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-• BeJlofty Odober 3.
%&$&&&&$& SHIP arrived in King-road last evening,
•<> be a man of war, but we
sW&JkK&jjK cannot learn who me is.
TOI A |>3§e - Letters from London, fay, that tie
BririlK ministry are very intent on a
plan for tie division and gQvernmeqt of
the new acquifitionsin America; they
have ordered an experienced engineer,
with iome other officers, to proceed immediately in his
CMaiefty’s Ihip'Glafgow, to Pensacola, to lay oat a town
and proper fortifications there, it being determined to ren
der that port as strong as art can make it* to which end
*&> fome peculiar advantages will be granted to new set-.
*lers, ire. . .
* New~Tsri f 03. to. By the Saccefs, captain Paine, in
seven weeks from. Tencrifl*,’ we hear that a misunderstand
ing has for fome time been'growing between the court of
Grcat-Britain and the Emperor of Morocco, who had re
* fnfed or flighted the presents sent him from England, where
alfb his ambassador was treated with coolness; the English
consul, Joseph Popham, Esq; was recalled and actually ar
rived at Gibraltar; andl>va veflcl juftarrived from Cales,
advice was brought that the Emperor Sade Mohamed had
declared war agamft England, and nine gillies from Sallee,
‘ Tetnan and Tangier were already out cruising againfl as.
. A letter from Fort Detroit , Sept. 9, 1763. #
Since my last we have had several skirmishes with small
parties of the enemy, in taking possession of three hoafes
about 560 yards up the river, which prevents the Indians
coming so near the fort to difeover our motions. The 4th
inst. about eight o’clock in the evening, 3 or 400 Indians
in canoes, went off to attack our schooner that was coming
up the river from Niagara withprovifions. They met her
becalmed about 9 miles from the fort, with only 1 2 hands
on boird, who defended themselves so bravely, that the
Indians, after attacking with grdat resolution on all sides,
were obliged'to retire with the loss of many killed and
wounded, 7of which are since dead of their wounds. The
Indians attempted to enter the schooner by the cabbin
windows, but were obliged to fell aflern, and several were
killed by endeavouring to board by the bowiprit. . The
number of the Indians killed'on the fpflt is uncertain, fome
* fay ten ; but they have been busy for several days past fifli
ing and searching for dead bodies. Mr. Horsey, master of
the schooner, and one man were killed, three wounded,
and another burnt by the burning of a cannon cartridge.
* The Indians werefo roughly handled that they hive
declared, they never will attempt to attack the English by
water any more; and they having heard the captain of the
fthooner fay to his men in l the a&ion, Stand by my brervc fcL
lows, to the last , and then blow up the veftil; which was *anf
wered by the crew with threq cheers, the Indians imagined
they would neither give npr take quarter, left the schooner
m the greatest confufion, and two canoes were overfet by
5 okur 0 k ur J™** B y ‘l* blood on the spears and lancets on board
the schooner, and the spirits of the Indians being much
flagged since, they must certainly have met with a confider
aoic loss; but as we are surrounded witfi a parcel of rafeals
who never bring us any news to the disadvantage of the
enemy, it is impossible to know what mifehief we Have done
them. *
rJ V m r mediate,y J the a s lon * whicl * w n><> and
smart, fonr armed battoes, with a four pounder in each,
and two officers, and * + men, were ordered on board the
brought her fafe here the 6th inftaat.
with r, e „ f n onfe f- ‘ h 7 ! , . ad ,en kil,cd at the attack
with Capt. Dalyell. Five Indian* belonging- to the fix
nations came upm the schooner, and went on shore in the
the vessel was attacked in the evening j it
is therefore not unpoffible but .that they either intended to
betray the veflel, or else were compelled by the Ottowawas
ftren ' h °“ b ° ardthe fchooner > <>“ which
they atucked her, as it was afterwards tgld us.”
.S* Monday last arrived the Sardine Hoop of
was, Capt. Hawker, in tune weeks and three days from
FalmoutS, reported to be stationed here for three years.
i• - „, orael < ! oo P., of war, Captain Montgomery, was
lying at Plymouth, likewise bound to this place 7
rr? a , \l 7 ’ Fr ° m , s!*“'*“. by the packet, we learn.
That the nationjU dUtomem fcemed rather to mc K fc that!
and it, was thought the ministry would ?focn be
changed; that the armaments preparing by the Dutch, and
particulars of their condutf, with the circumstances
of affairs between us and them, give us great reason to ex,
pedl a rupture with them in a lhort time, for which
parations seem to*be making ; and if this should hnpL n ’
th# it will probablf bring on a general war again. —That
it has been found neoeflary to keep up a considerable mifi.
tarv force, which had lately been augmented, and is likely
to be more so; that therefore the taxes were continued very
high, and ©aid unwillingly.—That the ministry are greatly
embairaffed by the Indian war, which engages the publick
attention at present more than any other object. That the
demolition of the fort and harbour of Dunkirk, which it
was said had been done so effectually, thqt it cpuld not \-
madeferviceable in many rears, is Teally executed in so
flight a manner that it may be reinstated in weeks or
a moriii.—That on the 16th of August, at half an hour af
ter ten in the morning, her Mujefty Queen Charlotte was
fefely delivered of a Prince at her palace in* St. James’s
Saturday the Coventry frigate, Archibald Kennedy, Esq;
commander, arrived here from England. .
Philadelphia , 03. 20. A letter from Virginia, dated the
12th instant, fays, “ The Captains Moffat and Philips,
polled bn Jackson’s river, in Augusta county, were sur
prised, with sixty men, by a number of Indians, and to
tally routed, on the 30th of last month ; though, notwith
standing this stroke, the savages in general have met with
great loss on the frontiers of Virginia.’ Captain Field,
with about 100 volunteers, from my department, joins
Majqr Campbell in escorting tile convoy to Fort Pitt.”
From Northampton county of the loth we learn, that
2 3 Hop!* have bfn killed, and many dangerously wound
ed by the Indians; and that the inhabitants are in the atmoft
confufion, flying from their places, fome of them w ith hard
ly fufficient to cover them ; and that it was to be feared
there was many houses, &c. burnt, and lives loft, that was
not then known. And by a gentleman from the fame quar
ter we are informed, that it was reported when he came a
way, that Yost’s Mill, about it miles from Bethlehem, was
destroyed,. and all the people that belonged to it, except
one man, cut off. ‘ ‘ r
- By. Capt. Avery from New-Providence we have advice,
that Capt. Shaw, in a brigt. from Jamaica for Cape Fear,
and the Jhip Alexander, Capt. Johnson, from Jamaica for
London, were both loft on the coast of Florida. The people
were arrived at Providence; the cargoes are intirely loft.
Yesterday a gentleman arrived here express from Nor*
thampton county with kdvice, that on Satu/day about noon,
the New-England settlement at Wyoming was attacked by
a body of Indians, (supposed to be the Wyolufings) when
we hear 32 people were killed or carried off by the enemy.
This account was brought to Fort'Penn in Northampton
. county by seven of the peopl? bcjpnging to the settlement,
who made their escape.
Ext rad of a letter from Bedford , 03. 8.
“This day the remains of a brave man, Lieut. Richards
of the provincials, was buried; he was killed and fealped
about five miles off the garrifbn. The Indians arc icen every
day. t .
“ This moment a boy was taken?in view of the garrison.
and his fitter (hot, but not deadly.”
• ? an cx P rc^s arrived from Fort Pitt, where he
left all well the 30th of September.
_ #
O SAVAN N Ah, November 10.
UR accounts from Augusta are, That on \Vednefday
the 2d the three Guacrnors from Charleftown, with
their attendants, arrived there; on Saturday the congress
was.opened at Fort Augusta, when the Indians, in number
between 7 and 800, received a talk, to which they were to
return an anfiver on the Monday follow ing. It is thought .
that the whole bufmefs will be finilhcd, and that the four
Governors.will set out on return in the Geotgia and
South Carolina feout-boats the end. of this week, or be
ginning of next. A bad understanding still subsists between
the Creeks and Cherokees. *
We hear that the boundaries of this province are extended
to St. John’s River.
Friday last put into Tybee for a pilot, the brigt. Olive
JuAnch, Capt, Hugh Black* from the Grenades, bound for