The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, April 24, 1761, Page 1

e o ¥ THE New-Hampthire Containing the Frefbeft Advices, An ODE on PEACE. By the Rev. Mr. SamusL Daviges, A.m. Prefident of the College of New Ferfey: Ser to Mufic by Fames Lyen, a. B. sand Sung at the public Commencement in Assau Hacr, September the 'z4th, 1760. HILE Nations die- By mutual Wounds, And Terror and Deftruétion walk their Rounds ; - While wide-extended Countries lie Swimming in Sess of human Gore ; And Deach’s horreudous Engines roar And Horror glares in every Eye; Defcend fweet PEACE ! thy Balm prepare, And heal the bleeding Wounds of War. Genile PEACE ! with mildeft Rays, ' Shine on the happy, happy Days, ; When GEORGE, the weLL BELOV'D and GREAT With Honour fills the Royal Seat, And over half the Globe from thence, Sheds his propitious Influence. : Harpy uappy Davs, when BOONE Refle@s the Splendors of the Throne, On diftant Lands, beneath the fetting Sun. Harpry HAPPY, HAPPY Davs, When WOLFE viftorious for his Country bleeds--- ( Eternal FAME ! procliim his Praife, And found his mighty Deeds ! Erernar FAME precLaiM His PRAISE, And sounp His MiGHTY DEEps! When led by AMHERST, circumfpeét and brave, BRITAIN’s intrepid Sons advance, ' Q’er rugged Moun:ains, Delarts wide, And Waftes by human Foot untry’d, To chace the trembling Fugidves of France, Or crow’d them in a hafty Grave. Gentie PEACE! wite MiLpEST Rays, SHINE ON THESE HAPPY, HAPPY DAYS, Harry, HAPPY, HAPPY Davs, Which with BRITAIN’s Glory blaze. Drscsyp sweer PEACE ! THy BALM PREPARE; Anp HEAL THE BLEEDING Wounps of WAR. el St. Jago de ls Vegs, ( Jamaica) Jan. 24. On Sunday laft arrived at Port Royal his Majefty’s Ship Ofwego, from a Cruize snd brought in a large French Snow, bound from Marfeilles to Port au Prince, Feb. 7. On Satuyday laft arrived from a Cruize his M:jefty’s Ship the Renown, and brought in a large Ship laded with Beef, Buicer, &c. from Coik, taken into the Cape. e s e — St. JOHN’s ( in Antigues ) March t1. 1761, Commodore Sir James Douglas has lefe theifland of Granads without aticmpting any thing againtt the French fhips there, it being judged they could not be deftroyed without bombs ; but. the Raifonable snd -Montague remain, and continue to block them up.—It now fecms prety cersain that the new French Governor is not at the Grenades. He arrived at Martinico in a frigace, and the other fhips were intended for that ifland, buc were cut off the land by one of the fhips of our Iquardron and a frigate, and chafed down to Grenada. ™. Beau- fremont is expefted at Martinico with a fqusdron and regular troops, and we wifh he may come. Ifan attack fhculd be meditated againft that ifland, his fquad- ron may ferve (like that at Louifbourg ) to increafe its fall; and hisoifenfive defigns can give us no concern in the prefent fate of our troops and militia, and while fupported by . twenty men of war, which we already have on this ftation. A French privateer of ‘8 gun, and a retaken fnow from Africa, have been brought in by the Belliquicux and Crefcent. Theenemy had taken the regroes out of the fnow and got clear off with them. Feb. 25 The London Fieet arrived here Yefterday, snder convoy of his- Majzity’s fhip Centaur, of 74 guns, Arthur Forreft, Elq; commander, who will proceed to Jamaica with the thips for that I{}End' This fleet had but five weeksand three days paifage, yct we have no very interefting news by it. We hear from Martinico, that M. Latouche, * the new Govemor of that Ifland, is arrived there with three frigates’s ‘and chat the French privateers have lately car- ried in a great number of prizzs. It is faid there isa lift of upwards of 30, fome of which were lumber load- ed veflels, whofe cargoes are very much wanted here. Match 4 The Diaden, of 74 guns, and two French frigates,have been blocked upin the harbour af Grenada near asmonth, by Sir - James:Douglas, who had with him five thips of the line, viz. one of 84 guns, two 74, and one of 56; buta veflel which arrived here z days ago met the Foudroyant and Dublin, two of this fgus dton; beating up to Barbados. The French fhips fell inwith his Majefty’s thip Arundel fonie leagues from Grenada, and might have taken her if they had pufhed for it.” board. It is believed the new French governor is on RIDA;Y, ApriL 24. 176I1. CHARLESTOWN, (S. Carolina) March 7. 1761, ETTERS from Auguita, of the 3d Inftant, con- tain the following difagrezable News, viz. That' on the 2d, sn Account was received there, of one - Pro&tor’s Wite and Son bring killed by Indiass, the famg Day a little above Germany’s Fort, sbout 16 Miles up the River ; and that Proftor bimfelf had been prefent, fired at the Indiaus; and broke the Arm of one of them. Thatthe {sme Evening & Boy, who had beento Town-Creek Mill, with a bag of Cern, -on his Return, was purfued and fired st by fome Indians, who ftruck bis Bag of Meak, but riffed him, and he with Difficulty efcaped being tsken. ‘T'hat great Numbers of Indian Tracks were aboutthe fame Time difcovered in feveral Places, and moft of the Inhabitents on both the Carolina and Georgia Sides of Savancah River were almoft every where fo much slarmed, as to quit their Settlements, and betake themfelves to private Forts. That in Confequence of thefe and fome other Advices, an Alarm was fired at Augufts the Day before the Date of thefe Letters. And that of the Creeks who had been at Mr. Galphin’s, about 40 flill remained there. PHILADELPHTIA, April g. Captain Forbes, in the Atalants, from New York for Barbados, was taken by a French Privateer, and after wards retsken by 8 Man of War. Arrived at Barbados,Captain Grift, fromMarblehead ; and Captains Watfon and Nicholfon from Philadelphia. At Charles-Town, in South-Carolina. Capt. Faries, from this Port. _ NEW-Y ORK, April 13.. Friday laft Capt. Morgsn arrived here in 7 Weeks from Lifbon, he informs, That a French Privateer of 24 Guns, that had taken feven of the late Virginia Fleet bound to Europe, snd three {maller ones, were tzken by an Englifh Frigate, and carried into Lifbon ; and that the Frigate which took them was commanded either by Capt. Kennedy or Oglivie. ; Friday Night fome Villains entered the Houfe of one Mr. Price, near the Whitehall, and carried off a Cheft, which they found in the Entry, in which was £ 300 in Cafh, and divers other Things ; but the Cheft being foon mifs’d, a Hueand Cry was rais’d, and {eversl went in Queft of the Rogues, when they found the Cheft unopen’d, in the Water, by the Battery, which they csft thro’ one of the Embrazares. Saturday laft Capt. Rook arrived here from Lifbon in 40 Days, he confirms the Account given by Capt. Mor- gan, of one of his Majelty’s Frigates having taken four French Privateers, and fenc them into Lifbon, and fays, that *twas the Aquillon, Capt. Ogilvie who took them. Capt. Lawrence came Paffenger with Capt. Rook, having the Mi:fortune to be taken on his Paffage from hence to London, the 17¢h of January laft, by the War- rior Privateer Ship of Bsyonne, of 16 Guns, and ¥20 Men, who foon - after tock a Ship from London to Lifbon, which the Captains ranfomed, and Captain Lawrence and his Peopie were put on board her, and got to Lifbon. | The sbove mentioned Privateer during her Cruize, had taken 12 Englith Veflels, two of which belonged to Bofton, from London, two from Newfoundland, and the others belonged to diffzrent Ports of England and Ireland. Since our laft feveral Vefzls arrived here from Phi- ladelphis, to be employed as tranfprts. BOcs. T, QN ~Apiil 20.. The Mourning for his late MajesTY ends on Sa- turdey next. By a Letter from Jamaica dated the 28th of Feb. Jaft, ‘we have an Account of the Arrival of the following Veffels at that 1{land, viz. At Kingfton, Peck,Carpenter, and Tripp from Rhode - 1fland ; as Lucea, Brayton and Doggett likewife from Newport ; at St. Anne’s, Stod- dard, fromNewport,and Saltonftoll éromNew London ; at Montego Bay, James, Aborn, and Shearman from Newport, Arnold from Providence, and Hunting from Philadelphia ; sndat Green Ifland, Taggart from New- ort: g Capt. Stuart in a Schooner from this Place bound to Maryland, is caft awey on the back of Long Ifland. Yefterdsy Afternoon in the Time of Divine Ser- vicé the Dwelling-Hou'e of Mr. Jsmes Fofter, on Docheftet Neck, was confumed by Fire. Extradt of a Letter from Halifax, dated April 4. H E feveral Tranfports are srnved from Bofton : They are intended to take on board the Highlanders that are doing Daty here, to proceed on the intended Expedition = Capt. Legge in the Sou- therland has the command of the Shipping : .... The Falkland, Repulfe,and Lizard, are alfo to proceed from’ this ‘Place to copyoy the Tranfports, &c. &c. ... The Fleet will fail next Week. We hear from Williamfburg, in Virginia, That the Rev. William Yates was elefted Prefident of William and Mary College in that Colony. j { -On Monday laft arrived here Cipt. Rutlidge ina tranfport {hip from Louifbourg wicth ' che remsinder of ek WEEKS firce this Pareit was fi-tt pub thed. Nume. 238, { | GAZETTE Foreign and Domeflick. ’ e e — the provincials who had been doing duty there : He failed from Louifbourg for this place the beginning of laft winier, in company with two other tran{ports, who were all biown off the coaft in the fevere weather we then had,but have fince arrived hege ashas been m«niioa- ed. In this Ship came the Caprains Blake and Pesbody, with thole of their companies that had not come away before, having loft but 4 men fince they left Louilb wrg, notwithftanding the diffi:ulties and hardihips they un- derwent : They were 30 days besting on this coalt, and were feveral times within view of Cafco. Bay but the fesmen being much frozen, they were obliged to bear eway, and got into Virginia, from wiience they arrived in 23 days. 5 PORTSMOUTH. Wedneflday next, is appointed by Authority, to be obferved as a Day of Publick FASTING, throughous this Province. Since our laft we are favour’d with a particular Ag- count of Capt. John Froft’s Misfortune of lofing his Schooner Elizsbeth, alias Old Monk, extraéted from the Journal of Capt. Benjamin Randell, who was a Paflenger on board faid Schooner, which as it contains fome fingular Providences, may be agreable to relate. We failed from Philadelphia the fecond of Oétobef laft, and on the 7th we met with a violent Gale of Wind et N. N E. and a heavy Sea, which obliged us to throw over 8o Barrels of Flour and sbove five Ton of Iron : On the 8:h the Storm increaled, we then put before the Wind, and at 4 P. M. a Sea ftruck our Star- board Quarter, which broach’d her to, carricd away our Bowf{prit and Boat and one Man over board, but fcon recover’d him again, and hove the veflel on her beam - Ends 3 we then cut away the Main Maft and got_her before the Sea ; but by ligh ning the Veflel the Day before, the Barrels fhifted in the Hold, and ftove all our Water Cafks, and loft all our Water, excepting about four Gallons. The 10th another Sea ftiuck us, and knock’d off the Head of the Rudder and Pink Stern, and lifted the Quarter Deck. The 11th the Storm conti- nued ; the 12th the Wind veer’d to N. N. W. and moderated, but = terrible Sea ftill continued ; the 13th the Sea sbated, Wind N W. we then opened our Hatches and threw over 4o Barrels more : From the 13th to the 1gth we lay a Wreck, having no Command of the Veflel, reduced to the greateft Extremity, cblig’d to drink our own Water to quench Thirft, being then in Lat. 33. 10 N.and Loangtude 68. 12. W, (almoft in Defpair) when, to our un(peskable Joy, we diicover'd a Sail which bore direétly towards us, and foon came vp with us, fhe proved to be a French Snow from St. Domingo, bound to Old France. with 46 Men, who hail’d us, and afk’d whether we would be tiken off; to which we readily confented ; but as they had loft their Boat as wellas we, & feeing our great Diftrefls, three of them jumped over board, and rifq’d their Lives, {wam to us (though the Ses ran very high) but could not get aboard us, and were oblig'd to put back to their Veflel, having narrowly efcaped being drowned them- felves ; yet notwithftending, after they hai made a {mall Tack, they attempted again, and with an uncom- mon Refolution got on bosrd us, by which Means we got & Rope faftned to a (mall Hawfer on board them, and hove us under their Siern, when we all _got fafe into their. Veficl and left our own, after taking only eight Barrrels of Flour out of her. We then fteer’d E. N. E. for Old France, but unhsppily on the 5th of December, we were caft away in a terrible Storm 4§ Miles tothe Northward of Boyanne, and loft Veffel and Curgo, and feven Frenchmen were drowned in endea- vouring to get on Shore ; on the 6th we were taken up as Prifoners, snd the gth put into Bayonne Csftle, where we remained till the 12th of January, and were treated as well as we could expe&, all Things confider’d. After which, we with about 30e ~more Prifoners were put on board s Cartel Veflel bound to England ; but our Informant left the Veflcl, and got to Bilbos, and came home to this Place via Sulem, and fuppofes Capt. Froft and Son failed for England in the Cartel foom after he left them. We muft inevitably have perifh- ed in all Probability in a Day or two more, had we not been dilcovered By the above French Snow, Stork, formerly wsken from the Englith, and the extraorlinary Kindne(s of the Frenchmen who thus rifqu’d their Lives to (ave ours. CUSTOM-HOUSE, Piscaraqya, April 23. Entered Inwards, ) Snow General Townlend, M. Buabury from Maryla: d Sloop Sea Flower, Elifha Philpot, from Ditto. : Clear’d Outwards, Ship Amberf, Daniel Wentworth, for Antizus. Brig Michael, George Turner, for Antigua. Schooner Sea Flower, Paul Jenkins, tor Halifax. o Brig Caliope, Joleph-Wells, for Barbado:§ ; Schooper Mathew, Richard Kenney, fo Philadelp! ia Schooner Benjamin, John Faraham, for Hlifax. Schooner Charming Molly, John Gowell, for Halifax. Sloop William, Joha Hilton, for Rhods 1fkind: