The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, September 12, 1760, Page 1

v ’ « . to efcape from the fort. N S - 5= FRIDAY, ‘Septeméer I2. 1760. THE : New-Hampfhire . Containing the Frefbeft Advices, Charlefiown, South Carolina, Auguf 16. ETTERS from Fort Loudoun of the 26th ‘of July, brougnt to towa this Morning, by an exprefs from Fort Prince George, ( who delivered his public difpatches for his ho- 3 pour the licutenant governor, and the ho- mourable col. Montgomery,at Afhley-Ferry yelteiday ) ‘reprefent the then fizuation of that garrifon as miferable ‘beyond difcription ; and they complain that i almoft _ feems, @3 if it was abandoned by God and man. Their * fuffrings are therein deferibed motft feelingly ; and they feem without any hopes of reiief. For fome time, they hiifted on horfe fl:th ; but that being difcovered by the Indians, they now take care that mone of thofe animals fhall come in their way. The Over Hills towns were quite deftitute of corn, or it was fecreted, and the laft the garrifon got was ‘procured at the rate ‘of 16 pounds per buthel, and by almoft ftripping them- fclves.( both Men and Women ) to mzke one joint public ftock. "Fhe fort was conftantly furrounded, in fuch a manner, that no body dared ftir out ot it, even for water or wood ; and the paths were every where o well guarded, that it was almoft impoffible for any one The garrifon had made feveral inefeftual attempts to bring about a peace with the Indians ; but the headmen looked upon the garrifon as ftarving, and told them they muft by that means foon ‘e at their mercy. Extraft of a Letter from Fort Prince Gevrge, Keeabuwee, ; dated Auguft 6tb. An exprels arrived to day, difpatched to the ho- nourable eol.- Montgomery by major Hamilton from ‘the Congarees, who, we hear, brings an account of the Viiginians being in full march for the relief of fort Loudoun, which it is moft ardently withed they may effcét, the {ufferings of that garrifon having been moft tedious and fevere. Officers included, the Virginians are faid to be 1300 ftrong, and the honourable col. Byrd commands. ; From New Providence, we learn, thst a flag of truce lately fent from thence to Miffifippi, was returned with- out having been permitted to trade § and that § veflels from Rhode Hlind, 2 from New Yoik, and fome from Philude'phia, which went thither to trade, had been feized by the French : {o that between the French, and our friends at Providence and Jamaica, flag of trading , \by the checks it has lately met with, is likely o be foon fupprefied, PHILADELPHIA, Agguft 28 Laft Mondey Morning came .to Town Capt. Dyer, Iste of the Sloop Succefs,from Virginia. He was bound 10 Charleftown, in South Carolina, from this Port, bat was tcken on the 1oth Inft. off Cape Hatterss, by a Privateer Schooner of 6 Carrisge Guns, 14 Swivels,and 308 Men; from Cape Francois, Charles Nicholas, of Malta, Commander ; who left the Cape, (ihey fay) in Compiny with a Privateer Sloop, of 12 Guns, defigned to cruizz on this Coaft. Captain Nicholas tock. befides Cspt. Dyer, the following Veflels, viz. in Hampton Road (Virginia) from under their Guns, a Schooner belonging to Liverpool, with about zoo Negraes on \ bosrd, from the Cosft of Africa.— Within Cape Henry, a Snow bound to Air, in Scotland,with 300 Hogfheads of T'obacco on bosrd, which he ranfomed {or 6ooo Pieces of Eight, A Schooner from Tuks linds, for Salem in New England, alfo ranfomed tor 2500 Doilars. A Sloop from Currituck, in N. Carolins, for Virginia, likewife ranfomed for 1500 Dollars ; and a {mall Sloop from Virginia to Currituck. The Privateer left the Co:ft the 15th Inft. when the Prifoners got & Boat to come afhore in. They then heard nothing of the 12 “Gun Sloop, [1id to have come out with the Schocner. "The Schooner’s Crew, excepiing a very few, were Spaniards ; one of which, without sny Provocation, ftabbed the Pilot of the Schooner from Africs, to the Heart with his Knife, fo that he died inftantly. The Priloners fay, the Schooner was piloted into Hampton Road by a Virginia Man they had taken, whom they have carried off with them, and that he was the Caule of their attempting the Vefizls in that Road. .Onr Advices trom Pittfburgh of the 14th Inft. are, that the Night before an Exprefs came in there from Niagara, via Prefque Ifle ; that all was perfeélly well ~ at both thofe Pofts when the Exprefs left them : That the Troops under the Majors Walters and Clad win, ar- " . ¥iVed at Niagara the zth vlt, and the Day foHowing the Light Infantry, and 44th Regiment, embarked for Of- wego : And that Major Stewart and his Party got to Venango the gth Inft. There were at Pittfburgh, at the Date of thefe Ad- .vices, Six Hundred Indians, with the Chiefs of almoft . 8l the Naiions, from the Upper Lake to the Lower Shewana Town ; and no People could feem better dif- pofed than the whole of thefe Indians were. The Genéral had conferred with theChiefs of all the different Tribes, who declared themlelves well pleaied with all “he had faid to them. The Natlts of the principal Na- tions there, were, the Delawares, Shawanefe, T wight- wees, Wyondotts, Outawas, ' Pettawatimes, Mingoes, and Chippowees, who were to meet the 1 5th, to anfwer the General’s Speech. A Letter from Fyall, dated the 7th of laft Month, fays ; A French Frigate of 28 Guns, and 180 Men, bound to Quebec with Stores, was loft on the Mland of Flora, and all the Men drowned, except about 28. Another Veflel of the fame Force, and for the fame Plsee, failed with the above Frigate ; the French mak- ing no Doubt, according to- thie Account of the People that were faved, of retsking Quebec. Oa Monday laft, at the €ourt of Oyer and Terminer, held at Chefter, John Lewis was indi€led fer the Murder of his Wife, to which Le pleaded guilty, and received Sentence of Death, NE W-Y OR K, September 1. Ycfterday, the 31ft of Auguft, arrived here, the De- tachment of the Royal, and Col. Montgomery’s Regi- ment of Highlanders, from So. Carolina, after a Paflage of twelve Days ; excepting the four Battalion Compa- nies of the Royal, that were left to cover the Frontiers of Caroling, till the Province fhould have an Opportu- nity of raifing their irtended Compliment of Troops. But as no Indians have been feen or heard of near the Setilements fince the A&tion of the z7th of June laft, near Etchoy, and that the Cherokees of the Lower and Middle Seulements bad fent a Meflage defiring Peace, before the Embarkation of the Troops at Charleftown, iis believed the Stay of thofe Companies in that Pra vince cannot be long. ‘The Prifoners taken in the Che- rokee Country, were lefi to the Care of the Lieutenant Governor of So Caroline. The Creek Indisns are very quiet, and by the Jateft Accounts kad put fome of the Murderers to Death, as a Proof their Defire for Peace. The Letter of Marque Brig Catherine, of this Port, Nath. Lawrence, Commander, on his Paflage from hence for the Weft Indies, on the 24th of July, ten Leagues from Barbuda, fell in with two French Privateers, one of 6 Guns and 6o Mcn, the other of 8 Guns and 70 Men, having a Prize in Conipany 5 he immediately at- tacked the Privatzers,and obliged them to abandon their Prize : fhe proved to bea Sloop belonging to Salem in New England, Bates, Maiter, bound to the Weft Indies, who had been taken a few Days before. Capt. Law- rence fent her to St. Kius. Bages AV EN. Fairfield, Auguft 22. Yefterday came on ( before the Hon. the Superior Courr, for the County of Fairfield ) a Trial between qur Sovereign Lord the King, and one Vanfkelly Mally, a French Piifoner, on an Inditment, for a Rape committed on the Body of one Amy Palmer of Greenwich, a young Girl of the Age of ten Years and an Half ; when afier a very cardid, and patient Hearing, the Jury after a° fhort Recels, unanimoufly gave their Verdi@, that the Piiloner was Guilty, and the Day following he receiv’d Sentence of Death ac- cordingly ; we hear he is to be executed on the 4th Day of November next. B O S T O N, September 8. Tuefday laft artived here Capt. Noble in a Sloop in zbout three Weeks from Quebec, and one Week from Lovifbcurg. Our Aavices from that.Quarter, which may be depended on are as follows, viz. From QUEBEC of the 12th of Auguft, That Gen. Murray with his Army paffed Trois Rivieres without Oppofition, and got two or three Miles above, where he waited the Arrival of the Louifbourg Troops : In the mean while Parties daily went on Shore the South Side of the River 8. Lawrence, when Numbers of the Cana- dians, even whole Villages, came in to them with Greens, &c. laying down their Arms, who were pro- mifed Prote&ion, and fent to their Fields to provide for Winter : The Parties return’d on board their re- fpeQive Tranfports ;—That they attempted to land on the North Side of the River, but not having fufficient Force, was prevented by the Enemy’s appearing s if the chief Body of the French Troops were colletled there to prevent that Army from Proceeding up the River.—T'hat the Louifbourg Troops got to Quebec by the 1ft of Auguft, and having only landed the Sick there, fail'd immediately to join General Murray.— Thhere was no Account of their Junétion when Capt. ‘Noble came away, tho’ it was not doubted but they got up in g or 6 Days after they pafled the City. We further learn, That Mon(. Levi has a Drove of Hotfes, out of which he fubfifts his Troops; that 16 Bufhels of Wheat has been given for one Buihel of Salt, and that the Enemy are under the greateft Straits for slmoft every Thing. ~Capt. Marfhman who arrived here laft Saturday in 8 Weeks from Lifbon, informs ue, Fhat there was a Re- port there feveral Days before he (ailed, That the King of Pruffia had had a Batle, in which he loft 22 000 Nuwd. 206. AZETTE Foreign and Dameflick. Men: This Actount came from the French over Land, and generally the’c in Lifhon to be true, excepiing the Lofs, which was {uppos’d to be greauy ex:ggerated by the French, This Moment (g 0’Clock) Captain Hooper arrived herein 6 Weeks trom London ; He informs, that he faw at Portfmouth, in u paper of the 10th or 12th of July, an account from Bruflels of sn aflion between a part of the Pruflian army, confifting of about 18000 men under General Fouquet, and the Avftrians under Gen. Laudohn, in which the former was worlted, and accord- ing to the French account has loft 8000 men, and the Genersl wounded ; which account asit came from the French, was tho’t to be much exaggerated. — Capt. Hooper came out with "the Carolins convoy, in com- pany with two other fhips for this Place. Tbe Great and General Court or Affembly of this Pro- vince, is further Prorogued unto Wednefday the Fifteenth Day of Q& aber next. - Capt. Davis from Halifax, arrived on Monday laft in 8 Days, advifes of the Arrival of the Norwich Man of Woar there, from New York. Extradt ofa Letter from Louifbourg, Aug. 22. 1760. —“FIVE Mines were fprung laft Szshbath, and had a good Effect : The Report was nothing to what we ex pe€ted from Ten Thoufand lb. Weight of Powder ; but the Appearance was as I conceive, like 2 Vulcano emicting Barth, Smoke and Stones—We have had an epidemick Cold in the Garrifon, but are better, AN PN TN D N NG BN ) St N N The following Letter, as it contains fome Particulars svorthy of Nutice, altho’ the Subflance has already becn publifbed, we fball give a Place in this Paper— It is JSrom an Officer who was in the AGion, and dated at Point Rogers, June 26, 1760. Qabtlefs the account of our late fcout will be common enough in Bofton before this comes to your hand ;but all reports on {uch cccafions are fo various that I dare fay you would be glad to hear the tiuth, which is as follows: THE 1ft of June Major Rogers went down the lake with 270 rangers and light infantry : On the 3d landed Lieut. Homes, Licut, Starks, and Enfign Phillips, with 48 rangers in the bay of Milco, with ordersto proceed to Wigwam Martineco, where are about zoo houfes, inhabited by Canadians and Indians, which they were to deftroy if poffidle : He proceeded bimlelf to the weft fide of the lake with the reft of his party, and on tre 4th in the evening landed below lfle au Mote, immediately on his landing, he perceived fome of the enemics boats off Ifle au Nox, by which he knew he was difcovered : He ftopped there all night to obferve their motions ; next day (the gth) it rained (o hard that the enemy did not think proper to land ; but in the morning of the 6th, his {couts that be kept out to oblcrve them, fent in word that they were landed 3 miles above him, and on their march towards him ; the Major im mediately put his party in a8 pofture to receive them, when the other party that was out to obferve their motions, came in, and told him that they were within half a mile of bim, marching in very good order, end chiefly Indianr, snd about 300 in number.: They be- gan the atteck on our left wing, with their ufual intrepidity and yelling ; which was returned as brifk by our men ; the enemy csme fo nigh to us on the left, where our boats lay, that we exchanged fhots acrofs the boats, end when the Indians found that they could not load faft enough for our men who had cartridges to load with, that they took up ftones and threw at us, on which our men halloo’d to them, that they would likewife fight with ftones,and give them an ¢qual chance, which foon routed them from behind the boats : The enemy then began to retreat from right to left with the fame vivacity they attacked us, we purfued them zbout three quarters of 2 mile, and in [pite of the care they always take to carry off their wounded and dead, we got three Indians fcalps, and fome Indians they fcalpad themlelves, becaule we fhould not have the benefit of em, as is fuppos’d ; we got 34 fine Indizn guns, and by the blood snd other marks we killed about 6o ; but they fay fince that we killed no more. than 32, and wonnded 19, amongft the laft was Monf. Longville, a famous Partifan : The fight begun sbout 11 o'cleck and ended st half after two ; our ammuni- tion being almoft exhaufted the Msjor ordered that the dead and wounded fhould be put into the boats, the number of the dead was 17, including officers, and 8 woanded, of which number was Capt. Johnfon . Enfign Wood of the light infastry was killed the firlt firing : We then proceeded up the leke to join our veflels that lay at Ifle su Mote, where we landed, buiicd our dead, and fent the wounded to Crown Point.—— On the gth Lientenant M'Cormick joined us with the StockBridge Indisns, which made our party as ftrong as at firft - 1'he Major not fatisfied at his fuccefs, ordered the men ‘2 ‘wnifh themfclyes with ammuniticn sad i PSP o ki R g L e A' ‘{m l‘x 7:fl. & This Morning we kave reccived ddviee, Urat General Amberf bas taken LaGalemte, with the Lofi of 8 Mer, Csl. Eaviland bas taken Nut Wland with the Lofs of 10 Men 5 and that General Murray was befsre Montreal, waiting for the 4irival of Genera