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rl, The hand of authority being lifted up In order to fall
ppjtical writers <£ whereby
v.t suppose, the Monitor of Saiuldayl%mofe captious/He
tly talks absret libAty, which, he j£y* t is he
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t * JJtfkfj, 7u* 16* ♦ \ * V A 4,
repdl \ df a nilhop being (entto America
S gains credit! and the twq colleges of New*
Wk and Philadelphia have recSPTcd gre* en-
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J**%*X* . fp*r*£w 23-. Oa Turf Jay evening
a*\j?xprai arrived from with aifpatqfces to Uen,
Am her A fr m the crmniandihg cfHccr at for: d’Ecroit, and,,’
v e hear, brings’ account of the base, aaJtreacherou&t&juirp*
oifr of the A ttciahs in theft* part , having; on yth
Vue number cf po,’ come to tnefnt, tj.pqy, as riieyutyfc
a formal xjffjfii hut the commanding officer Wkily got in-’
leiiigence of their, defigtas the night before, and, being on
Ids guard, the Indians,-** were armed with knives and
lomaha a-great mimy with guns cut foort hid un
i:r their blankets, feeing thefr aefigns were difq/vejcd,
v/erit>ff after receiving a few prpfenfyj they however ! fet
who committed feveraf barbarities.on fomeot
our people that were at t di ft once frbmtlie fortjandhad
afterwards the affwanccco come with a pipe of peace, deffr
ing admittance into the fort, undoubtedly with an intention
to have cur of the ghrrifon; but.the commanding officer re*
fufins to admit gtw bqt their chiefs, the fame day they in
veft:J the fort, and commenced boiVilities; they could ipake
noimpreflion-upon thegarrifon, who, being well fuptilicd
with provisions and ammunition, bravely defended them*,
selves hgainft all their efforts.—We hear reinforcements
were sent, which we hope will get there in time.tofave,
that poll, mid pour vengeance on the Heads of those barba*
rians, who n,vethus*perfidioufly attacked tbeirbene factors.
We bear -that the Kingof Spain has made Montp Chrjfto
4i free port for alt nations, they paying 5 per cent, duty o*.
all goods exported from thence, < • .
Philadelphia, June JO. *
* Extra# of a letter from Pittjbwrgh , June 16,* 1763.
** We are informed by a prisoner. who Had been among,
the Shawanefe Indians,-that in making hts cfcape frotr,
them, he overtook Mr. Calhoon and nine of his men,
who traded at Tuficepawas; al fa two men of Alison and
M‘Crae’§, who were driving herfes leaded with (kina
from the Lower Shawanefe town, who’ told Wh that, foe
Dela ware Indians had informed Mr. Calhoon that St. DuOcjt
was lurprifcd and taken by the Indians, the garrifen and
all the traders murdered, -except Lieut. Pauley the.com
rtander, whom they made prisoner: Thatd’Etroit had been
besieged ten days before this happened: That Mr.’ Craw
ford, a trader at Mimais river, was taken prisoner, with
one of hi# men: That the Indians had killed fix other men
who were in company with him, coming down the river
with flrins r Thai the Delaware Indians desired Mr. Ca'hoon
to leave “that place immediatelyjeft he ffiobtd be killed by
thc.lndians who began the war-; then seized his goods, and
disarmed him, and the rest of men, and fen t( wo Indians
to Cohduft them to this place, wlio brought them by unfre
b ueu to Beaver-creek, about 30 miles from the
fort, where they led them into an ambufc&de of Six Nation
Indians, who attacked them, and He believed killed the
wbokparty of white men, as he favv nonc escape but him
felf { however at different times, within three days after,
Mr. Calhoon and two of his men arrived here, who, with
great difficulty, made clcape; the reffi eight in num-
M- fc,f(mrtP*MW Wilkin,. 4,
SSL am . v f d m*. who from
informing us, that a large quantity of provi
fonsfiom to a’.Etroit, efported by about 100 men,
was a'racked within 18 miles of d’Etroit, in the night, by
a pjtrty OJlndiqhs, who destroyed jrhe pfcVifions-. and killed
4icnr D'Etroit is tEc pnly _gamfbn beyond this
-*hy ,Mihs reflLof our gamfoas to
the;weftwtrd, t think, before this'-time, are alfmaffacred:
4mce the 29th ult. every verfqn, hore, fitJto carrv arms/has
undergone the fevered.|niliraty duty; and, by the care of
the ccDiaiandcr, and the rqit oJ[ the officers, the fort Is jnow
*v a good fdfturc cf defence. 4 Net a man goes without
gunfeot of the f0.% who is not fired at B> the Indiant;
What n^ber^r^Mjo/themabout as we af
V the c&maiSr \riuVt ftttfcr the mm t^n£,
if * Ve# ‘except m dLoqr)f thi
f >rt . feftdfeaf killed, w>o v,cnttf^U tt
farther from a party* which was out for forage than lie v ha
orders; and the Indio** had tlie impudence toj
fire pretty briikiy lor fome time upon our centrics in the
! r # c gpfhcral are all in gbod feiriu, and I
think they need not be under any apprehenffons that the,
Indians will,l* able to.,taltf thp place. M
Extrad cf a fitter from Winebcfler in Virginia % June 22.
*> Last night I reached this plajce. I Save been at Vort-
Cumberland several days, but the Indians having killed
>ynrch,; I iuppofe, near 50a families have Vnn away withiW
ths .weeks-...
‘■CbMvv*. July iV Vromyuy-frovMelitiE ‘weWni.
of a vcflel arrived there from BarbadotS fa\ s,
at before he doled, tiyo;frigat!ea were gone out
after five pirate veftcls nations that 1 were cVuiiing
windward.
a 9 . *w,Ucatioit ty oar Gowor to
Ucn. Amherlt, oroers are inued for vnftualdng at the.qx-
the erowo the Indian 1 at the tobp fidden
at Augusta. ; * • f > , ff * ,
The Catawba Indians have loft fire people by enemy In
dians, two women were* killed fome time since, and three
were carried off abbot a fortnight ago ;,a woffian who e
feaped said it was done by Cherokees, and (he knew*one of
thpn to be a feflbw named the fted-Hbrfc, which ‘feems to
be cOnfir/ned bv ithe who pursued tjie trafl, and
k^ w nation.
, * J u y ifi* vapt. J iner,.havnig been ordered by the Go
vernor to makq a fiirVey of the river Juan's in Florida,
is returned from thence. We hear he found the mouth of
said river to be in lat. 30 fae. 12 nya. ts. anti the,courie of
it running about 16 miles* Weft,fallowing for windings 21)
§ inclinfpg to E* about 40, fallowing .for windings
4-V Aboqt ea miles np the river lies the jmaniffi fort Pi
colata.’ The indians fay there is a passage from said river
into the bay of Apalachee. * ‘ y
On Monday arrived Capt. Amory from St. Kitts, who
fays, the troops from France to garrison Guadalupe,
MarUhigue, Sec, were arrived, but no orders for j*eftoring
thoft; places had yet been received from England.
We have advice from New-York that Gen. Monckton is
gone for England.
: Pxtm#of a letter from Philadelphia, dated stb inf.
“ Our Indian affairs at present have a moft melancholy
afpefl indeed; every day brings a confirmation of the for
mer's bad news* with an addition of lodes. Last night we
had accounts of Prefou’We, Venango, and another post
being cut off; that d'Etroit was closely besieged, and looci
Indians were going again!! Plttftrtirg, for the of whivh
I will not answer, if attacked by so great a body/ We fu
fpe<ft Frenchmen, painted, dreffed L and every way disguised
like Indians, to be amongst them, and to have fomented
w) dreadful defedioo. As.t^bu^.traders, they are all ei
;fier murdered or rained, men here
will fuffer very largely ; fomb will npt lose less than from 2
to 10,000 L currency. God grant the,defection may not bc^
feneral, and extend to the Southern provinces ; For if it
loidd you will be in a woeful situation.—Three of four
companies of Highlandcis have already palled through this
city tp Arcngthen the frontiers, Gen. Amherlf, it is
f*i*l. orders every nun 1 wboxn he 4hinks fit for duty *to
march to*Albany, See.'* “ ‘ “ , 1
• The William and Mary, Bird, from .Georgetown, is ar
rived at Port fmmuh. ’ * ’ *’
Arrived from this port, Black Prince, Dods; and Peggy,
Wardle, at Cowes; Portland, Higgins; and Tjhames, ]3u
nfcott, at Portsmouth. “ .
. SAVANNAH, August 4. . ,
IN of duplicates of his Majesty’s orders for
delivering up tHo Havana to the Spaniards, brought
by four Spaniffi men of war, and four tran(ports with troops
ojn board, which arrived there the joth lalt, that place was
gfven up by theEnglifh on the 6th inlL from which day to
the toth, when tlie BritiOi (hip*; 1* ft t ic coast, the Spaniards