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The Pennsylvania Gazette from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • Page 3

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too French Prlfoner and It is thought about 40 of the French were killed and wounded in the Engagement. From the lalt London Gazette, it mould i'eem, that Marina! Daun has let Prince Henry of Pruflia recover his Com manicatibn with the King's Army, whilft himfelf endeavours to get at Hand to fupport the Ruffians, or to be fup portedby them. Tie Lieuten fat Covirmr jhall le permitted to fend an Account of the Surrender of the Place to the Marquis Vau dreuille. as alfo by Letter to? acquaint "French Miniflry therewith. Granted.

The prefent Capitulation ft all beobf r'ved agreeable to its Form and Tenure, without being fuhjecl to Non Execution, bept ember 21. Tbn ivrtte from Parisi that the Defeat of precedent CaUulations. Granted. their Mediterranean Squadron makes avery JlrongTmpreJJion. ffle King has gi ven the Command of his Army in Germany to Marjbal d'EireeSf with no other lnfiruBions than to retrieve, as foon as may he, the Honour of the Gallic Arms.

Mnjaicy aepiemoer 17. 1 nis uay arrivea 011 tms rort, concluded, and Duplicates en between us, this iZtb Day of September, Signed, Ch. Saunders, Geo. TOWNSHEND, KAMSEY. On the different Batteries round Quebec were found no lefs than 180 Pieces of Cannon, from 1 6 ta.

ana came imp rnis waroour, tne tree.roiiawine: amps trom Deiides Mortars trom to 1 1nches and hptivn India; the Hchefter, Captain Ward; the London, Capt. River St. Charles and Mohtmorencie vvere.found co Iron Alwright 5 and the Eemont, Captain Mears all, from Guns, befides Mortars. Bencoolen, Bengal, andMadrafs, Thefe ar three of the We can, with great Surety, inform the Public, that there is four Ships that were reported to be taken by. the French not one Word of Truth in the Report jpread and brought from Fleet, off the Cape of Good Hope; and St.

Helena, witi of the Canadians attempting to up the Grand four other Ships not yet arrived, who parted from them in Magazine' at Quebec. the contrary, wry Thing was great Diftrefs of Weather. well there.tbe ah of Prober, our Troops ingood Spirits, and Dublin, September tz. By the Eaft India Ships arrived at healthy and nothing attempted by the Enemy, to recover the JCinfale, we learn, that the Englifh Forces In that Part of Place finu its Capitulation. the World have retaken Fort St.

David Vizacapatan, anci PHI LA EL HI Novembsr iu Vifac; that Admiral Pocock hath taken two French Men On Saturday laft the Honourable TAME HAMTTt pf War, viz; one of 74, and the other of 50 Guns and Efqj our Governor, arrived here fram New York. that our Forces in general have been extremely fuccefsful gainfl the French in. every Part of India. 4 BOS November 12. On.

Saturday laft arrived here, the Fanny's Revenge, Capt. Blake, who left Quebec the, 1 8th of October, in Company with Admiral Saunders, who hadlioiited his Flag on lxard the Somerfet, with General Townftiend, as alfo all the oth er cn of War, that were there, except one 70 Gun Ship, and four Cats, who we're to 'remain there till the of October, and two Frigates aiid a Sloop, in one of which General "Monckton; who had almoit recovered of his inttndedfor New York, the other two were to remain there during the Winter That five Ships of the Line, under Commodore Lord Col vi 11 were rationed at Halifax, the others were to proceed for England TJiat General Murray commanded at Quebec, and that Vhe regular. Troops, which wroui3 amount to a bout'5500 Men, were to garrifon that Place during the Winter. That the Inhabitants of the Vilbges were daily bringing in their Arms, jrrendering themfelves, and taking the Oaths of Neutrality That great Numbers were Sdlo coming in from Monf. Boccan vine's Encampment at Jacques Quartiers, about1 four Leagues above the City, which firftconfifted of 6000 Canadians, and Regulars, but were now greatly reduced by their breaking off In fuch large Bodies, and it was thought that all that broken Army muft very foon be difperfed, or fubmit for want of Ne That Provifions, efpecially Bread, was very icarce among the Canadians and'the Inhabitants, being He was met on the Road, and accompanied to Town, by d.grcai wumosr 01 tne principal mnarntants ot theJJJace, when his Commimoh was read at the Court houfe, in the Prefence' of a yaft croncom fe of People; And Yefterday his Honour fet out for New Caille.

By Honourable Ay A I Efq; Lieutenant Governor and 'Commander' in Chief of the Province of Pennsylvania, and Counties of New Caftle, Kent and Suffex i oh Delaware, i ir A MAT A M'U C.H as the Honourable Thomas Pen'n, and Richard Penn. Efcluires. true nnd ahfnlntp Proprietaries and Governors in Chief of the Province of Pennfylvania, arid Counties of New Cafle, Kent arid Suffex, on Delaware, have been pleafed, by their Commiiiiop, under their Hands, and Great Seal, bearing Date the Nineteenth Day of July laft, to conftitute and appoint, me to be their Lieutenant Governor of faid Province and Counties, with all neceilary Powers and Authority for the well governing of the fame which faid Appointment the King's moil Excellent in a Council, hel'dat St. Jamass the Tenth Day of Augujl lail palt, was gracioufty pleafed to allow and approve of. THE REf ORE, in f'urftiance of the faid Truft in me repofed, having a fpe ci'al Regard to the Safety of the State and Government of the faid Province and Counties, and to prevent Failures in the Adminiftration; of Juftice therein, I by and with the Advice and L'onfent of the Council cf the fo poor, had little elfe than what they call their.

Paper faid Province and Counties, thought fit to ordain, arid do Money, to purchafe Neceflanes of the Ens lifti. That Go vernor Vaudreuille had gont after Monf. Levy to Montreal, but with what Force is uncertain That the French Frigates and Tranfports which were at a confiderable Diftance above the City, were not yet removed, nor were they like to be foon, theEnemy having taken an Opportunity when the Frefhes were high, to haul them over die Shoals, where is net poffible for our VelTels to get at them. The Bri tifh Ships before they left Quebec, took out all the Provi iions, Powder, Sec. which they could fpare, for the Garrifon And that the Number of French Soldiers and Ma rine's hipped off from thence, amounted to about? 900.

an, hereby ordain, and declare, that all Orders and Commif fions whatfoeyerV relating to the Government of the faid Province arid CountiesT'lieretofore lavvfully and rightfully iffued, which were in Force on the Seventeenth Day of this inftant November, mall be, continue, and remain in full Force, Power, and Virtue; according to their rtfpec tive Tenors, my further Pleafure mall be known therein and that all Perfons whatfoever, who, on the faid Seventeenth Day of this inftant November, held or enjoyed any Office of Truft or Profit in this Government, by Virtue of any fuch Comrnifilon as aforefaid, Ihall continue to hold and enioy.the fame, until thev be determined bv me IVe hear that two of the Men of War, the Royal William, as aforefaid, or by other fufficient Authority. A I Captain, bound home, with the 7 Admirals Durell and do further hereby command and reauire all Ma i ft rates 1 'Holmes, who left Quebec feme time before Capt. Blake did, Officers and Commiffioners in whom any ran aground near Chaudiere, hutit is faid got off again, public Truft is repofed in this Government, that they dili without receiving any Damage, and proceeded on their Voyage, gently proceed in the Performance and Difcharge of their November 19. refpeclive Duties therein, for the Safety, Peace and Well We hear that a Company of the Royal Regiment of Ar being of the fame. tmery wnicn arrivea ere lait weeK rron uoany, are bound immediately to South Carolina, on board the Scarborough and Hunter.

i Saturday Night arrived here from Quebec1, His MajeftyY Ship Fowey, of 24 Guns. On board of her came Pafien Brigadier General Monckton, Major Spittal, and 'fevera other Gentlemen of the Army And Yefterday jyiorning the General was faluted by a Difcharge of zi Pieces of Cannon from Fort George and by all His Ma jefty's Ships in the Harbour. The Fowey had but 16 Days Paliage from the Ifle of Orleans. 1 Capitulation of JJ EC, 18, 1759. ARTICLES of Capitulation, trctofed by Mr.

Ramfesi Lieutenant Governor, commanding the Upper and Lower Toivns of Quebec, to his Excelltncy the General of His Britannic Maieflfs'Armv. The Capitulation was agree able to the under men j'l. ''J 7 utnea onaiuons, viz. A I 1 ffk. Ram fey afkt for the Honours of War for the Garri XVA.

fen That it jball be conducted to the Army in Safety tbe Jhortifi Road, with Arms, Baggage, fix Piecer of Brafs Cannon, two Mortar sv and twelve Rounds to each 1 The Garrifon of the City, comprehending Land Troops, with Arms, Drums, Sec. two Pieces of French Iron Cannon, and twelve Rounds per Gun, they (hall be ernbarked for France as conveniently as poffible, and landed at'the firft Port there the Inhabitants be in 'MlPolTeFion of their Efocls. fiovfes and Privileges. Granted. III.

The Inhabit anls Jhall not be fiitgbt after for having parried Arms in Defence of as they were forced to it, (end the Inhabitants of tke two Crowns ferve equally as Militia. Agreed. Z. a I V. The Effects of the abfent Officers and Inhabitants Jhall not be feized.

Granted. The Inhabitants Jhall not be removed, nor quit their Houfes, until a Definitive Treaty between the two Crowns Jhall determine it. Agreed VI. The Exercifeof the Roman Religiort Jh all he tolerated that Safeguards beputced at all Eccleftafiical Houfes and Congests, including the Bijbcfs', and that hi be allowed to come end off ctate his FunQion at Quebec, when he Jhall think 1 ft 1. The Geztral will be fe gcid ta place Safe guards at the Churches, Converts, before he ts put in Poffejfiotiof the Port, and Entrance cf the Town.

Granted. IV EN under' my Hand, and Great Seal of the I 1 1 r. jam rrovincermiaaziuuia, tbe nineteenth Day of November, in the Thirty third Year of the Rtign of our Sovereign Lord the Seccndy King of Great Britain, France and Irel nd, fender of the Faiih, and in the Year of our Lord One Tboufand Seven Hundred and Fifty nine. A AMI N. By His Honours Command, 1 Richard Peters, Secretary.

Save ihe KING. On Monday laft the General As semely of this Pro. yince met here, and adjourned the next Day to the Third of December. The following is faid to be a Copy of what the late General WOLFE delivered to his Army the Day before the Battle, dated on board the Sutherland, Sept. iz, 1759.

The Enemy's Forces are now divided great Scarcity of Provifions in their Campj univerfal Difcontent anions the Canadians and the fecond Officer in Command is gon to Montreal, or St. John's, which gives Reafon to think that General Amherit is advancing into thef Colony. A vigorous brow ftriick by the Arrny at this Juncture may determine the Fate of Canada. Our Troops below are in Readinefs to join us 5 all the Light Infantry, Artillery, and are embarked at Point.Levy, and'the Troops will land, where the French Teem leaft to expedl them. The firft" Body that gets on Shore, are to march directly to the Enemy, and drive them from any little Poft they may The Oncers muft be careful.

that the lucceeding Bodies do net, by any Miftake, fire upon thofe that go before th'emV The Battalions muft form upinthe upper Ground, and be ready to charge whatever prefents itfelf. When vthe Artillery Troops are landed a Corps Will; be left to fecure the Landing while the reft rnaich on, and endeavour to bring the French and Canadians to a Battle. The Officers and Men will' remembefwli at their Country' experts from them 5 and what a determined Body of Soldiers, inured to War, are, capable of doing aginft five weak French with diorderly Peafantry The Soldiers beL attetiyeandcbedient to their Officers, and refoluternriexecutiori 6f their cicfiijc jr fey lActcmy ct twAjjtc' mj vj mjj ufmia mcuu, jrufn oumu turuiina, lucre SJii'Vice, tear Jleligion, Until tbe Fate of Canada' be decided by Treaty, be one of His 'Majeffs Ships of 'War'wds arrived in which. tween the two' Crowns. Granted.

was his Excellency Governor T4 in his Way to" bis' yiL The Artillery and warlike Stores Jbalt be given up Government at New Provi'dencc rV. faithfully, and that an Inventory be taken of them. Agreed. Captain Dreffott9 front adSifes, that a French VIII. Commijfaries, Clergymen, Surgeons and other neT Qun Ship, hvbich efcaped from.

Admifal Bofc'aweh, had piit. eeffary Perfons hall be allowed. to the Hbfbitals, agreeable to in there, much Jhattered fee bad io Men killed, and 00 tke areaiy cj sxctsne made tue btn oj leitruary, be wounded. An hnglijo man of war, oj 50 Cutis, and three Tranlborts. bound to Goree alfo touched tier? for Wines' In a Letter from New York, by Ye'lterday Poft, we hjye a Confirmation 7 of Major Rogers having deftroyed tfc Indian Village1 of St.

Francis where, his faid, his Parity killed near 260 and burnt Sixtybr Sevenrv Houses, in which, were Goods to a confiderable That the Indians ther had received Ihteliigence of hi Defign againft them, andt were to have been; joined the Day after he attacked them, 40c Canadians And that: ther was a among them, who was defired to furrendei and promifed good Ufage he refuied). and periftied in the Flames. It is added, that thefe Indians had on the iirft Fail of Snow, to go to the Back Parts of Carolina, en an Invitation from the hero iei Tms intelligence our People got from Gennaii. Girl they found there, who had been carried off from the German Flirts, Custom House, Philadelphia', Inward Schooner Antigua Packet, T. Watkins, from Lifbonl Sloop.

Sahfbury, Benjamin Batchefor, from Salem. Schooner Attwocd, from Bofion. Snow Hill, Matthew Dreflbn, from Teneriffe. 0 Schooner homas Davis from Boftoni Sloop Profperity, Theophiitis from Do. Scbooner jolly Robin, Kidd, from Quebec, i Prince George, Archibald Gardner, from BriftoL Schooner Betty, William Bofton.

Sloop Dolphin, William Wilfon, fromN. Carolina. Ship James and Mary, James Friend, from London Sloop Profperity, William Nicholls, from R. Ifiarid. Schooner Recovery, Thomas Read, from S.

Carolina. Sloop Sea flower, George Buckmafter, from R. Ifland." Ship Bootle, John Dawi'on, from Liverpool. Bng King of Pruffia, J. Brown, from N.

Caftle on Delaware; Schooner Huzza, William Phipps, from Louifbourg. Sloop Ranger, Samuel Ray, from Nahtucket. Outwards. Pennfylvania Packet, W. Gardner, for Jamaica.

Bng Otter, Daniel Howell for Savanna La Mar. Schooner Providence, Anthony Marfhall, for Jamaica. Bng Rebecca, and Margaret, R. Hardie, for Do. Sloop" Elizabeth and W.

for Montferrat; Bng Ann, Robert for Londonderry. Ship Culloden, John for Newry. Ship Prince Willi rn, T.vMorrifon, for Londonderry. Brig Brothers, James Simpfon, for S. Carolina.

Cleared: BrigMeas, Philip Hall, to Ship Hercules, Alexander Adams, to Jamaica. Ship Nancy, John Allifon toDo. Brig Indultry, Nathaniel Green, to Bofton. Snow Dove, John Renton, fo Do. 1 hip Sal and MoJIy, Cooper Polgreen, to Slnp Rebecca, Thomas Callendar, to Jamaica.

Sloop Elizabeth, John Giles, tp Guadaloupe. Sloop Harlequin, John Wilf to N. York. Ship Afhley, Thomas Story, to Jamaica. Sloop Robin Hood, Ebeneier Stoker, to Newbury.

Brig Prince George, Samuel Tuffts, to Bofton. Brig Induftry, jvlprton, to Do. Sloop Exchange, Thomas Hutchings, to St. Chriftophersi For the Benefit of Mr. A M.

By I I O.N, At the. Theatre, on Society Hill, oh Friday being the zyl Infant, will be prefentedl a Comedy called The HUSBAND, Or a Journey to N. Lord Townly, "Mr. Hallam Manly, Mr. Allyn Sir Fran cu Wronghead, Mr.

Scott 5 'Squire Richard, Mr. Morris Count Baffeiy. Mr. Reed 5 John Moody, Mr. Tomlinfen 5 Con able, Mr.

Home, Lady Townly, Mrs. Douglafs Lady Grace, Mrs.Harman Lady Wronghead, Mrs. Love Mifs Jenny Mrs. Harman' Myrtilla, Tomlinfen. To which will be added, a Pantomime Entertainment, called Harlecuin Collector Or The Miller Deceived With a rieW Scene, called Harle qui Statue.

For fage The S.N A.M and ART. JAMES FRIEND, Comma'nder ILL fail with all convenient Speed. For Freight or Paf apply to faid Commander ort board, or at the London Coffee Houfe, or to 7 AM PE MB ERfO N. To bt by AMU EL' CAR PEN At Mr. Emanuel Jofiah's ner the Larson CbfTie hcufe "O'E ft.

A L. likely 1 young tlegroe Men, lately imported 1 Tiom St. Chriftopheri. 1 1 .1 ''mm i.i 1 rm 11 Juft impsited in the James and Cpt. iien, from Loa i dff anathe Pnnce George, Capt.

Girtiatt fionxBiiftol, and to be fold by i RicHARb and Peter Footman, Atth eir Store in ftttct, the fecond Below Arch ftrett 7 AUdrtirent of European 5, fuhablc for the fTSO he fold by public Vendue, cn tbe as Diy of Decembir rticff Ji. at tbe gn of jbe Buck, near tbe Premtfety futfdty Lou of. Land, containing frctft ft 0.15 Acrtlt including a Prefrtion of, 'dra ntd Meaaow or, Cripple. Marjh to each of tbe fad J.ott. Tb.

llracl of zvbicb it dvtriJid inii tbe above Lett, Jituated on tbe Road Iead ng f'tm Philadelphia to Pojfyunk Bank (commonly cal led and. knoton by tbe.Name of Rsujel Read) and eppf( to tbe Lands of DocloT. frlwti and others, in Pajffunk T.vnjbipl being a 'art of Rambo Trad, well knoivti, and tfitemed Jomt of tbe btfi. Land in the Neck. flbe greater Part of the ebrve Lois.

tte entire Woodland, and well i.mberedt fa ving tbeimproved Meadow tr. Cripple Mtrjb ante ted to each The. other Part of tie Lots ark mojily cleared and improved with Tenements, a.Welli, Bart and ita bie Fecey 'lie whole it plcojanily and. conveniently fituattd aid tbe Lad txtraordnay adapted for ratjing Garden Truck, attend tig tbe Market' tb(tewitb and ltilkfelhng lying within two Miles and an Half of the City. Plans of tbe aiowLti may be viewed at Mr.

IVlicbcii Hitlegati, in Se(oni Jlreett at tbe Sign of tbe Buck, 'on Roufe's Road abovemexttcntd, at Peter Hackner's, aC the itgn'of tbeCuj of Manleitn on Jfyunk Road, at Peter Click" nerty the Sign of tbe Creaked Bilet, cn PaJfyunk Bank, and at Hteryt near the Lower Ferry, wbc. tviii attend any erf ok (9 view the Pit7tifet and wiU alfo treat with any Per on (before tbe Time of SaleJ fir any Part of the abyve Trail of Laud 100 Acres of ft tg tyodiandi well fmbered, and tbe cleared Part thereof is a very plea fant compa8 and well phtteduFarm, cttraintng about 40 Acres (m cinarng 7 ie es of improved arfb VLcddoiof with a good two btor Brick Houjtya Cedar underneath and a Well at tie Door; with Out bouf a gtid Barnj and flablitg, fame Fruit Trees, and an excel Spot tit the Front cf tbe good Fences, The Purebaftr, on paying Part of the Puribofe mjney, may have any reafonable Ttme fir Payment of tbe Remainder, and paying IoteieM for tbe f. mt. The Title is inix put able.

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