The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, August 8, 1760, Page 3

£ 4 Srom on board their Ships ; and only the Repulfe and Scarborough being able so come nearenough 10 engoge, they continued the Attack 3 Days, when the Enemy abandoned their Works, and [et two of their [bips on fire and burnt them ; and moft of their Prizes, they either burnt or funk: Then they put the Englifb Prifoners, whom they [Eripped and bound in Irons, on beard the other Ship, which theyran ;_[bore at fome further Diftance, and left them .. That foon after they were left, they found Means to unbind themfelves, and one of the Men Jwam 3 .or 4 Miles to our Ships, andinforming of -their ficuation and Circumftances, 9 Boats were manned out, who went to their Relief, and bro’t them all away, having et the Ship on Fire, and burnt ber.... They [ay [be had a great Quantity of Provifions and other Stores on board... The Re- pulfereceiv'd confiderable Damage in her Hull, Satls, Rigging, &c. and was pus into Halifax to refit. : Extralt of a Letter from a Captain of one of His Majefty's Ships of War daved at Halifax, July 23, 1760. : ¢ I Wrote you of my being ordered to cruize for the Proteétion of the Trade off Canfo, fince which I receiv’d other Orders from Capr. Byron,who with a fmaliSquadron, .on Information of fome Troops, £5c. being in Chalears Bay, failed immediately in queft of . them; where we found the Machault of 30 Guns, the Beinfaifunt, and Marquis Maloze Ships of near 700 Tuns burthen, with about 8o Sail of Veflels of lefler note. The whole are, except a few Shallops, entirely deftroy- ed. And as La Blanc’s Privateers are a- mong them, I make no doubt but the Veflels may pafs with Secarity.---More particularly fo, asthe Prince of Orange, and Rochefter, with two or 3armed Sloopsand Schooners are cruizing off of Gafpee.---As [ have been ratherroughly handled [ am refitting here, when I fhall proceed to endeavour an en- _tire demolithing every Hole the French and . Canadians can put their Headsin. &d much Joy inrefcuing theEnglifhPrifoners Ireceiv- tothe Number of Fiftv-eight.---Our Lofs is inconfiderable.---My Mafter wounded, with about ten more, one of Mr. Byron’s Liea- tenants and {ix or feven killed.” _ .- We hear further, That on the Arrival of the French Frigate and Store [bips at Chaleurs, the Commanders fent an Exprefs over Land to Moni- real, with an Account of their drrivalin the Bay of Cheleurs.--- That upon the Return of the Ex- prefs, which was in 22 Days, it was faid Orders awere brought for them to put ous from thence, to proceed and forward their Stores o the Mif]ifippi: Accordingly they began to get in Readine/s : But a great Part of their Ammunition and otherStores being landed, the Enghfb Ships appearcd before they could re[bip them, and prevented their Efcape. It is thoughs the Stares landed can be of no Service to the Troops at Montreal, as it was impa[Jible to convey them thither above 5o Miles, and thro’ & mountaginous Wildernefs. . Thefe VefJels [ailed from France, with 3 other Store- [hips, and bound'to the Relief of the French above Quebec, but the otber three were taken - foon after they lefs Port, by fome of Admniral Bofeawen’s cruizinng Ships ; andthat upon hear- ing of the Englifb Ships baving gos uptoQuebec, shey put into this Bay, and landed 300 Regular Troops, commanded by Major Lappencau, & young French Gentieman, who was well known in this Town and at Newbury juft before the prefent War broke out, it is faid ke loft one of bisLegs in defending the Batteries erelied againft our Ships. We bear, that the Frenchon board the Irigate andthe other Ve(Jels appeared very much out of Humour upon hearing of the Englifb Ships get- ting up the River before them.-- It was [ufpelled, that the Englifb Prifoncrs, taken in the above 6 Velfels, confilting of 59 Men, Women and Children, were put on board the Store- [bip to be deftroyed. ‘ The Repulfe Man of WVar [poke with twoor g others that were craizing inthe River, and bad lately come down from Quebec, who informed that they were uneafyin the Cisy about the tra- ders, 28 of which they bad heard were in the River, and buv 4 orfive got up.----Bur there is no Advice of anyothers being taken, befides the 6 above-mentioned, which were dccid&nzly met with by the Peffels from Frante. The Report in Lown of 3¢ of our Pratfifioh- : Ve[Jels being taken arofe from their being [uch o Number of PVeffels deftroyed by our Ships in the Bay of Cbeleurs, fome of which bad been there many Monshs,and fome were the French Fifbing- Ve[Jels. : . The Crown Man of War is arrivedat Halifax from London and Virginia, in ber came Paf- Jengers feveral Perfons who had becn Settlers in that Place, and who came to refettle again. Our laft Advices from Fort Ontario, on Lake Ontario, arrived here Monday laft in but 9 Days Jrom Ofwego, they are as follows, Thas General Amber[t with about 5000 Troups were prepar- ing to go from thence, andthat the Remainder of the Troops were expeled at the Lake in afew Days.--- They,with the Stores having been much retarded, by the Want of a fufficiency of Water intbe River, there having been no Rains.---That Commodore Loring was out on & Cruize in the Lake, with two fine Snows, one of 28 Guns, and the other of 20 Guns : Thar after be failed,a French Snow and a Brig of 13Guns each appeared in Sight of the Fort, juft as 8 Boats badpus off deep loaded with Stores for Niagara, and which narrowly efcaped falling into their Hands 5 but they got fafe to the Piace they were defigned for.--- ; IR v .. By a Letter from Ofwego, dated July 19th, we have Advice, That 4 Battalions of Regulars and 3 of Provincials were incamp’d near the Gar- rifon ; andthat 3 Battalions of Regulars withtbe Conneéticut and N- Ferfey Regiments would join themin afew Days : Alfo, That Sir W. JoHNsON with a large Body of Indians,at leaft aThoufand 5 Jome fay Fifteen Hundred, were but a few Miles from the Fort, and on their Way thither, tojoin our Army: That the Regulars and Provincials appear’dio be a fine Body of Troops, and all in bigh Spirits. T : B We bear from Marblehead, that John Caf- wall, Mafter of a Fithing-Schooner belonging to that Place, brought in there laft Monday, a Boat, which he took up the Friday before on Brown’s Bank : In the Boat was one Man alive, and two or three dead bodies : They took the live Man on board the Schooner, who after being refrethed, and gaining little Strength, informed them, that he belonged to a Brigantine, Arthur Cathern, Mafter, from New-York, bound to. Antigua, with Flour, Bread, &c. but four Days after they left Port the Brig fprang aleak,and theWater came in fo faft, the People, confifting of the Mafterand 17 Men, had but juft Time to get into the Boat, without any Provifions: A few days after they faw a {loop, and made Signals, but were not difcerned by her : Be- ing without Suftenance feveral of them foon died, which were thrown overbord by the o- thers, till atlength they all died bat this Man, whofe Name is Thomas Puornall, the twolaft who died was Captain and Boy, but Purnall being very weak, he was not able to throw themover. It was 28 Days from the Brig’s foundering to the Time the Filherman met with the Boat.-----What the poor People fubfifted on, if it can be called Subfiftance, wag the Barnicles and Stuff which gathered on the outfide of the Boat. i The young Man fince hehas gathered more Strength fays the Brig was tound to Louisbourg and the River. v ; We hear fromHatfield,that onWednefday laft, aboui 12 0’Clock, they had a very fevere Storm of Thunder and Lightning, attended with very heavy Showers of Hail; the Light- ning ftruck the Houfe of one Jonathan Ellis, and knock’d a Woman down that was in it, {o that {he lay fpeechlefs for fome Time, but isfincerecover’d. The Hail Stones were fo large, that it laid wafte confiderable of the Indian Corn there, and in Norchampton. And from Albany we hear, That there has been «-great Flood of Rain there, which car- ried off feveral Houlcs, and done other Da- miage to the Value of Twelve Thoufand Pounds New-York-Currency. .. , A Letter from Montego Bay, dated July the 4th, mentions, That the Rebellion ot the Negroes, in the Ifland of Jamaica, was in- tirely fubdued.: . ~. g in We hear that a Veflcl arrived at Marble- head laft Saturday in 10 Days from Louis- bourg, which brought an Account, that the Mines were all compleated and ready for a general Explofion. .. . ; . The Reportin Town laft Week of Marti- neco’s being taken by a Squadron of Britith Ships, and Land Forces, is thought to be a Miftake ; and only to be Commodore Doug- lafs’s cutting out the Veflels, and deftroying the Village of St. Jofeph in Dominico.. Saturday: laft about one o’Clock, came to Town by Land from Providence, his Ex- cellency FRANCIS BERNARD, Efg; with his Majefty’s Royal Commiffion to be Captain-General, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over his Majefty’s Province of the Maflachufetts-Bay ; asalfoa Commif- fion from the Right Honourable the Lords of the Admiralty, to be Vice-Admiral of the fame, &c.-----His Excellency embark’d from hislate Government of New Jerfey on board the Maflachufetts arm’d Sloop laft Tuefday, and arrived at Rhode-Ifland on Wednefday Evening, and the next Morning proceeded from thence to Providence, in a Paflage Boac provided for that Purpofe, accompanied by the Hon. Mr. Secretary OLiver, who waited at Rhode-Ifland to attend him : from Provi- dence his Excellency fat out on Friday after- noon, and lodged at Wrentham that Night, and from thence fat out early the nextMorn~ ing,efcorted by aParty of the Troop of Horfe- Guard,detached thither for thatPurpofe ; and was met at Dedham by the Remainder of the Troop, and feveral of his Majefty’s Council; and on the Road from thence, by a greac Number of Genclemen from Town in theic Coaches and Chariots, and proceeded to the Province Houfe, (where the Company of Cadets were drawn up) and received the Congratulations of a Number of Gentlemen who had repaired thither on this Occafion ; from thence his Excellency walk’d in Pro- ceffion to the Court-Houfe, being efcorted thither by the Company of Cadets : The Re- giment of Militia in this Town being under, Arms, and drawn up in the Main-ftreet, he receiv’d the Compliments of the Officers, by their paying the ftanding Salate as be pafled by,and the Windows of the Houfes, &c.were crowded with Speétators on the Occafion. His Majefty’s Commiffion to his Excellency, as alfo that from the Lords of the Admiralty, were opened and publickly read in the Coun- cil Chamber, and the ufual Oaths admihiftred by his Honour the Lieutenant-Governor ; af« ter which he was congratulated by the Coun- cil and a great Number of Gentlemen there prefent ; which was followed by three Iluz- zas, and a Difcharge of threeVollies from the Militia, &c. as alfo a Difcharge from the Guns at Caftle William, and Batteries in this Town and Charleftown, and from the Ships in the Harbour ; after which his Excellency, with the Gentlemen of the Council,a Num- ber of Officers and other Gentlemen, were entertained with a handfome Dinner, pro- vided at Faneuil-Hall for that Purpofe. KINGSTCN, (in Famaica) Fune 7. Saturdav arrived a Brigantine from Pifca- taqua in New-England, the Caprain of which fays, that the Day before he faw a Snow taken by a Privateer, both Snow and Friva- eer unknown to him. P )