The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, December 29, 1759, Page 1

Nvus, 16g. DECEMBER 29. 1739. THE ) New-Hampfhire ‘ “ GAZETTE. Foreign and. Domeflick. ——— Containing the Frefbeft Advices PR S S St o B 8 A E General Wall Packet arrived the 10th Infl. -at this !gfliuflc waadanré‘vb)"-‘ tiie Enemy, till the 6:h of New-York 5 by ber we bave the follosving Particulars of our Affairs in the Eaft Indies, viZ. - ApmiraLty Orrice, Oftober 12, 1759. APTAIN Latham, late of his majefty’s fhip the Tyger, arrived at Portfmou'h on the gth Ipftant in the Eaft India compa-* ny’s fhipithe Admiral Watfon, wuh.L‘ct- 3 ters from Vice Admiral Pocock, giving the following account of the Procecdings of his Ma- jefty’s forces by fea and land, inthe Eaft Im.:hcs, from the 24th of March: 1738, to the 1gth of April 1750 [ 4S we have already publifbed an Aecount of Admiral ~ Pocock's Succefs in March 1758, over the French Fleet, under M de drcbe, at two different Times, and of the Lofsof the Bridgewater and {riton in St. Davia’s Road ;-4 alfo of the Surrender of Fort St. Davids to the Freueh in June fillowing, it will be neediefs to republifl them, we [ball therefore Legin with the Praceedings in that Part of the Werldfrom the Time ofihe Surrcunder of that Fort. ] : “the furrender of fort St. David M. Lally marched with 2500 men into the king of Tan- jours country, to try, either by treaty or threats, to procure a {um of money from him ; and, upon being refufed 72 lack of rupees which he had demanded, he plundered Nagere, a trading town on the fea coaft, and then marched to the capital, and befieged it ; but, after lying before it feveral days, and making a breach in the wall of the city, the king of Tznjours troops, with the affiftince of fome country troops, and Eurcpean gunners fen: frofa Trichcnopoly, made feveral [allies, and at laft obliged#My Lally, with his army, to make a very recipiiate retreat, leaving his heavy cannon behind. %: arrived at Carrical about the middle of Auguft, and it was faid had loft 300 Europeans before Tarjour. The diftrefled fituation of the General and his army, is manifeit by the annext tranflation of an intereepted let- ter from Pondicherry. The enemy were fo much ftraitned for want of mo- ney, that on the 7th of Augult they feized and carried into Pondicherry, a large Dutch fhip from Batavia, bound to Negapatam, and took out of her in fpecie, to the amount of 8 Jack of Rupees. The Company’s fhip the Pitt arrived at Madrals the 14th of September, with Colone! Draper on board, and a detaghment of his regiment : M. Lally went with all his troops from Carrical the 23d of September, and reached Pondicherry the 28:h, without being in the Jeaft molefted by the Tanjour troops in his march. He eafterwards cantoned his troops in the Arcot Province, and the 4:h of O&tober marched into Arcot «« ' without oppofi‘ion. On the 12th of December the French army moved from th: Mount 2nd Mamalen ; ours cannonaded them for about an hour as they crciled Choultry plain, and kijled about forty, without any lofs on our fide, as the French had litglgaartillery,and ill ferved. They march’d in three div:fi%’; one direétly towards cur peopie, one towards Egmore, ard the other down St. Thome Road. Colonels Lawrence and Draper were afraid that this laft might get poffeflin of the Iflind Bridge, and therefore retired to the 1flind ; and'the fame morping purt came into the garrilen, and part tock pofleflion of the pefts in the Black Town. ‘T'he fame morning the French hoifted their flig on Egmore, and St. Thome. The 13th every thing was quiet, not a gun fired on either fide. The 14th in the morning,the enemy march- ed their whale force to attack the Black Town. Our fmall parties retreated into garrifon, a.d aboutan hour after, a grand fally was made, commanded by Colonel .Draper. 'The regiment of Lorrsin was furprizzd, and a very hot aflion en‘ued. Col. Draper made fuch a pufh as would aftonifh all who do not know him ; and if he had been brifkly followed by his two plaioons of grenadiers, he weuld have brought in 11 officers, 50 men, ani four guns more ; butthey did not do juflice to their leader, who received the whole force of two platoons to himfelf. ITe had feveral holes thro’ his eoat, but was not touched ; fo had Caprain Beaver. Mr. Lally’s brigade of frefh men coming up to the {fupport of the regiment of Lorrain Col. Draper return- ed into the garrifon. On this occafion, caprains Bill- hook and Hame were kilied, capt. Pafeal & lieut. Elliot weunded, three or four other « flicers taken, and about 150 private killed, wounded, or taken. Oa the file of the enemy (by Mr. Lally’s own account) M. Rabout, -and another were killed, Msjor Sarbinet and g others weunded, two of them mortally ; count D'Eft:ine. jin rank a Brigadier General, and [:id (o be the beft cflicer among them, taken, and 400 private killed or wound- ed, Deferters make their lofs much greater. ~ After © 450 yards diftant. Janudry,* That day they opened the batterics againit he fort, and kept a continual firing of thot and fhells t1ll the 26k, which cifabléd twenty fix pieces of can- nén, and 3 mortars, but had not the effect of dcftroying the defences. Neverthelefs they adanced their trench- cs, and ere@tedia battery quite up to the breaft of the glacis,confifiing of 4 piccesof cannor, which they open- cd on the 3 burafter two or 5 hours, were oblig- ed, by the fuperior fire of the fort, to, clefe their em- brezures again: ‘Thhe fame thing happened for 5 days fucceflively ; after which they abandoned-it etirely, and began to fire. again from their firlt grand -battery By the account of deférters, their lois of officers and men in their advanced battery was very confiderable, and they had feveral pieces of cannon difabled. After they were obliged to quit it, their fire continually decrealed, from 23 picces of cannon, which they had atone time, to only 6 pieces ; however they advanced their {ap along the fea-fide [0 far.as toem- brace entirely the N. E. angle of the covered way, from whence their mu/quetry obliged the befieged to retire : In this firustion things remained for feveral days: The enemy endcavoured to open a paflage into the ditch by a mine ; but they fprung it fo injudicioufly (being open tothe fire of feveral of the cannon from the fort) that they could make no advintage of it. Mo:jor Caillaud haviog taken the Command of the body of Scapoys, and country Horfe, with a few Euaropeans, colle&ed from the garrifons of Tritchenopoly and Chinglepus, com- manded before by Capt. Prefton, was in the mean time of great fervice, by keeping at a few Miles diftance, and ftopping the roads, which obliged the enemy four fe- veral times to march large detachments to oppofe them, and coft them, on eachof thefe occafions, feveral Men. On the evening of the 16th of February his M:jeity’s fhip the Queenborough, commanded byCapt. Kempen- felt, and the Company’s fhip Revenge. arrived with a detachmeat of Col. Draper’s regiment,confifting of 600 men, under the command of Mejor Monfon,anc inme- diately di‘embarked part of them. The befiegers fired very [mart upon the town the firft part of the night ; but before day break they rai‘ed the fizge, and marched oft ; and taking their rout by Ogmore, deftroyed the powder mills. Aftertheir departure were found in the batteries and places adjicent upwards of 40 pieces of cannon, but very few of them ferviccable, no lefs than 33 of them having been deftroyed by our artiliery. By tie lalt Advices received at Madrals of the enemy,they were in the neighbourhood of Arcot, to which place our troops weie preparing to follow them with all pofitble expedition. By an intercepted letter from M. Lally to M. De Leyri:, it appears he defpaired of fucceeding, and had determined to fet in flames the houfes; of the black town, had he not been prevented by the timely arrival of.the fhips. Capt. Kempenfelt, in his letter to Vice- Admiral Pocock fays, the gallant defence made by the garrifon was owing to the indefa tigable vigilance and bravery ot Col. Draper and Major Brereton, together with the prudence, refolution and generofity of Mr. Pigot, who difpofed of the manage- ment of all fores and provifions in fuch a manner, that cvery thing was, from the regularity of it, fpeedily fupplied ; and at the fame time, all wafte prevented ; he frequently vifi.ed the works cvery day,and was libe ral to all who fignalized themielves. Vice Admiral Pocock, in his Jetter dated the 22d of March latt, in Bombay, gives an account that Colonel Ford, with the Bengal detachment, had obtained a com- pleat vi&ory, near Muffulipstam, over the Marquis de Couflins, whom M. Buffy left with the command of the troops to the northward, and that it was expeéted he would foon be in pofliflion of that place. The admiral alfo mentions,that an expedition under- taken by the gentlemen of the fettlement of bombay, againft the governing Powers of Surat, had fucceeded, without great Jofs of men killed and wounded. Tranflation of a Letter intercepted going from Pondicherry to Mufulipatam. 7 OU defire an account of thetaking Fort St. David’s. A particular detail ofit might then have been entertaining; but at prefent it is too old, and the recital, which you muft have heard from many different people, would now be tirefome. Shall 1 mention to you our unfortunate expedition to Tanjour. Bad news is intereft- ing, but painful to the writer. We laid fiege to Tanjour, and made a breach, but were obliged to retire for want of provifions and ammunition, leaving behind us nine pieces of cannen, eight of which were 24 pounders, The army has fuffered greatly fiom hunger, thirft, watching, and fatigne, We have loft near 200 tnen, as well by defertion as by death. This check is very detrimental to us, as well with regard to our reputatien, as the real lofs we fuffered. Add . this the departure of our fleer, whick failed yefterday to the Iflands to refit, having beéen roughly. handled in a fecond engagement on the 3d- of Auguft, in which we loft 350 men. Poor French, what a fituation are wein ! VVhat projeéts we thought ourfelves capa-' ble of executing, and how greatly are we difappointed in the hopes we conceived up- on taking Fort St. David’s. I pity our Ge-' neral. He muft be extremely embarraffed notwithftanding his extenfive genius, with- out either money or flcet; his troops very difcontented ; his reputation declining ; and the bad feafon approaching; which will o- blige us to fubfift at our own expence, being unable to form any enterprize for procuring us other funds. VVhat will become of us: I am not apprehenfive of myfeif, bur I am forry to fee we do not thine. They fay M. de Bufly is coming ; let Lim make hafte ; Jet him bring men,and efpecially money, without which he will only increale our mifery. The country, being ruined, fcarce affords us any provifions. The quan- tities confumed by the fleet and army, and the defertion of the Inhabitants, has greatly. raifed the price of all kinds of commodities. I forgot to tell you, that abeve. twenty officers of different corps,have gone on board the ficet, and that if M. Lally had given permiflion to depart to whoever cefired ir, the greateflt part,of them would have em- barked 3 fo greatly are thefe Gentlemen difs gufted with the fervice. PHILADELPHIA, December 13. In a Letter from a Gentleman at Quebec,’ to his Friend here, he writes to the follow- ing Purport, viz. That General Wolfe effe@ually executed a Plan, which he had not above Forty eight Hours to concert, and was formed on Intelligence of Monfieur Levy being detached with 4 or 5000 Men towards Montreal ; and which will prove as glorious to his Memory, as any thing ever performed by an Englith or Pruffian General: That the Light Infantry, in Number about 600, un- der the Command of Colonel Howe (Brother to Lord Howe, than whom Mr. Wolfe had not left a greater Man in the Army) landed firft, and the reft of the Troops followed in good Order : That by the Timeall our Men got a fhore, General Montcalm had affem- bled his whole Force, and formed them on a very advantageous Ground, within 7 or 800 Yards ofQuebec : That when he (Montcalm) gave Orders for the Attack, his Men march- ed down upon 2 Trot, ingood Order, whofe formidable Appearance might have ftruck a Panic intoTroops lefs determined 3 but quite the reverfe was evident to every Body, which is ‘not to be wondered at,as their Commander was their Idol, and the Enemy were foon broke, and intirely routed : That had Mr. Wolfe furvived that glorious Action, he would have given fuch a Blow tothe French Arms inCanada, as-would have cffeCtually prevented