The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, August 7, 1761, Page 1

" Yodies. THE New-Hampfhire * Containing the Frefbeft Advices An Account of Pondicherry, whick we biar ,furrtnder;d to i the Englifb the v7th of Fanuary laft. E@gfi SONDICHERRY is ficuated near Gingi, in q/ % + Al Ae iz the Kingdom of Carnate, on the Coalt of o P 5 % & o Coromandel, and the Capital of the French %flg}@ E«ft India Company. - It ftands at the Di- 8 ftance of an hundred Yards from the Sea Shore, and has & Rosd before it ; o that they are obliged to carry sil their Goods in Boats for a full League. The Mag:zine of the Company, and of privatc Perfons, aie boch numerous and magu ficent, as far as any Thing of this Nature can be {0 ; they have a large and besuriful AMarket Place, fix fine Gaies, eleven Baftions for the Defence of their Walls, a regular Ciadel well fortified, 400 Pieces of Cannon upon their Warks ; befides s good Tramn ol Field Peces, Bombs, Murtars, and other miliary Stores in their Arfenal, “The Goveinor has a very fine Houfe, with convenient Offices, and whatever elfe is requifie for the Service or Credit of the Company. On the Wet Side of the Town the Conipany have a very fine Garden, beauti‘u!ly laid out into public Walks, and whatever may contripuce io the Saiista€tion and. Pleainre of the wealthier and bester Sort of Inhabitants ; ad oining.to which Garden there is a very fine Houfe richly turnifhed, made Ule of for the Recep.ion of Foreign Princes snd Ambaffadors, who, Whenever they refort thither, are trested with infinite Relpedt, & all their Expences defrayed by theCompany: Of much more Conlequence to the In ercft of their Commerce, than the Expence 1t occsfions. he other public buildings confiit of » large Convent of the Jefuits, where they have ulually 12 or 15 Pricits, who befides officiating in that Charaéter, likewile keep School, and initruét the Ciildren at the Inhabiiants in Reading, writing and arithmetic, and whatever may be of Ulcin Civil_Lite ; for, as to the Learnec Lanpusges, they would be li tle fervice in this Part of the World. There are, befides chat of the Jefuits, Two other Convents but not fo confidersble by any means as the former.. The ‘ufes of the Town are as regularly laid cutas ifit nad been all built at once tho’ it is now near 4 Leagues in extent. L e e ey The Governor General for the Compsny, 2s he is !odged in a fine Palace, (o he makes aligure equal thereto in every Reip @& He has Twelve Horle Guards cloathed in Scarier laced with Gold, and an Offizer with the Titlée of Captain, who Commands them. He has sifo a Foot Gu:rd of 300 Men, Natives of the Couatry, called Pcons : and, when he sppears in Pubiic, he is carried in & Palankin very richiy adorned with Go'd’ Fyinge. But all this Pomp and State is diiplayed on proper and Particular Occafions, upon the receiviog of Piinces and Ambaffadors ; st orrer Times, his Guards are imployed in the neceflary Sarvice of the Company, and carn to the full the Wages theyare piid; fo-,as we have alresdy fhewn, there are few Settlements beiter yegulated,; or more dilcretly governed than this ; which the Reader will the more e fi y believe, when he is told, that according to the Iaft Account taken of the Xnhabitants of (his Place, there sppear to be in it no lefs than 120 0cc Chriftians, Mahom«tans, and Gentiles 3 A Thingaimoftincredible, if the Fa&t was not [upported by Teltinfonics, the Authority of which is rot to bé dilputed. A Y . ‘Lhere canrot be a Place better fested for Tradé than this, heing in the Midfl of the European Settlements, on the Coaft of Coromandel, and having all the Bay of Bengal open before them ; fo that here the Company’s Mogazives are (ull of sli the Commodities and Manu- faétures, not only of the Coift o° Coromandel, but of other Parts of the Indies, fuch as Bengal, Sarat, and the, Coaft of Milabar ; as «l{io ot fuch as are imporied from Pe:fis; and the Cozft of the Red Sea; and here like- wile are their Ware Houles for all Sorts of European Commodities,which are convenicntly Traniporied from thence, as Qocsfion requires, to all the Markets in the The S.aple Trade, however, “of this Place is elteemed to be Piece,Goods ; of which the fineft are made in the Ncighbo’ning Kingdom of Golconda, and the beft Piinted here. They likewife have great Qaan- tivies of Si k raw and unmanufatured, Gold and Siiver Brocades, Perfames, Spices, and Diamonds ; in which laft T:ade they are faid to have made great Prozrels of late, and tor which they =re very conveniently fituated, a5 being ata very [mall Diitance from the fineft Mines in the lndics, and by having Perfons among them as well fkilled in Jewels as any Perfons in the World. The French Eaft India Company, therefore can not be blamed ior theChoice of thisRefidence,which,all Things confi .ered, is fitceft for them of any in the Indies; or for the Pains and Expence they have beftowed about it, in the whule.to about 800,000Livres,or near 40,000 i. Sterling ; fince thereby they have rendered it fo ftrong and” fo Commodious, that it might very eafily drive Ten Times the Trade they have ever had in this Part of the World, . G S & Charlefawn, South Carolina, Tuly 4.. + A Gentleman who lefc Crpe Fear iuit Wednelddy was_{e’nnight, informs vs, that Capt. Parker in a Snow, arrived in that river juft before he cawe away, ina thort piflige from Portfmoutht, and bro’c advics, thata congrels was actually holding in Germany upon a gene- ral pexce, and that a [afpenficn of arms was hourly expelled. Sy it The hon. houfe of affembly of this province have pafled a bili for laying an additional duty of £.100 on Negroes impoited. . Laft Sunday afternoon {si’d from this.bar for En- gland, his Majefty’s fhip D' Jiphin, Capt. Marlowe with ten veflels under convoy. . The 1ft of June a large fleet for Europe failed from Jamaica, under convoy ot the Merlin and Lively men of war. : 4 2 Another flect from that ifland was to fail the zoth of Julv. JPHILADE‘?PHIA.]ulyzg._ Extralt of a Letter from the ifland of St. Domingue: “ We are in pofleflion of tiiis 1iand, which provesa fing one : We fhould have iuffered much in our at- . tack, had the French behaved with any fpirit ; only parc of the fleet is yet arrived, and we landed and at- tscked with nomore than 700 men. The approach of the hurricanes will ptevent cir awempting any fur- ther conquelt in this country; uniil @ more favourable feafon, when we expeét to vific the Granades, er St. Luccea. A fhip with 120 of Col. Vaughn™ regiment istaken and carried into Martinique. Th= commander of the troeps was capt. Charles William Legeyt.” "N EW.YORK, Julyz7. Lsft Monday Afternoon, the I'op ot the. Steeple of the new Dutch Church in this City, was ftruck with Lightning, which beat off ‘ome of the Shingles in the crooked Courfe of its Dirc€tion, and fet the Building on Fire, but it was imm:diately extinguifhe’, and the Damag= was very ircorfiderable. . It is faid this is the third [ime thisChuich has been ftruck wiih Light- hing—probzbly ewing o 1:s Situation: ; Thefzme Evening a Yarmec’s Barn, near ten Mile Runin New Jerfey, with a confilerab'e Quantity of wheat, and cther grgin, being il his harveit, was fet on fire by lighining and entirely confumed. Alio & houfe was ftruck near Hell Gate, which ipiita beam in the cellar, bur no perfon was hurt. A The fame, Day the Marquis of Granby, Cspiain Smith, ariived here in about four Weeks irom Quebec wih Cloathing for Geoerel Amhe:ft's Regiment. By Lim we bave an A-count of 3 Men of Waranda icn der cruifing in the River of tae Hurbouar’s Math. Thur(day 12t Cspc Pobert Rogsrs embarked for South Carolica, totake upon him the Command of Capt. Paul Demere’s Company of Rangers. ; 2 The n:x: day parc of the 40°h regiment came down from Albiny, and encamped on the Eaft end of Staten ifland. -~ A: did alio part of tne fift batalion of the Roysl Americans. A .d on Siturday another body of his Majefty’s forces cume down and encamped ac the fame place. 3 i j By Capt. Lyell from the Cosft of Africs, we have advice, that Capr. Nicoll, of this port, was not cut off by the Negroes, as was fome time ago publithed; but that he loft 40 of his {laves by an infurrction, and faved his veflel. ; We learn from Albany, that Sir William Johnfon was to fet out for fort Detroit about the firft inftant, the beiter to confirm the Iandians (here in his Briwannick Majefty’s intereit, g NEW-L AN D ONJiy 24, = - Capt. Parker from this Port 1s arived at St, Liits, in La. 18 40. inCompsny with three Tran{poris trom New York, he fell in with two French Privateers, who engaged him warmly for 3.0r 4 hours, and stempted tiouding one of the 'T'ranfports, but the Highlanders on board, making good U e of their Small Aims, they were beat off ; and by Means of the Might the whole got clear.. b : ; ; NBE W:P O R.T, fuly 2845 : “Litrali of @ Lester from Antigua, dated June 25. "I'he carte! for exchange of prifuners ai Maranic. has beén ftopt for fome tim:, by a ditference between commodofe D -uglafs and the General of that ifland, occalioned, «s I am informed, by one of oar men of war going there as a flig of truce for exchange of pri- foners, when another of his M:j:fty’s fhips cruifing, at the fame t'me in the offing, retook a French prize, while the other thip's ba-ge was sfhore ; this conduét fo encens’d the French General, that he detained the barge and men ; upon which, commodore D.oughlfs fent all the French prifoners in this'port to England, in fome merchantmen ; the General of Martinico (hrcgt ning :hat he would fend the Englifh prifoners likewile t5 Old France : However, he i.rs permitted fome New- England men 10 come io this ifland, in'a fmall boat, on “ Nums. 253 ; 'r:Wfittxs finccithi,s.i’APEYé. { was - fieft Publifh’d, AZET T:E Foreign and Domeflich. their parole, in order to procure as many French 1o return in the: faid boat, which if they could not obrein, they were to repsir to Martinico agsin, this however, fhcy have bad no cccaiion of performing, the difference 1n a great meafure being ‘accommodatcd, the Gerer:l having reftored the barge and crew. Lord Rollo Las pubiick'y declared, that :hole inhabitants of Deminico whodo #tot appear b the 24:h inftint, and txke an oath of allegiance, will be trested #s rebels and hang’d. Thelsft accounts froim that place mention, that the defign of the Englith is, to take poflefion ef ell ‘ihe other neutral iflands, but firlt (o0 attack the Grenades, which is of the greawft ftiength, and when {ubdued, will render them a more cafy conquelt. This once effected, will be a great fecurity to our navigaiion, ss thele ifl:nds are places of refort and retuge to the Mar- tinico privateers. - *T'is the unanimous opinion of the gentlemen at Antigus, that fo foon as che hurricane months are over, a bady of 10,005 men from Englsnd will join the forces alieady here, and attempt the re- dultion of Martinico. 10 ANNA POLIS, (in Marylend ) July 16, One Diy lsit Week, as Mrs. H.arz, who lived in Worcelter County, was ft:nding nesr the Chimney of her Houle, in the Time of a Thunder Guft, msking Punch fer fome Reapers, 2 Flath of Lightning csme down the Chimacy, «nd firuck her inftantsnecufly dead. Lt Wednefday che Ship Fithbourne, Capt Echiing- ton, lying in Patuxen:, was firnck with Lighining, three of the Men ftunned, bur they fi.on recovered, ‘ B O S8 T O N, Auguit 3 We heartiom MNew Hiven in Conneétrecnt, that on Tuelday the, 2ift. they had @ private Coimmencement at (ha' Place, when the Senior Clafs at -Yuie Coliege took their Degrees: . Capt. Dixey, who arrived at Marblehead left Satur- day {c'nnight, intorms, that he {aiéd from Lifbon the tirtt of Jure, and that on the 34 ( being Wedneiday ) halt an Hour after Six 0’Cleck in the Morning, wlen but 10 League: from the Rock of Lifbon he felt s moit fevere thock of an E.ril quake, which lifted aboat three Minutie: : 1t made his Ship tremble in a fu pifi'g man- neryend pur them 1nio great concern ior themielves,and much fear cf the Conicquences on thore, tie Shock was fo very great, . Laft Week did at Stoughton, in the g8 b Year of her Age, Mrs. Mary Horton : She wis at jaumaica, and one thit was furk by the Eartb quake there, v 1492 ; but was rema; kebly faved, and cicught io New Bogland ; fhe has been very healthy eves fince, and retain’d hes Senfes to the laft. Capt.:Winflow who arrived here laft Saturday in 14 Diys from Scuih Caroling, iniorms tist Yefterday fe’'nnight, he faw between 20 and 30 Sail of Veflels going into New Yok, ¢ of which he ook to be Men of War,but was not near edough to fpesk with any of them, Pxtraft of a Letter from South Caiolina, Fuly 10, ¢ WE are ftill without any N-ws from the Army, but “according to : Letters: from Fort Prince George, dated the 28:h, and from Augufta of the 30th of Jure, 20 Chicalans.and 2 Catawbas, sre return’d to the laiter Piace; and Report that on the Tenth the '‘Army was attacked by fome Cherokees, un‘een, that che firing con- tinued from Morning ti'l Noon, when the Rangers falling in upon the Rear of the Indians direfted by the Smoke,lthey totally routed the Party inthat Ambufcade,’ caiting many of them to Pieces, and trampling the reft under their Horfes Feet ; that they kncw not what Number of the Enemy were deftroyed,but of the Army 35 were ki'led;. and .24 .v(.updcd 3 Col. Grane upon this burnt feven of their Towns in the Micdle Settle-; ments, deitroyed all their Provifions, and turned in the Hor'es 10 -eat up tneir growing Corn ; that they con~ tinued with the Aimy three Days a'ter che A&ian, du:ing which Time not a Gun had been fi «d on either fice, «nd that :Col. Grant was preparing to go to the "Fowns in ¢he Valley, « Thele Chicafehis went from hence Jaft April tojoin the Army.under Col Grant, on the preien: Expediuion againft the Cherokees, and when thuy retured to Au- gulta they. hrought in two Incian fia'ps, which they pretentded they got by furpnzing @ imall Town inthe Cherokee naticn. . .. At Forg Pince George they had heard nothing from the Army but what thefe Indians reported ; and from ctheir Reports ic was fuppofed there kad been fome fkirmifh, &: (he begining of which thefe Pcople ren away. .The fame Letters affure us, that Col. Grant had upwards of 40 Days Provifions with him, far & greater Number o/Men thian e Army confifted of ; and intimate, that no New<{rom his head quarters was cxpetted in lels than ten Daye .. .. This is s}l rhe Account w= have,and comes only fiom thofe Irdians, wio are fuipcéted to have Runaway.” We learn from the Weft Indies, tha: Cept. Colfox in a Sloop beionging to New Lordon: is taken end cer- ’nto Martinico, as are likewiic the Capiains Riley (]