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THUR^SD A-T November 4, 1756.

Mr. Gat.** to a Piece of MILITAUT VIHTVI, and that ii .1 De MttffmrKi nuBa tft Jelikeratia. ""**' they who Difcharge their Duty may not be Con­ Then hence my Friends, like Light'nihg let us fly, farttt font vrti viflare founded with thofe who behave in a l*f* and And horl Deftrudion on our Foe that's nigh: Aomiftet, verettiH/li Juftice, and of Modefty j and had difperfed themfelves into difereat Par. Km, JattJat tbt Camf hf»r» St. Philip, Junt 29. nay I have known ft frequently happen in the ties; on the toth a Party of them killed George " T HAD longmeditated fome Blow that might courfe of human Affairs, that a Man hath offend­ and l*tk Cl*ymo», at a Funeral, and J. haften the End of the Siege, and at length ed wimont his Knowledge, and dircAly contrary foon after a Party of Thirteen of fmgtrft Men, determined to make my geneial Attack on Sunday to his Inclination; fuch is the Inadvertency of under the Direction of one Lukt Tkmffim, came the 17th. I confulted all the General Officer* Friends, the Malice of Enemies, and the groand- upon their Tracks and followed theaa, till they upon it the Day before, and they inftantly faw lefs Conjectures of indifferent People ; tad to give came within two Miles of the Mouth of Cmort- the Extent and Advantages of my Defign. I had an Inftance of this direAly relative to myfeli, is btagvt, on the Prxmfihunia Road, when fir* previously charged thi Count de Maillebois to the Bufinefs of this Letter : In one Gnns were tired about 300 Yards from them ; this make tke proper Difpofitions for it, which he c*~ of vour Papers, (but of what Date threw the Party into fome Canfufuxi, but Mmttbioi executed in the beft Manner. Every General Of­ yte! 1 "f0 not now reTncrnber) * ve*y Niehtlh, a young Lad of Eighteen, infiAed they ficer performed what wu a&igned to him with Feb'a.6 ridiculous Letter was exhibited to Ihould ran up and come upon the Enemy whik Courage and Judgment. the Public, with fomc Animadverfions of * Gem- their Pieces were unloaded, and fet off immedi­ " The Marquis de Lava), Maior-General of the t Ifman, who thought proper to conceal Us Name, ately j at the Diftance of fixty Yards he looked Trenches, was charged with the Attack on the (though why he did fo I can't poffibly tmag-me), back kind faw fom« of the Party running avray, he Left, which was directed again A Strag«n and Ar- wherein he endeavours to prove, (preemptive Proof threatened to fire among them unlefs they came gyle Forts, the Queen and Ken's Redoubts. He indeed!) that I was the Author of the Letter, and along with him, which induced fome of them to had with him futeen Companies of Grenadiers, what was infinitely worfe, in order to aggravate follow him for a few Yards, till he got out of their and four Battalions to fnpport the Attacks: The the Offence, he infinuatrs that I wrote it with a Sight by a Turn in the Path. Five l*£**i had Officers under him were the Marquis de Monty, premeditated Defign to fully the Reputation of a fired at William Ptfllfumiti and 7«*» D«r4rr/r Brigadier, and the Marquis de Briquevillc, Colo­ Clergyman of confummatc Virtue, to affront the coming from Ptn»Jjtvanimt the latter rod* off un­ nel. The former was to attack Strugen and Ar- whole Kingdom of Inland, and to gratify a parti­ hurt : Mrfafli feeing Ptf{rv.-oiH all Bkxxly, at eyle, and the latter was to advance againft Ken's cular Faftion, of which he very uncharitably fup- firft Sight took him for an Indian and levelled his Redoubt, and the Covered Way between that pofes me a Member ; to this Charge, however un- Piece to fire on him, but Pffltrwitt called be *vai a Work and the Queen's Redoubt. Lieutenant Col. fuft, I made no immediate Reply, beeaufe I was wfntt MM, «W tbt Indians tvtrr MnmJ. NitLelh dc Sades was to attack the Queen's Redoubt at informed, that at all Events, i mould be obliged went op cautioufly to' Pefllemiti from Tree to the Head of four Companies of Grenadiers. At to anfwcr the injured Clergyman in a Court of Tree j told him *»/ to h *fr*M, *» **»U **** each of thefe three Attacks there were two Engi­ Law, and fome Gentlemen of Inland in another le inn tim, and accordingly guarded him iMo Col. neers, and 1 50 Labourers, an Officer of the Train Place 5 Cp that without my Knowledge, and ex- Crt/»fi't, where he foundth« twelve Men who bad of Artillery, and ten Gunners, a Detachment of prcfUy contrary to my Intention, I was, in all Pro­ balcly dcferted him. co Voluntiers with Scaling Ladders, aad a Bri- bability, ftionty to be involved into almoft in­ TeagarJ"* Party never appeared again while the gadc of Miners. extricable Difficulties, and for no other Reafon Enemy were down, but now infift on three Weeks " The Center Attack was direfled againft the that I am capable of conceiving, but for that an Pay, and threaten to Warrant the Subfcribers. Weft Redoubt, and the Caroline Lunette, and «M*rjrawtu ffrittr, of more Warmth than Prodence, McMh has never mentioned Pay, nor docs he commanded by the Prince de Beaureau, who had kad taken it into hit Head, that I was the Author expeft a Farthing, a* they did not continue out two Brigades under his Command, with which he of that Letter : Under thefe Circumftances I re­ their Month. was alfo to fapport the Trenches in Cafe of Need. mained filent for fomc Time, and fo for ever The- whole Fire of the h£*mt fell on Ptjllt- " The firft Attack on the Right was directed Jhould have done, but for a Gentleman, who en­ UHOtf, two Ballets were lodged in his Horfc, one againft Fort Marlborongh, under the Command of quired of me with too much Good -Nature to be went in at his Back and out at the right Groin, the Count de Lannion, with a Brigade of the refufcJ, if I had written that Letter j him I then another went through the fame Thigh, and as h« Royal*, and the. Regiment of Britany. M. de informed, as I1 now do you Mr.Grrtx, that I was torncd his Horfc to fee the Enemy, another went Roquepine, and the Chevalier de Lemps, at the not the Author of that Letter in your Gazette. - in at his left Groin : He has lain ever fince in the Head of 400 Voluntiers, and 100 Grenadiers, Mr. Hexrj Rnrr, with whom I have the Plcafure Port at Canectcbeagvt, and is now in a fair Way of was to land at St. Stephen's Core, and march a- to be acquainted, and to whom that Letter is doing well. Thus, by the Bravery of a young gain ft Fort Charles. faid to be direfled, is cenfured with me, for hav­ Lad of Eighteen, a Woman is prefcrved from " The Defign of the fccond Attack on the ing malicioufly pablifhed it to the Prejudice, of being a Widow, and three young Children from Right,, under the Marquis de Monteynard, with r. Bragittn -, but as that Gentleman's Chancier being Fatherlefi. two Brigades, was to get Poflcffiort of the South- is more than fufficient to refute fuch a Conjecture, The R»mant, who were fnch Judges of Mili­ Weft Lunette, to communicate with the Attack J (hull difrnils this Subjcft,- with the following tary Merit, decreed particular Honours to him of Fort Charles, aijd to cut off the Communication Truths; Firft, that I am very much above, and who faved the Life of a Chiien, and (hall this between Marlborourh-Fort and that of St. Philip. do heartily detcft that infamous Bufinefs of Drudg­ young Man pafs unnoticed, at the Time a ­ " During thdc Attacks Lieutenant-Colonel de ing in any Party ; Secondly, that I have ever tain of the Militia ran away, with fixty Men Beaumanoir, who commanded at the Lighthoufe- Hudioufly endeavoured to avoid Reflections Pcr- well armed, without daring, to look for the Ene­ Mount, was with his Detachment to put off in fonal and National, and that if at any Time any my I And by that dafUrdly Behaviour, broke up Boats from the Core between Port St. Pnilip and fuch inadvertently fell from my Tongue or Pen, this fine Setdeurect between the Mountains. the Lighthoufe-Mount, to come and favour M. de they ever gave me the utmoft Inquietude j and, Monty s Attack, and endeavour to flip into the Laftly, 1 aUnoft believe with'/"«/£, that " Dttralin Covered Way between the Half-Moon and Fort " A/if «;^.c.;.':^i. . -.i-iW-r- Yet what avail our nflexhaafted Stores, «« At Ten o'Clock at Night all our Batteries Strv**t, Our blooming Mountains and our funny Shores. having ceafed Firing, the Signal for the Attack Otiiktr 10, 1756.,,'' O. JOMNSTON. With all the Gifts that Heav'n and Earth impart, was given by the firing of a Cannon, and the The Smiles of Nature, and the Charms of Art » Throwing of four Bombs from the Lighthoufc- If proud Oppreflion in our V allies reigns, Moont, M. de Monty advanced againft Strugen And Tyranny ufurps our happy Plaint f and Argyle, and afterwards Meflleurs de Brique- ' .1 frtbr'utt County, Stptrmlfr 2$, 1756. The poor Canmlian, beholds in vain, ville and dc Sades made their Attack on the Mr. G&CIN, The fatt'nrng Oxen, and the fwelling Grain, Queen's and Ken's Redoubts. Our Troops HOPS you will not refufe to give this a I Starva, in the Midft of Nature's Bounty curft, marched up with the greateft Intrepidity, amt Place in your Paper, that Juftice may b* done | And in the loaden'd Orchard, ,diej for Thirft. after * very fmart, long, tod bloody Firin mil HERE is 'lactation of Coftt, at Off1 At 2r/i^"Novembet*Mf, nt tl>t hit Dwtl* . T AWL/MN^ of Willijun Holland, AttaftJ, »rm> f this CJty, dcceafed, are dcfircd to bring them j County, taken ur Lowcr-Marlborongh in Calvtirt Ctuntj, fir Bitlt n, that they maybe adjufted . And all Perfons about 13 HandsTiign, upDianaca^ n> i idcbted to the faid Eftate, arc defired to nuke 1 hi* Forehead, a bob .Tail, fome i: lie. 1 cf Extbairt, tr Sftrtinf Money, Spots on his Back, and a Bell on his.Wcsk. A PARCEL «f choice NEGROES, 'aymcnt, without Lofs-of Time, to HAMILTON, Executrix. '. The Ojvniir may Have him agaio, on proving J\ confim'ng of Men and Women j hkewifc his Property, «u«d paying Charge*. Stock of aU Kinds. ExccOtTKC. H E R E A 8 the Subfcriber's Store, near the Infpecling-Houfe at Hunting-Tow in Sefttmlur 20, 1756- WDivert County, was (on Saturday or laft the Subfcriber, T« In S*U I) tbt Subfcril*r in Annapolis, F* may be fupplied at rcafonable Rate*, by Hower'd, and i Piece, of red flower'd printed Linens, i Piece of Chilloei, 2 or 3 Pieces of dou­ fpcak good E*£lijb. He had with him when he Tbtir buviMt Sennit, went away, an old fupcrfinc blue Broad-Cloth HINKT WALLS. ble Check Linens, 2 Pieces of fine Irifo Linen*, fome Remnants of coarfer ditto, x Pieces of Prin­ , turn'd down with a bliu Velvet , and N. S. Sundry Wheel-Barrows to be Sold> a white Flannel Waiftcoat," with black Glafs But­ Wholefale or Retail, by faid H'a/b. ces Linen, \ Piece of Cambrick, 3. Pieces of fine Venetian Poplins, 2 Pieces of ftrip'd Stuff, S or tons, and the Edges bound round with white Tape, tho' 'tis fuppofed he may kave other Cloath* Ofltlrr ao, 1756. 10 Yards of mix'd Forreft Cloth, i Man's fine Caftor , i Woman's fmall blue Sattin ditto, with him, as likewife both white and check *. AN away from Ltnvtr-Martlnrtttgb in Whoever fecuies the faid Servant, and brings w< Coonty, about die zoth of lift Month B or to Pair of Mens and wooden heel'd Pump*, fome Mack, brown,* and whited brown him to the Subfcriber, in AnnapoJii, (hall receive an Indented Servant Man, named Eihuarit Harrit Twenty Shillings Reward, if taken within ten a Ship-Carpc&Cer by Trade, about <; Feet 9 Inchet Threat!, and fewing Silk,' fundry Worfted Mens and Womens white Lamb, and wafh Gloves, Miles of jlnaaptlii j Forty Shillings, if above i high. Htd>«i *n old red Cloth Waiftcoat, Sail and if taken out of the Province, Five Pounds. or i.Trowfert, a good Felt Hat, and an old brow feveral Pair of Mens and Womens white Thread "VVig, all math tarr'd. He is about \ 5 Years of Hofe, with fundry other Goods not here particu. Age, and hai a fickly Look. It is fuppofed he larix'd, and about Five Pounds in Paper Money, TO BE SOLD AT PUBLIC SALE, went to the Eaftern Shore in a Canoe. Whoever apprehends the Thief, or Thieve*, {with the above-mentioned Goods), or fecure* Ftr Gtrrnt Matty, ftr ttt Vft ef Mr, Thomaj Whoever apprehends the faid Servant and brings Lambden'/ CrtMtort, on ttt utb Day ^No­ him to the Subfcriber in L^Lvtr-Mnrlbonn^b, or him, or them, fo that they be brought to Juftice, fhall have a Reward of Ten Pounds Current Mo­ vember WAX/, at ibt.Htnft ef tie /o/^Lambdcni fecorts but 6> that he may be had again, mail in Worcefter Cftnty, ' have Forty findings Reward, bcfides 'what the ney, or be allowed 10 per Cent, on all the Goods ~!»ni that my be recovered, paid by T R A C T of LJV N D, lying in Cahw Law allow*, paid by1 JONATHAN -: -*-- " ;~. '_ ":: JOHH SRINKIR. A County, in Maryland, called Poorland, con. it,- 1756. H. B. It is fopiw'd die Villain* travell'd by taining 250 Acre*. AN away from the Babfcriber, living near Water. X 3 One other Traft of Land, or Cypreft Swamp, ftc«A-7"

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to a Pfe* «f MlttTAKY VinTua, tad that it ttuO» tfl Jrliitratia. they who Difcharge their Duty may not b0 Con­ Then hence my Friends, like LighVnfng let ns fly. US TIT I^f fartti fatt «rwr vitfart founded with thofe who behave in a b*ft and And horl Dcfbuftion on our Foe that's nigh: bmfies, vtrtt*xJ} that NdgnbourlM»oB, ture to affirm with very great Certainty, that no Man hitherto hadi been fo fortunate, as to find under the Direction of. WMatn TtagpHt, a lieu­ Out a Method of conducing himfelf throngh the tenant in (h* Militia under Captain Rrxeb : The P A R I 6, J*l, 9. various Scenes of V«fc, without tranfgrtffing, in Enemy came down Babrt-RiJp abdot tke i8th, m Lttttr/rtm ttt Mmr/tmf D*tt A fbme Sort, the Rules o* Juftice, and of Modefty j and had difpcrfed dtewfdvet into different Par- at ttt Camp hfir* St. fJrHi^Jwtt z9. nay I have known it frequently happen in die ties; on the aoth a Party of them killed Getrgt " T H AD loiwmcditattd fome Blow that might courfe of human Affairs, diat a M»n hadi ofrcnd- Hi« previonfly charged the Count de Maillcbou to die Bufinefs of this Letter : In- one Cans were fired about 300 Yards from them ; tnh make the proper Difpontioni for h, which he C of your Papers, (but of what Date threw the Party into font C0nrnfon, but Mmitblat txecned in die b«ft MJuoer. Every General Of­ s6£ I do not now remember) a very Nichtlh, a young Lad of Eighteen, infiited they ficer performed what was affigned to him with '* ridiculous Letter was exhibited to fhou)d ran up and come npoa the Enemy while CoMte «nd judgment. the Public, widi ibme AnimaoVerfion* of « Cat­ dtelr Piece* were unloaded, and fet off anmedi- ^ The Marquis de Lava!, Major-General of die tleman, who thought proper to conceal hit Name, ately j at the Diftance of fixty Yards he looked Trenches, was charged with the Attack on die (though why he did fo I can't poffiWy imagine), back and faw feme of the Party running away, he Left, which was dire-fted againft Stras*e and Ar- wherein he endeavours to prove, (prefumpttveProof threatened to fire among them unlefs they came gyle Forts, the Queen and Ken's Redoubts. He Indeed!) diat I was the Anther of Ac Letter, and along with him, which induced forac of them to had with him fixteen Companies of Grenadier*, what was infinitely worfe, in order to aggravate follow him for a few Yard*, till he got out of their and four Battalions to fnpport the Attacks : The die Offence, he tnfinnatrt diat I wrote it wid» a Sight by a Turn in the Path. Five Im&mm had Officer* under him were the Marquis de Monty, premeditated Defign to fully the Reputation of a fired at WilKtm Ptfltvmitt and %i* ttoebrij Brigadier, and the Marquis de Briqueville, Colo- Clergyman of confummate Virtue, to affront the ] coming from the latter roste off on nol. The former was to attack Srrugen and Ar- whdft Kingdom of Maud, and to gratify a parti- j hurt : tftettllt feeing Jty&fewftr all Bloody, at «to, and the latter was to advance againft Ken's cular Paftion, of which he very uncharitably fiip- firft Sight took him for an ImR*» and levelled his Redoubt, and the Covered Way between that poles me a Member; to this Charge, however un- Piece to fire on him, but Ptflletamtt coiled te c involved into almoft in­ Tt*garrPalifadcs, her Sons. ' of a lack-Afs,' and dragg'd him for half^n.Hour breaking, the Carriages of the Cannon, afld"inp- r \ ''v.*V:vO. K 0. O.K. . ; round a large Circle on a Common, compofed of porting this Attack for fome Time, in order to Ktmjlneton, Jvguft 13. On PHday laft the .fol­ at leaft 1 5000 Spectators, and after fix'd oh hi* favour the principal Attack, which was made with lowing Addrefs of the High-Sheriff, Grand-Jury, Breaft this Motto, Tbt friend of Mttftir Rap*, the greajteft Judgment, arid the grcatcft Bravery. Jnftices of the Peace, and Gentlemen of the Coun­ and tbt Tinntrt SrwtrjVbrac'd him on the Hack' " As the Attacks to be made by Meflieur* de ty of Dorfet, was prcfcnted by George Pltt and of the fame Afs, in an erect Pofture, and carried Lannion and de Montaynard depended on the Humphry Sturt, Efqrs. Representatives in Parlia­ him to a Gallows on the Summit of a Hill creftcd Succefs of that againft Fort Charles, they waited ment for the faid County: Being introduced by for the Purpofe on a large Pile of Foci, where they for a Signal from M. de Roqucpinc ; but the Ene- the Right Hon. the Earl of Rochcford, one of the burnt him, to their great Satisfaction, a mid ft Tetf .jny obferving a great Stir in.that Part, were on Lords of the Bedchamber to his Majefty. Thoufand Huzzas, and other Acclamations of Joy. their Guard, and hindered the intended Landing. To tbt K I N G's Meft Exttllnt Majtfly: His Effigy has alfo been carried round this Town During this Time M: de Lannion annoyed Fort E, your Majefty's moft dutiful and loyal To-day by a Multitude of Seamen and other*, Marlborough. . Subjects, the High-Sheriff, Grand-Jury, with a Halter round his Neck, and this Infcription " The Diverflon made by all thefe Fires, and JofticesW of die Peace, and Gentlemen of the Coun­ on hi* Breaft in Capital Gold Letters, THE BRI­ the Combination of thefe different Attack*, gave ty of Dorfet, moft humbly beg Leave, at this cri­ TISH NAVY'* SCORN, and will thi* Evening Time for afluring the Succefs of the Attack on the tical Juncture, to aflure your Majefty of our moft he hung and burnt to appeafe their Wrath, and Left, fo that at Daybreak we poftcd 400 Men in firm and unfhaken Zeal for your Majefly't Pcrfon make them fome Attonement for his Crimes." If: the Queen's Redoubt, and 200 inStrugen and Ar­ and Government; and that we (hall, with the HALIFAX, Stpttmlrr 25. gyle. I took my Toft in the Center ot the Attacks grcateft Alacrity, embrace every Opportunity of Laft Sunday Evening arrived here the French on the Left, having with me the Count de Maillc- exerting ourfelvcs in Support of both. Prize, taken by the Fogeux, and which parted ' bois, the Marquii de Mcfnil, and the Prince of Under the Government of a King of yoar Ma­ from the Jamaica in a Fog a few Days before. Wurtemberg, to give the neceflary Order* for the jefty'* Great and Martial Difpofttion, and in the She is a fine large new Vewl, of upward* of 200 Support and Succefi of the Attacks. Profccution of fo Juft and National a War, we are Tons, and a very good Sailer. ' " At Five in the Morning a Sufpenfion of Anns not at all intimidated with the Threat* and Power Yefterday Morning Capt. M'Narnara, in the was agreed on, to bring off the Rilled and of France; a Nation This has -never fear 'd, has Wafp Privateer, belonging to thit Place, arrived Wounded. often humbled. But when we reflect on the Lofs here, and hat brought in with him a French " We took feveral Mortars and Cannon in of the Ifland of Minorca t fo glorioufly obtained, Prize Schooner of about 70 Tons, which he Strugen, Argyle, and the Queen's Forts; in which fo advantageoufly kept, of fuch ineftimable Value took Yefterday fe'nnight about 13 League* to the laft we made fifteen Prifoners, among whom was to the Trade of thefe Kingdoms ; we are convin­ Eaftward of Louyburg, bound thither from Old the fccond in Command among the Enemy, who ced, that this Attempt of our natural and invete- France, her Cargo confifts of Wine and Provifion*, had the particular Direction of the Defence, and rate Enemy was fo notorious, that very tew ot and coft* 16,000 Livres. was the higheft in Credit with the Garrifon. your Majefty'« faithful Subjects had the lead Doubt O3ti>tr 2. Sunday laft a French Prize Schooner " At Two in the Afternoon on the 28th, there of the Defign, long before it was put in Execution: arrived here : She was taken by the Fogeux and came three Deputies from the Place, who demand­ Yet the Iflaiid was left Defencelels, and the Medi­ Centurion, then cruizing in the Bay Gafpe, bound ed Twenty-four Hours to draw up Article* of Ca­ terranean without any Englifti Fleet there. Thefe from the Ifland of St. John's to Quebec, with, pitulation. I gave them till Eight at Night, at Reflections nil us with Fear aud Amazement t And about 100 Men, Women, and Children, on board, wVich Hour one of them returned, with a Draught we moft humbly hope your Majefty will be pleafed Pertjnsulb, (in HfVt^jMgf^birt), OOobtr 1 4. of the Articles, whereupon I drew up a Counter to direct fuch Enquiry to be made into the Conduct We have a ReportTtnat Commodore Holme* Draught, and fent the Chevalier dc Rcdmont with which has fo aftoniflungly turn'd this dcfperatc and ha* taken a Veflcl on her Patfage from Canad* it, who found the Enemy fo aflonifhcd at the Pro- ra(h Attempt of our Enemy into Victory and Glo­ bound for France, with Letters on board, which .digiei performed by our Foot, and the Vivacity of ry, and has cover'd this Nation with Reproach give an Account that the Prifoners taken at Ofwe, the grand Attack, that they fubmitted to the Con­ and Di (honour, that, from whatever Caufes it hath go were to be tranfported to France under Convoy ditions I required, which were not hard. I (hall proceeded, the Pcrfon by whom it has been occa- of two Men of War, and that Commodore Spry imme4iately fend the Capitulation j but there are honed, may receive that Pnru'fhmcnt fo juftly de- was lying off the Mouth of the River St. Law. Hill Comt little Things to be fettled, which doth ferved. rente to intercept them. not hinder our Grenadiers from being Maftcrt of Cflmewall, Eh\ and Sir John Morgan, ExtraS of a Lttttr from an Ojfictr at C&arltt-T»4O*l the <5tte of the Place, and of Fort Charles and Knigbli of tbt Shirt for ibt County of He- olbtrvaUt calltd Nt. 4, /* tbt ProviHCt of ffnu- Fort Marl borough. reford: Hompjbirt, dattd QStbtr 4, 17 56. " M. de Lnnnion has received a flight Conrad - E, the High-Sheriff and Grand-Tory for " This Day arrived here one Enos Bifhop, an on on the Shoulder, and M. dc St. Tropes, Aid the faid County, now aflcrnblcd at th.c Englilh Captive from Canada, who was taken de Camp to M. de Metllebcis, is (lightly wounded WAffires held for the fame, being greatly alarmed from Contoocook above two Yeart fince. He left in the Face. M. de Guelton, a Sea Lieutenant, at the prefent melancholy and diftreffcd Situation Canada 26 Days ago, in Company with two other who commanded the Boats at the Attack of Fort of Affair* of this Nation, think it a Duty incum­ Engliih Captives, vir.. William Hair, late of Brook- Charles, was killed. The Number of our Killed bent on ut to apply to you, our worthy Reprefen- field, enlifted into General Shirley's Regiment, and and Wounded is about Twenty-five Officers, and tatives, upon whofe diligent and faithful Conduct taken at Ofwego» the other (Name unknown) 400 Soldiers." in the approaching Seffion* of Parliament we en­ taken from Pennsylvania. -They came away W*rfa and that Col. Mer­ this poor incapable Object, (looped down to pick ', Ext raff of a Lttltrfrom Fa/moufb, Aug*f 7. cer in the other Fort made Signals three Time* for it up, when the Ruffian taking a Hatchet out of " As Trade it the Source from whence all the the Englifli to quit Port Pcpperrell, which die rm Can (buck her on the Head, and killed her on Ulcffingt of this Nation now in general, and that Commanding Officer there would not obey; . the Spot i after which he took from her the Mo­ of the Mediterranean the only Part for taking off That then Col. Mercer fent tn Order to the faid ney, out before he could fccrete the Body wai in­ the Productions of thi* Country in particular, Officer, requiring him as foon as he faw a Bomb tercepted, and in Confequence committed to Pri­ which arc Tin, Fi(h, and Hide* j and from the thrown over the Fort, to plug up the Cannon, and fon. He hat Crrce confcflcd, that thi* it not the late Cowardice or Treachery, or rather both, dcftroy the Ammunition, and leave it, which he firft Murder by feveral that he hath committed ^ (hewn in thofe Seas by a certain Admiral, the accordingly did, and retired to the next fort.-- by which and other bafe Mean*, he ha* accumu­ Prices now offered for thofc Commodities are fo That Evening the Enemy began to intrench in lated the Sum of 1300 Ducat*. low, that the general Run of the Tiu Adventurer* Sight of our Men, who would nave fired on them, Dublin, July to. We hear from England that are oblig'd to ftop their Work*, which ha* been but were not permitted! till the Enemy had plant,' his Majefty pay* the higheft Honour to the Cha- the Occaflon already of ncaf T«ftTJ>j>u{*n4of the ed fix C*nfc»j Then our Gunner fired, and <%- -r ':" .^-^'fy^^r^^&s'difmounUd-. ' - ; .v. t , ,,- ... .-.i, > .^ >-;-<7* -.t^ * ' •*, "?rf*J •±fc: L- ABntedfoiirtofthcii . >. Mercer I O» Sunday laft the bcfortrnentioned Defertcr Kent County, in JlfcrrJW,. Ofhter 30, 1756. r"all 'heCaptains, add,had a Pffa in his wa» brought to this Town, and is now confided AN away from the Subfcriber( an active bnt there came a CanftO* &hpt and kiUcd in our Goal. r , A . . ' t R Negro Fellow, named Tan, about fix Feet , it' that Inlbnt. This w&s in the Evening. On Urn, I9th of laft Month, another Dcferter high, Country born, fpcaki good Englijb, and is The next Morning, after the Frenckhad fired wt* 'taken near /Vf-Cawkr/W, who had gone about 28 Years- of Age. Had- on a white Cloth -4- rcannon. the Englifh hoifted their Flag for a Uo th6 Enemy about a Fortnight before: He was Pea Jacket bound with black, and Leather But­ lation. - ' - hanged the next Day in View of fome LuAtaj that tons, a half-worn Caftor Hat. two , obe of *P Me further inform*, that there i» a great Arm/ came out with him from Tort Du S^ftjia. ' ' white Linen, the other Ofnabrigs, two Pair of je turwcr^uuru-, ^. , B «r/ Laft Mondayr> Rdtrt Bmtklaj, who w» confined , to Crown-Point, confiding of 1 3,000 regular white , one Worfted, the other Yarn, two root*, befides Indians, as the French tqld him > for killing 4 Man by dabbing him in the Belly, Pair of Shoes, one black Leather, the other Ruflet, Cnd that the Canadians are to join them at a Mi- died in Prifon, and thereby the Bxpencc of a Tri­ and a Pair of wideTrowfers. . bute'i Warning, If wanted. -That the General al is faved, &c. / Whoever fecures the faid Negro in any Goal, oat from Canada laft Thurfday was a Month fo as his Mafter may have him again, (hall have Crown-Point, with Orders, as the French fay, Forty Shillings Reward, if taken in this Province \ take the Forts at or near Lake George; then T O BB SOLD, and if taken out of the Province, Three Pounds, paid by . SAMUEL MILLER. proceed to Albany, and from thence, if the tht Ctmmiffiontr, of tbt Paffr Cirrrncr, ftr will allow, to advance further into the \countount ofo tbt Loan-Offct, at Public ?,**«, on H E R E. is at the Plantation of John Htp- ICountry. even to Bofton i and that the French tbt / tUi b»r*, Efqj near the JfW-JW, in Pnnre- have undermined Crown-Point, in order to blow ILL fCb k in tbt Jfttr***, at tbt H»*Jt of Mr. TGem-git Countyr taken up as a Stray, a fmall lit up, in Cafe the Englifc fliould get Poflcffion of Charles Wallace, //.Annapolis, «. • • ^: . dark brown Mare, (he has a fmall Star, her near lit* I YOU NO Country-born Negro Wench hind. Foot white, is docked ftiort, and unbranded. BOSTON, Oftabtr 18. The Owner may have her again, on proving Cipt. Cloufton arrived here laft Monday in fix and her Child, for Paper Money. ASignid per Ordtr of tbt Ctmmififitrt, . ',,: his Property, and paying Charges. I Weeks and fire Day* from Oporto, who informs, . RICHARD DOK«Y, Clerk -V-r**.v I That as he came out he (poke with a Snow that J" , Of die Paper Currency Office. H E R B is at the Plantation of Captain arrived there the Evening before from New-Caftle, T_ Diaatl of_ St. Tkmuu Jtniftr, in Cbarlti end the Matter of her advifed him, that on his TO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC VENDUE, County, taken 'up as a Stray,' a Red Steer, about PaiTage he met with one of Admiral Bofcawen'i Six Years old, has a Crop and Staple Fork in I Fleet, who informed him, that the Fleet had taken O* tbt ao/A *f tid Infant November, of tin the right Ear, a Crop, under Bit taken out, and four French Men of War, and eight Tranfports, Houft of Mr. Joftua Gray, at Patapfco Met, a Slit in the left Ear. that were under their Convoy, and run three others by tht Sulferibtr, for C*rrt*t Mutj, Stilt of The Owner may have him again, on proving afliore near Cape Finifterre, where mod of the Bxtbangt, or Stirling, his Property, and paying Charges. . People perifhcd. Capt. Cloufton fays, that fome T R A C T of Land called Paey-Grtvt, Time before he left Oporto, there were near 300 A lying in Am-Ambl County, containing HERE is in the Pofleffion of Jemn Long, dead Bodies picked up on the Coaft of Galicia, Five Hundred Acres. SAMVIL GEMT, T at the Plantation of Mr. Ttomtu Jtmiingt, between Cape Ortugal and Cape Finifterre, and WILLIAM KIIM«. near jSnnaftlii, taken up as a Stray, a fmall Black I they had no Intelligence where they came from ; Mare, with fonie white Spots on her Back, brand- but it is likely they belonged to thofe Veflcls ALL Perfons indebted to the Eftate of Mr. ed high on the near Buttock with fomething like which Admiral Bofcawen drove on Shore. jf\. Samutl Davii, formerly of Qtutn-Annt, in a T. . N E W - Y O R K, O&ttr 2c. Printt-Gtorgt't County, Deceafed, are defired^ to The Owner may have her again, on proving , - We hear, via Bermuda, that the Englilh Crui*- make Payment, without Delay, to the Subfcriber his Property, and paying Charges. I en in the Weft-Indie* have taken many Prizes, and all thofe who have any legal Claims agaof] ferae very rich j and in particular that they had the faid Deccafcd's Eftate, are defired to bring, HERE is at the Plantation of taken 14 or t6Sail of Dutch Veflcls, and fen: them in, to JOHN BATEMAN, Executor. T Braving on Pift-Crtti, in Frtdtrick County, them into Antigua. N, B. Thofe who delay Payment muft (dun up as a Stray, a fmall Bay Mare, with i PHILADELPHIA, Offokr 28. to be warranted or fued. f 4 Sjar in her Forehead, and a Snip on her Nofe, ' Since our laft an Expreis arrived here from Sha- has 4,Sprig Tail, two Wall Eyes, one of her hind - nokin to our Governor j the Contents of which, Oflobtr zc, 1756. Feet ts white, and is branded with fooething like u<>. we hear,"are, that Col. Clapham had received In­ ESERTED from Ballimort-Tovat, inMa- dian Intelligence, that the French at Ohio, were very rjbtnJ, the following Men,' belonging to The CVner may have her again, on proving theD Royal America* Regiment,' viz. his Property, and paying Charges. •>>^ diligent in collecting their Indians together, and Mattbrvu J**f, a Corpora], a Grma* born, and feinting them up againft the Englilh for the Lofi of (peaks bad EngTijb \ he is a (pare Man, of a fair H B Subfcriber having declined keeping Kittanning ; and that there was Reafon to believe Complexion, about f Peet 6 Inches high, has a _ SStore" at 'EM-RiJgt Landing, is now remo* that both French and Indians would foon fet out long Cut on his left Cheek, wore his Hair platted vedT to Battimert'Tenun, where he purpofes carrying in feparate Parties, to attack our Frontiers in dif­ behind, and it is faid formerly kept a School at on Trade as ufual. He will purchafc Pork ana ferent Places. CMMVNMWW, an ANNAPOLIS, Ntotmltr 4. and was feen with his Wife and Child fuch like Articles. He has alfo a choice Aflbrt- On Monday laft dkd at Upptr-Martoonugb,>, CaCap- on the Way to that Place. Had on when he went mcnt of European and Eafl-lintia GOODS fuit- 2- tain Juliiu Cuijnt, as a Place of greater him, fo that he may be had again, (hall have a Pif­ at Five-pence Half-penny ftr Butbcl. He hat al­ Safety. We have no Account of Ftrt-Cmmltrland tole Reward, beude what the Law allows j or if fo a Cooper, with a Quantity of well-feafoncd yet attacked, neither have the Indiam done brought home, the fame Reward and reafonable Staves, and will fupply Cdtomers with Barrels, ahy ge hereabouts flnce the late Expedition.", Charges, paid by t WILLIAM BROWN at the commo'h Rates. CHAM.II CARKOLL. I •*.».'

*+•• »••• ."*,: Tt hi Sftf by tle.Subfcrilir i* Annapolis, LL Perfons who have any Claims 'againft ROBERT ROW^ND, UNDRY Pairs of ready made Cart Wheels, the Eftatc of Dr. Altxhndtr Hamilton, late ofA this City, deccafcd, are defired to bring them Chatfe, and Bladtn Wheels ; likcwife a very N T E N !W 1o carry on that Bnfinefs, goodS Waggon, all well made, and of good feafon- in that they may be adjuftcd : And all Perfons indebted to the (aid Eftatc, are desired to make _ hopes tht Public will favour him with ed Timber. Commands, as they may depend on beingng asa w.i . Any Gentlemen or Others who may have Occa- Payment,' without Loft of Time, to MARGARET HAMILTON, Executrix. nfed, and their Work as neatly fimmcd off,"* asi fion, may be fopplied at reafpnable Rates, by London, by , Tt*ir bumble Sertuut, Tlreir bttmblt Servant, OST in the Road, (on Saturday Stpttmkr HENW.T WALLS. 2C, between Annaptlit and Dif*eyi Mill), N. B. He tini and braficrs all Sorts of Bn&l 'N. B. Sundry Wheel-Barrows to be Sold, aL good Drab GREAT COAT, with a Velvet and Copper Work ; and makes Worms for Stilli.J Wholefale or Retail, by faid H'allt. Cape. Whoever will deliver it to Mr. Willism Murdock, in Princt-Gitrgit, or to the Printer, Oflobcr zo, 1756. Ti bt SOLD fy tbt Sntfcrtifr, at bit D-u.-eUn,J A N away from bnver-Marltcrtugb in Cal- hereof, (hall have Ten Shillings Reward. _L f~ Plantation, tad at bit Ptt-Houft, in St. Mary'] vtrt County, about the zoth of laft Month, Stptmbtr 20, 1756. Ceuntf, aid CM tbt Htad »f St. Mary'/ River, Ran Indented Servant Man, named Edward Harrii, A N away laft Night, from the Subfcriber, Wb+Ufalt or Rttailj a Ship-Carpenter by Trade, about 5 Feet 9 Inches, R in 4*n*t«liii a Convict Servant Man, named ARTHEN-WARE, of the lame > Age, and has a (ickly Look:' It is fuppofcd he is a Mafon by Trade, was born in Wain, is about Churning-Pots, painted Diflies, Plates, cjTr. witaj went to the Eaftcrn Shore in a Canoe. 33 Years old, and cither can't or pretends not to fundry other Sorts of (mail Ware too tedious to | Whoever apprehends the (aid Servant and brings /peak good Englijb. He had with him when he mention. He is provided with good WorkaWn him to the Subfcriber in. Lowtr-Marltonugk, or went away, an old fuperfine blue Broad-Cloth from Li Koufes, or improv'd Lott, Part, to render it unferviceable, or prejudice the pay the Ready Money, and is obliged to raife his Subfcriber, living at the ffW- Sale thereof; and likewife, any Part of the fevcral Price with thofe who want Credit ; and as he is ...... ^ttrgt'i County, Maryland: Where Tracts, in Frtdtritk County, in like Manner. ' now in great Want of Cam, to enable him to iat- ay be fupplied, likewife, with choice N E- The Title and Terms may be knpwn,. by ap- port Goods for the Carrying on his Bufinefs, O E S of either Sex, and of any Age. plying to the Subfcriber, or to J»fia> Btall, junior- that they would be expeditious in paying off the Geoaca Go*DON. living on Ackokifk, near Piftafanvaj, in Priaet, old Scores, which will »uck oblige, 1 V. B. Any one that buys the Tract of Land Gurgfi County. JOHN BKALL, junior. ' , , TUr bmAlt « and Dwelling-Houfe adjoining to Gtorgt-Tmux, If, B, Time will be given for the Payment of CHAaLtS WALLACE. (hall have Time given him for Payment of Part. Pan, on good Security, if required. * L IS .-Printed by JONAS GREEN, ?O«T-MA«THR, at his OFFICE in Cbarhs-JIreft j by whom all Pcrlbna may be lupplicd with this G A Z E T1* E, at iaj. 6d.perYext. ADVERTHC- ti of a moderate Length are taken in and inferred for Fire Shillings the fail; Week, u\.d Oac Sht Week after tfie Firft. . . - .- v . .._:,,,...r ^;.

\ . _ rr./v^'.-vv^- /^ «TW, IS> THE \_Nutnb. 601.] **, an cheil :asi GAZETTE, rXirb. »f Containing the frefheft Advices foreign and dome/lie. stm,^ THURSDAY, November u, 1756.

FW»d .. __ ' »ftktQ*Ua»t Bib&vimr wen looked upon as a Man of Honour, arid die SUrling, a Place of the created Importance, from v _j EKOIISH CA>TAIK of on ENGLISH Man Rebels fhould find he Nvould die fo." He put falling into the Hands of the Rebels, tho' his Pro- of War, Afe»«Y with ENGLISHMEN, at a Timt Arms into the Townfmen's Hands, and expected vifions and Firing were almoft expended. *vtt* /Af True Old ENGLISH Valour lved to defend themfelves j but die Provoft and would be boned in \mjjK~ Such is the Hero, " he had done in the time of all hii life. This iailies being ftill bent upon 'delivering' up die who, abandoned bjRBoTe that fhould have fnp- " Ship, for the fpace of 1 5 hours, fate like a Stag 'own, a Letter was fent from the Council to die ported him, has, notwithftanding, raifed himfelf 41 mmoijglt Hounds, at the Bay, and Was feiged, jcncral, with die Terms of a fccond Agreement, a Monument by his noble Behaviour, Which will 41 and fought with, in turn, by fifteen great Ships, o which, juftly incenfcd at their Meanncfs and remain with Engljfhmcn till, alas ' Honour, Pt- " part of a Navy .of fifty five fhips in all ; The nerfidy, he only returned this laconic Anfwer. triocifm, and Liberty, (hall be no more. " reft like Abettors looking on a far off) And a- " Jan. 8, 1746. ' " mongft (he 1 5 fhips that fought, the great Sa»t " Gendcmcn, I received yours. Deliver me 44 PbiUfft was one » a (hip of 1 500 tan i Prince up my Arms and Ammunition. M of the t a St a Apofhi ; Which was right glad Your humble Servant." DUBLIN, yuff 24. " when (he was fhifted off from the Upon this the Conveener, with die Captains of Y private Letter* from Copenhagen, Berlin," *' Thi* brave (hip the Rrvtart, being manned he Voluntiers, fent again to the General, telling B Hamburgh, and the Hague, A/Fairs «re " onely with two hundred (fouldiers and mari- him, " That if he would aid diem with die Mi- l.kcly to uke a ftrange Turn, the King of ** ncn,) whereof eighty lay fick, yet ncverthelcfTe itia as formerly, and head them, they would fland Denmark having allured his Britannic Majefly, " after a Fight maintained (as was faid} of fifteen out die Siege till the Army came up, &c. &c." that if the French attack or attempt to invade ** hoan, and two (hips of the enemy funk by her To which he returned Anfwer ; " Gendcmcn, As Great-Britain or Ireland, he will fend icooo " fide) Bcfidcs many more tome and battered, your Provoft and Bailies think the Town not worth of his Troops, and alfo his whole Fleet to " and great daughter of men ; never came to be heir Notice, to take Care of it, neither can I. I Ireland, to defend it from the French or any other 44 entered, but was taken by compofition j The will take Care of the Caftlc." Invader; and that they fhall Be ready at die 44 Enemies themfelves having in admiration the The next Evening die Town waa_furrendcred, fhorteft Warning to land at the neareft- Sea -Ports * Vertoe of the Commander, and the whole Tra- . and the Minute they entcr'd they broke die Capi- of that Kingdom, and to march to all other Parti 44 gady of that Ship." ulation, by pillaging, &c. The General had of the Country : But u there ii not any Nation leafon to be greatly chagrined at this CoJlu& of in Europe, or any other Part of the World, that die Magiftrates ; for, by his Carat the Walls of hath (hewn more Loyalty and Affeftion to their die Town had been all repaired, Additions made Princes, in all Ages, than die Irifh have done, From tin LOHDON MAOAZINB for July, 1756. where ncccfikry, feveral deep Trenches cut, and efpccially to his prefent Maiefty, it is hoped dicre le had provided them with every Requifite to will be no Occafion for the Danes to come hither; AHICDOTIS »f Gntral BLAKENBY, tbt lr*m 'uftain an obftmtc Siege. the People of this Kingdom, and particularly DifnJtr tf St. Philip's Cattle, in'tbt IJUud tf On the Day after the Battle of Falkirk, the Re- thofe of Dublrn, being ntfw figning moft loyal and Minorca. >eU attcmp.ed to fcale die CafUe 4 but General afieclionate AfTociatioos to fupport his Majefty a- T IEUTEN ANT General Wniiam Blakeney, Jlakcncy having ordered all his Men out of gainfl the French, or any other Power whatever, I j is of Irifh Extraction, and v^ early entcr'd Sight, at their firtt Attack, and planted nine Pieces who (hall prcfumo to attempt an Invafion. in any into the Service of his Country, V which he be- of Cannon, Nine-pounders, loaded with Grape- Part of this Kingdom, or Great-Britain j there be­ hav'd with diftinguifhed Conduct arid ^Courage, (hot, for their Reception ; and his Mufkctcers ing above 100,000 Proteftanu, in one .of our four and rofe, thro" tho feveral military Degrcei, to the exerting diemfelves at the fame time, die Rebels Provinces, defirous and ready to bear Arms, and Rank of Colonel. In March 1743, he was con- oft above toooMcn in their fruitlcfs Attempt. many Thoufands of them willing to death, array, Bituted a Brigadier. General of his Majefty's Forces, Upon this they demanded a Ccffation of Arms to and maintain themfclves at their own Charge, not and in March 1744, was appointed Qu»rter-Ma- bury their Dead j but the General rcfufcd it them, only in die different Parts of this Kingdom, but fkr-Gencral of the Troops in Scotland. In April with this Anfwer, " That they need not be in any even in Great-Britain, if his Majefty s Service 1749, he was conftituted a Major-General, and great Hurry, fincc, at die Weather was very cold, fhoold require it. . in February 1746, was made Lieutenant- Governor their Bodies were not like to be offcnfwe." LONDON. of Plymouth. In the fame Year he was appointed From this time die Fire of the Garrifon was fo Julj 15. The John and Mary, of Peterhcad, Commander in Chief of the Forces in Scotland, fiuup ajid conftant upon die Batteries dicy were Arbuthnot, from Virginia for London, is afhore at and in September 1 747, Lieutenant-Governor of creeling, that all the Rebels declined approaching Holyhead in the Orkneys. the Ifland of Minorca. In October 1 747, he was diem, To that die Irifh Brigade, and Drummond's It is fuppofcd that the Stir made on the Coafl conflituted a Licuttnant-Gencral of bis Majefty's Regiment were forced to that Duty. At length oppofitc to us, is defigned to withdraw our Atten­ Forces, and about the Year 175), Governor of they finifhcd two Batteries, one at Go wan-Hill, tion from their Mtrtinico-Fleet, fuppofed at thij Port St. Philip, and is alfo Colonel of the ijth within forty Yards of-die CafUe, and oncatLa- Time to be at Sea. Bofcawen has already been Regiment of Foot, which is on the Irifh Efiablifh- dy's-Hill, on whkh diey mounted jforae Cannon, largely reinforced in order to ftretch out his Squa­ mcnt. On Auguft 21, 174$. foon after the and fired for a froall Space inccfTantly, but were dron to a great Di(lance, to prevent their efrapmg. Breaking out of the Rebellion, he fet out to join anfwercd with fuch Effccl by the brave Blak«i "__ This McrchantTlcet, confifts of about 150 Safl, his Regiment in Scotland, where,

-.V'" belonging to the Greenland Ships lately arrived, [Sol ordetMtntt>eptford to g« to y.,, .~. It would be the .bafcft Ingratitude to coming to the Cuftom-Houfc to apply for frefti' ""' - "' -*' A u - - attrmpt'a«y Derogation from the Prailc due to Bat not too far off (hoult) we w*nt her Alliftanee. We hear that a Shij Mr. W»ft, who lorei Fighting, beh»»'d like I Man, ndtn. Which left th the truly honourable General Blakeney, for hii Protections, two Lieutenant! of the Royal Navy, Tho'.he fail'd. in the Rear, jet be fought in the Van i gallanjt Defence of Fort St Philip t yet the Merit with Gangs, drew near, with Dcfign 'to prcfs If I fought, you'll feeliere tht Itngagonent wit hot, pttmttr, and brm, of otic of hii Officers muft (land in a glorious them. The Greenland-Men refblved they would Dut I wifely kept out of the Reach of their Shot. Jten from Fifteen C Light when known. Capt. Cunningham, a Scotch not be prefTcd; and determined to ftand by each TV Intrepid by Accident lofing her Mart, d, Wcdnefday, < Gentleman, being fecond Engineer of the Place other; Upon which began a fmkrt BatUe, the Wo i * handfome Excufe for retreating at laft. jHtrt County, died A Council Wii call'd, and we ill thought it beft, If hU Age, JAMES when Mr. Armftrong left it, he was thereupon ap­ Numbers on each Side being pretty equal One Asn, they fteer'dnm u foriw theuie Eaft,m> wewc (hooldm)juia fleerma forin them w^ pointed by General Blakcney to fuccced him pro Lieutenant, being hard prefs d drew his Sword, ThU agreed [ Uft their Mlndi, when rtcom'd, tooU alt**, r Mr. JAMB! Temfart till a Commiflion for that Purpofc (hou!4 and ran one of the-GrcenUnders through'the I am foiling as ftft at I can to Gibraltar;i . jt the Profefli' Arrive from Epgland, of which no Doubt was Hand > but the wouncfeB Man, ncverthelcfs, get So hare .wrote thii in Hafte, at I thought it eipecltd. r fome Time w That Newt of fuch Moment fltoaU not ta negMM. us, with hw fn , road*. However, an old decrepit Gentleman ting his Sword from him, in return cut hit Eye Do your bcft.to enhance my Deferta to the K , his came out as Chief Engineer, and fupcrfeded Mr. out and Part of his Cheek, and'gave him a Stab ,er cood Qualities, And in all Thin|» (but fighting) believe me, Tnrt, B a, useem of all who > Cunningham, who thereupon begged Mr. Blalce- in the Thigh; at the fame Time one of the Gang HALIFAX, Seftenter 25. ney's Leave to refign and retire to his Regiment, was thrown over the Rails, and had his Ann nnch lamented. as he could not with Honour fcrve there under broke ; "and feveral others were terribly bruifed. Thurfday two Men arrived here with Exprefle* fuch a Pcrfon. General IjUkeney, though gnat At length a Mcflage from the Commtffioners was from Capt. MeVcier, at Pifguit, to his Excellency ly concerned, could not refufc fo realonable brought to the Lieutenants, ordering them to our Governor, informing him, that as feme of To »E Soil Rcdueft, and Mr. Cunningham immediately em withdraw, which they did accordingly, carrying our Men were at Work at fome Diftance from the i, tbt ^*d tf tbii barked for Nice, together with two Children off three of the Greenland Men. The reft ob­ Fort, with a Guard of a Serjeant and 12 Men, and his Lady ready to lye in of a third. She was tained the' Protection they fought. four of the French Neutrals discovered themfelves OwingsV, in B« brought to-bcd at Nice; and Mr. Cunningham jJvgufl 14. A new 84 Gun Ship, called the at a fmall Diftance from them, upon whkh the Cvmtj, during* the Stay thereby occafioned, hearing of the; Princefs Amelia, will foon be launched at Wool­ Serjeant and his Party purfued them till they came A LARGB Qw 'Frencn Defigns againft Mmorca, and recollecting wich ; and new Ships are building in every Yard to a Hollow, when they were immediately fijr- J\ likewife fome that the Platforms of the Batteries in Fort St. Philip with all poflible Expedition. rounded by about 100 of the French, who took iJuUU the Plantation ' ' %ere in fuch a rotten arid ruinous Condition, that The two new 74 Gun Ships which are building the Serjeant and fix of his Men Prifoners, the o- they could not ftand any hot Service, he inftantly with'the utmoft Diligence at Deptford, are as large ther fix by firing and retreatifigin the bed Manner out all the Money he was. Matter of, about as the old 90 Gun Snips. they could, got back to the Fort, with only one l6ool. in purchafmgTimber fit for repairing them, Extras of a Lttttrfr»m Pert/mouth, Augnjt \ 3 wounded. oallMagiftrates,'8] '"••*• •"' tired a Veflel, put it on board, and (ailed direftly " Yefterday arrived the Monarch, Capt. Rod­ Offtttr 2. Sunday lift arrived his Majefty's Ships Norwich and Succrfs, from their Cmize) his Lordfhip's with it himfelf for Portmahon, leaving his Lady ney, from the Bay, where Admiral Bofcawen and of and Children at Nice. His Arrival with fuch a his Fleet are all well, and confift of 17 Ships of an Officer from the Snccefs gives the following Supply in fuch a critical Conjuncture gave Gene­ the Line, befides Frigates. She brought up" with Account, viz. That on the firft of September* be. ral Blakcney infinite Plcafure. He told Cnpt. her the"Duke d'Agnifion, ofNantz,fromNantz, from Grana­6rana-1 "IB," th.e G.ut of Canfo. theydiey efpied a ffmall T a cert*l» Jofc 'Cunningham, that the Service he had done his da,, with..i 170'._ Hogfheads»»_°/» ._«_« of »___.Sugar, taken._i_ tby the.i - I Shallop Handing along tncthe bnore,Shore, upon which Sttrt-Uouft tf Mr. J( Country out of pure ZealVAj fo confidcrable, that Lcoftoff, Capt. Dorrell, in Sight of the Fleet. manned out their Boats, and went in Q^ and jolt from tl be did not know how hftbuld be fumciently re­ " Yefterday arrived the DeaT-Caftle, Capt which they perceiving, run her afhore, quit­ Month, warded for it ; that in the mean time to (hew his Hughes, from Guernfcy, and brought feveral ted her, and run into the Woods, when Capt own Scnfe of it, he would venture to take a very, French Prifoners, taken in a Martincoo Man, Rons's Barge put two Hands afhore in order to get , in Princc-Georj 'irregular Step by fuperfeding the old Gentleman as worth 12,0001. fent into Gnernfey by one of their her off; upon which the French and Indiam, tiu, becaufe they fear it raoft.". King's Ship. She had 1 8 fix Pounders mounted, WednefdayAft the Fogeux arrived hcrej We hear that wheJnhclenThc and the Centurion were cruiz­ fail not at vo Several . Perfons were afraid left Byng, encou­ and was full of Men, among whom we muft and Seal thii raged by fo great a Majority of Naval Force as have made a great Slaughter. As to our Part, I ing in the Bay Gafpe, they, taking a favourable we now have in the Mediterranean, fhould have thank God, we had none killed or wounded. Opportunity, landed fome of their Men under '.' ventured to feek the Enemy before Hawke arrived I muft own that during the whole Time of the Cover of their Gnu upon a fmall French Settle- N. B. The ( to fuperfede him ; but on the other Side it is ob- Action, my People behaved with the utmoft ment, and burnt about 76 ttonfes, tht Inhabi. I deals much in 1 . fcrved, That a Coward never thinks his Sword Bravery. We have foffered much in our Sails tants having defertcd them upon their landinz, foon make a Hoi > lone enough. and Rigging t our Main--ma.fl (hot half and fled to the Woods. him, fo that he The Character, acquired by a certain Admiral through : We have got another up, and our BOSTON, Oaokr 18. warded for their upon the Credit of having formerly fought a Duel Rigging pretty well repaired. . Captain Shippy, from Chigneclo, for New- or two, now fcrves to confirm that duelling is no " I fend this by the Dolly, Captain Cole, York, touched at Portfmonth laft Thurfday in TOLEN c Proof of Courage. Tis faid of Capt. Kirby, who bound for Naples, whom I have juft now brought three Days, and informed, that there had been was (hot at Portfmouth for Cowardice in a late to | and as I would not detain him, you'll excufe of Oatbtr lately discovered a large Body of French and In­ HandsS high, ab Reign, that being aflced juft before his Execution, my not writing correct." dians } upon which the Englifh demolifhed Fort 41 How he who had fought feveral Duels, could N. B. Captain Le Gros's Crew confifted of Shoulder with Lawrence, and Fort Monkton, at Bay Vert, and his hind Feet wl have been capable of the particular Kind of Mif- Thirty-fix Hand* only. repaired with all their Force to Fort Cumberland j behaviour for which he luffered:" He replied, on a very good A la* Tt. P I 8 T L B to Mr. C -B. and that there was alfo a Talk of demolishing the Whoever fei ." He knew how to parry a Small Sword, but Fort at Pifguit. not a Cannon Ball." ' tit hltir ttri tf y«h»r li Diftrttitn, in vthiek klttr Part, and brings the J kavi ftv'd wy Lift. Shakefpeare. N E W - Y O R K, Oaobr 25. { Shillings Hews July 31. It is confidently reported^at Ad^i- 1"*V EAR Sir, 'tit with Pleafurt the following I write, raf Weft, has waited.on his Majefty, Ang intro­ \J And hope you'll impute my Mifhlici to my Fright.^ By CaptainXnof from the Wcft-Indiea. we irt~ f duced by Lord Anfon, Firft Commiflioner of the "On the eighth Day of May we fct Sail for Mahon, informed, That the Sloop York Packet; Robert Admiralty, and waf very gracioufly received. It Where we fear'd we Ihould get (ai the Wind blew) too foon, Robinfon Mafter, from York River, in Vfcnnia, 'TT^HERI is added, that the Admiral gave a very fair and I wai not in Ilafle ) for 'tliflwayt my Way, 1 Dorfo, To be fiift at a Feaft, and the laft at a Fray. was taken bv a French Privateer on the jiftof true Account of the late Action with Monfieur On the nineteenth, at Noon, we difcern'd the French Fleet, September laft, between the Ifland of St. John'* a large Black Galiflbnicre, to his Mojcfty's great Satisfaction, And judg'd we muft -now either beat or be beat. and St. Thomas, and carried into the latter. der with fome who approv'd of Mr. Weft's Conduft therein, fay. I wai then to the Windward, and fuch wai my (lay, Fell down and failed fmce our laft, the Priva­ middle fiz'd 1 ing, 1 hat if every one had done their Duty as he That by (hurtling and (hifting I fpun out the Day j teer Snow Earl of Loudoun, Capt. Valentine j with feven Do On the twentieth again the French Fleet wai in Sight, \ \ fuppos'd to b( did, St. Philip's would have been relieved, and And I found that in fpight of my Fear I muft Fight | ' the Brig Kino, George, Capt. Arnold,;, tha Brig Minorca faved. . . On comparing our Force, we had one Ship to fparr, Prince George, Capt. Murray t and Sloop Chirm* The Ownei 3. Ycftcrday ibpiit 40 of th^e Seamen And to uke the Adviniigt 1 th«v(b.t wii unfair, me-Sally, tapt. Harris. . his Property, -;iri in England, of a whitiftx Complexion, The Owner may have her again, on proving On Wednesday, Oflabef zoth, at Jepfa m{ Bal- about 32 Yean of Age, 5 Feet 10 Inches high, his Property, and paying'Charges. \mire County, died of a Fever, in the 25111 Year well-fet, and has (hort, dark brown Hair. He had on and carried with him, one new and on* TO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC VENDUE, his Age, JAMES MACOILL, eldeft Son to the On tbt 19/6 tf tlii Injlant November, at tbt levr. Mr. JAMBS MACOILL.- r-Hc was educa- old Felt Hat, a bloc grey Coat, with fhort-turn'd in the Profeflion of Phyfic, which .he praftifed up Cuffs, and a Cape, a Jacket of the fame, both Htnft of Mr. lomua Gray, at Patapfco NecJt, fome Time with Diligence and good Succefs: trimm'd with Metal Buttons, a Pair of new Cotton by tbt Sitt/criteri, for Current Muiej, Bills if Irf,, with his friendly Difpofitton of Mind, and Breeches, half^worn Country-made Shoes, and an Exchange, tr Sttr/iag, BCT good Qualities, procured him the Love and Ofnabrigs Shirt. There was alfo, at the fame T R A C T of Land called Piny-Grove, .kem of all who knew him, to that his Death is Time, fundry Sorts of Wearing Apparel miffing, A lying in Annt-Artoidtl County, containing ouch lamented. which he is fuppofed to have carried with him, Five Hundredv^cres. S&MOBL GEIST, viz. a light colour'd Cloth Coat with Metal But­ WILLIAM KEENE. tons, one Dimothy and one good Plum coloor'd e t 1756. To BE SOLD BY PUBLIC VBNDUB, Everlaftinz Jacket, one Pair of Linen Breeches and Trowfers, two Pair of gre^ Yarn, one Pair of ESERTED horn Baliimort-TewT, m Ma­ . tbt lid tf tbii Infant November, at tbt Plan- ryland, the following Men, belonging to tatitn tf Thomas Bladen, Eft; near Mr. Samuel ribb'd Worfted, and one Pair of white Cotton D Stockings, one Bandanno Handkerchief, new and the Royal American Regiment, Wz. Owing*'/, in Baltimore Cwtarj, fir. Stirling tr Matthew J*»r, a Corporal, a German bom, and Cnrmeit . 'ft not hemm'd, one Pair of Buck-fllin Breeches, one fine new Shirt, onc,Brafs Equinoctial or Ring Dial, fpcaks bad Englijb ; he is a (pare Man, of a fair LARGE Qoantity ofCdnJtfld.Tobtcco; Complexion, about c Feet 6 Inches high, has a likewife fome Horfes, Cattle, and Hogs; one Match Coat Blanket, and one Pair of turn'd Pumps without Straps, &c. long Cut on his left Cheek, wore his Hair platted landA all the Plantation Utenftls. behind, and it is faid formerly kept a School at HOWARD. Whoever apprehends and conveys the faid Ser­ vant to the aforefaid Works, (hall have Forty Shil­ Cciianuauga, and wat feen with his Wife and Child on the Way to that Place. Had oh when he went ii, 1756. lings Reward, if taken within ten Miles of the faid Works j and Three Pounds, if above, with rca- away, a light-coloftr'd, grey Coat, a ftriped Linen To afl Magiftrates,' Sheriffs, Conftables, and. other ConabU Charges, paid by CALEB DO»SEY. Jacket, and a new Pair of Buck-flun Breeches. his Lordlhip's good People, within the Province Erjan Clarkt, a Recruit, about 5 Feet 7 Inches of Maryland. A N away on the ipth of OSober Lift, from high, of a fair Complexion, has (hort brown Hair, 'HE RE AS I have Reaftn tt btlievt, that R the Subfcribcr, living near GtorriSTruin on and a particular Caft in his Eyes, aged 27 Years, i certain John Cameron did break open- tbt Rack-Cntk, in Frederick County, a Mulatto Wo­ and is well made. Had on when he went away, §itrt~Ht>i/t tf Mr. John Skinner, tf Calvert Ctnn- man Slave, named Katt, who formerly belonged a Camblet Wailkoat, and a Pink-colour'd Jacket and Jlole from tbenct flaidry Gttdt, tbt gtb tr to Mr. Benjamin Lant in Annt-Anuidtl County, and under it, a new Pair of Buck-dun Breeches, and \lotb of laft Month, Part of which. Goodi tbt /aid bought of hint laft Jnnt ; (he is a pert pallavering a new Pair of Pumps. He is faid to bo gone in |Cameron/«/ ~ ,»^- in Prince-George's and Anne-Arundel Caun- She took with her a fmall Black Horfe, .branded Robert Ftrrtfter, a Recruit, about c Feef fin­ \llu, ivbicb bavtjince teen recovered by /aid Skinner. on the near Buttock with a large S : And ai (he ches high, full fac'd, of a freffi Complexion, bora \A*d lubertai the faid Cameron, after be ivai di/co- is pretty well drciTed may fometimes pafs for a free in Rboai-IJland, about 35 Years of Age, and ferved td to be tbt Author or an Accomplice of the Burgla- Woman where (he is not known to be othcrwife. as an Indented Servant 5 Years with Mr. Lijly, of . i aforifaid, did endeavour tt make bit Eftapt \ but It is fuppofed (he is fecrcted by a Mulatto Slave South River, vat pnrfttd and overtaken tn tr near Elk-Ridge, called Jemmy (a Carpenter by Trade), belonging Whoever (hall apprehend all or either of the \nd luat brtngbt drum below Mr. Snowden'i Iron- to Mr. Tbtmat Sprigf, on Weft-River, with the abovementioned Defcrters, and will bring them to \W»rkt in Prince-George's County, /, it tf a middlinttr miter fmall Stature, dulge herfelf a little in vifiting her old Acquaint­ A \hat m young Look, rtddijb Beard, Whoever brings the faid Wench to the Subfcri- them in, to JOHN BATIUAN, Executor. ber, (hall have Two Piftoles for their TroAlc, be­ H ESE are, therefore, in hit Lord- tides a good Reward if they difcover the Perfons H E Subscriber having declined keeping ftiip'sfti the Lord Proprietary's Name, to Store at Elk-Ridge Landing, is now remo­ will and require you to make diligent Search, that harbour her, fo that they may be brought to T Juftice. | HiMar THRELKELD. ved ^p Ba/timort-Town, where he purpofes carrying and Hue and Cry, after the faid Jthn Canu- He will purchafe Pork and rtn in all fufpeQed Placet, and when appre­ HERE is at the Plantation of Mrs. Mary fuch like Articles. He has aKo a choice Aflbrt- hended, that you convey him to the next Gil/if/, near Annattlit, taken up as a Stray, ment of European and Eaft-India GOODS fuit- Magistrate for his Commitment to the moft aT Bay Mare, about 14 Hands high, her hind Feet able to the Seafon, to be difpofed of, at rcafonable adjacent Goal, there to remain until he be white, branded on the off Shoulder with fomething Rates. discharged by a due Courfe of Law. Hereof like an M, on the off Buttock with fomething like All Perfons indebted to him for Goods fold at fail not at your Peril. Given under my Hand a C, and on the near Shoulder with fomething like Elk-RiJge, are required to come and fettle, to pre­ and Seal this i ith Day of November, 1756. a B, has a Sprig Tail, and hanging Mane. vent being fucd or warranted. Attendance will STEUART. |^ The Owner may have her again, on proving his be conftantly given, for that Purpofc, at the Bal- If. B. The faid Cameron is a great Gamefter, Property, and paying Charges. ^ timtrt Store, facing the Bridge, by deals much in Horfes, and probably has or will Their tbligtd and Qbedient,Servant, ' ~ HERE is in the Poffcfiion of Alii Brown, D. CKAHIIK*: foon make a Horfe to travel on. Whoever fecures K « ,. * Lr»l f n yr.t, him, fo that he be brought to Juftice, (hall be re- lUmor« hv'n8 m thc F°rJ5 °{ P*"$f" £""» "P.«? « s"y. « middle-fiz d Bay Mare, HERE is at the Plantation of Captain | warded for their Trouble, by . '*' Daniel tf St. \Tbomaj Jenifer, in Cbarle, ;- -...... JOHN SKINNIR. with a Slit in her near Ear, fome Saddle Spots on T her "Back, and a Sprig Tail. .-.'. .. County, taken upr 'as a Stray, a Red Steer, about Six Years old, has a Crop and Staple Fork in TOLEN or Strayed from Pig-Point the 30th The Owner may have her'again, on proving his Property, and paying Charges. / the right Ear, a Crap, under Bit taken out, and of OSober laft, a Dark Bay Horfe, about 14 a Slit in the left ESr. HandsS high, about 5 Years old, branded on the HERE is at the Plantation of Mr. William The Owner may have him again, on proving Shoulder with a T, with a Stroke acrofs, one of T1 his Property, and paying Charges. his hind Feet white, and a natural Pacer; and had Tbtmat, near Queen-Anae, in Pn'ntt-Getrgt' on a very good Hunting Saddle. lounty, a fmall Grev Horfe, branded on the near Kent County, in Maryland, Offtttr 30,-1756. Whoever fecures the faid .Horfe and Saddle, Buttock with fomething like a Heart. AN away from the Subfcriber, an active end brings them to Pig-Point, (hall have Twenty The Owner may have him again, on provinj his Property, and paying Charges. / Negro Fellow, named Tom, about fix Feet Shilling! Reward, paid by' high,R Country born, fpeaks good Englijb, and is ({, C^^r^,. EDWARD COLI. To bt Stld by PuUit ftnJne, at tbt Plantatitn lattly about 28-Years of Age. Had on a white Cloth ttltiirinr tt Mn. Sarah Gremam, dteiafid, mar Pea Jacket bound with black, and Leather But­ 'T^HERE is at the' Plantation of Mr. E!y tons, a. half-worn CaftorHat, two Shirts, one of A Dtrfly, at Elk-Ridge, taken up as a Stray, South River Cb*r • -f •^.•,- 'l' ij'j'r;/i'iVj«»*i.'Vs?*i'-- / '"'" '' .<* *"**»C' {>»: .»- -i' <*»Sjip ?.' *'».''' . ?" ,** p . ', ' ».. '\L. Jk ,.-*. ;r " . ?. -. .»:..^V "..-.-: _. .: -; ^aafejit'.«' - * ?iESSBfe»" '' ' .' " ' '" :-' ' ^'" " " "" '""^ '"T"s H ERE i» in the 1'oHclHon of Jaxies Long, .HERE are in the Poflcfllon of •j» ct o»/rf t>j me nui/jcriber in Annapolis, JL at the Plantation of Mr. Thomas Jenningi, PlulHnter, on Bujb-Cretk, it> Fr'eJerick'Conn UNDRY Pairs of ready jtoade Cart Wheels., near Annafol'n, taken up as 9 Stray, 4 fmall Black ty, taken up as Strays, the two following Crea­ Chaife, and BlaJt* Wheels ; likewife a ver/ Marc, with fome white Spots on her Back, brand­ tures, wix. goodS Waggon,, all well made, and of good feafon-l ed high v on the Mar Buttock with fomething like A mjctcfle-fizcd Black Hoffe, branded on the cd. Timber. ] a T. nean,Shoulder with G, on the Buttock IH (In Any Gentlemen or Others who may have Occvj The OWncr may have her again, on proving a QJBBle), and on the off Shoulder thus LQ. fion, may be fupplied at reafonable Rates, by hit Property, and paying Charges. '^nd, jt fmall Sorrel Horftf; '.branded on the Tktit humble Servant, Shoulder and Buttock thus /yt^bis a Star in his HE«*V WALLI. T^ H*E RE U at tl»c Plantation of Edward Forehead, and four white Feet.."~ N, B. Sundry Wheel-Barrows to be 'Sold, JL Urartu, on Pipe-treek, in Frederick County, The Owner or Owners may*'have them again, Whole&le or Retail, by faid Walk. taken up at a Stray,, a fmall Bay Mare, with on proving Property, and paying Charges. a Stir in her ForeheatJ, »nd a Snip on Her Nofe, has.a Sprig Tail, two Wall Eyes, one of her hftid ROBERT .. Feetii white, and is branded whh fomething like A LL1 Perfons who have any Claims ag&inft 4r Mr. Creagh> 'Shop in a B. the Eftati of Dr. Alexander Hamilton, late TNTEJiDS to carry on that Bufinefs, and] The Owner may have her of this City, deceafed, are dcfircd to bring them J. hopes 'the Public will favour him with their his Property, and paying Charges in, thai they may be adjufted: And all Perfons Commands, at they may depend on being as well indebted to thefaid Eflatc, are defired to make ufed, and their Work as neatly finifhed off, at hi I HE Subfcribers give Notice, That they Payment, without Lofs of Time, ro London, by ' Iktir httmtlt Servant, T will attend at the Houfe of Mr. Benjamin If MARCARIT HAMILTOK, Executrix. ROBERT ROWAJUJ. Bnokti in Upper-Marlbormgh, on Wedcefday the N. B. He tins and braficrs all Sorts of Brifi 24th of Kwemter Inftant, in order to receive Pro- Septatfer30, 1756. and Copper Work ; and makes .Worms for StiTk, pofals from luch who arc willing to contrafl for THREE PISTOLES REWARD. the fupblying with Provifions the Hundred addi­ A N awny from, the Subscriber, living at tional Forcei, to be raifcd and garrifoned at Fort Weft-River, in dtme-driniJel County, Mary- Tt tt.Spf^D by tit Suhfcribtr, at tit DiveStM. Frederick, for the Defence of the Frontiers of this land,R a Servant Man, named Job* Barns, born in Plantation, and at tit Ptt-Houft, in St. Mar . WILLIAM, MURDOCH, Ctiudy, and tm tit JieaJ »/ St. Mary'* Rn>er, Province, lotdon, has a'fmall Impediment in his Speech, U Wbolefate or Retail, >- TAMES'Dicic, a fhort well-fct Fellow, of a fwarthy Complexion, "' DANIEL WOLSTENHOLMK. had fhort black Hair, he is a Clock-ma&r by ARTHEN-WARE, of the fame Trade, and has fome of, his Tools with him. He as imported from Lit'frfvoJ, -or made &?** T O B E S O L D, had on when he went away, a brown Holland Philadelphia, fuch as Milk-Pans, Butter-Pots,' Jnp, Qntte 2ttb of November Inflajit, at the lati Dwel- Frock with a Cape, a brownifh Drugget jacket Pitchers, Quart-Mugs, Pint Mog», Porrmge^,! 7> ting-HotiJe of William Holland, deceafed, near and Breeches: He is much addiftcd to Drink. Chorning-Pots, painted Di(het, Plates, &c. witk : ' : Lowcr-Marlborongh in Calvcrt County, for Billi He went away- on a middle fiz'd Grey Horfc, fundry other Sorts of fmall Ware too tedibiM to ' ' »f Exchange, or Sterling Money, branded K I. mention. He is provided with good Wotkmct PARCEL of choice NEGROES, Whoever takesrs up the faid Servant, and fecnres from Liverfofi and PtilaJelperia, tnd proper Uttn. _ _ confiding of Men and Women j likewife him in any Goal,1, iofo that his Matter may get him .fds, for carrying on the Bufinefs, fo that all Ptr. ~«w:k of all Kinds ajjain, mafl have Two Piftoles Reward; and One fons who may have Occafion of any Sort of rhe '•'• f ^t'- • Aunt HOLLAND, Executrix. Piftole for the Horfe, paid by KENSEY JOHNS. faid Ware may depend on being fupplied wkk fuch as is good and very cheap. He will take ii HE Subfcriber hat, at his Plantation on HEREAS many People in this Province Pay, Pork, Tar, Wheat, Corn, or Tobacco, tt T Pataf/co River, Oppofltc to the Baltimore are indebted unto the Snbfcriber, upon a reafonable Rate, for any of the above Com* \ Iron-Works, on Water navigable for Flats and longW landing open Accounts, he hereby requelh modifies. THOMAS BAKER. Boats up to the Mill Tail, a compleat-well-fitted them that they immediately pay off their Ballance?, JOHN BENNETT, ia AKNAFOLII, > MERCHANT MILL, whh all proper Con- or fettle them. And as the Importation of Goods fefr ' veniencies, where he will Grind, Bolt and Pack, J all Sorts of manufactured TOBACCO, is confiderablv dearer now than formerly, he ftill (mall < large Quantities.- . - at Five-pence Half-penny ptr Bulhel. He hms al- continues to (ell his Stays at the fame Price at be­ or fo a Cooper, with a Quantity of well-feafoncd fore, (which is much cheaper than importing and Staves, and will fupply Cuftomers with Barrels, running the Chance of lofing them-), to all who T O B B S O L D, It the common Rates. CHARLES CARROLL. pay the Ready Money, and is obliged to raifc his for Sterling Monty, gout BiUi / Exchange, Price with thofe who want Credit j and as he it Sili'tr, tr Paper Cttrmcy, A N away from the Subfctiber, living on now in "great Want of Cadi, to enable him to im­ H E following Traftt and Parcelt of Lu>4, _ Ke*l-ljland,fa ^ueen-Anae'i County, the two port Goods for the Carrying on his Bufinefs, begt T TO*. dlowing Servants, •viz, ',. that they would be expeditions in paying off their Rovtr'i Ctmtent, 466" Richard-Cox, a Weft-Country Man, a Convjfct, old Scores, which will much oblige, . . ''.-„. Part of Th hchfiirt, aged about 4<; Years, has yellowilh curl'd HCr, , Part ofGtfJ/utA. he « a welt looking Fellow, and is about ; Feet Fife, -.. Vv , 8 Inches- high. Had on when he went away, a WALLACI. BMP, 0.**.'*.'^: 190 haif'Worn Cloth colour'd KcKey Coat, a (hort blue Fatter'j Gift, '83 Jacket without Sleeves, an old Ofnabrigs Shirt, a T O B E S O L D, // Breed and Cbtejt Hall, 9' Pair of old Country Linen Troivfen, half-worn For Bilhtf Exfbangt, SttrJiitg Mtmy, Gold, Silver, Thefe are ail adjoining, and make a Body of Shoes, a good Caftor Hat about half worn, and a er Currtnt Money, choice well timbered Land, whereon are Three black Leather Stock. T R A C T of Land, adjoining to Gtorgi- Plantations, with g^ood Orchards, lying in Prim Jemntf, a Country-born Negro, about 5 Feet -j fovm, in Frtdericl County, containing 230 Gtarge'i County, within five Miles of aladtnjb»rlt Inches high, aged about 24 Years, a well-fct like­ AcresA or thereabouts, convenient for Trade, with ten of Vpptr-Marll, DrumelJry,DrvmtlJry, ^ 2ZCJ they have other deaths. Year, come -up ward t of a Thoufand Hogfhcads The Four laft- mentioned lie mBealfr JvW/, {a Whoever takes up the faid Fellows, or either of of Tobacco. A large Stone- Houfe, adjoining the Frederick Coualy, not above twelve Miles from them, and fecuret them fo that their Matter may Infpeltion-Houfes, with a Kitchen and Garden, Bladmjtnrg, being a choice Parcel of fine Wood* have them'again, Ihali have, if taken in the Coun­ convenient for a Public-Houfe. Store-Houfcs, be- Land. . . ty, Twenty Shillings Reward for each j and if fidcs, and other improv'd Lott. Alfo 409 Acret of Land, behig Part of a Traft taken out of the County, a Piftole for each, be- One Traft of Land, lying on Get/t.Crttt, in called AlKftni Park, lying likewife in Frederitk fides what the Law allows, paid by County, two Miles from Gtergt- County, on or near a Branch, called and known, f\ -TButtock thaitut , and on thetl off Buttock thus J I. AT. 'S. Any one that buxt the Traft of L«nd Getrte't County. JOHN Be ALL, Junior. The Owner may have her again, on proving and Dwclling-Houfe adjoining to Gwgt-Tt*vn, N. B. Time wiU be given for the Payment of Vis Property, and paying Charges. (hall have Time fciven him for Payment of- Part. Part, on good Security, if required. H: L IS: Printed by TON AS G REEN, ^OIT-MAIT.WI, at his OFFICE in by whom all Poribni may be lupplicd- with this GAZETTE, *t its. 6d. ftr.Yw. A DV«J.T HE- MEN T» of a moderate Length" arc taken in and-«nferted for Five Shilling; the firft Week, and One ShilUrrg each Week after the ' K: T HE \Ntimb. 602.] ART LAND GAZETTE, , ' < • - ~ Containing the fre/beft Advices foreign and domeftic.

**"','---_ • ' '":../_ - ' --••-- -; • • - • fc. THURSD.AY, November 18, 1756.

T O UL O N, 29. Acceflion, to hold a Body of 70,000 Men in Rea- Doclor's Commonti twelve French Prizes, taken dineft to march when needful to the Abidance of before the Declaration of War, were condemned. ' E have undoubted Intelligence that the two contracting Powers, and promifes to do Avgaft 26. The Anfon Privateer has already the Bngliih Squadron, confifting the fame in Favour of any other Power who (hall made above Five Thnfand per Ctat. of whafwas of 1 8 or 20 Sail, crnizei off Ma- accede to the (aid Treaty. There are fome other expended in fitting her out. ' "* hon : Admiral Hawke has detach­ Stipulations, at prefcnt; a Secret. Admiral Hawke has near 3000 Land Forces on ed fame Frigate* to intercept our Cart, Auguft 24. Thorfday arrived at Kin/ale ward his Fleet, with a Draught of MatroHes and going to a 1 from that Port : One Audi- his Majefty't Ships So'mcrfct of 70 Guns, and York Engineers, and" his Fleet compleatly manned with MaAer of a Veflel laden with Oxen, hat of 60, with die Harwich, Indiamari, very richly Sailors. " ' _ chafed 24 Houn by two Frigates. But laden, from Bengal, which, with the Anfon and It it faid that Admiral Hawke put all the Hands our Squadron ii refitting ; and we are pcrfuaded Warren arrived laffTuefday, will fail To-morrow on board the 16 victualling Ships he has taken in hat the Bngiifh, when they hear of it'» Departure, under Convoy for England. their Way to Minorca on Shore in the Ifland,' '0 rill refolve upon returning to Gibraltar. Dublin, A*g*Ji 31. Admiral Hawke, it is faid, reinforce the Garrifon with their Stmtact*. Tt*k*, AmgHft 9. "We work without ceafing to to prevent exhaufhng his Provifions, lands at Mi­ $tft. >. There is an Account, which is gene- rictaal the Fleet, which will go out of the Road norca all the Prifoner* taken by him on board rally look'd upon to be authentic, that the French he i 5* at.di«J lateft. Many- are the Deftination» French VeiTcls. Fleet failed from Toulon the 12th pad > confiding Allotted it i but the roolr probable feems to be to Some Pcrfons have been (hot at Gibraltar for of 1 6 Ships of the Line, 4 Frigates, and 2 Fire- i in Search of the Englim off Toulon, and oblige Cowardice in the late Action in the Mediterranean. ihips ; that the largeft Ships carried fifty-two i to quit the Mediterranean. Twelve Hun- LONDON. 'ounders in their lower Tier. There is no Con­ __ Neapolitan Carpenter* are already arrived Atpiflti. We hear that two Meflengrrt.al­ firmation as yet of the Report of an Engagement. here to work in the King's Yard, and Eight Hun- ternately are in the Room t& the Governor's Houfe Yefterday Morning an Account came that a dred more are expected ; fo that there u Reafon at Greenwich College, where Admiral Byng is French Privateer of 8 Carriage-and 8 Swivel o hope that we may launch feveral Ship* of the confined, who have Orders to look over all Letters Guns, and 86 Men, from Dunkirk, is taken by Line before the End of the Year. or Papers that are cither fent or received by him, the Hazard Sloop of War of 8 Guns, in Yjr* Marjtillti, A*y*p 12. They write from Ton - and that no Perfons are allowed to fpeak to him mouth Road, after a very fmart Engagement. Hi, that the King's Fleet h to fail from thence but in the Prefence of the faid two Mcflengcrs, and An EnglHh Privateer of ten Guns (the Name Po-morrow, or the icth at fartheft, and is taking that at a fb'pulated Difiance; and five Soldiers at not mention'd) with three Prizes, are taken and on board 4 or coo Grenadiers. a Time are on Duty, who on every Relieve always carried into Morlaix. Uirttbt, xfi*»/}tc. By thii Day's Pod from fee the Admiral, that they may know his Perfon. A Diamond of 400 Grams U brought over by Jy we have Advke, that Admiral Hnwkc's Fleet Auguft 24. It it (aid that tie Hon. Lieutenant- the Jaft Ships from India. It wants but one Fifth it blocked up the Harbour of Mahon and cut off Gcneral Blakcney is to undergo the Ceremony of of being as big at Pitt't Diamond, which fold for Jl Corrrmnnication with the Coaft of Provence. a Court-Martial, that hit King and Country may 213,000). and is the Property of an emiocgf ding to the fame Advices we may foon ex- be fatiified of every Circumftance which attended Jew Merchant of this City. '- - - > El to hear of a fecond Engagement, at M. de his glorious Defence of Fort St. Philip's. Augujl 30. It i< fipd a General Officer bai'qC- >aliflbniere's Fleet was to fail from Toulon the By Letters received Yeftcrdav from Lifbon, we fered, with 8000 Men, to retake Minorca. * third of thii Month, in order to open the Com­ have the following agreeable Advices of the Suc- Concerning Admiral Byng, it U reported, flUt • —-«.: . munication with Minorca. ceft of the Defiance Privateer, Capt. John Dyer, he has taken to hard Drinking, to drive away --.-.V I Ljc*t, A-gufl 1 6. We have juft received Ad­ Commander: Sorrow. Some alfo fay, that he has attempted to vice, that the Marquii de la Galiflbniere't Fleet On the ad fnftant he'retook a Brig, Web­ make an Efcape from the Meflengers and Guards : WcifcW Aaohor the 1 2th in Toulon Road. ber, bound from Cork to Lifbon, Burthen 180 Others, that he hat endeavourco to corrupt themi Turin, A*£*fl 1 8. We expeft very foon to Tons, laden with Butter, Coals, Hides, Beef, Pork, and that Tranquility he was faid to be in refpecl- hear of a Naval Engagement in the Mediterrane­ Sec. taken by the St. Henreux, Malouin, belong­ ing his Trial, is all over, and that he is under ter- ' an i no Doubt being made that the Englifh will ing to Bourdcaux, on Sunday about Two in the rible Apprchenfions as to the liTuc of this black oppofe with all their Force a Debarkation of Morning, and retaken, as above, on die following Affair. \_And «uW/ bt «w-] . i 1 « French Troops on the Ifland of Corfica. Evening, about feven o'Clock. W« hear that Admiral JBvng was detefted rWt AmfltrAtm, Augn& 18. The Algerinel hav« On the Ath Inftant he took the Comple Lavo- Morning aboot One o'Gock attempting to make taken by Surprize the City of Qnef, Ijelongins to ginjoD, GuiUaume Le Croix, a St. Domingo Man, his Efcape, by Means of a Ship's Ladder (faid die Tunifuni (a Place of fuch Importance, that Burthen about 200 Tons, and in hit Way to Lif­ to be fent hint at the Bottom of a Hamper of Wine) eftecmed it the Bulwark of their Kingdom) bon with her, he took a French Privateer, a new fattened to one of the Windows of his Room. He and maflacrcd not only the Garrifbn, but the Veflel built at Bayonne, Burthen 40 Tons, 90 made the Centinels drunk, in order the better to greateft Part of the Inhabitants, even the Women Men, Half Swifs, and Half French. fccore his Retreat, and the Perfon that lay in the and Children falling a Sacrifice to the Fury of the On the 6th Inftant, about Eight at Night, he Room with him being found afleep, it encouraged . t Viftors. took one of the Privateer's Confom, ,»fter a very him to undertake the Affair. . /?, »" j .^' Paris, Augnft ao. It \t affarw), that*lhe Squa­ fmart Chace ; and joined his Prizes about 12 at Stpt. t. A Battalion of the Guard*, W, Hrrat dron of Mr. terrier de Salvert has taken i 2 Eng­ Night with his two Privateers, and has carried a large Train of battering Cannon, and a great lifh Ships, richly laden, homeward-bound from all fafe into the Tagus. Capt. Dyer writes, that Quantity of Mortars, Bombs, Sec. are certainly Jamaica. Orders are feat to Bred to forward the the Officers on board thofe Privateers informed going to be embarked on fome important Expe­ Ship* that are deftined to augment the Marquis de him that there were two other Privateers that fail­ dition. Conflan's Fleet, which, it improbable, will foon ed in Company, and that their Scheme was to go The Sheerneft Man of War hat taken two rich (ail out and engage that of Admiral Bofcawen. all four in Concert, and endeavour to board one Ships from St. Domingo. Rottrr-Jam, AugtJI 34. We have received Ad­ of the homeward Eaft-Indiamen, even if (lie were Septtmbtr 3. The Fox Privateer of Bn'ftol ha* vice from Toulon, that the Engliih and French under Convoy ; and if one failed in the Attempt brought into Pool a large French Ship valued it Fleets were within Sight of each other the i-fth they ftfcpcd another would fuccecd, at the Men 20,0001. Infhnt ; fo that an Accouat of an Engagement is were determined to die rather than be taken* to ' Srft. 6. The Toulon Fleet was not failed the hourlyexpe&ed. long as they had an Officer to (land by them. 19th ult. but lay in the Road with their Sails Parit, Auptf 19. Mr. Peter Andre, Merchant Some Men of War, faid to bo going for die bent, only waiting for Orders; it confiIts of 17 at Nantes, it fitting out a Privateer whofe Keel Weft Indies, arc in face gone to reinforce Admiral Sail of the Line, tec. will be loo or 1 10 Feet long, (he is to carry 34 Hawkc's Fleet in die Mediterranean ; and other*, It is reported, that 12,000 Men will fpeedily Guns, and 600 Men. Meiueurs le Briton, le at fall at they arc got ready, will fail to join the embark on a fccret Expedition, and that three Bleffia, and Deflandrais Sebre, of St. Malo, arc faid Fleet, till it confiils of Thirty Ships of the Battalions of the Foot Guards will be fent. fitting out two Privateers j one to carry between Line or upwards. - Siftntttr 7. Tis faid 'the Jftng of Pruffis has | 34 and 48 Guns, and the other a8 or 30 Guns. We arc a/lured that the Articles of Ch.irge to marched two large Armies, one to Silefi*, the Stfttmkir 4. The Privateers of MarfeiUes, haw be exhibited againft Admiral Byng, according to other towards Bohemia ; and taken Poffeffion of ! carried in fix Prices, (aid to fee worth 600,000 'die Rules and Orders, and fighting Inftruftions Leipfick, a City of Germany, fubjeft to the Elec. t -j Livret. . ' ' eftaWifticd by Charles II. "asto coatinued Stnyti ro tor of Saxony, King of Poland, in order to oblige H**lirrgb, Stpt. 3. Many Letters from the the prefcnt TmO) are prepared, andaCoMJdf' the Saxons to declare i and has lilccwife fent to Nprth pofitivcly affirm, that the Bmprcls of RulTia vercd to thed&rftniral for his Defence. ' - the Dutch, for an immediate Anfwer what Part has acceded to the defenfive Treaty of Alliance There are'fifteen Ships of War now building they are to take. From the Hague they ftf, and Kriendfhip concluded the firft of May lufl, of 20 and 24 Guns each) «nd fome fmall Slooj- the Englifh and French Miniftcrs arc very bufy. between the Courts of Vienna and Verfail)e». arc repairing for Bomb Ketches, fee. . A Report prevails, that an Exprefs is arrived She engages, as it it faiJ, in Conttqucnce qf this Ang*fl. JJ. At a Court of Admiralty held ai with Advieo, that two large Pruffian Armies are - * »> . .'.' ' ' "".' ' marched, mardictt, one to Silefia, and the other into Bohe­ Dutch Schooner (taken by him in Concert with !jo into i: mia » Imd It is faid, 'the* has been lately a Sltir- Conftatttiiie, and King) laden with Frenchmen, from whence (he cut them out the fame Ni« mifh between Part of the faid Troops and thofe who had hired her to carry them with a few Dol­ ten Negroes on board one of them, got aihore of the,Iroperialifb, to the Advantage of the former. lars from St. Euftatia tt» Martinique : That Capt. a Canoe, but fix in the other, with two Ma* Stfftmttr 8. The French Ship* at Portfmouth, Ctmnel had alfo lent in on the i2th, a French ahd two Paflengers, were brought off; they i arc ordered round to the Tharoe*. Several Priva­ Pettiauger, with 15 Cafks ofMelaiTes, and -* few bonnlS to St. Pierre : Captain Richards had teers arc failed from Dunkirk. From Paris of Rum ; and a Dutch Sloop, hired to tranfport 1 8 Men when he cut them out. they write, that the Spaniards want us to exchange more Frenchmen, with 6000 Dollar*, their Pro­ B O S -T ON," Oad/r 14. Gibraltar for Oran. [A very prrttj Pratfall} perty, to Gaudaloupe ; and that thi* Vcflel hav­ We are informed, by Letters from Lon Sept. 9. There is an Account from the Hague, ing on board (among other Things) a Quantity of the eth of Auguft, That when Col. that the Emprefs of Raffia has entered into the of Sheet Lead -for the Ufe of the French, *twa» 'down to Portfmouth, to fee his Brother, the Treaty of Verfailles With fome Modifications i and thought fbe would be confiscated. mini, on his Arrival, it proved fatal to him ; that the Auftrians will foon have 1 38,000 Men in po Tuefday laft arrived an ExpreG from the the Shock was too great: He fell into a 1 Readinefa. The Regency of Hanover expect Cherokecs, advifing, that all our People were wel and expired immediately; and, what it to have 60,000 Men, without the Pruffians ; fome there, in good Spirits, and going upon the Bufi furprizing, the Admiral himfelf is perfectly eaf/1 fay the whole Army, with the Pruffiant, amount ncfs they had in Hand, with all the Difpatch pof and talk* as if he thought his Conduct and BraV to 120,000. fible. And, that the Little Carpenter, with a ry to be beyond a Blake, Drake, &c. September 1 1. The Pruflianj are marched from great Number of other Headmen of the Cherokees, The French Mediterranean Fleet is cooped Leipfick toward* Bohemia, confining of 40,000 will foon be in Town on a Vifit to our new Go­ in the Harbour of Toulon by Admiral Hawke. Men. vernor } which will probably, for fome Days, re- On Wednefday laft at a fpecial Court of Admi-I Yefterday it was reported, that an Expref* was tard hi* Excellency'* intended Journey to review ralty held at Providence,.in the Colony of Rhode-] arrived from Admiral Hawke, and broucht Advice the Militia in the feveral Parts of this Province. Ifland, for the Trial "of Piracies, Pelonie* and pf hit taking 9Tranfports laden with Provifions. Baflrttm, in St. Chriftefbtrj, September 21. Robberies, committed upon the high Seas, JofcpiJ '»"'» ?.; L. We hear his Pruffian Majefty has fent a Meflage On Monday paffed by here in her Way to An­ Hughes, late Commander of the Schooner Don,] .; V '-'|o the States General of the United Provinces, in tigua, the Maflachufets. She is faid to have been was tried for the Murder of Michael Clark, Coofoj ' '/.£Order to know how their High-MightinefTet Intend freighted with Provifions and Military Stores for on board faid Schooner, the 1 4th of March UiJ ' '^to behave in Cafe he mould be obliged to come to the Ufe of the French at Cape Francois, by a very and, after a Hearing of feven or eight Hours, an open Rupture with the Houfe of Auftria, and eminent Perfon at St. Euftatia V But the Crew be­ judg'd guilty, and Sentence of Death paffed {hould be attacked at the fame Time by the ing all EnglUhmen, they on their Paflage confined him accordingly, and the Time of bit Exr French, in Conference of the Treaty of Ver- the Captain, and thought that they ought to cany appointed. i/. . , faille* i and it i* faid the Pruffian Monarch re- fuch a Cargo rather into an Englifh Port than Ex/raSefa Letter fram Albanyt Offalir \ i, 17^6, .'^'; auired an Anfwer from the States in eight Day*. a French one. *' This Day I received a Letter from Fort E4.| ' i-» T< Tk'X wr'tc from Leipfick, that Pnncc Ferdi- The fame Day arrived the Lucretia, Captain ward, dated October 12, which fays, that '. *.' *p«nj of Brunfwick, is in full March toward* Bo- James Fleming, from London. She was attacked French Deferteu have come to Fort-Wil ' ,v, hernia, with a Body of 40,000 Men ; and that on Wedncfday lift, 1 8 or 20 League* Southward Henry, who give out, that the French Army i, >' VekU-Marfhal Schw'erin is in Rcadineft to advance of St. Vincent'*, by a French Privateer of 8 or 10 in a ftarviag Condition, and dying by Hnndredi.*! <'-'r ,. r from Silefia with a greater Force j fo that the Att- Carriage Guru, and about. too Men, whom me NEW-HAVEN, Oatttr 23. ' .- ; v;,f. ibiani are like to find themfelvcs between two continued to engage an Hour and three Quarters, Letter* from the Camp at Lake George, ditedl *,"iJt.,F»re», and that before they arc thoroughly formed. and who kept her Company all Night, but flood the 8th Inftant, fay, " That the Marquis Mos-l 'U'k-;4''The fame Letters fay, the Proteftant Prince* of in for St. Vincent's in the Morning. The Cap­ calm, with hi* Troop*, given out to be I2,ooo| ':' ' ff' the Empire are about to form an Army of Obfcr- tain, and Jflr. James Aken, who was a Paflenger, Regulars, Canadian* and Indian*, were COOK] '. '""', tratlono* 80,000 Men. were wounded in the Engagement. down to Ticonderoga, and the Reporters, wkoj ' . Our laft Advices from Parirfay, that a Refolu ExtraS t/ a Lttttr frti* Antigua, t/attj Stff. 1 6. faw them, think, there could not be lefa this.] '" : tion ha* been taken to embark immediately, and " Yefterday was fent into tnglifh Harbour, by 10,000. They faw alfo a Number of Horin,] ^ :' at all Events, 8 Battalions for Corfica, under the his Majcfty's Snow Saltafh, a fmall French Priva­ Carriages, and Artillery. The Marquis gave out,! ' Command of the Marquis dc Caftres { bat that it teer Sloop, mounted with four Carriage Guns, that he deftgned to vifit us foon, if we did not! .H is doubtful whether they will be eicOftcdbyM. and fix Swivel*. Two of our Men of war, the him, and take Fort Edward, and then proceed ttl Galiubtdere. '/•• • ,'. Anfon, and Augufta, are likcwifc come in here Albany." ' Yefterday it wa* repotted, that the King of having fprung their Foretop-mafts in the l»u NEW-YORK, #«*»**» i. Truffia had taken Drefden. hurrydurry Weather. Twelve Privateers from this Port are now 81 An extraordinary Council has been held on the " At a Court of Admiralty held here the Day Sea, and eight others fitting out in tne Harbour ,] Express received from the Admirals Hawke and before Yefterday, the three following Veflcls were fome of which will fall down to the Watering, Bofcawen. . condemned, viz. A Bermuda built Sloop, belong­ place thi* Week, in order to proceed on their r». I Stft. 15. It. fa aflerted that the Corfican* have ing to Mr. Allier of St. Euftatia, taken by theTryal ipective Cruizes againll his Majefty'* Enemies. again defircd our Protection, and that their Pro- Pnvateer : Mr. Allier proved himfclf a Burgher It U reported in Town, that there is arrived at I . pofal i* accepted. of that Place, and that no Part of the Cargo wa* Martinico from Old France, two large Privateen Tu faid that Admiral Hawke's Squadron is to Contraband j But the Captain having concealed to cruize in the Weft-Indie*, one of whUh noonti be reinforced to the Number of 40 Men of War» fome Papers (which were afterward* brought to z8 Gun*, and the other 14, nine and tweta] and 1 8 Frigate*, in order, if poffible, to difappoint Light, and no others than a Permiflion and a Let­ Pounder*. theDefigns of the French. ter indofed, with a Bill of Lading and an Invoice There .is a Report in Town, that Capt Spry I Seft. 1 4. The Terms of Accommodation pro- of the Cargo) the Judge of the Admiralty looked has taken a French Ship, bound from Quebec to pofed by the Court of Spain are faid to be, That upon the Concealment as a Fraud, and condemned Old France, loaded with Fur, and fent her into I England fhall cede Gibraltar to the French, and her and her Cargo. The next was a Schooner Halifax. have Minorca reftored > that France fhall give up belonging to Malaga Bob; which, although he We are told that a certain Trade in the Wel. Gibraltar to the Spaniard*, and have Hilpaniola proved himfelf Burgher, and Subject to the Indie*, viz. the Provifion Trade, i* likely, and (or the Half of it fo called) added to St. Domin- Stales, wa* condemned, a* belonging to an Eng- very defcrvcdly too, to meet with feme Obftroc- ' go j that St. John's River in North-America fhall liih born Subject, who had no right to fupply tion, even from our Enemies the French, who, be a neutral one, for the free Ufe of both Nations, our Enemies : Thi* Trial took up from two afhamed of the Villainy of afting again/I the Law Src. By this Scheme Nova-Scotia would be al­ o'Clock in the Afternoon till eight at Night, and of a Country, by enabling iti Foes to cut back­ ways at the Mercy of France, whofe Domingo very oreat Arguments and Reafons were made ward* the Throat* of its Inhabitants, it is faid Trade would be doubled, our Indian Allies of the Ufe of by the Council on both Sides. ThiThe other obliges now each Trader to any of their Iflands to Six Nations would foon be feduccd from our In- condemned was a Sloop belonging to Mr. Dcfmont pay a pecuniary Consideration of fome Hundred! tercft, aqd the Value of Canada would be tenfold, of St. Martin's. We have three or four more of Dollars for the Favour of trading with them, by the Advantage of this Communication with it. Dutch Prizes, which will be tried next Monday, fenfible no doubt that their Magazine* are all well .But Gibraltar cannot be alienated without the Con­ all of which, I believe, will be condemned, be­ furnimed, both in the Weft-Indie*, and up the currence of the People, as it is annexed to the ing the Property of Eoglifh born Subjects. Mr. River*-St. Lawrence, and Miffifuppi, and there­ Crown of England by Parliament. If we reject Ailier intends to Appeal, but a* to the others, I fore indifferent about any further Aflulance from the ebovcmentioned Propofab, it is not improba­ don't know whether any of them will. Poor F either Englifh, Dutch, or any other Nation, that ble that the Spaniards will immediately accept of P ha* got one or two fent in here." ha* heretofore, or hereafter may trade among them Minorca, and declare for the French. Such arc Qfltter 6. On Monday Morning came into with Provifions i or, at leaft, until fuch Time at the Coafcquences of the Neglect of Minorca I In tlu's Road the Privateer Sloop Tyger, Capt. White, their Magazine* begin to be drained. tkb Cafe England has nothing to do but array an of Antigua i (lie brought with her three Prizes, N. E W-YORK, Nrvtmitr ft, effectual Militia, which would fct all her Ship* at viz. the Diligence, a Privateer belonging to Mar­ Capt. Bonnel, in the Harriot-Packet-Boat, left Liberty to diftref* her Enemies. We hear a con- tinico, of one Carriage Gun, four Swivels, and Falmouth the 1 6th of September, when there wai fiderable Reinforcement will be fent to Admiral )7 Men. The Schooner Ogle, Huett Nutter, no other North-America Packet Boat in that Port, Hawke in the Mediterranean. Matter, bound from Antigua to Maryland, and the Halifax, Earl of Leicefter, and General Wall CliarJMvw*, in Soutb-Cartlina, September 2. laden with Rum, Sugar, and new Negroes; (he Packet*, being on their Voyage*; and it wa* re- ; h" Yefterday arrived here Capt. Savage, in 17 was taken by the Diligence on the z8th ult. to ported a Fifth wat foon to be eftablifhed. He wai Days from St. Kills, by whom our Advices that the Weftward of Barbuda, and wa* retaken the chaced the fecond Day after he failed, by ft large can be depended on are, That they had then al­ next Day off Montfcrrat. And another Schooner French Privateer, who held her own with the ready fitted out Five Privateers from that Ifland, which hoifts Dutch Colour*. Packet, and obliged Captain Bonnel to aher hit jyix. a Brig, of 14 Carriage and zo Swivel Gum, Yefterday arrived in the Road from a Cruize Courfe in the ifftit to get rid of her. * three fmall Sloop* commanded by the Captain* the Privateer Sloop Terrible, Capt. Richard*, of Laft Friday Night, Capt. Forreft arrived here " Conflantine, King and Burroughs, and a fmall Montferrat i fhe brought in two large French in a French Sloop, taken by the Goldfinch Priva- i Two Maft-Boat commanded by Capt. Connel : Sloop*i one of about no Ton* Burden, the. o- tear,. Capt. Randle, of this Port, on the >4th ul­ That on the nth ult. Capt. Burroughs fent ro a thcr about 801 both .of them deeply laden with* timo, between Cape Francois and Mtmto Crifto, French Schooner, called la Reine dcs Anges, Pierre day'd Sugar, Coffee, &c. She came in Sight of being bound from the former for Coracoa., Her .St. Martin, Commander t and on the 1 2th, them tbATth ult. off Martinico, ar.d faw them Cargo is Sugar, Coffee, and fome Indigo. . _. . " Two _ •.',".«" <>•• :»£" : Two Days before, Capt. Rahdlc ch . PHI LA DELPHI 17, 1756. ichooner afhore,, in Sight of the Cape, .and of fc- We hear from Northampton County, that King Sj Order tf Anne- Arundel Cavtfy Court, ral Men of War, nnd Ships of Force, then lying Tcedyufcung, with a Number of Indians, ana OTICE 5s hereby'given,, to any Pcrfoa [here front whence flic was bound for Old France j fcveral white Prifoners, i« come down there ; and who will undertake to tonvey SUSANNA tnd finding it impracticable to get her off, hp fct that his Honour, oar Governor,, fets out this- Day HOWARD, who was born in Flrginia, 10 the Place kcra Fire, *nd made the bcft of his Wny off, as for Eafton, in order to meet him. of her Nativity, about 45 Milw froiri Alexandria, he perceived a Frigate coming out of the Cape to We have Advice from Hanover TownQup, in that they apply either to Mr. THOMAS JENNINGI, . him. " . Lancaster County, that on the s»d ult. one John or JOHN BRICK, Efq; who will agree With, and Private Letters by the Packet fay, That two Crajg and his Wife were killed and fcalpcd there pay them for the fame. French Privateers of 24. G«ns each, were taken by the Indians, their Houfe burnt, and a Boy, a- fome of the Enalifh Cruizers, the Beginning boutj j Y«frs of Age, carried off. And the next O 8 T, on the ijd of OHobtr kit, between September, and lent into the Ont-Ports Day a Dutchman was alfo killed and fcalped, hi> Baltimore-Town and Annatolh, a Pair of |That Admiral Hawke was cruizing off Minorca, Name not known. Wig-Maker'sL DRAWING-BRUSHES. |M. Galiffonicre, the French Admiral, not having The Slopp Lake-George, Capt. Hicks, bound Whoever has found them, and will bring them I thought fit to give him Battle, being fafe in the here from New-York with Sugars, is loft on Bar- to the Stijpcriber, living in JbMpt///, flufl be [Harbour of Toulon. That the King of Pruffia negat ; and the Sloop Sarah* Captain Corrie, handfomely rewarded, by .' 1 was at the Head of One Hundred Thoufand Men, likewiie from New-York, for this Port, alfo load­ AMDKBW BUCHAMAN. lover-running the King of Polatfd'* Eleaoral Do­ ed with Sugars, is afhorc near Egg-Harbour ; the minions, not (fays his Prnffian Majefty) with a Cargo faved. GEORGE OTTEWBLL, iDcfign to hurt them, but out of pure Regard to The Public is defired to beware of Counterfeit /« ANMAKJLIJ, my own Security, and to preferve Peace in the Maryland T W E N T Y SHILLING Bills, O W keep's Shop in an Apartment adjoin­ I Empire, without fnSering Foreigners to 'decide the fome of which have lately appeared here. The N ing to Mr. John GtlJtrt, where Mr. Alt** I Quarrels of the Germanic Members, and by this Uttertfrs of them have cut otf "the Signers Names Simpfon lately carried on the Barber's Bufi* I Step to fecure them from the Ravages of War, from a true fro all Bill, with the Figures 48, and where Gentlemen, or Others, who may be and the bloody Confequences they would be ex- paired them nicely to their Counterfeit Bills, upon plcafed to employ him, may depend on having pofed to from » private Treaty they are not ac-1 a thin Piece of Paper. Tho' there have none out their Work done in the bed and ncateft Manner, '{mainied with, w. that between the Emprefs Twenty Shilling Bills of that Kind been feen hi­ by Their mtfl kmmbU Servant, Qpfcn and the King of Franc*, to which the King therto, yet it is probable that all the Bills of a Gioaqt OTTBWILI;. I of Poland has acceded. /Our Rtadert will rtmrm- high Denomination are counterfeited in the fame \kert that the £le3«r «f Saxinj it King of Poland, Manner j but after this Notice may be eafily dif- is at the Plantation of AUxamJtr \a»et tii Daughter tie D**fl>i*tfi tffremn. The covered. T Cthex, on EUt-RiJge, taken up as a Stray, \Saxt* Sttlyefft alj» art Prottfantt, and therefore There are Counterfeit FIVE SHILLING a middle fiz'd bright Bay Horfe, branded 6n the / {think mart like Chriflian? of frtncb Politictt than Bills of the fame Money alfo paffing at prcfent, near Shoulder R, and on the near Buttock I H, \wuatj other Stain do)* That his Pruffiin Maje- not palled as the above, but the Signers Names paces naturally, hat a hanging Mane, and Sprig I fly raifed no Contributions, and only obliges them all done, it is thought, by one Hand, and the Tail, | to maintain the Troops he marched amongft them. Plate very badJy engraved. The Owner may have him ajpifl, on proving hh Property, and payiag Charges. -That inftead of waiting for tha tedious Delays PHILADELPHIA, Nrvtmhr u. [of Negotiations (fo fatal to other Countries and Capt. Bowes from Li/bon advifcs, that it was HERE is in the Pofleffion of George JPlm* [Provinces) he had font Notice at once to the E- generally believed there, that the Spaniards would ter, at Fife-Greet, in Frederick County, 1 lector of Cologne, to provide Winter Quarters for join the French in the War againft England :, That takenT up as a Stray, a Sorrel Mare, with a flaxen I Forty Thoufand of his Troops, and that he had in his Pa/Tage, off, the Wcftern I/lands, he was or grey Mane and Tail, fhe has no perceivable {taken Poflcffion of Leipfick (a Citv of Germany) chafed a whole Day by fix large Veflcls, but oat- Brand. . ' I the 29th of Anguft, and made it his Head Quar- The Owner may hire her again, on proving I ten. That an failed them | and, that on the 31 ft ultimo, feventy Exprcfs arrived in London "the Leagues to the Eaftward of Cape Hcnlopen, he his Property, and paying Charges. f7th of September, and brought Advice, that his fpoke with Cnpt. Arnold in the King George Pri­ jPruflian Majefty.hid laid Siege to Egra, a Town To *£ SOLD mr Pvuidr VIHDCI, [at the Entrance vateer, of New-York, all well on board. of Bohemia, which he expected ExtraS ff a Lit Itr from Carlijli, Wvo. 8, 1756. On the it J of t"hii Inftant November, at-tin I _ [would furrender in three Days, being unprepared " Laft Week a Party of Indians were in the tatien of Thomas Bladen, Efq\ near Mr. Samuel* /\ [for a Defence, tho' the French formerly was a Upper Part of this County, but a few Miles from Owing*'/, in Baltimore Ctttntj, ftr Sterling * • [Fortnight in taking it j and that another Army was M'DowelTs Mill, where they barbaroufly murder­ Currency, 2, Ito meet him in Bohemia, when he defigns to give ed and mangled a Number of the Inhabitants ; LARGE Quantity of Com and Tobacco j . (Battle to the Imperialifts (Subjects to the Emperor and, as is fuppofed, have taken fome Children A likewife fome Horfes, Catdc, and Hogs^, I of Germany) in which, if he conquers, he is ira- Captives. The following i» a Lift of the Killed and all the Plantadon Utenfils. .' '> [mediately to befiegc the City of Prague. That HOWARD^ lit was not doubted but the Dutch would foon be ana Miffing, viz. (intimidated fo a* to mend their Manner*, as the Soldiers killed, James and William M1 Donald, Territories rou almoft into the very Heart Bartholomew M'Cafferty, and Anthony M'Quoid. Y% A N away laft Night from the EH-RiJti I- sf their Country, and are not fecured againft by Soldiers miffing, James Corken and William J\^ ron-Works, in Annt-Artmdtl County, aCon- [any Frontier of Strength. That a Pruffian ML I Cornwall. Inhabitants killed, Tofin Culbertfon, vift Servant Man named RitbarJ Snai/nm, born in [nifter had made a peremptory Demand of an An- Samuel Perry, Hugh Kerrill, John Woods, with Lajxajbirt in England, of a whitilh Complexion, fwer to, Whea fart tlx States tf Holland -would hit Wife and Mother-in-Law, and Elizabeth Ar­ about 32 Yean of Age, $ Feet 10 Inches high, cher, Wife of John Archer. Inhabitants mining, \take in Cafe ef an of en Rupture kervieen tin King wcll-fet, and has (hort, dark brown Hair. He ;«_ \ttii Mafler and Franetf and had given them but four Children belonging to John Archer, Samuel had on and carried with him, one new and one '1,1 [eight Days to make It In, olledging that, With Neely, a Boy, and James M'Quoid, a Child. old Felt Hat, a blue grey Coat, with fhort-turn'd \ihr H'orJ Peace in their Mtutbt, they matt «/r / ANNAPOLIS, Ntvmter 18. up Cuffs, and a Cape, a Jacketff the fame, both til only at a Signal tf tht meft gtntral and bkuty War'' Wednefday the i oth Inftant, being the- Anni- tnmm'd with Metal Buttons, a Pair of new Cotton . I In fhort, fome Letters fay, That all Europe verfary of his Majcfty's Birth Day, was obfcrvcd Breeches, half-worn Country-made Shoes, and an'' (either was, or foon would be, in a Flame, the here with. Firing of Guns, (jfr. &c. and in the Ofnabrm Shirt. There was alfo, at the fame [Motions of his Pruffian Majefty caufing Commo- Evening there was a Public Ball. His Majefty Time, fundry Sorts of Wearing Apparel miffing, [tioni almoft every where, and never were fecn fo then entered the Seventy-fourth Year of his Age. which he is fuppofcd to have carried with him, [many Troops in Motion in Germany at one Time, Laft Saturday Evening, ne*r Patuxent in this vie. a light colour'd Cloth Coat with Metal But. ' [when no War was declared. That the Czarina County, one Richard Clark fired a Charge of Shot tons, one Dimothy and'one good Plum colour'd [(Emnrcfs of Ruflia) her Difpofition was not known, into the Thigh of Benjamin White, being very near F.verlafting Jacket, one Pair of Linen Breeche* [bat her Mediation requefted between his Pruflian him, of which Wound he died next Morning, and and Trowfers, two Pair of grey Yarn, one Pair of I Majefty and the Queen of Hungary That Ad­ Clark is committed to our Prifon: We are told ribb'd Worded, and ono Pair of white Cotton miral Byng, alias Bung, was not brought to Trial, that WL'm was about to marry die Mother of Clark, Stockings, one Bandanno Handkerchief, new and fcveral Officers neceflkry thereto, not (King arrived and that he took this Method to prevent the Match, not hcmm'd, one Pair of Buck-flun Breeches, one I from Gibraltar; and, that notwithftandinz the Thnrfday laft died, at his Mother's in Prinft- fine new Shirt, one Brafs Equinoctial or Ring Dial, I great Height he was lodged in Greenwich Itofpi- Getrgt't County, in the Prime of Life, Mr.'IsAAC pne Match Coat Blanket, and one Pair of turn'd [tal, an Order was given on Thurfday the 9th of BROOK i, Surveyor of Frederick County j a young Pumps without Straps, l£c. I September to have Iron Bars fixed to all the Win- Gentleman defervcdly cdeemed, and whofe Death Whoever apprehends and conveys the faid Ser- d&wi of his Apartment, and the Chimney of his is regretted by all his Acquaintance. j vant to the aforefaid Works, fhall have Forty Shil- Room fo fecurea, that any Attempt to efcapc might His Exdellcncy our Governor has been pleafed |''ngs Reward, if taken within ten Miles of the faid bo rendered impoffible ; .and that there was «n ad­ to appoint Mr. JOHN Muanocit to be Surveyor of Works j and Three Pounds, if above, withrca- ditional Guard always with him, not being even Frederick~ County,~ -...._ in the Room of... Mr. BROOKI._ fonablo Charges, paid by CAI.IB Doaszr. permitted to go forth to the Neceflary.Houfe, We hear that Mr. WILLIAM THOMAS, of having a Conveniency in the fame Room for that Prinee-Cttrgii County, is appointed Keeper of L L Perforts indebted to the Eftate of Mr. PurpoTe 5 and that many were of Opinion, that the Rent-Roll, of the Eaftern Shore, in the Room Samuel Davit, formerly of Qytt*-An*tt in his being thus guarded was owing to the Arrival of Col. HOWARD TICCHMAN, who has refign'd. t Princt-Giorgit County, Deceafed, are defired to in England of Col. Jeffreys, the Co Defender of make Payment, without Delay, to the Subfcribcr j I Minorca j the Orders being given by his Majefty's CusTou-Hoysi, ANHAFOLIJ, Enter'a1, NONE. and all thofe who have any legal Claims againft Ifpecial Command. -That General Blakcncy was Cleared/or Dtp*rt*rtt the faid JDeceafed's Eftate, are defired to oring [act arrived in England, being indifpofed at Gib- Sloop Hopcwcll, John Watfon, for Virginia i diem in, to JOHN BATEMAM, Executor. Iraltir through his late Fatigue. And, that Col Snow Eglinton, Archibald FiOicr, for Briftol i HERE is at'the Plantadon of Mr. William lYork, fmce the State* anfwcred to bit firft Mcmo- Snow Bnterprize, Thomas JOBC», for London; Ihomai, near Often-A**tt in Prinft-Getrge'j Irial, had, in the Name of his Matter, the King Schooner Speedwell, James Allein, for Cork j County,T a fmall Grey Horft, branded on the near |of Great-Britain, once more demanded, without Snow Molly, William Smith, for New-York j Buttock with fomethmg like a Heart. day, the Succours which their High Might}- Brig Philip and James, James Col«, for Barbados. ^ The Owner may have him again, on proving Two had ftipulated to him by Treaty. hit Property, and paying Charges. ^ ; . •«."*,.-. A N away on the loth of OSaler laft, from HERE is hi the Po'ffeffion of Aid Bm . TO ii c. o \j ij ut the Snbfcribcr, living near Geirgi-Tvwn on junior, living in the Fork .of Pafapfco Falls, On ttezttb o/TNovember Infleint, *t tbe tettt,]>wil, Roek,Cteek, in Frederick County, ft Mulatto Wo­ Taken up as a Stray, a- middle-fizM Bay Mare, ffng-Hotefe of William Holland," deaetjtd, nt<& man Slave, nampd Kate, who formerly belonged with A Slit in her near Ear, fome Saddle Spots on Lower-Marlborough in Calvcrt County, for Billt . to Mr. Benjamin Lane in Ame-Arundel County, and er Back, and a Sprig Tail. of Exchange, tr Sterling Money, bought of him laft June ; (he is a pert pallavering The Owner may nave her again, on proving PARCEL of,choice:NEGROES, Wench, of a middle-Size, about 30 Years old. us Property, and paying Charges. ^onfifting of Men find Women; likewift She took with her a (mall BlackTHorfe, branded StockA of all Kmds on Ac near Buttock with a large S : And as (he !; Oflober a 5, 1756. AJJHE HOLLAND, Executrixi is pretty well dreffed may fomedmes pafs for a free ESERTED from Baltimore-Tow^ in Ma Woman where (he is not known to be otherwife. ryland, the following Men, belonging to To It Soli by 'the Sutf* ebunt i the aforcfald Mulatto Slave of Mr. Sprigg't ma and is well made. Had on when he went away, long (landing open Accounts, he hereby requelb be at Work. a Camblet Waiftcoat, and a Pink,coloor'd Jacket them that they immediately pay off their Ballances, ' , -.- # Whoever brings the faid Wench to the Subfcri­ under it, a new Pair of Buck-(kin Breeches, «nd or fetde them. And as the Importation of Goods ber, (hall have T-wo Piftoles for their Trouble, be- a new Pair of Pumps. He is faid to be gone in is confiderably dearer now than formerly, he- Kt , fides a good. Reward" if they difcover the Perfons Company with Corporal J**g- ••'•'• •• continues to fell his Stays' at the feme Price it be-1 1 that harbftOt (Of. & that they may be brought to Robert Ftrrefter, a Recruit, about 5 Feet 11ix- fore, (which is much cheaper than importing and" I '"''% HENRY.TIIRELKILD. chcs high, full fac'd, of a frelh Complexion, oorn running the Chance of lofing them), *to alfwha in Rhode-I/land, about 35 Years of Age, and ierved pay the Ready Money, and h obliged 4o raife ho as an Indented Servant 5 Years with Mr. Ufa, of Price with thofe who want Credit; and as he tt ft ttSJJ by Public Fendne, at the Plantation latetj South River. ' now in great Want of Cafh, lo enable him to. im­ ~, ifitnrtiet to Mn. Sarah Grclham, deceafed, near Whoever (hall ap'prehend aO or either of the port Goods for the Carrying on his Bufmefs, bep ,'t Sooth River Church, on WeJntfJoy tbe 2jtb of abovementioncd Dcferters, and will bring them to that they would be expeditious in paying off theV | November I*Jia»t, for Current Mtniy, Lieutenant McBtan, at Annapolii, Mr. Jamet Gary, old Scores, which will much oblige, U N D R Y Head of Black Cattle,. Sheep, at Ba/timoi-e-Town, or confine them in any proper Their bumble Servant, _ Hog», and Horfes, Likewife a Quantity-of Prifon within the Province of Maryland, (ball re­ CHARLES India* Cant, fome Houfhold Furniture, and-ill ceive One Piftole Reward for each, cxdufive of the Plantation Utenfils. Expences. r ».- , 3 Tt tt SOLD by tin Sulfcriler, it bit Dtvettd I RICHARD GRESUAM, Executor. * .*** .- * K --*.*-- t.i* . • "^ Plmtatio*, nd at bit Pet-Hn/e, in St. MarrV Ctmrty, and M tin Htmttf St. Mary'i River, >it,*MU lately *dvertii\l tt be on the 1 8/A.] H E Subfcriber having declined keeping WMe/ale or Ret*I, ' Store at Elk-Ridge Landing, is now remo­ vedT to Baltimore-Town, where he purpofes carrying |7ARTHEN.WARE» of the fame Kind is.at the Plantation of Tlvmat Jl/ as imported from Liverpool, or made U _ 'y«hnfon, junior, in Frederick County, taken on Trade as nfual. He will purchafe Pork ana fuch like Articles. He has al(o a choice Aflbrt- Ptnliutelpbia, fuch as Milk-Pans, Butter-Pots, Jugj,' Hero like, wil up as a Stray, a middle fiz'd Bay Mare, brawled Pitchers, Quart-Mugs, Pint-Mugr, Porriqgert, ome (hew themfelve on the near Shoulder with I R. ment of European and Eoft-hiSa GOODS fuit- able to the Seafon, to be difpofed of, at reafonable Churmng-Pots, painted Difhes, Plates, &t. will i I Some brave in Vnmt The Owner may have her again, on proving fundry other Sorts of fmall Ware too tedious tt [ Can (hew their Utck his Property, and paying Charge»«-; - Rates. All Perfons indebted to him for Goods fold at mention. He is provided with good Workma . No Profeffion fa| Elk-Ridge, are required to come and fettle, to pre­ from Uvtrpttl and Pkilaatlpbia, and proper Uten- Contempt and Indig HERE is at the Plantation of Mrs. Mary vent being fued or warranted. Attendance will fils, fof carrying on the Buftncfs, fo that all P«^ Gillift, near Annapclii, taken up as a Stray, fons who may have Occafion of any Sort of ft* Vice and Debauc* vBayT Mare, about 14 Hands high, her hind Feet be conftantly riven, for that Purpofe, at the Bml- I treat fnch a Cha tianre Store, facing the Bridge, by faid Ware may depend on being Uipplicd witk I vices and Rakes, white, branded on the off Shoulder with fomcthing Their obliged and obedient Servant, fuch as is good and very cheap. He wjU take ta like an M, on the off Buttock with fomcthing like Pay, Pork, Tar, Wheat, Corn, or Tobacco, at I have t>*tu never , a C, and on the near Shoulder wi'h fomcthing like ' D. CHAMIER. j been found infufflc a reafonable Rate, for any 4>f the above Com- I their a B, has a Sprig Tail, and hanging Mane. ""Cities. .______" THOMAS BAKER. own private Ai . The Owner may have her again, on proving his* LL Perfons who have any Claims againft I miflions in the Arn Property, and paying Charges. the Eftate of Dr. Alexander Hamilton, late 1 according to Seniori ofA this City, deceafed, are defired to bring them TO BE SOLD, I of Friends, &c. and in, that they may be adjuilcd: And all Pcrfons Fir BiUt of Exchange, Sterling Memtj, Gtld, SHvtrt I the common Soldier 'HERE is at the Plantation of Mr. Eli indebted to the faid Eftate, are defired to make tr Current Mmej, I mour or Paffion, or _ Dfrfey, at Elk-Ridge, taken up as a Stray, Payment, without Lots Of Time, to TR ACT of Land, adjoining to Geirfe. I thority t and in the a large Brack Mint, branded on the near Shoul­ MARGARET HAMILTOB, Executrix. A Town, in Frederick County, containing 230 I ted or connived at, der with fotnething like 25 join'd together, had a Acres or thereabouts, convenient for Trade, witi jCorreaionj when I middle fiz'd Bell tied on with n Rope, mark'd HE Subfcriber has, at his Plantation on a good Dwelling-Honfc, fifty Feet long and thirty and difcouraged ia with feven Docs, (he paces middling well, and is * Feet wide, four Rooms on a Floor, with a good feppM'd to be old. ' > ;:-;' Patapfco River, oppofite to the Baltimore 1 daimine a Snare w Iron-Works,T on Watef navigable for Flats and Kitchen and Office, with Brick Chimneys. Alfa poly of Honour; w The Owner may hav* her *gtj^ OB proving Boats up to the Mill Tail, a compleat well-fitted one Acre of Ground in Getrge-Tmvn, with two an Example of aQ Ills Property, and paying Charges'. ' *. = :' MERCHANT MILL, with all proper Con- large InfpelUon-Honfes; whither, in a good Crop- I and Idlenefs, whc Year, come upwards of a Thoufand liogftieads TOLEN or Strayed from Pig-Point the 301)1 veniencies, where he will Grind, Bolt and Pack, and there diffolvinj at Five-pence Half-penny ftr Bufhel. He has al- of Tobacco. A large Stonc-Houfc, adjoining tbe Approach of the E «f Otfoler laft, a Dark Bay Horfe, about 14 Infpeaion-Houfes, with a Kitchen and Garden, , HandsS high, about c. Years old, branded on the fo a Cooper, with a Quantity of well-feafoned them no where cl Staves, and will fnpply Cuftomers with Barrels, convenient for a Public-Houfe. Store-Houfes, be- | out the Enemy, % : Shoulder with a T, with a Stroke acrofs, one of fides, and other imprpv'd Lots. hit hind Feet white, and a natufal Pacer ; and had at the common Rates. ^. CHARLES CARMOLL. obflruCUng their 1 on a very good Hunting Sadtfe. One Tract of Land, lying on GooJi.Cretk, in Incurfions, they U w . Whoever fccures the (kid1 Horfe and Saddle, .H E Subfcribers give Notice, That they Priuce-Gttrge''i County, two Miles from Gewg'- Lazinefs, to conn ' and brings them to Pig-Ptfy, (hall have Twenty will attend at the Houfe of Mr. Benjamin Tinvn, containing 280 Acres, 80 of which fit Up; them in their For TBrttktJ in Upper-M«rJl>orougb, on Wcdnefday the Meadow-Ground; whereon there .arc two Apfi)e> Cafe, how wrctcj : Shillings lUward, paid fay. - Orchards and other Improvements: This lies con- i, "*.' i - '. EDWARD Con. 24th of November Inftant, in order to receive Pro- Wbatnfekfs Loo pofals from (uch who are willing to contraQ for venient too to die Eaftern Branch of Pat the Soldiery? Any Perfons inclinable to buy either of the* B'O BE SOLD BY PUBLIC VENDUE, the fupplying with Provifions the Hundred addi­ * tional Forces, to be raifed and garrifoned at Fort above Tra£ls of Land, Houfes, or improy'd Lots, C« tie igtb tf tbii hftant November, at tbe Frederick, for the Defence of the Frontiers of this may apply to the Subfcriber, living at the tfW- Hotife of Mr. lofliua Gray, at Patapfco NeeJ, Province. WILLIAM MURDOCH, Yard, in Priitce-Georgi't County, Marjlt*}: Where by tit Sut/eriferi, for Currnt tfaej, Bilh of LAMK> Dicr, . « they may be fupplicd, likcwile, with choice N £- ExfluiifeExfluiife, or Sterling, DANIEL WOLSTEHHOLMB. G R O E S of cither Sex, and of any Age. A TRACTTR of Land called Pw/y-Gm-*, GroROB GORDON. -' JT*-- ^V'nB *" Aint-Ariaiiik County, containing OHN BENNETT, mANNAFOLn, fells N. B. Any one that bujs the Traft of Land five HundredHundr Acres. SAMUEL GEI«T, all Sorts of manuftaurcd TO B A C C O, in and Dwelling-Houfe adjoining to Gierge-Taw', ll'jffl < <> Imimall or large QuaatXim. (hall have Time given him lor Payment of Part. -i JNN4POLIS: Printed by JONAS GREEN, POIT-MAITBK, at bis OIWCK in CbarIe*Jlr*gt\ '*"•'• by whom all Pcrfons may be iupplicd with thie GAZETTE, at iaj. 6d. per Year, ADVERTME- -; V^J«SMT» of a moderate Length arc taken in and inferted for Fire Shillings the firft Week, and One .Shilling t *-each Week after the Fir*,- " .', .- : ;«.,- :,,,,,: ^> «^^'~"'" -~ J~- ' ; " : T H E 603.] T L4N D GAZETTE, Containing thcfrejbeft Advices foreign^and domeftic.

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|T« VIRGINIA-CBNTINBL. N'. X " Shew me one Scar chander'd on their Skin : thinking it to be an Intolerable Reflraint not to be " Me»'« Plefl» prefcrv'dfo whole but feldom win." permitted to live the fame idle and voloptuooa . > };. --»'- »_ - . SHAKISPBAR. Life, while they were engaged in War with a fit* Mite 4 t*W< T— Men of Virtue and true Courage can have no powerful Enemy, as they nfed to indulge them- f f*IJ*t kjc ! tilt i frit a iattrh f At BOD In Veteran C Heart to enlift, and mingle in fuch a Crowd. iclvcs in, in Times of Peace and Profperity. The And the firw of that Chancier, that may be a- War ended in their total Overthrow, a* might be mong diem, are in Danger of catching the general expeaed. The City of the SYBARITIC wa* so Contagion; or of being damped and mortified at populous, a* to be able tp raife an Army of the Sight of fuch Scene* of Vice, Extravagance 300,000 Men. Their Luxury and Difiblutioa of HE Profeffion of Soldiers, efpeclally and Oppreffioa. Manners are arrived at an almoft incredible at fach a Time as this, is not only Horatt, who knew the Eftate of the all-conquer­ Height. They employed thcsn&Ive* in nothing noble, but benevolent) and worthy ing Rtmait Army, in the Period of its highcfl Glo­ but Banquet*, Game*, Parties of Pleafure and at once of univerfal Honour and Gra- ry, and raoft iUuflrion* Vi&orie*, will teach u» Caroufals. Public Rewards were beftowed on i T titudc. They are the Guardian* of the Difcipline proper for Soldien. thofe, who gave die moft magnificent Entertain­ their Country, and all that U included in that im- " Our hardy Youth fhould learn to bear ments t and even to fuchdub ofGniv, as were bdt iportant Word. And therefore, their Merit mould Sharp Want, to rein the warlike Steed ; (killed in the important Arts of making Improve­ I flot be invidioufly depreciated ; their Foibles ma- To hurl the well-directed Spear, ment* in the Drcffing of nice Dime*, and invent­ [licioufly exaggerated; or their Conduft ccnfurcd With pointed Force, and bid the Parthian bleed." ing new Refrefhments to ticlck the Palate. They [by Chunney-Corner Politicians, who lie fneaking In War's illuftrious Danger* bold, carried their Delicacy to the monfbou* Length of I at Home, in inglorious Eafe, and know not their Inur'd to Summer'* Heat*, and Winter's cold. fending out of the City all Manner of noify Artifi­ | Circumftftncet, or the Reafons upon which they But it feems the Delicacy of modern Soldien cer*, as Blackfmitha, Carpenten, &c. and deftroy- la&. While their Character is tolerable, and thoy cannot bear fuch hardy Difcipline. Their Eafe ing all the Cocks, that their downy Slumbers I in any Meafure anfwcr the End of their Profeffion, and Pleafure muft not be difturbed by the Fatigues might not be difturbed by any Noife. Thi* on* (their Name* (hould be treated with the utmoft and Dangen of the Field or Woods. bounded Luxury crumbled them into FaAion* i [ Tendernefs and Refpefi. Their Country calls ; and fee ! the Heroe* ran and at Length made them an eafy Prey to ft But Soldien differ > fome will fhed their &5W, To fave her if the Game or Dance is done. fmall Army of the CROTONIANS. -The Appli­ I And fome drinkS*/»*» for their Coantry't Good. i Luxury and Senfuality have unmanned many cation of'thefe Pieces of Hiftory iieafyt bti£ I Some in the Field will nobly riftme their Live*; i an Armv, and enflaved or reined many flourifh- Ptricmitf* pltma* fpmt ah* ,<*\ <',,>•,• •' ffioae Hero like, will/war, or play at fiver. ing Citte* and Kingdoms. Let me enumerate I .: :' "&.W&:> [Borne fhew themfelve»»J»» gHEriar Sontefjfarrn a few Inftances, for the Warning of fnrviving I [SMit brave in Vtuni or in AtweW Wan, V Nations. The firft great Empire of the | f Can mew their letcberMu and Jtnmkn Scar*. J World, viz. Ac ASSYRIAN, owed h* DeftrufUon entirely to the Luxury of it* Prince, SARDANAFA- L O N D O N, No Profeffion in the World can fecure from tcs; an effeminate Creature, that never went out Fnm th GIBTLIMAM'I I Contemn* and Indignation a Character made up of of his Palace j but fpent all hii Time in the Com­ Mr. URBAN, Vice and Debauchery ; and no Man i* obliged to pany of Women. FeafHng, Rioting, and all Man­ OME Bufinef* having brought me to Town treat fuch a Chancier a* facred. When raw No­ ner of fenfual Indulgences were his daily Employ. at the Time of the holding the Court-Martial vices and Rakes, Spendthrift* and Bankrupt*, who At Length his General* cut him off in the Midft uponS the late Lieut. Gen. Fowke, my Curiofity have b««n never ufed to command, or who have of his Debaucheries, and overturned the Empire. led me to be prefent it it t and happening to be j been found infufficient for the Management of BABTLOH, the ftrongeft City, perhaps, that I their own private Affair*, are honoured with Com- detained in my Return Home, for feveral Hours, . ImuTions in the Army j when Men are advanced ever wai built upon Earth, was taken in the by the Rain at an Inn, without Books, I amufed Night by Surprize, while the King, hi* Wives myfelf with writing down the Trial, as perfectly [according to Seniority, the Interefts and Influence and Concubines, with a Thonfand of his Lords, as mv Memory would allow me* A* the Court- '-; I of Friend*, &c. and not according to Merit; when were caroufing in a Debauch, unapprchcnfive of the common Soldien are abnfed, in a Fit of Hu- Martial was held in the Houfe of the Judge- I mour or Pafuon, or through an Oftcntation of Au- Danger. The Overthrow of the PERSIAN Mo­ Advocate, and in a fmall Room of the Hoofc, narchy, and the vaft Army of DARIUS, by an where hot above a Dozen People, befwles Offi­ Ithority i and in the mean Time, perhaps, tolera­ Handful of hardy Veterans under ALEXANDER the cers, could crowd in, I fuppofe that there are ted or connived at, in Practices really worthy of Great, It another Ibiking Inflaace of the fatal Ef- but very few People who can b« only infooaed of Correction ; when the Militia Men arc brow-beat fecltofLuxury. But who would have thought that an Affair of that great Importance, in which the and difcouraged in every noble Achievement, as that ALEXANDER himfelf, with foch .an Example Nation is Jo much ct cerned. Your Reader* will ' claiming a Share with the Soldiery in their Mono­ before his Bye*, would have fplit upon this Rock f make the proper Allowance* for it* having been poly of Honour j when the Officers give their Men Yet we are told by JVSTIN, " That he degene­ written purely from Memory. Words cannot be ' an Example of all Manner of Debauchery, Vice rated into the Luxury and Vice of the PERSIANS, anfwered for, though many of the leading and and Idlcnef* * when they lie fkulklng in Forts, whom, by Mean* of that very Luxury, he had moft expreflive ones are preferved i but, for the and there diublving in Pleafure, till alarmed by the overcome- that he fufrercd his Army to Debauch Circumnances, I believe there are very few of' Approach of the Enemy,' who could cxpell to find themfelves in the fame Manner that afcrrwards any Importance omiued j I am furt then 119 aone them no where clfcj when inflead of fearching he gave himfelf up to the moft unkingly Cruelty added. : '.i'.ViB'.'S''-1 -v out the Enemy, waylaying and furprifmg them, agamft his own Friends, one of whom he murder­ ' The Member* being fwortf, TW. - obftru&ng their Mnrche*, and preventing their ed for exprefCng himfelf a little frcety concerning Gen. jSir Robert Rich, Prefident. Gen. Sir Incurfioni, they tempt them by their Security and hi* Faults." At Length, degenerating into John Lfgonier. Lieut. Gen. Hawley. Lieut. Lazinefi, to come in Quell of them, and attack immoderate Intemperance and Drunkenneu, he Gen. Lord Cadogan. Lieut. Gen. Guife. Lieut. them in their Portiications. When thi* U the died fnddenly in the Mid ft of a Debauch. A timtlj Gen. Onflow. Lieut. Gen. Pulteny. Lieut. Gen. Cafe, how wretchedly helplef* muft a Nation be ? Death for the World I For had his Life been pro- Ilufltc. Lieut. Gen. Campbell. Licet. Gen. What ufekfs Lumber, what an Inciunbmnce, is longed, he would' foon have become a mere Lord Dclawar. Lieut. Gen. Charlct Duke of the Soldiery? NIRO or CALIOCLA. Whether he was poifoned Marlborough, Lieut. Gen. Wolfe. Lieut. Gen. CotfciMt ifftJUri Jtftputat tmnim did. by fome of hit Noble*, whom be had offended Cholmondelef. Major General Lafcellcs. Major I would by no Means make the Ewm the by hi* Crueltiet, as fome Writer* affirm ; or who Gen. Bockland. Major Gen. Lord, George Bcau- Standard by which to judge the Meafore* taken, ther his Death was the Effect of Drnnkennefs, clercv . , though thi* be undoubtedly the Standard of the as others affert, comes to the fame Porpofe > via. The Court wa* opened by the Judge Advocate Crowd. Succefsful Rafhnefs will never fall of that he' fell a. Sacrifice to his Own Luxury and in two or three round Sentences, importing, that popular Applaufe, and unfortunate good Conduft Vice. The RMn» of.TA»iNTUM are alfo he wa* by hi* Place to appear a* Profecuior, and will never efcape Ctnfurc. But when nothing a Monument of the fame melancholy^Truth. that he was forry for the Occafion. To which the brave i* fo much as attrmfttJ, but very rarefy, or Having imprudently entered info a War with the Prifoner replied, with Profeffions of hi* Fidelity by Accident, or for neceflary Self-defence t when ROMANS, which fo effeminate a People knew not and Loyalty to his Majefty, of the great MUfor- Men, whofe Profeffion it is to endure Hardfhips, how to conduit, they called King PYRRHUS to tone be cftcemed it to appear in that Manner be­ and encounter Dangen, cautioufly fhun them, and manage it for them ; but they foon began to mur­ fore the Court j and of Jus Concern, left the Ho- fuffer their Country to be ravaged in their very mur and exclaim againft him«fbecaure, in order to nout of hi* Profeffion fhould be hurt through hit Neighbourhood j then, certainly, Cenfnre cannot qualify them for War, he had eftablimed an exaft r Means. Then the Lieutenant General'* Com- be filcnt i nor can the Public 'receive much Ad­ military Difcipline, and driven 'them from their jnifiion, a* Governor of Gibraltar, wa* xead, but vantage from a Regiment of fuch daftardly De­ CarouiaU, to the Fatigues and Danger* of tbo was made no Ufe of, nor once mentioned after* bauchees. Field. Son* of them even, quitted the City, ward* during the whole Trial. The Jadge, Advocjte then read the three following j Cturt.] Did your Lord/hip fend thofe Letters ed the Minutes, or that Mr. Byng read them, - ' . Letter* : yourfclf ? but I do remember, that there was (omething paf- ,j,is Garrifon will then 1o Ltenttnant General Fmute, or, in frit Jbfemtt, tt Set. at War.] I did not fend the Letters my- fed on that Head; but I rather apprehended it to be endangered1*' through tbt Com*u*4tr in Cbitfi^ in bit tfajeffi Garrifon. felf, I -wrote them, and delivered* them to the be toofe Talk than Bufmefs. Yon offered to make Charge of my Secondary; he is here, or at the the Detachment if he thought it neceflary; and he t. Gen. Fowke, Stewar tf 'Gibraltar. j; ' ' j wallis, i«n/.Robert Bert S I *,' - Mir-OJ>r*t Martb 21, ' 756- War-Office, to anfwer to what the Court may de- faid, I do not believe it will be wanted, or, I do fire to know on that Head. not think it neceflary. But, to do the Admiral (Jc . to tbt Kutnbtr of at. AM commanded to acquaint you, that it U Gen. Fewtt-} I called that his Majefty's Pleafure, that yon receive into .Mr. Sherwood was fworn by the Judge Advo­_ _ Juftice, I do. not apprehend that he thought 'him- I cate, and afked what he had done with Let-'l felf bound to give an Anfwer to that Qneftion. Mir Opinion about the Mear your Garrifon Lord Robert Bertie's .Regiment 'to Cwt.] The Council, by t do Duty there; and in Cafe you (hall apprehend, ten. The._ Judge ..... Advocate then read the remaining Sherwood.] I dclivertd the firft Letter, under a I Pan of the Lieutenant General'5 Defence, >pear to have had any Do that the French threaten to make any Attempt up­ flying Seal, to General Stewart, while he wa» in 1 " Mrn - "' «__.. ...«.,...... , leaning, but rather to hav on his Majcfty's Ifland of Minbroa, it is his Ma­ " The whole Number which I had then in Town. I fcnt the fecond Letter under a flying Garrifon was" but 2700 Men. I had (pared to ie executing them. jefty's Pleafure, that you make a Detachment out .. Gen. Fowfe."] I canndt hcl of the Troops in your Garrifon, equal fo a Batta­ Seal, inclofed to General Stewart at' Portftno'u^T, Mr! Edgcombe's Ships 230,- which, with lion, to be commanded by a Lieut. Col. and Ma­ and the third in the fame Manner. I delivered I of my Men which he had left in St. Philip's, |0en talked of. jor, fuch Lieutenant and Major to be the el deft the firft Letter into the General's own Hand. He made 270. The ordinary Duty of the Ga____ Cntrt.] Your own Letter < in your Garrifon, to.be put on board the Fleet fet out for Portfmouth the 25th, and I gave it him ' required in Workmen and Guards 800 Men, fo I Doubt. 'for the Relief of Minorca, at the Difpofition of the 24th. They all know how that Letter came] " that I had then only 1 30 Men more than three I Gen. Frwit.}- (WhHpwed the Admiral. / am, Sir,j£*r tiantle Servant, to go. " Reliefs. If I had made the. Detachment of a laffiftant Attorneys, who ffoxx ' .' '''; "''." BAHRIKOTON. The Judge Advocate then went on with reading I " Battalion, and put it on board the Fleet, I |u Prompter*, during the ^.Litutenant GtRira) Towtf, 'tr, in bit Abjtnct, tt the Prifoner's Defence. " My Orders being con-1 " (hould not then nave had much more than two Omifuon proceeded from tl " '"v . tbe Commander in Cbitf, at Gibraltar. " fufed and contradictory, I called a Council of " Reliefs, and this at a Time when I believed the (paid to his Lordfhip in th "• "S I-R, War-Office, Martb 18, 1756. " War, not to deliberate whether I fhould obey " Place was in Danger of being attacked, for I he hold*. AM commanded to acquaint yon,'that U is " my Orders or not, but only to take their Senfe " good Reafons, which 1 do not think mytelf at JuJp AJvttatt.\ (Lookir _ his Majefty'* Pleafure, in Cafe you fl\all ap­ " what was the Meaning of them." n Liberty to mention." Court) I beg Pardon ; but prehend that the French threaten an Attempt upon Lieutenant General Fowke then urged, and The Lieutenant General then returned to hi* ferve, as it has been often fi Minorca, that you make a Detachment from the frequently repeated it during his Trial, that his firft Plea, of the Doubtfulnefs of his Or^erv and that he called a Council o Troops in your Garrifon equal to a Battalion, Orders were not abfolute, but difcretionary j and faid, I know very well that my Duty did not al­ the Meaning o"f his Orders commanded by a Lieutenant-Colonel and Major, that the Execution of them was left to his and Mr. low me to hold a Council of War to deliberate no Proof, ofthis j and that 1 for the Relief of that Phce, to be put on board Byng'* Judgment; and to prove that the Secretary about the obeying of my Orders, and therefore I I Minutes of the Council, pi the Fleet at th«"Difpofition of the Admiral t fuch of War did not himfclf think, for a long Time called it only' for their Help ih mMcrftandin^ of I had no Doubt at all about t Lieutenant-Colonel and Major to be the eldeft in after the fending* them, that thofe Orders were them. ' - 1 Ai to what the General h your Garrifon. BARRINGTON. abfolute, he produced a Letter of his, wrote the Court.] Don't you read the Minutes of the I den being difcretional, the 'ft Lin tenant General Fevfte, tr, in bit Abftntt, tt 12th of May, which he defired might be read. Council of War f - I of them is what relates to t CommanM- in Chief, at Gibraltar. The Judge Advocate then read, I Men among the Ships of th ." ' * tbt J*fo JtVKott.] Tt Lieutenant Central Fovikt, I to the Difpofition of the Ad ' > :''S / Rt War-Office, Afril 1, 1756. or tbt Commojuttr n Cbitf at Gibraltar. General Fewie't Letter (t tbt Secretary tf War, U his Majefty's Pleafure that you receive in­ aateJ at Gibraltar, about tbt 6tb ffMay, 1 756. j The Court was of Opini SIR, War.Cffict, May is, 1756. My LORt>, I of the Charge, and adjudg to y6uf Garrifon the Women nnd Children be­ WROTE to you by General Stewart: If that ing ta Lord Robert Bertie.'* Regiment. HAVE the Honour of your firet L*tten> ' I fofpended, for the Space of' in' .;}.'.. .' -«* i ! ' BAaniNOTOw. I Order is not complied with, - upon the Receipt of them, I called a Council bis Majefty has thought fit! Lieut. Gen. /Voutr.l How could his Lordfhip < "The Secretatt afWs* being fworn, proved the War, to confidex of the State of his Majefty's Service. Orders. /.'* i:. w * * r write, if that Order has not bee* complied with Forts and Garrifons in the Mediterranean} and it if he had thought it an abfolutc Order, and no y*^ft jfjvtfett] I fuppofe that die Lieutenant- appearing to' us that the fending a Detachment difcretionary ? equal to a Battalion would be an ineffectual Relief General, in his Defence, will call for the Minutes Judge Advocate goes on reading of the Council of War held at Gibraltar, and to Minorca, and a weakening of this Garrifon, we CONSrANTItiO if that Order has not been complied with, then have determined it not to be for his Majefty's Ser­ N the $th of this M therefore I do not read Them. you are now to make a Detachment of 700 Men frifoner.] I have1 prepared my Defence in Wri- vice to make the Detachment. , . O the Evening, a Fire I out of your own Regiment and Guile's, and alfo . Inclofed are the Minutes of the Council of War. I in thi* City, which conti (tjsig, and dcfire that the Judge Advocate may another Detachment out of Pulteney's and Pan- read it. , >' The Judge Advocate then read the Minutes. Night and the next Day, mure's Regiments, and fend them on Board the " At a Council of War held at Gibraltar, M*JT 11 and 15000 Houfes, anc CWtr/.] Woufd'yon riot examine die Secretary Fleet for the Relief of Mahon. But if that Order of War new Jie te here ? % 1756, the three Letters of the Secretary of Wat fbni perifned in the Flames, has been complied with, then you are to make were read, and are a* follow " » being detected in pillaging < Lint. Gtn, Ft^vkt.] I defire my Defence' may only one more Detachment of 700 Men, to be be read now, and hope his-Lordfhip will give me [Here followed the three above-mentioned Let­ fnfion, a* foon as the Fire a commanded by another Lieutenant Colonel and aift and 28th of March, and firft of led, and thrown into the i Leave to afic him facn Qncftions as I fhafl thinki Major, and to fend it to Mahon. And you arc ters, of the proper hereafter. April. The Orders of the Admiralty to Adsniral oned by this Accident is b alfo to'detain all fuch empty Vcflcls as (hall come Byng were alfo read, and are as folio*:J the Mncry into which Th See, at War.] I (hall ftay in Court as long as into your Harbour, and keep them in Readinefs 'SIR, ' ' I tants are plunged And t this Trial is depending, and (hall anfwer all Quef- for any farther Transportation of Troops. I have ftancet are augmented by i lions which make for the Lieutenant General with T being his Majefty's Pleafure that Lord Ro- alfo hit Royal Highnef* the Duke of Cumberland'* bert Bertie's Regiment do fcrve on board your gioo* Diftempcr. The foi more Pleafure than thofe which make againft him. Commands, to dcfire that you will keep your Gar­ I quitted their Palaces a$ P< ' - ; Prisoner's'Defence was read, " That he receiv- Fleet, to do Duty there, and hia Majefty having rifon as alert as poffible, during this critical Time, iflued Orders by the Secretary of War to General grade. .. « ed thefe three Letters together by the fame and fee that they ftrictly perform their Duty i tak­ Parii, J*lj 26. Freqo i*' Hand, and muft therefore take them together. Fowke, to make a Detachment equal to a Battali­ ing Care, however, not to fatigue your Garrifon. on from hi* Garrifon, for the Relief of Minorca; I Minifterial Conferences ht * That hit Orders were rtn/ufeJ at leaft, if not [jefty being fully determin '•ft. tantrat&Btrj. That if they were confuted, then you are tq conform yourfclf to the faid Orders, St(. at War.'} The fitteft Perfon to explain that and to carry that Detachment on board you 1 of his Arms, two grand S <' * 'he could not know when he had executed them; Object* of Attention j on< ' and if they were contradictory, they could not Letter, I fhould think, it it* Author. But I muft Fleet, and land them at Minorca. And In Cafe, '* be executed at all." .- . firft obfcrve that thi* Letter eaprefsly fuppofe*, upon Conference had with General Blakeney, he j lion in America, and the i4 .Lieut. Gen. Fowke .therl afked the Secretary that the Orders fent in my former Letter* were (hall think it neceffary, you (hall then land Lord ['the mean Time the Pre] at War, Did not your Lord (hip apprehend, that abfolutc, and not difcretional. Robert Bertie's Regiment alfo at Mahon, from on " Coaft of Normandy, as Here hit Lordfhip wa« flopped fhort by a Doubt board your Fleet. Signal ANSOM, tec.' I land wa* intended, ferve the fecond Letter of the z8th fupcnedcd the firft principal Dengnt. In of die v - " ',4 4 / . rt . bcine made by the Court, whetfier he could be Reffl-vtJ, " Upon Account of the Alteration of | the m . rffc*» * ____4^ f t J»« regularly admitted to explain that Letter. " Circumftances which have arifen fincc the Data' Schemes, it is certain, tl Stc. at War.] I did apprehend ft. received particular Inftru< f'AiVto. Gni. FfKvh.] 1- Should it not hare been Lint. Gtn. Fowkt.] The Letter i* very plain " of the above Letter, we having received un- mentioned then in your Lordfhip's fecond Letter in itfelf, and doe* not need any Explication. " doubted Intelligence of the French Army: bcine Court of Madrid on a ne that the firft Was fuperfeded ? Prefijint.] Every Gentleman ha* a Right to ex. actually landed in Minorca, to the Number of Reduction of Fort St. Phi plain his o4h> Letter. " from 1 3 to 16,000 Men j and a French Fleet that no lef* than a Project Set. ml War.] I did not know that that firft Let­ in Pofleflion of all their an ter nad gone, othcrwife, I might have faid in my Oturt.] If we are fome of u* of Opinion, that 1 being (utioned before the Harbour of 1 6 Ships, tecond Letter, netnuithftajulimg my former Ordtrt. hi* Lordwip has a Right to 'explain hi* Letter, and ' 1 2 of which are of great Force : That the both in Europe and Am Lieut. Gtn. Fvwtt.] That Word netvuitbflanfag other*, that he ha* not, then we muft clear the " fending a Detachment equal to a Battalion from thefe the principal are Gil would have faved an infinite deal of Trouble : Court, and debate that Matter among ourfelves. " hence, will be an ineffectual Supply for the Re- Conqucftof both which, But is it not the Cuftom of your Office, when fecond Stf. at War.] I thought that it had been ftrictly " lief of the Place and the difpofteffing the "French tiAly effected by the Ji Order) are intended to fbpeffedc the firft, to men- regular for me to explain that Letter j but if any " from the Ifland, and will be a weakening of Prance and Spain. don that they do fo ? . one Member of the Court ha* any Doubt about " this Garrifon. And it appearing to us to be the The Count dc MaiHel Stc. at War.] I had then been but about four the -Regularity of it, that is alone of fufficiem " Opinion of the Engineer, who is beftmcqualnted of the King's Armies, v Month* in my Office. In the Cafe of another* Weight with me to make me decline giving any " with the Place, and of fuch other Officers of de Richelieu in the Com Officer'* Orders, where the firft was gone away by further Explanation of it. " this Garrifon who have been atMahon, that the norc.1, is made a Knight a former Meflengcr, and the fecond Order, fuper- - Lieutenant General Fowke then faid, that he " Troops cannot be landed, or at lead not with. Ghoft. feding it, was to-be fcnt by another Mcflenger, had offered to make the Detachment if Mr. Byng " out great Difficulty, ' unlefs the French Fleet in that Cafe, I remember. I did fay, in my fecond thought it neceflary, in the Hearing of Mr. Weft. " could be difpoflcfled from their Station » and Baron Horn, Captain St Letter, noPuritifloMAiitf j/inr farmer Orders i but in Mr. weft being fworn, Lieutenant General, " Lieutenant General Fowke having already con- Puke, principal Author« thi* Cafe I did nbt adv«rt to that Circumftance, as Fowke addreuW himfclf to him, " You remem-> " fented to fparc from this Garrifon IAO Men', to rered m Sweden, were I knew that all my Lettcn were to be carried by her, Sir, after the Council of War was pver, I " ferve on board Mr. Edgcombe's Ships, to (up- Square, atSockholm. 1 the fame Hand, and to go together. came out of the Cockpit, and went to Mr. Byng " olv the Place of a like Number which he kft at 1 tew of Brahe, who is far Lint.Grn. FrwJtt.]-Ywu Lordfhip has (at at in the Statc-kooBu and faid, Well, Sir, I have? " Mahon i and it appearing to us that the French 1 td herfelf before the Al another Board ( was it tjm the Cuftom there1 f -. (hewn yon the Refolutions of our Council of War,' " Fleet is at leaft equal, tf not fuperior to the on her Knees begged a F S(c. at War.] I cannot ttcollecl nny Thing of and yon have read them/ but,; notwithfUndin " Engliflu it U therefore re/bjfed, that i,ti»nOt ihe Condition (he was in, what pafled at that Board. that, I. will make the Detachment, if you thin " Ibr hit Majefty's Service to make fuch." a De, I T«m and Groans, melt* it neceffary.'* ' ! " tachmcnt i bccaufc, tlTTiifc of the Englift paffion could not prevail 1 The Hum forpt. : Adm. We/I.] I do not remember 'that yon (hew. I " Fleet's > Public Good. i Icct's meeting »riy Difgrace from the French, . Anguflws. >s rite from Corunna. men and Children, that had got into the Cellar: this Garrifon will then be weakened, and may that therc_w«re "lately interred at Vivers, a (mall That they then engaged the Indians (faid to be be endangered through the Want of fuch De­ Town in Galicia, fit cm ted at a little Diftance from'- twenty in Number) and put them to flight, two tachment"' SIGNED the Sea, abotlt.-joo der.d Bodies, which of whom it was thought were badly wounded: lAtut. Get. Fowke, Stewart, Effingham, Corn- into die Mouth, of .the" River Landrovedo, and And that they extirtguifhcd the Fir«, and got out wallis, iofW.Robert Bertie, Lint. Col. Colvil, that a» three Days before they had heard at a Di- ,tho Women and.Children, and carried them to £