The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, July 30, 1762, Page 2

3 Taterefted all ranks of people in his favoar, and rendered his fate the fubjelt of univer- {al afli@lion. This afflition was augment- by one particular circumftance, even 1ts being known that Monfieur Rochette might have faved his life by an untruth, but re- fufed to hold it at fo dear a rate ; for as his being a Minifter was his only crime,and as there were no complaints made againit him, no advertifements defcribing his per- fou, nor any witnefles to prove his paftoral charaéter, he had only to deny his being a Minifter, and his life was faved ; but he chofe rather tolofe his life than deny his profeflion. He was the firlt of the four that was executed ; and in the face of death be exhorted his companions toperfeverance, fung thofe fublime verfles of the 1:18th im, Tbis is the day which the Lord batd 1y awe will be glad, &c. When the y utioner, among others, conjured him to die a Roman Catholick, the Minifter an- i{wered him in this gentle manner : Judge, W friend, wubich of the two iy the befd religion, Cabat dbich perfecutes or that awbich is per- Jecuted, He added, that his grandfather, and one of his uncles, had died for the pure religion of the goipel, and that he would be the third martyr of his family. ‘T'wo of the three gentlemen, that fuffered with him, beheld him tied to the gibbet withan amazing intrepidity ; but the third ‘covered his eyes with his band, that he might not fee fuch a terrible fpedtacle. ‘The Commifiaries of the Parliament, and the Deputies of the otherCourts of Juftice, difcovered by their penfive looks and downcalt eyes, how deeply they were d upon this occafion. The three brothefs embraced each other tenderly and recommended mutuallytheir departing fouls t Spirits. Their heads were thy When the fcene was finifhed, the fpe&ators returned to their refpe&ive homes, in a folemn filence, re- flefting on the fate of innocence and virtue, and fcarcely able to perfuade themfelves, that the world could prefent fuch a fpeéta- cle of magnanimity, and fuch an inftance of cruelty, as they had juft been beholding. anatrs to0ren BasseTerrs, (in St. Chriftophers) June g. By the Snow Betfey, Capt. Michie, that errived from Sereloon in 4 Weeks, we have Advice, that the Privsteer Brig belonging to Martinico, called the Thomas Koulican, commanded by Capt. Tangee, had tsken st the Ifland of Delos,about the Middle of April, the Ships following, belonging to Englend, viz. the Thetis, Capt. Pierce ; Venus, Cspt. Hamilion ; Snapper, Capt. Bresthwate; Sally, Capt. M'Gill ; Duke, Capt. Hendell ; Catharine, Capt. Kenny, Kitty, Capt. Thornborough, PrinceGeorge, Capt. Peck ; Anna Maris, Capt. How ; Fanny, Capt. Waterman. The above Ships had oa board about 660 Slaves. And sbout the fame Time a French Frigate took at Cape Mount, five Englith Ships, their Names upknown, and alfo; the Frigates Neme. . Fene16. Upon the 11th Inftant, his Majelty’s Ship Amszon, Bafil Keith, E/q; Commander, errived in the Road of Bai: feterre, and brought in the Baigantine St, Clair, Francis Fronfredt, Mafter, bound to St. Domingo from Bourdesux, and losded with Wine, Flour, Soap, Butter, Hams, and dry Goods. PHILADELPHTIA,Julys. " Exirat of a Letter from Providence, June 29, 3462, * Since my laft a {mall Prize has been fent in here, that was tsken by one of our Privateers off the Hevannmah. The Sub: flance of the Prize Mafter’s Account is as follows, viz. That thie Fleet and Tranf- vrts arrived 12 or 14 Days ago off of that lace, and landed 20,000 Soldiers on a Basy, about three miles to Windward of she Havannah, after knocking down a {malil Fort or Battery that-was there : Thst the EBnglilh Men of War have battered the Moore Caftle very confiderably ; indeed the Prize Mafter (ays fo much, that the oo iy Caltle did not return ome firfln fome Time before the Englith defifted : That the Night after our Army lsaded, the Spa- nith Army was divided into two Bodies, with un Intention of plscing the Englith between two Fires, snd that by fome Mif tske, in the Night timre, the two Divifions of the Spenifk Army fell foul of one anather, each taking the other for the Englith, and killed many on both Sides before they found out their Miftake : That our Bombs have funk four Spmith Men of War in the Har- - bour: That the Englith Army is st the Back of theHivannsh, bombarding it : And that the Admiral declared, he expeciod the Place would furrender in lefs than ten Days sfter this Veflel failed from thence. The Prize Mafter alfo brings sn.Account that one of our Frigates in company with the Port Antonia Sloopof War, had taken two Spenith Frigstes. A French Priveteer Brig of 12 Guns, from the Miffifippi, is taken and carried in- to Providence, by the Capts. Kemp and Roberts, in the Speedwell and Rover Pri- vateers of that Place. The Frenchman, it is {aid, had tsken two Prizes, and fent them to the Havannah. The Speedwell and Rover had sl{o taken, and fent in, a large Spanifh Polscco Ship, from the Hsvannah. The Capts: Besle and Brickland, likewile in two Providence Privateers, had carried in there a large French Ichooner, laden with White Sugar, from the Cape for Ol France. . On Saturdsy lat srrived here a Prize floop, loaded with Sugsr end Coffee, taken by the Privateer New Grace, Capt. Taylor, of this Port. He has likewile taken a French {chooner Privateer, of two Six Pounders, fix Two Pounders, .and 17 fwivels, and fent her to Providence. Alfo two Pettiau- gers, with Sugar, &c. : NEW-Y ORK, Juy 9. Since our laft the Seahorfe, Cept. james, bound to Bofton trom Fert Dolvhin, oa Hilpaniols, was fent in here by the Mars, Capt. M'Gillicuddy. She was feized the voth Inft. inlat. 36, 52, end is losded wiih Sugsr, Indigo and Coffee. Capt. Roberts ina Sloop arrived here Yefterdsy. He was taken in Lat. 19. 31, Lon. 62, by Mon{.Pelengue, snd ranfom’d : As wes likewile & Sloop belonging to Nantucket. B0 8 T O'N, Ty 20 Capt. William Lillie, of the Sloop Con- tra&, left Harbour de Grace on the zqth of June ; that before that Time they had re- ceived certsinAdvice, that theFrenchForces landed st the Bay of Bulls, amounting, as *twas {aid, to 3000 ; snd they marched a-, crofs the Land to St.John's ; that the For- ces at St. John’s went out to meet them, but upon fecing the greatInequality return- ed to theGarrifon : That uponSunday the z7th about z o’Clock, P. M. French Co- lours eppeared to be hoifted at theGarrifon, and that they fired & Shot at the Seuth Battery to meke them haul down their Englith Colours ; That the Fleet which came into the Bay of Bulls confifted ot a 74, & 64,8 40,and & bomb :That he {poke with one Manuel Lawrence, Mafter of a. Brig, in about 47 Lst. who told him that there were 4 more French Men of War at Placentia, having takenit : That there were not 40 Families in theSouthern Parts of Newfoundland, but what were gone off. That the Man of War in St John's, of 20 Guns, before theGarrifon furrendered flung hisGuns over board,and run hisShip afhere : *“That it was reported, and generally belie- ved, that this Fleet was the fame that fzil- ed from Breft for Martinico, #nd that they had Orders, in cafe they failed there, to infeft the Coaft of North America : Thatin general they hsd behaved very well to the Inhabitants, end profefs’d to pay them for what they took : That they {aid they came for the Ranfom Money oi St. John’s when it was taken in Queen Anne’s War, which bad never been peid : That they had not done, as he couid hesr, any Dzmage on the Banks of Newfoundland. Capt: Evan Pitts, Mafter of the Brig Becktord, srrived here, on Monday lgft, t BeTled from Waterford ja ° Ireland, with'sbout 2o Sale of Vefiels, moft of which Bound to Newfoundlsnd, under Convoy of the Gramont Frigste ; on the 26th of June he ariived off St. John' : That the French tookPoffeflion of St. Joha's on thesagth at Eleven o'Clock, without ¢, where they tock the Gramont which had arrived there the 25th, e Cork Trade, confifing cf sbout 15 Suil of Vefiels : That fecing the People run away, they told them they neea not go away, for they fhould bave the fame Ulage that theFrench had from theEnglith in the Weit Indies. They had done no Damage, except driving a Ship or two s- fhore. That it was generally agreed, that their whole Force confifted of g Siil, 4 of which were in the Bay of Bulls: That the Land Forces were eftimated at 2000. Wedneldsy arrived here sSchooner from St. Jobn's in Newfoundland : The Mafter of her informs, that he left thatPlace on the 27th of June in the Morning, in Company with a Brigantine, who were permiited to fail with the Women and Children of the principal Families of that Place, when it was invefted by the French Troops, which he heard confifted of 4000, that marched from Bay ot Bulls by Land : The Brig was bound to Halitax ...... In the Schooner came the Family of....Thomss, ; Mr. Thomas and the otherGentiemen he Place were detained to tffift"in the ....A few Hours after the Schooner the was becalmed,and the Mafter the FrenchFlag hoifte 0FSt. John’s, and a P him in the Afternoon whi it was furrendered to thel Number of Veflels in-th filted of between 20 and L , the Gramont Frigate with Part of the Cork Fleet.....None of the French Men of War were there, being all at Bay of Bulls,which he heard were 7, & 8 Bomb Ketch,...The following is a Copy of the Manifefto fent to the Izhabitants of St. John’s, the Mor- ning the sboveSchooner failed from thence. WE Compt Da HofionVille, General Commanding all the French Army compofed of Grenadiers and Pickess of the Regiments of Marine, Mont. Revel, Beaufoifis, Penthiece, Royal Antillery, Gunners, and RoyalMarines, Summons and give Notice to all the Inhabitants of the Ifland ot Newioundlsnd, not to go out of the Town, neither to go into the Woods, ror to Ses, under thePenalty that is infli&t- by the Laws of War. * We promile and affure all theInhabitants, that if they furrender themfelves without Arms, we will ufe them as Frenchmen, and we fhall not do them the leaft Moleftation, but to the contrery, we will proteét them. Given at the Camp before St. John’s on Sunday the 27th June. 1762. Several other Veflels alfo arrived here laft Week from Newfoundlsnd, but don't learn that they bring any further Account of the Proceedings of the French there ; neither can we learn trom whence thatFleet came, as it can’t be (as was generally tho't) thole from the Weft Indies, {everal Veflels having arrived at one of theSouthern Ports from thence in but 15 Days Puffsge, and inform that the Frencnh Fleet, confifting of 5 Sail of the Line and 4 Frigates, was ac- tually et Cape Francois the 8:h of this Montk ; {o thatit is likely this Armament is from Eurcpe, notwithftanding all our late (anguine Conjedtures to the contrary : The above Veflels from the Weit Indies however inform, that the Fleet from the Cape did put out fometime before, in or- Fto return to Old-France, but one of RiL incliding ir74 Gun Shipsran upon s Bank nesr e Caicos’s, and received fo muchDamage that they could fcarcely keep her from fin- king, upon which they all returned into Port again: Saterday laft an Exprefs returned here from New-York, which Place he left the Wedneldsy before, by him we learn that the Gofport Man of War was nnivedM there from England with £, 139,cco in Mangy !o,;q:he King’s Ule, & ; ¥