The New Hampshire Gazette

From the LONDON GAZETTE Extraordinary.

Published by Authority.

Whitehall, Monday September 18, 1758.

On Saturday Night last, an Express arrived
with the following Letters from the Right Honourable
Lord Howe, and Lieutenant General Bligh,
to the Right Honourable Mr. Secretary Pitt, dated
on board the Essex, off St. Cas Bay, on the Coast of
Brittany, in France.

Essex off of St. Cas Bay, Sept. 12, 1758.

SIR,

I inform you of the arrival of the fleet from
St. Lunaire to this Bay.

The Re-embarkation having commenced, at the Lieutenant
General's Request, upon his Arrival with the
Troops on this shore Yesterday in the Morning, the former
Corps were taken off without any considerable Inter-
ruption from the Enemy; but, in their Attack upon our
Rear Guard, the Captains Rowley, Maplesden, Pason,
and Elphinstone, (commanding under Capt. Duff the
different Divisions of the Flat Boats) waiting to em-
bark with the Grenadiers, were made Prisoners. My
own Observation of the very resolute Behaviour of
those Captains, and of Capt. Duff, being confirmed by
the Report of the Land Officers concerned in that service,
I cannot omit this Notice of it. The other Particulars
of our Loss, respecting the Officers and Men belonging to
the ships of War, is added in the List annexed.

Judging the Anchorage of this Part of the Coast to
be not wise proper for the Fleet to remain in at this sea-
son of the Year, till the further supplies provided could
be taken on board, if sent for, and the Troops put again
into a proper state of service; I am therefore preparing,
with the Lieutenant General's Consent to return for that
Purpose to any such Port as I may be first able most
conveniently to gain in England.

I am, &c.

HOWE.

P. S. His Royal Highness, who was pleased to be
present at the Embarkation, continues in perfect Health.

List of the sea Officers and Men killed, wounded, &c.
at the Re-embarkation of the Troops from the Bay of
St. Cas, on the 11th Day of September, 1758.

Essex, 1 seaman kill'd and 1 wounded.

Rochester, Mr. Somerville, second Lieutenant, 1
Midshipman and 7 seamen kill'd, & 11 wounded.

Portland, Capt. Maplesden, taken, Mr. Lindlay,
Midshipman, wounded.

Montague, Capt. Rowley, lightly wounded,
and taken, and 2 seamen wounded.

Talon, Capt. Pason, taken, & 1 Seaman wounded.

Salamander, Capt. Elphinstone, taken.

Speedwell, 2 seamen wounded.

Total, 8 Seamen killed, and 17 wounded.

SIR.

The Essex, Sept. 13, 1758.

Mentioned in my last Letter to you, that it was
necessary, on Account of the safety of the Fleet,
to go to St. Cas, being obliged to quit the Bay of
St. Lunaire where we disembarked for fear of being
drove on shore against the Rocks, the Wind blowing
hard upon the shore. Accordingly we marched the
9th to St. Gildas, the 10th to Matignon, to meet
our Fleet, which lay out beyond St. Cas Bay; to get
Provisions. That Evening I received Intelligence,
of two

Squadrons of Horse, at Lambale, on their March
towards us, which came from Brest. Having con-
sulted the General Officers upon this Occasion, they
thought it the best Way to retire to St. Cas; upon
which I sent off immediately an Officer to acquaint
the Commodore with it, that he might give Orders
for his Fleet to put into what Bay he thought best to
re-embark at; and marched the 11th, at Four o'Clock
in the Morning, to St. Cas Bay, where the Fleet put
in, and had their Flat Bottom Boats ashore ready to
receive us.

The Troops marched into the Boats as
fast as they arrived. In about an Hour after we be-
gan to embark, we saw the Enemy begin to appear
on the Heights above, and soon after they began to
fire on us with their Cannon, but did not attempt
marching down, till almost all the Troops were re-
embarked except the Grenadiers, which made the
rear Guard of the whole, who marched up to oppose
their Advancing, and behaved with great Bravery
and Resolution, till, over powered by Numbers, they
were at last obliged to give Way, and retire to the
Water Side, till the Boats could come in to take them,
where they suffered much by the Enemy's Fire.

We have lost some Officers and Men, which must
always be the Consequence when there is an Enemy
to oppose our Landing or our Re-embarking.

We
have lost between six and seven hundred Men killed,
drowned, and taken Prisoners. The List of the
Officers, I send you enclosed. I am afraid General
Dury is killed, as he is not down in the List sent me
by the Duke D'Aiguillon. Lord Frederick Caven-
dish is among the Prisoners, and well. The Officers
missing or kill'd are about Ten, whose Commissions
I shall fill up, in Consequence of your Letter. I
shall do Justice to every Regiment in the Filling up
the Commission, and shall not prefer my Nephew,
Lieutenant St. George, to hurt any Regiment.

Lieutenant Colonel Wilkinson, of Lord Robert
Manners's Regiment, is killed. I shall only men-
tion the Majors Names, according to their Seniority,
who are all very deserving Men; Major Preston
of General Cornwallis's Regiment; Major Dausha
of Lord Charles Hay's Regiment, who was Major
to the Grenadiers on this Command, and behaved
well; Major Remington of Lord Robert Manners's
Regiment. The present state of the Troops makes
it necessary to return to England.

I am, &c.

THOMAS BLIGH.

P. S. I received just now a Letter from the Duke
D'Aiguillon, that there are about three or four
Hundred Prisoners.

List of Officers taken Prisoners.

Guards. Lord Frederick Cavendish. Lieut. Col.
Pierrepont. Capts. Dickens, Hyde, W. Lieut. Col.
Lambert. Ensign Sir Alex. Gilmour. Capt. Pownall;
Lord Geo. Bentinck's. Capt. Heathcote. Lieut.
Shearing.

Cornwallis's. Lieut. Thompson.

Loudoun's. Lieut. Price.

Effingham's. Capt. Bromhead. Lieuts. Whyly,
Denbigh.

Manners's.
Capt. Napier.

Wolfe's. Capt. Myers.

Wolfe's. Lieut. Rose.

Lamton's. Capt. Revel. Lieut. Grant.

Richmond's. Lieuts Price, Lambourn, doubtful.

Grenadier Guards. Capts. Bridgeman, Matthews,
Caswell. W.

List of Officers killed.

Major General Dury.

Guards. Capt. Walker, Ensign Cocks.

Loudoun's. Lieut. Williamson.

Hay's. Capt. Edmonstone.

Effingham's. Lieut. Sandys.

Manners's. Lieutenants Moore, and Wells.

Richmond's. Lieut. Drummond.

Grenadier Guards. Capt. Rolt.

Manners's. Lieutenant Colonel Wilkinson.