falling to leeward of Louifbourg, a thorough repair. She had received upwards of 200 fhot in her hull and mafts, befides thofe between wind and water. Eighteen of the crew were killed, and forty-eight wounded. where he had orders to land fome provifions, hindered him from purfuing the English long, and he entered that harbour the fame day, where he made all poffible hafte to land the effects he had on board, and his fick, and next morning by five o'clock got under fail to go in queft of the enemy. About noon he difcovered the two fhips to which he had given chace the day before, who had now but one frigate with them. He crowded all the fail he could to get up with them, and they did the fame to get off. Capt. Breugnon, of the Syrene frigate, foon came up with the English frigate, and attacked her fo briskly, that he fell back under the cannon of the two men of war, whofe fire hindered Capt. Breugnon's purfuing her, and even forced him to ftand off. This attack ferved, however, to give M. Beautlier time to come up with the two English fhips, one of which carried 74, and the other 64 guns. He immediately attacked one expecting that the other, which was upon his quarter, would be attacked by Capt. Montalais But a calm coming on in that inftant hindered the latter from getting up; fo that M. Beauffier had both the Englifh fhips upon him, The engage ment was very warm on both fides till feven in the evening, when a gale of wind fpringing up, which enabled Montalais to make fail, the enemy took advantage of it to fheer off. The Heros being almoft difabled in her rigging, M. Beautfier could not purfue them. He spent the night in repairing his fails and rigging, in hopes of having another brush with the enemy; but on the morrow, the 28th, about eight in the morning, he discovered them ftill crowding all the fail they could, and at fuch a distance that he could have no hopes of getting up with them, notwithstanding the bad condition they appeared to be in: he therefore determined to return to Louisbourg to give his hip THURSDAY 2. An order was received at the poftoffice in Worcester, which is faid to be general throughout England, that the price of corn at the feveral markets may be fent to the fecretary of the general poft-office, that the fame may be tranfmitted to the principal fecretaries of ftate, for his majesty's information. FRIDAY 3. The Rochester, Capt. Duff, and Ambufcade, Capt. Gwyn, brought into Portsmouth five Dutch fhips, part of a large convoy, for the ports of France, with contraband goods.-The Ambuscade is ordered to the Mediterranean, to carry the captains Wray,' Storr, Hughes, Legge, Gambier, Scroope, Ogle, and Moore, to command the Captain, Revenge, Intrepide, Prfs. Louifa, Defiance, Kingfton, Chesterfield, and Dolphin, in the room of the captains who are recalled in order to give evidence on the trial of admiral Byng.[Capt. Scroope, one of the captains nominated, commanded the Dolphin in Commodore Edgcombe's fquadron, and went into Fort St. Philip with 130 feamen, to the affiftance of General Blakeney, and remained there till the capitulation. SUNDAY 5. The troops of the E. of Albemarle's dragoons, quartered at Reading in Berks, and three troops of the fame regiment from Henley, began their march in two divifions, the one for Coventry, the other for Northampton, to quell the rioters who have affembled at different places on account of the advanced price of corn. In the afternoon the detachment from Reading ftopped at Thame, where the horfes were fed in the ftreet, and the men refreshed themfelves in the mean while while. Juft before they renewed their march, their commanding officer ordered each foldier to open his cloak bag; in one of which was found the pulpit cloath belonging to St, Lawrence's church in reading. It feems, the owner of this cloak bag had entered the church at one of the windows, where the bars happened to be newly painted, and the colour not being quite dry, there appeared the nap of a red coat fticking to the paint. This remarkable circumftance being told to the lieutenant col. he took this method of discovering the offender, who was immediately tripped of his regimentals, and fecured, in order to be delivered up to the civil power. A letter from Sheffield, which gives a particular account of the riot that lately happened there, takes notice, that oatmeal was 11d halfpenny a peck, and wheat fifteen pounds a load, which is more than double the ordinary price; that trade was bad, and the people starving. This has been the general complaint for fome months paft in moft parts of England. but a fine harveft has afforded both work and plenty, TUESDAY 7. Col. Jeffreys kiffed his majefty's hand at Kenfington, on being appointed Col. of Gen. Fowke's regiment of foot, as a reward for his gallant behaviour at Port Mahon. THURSDAY 9. The Ambufcade. Capt, Gwyn, with thenew captains for the Mediterranean failed from Portsmouth. FRIDAY 10. The Virginia merchant, captain Wright, from Virginia, laden with tobacco, iron, &c. having anchored the day before in the road of Bristol, was boarded by a king's tender, with a defign to imprefs her men; but refiftance being made, the tender fired into her, killed the cook, and wounded fome others. And about three in the afternoon, after firing fome guns of diftrefs, the Virginia merchant funk in the fight of many spectators. Paris. Several perfons fufpected of holding illicit correfpondences have, been feized at Bordeaux. At Morlaix two other traitors have been apprehended, and fent to Breft, where they have revealed upon the rack the plan of a deteftable project, concerted in favour of our enemies, Amfterdam Gaz. MONDAY 13, Paris. One Theobald has been taken up near Bergerac, upon information of his having engaged 10 000 proteftants to fecond the English in a defcent which the latter refolved to make near Marennes. It is faid, this fellow used to fend advice to the D. of Cumberland of every thing that paffed. He is now put to the torture to force him to difcover his accomplices, after which he will be quartered. Bruff. Gaz. One Wm. Schroeder, an Hanoverian foldier, was detected in ftealing in the fhop of Mr. Chriftopher Harris, at Maidftone, two filk handkerchiefs, the property of the faid Harris; which offence is commonly called fhoplifting, and made capital by the ftatute 10 and 11 William III. cap 23. The foldier being carried before the mayor and another juftice of the peace for the corporation of Maidstone; and the fact being clearly proved upon oath, the juftices, in order to fhew all the lenity in their power, coinmitted him to prifon as for common felony, and not fhoplifting, and bound the protecutor by recognizance to appear at the next general quarter feflions. But the next day gen. Kilmanfack applied to the mayor, and demanded the release of the foldier, and talked of ufing force, if his demand was not complied with, infifting, that by treaty, neither the Hanoverians nor Helians are to be any ways fubject to the laws of this kingdom, either for murder, felony, or any other crime whatfoever; but the deputy recorder declaring, as his opinion, that the abovementioned forces, during their continuance here, are, and ought to be, fubject to the laws of this kingdom, in in cafes of murder, theft, and other henious offences, the mayor did not think proper to discharge the foldier: Upon which the general calmly faid, that an application fhould be immediately made to the king, and an application was accordingly made. THURSDAY 15. William Cannicott, fervant to Ld. Darnley, was tried at the feffions in the Old Bailey for the murder of his wife; he pleaded guilty, and received fentence of death. SATURDAY 18. About five o'clock in the morning one of his majesty's meffengers arrived at Maidstone with an order from the Right Hon. the Earl of Holderneffe, one of his majefty's principal fecretaries of ftate, requiring the mayor of Maidstone immediately to difcharge the foldier who robbed Mr. Harris, out of prifon, and deliver him up to General Somerveldt, which was accordingly done. MONDAY 20. The feffions ended at the Old Bailey, when fix criminals were capitally convicted, namely, Thomas Ridout and Jame Preffer, for ftealing a filver tankard; Thomas Philips, for forging an order for the delivery of goods; David Davis, for horfeftealing; John Cartwright, for flealing money; and George Langley, for robbing his landlord at the Queen of Hungary's head near Sadler's Wells, of jewels and money to the amount of near 4001. WEDNESDAY 22. Arrived at Dartmouth, in an open boat, from Morlaix, eleven men and two boys, who made their efcape from thence the morning before, pailing by two privateers, a man of war, and the caftle, and putting to fea in a little bark, deflitute of compafs and food, excepting a little bread. They met with extreme bad weather, and every moment expected to be fwallowed up. In their diftrefs they spoke with a Dutchman, but could obtain nothing from him but abufive language. As foon Grafton off Louisbourg, Aug. 26, 1756, N the 26th of July I was cruiz ing in his majefty's fhip Grafton, 70 guns, with the Nottingham, 60 guns, capt. Marthal, Hornet, 12 guns 14 fwivels, and Jamaica, 14 guns 14 fwivels, capt. Hood off Louifbourg, about three leagues S. by E. At eight A. M. the man at the topmoft-head difcovered four fail to the N. E. which was directly to windward. We gave chafe, and made our first board to the fouthward, they fteering directly for us till within two leagues. We tacked in hopes to have cut them off from their port, and they hauled in for it. Half paft one P. M. they came to an anchor in their harbour, and a little after we brought to, about a league from it, and hoifted our colours, the lighthouse bearing north where we lay. At 4 made fail to the eastward, Soon as it was dark difpatched the Hornet for Halifax, for capt. Spry to send out fome of the fhips under his command to come and join me, and then stood on as before till three o'clock, when we tacked and tood in for the land. At 7 in the morning of the 27th, the man at the mast-head called out he faw fix fail under the land: About 8 o'clock I could fee four fhips in chafe of us, and I could, with my glafs, make them to be men of war, and fee the French commodore's white pendant very plain; on which I ftood from the S. E. about a point from the wind which drew them fromtheir harbour, and thought it the best of our failing; for I judged them above our match, or they would not have come out of port again in fo fe w hours. I believe they had only put their fick and lumber on fhore, and taken troops off, for they were very full of men. Half paft 1, P. M. the headmoft of the French fquadron, a frigate of about 36 guns, fired on the Jamaica floop, which the returned, and rowed at the fame time up to the Nottingham, and on our firing at the frigate the hauled her wind, and the Jamaica bore away to the S. W. which the French commandant obferving, made a fignal for the two frigates to chafe the floop, which they immediately obeyed. About 2 the Nottingham fired her ftern chace at the French commandant, which he returned with his bow, and foon after I fired mine. Finding our fhot reached each other, haul'd up my courfes, bunted my main fail, and bore down on the French commodroe being about a quarter of a mile from him. It fell calm, and we began to engage, he being on our ftarboard fide, the other large French fhip a-ftern of him, and the Nottingham on our larboard bow, the two frigates a mile from us. and the Jamaica fomething more. Though the French commandant held us fo cheap at firft, by fending his frigates away, he was fenfible of his mistake, that as foon as there was wind he made the frigates fignals to rejoin him, and fearing they did not come faft enough to his afliftance, bore down to them, and was followed. At 7 they were all clofe together; at dusk the action ceafed, they ftanding to the fouthward, and we to the S. S. E. Our men lay at their quarters all night, expecting to renew the action in the morning. Ar day-light the French fhips bore to the N. W. by W. diftance four or five miles, going away with little wind at E. S. E. right before it for Louisbourg. We wore and ftood to the westward, but they never offered to look at us. The wind freshning, they failing much better than our fhips, and the weather growing hazey, loft fight of them about noon their chief fire was at our mafts, which they wounded, and cut our ftays and rigging pretty much. I had one lower deck gun difmounted, and one upper; fix men killed, and twenty odd wounded; which is all the damage the Grafton received. Extract of a Letter from Capt. Hood to Commodore Holmes. Jamaica at Sea, Aug. 25. A GREEABLE to your orders, I have look'd into Louisbourg, where only two top-fail veffels, and, as I thought it of fome confequence to know where the men of war were gone to, that engaged you on the 27th paft, I fent the lieutenant in the pinnace to go and lay under the land to the eastward of the light houfe, with directions to feize the first veffel he could. In the mean time I stood off and on, and at day-light was close in ; took up the pinnace and a fhallop the had taken with 4 men, whom I have examined feparately, and found to tell the fame story. One of the top fail veffels in the harbour is the large ftorefhip, that unloaded at Millidue, quite unrigged, and the other a fnow from Rochford. The men of war failed for France 15 days fince, and were joined at fea by a frigate called the Concord from St. Ann. Their names and force ars as follow: The Heros, a new a fhip of 74 guns; the Illuftrious, of 64; the Perfect, of 36; and Serene, of 30 Upon my afking how the French came not to engage the English English on the 26th, they say, they went in to put fome money on fhore, and get men; and that they preffed a great number that night. I then afked them, whether it was not expected, by the people on fhore, that the Englifh would be taken? They replied, every one made fure of it. They likewife tell me, that their commandant had 26 men killed on the fpot; that 50 died of their wounds in three or four days, and that above 100 more were wounded; that her lower mafts were fo fhattered as fcarcely to be made ferviceable to carry her home, her fides full of fhot-holes, and had 49 fhot between wind and water, many of them through and through. The other large fhip but little damaged, and the frigates came off in the fame manner. THURSDAY 30. The Experiment man of war from Admiral Hawke gives an account that the Admiral had taken 70 tartans bound to Mahon with live cattle and Provifions. AMERICAN NEWS. Extra of a Letter from Albany, dated June 19. On proving more of our cannon in the fields laft Monday, one other of the 32 pounders belonging to the bat tery burft, and a piece of it, weighing near 400lb. ftruck an 18 pounder, within a few yards of it, that had flood proof, and broke off two feet of it from the muzzle: The next day a 12 pounder broke; and fince that three others have bursted. In the Penfylvania Gazette are the following advices: That Sir William Johnson had a narrow escape in returning from Onondago, being three times way-laid by the enemy, but fome of his trufty Mohawks found him out a road unknown to the French Indians, by which he arrived fafe at his feat at Fort Johnson, on the 7th of July, and had brought over above 200 French Indians to the English intereft: That kirmishes frequently happen between VOL, XII. parties in the English and French intereft, in which the fuccefs varies, but numbers of lives are loft, and fcalps made: That frequent attacks happen on Lake Ofwego, where the Englifh have one large fnow of 18 fix pounders and 20 fwivels; one brig of 4 fix, and 6 four pounders, and 10 fwivels; one fchooner of 10 four pounders and 10 fwivels two floops of 8 four pounders and 10 fwivels each; and two fmall fchooners of ten fwivels each; as alfo upwards of 230 whale-boats capable of holding 16 men each, and the French have 5 veffels, befides one of 20 guns, and their fmall craft that can row with 14 oars, and carry upwards of 20 men each, with a confiderable quantity of provifions. We had an account from Albany a few days ago, that Col. Bradstreet, with about 3000 batoemen, were attacked in their batoes, by about 400 Canadians, 180 regulars, and 100 Indians. The enemy killed feveral the firft fire, before our people could quite their batoes, Col. Bradfreet behaved gallantly, and kept poffeffion of a fmall ifland, with no more than 20 of his men tho' they were feveral times attack'd, and the laft time, with upwards of 70 men:-The enemy were going to furround him, upon which he bravely retreated to the fouth-fide of the river, where the remainder of his men were landed, and ordered them to make a feint flight, which the enemy feeing immediately enter'd the river in purfuit of our people, who faced about and falu→ ted them with their fire, and killed a number of them, the remainder on feeing their friends fall, took to their heels and ran. Our people fo clofely pursued them, that they left their packs, blankets, provifions, and feveral of their We had 40 men guns: killed, and 24 wounded; it's thought the French had no less than 120 killed, befides what were mounded. New York, July 26. Lord Loudon arrived the 23d inft, and this day fets Nn out |