The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, April 16, 1762, Page 2

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ML 0N B0 N Ayl ey Extras of Tave Letters jrom an Officer at R&imm, ) a Gentleman in this Town, datea the 10th and 1515 of February 1762, : e HAVE the Pleafure to acguaint you, :hat e are in Poff ffian of this whole fland,—'tis a glerious one. and wort) the Trouble of taking it —Omn.the 15145 of Aafp DMonth at ¢ 0’Cleck Afternoon ave landid withzut the Lofs of @ M n, the Ships baving firf? d flroyed the Ensny’i DBatterics near the Shore, we immediately took Poffiffin of th: rifing Grounds about the Place awhere ave land:d, for dsit was latein the Day awhin we got on Shore we 51d 23t Time 1o pufh any further for that Night, but got our Field drtillery landed diredtly, and lay upon our Arms till the next marning, nwben «we advanced towards the Enemy, wchs frirmifbed avith var Light Infantry, but never flood rear enough to make ‘a Jferious Affair of it ; avhen we came near enough we found the Enciny pofied as firongly as you can imagine on the Monte Tortcnfmn, General Manckion avent in perlon to recomnoitre “their Situation, and upon Sfinding that they avere intrenthedto their Chins, that their Intrenchment wiere amply provided «vith Artillery, ard that thry bad feveral Redeats, “avith many Picces of Caii #om in each, all of wwlbich could play upsn bis Troops as they cdvanced 1o the stiack, be pradintly deferred it till ke could git up his beavy Artillery, and raife fome Batteriis r0 anniy the Enemy, avhile ave advanc’'d fo charge them ; their Siiuation awas thus, they bad a wery deep Gully in their Front, upon the Side of awkich they threw up an In ‘arenchment, from whince they could keep a mofi furicus 'Fire of Mulguetry upon us awbilz ave awere paffing it, which aws mull ablolutely bawe done before we could cime toan Engagement aviih them s beyand this Intrenchment they bad another amply provided with Artillery to play upon _any Body of Troops that fould advance to artack thim 5 on the Flanks of this lecond Intrenchment th.y had taws Redouts, one on the Right the other on the'Left, which averg provid.dwith Cannon to rake the Troops as they came up 5 beyond this they had ather Redouts and Intrenchments, and beyand them again others-all the Way tv the oan, which aves about two Mile: : This you will fay was being firongly pofied 5 but Britifs Gremadiers innured 1o Wary and ufid to conquer,furmount ab! Difficulties We got our Batteries perfelied by the 234 at Night, avben the General gave Orders for the Grenadiers of (he Army to be in Readinels to florm the Enemy’s Intrench ments at Day light the next Morning, [upported by the Jourth Brigade ; avbile the other Brigades of the drimy made ather dittacks in different Places.— A:cordingly the Morint Day bigan to appear, Brigadier Grant, at the Head of Twenty-tawo Companies of Grenadiers, advanced towards the Enemy, when the Grenadicrs began to enter the. CGully, the French direftly perceived us, and began a brifk Fire upon us, avhich awe awere obliged to fuffer for above taventy Minutes, as the Gully took us that Lime to pafs #, bowever we pufbed on, and as foon as we got on , the ather Side nve forced them from this Intrenchment, and they retired tothe other ;5 [from awbhence as foon as ave B.avedour Heads above the Side of the Hill they began a m-[} furious Fise of Small Arzis and Artillery, load. d with Grape fhot, whith killed and awounded many Officers and Men, but not @ Man of our Grenadiers attempted to give Way 5 may on the contrary, charged the Encmy axith the mire Pury and carry’d this their chicf Intrenchment with both the Redouts in a wery few Minutes 5 From this the Monfieurs retired into a Sugar Honfe which they bad : Jortified and prepared for that Purpole, bebind avhich they bad another Redout wwith Cannon, which played upon s, and did us great Damage 5 bere they made their chiefeft ard lafi rejolute Stand ; but ave forced them to abandin thefa Fortifications, mot avithout Lols on both Sides, after this we drowe them from Intrenchment to Redout, and from Redsut to Intrenckment till - ave drove them ints Town, * aubitherit awas impoffible to follow ther on Account of the Fort : Some of us purjuedfo Jar as 1o pafs th: Bridge at the Grand Holpital, but avere orderid to retive.—Qur chicf Lofs fell upon th: Grenadier:, 300 of iwhom were killed and awounded, b:fides @ Nuwmber of Officers, and ile 1R Battalionof Royal Hig llanders likewife fuffered greatly. —The AGion awas ower by Nine o’Clockin the Morning, 19 the Honaur and Satisfaltion of th: General and avhile Ariny.—iee~The Enemy biing now drove from their darling Spots, toock Poft on Monte Grenier, ( a high Hill awbich commands Fort Royal, and which is the firongell Pofi 1 ever faw, with Batteries of 24 Piecesof fine heawy Can- non and twe 13 Inch Mortars,) this the General avas vefolvid 1o drive them from, and accordingly detachid Brigatiers Haviland and Walfp with their Brigades, and all the Light Infantry to go on every Side of it, 10 get Poffeffion of Monte Grenier 5 but from the firength of 1hs Place it was not poffible to attack it but by regular Sicge ; avhich avould hawe employed wus a long Time 5 but the Encmy took it in their Heads on the 27th to come dowwn and attack the Brigades and Light Infantry, and awhs awere fo well received that they were totally routedin five Minutes Time iiith great Lols, andave purfucd thim o foft up the Hill, that they abandoned all” their flromg Worlks, cnd ran dovon theother’ Side in the greateft Pannick, leav - ing us to take Poffeffion of @ waft Quantity of Artillery, and indeed every ‘lb:'ng they bad there, nay they did not even [pike up a Gun 3 the Redout bere awas as flrong as Nature and Art could make it, and awbich avould bawe 6oft ui many Lives had they fiaid to aifend it ; We began e o A S R E o \ 0'Clack at Night.—Ube next Day ave bigan to fire cn the Fort avith their owcn Carnen and dmmanition ; and the Day folloavirg our own Batteiies began to pluy upan the Fort from Monte Tortculum, ave continucd "battering the Fort atith Shot and Shells 15ll the 5th of Fibruary at Night, avoken thes fint out a Figg of truce and furreudercd upon biing alloaved the Hynours of War ; andgled ue avere 12 give thim any tirms, for they mipbt bawe difinded it a month lenger § 0t is prodigious firong, and wery little damaged : the Inbalitants immediately came in and vr- roidered them/clves—~The 1315 Mr. Latouchs capitalaicd Jor the whale Iflund : I hawve not heard upen avtat terms 3 but beliewe much the Jame that awas given to Guaaaliupe. — e Grenadiers of the wibols driny and the [econd Brigade bave recciv'd Orders to imbark early in the Dorning for St. Piere’s, awbere Monfienr Latotche bas agreed vo lay dowon bis Arms, and furrender. Fhus 1 bave endeavourcd 1o give you the beff Account 1 could of tiisgreat Conguift : Newer awas an HAimy more hapfy und:r the Command of any General than we are under i/ e avorthy Mr. MoNCKTON ; bis awhole fludy it to fore bis King and Country, and to make every one unaer bim bappys but | mufl drop the Subjedl, for 1 am not able to exprels bis Worth ; the whole Army awould fécrifice their Lives for bim ; and a Generalfo belsved will ever bawve Succefs.”"— Fridey laft an Exprels arrived here from New-Yorl;, with Difpaickes for his Excellency ourGovernor, which was bro’t there by His Majefty’s Ship Enterprize, John Holden, Efq; Commander. And the next Day &' Veffel failed as an Expre(s Boat to Halifax, with Letters to Governor Be/ber, end the Re. Hon. Lord Colvill at Halitax.—'Tis faid the Men of War st Halifax, together with Major Gorham’s Rangere, sre ordered immediaiely to New York, to go on a feciet Expedition. _ By a Letter {rom Providence, we are inform®d, that War agaicft Spain is tobe declared there and at Rhode- Hland To Morrow, : : Cn Monday laft the Guns st Caftle William, ot the Batteries in this Town and Charleftown, were fired at One o’Clock, on Account of the Glorious Acquifition of the whole Ifland-of Martineco, by His Majelty's Vi&orious Troops. | We nefday laft Capt. McCarthy asrived her ina Ship in 18 Days from the Weft Indies, who informs, that two or thiee Days before he failed, a Fleet of French Men of War, confifting of ten S2il of the Line, and Five Tranfports with Troops, errived atCape Francois; that one of them, a3 74 Gun Ship, ran afhore on the Rocks, and beatto Pieces ; all the Crew itis (aid perifhx- ed. Tbhis istha’t to be the Breft Fleet ) By a Letter from the Havannah, dated the Beginzing of February laff, 4 Gentleman there writes to bis Friegd thus, viz. . kel : : ¢There is now in this Herbour 6 Sail of Spasith Men of Warof the Line, 2 4o Gun Ship, and Threz Frigates, all 1igg’d, fitted and mann’d tor tie Sea; and two Ships of 74 and 64 Guns jult ladnched, snd two others on the Siocks jult ready to ladnch.” Laft Week a Veflel arrived st Marblchesd in 8 Weeks frow Lifbon, by whom we learn, that the Spaniards had deciared War sgainit the Englith in & formal Manner ; but that ’twas tho't Affiirs between that Nation and the Poriuguefe would be fettled in an amicable Manner, and that the latter would remain Neuzer. A Letter from South Carolinra of March 6, fuys, This Evening arrived Capt. Morton from New,Pravi- dence, after an exceflive bad Paflage of 17 Days: The Sloop Rifing Sun, Daniel Puckler,Mafter, cfPrcvidence in Conec&icut, {a11’d 3 Days before him, but he fears fhe isloft, as he faw fome dead Bodiesat Ses, which by the red Jackets they had on he judged to belong to her; he likewile faw & Boat and fome Peicesof a Wrack... A Sloop from New York cxpeted here fome Time paft, onc Brown Mafter; and the Sloop Betfey, Cept. Ma:tin, not hsving been heard ot Lere, are fulpected to be loft. Laf Night a Veffel arrived bere from Sur- rinam, by whom we learn, that they bad recei- ved Advice there that an Englilh Man of War and a Number of Privateers bad taken Cay- enne, the Capital of the French Seitlements a little to windward of that Place. We arecredibly informed, that no lefs than a 1000 Regular Troops lately arrived at St Domingo, from Old Spain ; and that the Spamiards bave at that Place and Port Rico 17 Ships of the Line well fitted and manned. e o & & o 0 PHILADELPHIA, April 1: Fiom Antigas we learn, that Admiral Rodney has difpaiched two Frigates for the Spanith Main, in order to fcize all Spanith Veflels there. Cspt. Gardner, on the z5th ult. came paflt a Maft ftanding upright in the Water, sbout 15 or 16 Inches Diameter, that feemed to be very frefh, and but lately broke, Cape Hatteres then bearing Weft Half South, Diftance 60 Lesgues. And on the 26th he fpoke with the Ship St. Andrew, William Price, Commander, from Bofton for Virginis, who had been out nine Weeks, was drove to the Eaft- ward of the Binks of Newfoundlnnd,. and much damsged by the bad Weather he met with, ' “aboat 20°Clock 'in the Afternesn and purived thim til] 11 e fiss., i L S NEWYOREK, April 8 ds At Two oClack laft Thuriday ~Afierncon Join Holton, Blg; Comanander of his Majefty’s Siip the Enterprife, of 40 Gune, came up ia his Baige from the Watering Place, where 1. leit the fzid Sinp: He {siled from Spituead the z4th of january, and ha3 breught Difpa ches for hisExcellency Generaldnhe:lt, as all for‘Licur. Govesnor Coldeny ahd for afl the ‘Englith Governors cn the Contipent: And laft Ssiur- day ut the u/uaiPlaces, War was felemnly declared here, againft the King of Spain, with all the culimary For- malities. : ; ‘Befides the foreégoing Advices fiom Europe, we-are told, that @ Millions was the Sum tc be 1.ifed in Gieat- Britain for the Setvice of the prclent Year againtt the French only ; but that as foon 23 War was: declared in England againft Spain, it was sugmented tono [afs than z1 Millions; and that 25,000l ‘of that Sum was to be fent to this Province for the Service of the laft Campaign ; that the greateft Expedition was ufed in the differentPorts of England for fitting out & largeNlect for the Weft- Indies, to be commanded by AdmiraiPocock, a Gentleman who has f(ufficiently diftinguifhed him/elf in theEaft Indies ; that it was faid the Wosks at Belleifle were to be blown up,and the Troops fent abroad ; thac Mr. PITT was every Day ¢/ofited by his Majefty, but that he was not reftored to his former Pofts ; that the Danes are getting in Motion ; that the King of Spain has taken into his Psy all the Troops of the Elc&ors of Bavaria snd Poland, with fome others, to ihe amount of 50,000, who are to in_ Conjunétion with the French, or sgainft Sardinia or Portugsl ; thatthere are now in England not lefs than 10,0co Spanisrds, that have been taken at differeat Times on board French "Ships, the Want of which theSpanisrds at thisJunéture, muft be very fenfible of, a3 they have 45 Sail of the Lipe now st Caithagens, Ferral, and Cadiz, in Want of Sailors ; that it is fsid the Datch sod fome otherPowers will foon be obliged to declare thcmfelves ; that theKing of Denmurk has made an Offer of both Troops and Ships of War 6 the Englifh ; that Minorca was ceded to the Spaniards in November laft ; that an Expedition again@t Hifpaniola was intended, it being inhabited both by Frenchand Spanisrds ; that 50,000 Moo:s were to be taken iato the Briiifh Service, and landed in Spair; under the Prote&tion of a Squadron of Englith Men of War ; that Numbeis of Men are prefled in England for the Land and Sea Service ; that feveral large Merchant Ships were taken into Pay, and that the Englith Fleet wculd in a fhort Time confift of 500 Sail of Mea of War, Frigates &c. to aét sgainft our Enemies. _ Ws bear that Captain dnihony Hunter, in the Sloop Bumper, of this Port, was lately caft asway at Curacoa. He bad got ready to fail, and was flanding, off and en waiting for bis Boat, and accidentally run upin a Bar. . By an Exprefs that came to ‘Lown ueiday Evening Jrom Pbhilade phia, which Place he left the Deay before, we bave certain Inteliigence, that the Spanifp Gevernor of Mopts Chriflo bad received a Packet the firff Day of laft Msnth, and at the Head of three or four Hundred Men declared W AR againfl the Englifp : That immediately tbereon the Fort began ta fire at the Shipping, on which they all got away as faft as peffible out of the Reach of their Guns. Wbhat Englifb Merchants were ajbsre, are faid to be imprifoned, and tbeir Effefts feized. A Man of Weér bad been off the Mount, who bad taken all the Craft along (bore with Sugars ; and the Captain affured, that all the Spaniards were feized at Jamaica, and thst thiy bad Orders to take all the VefJels of thas Nation they mgp eith. We bear that in Capt. Nickollon from Martinico, came Paffenger Mrs.Shute, a Woman of this Place, tke Widoes of Serjeant Shute, of the 3d Battalion of Royal Ameri- cans, in Col. Haviland’s Regiment. When our Forces landed at Martinico, the WWomen not being allowed to go on Shore, foe drrffed in Men's Clothes and accompani¢d ber Hufband, wbho was killed by ber Side. ; We bear fram Hackenfack, in Eaff Jerfey, that laff 1P ednefday ome Nicholas Laziere, @ Blackfmith, whs for 8 or 10 Days before that bad been under a firong Dely- Sfion, was [o much burried along therewith, that under pretence of [oating [ome wild Ducks,went from bis Hoxfe, with a Fuzse in his Hand to a Pond bard by, and there pulling cut the Ram Rod, and clapping 1he Muzzle to bis Breofd, with the Ram Rod pujoid the Triger, by which be put an End to bis Days: He bas left a Widow and thres Children. st - CHARLESTOWN, South Carolinia. March 3. The Creek Indians ftill continne the fcalp. ing War againit the Spaniards. About three weeksage a party of thofe Indians went towards St. Auguftine, and took fome (calps very near that place ; they likewile carried off a young Negroe man, belonging to Mr. J-ffe Fifh, a me:chant there. 7 mafee Indisns and fiee Negroes fet off in purfoit of them, on beirg promifed a r=ward if they brought back the Negroe; they came up with the party, faid to be about thirty in number, at night, attacked them, and killed four, with the lofs of two ofthe Yamaleer, gn which the Creeks fled, leaving their blankets,amunition, &c. and Mr. Fifh’s Negroe killed and fealped ...In cafe of a rupture with Spain, the prefent dilpofition of tje Creeks towards the Subjetls of that crown, will prove, it is thought, no unfavoursble circamftances to this pro. vince and Georgin; ' J AR ARy o e A party of about twenty Y g2