The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, July 25, 1760, Page 3

} i (] 4 S Yy 1 l!( T'he fame Day arrived here Capt.John Ingerfole from Louifbourg, which Place he left-the 224 of June, by whom we ere informed, That on the 17:h a Schooner, which was difpatch’d from the Ifland of St. John’s, arrived there in 36 Hours, with Advice, thet they had recciv’d Intelligence by fome of the Indians, That there was arrived at Bay Ver:, and laying in Chedibuéto Har- bour, five French Ships of War, two of them of 5o Guns, and three Frigates of 20 Guns each ; and that the French thereabouts were fitting cut 6 or 7 Privateers, one of which was a large Sloop of above 100 Tons, (taken by them lat Year, then commanded by Captain Ingerfole) which they had mounted with 1z Carruage Guns : Upon which Intelligence,the Fame of 74 Guns, Capt. Byram,with two 6o Gun Ships, and two Frigaes, ore of 28 and the other of z0 Guns, then lying in " Louifbourg Harbour,were fitted out with Tuch Difpatch, that tho’ their Sails were unbent and houfed a'hore, yet they got all in order and fail’d the very next Day, (the 18th) in queft of them, and ’twas not doub:ed but they would fall in with them.—That the Mines were almoft finithed in order for demolifhing the Fo.tifications and other Works at Louifbourg. By the Courter from Albsny, who cams to Towr on Thurfday Evening, we learn, That General Amberft with his Army had got fafé to Ofwego,and were making the neceflary Preparations to proceed forward. That they had lately launched a fine Snow, (> mount 18 Guns, befides Swivels at Niagara, it being more con- vegient to build there than at Ofwego.— That from Crown Point they had Advice that Major Rogers with bis Mcn being on an Iland oppofice Crown Point Fort, cutting of Faggots for Falcines for the Ufe of theArmy, the out Gusrd was fired upon by the Enemy,who kill'd one Man and wounded five, among whom was Captain Brewer, flightly : Thnat the Major immediately detached & Party in Purfuit of them, but were notreturn’d when the lsft Advice came from them. We hear from Middletown, in Conne&icut, that on the 2d Inftant, a Boy about 17 Months o!d, of Cupt. Giles Hall, of that Place,being mifling abaut 12 Minutes, was found dead in a Tub ot Water. We hear from New Haven, that on Seturdry the gth inft. Ifaiah Whirman, a young Gentlcman belonging to Bridgwarter, a ftudent of Yale College, being with feveral others Twimming in the Weft River,being feized with fome fudden dilorder or furprize, he funk, and his companions not being able to aflift him, wes drowned ; his body was found about four hours after, and next day decently interr’d. “T'is faid he was the only fur- viving child of his parents, who had before buried eleven children. f Saturday laft Capt. Homer arrived here in 17 Days from Louifbourg, who fays, that no Advice has been yeceived from our Men of war that lately {ail’d in queft of Five Frepch Ships that had got up to Bay Vert, tho’ they had been gone 14 Days ; by which "twas thought they had met with chem.— We alfo learn, that moft of .the Garrifon had embuk'd and fail’d for Quebec, under Convoy ; and the Mines were compleated in order to demelifh the Place, spreeable to the cxprels Orders of His Briannic Majelly. The fame Day a Schooner arrived at Salem in 14 Days from Louifbourg, in which came a Perfon from Qucbec. who left that Place 33 Days ago, and came to Town Ycfierday : By him we learn, that 25 Store Ships were arrived there from England, and but 4 from the Continent, when he came away, tho’ many were dsily expelted.—Thst the Garrifon were well and in high Spirits, snd in no Fear of the Enemy.—That feveral arm’d Cutters were fent up the River above Quebec to make Di'coverics and harrafs the Enemy ; and that the necellary Rreparations were making for the Garrifon to march in Purfuit of the Enemy, as foon as tie Troops from Lovuifbourg arrived. —T'hat the People belonging to two Veilels from this Place, and one from. Halifax, were got to Quebec, who gave an Account that their Veflels were taken by the French and Indians,who came ¢ff from the Shore in Boats, as they were gqing up the River, juft above Galpee. In the above Veflcl came Difpatches for His Excel- wJevey General Amberft, from Governor Murray at ; u(lqe!wc. Yefterday arrived here Capt. Daverfon from Lon- don, but laft from Spithead in 8 weeks, but brings no later news than what we have already received : He came out in company with the St. George, Captain Mallard, and the Effex, Capt. Hugger, two maft fhips for Pi‘cataqua, under convoy of the Winchefter man of war of 50 guns, and parted {from them the 24 iaft. cn the Banks of Newfoudland : — That Berj.min Barons, Elq ; Colletor of his Majefty’s Cuftoms for this port, is paflenger on board the Wenchefter, who 'tis faid has alfo on board a quantity of money for this Province, and may be houily expcted, Wednefldsy the 231 Inftant is appointed by the honourable the commiffioners, for the ex:mination of the priates confined in the goal at Newport, Rhode Ifland, for the fea robbery perpetrated on Capr. Heney, of the [chooner Frances, =s formerly mentioned. By a veflel ariived at New London in 16 desys from Manto Curifto, we learn, that an Englifth floop ot 10 guns, with the affiltance of fome boats, had demolithed a fmall French forta little to windward of that place, and brought off 5 French pettiauger privateers loaded with plunder to a great value. POR-BS MO U T H: By an Exprefs from our Regiment, who arrived here laft Wednelday, we are informed, T'hat an Expre(s came to Col. Goffe the 17th Inft.frcth Mdjor Rogers, with Ad- vice, that a large Body of French and Indims had lend- cd upon the Esft Side of Lake Champlain, and it was feared were defign’d to attack our Regiment, who were encamped on Goff:'s Road, 18 Miles above Mo, Four, the Road being fisifhed 23.—That our Men weie &l well andin high Spirus, having loft but one Man out of the Regimvent, T ke following Extral contains [sme Particulars which bave not been publifbed bere. Extra@ of a Letter from Quebee, dated May 20. ¢¢ ¥ VER fince the Depariure of the Briuth Fleet laft Year, every dilcerning Perfon of this Gar- rifon expected sa Affwuli from the Enemy belore Saccours could arrive from any Purt of the Brinth Dominions. The Enemy were numcrous by Land, and the River commanded by feven French Frigates, which reduced us to the Neceflity ot eftablifhing out Potts to watch the Epemy, and to {ecure the Garrilon from Surprize ; alfo, to mount very numerous Guards in every weak Part of the Town, ready to aét if the Genersl fhould be difappointed in‘his Inteiligence.— Their military Preparations, and many difterent Advices brought, wers, that General de Levy would attack us from Time to Time ; but every Dilappointment gave lefs Credit to his ever attempuing it. This, together with many fhameful Inflances of their bad Behaviour in fmall Attacks upon our out Pofts during the Wiater, gave an infulting Kind of an Opivion to the Officers and Soldiers - in this Army, who foon forgot that WOLFE fell the 13th of September 1759, and fhill thought the Remains of his little Army every Way equal o the whole Force of Canada. In this Security we remained to the zoth of April fullowing, when & Serjeant of the French Artillery, who paft the Garrifon not unheard, but unnoticed, driven by the Tide to Orleans and back again, and was teken up, on a fmall Sheet of Ice, who, tho’ expiring with the Cold of the Night, told us, That General de Levy, withan Army of 14000 Men covered by 3 Frigates and fome Viétualiers, were ac Haind (o attack us, and that ke was in the headmoft Boat with fome Pieces of Artillery, but was caft away 1o Leagues above Quebec. This Man the Soldiers callthe Melienger otGOD. I don’tknow the Difpenfations of Providence, but if the Night of the zoth had not brought on a continued Storm, snd the Min they call GOD’s Meflenger arvived as he did, our ouc Pofts, fome of which were far derach’d, and occupied by 8oo ot our prime Troops, muft have ineviiab y been cut off. “ The Pofts were aier@ly cali’d in and 8 Regiments with fome Pieces of Arullery fent cut to reard che March of the Enemy, who we knew were Landed, and had eftablifhed Bricges acrofs at Cape Rouze, but had not yet pafs’d. QOur Laght Troops gali’d them on their March, but the Regiments went anly 4 Miles .to St. Foize, whenthey tock Pofli flion of the Houfes Com- manding the Road aina drew upon theGround lecuring the Pafs between them and the Piains of Abraham, but Night came on, and ic Rained hard all Day, tie Enemy declined to Force the Pafs, and the Troops after feme Skirmifhs retired into Town. The nex:Morning the Enemy appeared on the Plain about 2 Miles from Quebec, when the whole Garrifon amounting to 3700, Men, Officers included, went to meet them, drawing up in Two Lines with the Light Arm’d Troops and Rangers on the Wing. The Enemy retired a Licle and we kept Advanceing un'il we came within Mul- quet Shot of the Wgods, where we came o an Engage- ment, which lafted Three Haours and an Hulf : The Fite on the Flanks and Wings of the Line was exceed ing Hot ; the French claim a Victory, they kept the Field, but they laft z000 Men and near 200 Officers ; we loft 1100 Men and 1oz Officsrs with 2o Picces of Brafs Field Artillery. * "T'was impcfiidle to 1eftiain the Officers and Soldiers of this Litde Army from giving Battle, they were ufed to”Viétory, had beat them once before under the Command - of WOLEE with only 2 Picces of Artillery ; and I muft fay, that had not fome miftake or other happen’d in the Difpofition of the Cannon and Siiuation of Ground, we fhould that Day have given an Example to the whole World. ¢ At our Retrea: the French continued their March in Columns to theHigh Greund where Gen. WOLFE fell, and- a little. Advanced, they drew their Fiift Linz sbout 600 Yards from tiie Walls, at which Time we had not Three Pieces of Cannon bearing on the Enemy ; the laft Refource to fave the Town was, Strik- ing cutEmbrazores thro® theCartains & Mounting &1l the Guns on the Ramparts, which was done with incredi- ble Swittnefs, that 10 Four Days 130 Pieces of Cannon bore upon them. -They cpen’d 3 Batterier of 13 Guns and 2 Mortars and perfifted ina Sicge.of 19 days, but meeting with great lols and finding the Walis converted into an intirc Baitery they raifed the Siege the 19th Iuft The Leoftuff Man of war was fent up the River to deftroy the French Frigates which fhe did, burnt T'wo and run One afhore, bat fhe unluckily Struck on forneRocks and immediately Sunk. Atthe Time of the Siege a Fiie brok2 out by Accident ard Confumed a great Number of Houles.” Cuftom Houfe, Pifcataway, Fuly 24. Entered In, Schooner Rye, William Vennard, fiom Philade]phia, Ship St. George, Robert Mallard, trom London. Ship Effex, John Huggett, from Por:fmauch. Schooner Hampton, James Stilllon, from Halifax. . ‘Cleared Qut, Brig Tortuga, John Shackford, for Antigua. Sloop Sufanana, Joha Bartlet, for Barbados. : - To the Primer. AN Advertifemenc having appeared in your Paper P of Friday ialt, under the Names of fowme woithy Geademen in Buffun, [:1iing ‘orch that fome Shinpkeepers i Part/mouth in New Hamgbire. have fallly Reported, tha: Mr. Benfamin Parker of {aid Portfmeuth, hss:tor e ‘L'ime palt been Nom Compos; and chat his being fadebied 10 the faid Gentlemen more than he was able to pay, was the Occafion of his Diftr:&ion, &c: We (whioare Shopkeepers in Portfmouth ) under this general Accufadon, think we are obliged to fay fome- thing in Vindication of our felves; and we are in Doubt whecher the zlorefaid Writing produced to your Prefs, may not be apocryphal ; and we are the more dubious, as it does not feem probable that the Gentlemen whote Names are thereto fublcribed, fhou'd in fo arbitrary & Mannee pretend to aflire Facts relative to M:. Parker’s being ¢ompss or won csmpos, at the Diftance of fixty Miles, againit the Evidence not only of the Shopkeepers, but ot the greateft Part of the Inhabitants of Rort/mouth, who had it at that Time in.their Powerto, and moft cf them aéteally did, fee and converfe with him every Day. Buat however, let the Attack upon the Shop- keepers come from what Quarter it will, we fhall uly ftate to the Pablick ihe plain Matters of Fu&, leaving them to be his Juages. Oa or about the 1ft of May, the 12id Mc. Parker ( inftead of minding his Shop, and wearing his ulual Garb, which had been always plain and grave, fuitable to his Calling) fuddenly appearsd on Horfcback witha lac’d Hat and Ruffles, and 10de thro® the Sireets in Portfmouth for many Days, proclaiming with 1 loud Voice to' thole heanet, * Quebec is abfo- lutely taken and what | am mcww doing is in Homour te Quebee. Now ihis Behaviour happening long after the Fate of Swebec was known to the very Children of Portfmouth o be fetled, we having had fome Months oetore 3 public Rejicing here on Account of the Re- dution of that Place by His Britannic Majefty’s Ams, was not this a ftrong Salpicion of his being a Madman? (snd not overcome with ftrong Drink, as was Reported by his neareft Relations) to berhis Cafe, as all who are acquainted with that Dilorder, know that it does not require a Fortnight’s Confinement with the fiequent Atendance of a Phyfician, with Bliftering, Blzeding, Poyficking, &c. Equally unaccountable were his fre- quent Aflerdons of his having had an Engagement with fundry Shopkeepers with his laced Hat and Ruffles, with which Wespons (he faid ) he had .made sn entire Conqueft of them : And his Riding in Proceffion ( as he term’d it) with fome Officers of the New Hampfbire Regiment, before a certain Gentleman’s Door, in Defi- ' ance to him (Mr.Parker then imagining that Gentleman had conceived fome Envy toward him, upon his ( Par- ker’s ) getiing into the Molaffes Scheme) Sometimes the poor Man weuld publith a Method for procuring Drugs ( 2 Term he had for Goods) to care him of his Frenzies : Other Times he boafted of a Scheme he had found for depriving the Old Shopkeepers of Bufinefs ; with many other Notions equally ridiculous. This Behaviour of his render’d him the Subje& of every one’s Converfation ; for our Parts it excited Pity from us; we imagin’d this Frenzy might run in his Blood, as he was not the firft of his Family who had been evenvery lately in like Circumftances. But we hereby declare that neither we nor any one ( to our Knowlege ) ever Reported or imagin’d that his being Indebted to the {a1d Gentlemen in Boflon more than he was able to pay, was the Occafion of his Diftra&tion. As to his Pune- tuaiity & Honor in Psyments (if thofe Gentlemen have really declared it) we have no Room to doubt its being true. We fhall take cur Leave of Mr, Parker, withipg he wou d never be guilty of little mesn A&ions, and be' ave fo as to merit that Refpet and Eftcem from the Shopkeepers in this Town, which they have always fo remaikably fhew’d to each other. ) Query, Whether it might not be inferted, that as Madne!s is periodical, his Fit might have gone oft be-, fore the Gentlemen at Boflor {aw him 70 '‘BE SOLD BY Dr. Niel Lamont, At his Shop sppofite to Mark H. WEnTworTH'S, E/f; in Daniel Street, = ~ Univerfal Affortment of Medicines, - where Phyficians and others in Town and Country may cepend upon being fupply’d with the belt Kinds, and at the loweft Prices ; where is alfo to be [cld the following Articles, viz. Lockyer’s and Anderfon’s Pills, Bateman’s Drops, Raifons of the Sun, Roil Brimftone, Allom, Spanith Sozp, &c. &c. wc. i BE {6 ) a R \ By NATHANIEL ADAMS, Near the Pa(‘ads, ; Choice Lifbon 22 1s:e By the Quarter Cafk or {maller Quantity. | yEierted trom Capt. Alexander McNuit of Andover, in the Province of the Mafluchufetts Bay, Benjamin Potter of NottinghamEait, James Matthews of Bedford, and Benonia Wilcot of Ailens Town.—(This is the fecond Time the former has been guilty of deferting.)— Whoever will deliver them, or cither of them, to Capt. Richardfin, at the Sign of the Black Horfe in Bofton. or to faii Captain McNatt, dhell have THIRTY DOLLARS Reward for each, and neceflary Charges paid, by faid Richardfon.