The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, June 27, 1760, Page 1

| % PRIDAY, June 27. 1760: . PR, A ; ( THE : : : i New-Hampfhire g p ” \ sk MR- 3] Nums. rgs. GAZETTE - Foreign and Domeflick. wjeBy's (bip Echo ; the Emcraid; and anather g : Containing the Frefbeft xflvim ) : < { 9 "ADVICES from QUEBEC. BOST ON, June 23 E Have had various aad uncertgin Reports for 2 Fortnight patt, of the . favourable State of the Garrifon at 3 Quebec, but on the z1ft loft. about 11 inthe Forenoon,we were relieved fromi all Sufpence, by the Arrival of the Tranfport Schooner Lawrence, Job Harris, Matter, in 26 Days from that City. In tais Veflel came Lieut, Calder, with Difpatches for his Excellency General Amberft. "We are now informed, and irom the beft Authority, £ e Sicge of Quebec was raifed the 18:h of May : B the Doemy have loft three thoufand Men, all their Magazines, Baggage, Tents, Scaling Ladders, ~ thirty fix Pieces of Cannon, four Petards, and one ‘thoufand Stand of Small Arms ; in fhort every Thing that was neceflary for their Defence. The Labours and brave Exploits of the Garrifon are without Pa- sellels. “His Honor the Lieutenant Goyernor order’d the ‘Guna ac ‘Caftle William, and a¢ the Bacteries in "Fown, to be fir'd on this Occafion ; and indeed this . happy Event has diffufed Joy as great and as univerfal as that from the Surrender of the Place the laft Year. Qur Friends have fuffered greatly by the Scurvy during theWinter, and ftand in Need of Refrefhments. of every Kind. | A ready Market may be had there. 'Not Intereft alone, but Compaffion, and efpecially Gratitude, will, we hope, cxcite {peedy and fufficient Supplies. R s T P Extrast of a Letier from an Oficer at Duekec to bis Friend in Bofion, dated May 23, 1760. €¢ ™. 7 O doubt before this comes to Hand, you, 4 N will have heard that this Place has been beficged by a numerous French Army. ; . | ¢ On the gth, we were very agreably {urpriz'd to 'fee Capt. Dean in his Majefty’s Ship Leoftaffe, of 32 ‘Guns arrive here, which gave great Spirits to both ‘Officers and Soldiers = In-about 6 Days after, Com- modore Swanton in the Vanguard, Capt. Schomberg ! in the Dians, arrived here-juit before the Dufk of the Evening ; and the next Morning the three Ships weigh'd Anchor and-food up the River to-attack the 11 Enemy’s Ships, whic:: were Mon.Votang, with four i, Frigues from 44 to 22 Guns, befides feveral Siore- Ships : They made a running Fight of ir; till our ¥ . Ships got up with them, when cur Ships 1un them sl on Shore : The French Commodore fought bravely, and would not firike till all his Ammunition was exhaufted : This is the Man that commanded the Axathufia ot Louwifbourg, and we have himat laft fate on board Capt. Schomberg. - In this Affiir we loft the Leoft:ff ; but Canada is nowo ours. By the Affilt- anceé of the Fleet from England we were erabled (o raife the Siege, obliging the French to leave 6 Mortars, 32 Pieces of Brafs and Iron Cannon, Shot, Shells, lntrénching Tools, Ammunition, Provifion, Scaling Ladders, and Stores of &1l Kinds innumerable.” Our other Accoun:s from QUEBEC, are, —THAT on the 17th three Deterters came into ' the City, half drunk, and corfidently affirmed, that . the French Camp were in the greateil Coniufion, . and their General was fo difcourag’d,that he intended to rdile the Siege very foon : That Genersl Murray ob receiving certain Accounts of the diftrels'd Sicua tion they were in,order’d a Sally at Midnight becween the 17th snd 18th, (May) and as foon as the French Guard difcover’d our Men, they fled back to the main i Body, -nd scqarinted them with what Difcoveries they had mace, on which a geners] Pannic ran thro’ . ‘their Army, and they decamp’d immediately, leaving every Thing behind them — That the Enemy”s Encampment was within 600 Yards of the City Walls : That their Army was \ 15,000 ftrong, when che Flace was firft invelfted, and Bt were afterwards reinforced by 3000 more, e laft of i1 . which were all young Fellows, not a married Man amongft them : The Siege lafted threeWeeks and two % 9 Daiys, during which they opened 3 Batteries, 3 of | Cannon and 1 of Mortars, and play’d pretty {martly for 2 or 3 Days, but made no further Appreaches, impatientiy waiting the Arrival of their Ships, as they had notAmmunidon or Provifion to carry ou theSiege. All their Regulars are gone to Montreal : That we L +'¢o0k 8 Mortdrs, and 40 Battoes laden with Poultry, and purtued the Enemy g Miles: The Enemy ’dis faid can rsife 20,000 Men, ‘but have not 5o Barrels of Powder in «fl Canada : That on the 22d all the French Ships above the City, except one, were taken ‘and deftroyed : And that by the Affitance of the Ships from England sad Halifax, they were enabled ) to raife the Siege,obliging the Enemy to leave 8 Mor- tars, 32 Pieces of Braf(s and Iron Cannon, Shot, Shells, Intrenching Tools, Ammunition, Scaling Ladders, and Stores of all Kinds ipnumerable. Several ( H 1 i | Letters from Offcers of DiftinGion fay, That cur Troops behaved in fuch a Manger, that the very mentionattheir heroicAQtions would sppear somantic. Cgpe. Harris further intorms, That Capt. Schomberg of the Diana Frigate, with another Officer, were gone for England in the Hunter Sloop of War,which came down the River at the fame T'ime he did, with an Account of the French having ruifed the Siege of Quebec, and:the Arrival of the Engiifh Fleet chere, confifting of ¢ Sail of the Line befides Frigates : T'hat only oneVeflel was arrived from the Continent before he fail'd,which was a large toplail Sloop : Thatabout _ 7 Leagues balow the City he met with a Fleet of fmall Craft bound up with Provifions, &:2. from thele Parts, being thole that attempted it fome Time fince, but were obliged to put back to Louifbourg ; and that he met with between 20 and 30 Sail of Provifion Vefiels from Great Britain, juft at the Entrance of the River, fome of which he fpoke with, who scquainted him that all that failed in Company were {afe in theRiver : That the Jarge French Storefhip mentiongd fomeTime ago to be froze up in the Bay of Gifpey, was taken by one of our Frigates, and carried up to Quebec ; and that they had 1eceived no' Advice of any French Ships arriving in the River tuis Spring. Yefterday Morning Lieut. Calder fet off from henca for Albany, with the Difpatches for General Amberft, which he brought from General Murray at Quebec. We loft on the Field of Battle, on the 25th of April, 10 Officers kill'd, 85 wounded, two of which died ; and 10 taken Prifoners. : ~ Itis reported that certain great Officer at Quebet has {aid, that with only five Regimems compieat he fhould not doabt of foon making an entire Conquett of Canada. Nothing can refle& greater Glory vpon the Britith Armé, thas the Behaviour of the mall Army fent laft Year for ihe Peduétion of Quebec, from the Moment of their landing, to the lait Repulfe of the Enemy from befara that City. How highly have thofe brave Men mesied of their Country, who furmeountnd fuch Obftables in making this important Congueit, and have now (o glorioufly defended it, By Capt. Given who arrived bere laft Friday in g days frem Louifbourg, we are informed, ‘[ bat about 150 French Neatrals had arrived there from Piftou, in or- der ta reccive the proteition of the Dritifb Crewn 5 but a3 there coutd be no dependance on their fdelity, they were 1o be [ent to Franmee in a cartel fhip:. {heje Neutrals informed, that about 50 Indians were alfy coming info Jurrender themfelves to the Enplifh.: — 4nd that the minirs lately arrivad from England, togetler with part of the garrifan,giere daily employed in making the necef- Jary preparations for demeolifbing the works of that ploce, [0 as nat ta leave one fline upon another. Friday lafl a veffel arrived at Rbode-[fland in 16 days from Momto Chrifts, 152 nafler of which inferms, that a fmail flesp bound fram bence for that place, in ballaf, was lately taken by a French letter of Marque bound to Cape-Francois, but was afterwards retaken by Capt. Sweet in a privateer brig belongirg to Rbode- Ifland, who carried ber into the Mount. 3 We bave advice by 4 letrer dated 51 Monto Chriflo the v5th of May iafl, Toat Capt. Mofes Bennet, in a Jehooner from this place, was attacked the day before abaat 4 leagues to windward of the Mount, by two French pettraugre privaceers full of men, for fiur gla) Jos, within piflol Joot, and afterwards attempted to board bim on the flarbord quarter 5 but Capt Bernet and bis men behaving with undaunted courage, and keeping a con- fRant fire from their Jwivel guns, liaded with a [pot and mufket balls, prevented their defign i Upon wwhich the largeft of them [beer’d up along fige 5 but having their Jfour pounders lsaded with duyble beaded fbat and about 60 mufket balls, they fir'd .the whele dsje direétly into the enemy, cut away their fails and rigging, and kill'd and wuanded Jeveral of their men, as they [aw them drop upsn the deck, and likewife bull’d them s fo that they were obliged to baul their wind, and fand in for the land.— T hefe privateers have latcly taken feveral valuable veffels.— And, 1t 15 added, that if Capt. Bennet bad had a few more men, twas believed, be wonid bave bronght thém botkh in We bear from Suuthbsrough. that on the 12thinfl. one David Witt, a lad about 1§ years of age, ridizg oger the dam of a javh mill pond, the herje took fright, Jprang into the pond, and [wimming cver a flone wall 1hat was unaer water, threw hbim of, and ke was drowned. — Saturday laft his Honor the Lieut. Governor was pleafed to prorogue the Great and General Caurt or Aflembly to Wednefday.the 3oth of July next. By a Virginia G:zsite of the 30th of May, we learn, that their General Affembly have paficd an At for raifing the Sum of 32,0001, for Relict of the Gar- tifon of Fort Leudaun, in the Cherokee Counury, 3 QN STt 5 Zgril 19, Tiis faid a certain Perfon intends to retlie to Geneva with his Family. Nodilitas [ola eff aique unica virtus, Learn, icarn, Nobility, 11" imporiant Trath ! Not Birch, but Decds, enoble Britain’s Youth, Lee *¥uwrexr® {t:in: of Honours, loft to Fame ; What of Nobility remrins ? —The Name, From the London Evening Poft. %y % Copy of a Letter from Dublin. ¢ Aragh Paddy did you ever fe¢ ihe iike, they are all in a Hubbob in the North : 300 French Shaba roons are Janded at Belwalt and Carnickwhergus, and me going te bring both thofe places to Erance with em ; for my part, by my cenfhicnce Fem glad on’, I wifh they would come up o Dublin ard drive away all the bullocks, herfes, affes and theep abont the caftle ; Fy did not they fend foldiers there to hinder thefe French fons of whores from landing? They koow if they landed any whereit muft be fome where, and why not at Carrickwhergus or Belwhaft fooner then at Athlone ? The devil a thing was there to fearat Achlone, becsufe you know it is in the middle of the kingdom, and yet its full of * Lobiters. Where' the devil is commodore B —-all this time, fure his fhips have fell lame upon the road.— Arrah whst do you think Sheelah Mc. Grath fays? Fy the d--] burn me but fhe fays if the — wiil give her a commiflion, fhe’ll m2rch with 300 fpinners off the T Comb, and p —{s the French ralcallions into the fea again. But fomebpdy has go: the gripes, and fo there’s two or three regiments of borfe gone to fhuc the ftable door the fteed’s ftolen: But never mind ’em my boy, they’ll never come this way, for aslong as there isa fatchionin the || Liberty we fhall never be afraid of Frenchmen. Where’s “the Innifkilliners and Derry men now? falt aflcep by my foul? O Paddy ! in troth I'm sfham’d on’t who'd have tho’t that we fhould have been bulled by fuch a handfui of ragamuffins ? Faith not I. . If they had landed in Scoiland and droveevery thing before them, I would not have wondered, but in Ireland ! —The devil tauke me but I will go to England, and deny my country. Dear Paddy, goed by remember to all my friends that atk for me, but not a word of Thurot. ‘Lavenriy Byrwng. * A cant word for foldiers. 1 A place inbabited chicfly by weavers. | Socaiied for being out of the jurifaifiion of the city. ; NEW.Y ORK,June 16. By Letiers and News Papers brought hither Yef- terday per Exprels from Charleftown, South Caroli- na, down to June 3, we are informed, That the Che- rokee Indisns ftill continue defperate in their Defign carrying all before them, by Marder, Rapine, &c.— Chat even the Creck Indians, at leaft the Upper Tribe who were thought to be Friends to the En- glifh, have commenced Hoftilities againft us, by kil- ling and cutting in Pieces sll the Englifh Traders among them, fave two; who, happily efcaped by the Goodnefs of fome of their Squaws: That the Lower Creeks feemed £ill to be in our Favour, but Jay under great Sufpicians: That Fort Moore, ard all the private Forts about Auguits, were either deftroyed or abandoned by the Garrifons ; and Men, Women, and Children, flying thither from all Quar- ters, in moft deplorable Circumftancges. In fhort, that the De'olatior and Diftrefs of thofe Parts of Geor- gia and Cerolina, that are moft expoled, is hardly to be conceived, much lefs to be defcitbed.—That Col. Montgomery was gone from Fort Ninety Six, and determined to burn and deftroy all he meets with till he errives at Fort Loudoun, which was in a moft piteous Condition, having only a Pint of Corn per Day each Man.—That on Thurfday the sth of Jure, a Draught was to be made from the Province of South Carolina, when it was thought every 2d or 3d Perfon muftbe drafted, and hold them/elves ready to go off, with 14 Days Provifion, in order to fave Georgia. [[bus it appears the French and their Agents bave not been inallive on the Side of Miffifippi.] We turther learn, That an Tufurreétion wasappre- hended in the Province of South Carolina. ‘By the Albany poft that arrived laft night, we have advice, that the brave Major Rogers has had snother bruth with the French : He, with 200 rangers, be ing out on a fcour, Janded about three miles from Nut Hland, the 4th inftant, but were foon attacked by 300 of the enemy, when a fmart Engagement immedi- ately commenced, and ended gréatly to tve diiadvan- tege of the Freach, they ' being foon obliged to fly, having betsween 40 and go men killed and wounded. The Major brought off three Indian {calps, but had 10 men killed and g wouanded : Among the former were Capt Johufon of the rangers, and Eafign Wood of General Monckion’s, by two privatecrs, e The followirg French privateers are taken and car- ried into Antigua ; the Fly, by his M the Dauphin of 10 guns, by of 6 guns, B e of New York, has brotvinto lariequin privatecr of men, and 1he rondof Baffescrre aFr, febasner ladgn with ¢offe, 4 one man killed and two woywded.” Tbe * .During the engagement the to board ber, but was to the bands of the Ensmy . de an privateer made feveral airempts jth only ten 3 pen efence, and wi cfore with a ders and 26 Men, prefervedtbe packet from falling in- fbe at [afi precipitately fbeered off. Capl. Foues badonly - ripufed with ihe ¥fs of agreat ummber ¢, 7 dward of this Sfor the fpate of two bours ma p) thres leagues to win “ agement fbe bad a few bours r flocp, Capt. Jores, nd goilant large privatee ifland. - from apeng ebfiinate 4 iwed bis Majefly's packet ' : unes in a very foatiered condition, Capt. t. CHRAIST O P-HBRS, Exirs@of s Leiter from Bartaios, April 10. § ¢ Laft Monday absut noon arr aivkener, r a