The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, December 11, 1761, Page 1

=i ' A i J ‘ ‘-: Mondsy in Teteny A 10« Flag of Truck | T H. . PORTSMOU fyam Martinsio, “Waving been thicre and ¢ ‘Redecmed thre¢ Hosraces, given for three févenal. Veflels “beic to this Port, taken and Ranfomed. - By him’ we have the following Intelli- gences : He Ieft Me¥tinecd the 5th ot November : Capt. Kisg in's Letter of Merque Brig from this Fort wis taken ; #llo Capt. Samuel Bifinch in a Ship gpp‘ hence ; ‘the ‘Privateer had bro's in'fome of his fhe was reteken. * Copt.dMgPaerlon in a Ship from Philidel phia’ has taket " Privateer Sloops of Tea and Twelve Guns, ad cerried them into Antigus. His' Mijely's Ship Grifiin, Capt. Taylor, was cat wwsy on Barbidoes, the Ship loff, but moft of the Crew faved. ‘Commodore Douglals, has, by Pro- clamation; given ‘grest Encoursgement to Englifh Privatecrs, that they fhall have all the Plonder they n.getest Martinéco 5 swhich was sot sllowed =t rudsloupe.: “In Confequesice of which; nesr one’ Hundred Sail of #\xfl\ Priveteers were cruifing in the Weft Indies, 'They are'making grest Preparati- éns to receive the Eoglith Forces, and had ‘encamp'd theit Women and Childsen in the Country. They. seceived Capt. Froft with « Fileof Mufqueteers, and. Kept a conftane Guard upon him, sfking him meny Queftions, but receiving no fatisfsllory Aniwers. ft is very difagréable to Capt: Froftto think, thers thould be Occafion for the following further Intellis nce, bat at the enrneft Solicitation of the Concern’d, and ypon his Promile, to mske the fame public upon his Arrival, #s well as from & Mo:ive that the Injui’d fhould receive fome Recompence, tho’ not adeijuate to their Soferings, the fallowing LIST of Ha,g‘age: Left by him &t Martineco- the gth ot November is pubiith’d ; the original Accopntisin French, fign'd by the Governor of Martineco. ? “ " Schooner Difpatch, ot Maryland, Job Warren, Hoftage, taken und Ranfomed for 30,000 Livres. ~Bwaw Peggysof Maryland, John Tardy, Mue and and Hoftage, Ranfomed for 12,000 Livres. * Sfapp Finny, of Norfolk in Virginia, Thomas Simpfon,Matc & Hoftage, Ranfomed lor 7, sooLivres. > ‘B¥habner Saliey, of Virginte, John Biigs, juar. Mare snd Hoftsge, Ranfomed for 4,000 Livres. Sioop Neprune, of Bofton, John Taber, Captaid and Hoftzge, ¢e24; Ranfomed for soo Dollars, Sloop May Flower, of Nantafker, John Jofies and Danisl Huzzy, Hoftsges ; Ranflomed for 2000 Dol. faid Huzzy has been pat on bosrd an Englith Sloop taken gfier the Ranfom, and fince retaken ; Jones is dead, ' Brig Ringer, of Silem, Jofeph James Hoftsge, Ranfomed for 2,300 Dollars. Brig Three Friends, of North Carolina, Peter Clear, Mate and Hoftsge, Ranfomed for 800 Dal. Stoop .......' ot Plymouth or Falmouth, Samuel Aiwood Hoftage, Ranfomed for 3ooco Livres. Schoener Revenge, of Marblehead, Martin Waker Mate and Holtage, d2ad, Rénfomed for 1zo00 Liv. Schooner Dolpiin, of Providence, Gideon Whip- per Hoftage, Ranfomed for 3,000 Livres, Snow Hoplon, of [Idifex, Richerd Frayne, Mate and Hoftage, ranfomed for 20,000 Liyres Siorp Careful, cf Bofton, John Beney Mate and Haltage, Rinfomed for 1800 Doilars. Capt. Froff begs Leave in Behalf of the Hoftages, to Remonflrate againft the Croelty of keeping fo many innocent Men in the greatelt Diftrels ; he for- bears to accule any particular Perfon of Blame, buit that they fhould be relieved, Humanity, Generofizy, end Gratita le calis Toudly on the Owners or Matters of fuch Vell-!s as are Ranfomed, to fpend their For- tunes, & even rilque their Lives, rather than let them remain 10 fuch 2 Condition 25 may be better conceiv’d than expre(s’d, in the prefent Circumitances of Affairs in Martineco. It would only aggravate the Friends of thefe: I{oftages for him to particularize their Dif- trefs, but he does hereby difcharge not only his Dy, but his Pramife, to let it be publickly known, that thofe concerned, may haften to their Relief, or ina fsw Months (and he believas before now with fome) the Lives of thele unhappy Men will be facri- fised to the infatiable Avarice and inhuman Principles of contralted Spirits. N E.W . .Y O R K Nov o By Capt. Monfad, who arrived here about 10 days fince from Larng, in Ireland, we have received sn Isith paper, which contans the following psriiculars under the Dublin head, viz. * That 7000 farces, part of the troops now at Belicifle, are 1o embark in s few weeks for the Weft Indics, sad join snothier 7 gdived. bere Int Gontaining sbs Frafbeh Advices, \ BRIDAY, Dedpuser 11/ 176i. @ baedy there from Americs, ta. all che French Yeeward iflands. . That two Feedch men of war, of 70 guas each, [ c;m the Ealt Indies arrived at Belleifle road, - whers our fleet Jay nder " French colours, #nd the French flag {lying-on: the caftle, who weré imnredistely bosrded and teken without lofs.... Fhis sccounicomes from St.Sebaftians, of Auguft 19.... Centainly we fhonld have had Toim- portant an scqaifition ‘menticlied in fome of the September intelligence eonie ¢p hand from London, hiad it been true } and the rathier as cutters sre con- funtly emrployed frai eifls-te- L We have Advice that the'}jrig America, from Ja- maica for Philadelphis, was taken by a French priva- teer [oon after fhe failed '; thattwo of her hands were left on board with fix of the Enemy, who retook the veflel from the Frenchinen, but being chefed the day after by a veflel: which they tookito be French, 1an her afhore, where fhe was ebtirely loft. i Sir William: Jobnfin fofig veturned about the be- : Zimning -of this-month, 10 bis ot at Moust Fobnjou, Srom his journey among the dndians to the Weflward, bavirg, we are told, proceeded as for as Mifbilimacinac on Lake Huront ;-and found the different tribes in a very gosd bumour. : . Befides what was mentioned in our Jaff with regard to the flores Jbip’d, ¢, on-beard the expedition fleet which. ilately failed from this port,....we are offured tbere were 15 officers and 184 men of the rogal re- giment of arsilisry, with a large battering train alfs embarkeds under the command of Gen. MONCKION. - "Tis faid, that the Royal Scotch, and Montgomery's Highlanders, who bave been at Halifax for [im: time, are to embark from thence to join the flees gone 1o the Soutbward. : Some fay this flzet are o vendeazoous at Darbades, sthers at Guadaloupe, €5¢c. . . Be thar as it will, the whole affirds great grounds to believe we fball foan fee the finifbing firoke given (o the French power both in North and Soath dmerica. Yeflerday the Harriott packet bomt Jeft this part with themail for Falmouth. . oo . . Next Taejday bis Excelleney THOM AS BOONE, Efy; embarks on board the Edward, Captain Davis, in order'to proceed to bis Government at Sauth Carslina. We fortber learn from S. Carolina of O&teber 28, That tie fourcompanics of the 17th and 224 regimests, then at Ninety Six, and commeanded by Captains jobn Campble, Cbriftopher French, Sir Harry Seton, and ‘Quintin Kenneoy, were to march down the country immediately, and embark om board the iranfport fbips Amity's Affifiance, and Broiherly Love, and proceed or Domineco, Guadalsupe, or Baréadss, under conviy of bis Majefly's [bip Nightingale, James Campbell, Efg; commander. Major -Alexsader Monypenny of the 22d regimept, ihey fay, will gmbark with thofe fosr companies. B O S T O N, Decembery. On'the 23d u't. died at Hingham in the Qne Hundred and firfi Vear of herAge, Mrs. Sarab Prati: She enjoyed a'goed State-of Heslth 10 her Dssth— She has tef: Children, Grand-Children, and Great- Grand Children, to the fifth Generation, - 0 the Numberof 182, On Friday laft in the Afternoon as Mr. Remem- ber Frefton of Dorchefter was returning Home by Water from Caftle William, it is fuppofed s fudden Gaft of Wind overfet his Canoe, whereby he was drowned : The Canoe was tsken up the Morning following in Broad Sound, half full of Water, with the Sail {tanding ; the Oars and Benches were feund on Spe&acle 1fland : The Body is not yet found.— He had received shout 60/ old Tenor st theCaftle. He has left ¢ Children : His Wife died very fud- denly about 3 Yearsago.—A Brother of his about 14 Years before Joft his Lifc nesrthe fame Place by hisGun accidentslly going off when he wasGusoning. On Saturday the 28th vit. a Schooner from North Carolins, belonging to New Yok, John Atkins, Maiter, in coming into this Port was drove by the high Gsles of Wind we then had, on s Plece calied the Egg-Rock near the Light Houfe : The Mafter kept on the Wreck, and the Men on the Rock, “till the next Morning, when they were taken off by the Pilot Boat. The Vefftl was flove to Picces and her Cargo loft. A Extre& of a Letter from London, Sept. 22, *¢ The Grandeur of the Coronstion this Day is not to be defcribed, por can you have .2 perfeét Ac- countof it. In the mean TimeI think. proper to inform you, that previqus to the late Roysl Marrisge the Difpute was revived about the Précedence of the Trith Peers walking it the Wedding of their Ma- jefties, when the Kipg dire&ed, that the Privy Coun- cil thould ernquiré and repost the Preceedents ae they ifh ‘ibeiconqp¢& of ' - Noug 271 " 5 Weeks Gadeehis Puvsru” AZETTE . Forgign and Domeflich. appeared bP‘r: fimilisr Cceslions, upen which Re. poit, the L th Peers ard Prerefles were. sdmitted o walk, and mesc marlhal &d o the Piaceflion iogecher wiih the I;’r_cr; “:‘f‘ ¥ fg::'cs of Grear Bricsin pecord ing ta their reflpslive Degrees, wkisg Pl he. Briafh Nobifity of Erfgr‘g;gflagk_ S fi‘ghqg bewr fiom WeRfeid, That one Mrs. Day o 'ace gathered 535 Punkins off of épe. Vine. and, ail'jhs Produce of g ingle Seed. » Yeilfiday two Women were fcund drowned in & Dock piar the Whitket; and'as they were both’ Strangeh, iis fuppokd they mifs’d their Way ¢hé Evering Gefére, SRERRILS Sl Extrift of a Letter from St. Kitts, O8ober 14. “WE 'earn that the French et Martineco, aré in daily Expeélation of being attacked ; they give ocur that they have five thoufend regular forces on the 1flsnd,bu: thoie weil acquainted .therewith, fay, they have not wore than Fifteen Hundred, or 2 thoafand st moft. Their chief frength confifts in- Milfia’ white and black.” -0 Exiralt of a Letter from Capt. Fobn Thurflen, to bis - Owners at Newport, Nov. 15, 1761. ; “Ten Days atter I {ailed from Newpost, in Lats 22. Long. 77. I met with the Snow Oilive Brsnch, Capi. Fowler, bound from Cape Fear to NewYork, in giftrefs, having 7 Feet Water in her Hold; and bath Pumps continuslly going. At Capt. Bowler's réqueft [lay to,and tockhim end hisPeople on board, teing 13in Number. They had but juRk time to fave a few Cloaths, when the Snow went (o the Bot~, tom. We hear that a Slobp of about 80 or go Tons is afore on Nan:ucket Bar, and bilg’d, bu: po Hands on board : By her Papers and Cargo “twas judged fhe was bound frem North Carolina to this Place, commanded by on¢ Monro ; and that the People of Niantucket were ufing t:eir Endeavours to fave Veflel and Cargo, but that it was feared the Former wiih great Part of the lstter would be loft. g By Captain Nobla whe arriged at Philacklphia a fiw Days agv in & Pporr Faffage frons Cork; we bave the following Advices, viz L O N D O N, September 24. Immediately dprn the Duke of Bedfora’s ixtering Wefiminifier ball on borfeback, who rods as lord High Conflable, of England, ard Earl™lalbat with bim ss Lord High Steward, lwd acclamasions were given, which frightened the bor [es, and it was with the greatef} difficulty bis Grace managed bis, being mifi suruly, upon which an Officer entered the Hall, and reguefled Silence ; thew Mr. Dymocke, the Champion, with bis attendance, entered, and throwing down bis gauntiet, or Sfleel glove, ¢ Herald prociaimed the chailerge, in the Jollosuing words : £ «s If any perfon, of what degree [sever, bigh or low, fball demy. or gainfay, Our Sovereigs Lord King « GEORGE Iil. King of Great Britain, France < aud Ireland, defender of the faith,c. grandfon and S mext heir to our Sovereign Lord King GEORGE 1L “ the laft King deceafed, 1o be Right Heir so the In- «« peral Crozom of this Realm of Great Britais, of thot <« .be ought nct ts enjoy the Jame, bere is his Champisn, < sobo faith, that be lyeth, and is a falfe traytor, being s ready in perfon to combat with bim ; and in this «« quarrel will adventure bis life againft bin, ox what ¢ day foever be (hall be apprinsed.” Sept. 8. In the Leyden Gezzttewe find the fol- lowing intelligenee, dated London, Aug. 28. "3cne difpatches which M. Bufly received the 14th inftant, have occafioned feversl councils to be held st St. James's, and divers conferences between the King’s minifters. The court ftill'appears refolved to infifk upon the abfolute pofieflion of ail North-Americs, including Louifiana, as the moft effedlusl Means to preveat, for the future, all difputes between the two nations about thatpast of the world. The French, it is faid, fhall be allowed a place in Newfoundland for curing theit fith but they will not be permitted to fority it. As to the American iflands, the court, it is precended, will confent to the reftitution of Guada- loupe, upon conditions that France rencunce,. for ever, all claims or titles to the neutral iflands of St. Vincent, Dominique, St Lucis, and Tcbsgo, in fa- vour of-the Britilh Crown. We are sllo told thae France will agree to demolifh the fortifications of Duckirk on the fea fide ; but fhe dpes not explain herlelf with regsrd to Oftend, Nieuport, and other places in the Netherlands ; an objeét which our Court has.very mugh at heart, as well for the ingereft of our commerce, and the fafety of our goafls, as to preventany violsiion of the barrier treaty. Moreo- ver it is faid, that Belleifle will be exchanged agaialt the ifland of Mincrea.”,