The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1775-09-19 00:00:00

THE New-Hampshire AND HISTORICAL CONTAINING the Freshest ADVICES
Vol. XIX. GAZETTE, CHRONICLE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
No. 987 { Weeks since this Paper } was first publish'd.
TUESDAY Sept. 19, 1775.
By Capt. Malbone, arrived at Newport in 54 Days from Ireland, we have the following Advices, viz.
L O N D O N, June 22.
IT is thought Lord Bute will soon have a remittance made him of all his Scotch Governors and other creatures from North-America.
Notwithstanding what has hitherto been conveyed to the public through the channel of the papers, of the unsuccessful attempts of government in America, yet we hear they are so confident they shall subdue those people, that orders have been given to some eminent people in the law to prepare a new code of laws suitable to a government intended to be established, when the Americans necks are prepared for the yoke.---When this, if ever, is thoroughly settled, patriots and leaders of parties take care of yourselves.
It is to be hoped THAT MAN will never escape punishment who (at the head of government, &c, as it were, in the chair of Majesty) should have said, and given it under his hand, that "there must be an abridgement of English liberty." [Tom. Hutchinson.]
Lord North trembles for the result of the American measures; but he trembles much more for the fate of his own power: His interest and his own character go just to the demands of peace, but when once war is arisen, the importance of all ministers, except such a superior genius as Mr. Pitt, sinks---his credit depends on the success of the field,---to withstand hopes of reputation, & continual defeats with sinking funds, and slow or no subscriptions, is not, nor, let us hope, ever will be the fate of that junto which has governed this kingdom since the peace of 1763.
June 29. Advice is said to be received from Berlin, that his Majesty has much at heart the establishing a Prussian settlement or colony somewhere on the main continent of America, and that he has had frequent conferences with several skilful geographers and navigators on this subject.
We hear that one or two measures are immediately to be adopted by government; either to keep possession with troops of all the great towns on the coast of America, and shut all her ports with frigates, or to finish the war at once, by reducing, with a military force, the provinces of New-England to obedience. This last measure, it is thought, will be pursued, as an example is necessary, after rebels (says our correspondent) have drawn the sword.
The fortress of Ticonderoga, surprized and taken with such admirable policy by Col. Easton, held out, in the last war, a siege of seventeen days.
It cost government, in the late war, at least 200,000l. to fortify and furnish with stores, the garrisons of Ticonderoga and Crown-Point (now in the possession of the Provincials) and our present sensible and virtuous administration thought proper to give orders for their being abandoned about three years ago, as places of no importance.
If it had not been for wheat and flour imported lately from the rebels in America, this country might have been in a starving condition: and we have sent armies and fleets to hinder them effectually from sending us any more.---Is this policy? It is madness in the extreme.
Orders are sent to the victualling-office, for the greatest expedition to be used in getting a large quantity of provisions ready to be embarked for America.
Monday the sheriffs went up to St. James's to know his Majesty's pleasure when he would be pleased to permit the Lord-Mayor, Aldermen, Common-council, and Livery, to wait on him with their address, petition and remonstrance; his Majesty being at Kew they went thither, where they waited about three quarters of an hour, when his Majesty signified to them by a Lord in Waiting that he was not prepared to give them an answer then, but requested them to attend him at St. James's on Wednesday, at which time they should positively receive an answer. They returned to the Mansion-house at 9 o'clock.
There were present with his Majesty on Monday, when the sheriffs went to Kew, Lord Weymouth, the Earls Gower and Dartmouth.
Tuesday a council was held at Kew; at which the Earls of Rochford, Suffolk, Dartmouth, and Gower, Lords North and Barrington, assisted; which sat from three till after five, on the resolutions to be taken relative to the sheriffs waiting on his Majesty this day at St. James's.
Wednesday the Sheriffs Plover and Hart waited on his Majesty at St. James's, in consequence of the King's Appointment last Monday at Kew. Mr. Sheriff Plover addressed his Majesty in the following Words: "May it please your Majesty, We are ordered by the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Livery, of the City of London, in common Hall assembled, to wait upon your Majesty humbly to know your Majesty's Royal Will and Pleasure when your Majesty will be pleased to receive upon the Throne their humble Address, Remonstrance, and Petition. His Majesty replied, "You will please to take Notice, that I will receive their Address, Remonstrance, & Petition, on Friday next at the Levee" Mr. Sheriff Plover then said, "Your Majesty will permit us to inform you, that the Livery in common Hall assembled have resolved not to present their Address, Remonstrance, and Petition unless your Majesty shall be pleased to receive it sitting on the Throne." The King answered, "I am ever ready to receive Addresses and Petitions, but I am the Judge where."
L O N D O N, July 6.
The Address, Petition, and Remonstrance, of the City of London, to the KING, in Favour of the AMERICANS, and their Resolves, presented to his Majesty, July 5th, 1775.
YESTERDAY the Sheriffs waited on his Majesty at St. James's, when Mr. Sheriff Plover addressed the King in the following words, "May it please your Majesty, we are ordered by the Mayor, Aldermen and Livery of the city of London in Common Hall assembled, to wait upon your Majesty, humbly to deliver into your Majesty's hands, in their name, their Resolutions agreed to in Common Hall, on the 24th of June last, and of the 5th instant." Mr. Sheriff Plover then delivered a copy of the following Resolutions only into the King's hand, which he received without saying a word.
At a meeting of the Livery of London, in Common Hall assembled, on Tuesday, July 4, 1775.
Resolved, That the King is bound to hear the petitions of his people, it being the undoubted right of the subject to be heard, and not a matter of grace and favour.
Resolved, That his Majesty's answer is a direct denial of the right of this court to have their petitions heard.
Resolved, That such denial renders the right of petitioning the throne, recognized and established by the Revolution, of no effect.
Resolved, That whoever advised his Majesty, directly or indirectly, to refuse hearing the humble Address, Remonstrance and Petition of this court, on the throne, is equally an enemy to the happiness and security of the King, and to the peace and liberties of the people.
Resolved, That the following instructions be given to our Representatives in Parliament.
Gentlemen,
You are here instructed by the Livery in Common Hall assembled, to move immediately on the next meeting of parliament, for an humble address from the House of Commons, to his Majesty, requesting to know who were the advisers of those fatal measures that have planted popery and arbitrary power in America, and have plunged us into a most unnatural civil war, to the subversion of the fundamental principles of English liberty, the ruin of our most valuable commerce and the destruction of his Majesty's subjects. To know who were the advisers of a measure so dangerous to his Majesty's happiness, and the rights of his people, as refusing to hear the petitions and complaints of his subject. You are further instructed, gentlemen, to move for an impeachment of the authors and advisers of those measures, that by bringing them to public justice, evil counsellors may be removed from before the King, his throne may be established, the rights of the people be vindicated, and the whole empire restored to the enjoyment of peace, liberty, and safety.
To the King's most Excellent Majesty. The Address, Petition, & Remonstrance, &c.
Most gracious Sovereign,
WE your Majesty's most faithful subjects, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Livery of the city of London, in Common Hall assembled, are compelled again to disturb your Majesty's repose with our complaints.
We have already expressed to your Majesty our abhorrence of the tyrannical measures pursued against our fellow subjects in America, as well as of the men, who secretly advise, & of the ministers, who execute these measures.
We desire to repeat again, that the power contended for over the colonies, under the specious name of dignity, is to all intents and purposes, despotism; that the exercise of despotic power in any part of the empire, is inconsistent with the character & safety of this country.
As we would not suffer any Man, or body of men, to establish arbitrary power over us, we cannot acquiesce in any attempt to force it upon any part of our fellow Subjects; we are persuaded that by the sacred, unalterable rights of human nature, as well as by every principle of the constitution; the Americans ought to enjoy peace, liberty, and safety; that whatever power invades these rights, ought to be resisted; we hold such resistance, in vindication of their constitutional Rights, to be their indispensable duty to God, from whom those rights are derived to themselves, who cannot be safe and happy without them, and to their posterity, who have a right to claim this inheritance at their hands unviolated and unimpaired.
We have already remonstrated to your Majesty, that these measures were big with all the consequences, which could alarm a free and commercial people; a deep and perhaps fatal wound to commerce; the ruin of manufactures; the diminution of the revenue, and consequent increase of taxes; the alienation of the colonies, and the blood of your Majesty's subjects.
Unhappily, Sire, the worst of these appre-
hensions is now realized in all its horror: We have seen with equal dread and concern, a civil war commenced in America, by your Majesty's commander in chief: Will your Majesty be pleased to consider what must be the situation of your people here, who have nothing now to expect from America, but Gazettes of blood, and mutual lists of their slaughtered fellow Subjects.
Every moment's prosecution of this fatal war, may loosen irreparably the bonds of that connection, on which the glory and safety of the British empire depends.
If any thing could add to the alarm of these events, it is your Majesty having declared your confidence in the wisdom of men, a majority of whom are notoriously bribed to betray their constituents and country. It is the misfortune of your Majesty,--- it is the misfortune and grief of the People to have a grand council and a representative, under an undue and dangerous influence; an influence which, though procured by your ministers, is dangerous to your Majesty, by deceiving you, & to your people, by betraying them.
In such a situation, your petitioners are bound to declare to your Majesty, that they cannot and will not sit unconcerned; that they will exert themselves at every hazard, to bring those who have advised those ruinous measures to the justice of this country and of the much injured colonies.
We have already signified our persuasion that these evils originate in the secret advice of those, who are equally enemies to your Majesty's title, and to the rights of your people. Your petitioners are now compelled to say, that your throne is surrounded by men avowedly inimical to those principles on which your Majesty possesses the crown, and this people their liberties: At a time of such difficulty and danger, public confidence is essential to your Majesty's repose, and to the preservation of your people; such confidence cannot be obtained by ministers and advisers who want wisdom, and hold principles incompatible with freedom; nor can any hope of relief be expected from a parliament, chosen under a national delusion, insidiously raised, by misrepresentations touching the true state of America, and artfully embraced by a precipitate dissolution.
Your petitioners therefore again pray and beseech your Majesty to dismiss your present ministers and advisers from your person and counsels forever; to dissolve a parliament, who by various acts of cruelty and injustice, have manifested a spirit of persecution against our brethren in America, and given their sanction to popery and arbitrary power; to put your future confidence in ministers, whose known and unshaken attachment to the constitution, joined to their wisdom and integrity, may enable your Majesty to settle this alarming dispute upon the sure honourable & lasting foundation of general LIBERTY.
L O N D O N, July 8.
IN one of the Letters brought by Capt. Grant, there is a more favourable Account of the Skirmish on the Islands, by which the number of the killed and wounded are much lessened, and the Loss of the King's Sloop accounted for on Account of the lee Shore, and strong Eddies, that set in amongst the Islands.
July 8. It is said that General Gage has written in the most pressing terms, either to be recalled or to have 15,000 men sent him.
A regiment of Marines is going to be raised in Ireland, which is to consist of a thousand men, exclusive of officers.
It is confidently asserted in the city, that the ministry have received advice from Lisbon that the Spaniards are drawing a large army towards their frontiers, and therefore it is apprehended that they design to invade some part of the Portuguese territories; that in such case the court of Portugal requests an immediate aid and assistance from England.
We do not hear of any more British troops being destined for America.
July 11. Friday at a Court of Common Council held at Guild-hall, in Order to take into Consideration the Letter received from the Committee at New-York, Mr. Stavely moved, that a number of Resolutions he produced should be presented to the King by the Court; which not being approved of, Mr. Hunt made the following Motion.
"That an humble Address and Petition be presented to his Majesty, praying that he will be pleased to cause Hostilities to cease between Great-Britain and America, and to adopt such Measures as will restore Union, Confidence, and Peace over the British Empire."
This Motion, after several Debates the Question being put, upon the shew of Hands was carried in the Affirmative. The Number for the Motion were: Six Aldermen, Sixty six Commoners, and two Tellers, Total 74

Against the Motion: Six Aldermen, 57 Commoners, and two Tellers, Total 59 Majority for the Motion, 15 Mr. Hunt then moved, that a Committee of six Aldermen and 22 Commoners, might be directly appointed to draw up the Petition and Address, which passed in the Affirmative. The Committee withdrew, and in a short Time returned with a most respectful Petition and Address, which met with the Approbation of the whole Court except one dissenting Alderman.
The Sheriffs are directed to attend his Majesty at St. James's next Wednesday, in order to know when he will be pleased to receive the above Address, which will be presented by the Lord-Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, in their Gowns.
There is a Report current, that the Congress has wrote to Lord Dartmouth a conciliatory Letter to settle the Difference between Great-Britain and America. This Letter is to be laid before the Privy-Council, and the Congress Delegates are to remain at Philadelphia, in an adjourned State for their Answer.
A Letter from Portsmouth, dated June 25, says, "Friday Night an Express arrived at the Victualling Office here to set another Oven at Work, to bake fourteen Suits a Day (a Suit is an hundred Weight) for the Service in America, as all their Supplies must come from England."
It appears, by what has transpired of the Congress Proceedings that the Proposal for a Reconciliation was debated for two Days, and at the End put to the Vote; there were eight Provinces for offering Terms of Accommodation with the Mother Country.
We hear that Orders were lately dispatched to General Carleton to come down across the Lakes from Canada, with the Regulars under his Command, and to invade the back of New England while General Gage is to press the Insurgents on the other Side. General Burgoyne, with another Body of 5000 Men, is to possess himself of the Province of New-York to intercept any Aids that may be sent from the Southern Provinces.
PHILADELPHIA, August 30.
Extract of a Letter from Charlesstown, S. Carolina, Aug. 20.  EVERY Thing here is suspended but warlike Preparations. It is said there are scarce two Hundred Men in Town not enrolled. The Country is unanimous. Our two Regiments of Foot are every Day Training, and almost complete. About a Week ago a small Sloop from this Town boarded a Snow from England, in Augustine Bay, and carried off between 12 and 14000 Pounds of Powder, mostly belonging to the King. She had been sent privately with 30 resolute Men, well armed, by our Committee, in order to intercept the Vessel on the Coast, but was disappointed, being too late, for there were Forty Thousand Pounds landed, with four brass Field Pieces the Day before our Sloop boarded her. There were twelve Soldiers sent from Augustine to assist and defend the Snow, to whom our People gave ten Guineas for helping them out with the Powder, and being so modest as not to resist. A Man of War was in sight, but fortunately aground the few Hours our People stayed. We spiked up the Snow's Guns, and then went off triumphant, altho' attacked by three Boats full of armed Men. One got within 150 Yards, it being quite calm, but that Moment a fresh Gale sprang up. Our People brought their Booty safe to Beaufort, a Town on the Coast, about 70 Miles S.W. of this Place. It was reported they were pursued by the armed Vessels from Augustine to which place, on hearing of this, our Council of safety dispatched fifteen Artillery Men and fifteen Grenadiers, by Water, and a Company of our Provincials to Beaufort, to assist the Country People in the defence of the Acquisition. We are putting the Town in a Posture of Defence, and are all determined to oppose whatever Troops may come here. Yesterday a Negro was hanged and burnt, for intended Sedition, and burning the Town, &c.
We hear that Dr. FRANKLIN has been lately honoured by the Infanta of Spain, with a Present of a Volume of that Prince's Works, beautifully and magnificently printed at Madrid.
The Resolve for raising 800 Rifle Men, for the Service of the United Colonies, was passed about the 10th of June last, and whether Lord Sandwich will believe it or not, the Orders were not dispatched before that Day, and most of the Expresses had to ride 2 or 400 Miles to the Persons who were ordered to raise them; the Men, to the amount of 1430, instead of the 800 were raised, compleatly armed, (most of them with their own Rifles,) and accoutred for the Field with such Expedition as to join the Army at Cambridge, one Company on the 25th Day of July, and Eight more on the 5th and 7th Instant, all of which had marched from 4 to 700 miles. All this was performed in less than two Months, without a Farthing of Money being advanced by the Continental Treasury.
Since our last arrived here 3 Vessels from Ireland, with 550 Passengers, most of which will make Soldiers for America.
NEW-YORK, September 7, 1775.  The following is an Extract of a Letter from an Officer at Ticonderoga to a Gentleman in Connecticut, dated August 23.
"Our Regiment is in a good State of Health; we have not lost a Man by Death, since we left Connecticut. Col. Hinman's has never lost one since they enlisted, which I think something remarkable. I expect we shall go for St. John's within ten Days, we have all the Encouragement from the Canadians and Indians, that we can desire, and they will assist and join us, if need be. I was at Crown Point yesterday and had the Pleasure to see Major B—, who has lately been at Canada as a Spy; he said he was extremely well used by the Inhabitants in general, secreted from the Enemy, and conveyed back from place to place. He has received Letters since his Return, which say, that if our Army will come on they will join us with 1000 Men. Major E. who has been at the Point all the Summer, told me, that he should not doubt of taking St. John's with 500 resolute Men. By the best Accounts that we can get, there is about 700 regular Troops, and Johnson, is there with about 300 Beggary Scotchmen, and a very few Indians. Our Men are very fierce to push forward. We are about 2400 strong, and more coming in daily. We hope to complete what we have to do, and be on our Return in six Weeks."
Extract of a Letter from Bermuda, dated August 21. Upwards of 100 Barrels of Gun-Powder has been taken out of our Magazine: supposed by a Sloop from Philadelphia, and a Schooner from South-Carolina: It was very easily accomplished, from the Magazine being situated far distant from Town, and no Dwelling House near it.
Since our last Capt. Goforth and his Company, and Capt. John Lamb's Company of Artillery embarked for Albany, to join our Army under General Schuyler, at Ticonderoga.
A List of the flat bottomed Boats belonging to Philadelphia, with the Weight of Metal each carries.
  Washington, Capt. Dougherty, 32lb.   Ranger, 24lb.   Effingham, 24lb.   Franklin, Biddle, 18lb.   Bull-Dog, Alexander, 18lb.   Experiment. 18lb. 
NEW-PORT, September 11.
Last Monday the ship -----, Capt. Evan Malbone, arrived here in 54 days from Londonderry in Ireland, by whom we have the Irish papers to the 7th of July, from which most of the Irish & London news inserted in this paper, was taken:—Capt. Malbone was detained on board the Rose man of war till last Thursday, & his ship is still in her custody.
By Capt. Malbone we learn that the people of Ireland are so high in our favour, that a person can scarce say a word against America, without being knock'd down; and that they are determined no more troops shall be sent from thence to Boston, or any part of this country.
Last Friday the Swan Sloop arrived here, from a Cruise, and brought in several Vessels, taken on the Coast, in a legal Trade.
The same Day sailed for London, the Ship Francis, Capt. John Buckley, with whom went Passengers Mr. RICHARD SMITH, late of Boston, and Family, Mr. FRANCIS ROTCH of Dartmouth, and Mr. VASS.
The same Day sailed, for London, the Snow Flora, Capt. Thomas Forrester, with whom went Passengers Capt. JOHN KNOWLES, JOHN BEAL, and Mr. GILBERT STUART, of this Town.
The above Vessels were stopped by the Men of War in this Harbour, and are still detained contrary to Acts of Parliament. There are now upwards of 20 Sail of Vessels, great and small, stopped by Capt. Wallace, and tiding at Anchor between Coaster's Harbour and Brenton's Point.
The fore part of last week, one of the men of war's tenders having taken a Sloop from the West Indies, bound to Connecticut, a number of boats boarded the Sloop, up the found, and carried her in to her right owner, with 7 or 8 of the tender's men.
CHARLESTOWN, (S. Carolina,) Aug. 18.
Capt. Carter, who arrived here on Saturday last from Bristol, on the 25th of last Month, in Lat. 32, 35, & Long. 58, 40, took up out of a Small Boat, Thomas Frye Master, Henry Putnam, Mate, and a Sailor, of the Schooner Endeavour of Salem. The Master informed him, that they were bound from Salem to the West Indies with a Cargo of Lumber, that the Vessel had sprung a Leak, and had filled full of Water, three Days before, which obliged them to take to their Boat, but had left three Men on Board. Capt. Carter soon fell in with the Schooner, and took the three Men off. Those in the Boat had only three Pieces of Pork, and only a few Gallons of Water, when they were taken up. They all spoke in the highest Terms of the humane and kind Treatment they experienced from Capt. Carter. The Mate is Nephew to General Putnam. We are informed that the Master had embarked his whole Fortune in the Vessel, and brought off Nothing more than the Cloaths on his back.
Extract of a Letter from a Master of a Vessel at Gibraltar, dated July 2, to his Owners here.
"We have been under an Apprehension here for some Time past of being attacked by the Spaniards, who have a Fleet of 7 Sail of the Line, 12 Frigates, 413 Transports, at Carthagena, with 33,000 Troops ready to embark, and more daily arriving from the interior Provinces. They have several Vessels cruising with the Streights's Mouth, and Search all English Vessels they meet. One put in here whose Hatches they broke open, and examined a Bale of Goods. There are likewise six or eight Sale of the Line and several Frigates at Cadiz, ready to put to sea, at the shortest Notice, supposed to be intended to join their grand Armada, which they give out is designed against Algiers. The English Letters are supposed to be stopped, none having been received these two last Posts; and a Letter from an English Gentleman in Spain tends to confirm our Apprehensions. We have three Men of War in the Streights, The Medway of 64, Admiral Mann, and the Zephyr Sloop here. The Alarm Frigate is stationed off Carthagena, to watch their Motions. There are here 7 Regiments, consisting of upwards of 3000 Men, and every Thing is in the greatest Readiness to give the Dons a warm Reception, should they fancy to pay us a Visit."
BALTIMORE, August 29.
By Capt. James Wood, who was deputed by our Assembly, to invite the several Tribes of Ohio Indians to a Treaty, to be held at Fort Pitt, on the 10th of next Month, & who returned last Night, we learn that he had visited the Delawares, Shawanese, Senecas, Wiandots, and Tawasa. That the Commanding Officer at Detroit, and Deputy Agent for Indian Affairs, and Monsieur Baube, a Frenchman, had sent Belts and Strings of Wampum to seventeen Nations, including those above-mentioned; informing them, that unless they all united the Virginians would take their Country from them; that they purposed to attack them two different Ways; one by the Ohio, the other by the Lakes; that the Virginians would invite them to a Treaty, but that they ought by no means to go, as they (the Virginians) were a People not to be depended on. That many other Diabolical Artifices had been used by these Tools to Government, to instigate these Savages to attack our Frontiers. Particularly the Virginians were represented to them, as a distinct People, and that their attacking them would not be resented by the other Colonies.
Captain Wood had this Account first from the Delawares, who appeared Friendly, and gave him the Belt and String which had been sent them. All the other Tribes confirmed this Account, and promised to attend the Treaty. The Shawanese assured him, whatever they had received from Fort Detroit, they had buried in the Ground never more to rise; but that the foulish Tawixtawes and Pects, had accepted the Belts.
NEW-YORK, Sept. 4.
Thursday Evening a Boat being perceived coming from the Transport lying in North River, in which were two Negroes and two white Men; they were waited upon when they came on Shore by a Number of the Inhabitants to know upon what Design they were on; but receiving but little Satisfaction from them, they were all carried before the Congress. The Negroes said they were Freemen, and had been hired to carry two Women on board the Transport, which they did, and then fetched these Men on Shore. The Negroes and one of the white Men were discharged, the other being a suspicious Fellow, and of a refractory Temper, was committed to the Care of the Guard in the Barracks, till further Examination. The People that were on the Wharf, drew the Boat out of the Water, and carried it to the Commons, where they set it on Fire, and reduced it to ashes, amidst the Acclamations of Thousands.
We are credibly informed that the Hon. the Provincial Congress of New-Jersey, have passed a Resolve that all Men capable of bearing Arms, who depart from the City of New-York, into that Province, in Times of Distress, shall be compelled to return forthwith, and that the several Committees are enjoined to see the said Resolve carried into Execution.
We hear the Inhabitants of North-Carolina are raising three Regiments of Foot, in order to defend themselves against any Attempts that may be made against that Province.
Friday afternoon a Sloop with Dispatches from General Gage, lying near the Man of War, sent her boat ashore with four Men and one Woman who being observed by some of our People, they were all taken Prisoners, and carried to the Guard-House; the Woman was discharged, but the Men are detained for further Examination. The Boat was stove to Pieces on the Beach near Greenwich, and then burnt.
Saturday last the Hon. JOHN HANCOCK, Esq; and his Lady, arrived here from Connecticut, and immediately set out for Philadelphia.
Tuesday last a small Sloop came down the North-River from a Place called little Elopus, and anchored along Side the Asia Man of War, in order 'tis supposed to supply that Ship with Necessaries: A strict Watch was kept on her from that Day until Yesterday Morning, when she set Sail and stood up the River attended by an armed Sloop and some Boats from the Asia, but she was immediately pursued by a Number of Boats from this City, and soon taken.
By a Gentleman from Albany we are informed, that when he left that Place, seven Hundred Indians of the Mohawk and Onondaga Nations had arrived there, and declared themselves to be in our Interest in the present Contest: They say they are connected by Marriage and otherwise with the Canadian Indians, and do not despair of bringing them over to our Side, notwithstanding the unwearied Endeavours of Governor Carleton to the contrary.
NEW-LONDON, Sept. 1.
The Commissioners appointed by the Hon. the continental Congress, for the Northern District, were to meet the Chiefs and Attendants of the Iroquois, (which comprehends the 5 Nations,) and the Oenaguagos, inhabiting near Lake Champlain, last Thursday, at Albany. The Names of the Commissioners are, Colonel Francis, from Pennsylvania; Gen. Schuyler, and Col. Dowe, from New-York; Col. Oliver Wolcott, from Connecticut; and Major Hawley, from Massachusetts-Bay. It was expected that the above Chiefs & their Attendants would amount to near 500 Men.
CAMBRIDGE, September 14.
On Monday last a Regular Soldier, from the besieged Army in Boston, went off in a Canteen, with a Design, as is supposed, of deserting; being discovered, a Sergeant and four Men hastened in Pursuit of him; but he had reached so near Dorchester Point before they overtook him, and having an unwieldy Boat to manage, and the wind against them, they could not recover the Wharf again. Lieut. Morrow, of Col. Cotton's Regiment, marched down with a Party, and by his Dexterity soon got
within Musket Shot, & threatening to fire in Case they attempted to escape, they all surrendered themselves Prisoners. The Boats were immediately secured. The same Day the 6 Prisoners were brought under Guard to Head-Quarters in this Town.
A Ship of about 260 Tons, commanded by Capt. Flagg, laden with Lumber, &c. which sailed from Portsmouth, the Beginning of last Week, for the West-Indies, was met with and taken by the Lively Man of War, the Captain of which put two Officers and 5 Sailors on board her, in order to carry her to Boston. Soon after a Privateer from Beverly luckily came across the Ship, as she was going into Boston, retook and carried her into Cape-Ann. On Saturday last the seven Prisoners taken on board the Prize, were brought to Town, and committed to the Care of the Main-Guard.
Married at Pepperell, Mr. Samuel Fisk, aged 73, to Miss Eunice Gifson, aged 21. She is now the Mother of 10 Children, thirty one Grand-Children and six Great Grand-Children.
The following Lists of the Persons now confined in Boston Goal, for no other Crime than that of being the Friends of their Country, was brought out of Boston a few Days since.
Prisoners taken at Bunker's Hill, June 17, 1775.    Lieut. Col. Parker of Chelmsford Dead   Capt. Benjamin Walker Ditto Ditto   Lieut. Amariah Foster Groton Ditto   Lieut. William Scott Peterborough Alive   Sergeant Robert Phelps Lancaster Dead   Phineas Never Windsor Ditto   Oliver Stevens Townsend Ditto   Daniel M'Grath Unknown Ditto   John Perkins New-Rutland Alive   Jacob Frost Tewksbury Ditto   Amasa Fiske Pepperell Dead   Daniel Sessions Andover Alive   Jonathan Norton Newbury-Port Ditto   Philip Johnson Peck Boston-Mansfield Ditto   Benjamin Bigelow Peckerfield Ditto   Benjamin Wilson Billerica Ditto   Archibald M'Intosh Townsend Dead   David Kemp Groton Ditto   John Doland Charlestown Alive   Lawrence Sullivan Weathersfield Ditto   Timothy Kettle (a Lad, dismissed) Charlestown   William Robinson Unknown Dead   Benjamin Ross Ashford, Connecticut Ditto   John Dillon Jersey, Old-Eng. Ditto   One unknown Ditto   William Kench Peckerfield Ditto   James Dodge Edenburg, Scot. Ditto   William Rollinson Connecticut Ditto   John Lord Unknown Ditto   James Milliken Boston Ditto   Stephen Foster Groton Ditto 
Dead 20. Alive 10. Dismissed 1.
Rifle Men Prisoners.
Walter Cruse Taken York County, Pennsylvania. John Brown Ditto Ditto.
Cornelius Tunison deserted from the American Camp, and confined for attempting to get back.
Prisoners, Inhabitants of Boston, Sept. 2.
Master Lovell, imprisoned 65 Days, charged with being a Spy, and giving Intelligence to the Rebels.
Mr. Leach, 65 Days, charged with being a Spy, and suspected of taking Plans.
Mr. Peter Edes, Son of Mr. Benjamin Edes, Printer, and Mr. William Starr, 75 Days each, for having Fire Arms concealed in their Houses.
Mr. John Gill, Printer, 29 Days, for printing Treason, Sedition and Rebellion.
COMMITTEE-HALL,
Portsmouth, September 16th, 1775.
THE Public are hereby inform'd that Capt. JOHN FLAGG, lately sail'd for the West-Indies, took on board a Quantity of FISH, at the Isle of Shoals, after he sail'd from this Port, contrary to a Resolve of the Provincial CONGRESS, and of this Committee, Therefore he is hereby deemed an Enemy to his Country;
By Order of the Committee, H. WENTWORTH, Chairman.
William Pearne
HAS at his Store in Portsmouth, Rum, Sugar, Molasses, Coffee, Cotton, Chocolate, Indico, and many other Articles, which he will sell cheap for Cash, or Jamaica Fish, Flour, Indian Corn, Rye, Barley, Beef, Pork, or Butter, &c. &c. He has also to sell excellent Madeira Wine, by the Pipe, Quarter Cask, or smaller Quantity.
An Evening School,
FOR WRITTING and ARITHMETIC, will be opened on Monday Evening the 26th of the present Month, at the School-House in Divinity-Street, and be attended to the usual Hours, by ABIAH HOLBROOK.
Sept. 15th, 1775.
TO BE SOLD
By William Stanwood,
PERUKE MAKER and HAIR DRESSER,
The following Articles,—Barbers Bicks, narrow Wig Ribbon, Bread Ditto, Wig Caus, Wig Buckles, fine Raw Silk, Black Hair Pins by the Thousand or less Quantity, Shaving Boxes, very handy for Gentlemen in the Army or Country, Silk Puffs, Razors, Tail Combs, clearing Ditto, Barber's Pipes, White Chaspe Needles, fine Hair Powder and Pomatum, &c. &c.
Portsmouth Sept. 14, 1775.
ALL Persons Indebted to, or that have any Demands on the Estate of Capt. Titus Salter, Junr. Mariner, late of Portsmouth, deceased, are desired to bring in their Accounts to Hannah Salter, of Portsmouth, Administratrix to said Estate, in order for a settlement.
RUNAWAY NEGRO.
RUNAWAY from the Subscriber the 6th of August last, a Negro man 27 Years of Age—Five Feet five Inches high, named Kerry, but will answer to the Name London—Had on when he went away a Red Jacket without Sleeves, Doe Skin Breeches—Whoever will take up said Runaway, and convey him to his Master, shall receive Twenty Shillings Lawful money Reward and necessary Charges paid by
Isaac Rindge. N B. It is supposed he is skulking about the House of Jonathan Warner's Farm, and Gravel Ridge.