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W's- .r V, Tfc ‘V?.**- ■* * ” • - ’ * ‘ , | 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 ofeur natioakl\ %; j f A hi E R I C A . 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- ..- *v .- T f ■ -4■'j, 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