The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, April 9, 1762, Page 1

THE Important News of the Surrender of - Martinico " &c, PORTS MOUTH, April 6. Since our laft a Number of Velfels bave ar- rived at Bofton from the Wef Indies 5 by ome of them who arrived there lafp Wednefday in 32 Days from St.Kitts,&5 anotber fromGuadaloupe in 24 Days, we bave certain Advice, That The Ifland of MARTINECO, with all its Dependencies have furrender’d to his Britannick Ma- jefty’s Forces, Commanded by General MONCKTON, &’c. There are mone of the Articles of Capitulation come to Hand 5 the follswing is all we can colleZ at ‘prefent of the Operations of our Trosps during the Siege, ( excipt 2be Proceedings from the 6th of Fanuary to the 18th, which we gave an Account of iv oxr Paper the 24 Inf} ) FANU ARYZ, o RO« 20, 21, /22, 3¢ MPLOYED in erefting Batteries and fhirmifhing with the Enemy, without any further Lofs than plaguing aur Cen- ‘tries : The Army were impatient to come to Adtion. A . 24th, General Francis Grant, by Day Light, at the Head of 2 5 Companies of Gra- ‘nadiers, and the firft Battalion ot Royal High- landers, by Way of Flankers, attacked Mount Tortonfon, which in abont two Hours Time, beat all that oppofed them, and pofleffed all their doubling Redoubts and Intrenchments. A Grenadier of the 28th Regiment had Mon- fieur La Touche’s Horfe by the Bridle, but was killed. We took one of Mr. La Tou- che’s Aid de Cahps, 5 Officers and 50 Gre- nadiers. In fhort, this has been the greateft Stroke.of Valour ever difplayed, eithéer in Eu- yope or America; Jince the Commencement of the war . Fanll g : : 255.26, 27y Emplb"yed in ere&ing Bat- teries and fkirmithing. Mr. La Touche’s People petitioned to be allowed to make a Elafhee of us, as they termed it. The 27th, at 3 in the Aftetnoor; they paid tis welcome, though dn unexpected Vifit : We were very foon amonglt therit and gored them, dnd in lefs than one Hour were in Pofieflion of their Camp and Batteries ; and had alfo the Plea- fure of feeing nine Thoujand Whites, and three Thoufand armed Negroes running before us. We took Mr. NADO, late Governor of Guadaloupe, 7 Officers, and roo private Men prifoners. From this Affair is dated the Fall of Martinico. 28. We bombarded and cannonaded Fort Royal from the Batteries the Enemy aband- oned the Night before. The Regulars and Militia, convinced of the fuperior Valour of the Britilh Forces, began to come in. 29. Our Batteries from Mount Fortonfon began to play on the Fort. Deferters as ufual, 30. Bombarding and cannonading as ufual, 31. Captain James Robinfon of Mont- gomery’s Light Infantry took Pofleffion of fome Batteries mounting 21 Pieces of Can- nmon, Bombarding as ufual. t FRIDAY, Arrit 9. 1762, New-Hampfhirej@f Conmz'ning the Frefbeft Advices, ‘nine Months. Feb. 1. More Batteries erefted, 2. A new Battery began to play on them’; ‘their Fire flackened ;5 feveral Deferters from the Fort. g 3. Early in the Morning 50 French and 12 Englith Prifoners from the Fort deferted ; the Fire from the Enemy Slackened much in the Evening; between 7 and 8 o’Clock the Enemy beat a Parley from the Fort. 4. Monfieur Delengrey, who command- ed, furrendered the Fort, together with 8oo French and Negroes, to his Britannick Ma- jefty’s Troops 3 alfo a fine Train of Artillery and a vaft deal of ftores of all Kinds. 5, The Inhabitants coming in from all Quarters for Protetion, 6, A Summons was fent to the Garrifon of Pigeon Ifland, which was returned by a French Officer without being epened ; the General defired him to tell his Commandant that he would make bim eat that very Paper. In Confequence of that Meffage, the Com- mandant fent Bis Excellency a Cart Blanche. The greateft Part of the I0and have furren- dered, notwithftanding the Provocation the Enemy has given us by being obliged to fight armed Slaves ; there never was a war carried on in a more civilifed Manner, none -, hurt but fuch as were in Arms, no Houfes or Plantations deftroyed, nor any pillaging al- lowed of. 1 beliewe fome of the Noblefie of Gua.....e, will forfeit their Eftates and be hanged, as it appears plainly in the Merchants Books, that they are concerned in Privateering Bufinefs. We learn by a Letter from the Weft In- dies, That the Inhabitants of St. Euftatia, were almoft certain that the Englith could not reduce the I{land of Martineco : One Man there on the 7thof February, beld Stakes for Feurteen Thoufand four Hindred Picces of Eight, that the Ifland would not furrender it The French gafconaded moft fcandaloufly on the Appearance of our For- ces ; and contemptuoufly called thofe brave . Troops, who bad conquered Quebec and Bel- Yifle, Wemen in Seldiers Cloaths 3 but a univer- fal Gloom was foon fpread on the whole French Core. at St. Euftatia. —~When the General retired, he gave Leave to the Pri- vateers to quit the Ifland, and make their Efcape in the beft Manner they could : A Number of Pettiaugers got to Eaftatia, with Women, Children, Negroes and Effelts from Martinico.---The Flower and Glory of that 1fland fell the ame Day that Granada fell 3 a fele€t Body of 100 Men were intirely cut 1o Picces, except 39, with, as the French {ay, 1500 mote of lefs Notein all : A dread- ful Carnage! and that execured in a very fhort Time. One Letter mentions, that the Bombardment and Cannonading of Fort Royal was fuch, that Ailton’s Defcription of the Infernal Region, was not to be compared - ey Td® LR Esxtraét of a Letter from tke Weft Indies, dated March 4. 1762, « MARTINECO ¢ Surrendered to theBritith Troops the 12th ¢ of February, upon fuch Terms as the En- ¢ glifh thought proper to allow them—All ¢ the Windward Iflands intirely in Poffeflion ¢ of the Eoghth.”” ™~ o Numz. 288 N Werksifirce ithis PArER J wis Gt Publifa’d. Foreign and Domefiick. We hear that the French Regular Troops who were Prifoners of War, had embarked and failed the 26¢h of Feb. from Martineco. His Excellency General THOMAS hasz iffued a Preclamation appoiating the 11th of March to be a Day of Thaok{giving through< out the Ilands under his Command ; the following is extracted from faid Proclamation. ¢ g T hath alfo pleafed Almighty God, to favour His Majefty’s juft Defigns, by referving in a very extraordinary De- ‘gree the Health & Vigour of His Forces, in a Climate to which they were generally un- accuftomed, and by many other Demonftra- tions of his mighty Power, fo that the faid 1land of Martineco have been entirely re- duced to His Majefty’s Obedienee, in much lefs Time than could be reafonably expeéted, after the great Preparations made by the Enemy for the Defence of the fame ; and hath thereby removed from the Leeward Iflands the Scourge which had fo forely af- flited them in all former Times of War fince their fettlement ; for which the Inha- bitants thereof are in a more particular Man- ner bound in Duty, to offer up their Praifes and Thankfgiving to his Divine Majefty.” In a Jamaica Paper of the 13th of Fe- bruary, we have the Speech of his Excellency Gov. LitTLETON, on the 4th of the fame Month, to the Council and Affembly of that Ifland, with their refpective Addrefics to him. His Excellency mentions to them, that he had Intelligences, that the Enemy had pro- jefted an Invafion of that Ifland, they ex- peting the Junétion of a Spanifh Squadrod then in thofe Seas ; which had .induced his Excellency to iffue his Majefty’s Proclama- tion for Marthal Law to take Place ; and recommends to them to purfue all other Mea- fures to put the Country into a proper State of Defence, and to ufe every Means which might moft cffectually fecure that Ifland, and avert the Mifchiefs that apparently threaten it: On the r3th of January an Embargo was laid on all Shipping in the Ports of Jamaica 3 at the fame Time Martial Law was pro- claimed in that Iflagd. We hear that Part of the Fleet at the Re- dution of Martineco were failed for Jamaica. , NEW.YORK, March 25. . By a Veflel from Guadaloupe, we have Advice that Letters were received there from our Forces at Martineco, giving an Account that they were in Poffeflion of Fort Royal, Fort St. Piere, and all the Places of any ftrength : That 13 Parifhes, being the chief Part of the Ifland, had fent to General MONCKTON offering to Capitulate on the fame Terms as Guadalope ; which the General abfolutely refufed, infifting that the 1land and all its Dependencies fhould be furrendeted at Difcreton, that they might en- j('w their Plantations, &c. and the Soldiers Prifoners of War, that they fhould have no other Terms till His Majelty’s Pleafure was known. , That Genersl MONCKTON met with no gredt Oppofition in taking Fort Rayal, and that our greatei? Lofs of Men was of the High Landers, occifioned by aSally from the Town, in which the Enemy were driven back,and our Troops following them tco esgerly, Part of the High Landers got into the T'oswn wi h the French, and the Gates were fhut upon them : That there are but 16 Parifhes in the Ifland. Our whols Liofs does not exceed 300, Y