of the Chriftian Re- ligion.——Y.et fhould you fuffer yourfelves to be de luded by an imaginary Profpe& of our want of fuccels; thou'd you refafe thafe Terms, and perfilt in Oppofi tion ; Theo furely the Law of Nations jull fizs the Wafte of War, {o neceifaiy td croth an ungenerous Enemy ; aod Then, the miferable Canadians muft in the Winter bave the Mort fication of feeing thofe very Familics, they bave bern exerting a frurlels and in difcreet Bravery for, perith by the moft difmal Want ‘and famine. . In ihis great Dilemma =t the Wifdom of the People of Canada fhew itfelf, B RIT 41N ftretches out a powerful,yet a merciful Hand, faithful ia her Engagements,and ready to fecure them in their molt vainable Rights anft Pofleflions. FR ANCE, anable to fupport Canada, defert her Caafe at this important ciifis, and during the whole War has affited her with Troops, who have bech maintained on/y by making the Natives feel all the Weigiit of grievous and lawlefs Oppreflion. G JAMES WOLFE, R R e e A A A A o CrnaRLEsTOWN, (iz Soath Carglina ) Nowv 1. On Monday the 21t ult. ended the con- ferences with the Cherokees. On the ficft day of thefe conferences, Thurfday the 18th, Ocunnaflota, the Great Warrior of Chote, upon the Indians being ae- quainted, that the Governor was ready to hear what they had to fay, told his Excellency, ** That they were not come to give a talk or make prepofals to bim ; that hearing he had fent a letter to the nation, they expeéted to receive a tatk from him.” The Governor ordered the interpreters to acquaint them, ** I'hat it was true, he had fent a letter to their pation, upon receiving the copy of a ta’k fent by John Vaon to Governor Ellis, of Georgia, faid to be deliveied by Woahatchee in the name of the vpper, middie and lowertowns, * defiring the {aid Governor of Georgia “to interpofe his good offices in accommodating ¢« matters between the Cherckees and this government, ¢ and declaring their intenticns to be peaccable, '— not to invite them hither, but to permit any that were peaceably difpofed, to come ; and to inform them that he was ready to hear what they bhad to fay.” "I he great wartior upon this told his exccliency, ¢ that he was then unprepared ; that his hands were bare, and he brought no tokens ; but that he would give a talk the pext day.”’ The governor agreed to receive it. Friday the 1gth, the indians met the governor again, in the council chamber. The great warrior and threc others fpcke. The fubitance of their talk, was, ¢ that they were fent by Oid Hop to make the path ftiait, to brighten the chain, 2nd to actommodate differences : they coafefl=d, that cutrages had been cammitted by their nation, hat (as ufuai)alledged, that their young men were the authars, and pretended, that they had been provoked to committhem, by the irregularities of fome white people at the fort : then they defired, that all that was paft might be now forgot ; but did not offer any latisfation, a: wasexpeéted. They laid fkins at the governor’s feet,and offered ftrings of white bead:s which his exceliency permitted them to lay down, but would not receive. 3 When they finithed their FPe'lt, the Governor ordered them to be acquaiated ** That he thould copfider it, and give them Notice to attend, when he thou!d be ready to give his Anfwer.” Ronday following, the Indians had Notice to sttend in the council chamber 3 when there, the Governer told them, *¢ That althe’ the Great Warrior, and the other Indians of the upper Nation then prefent, pretended to be deputed to come to him, he knew they were not, and that they only came in confequence of be.ng refufed :Ammunition at Keewee ; that he had Advices then in his Hand, re- ceived the Night before, that fince they came away, a large Party wa: gone out from Settico,one of the upper Towns, to fall upon the e tlements on Broad River ; and that a foldier from Fort Prince George, who was fent out to drive fome cattle, had been ftcpped by the Indians of Conafatchee, who took his Horfe by the Bri- dle, led him into the middle of the Town, pulled his Hat off his Head, and cut it in Pieces with a Toma- hawk, then bid him go Home, and fay, it was War ; that therefore they had no Right to'be proteted, ac- cording to the Talk he had fent up to their Nation ; that a/tho’ thofe of the lower Nation were deputed, yet, as there had been a Party fent out from thence afterwards, who fired at an Exprels coming down to him, they alfo were not intitled to Protetion ; never- thelefs, as they faid they came down, expelting to be proteted by it, they fhould be fo ¢ His Excellency then erumerated the other Outrages and Marders the People of their Nation had committed ; acquainted them, ¢ That the People of this Province, determined no longer to bear their Infults, were in Arms; that he himfelf was going, with a great many of his Warriors, to their Nation, to demand Satisfaétson ; thatif, when he arrived there, the Satisfaflicn he thouid afk, was given, it would be Peace, the path would be open again and the T'rade reftored ; but if they refufed to give it, he would takeit.”” The Governor concluded, by tel- ling them, ** That they fhould return Home with him, and his V Varriors, and that they would be fafe, only by going with them, and advifed them, not to expofe themfelves by ftragaling out of the direét Road, where he would not anfwer for their Safety. PHILADELPHIA,Nw 2g: We hear from Reading,that one Ebenezer Ho bort, a Lad about 17 Years cld, who was taken Captive by the Indians in the Winter 1755 lately made his Efcape from an Indian Town on Lake Erie, and cane there about ten Days ago. He has learned the Delaware Language perfetly. The Indians, he fays, were exceedingly alarmed upon hearing that Sir William Johnfon had beat the French and Indian Army, from Venango, before Niagara. In a late Letter from Londm a Gentleman nwrites bis Friend- as folloaws. « Asto Politics here we have been bullied a little by the French this fummer, with their threatened Iuvafion ; but the moft fernfible Peop'e think, they are by noMeans able to put their Threats inExccution, and that the whole is an Artifice, to keep up the Spirits of their poor tradelels Subje@s. But, whatever they mean,we are fully prepared for them; for we have the finelt Fleet the world ever faw, which is not only ab'e to prote@ our own Coafl, but to annoy their mioft diftant Settlements. And 1am joft now told, from the beft Authority,that they have notSeamen (ufficient to man the fourth Part of the Ships they have in their Ports, which are but few, much fewer than they pre- teud, for we have reconnoitereg zli their Haibours. “ The Length of war, and the great Expormiori of Moncy has rendered it very fcarce at prefent and theStocks have fallen no lefs than 15 per cent,fince laft September ; but judge, from this, the Sitnation of our Enemies, whofe. Trade is totally ruined, while ours is carried on with litle Interruption, and daily extend- ing.” g N E W.Y OR K, December 3. ' Col. Peter Schuyler anived here from Above on Thurfday laft, having accompanied His Excellency the General a!l the Campaign. "Tis faid General Amherftis expefled in Town Noums, 167. GAZETTE. Foreign and Domeflick. fome Day this Week from Crown Paint, Amoang the Prifoners lately arrived at Crown-Pointj from Canada, are M:jor "Grant, taken at Puifburg, Cept. Kennedy and many others. Some of the People are now here, who were at Montreal when the :g..'w, arrived there of the furrsnder of Quebec, and of the Death of Mooficur Monicalm. Lhey fay, that the French were prodigious down caflt, ard dieaded cheir own Indian: mo:e than the Englith ; that moft of the Canadians were in a great Meafure pleafed with the Articles of Capitulatien; but that Morfieur Vaudriel inrendag ggcw;;kc“{{lebcc in the Winter by ftorm, for which. ofe he gave Orders for 20,000 Pair of fnow ° fhoes to be immediately made. A Letter from South Carolina, dated Nov. Gth; fays, ** We have jult received Advice, That the little Carpenter, (Head of the Cherokees) who was abroad with a Party during the whole Difturbances, is come to Fort Prince George, at Keowee, with four French fcalps, and two Prifoners.—He is there waiting for our Goverpor.—He declares his Attachment to us; and kis Deteftation of the Cruelties of his People. Friday laft Capt. Jones arrived herefiom the Weft- Indies : Thirty Days ago he {pake with a Prizz Snow belonging to the Privateer Brig Hope, Captain Johafon of this Port : She was from the Granades baund for Coracda, and has on board 13 Hogftheads of sugar, 30 Bags ot Ceffce, and fome other Articies, We hear Captain Johnfon tock a Schooneralfo, ard ranfomed her for gcoo Dollars, and that he had lntel- ligence of feveral ather veflels that were {cos to fail from the Granades for Coracoa, which he intended to wait for. ; BOST ON, December 10. Capt. Butler in a Veflel belonging rothis Port was caft away laft Month in a terrible Gale of Wind, at North Carclina ; the Veflel and Cargo loft, but the Men fav’d their Lives. Friday latt arrived-here His Majefty’s Ship Mercury of 20 Guns, Capt. Faulkaer, from New York, withy 22,000 Sterling for the Ufe of this Province, which was received into the Treafury lat Saturday ; and we hear fhe fails the latter End of the Week for England, Yefterday the Courier arrived hete from Albany, and by him we learn, That General AMHERST with three Regiments were arrived there from Crown Point; and that in the late fevere cold Weather feveral of che Troops were frcze to Death in Albany. Laft Thuifday Morning about I o’Clock the Town was again alarmed with the Cry of Fire, which broke out ata Blackfmith’s fhop near Oliver’s Bridge, but it was extinguiflied {oon after it was difcovered, and but little Damage fuflained. . Laft Saturday fen’night the Body of a Lad about 15 Years of Age was found floating in the Harbour: J¢ is (uppofed he was going on board a Vefiel to which he belonged, inthe Night, and fell over, and was drowned. Lalt Tue(day the Body of one George Grimes, a Provinciai Soldier, who lately return’d from the Weft- ward, was found floating 1n an open Well at the North- End: ’Tistho't he had been in the Well about a Fortiight, and ftrongly fufpefled to have been mur- dered. Several Perfons are now under Confinement ag being fofpecled of being concerned in the fame. Wednefday put in here Capt. Church in a Veflel bound to Philadelphia from Louifbourg, which place he left abcuia fortnight ago with a fhip, brig, and feveral cther veflels bound this way. A number of veflels that failed from hence with cattle, &c. defigned for Quebec, were arrived at Leufbourg : feveral veflels arrived there from Liverpool, but had long paflages, and bse’t no News. Cspt. Church informs.us, That the Evening before he failed Capt. Campbell, in a floop fitted out at Louifbourg by the Government, mounting 8 carriagé Guns, having on board a Detachment of zbout go Troops under Capt. Schomberg, to go in qucft of the Etemy wiho had takken {o many of our trading and fifh- ing Veflels laft Summer, returned to Louifbourg, and brought with them 7 of the Chiefs or Fleads of the Tribes of Indians, and about 12 Frenchmen: Capt. Campbell told him that he proceeded thio’ ihe Gut of Canfo about 23 Leagues up toa Piace called Pictos, where they difcovered the Enemy with g fail of Veffels which they had taken, and had planted fome fmail Cannon on feveral Eminences to defend themfelves, and prevent the cartying off the veflels: That upon the Appearance of the floop the Enemy fent off a Party with a Flag of Truce, propofing that a Namber of their Headmen both French and Indiars fhov'd be carried to Loaifbourg, in order to their {ubmitting l;o the