The New Hampshire Gazette

BOSTON, Oct. 17

Late & Pleasing News.

Last Night arrived here, the Ship Packet, Capt. Trott, in 22 days from Liverpool-by the attention of the Captain and passengers, we have received Papers to September 13, (very late.) From them it will be seen that the poor Devils of Frenchmen who have landed in Ireland, have met the fate they merited ; and that the Irish insurrection is, as it ought to be in the present situation of the world, suppressed. Of Buonaparte, we have taken a paragraph from the Courier of Sept. 11.

Official Accounts.

Copy of a letter from Lieutenant-General Lake to Capt. Taylor, private secretary to his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, dated Camp, near Ballinamuck, September 8, 1798.

"SIR,

"I HAVE the honor to acquaint you, for the information of his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant that finding upon my arrival at Ballaghy, that the French army had passed that place from Castlebar, I immediately followed them to watch their motions. Lieutenant-Colonel Crawford, who commanded my advanced corps, composed of detachments of Hompesch's and the first Fencible Cavalry, by great vigilance and activity, hung so close upon their rear, that they could not escape from me, although they drove the country, and carried with them all the horses.

"After four days and nights most severe marching, my column consisting of Carabineers, detachments of the 23d. Light Dragoons, the 1st Fencible Light Dragoons, and the Roxburgh Fencible Dragoons, under the command of Col. Sir Thomas Chapman, Lieutenant-Colonel Maxwell, Earl of Roden, and Capt. Kerr, the 3d. Battalion of Light Infantry, the Armagh, and part of the Kerry Militia, the Reay, Northampton, and Prince of Wales's Fencible Regiments of Infantry, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Innes, of the 64th Regiment, Lord Viscount Gosford, Earl of Granard, Major Ross, Lieutenant-Colonel Bulkeley, and Lieutenant-Colonel Macartney, arrived at Cloone, about 7 o'clock this morning. where having received directions to follow the enemy on the same line. whilst his Excellency moved by the lower road, to intercept them, I advanced, having previously detached the Monaghan light company, mounted behind dragoons, to harass their rear.

Lieutenant-Colonel Crawford, on coming up with the French Rear Guard, summoned them to surrender ; but as they did not attend to his summons, he attacked them, upon which upwards of 200 French Infantry threw down their arms, under the idea that the rest of the corps would do the same thing : Capt. Pakenham, Lt. Gen. of Ordnance, and Maj. General Cradock, rode up to them. The enemy, however, instantly commenced a fire of cannon and musquetry, which wounded Gen. Cradock; upon which I ordered up the Third Battalion of Light Infantry, under Lt. Col. Innes, and commenced the attack upon the enemy's position. The action lasted upwards of half an hour, when the remainder of the column making its appearance, the French surrendered at discretion. The rebels, who fled all directions, suffered severely.

GENERAL ORDERS.

Head-Quarters, near St. Johnston, Sept. 9.

Lord Cornwallis cannot too much applaud the zeal and spirit which has been manifested by the army, from the commencement of the operations against the invading enemy, until the surrender of the French forces.

The perseverance with which the soldiers supported the extraordinary marches which were necessary to stop the progress. of the very active enemy, does them the greatest credit ; and Lord Cornwallis heartily congratulates them on the happy issue of their meritorious exertions.

The Corps of Yeomanry, in the whole country through which the army has passed, have rendered the greatest services, and are peculiarly entitled to the acknowledgments of the Lord Lieutenant, from their not having tarnished that courage and loyalty which they displayed in the cause of their King and country, by any acts of wanton cruelty towards their deluded fellow-subjects

Ordnance, Arms, and Ammunition taken.

3 Light French 4-pounders

5 Ditto ammunition waggons, nearly full of made up ammunition.

1 Ditto tumbril ; 700 stand of arms, with belts and pouches; with a great number of pikes.

Officer wounded Lt. Stevens of the Carbineers.
Return of the French army taken prisoners at the battle of Ballinamuck, Sept. 8, 1798.

General and other Officers, 96

Non-Commissioned Officers and Soldiers, 748

Horses, about 200

N. B. Ninety-six rebels taken, three of them called General Officers by the names of Roach, Blake and Teeling:

The enemy, in their retreat before the troops under my command, were compelled to abandon 9 pieces of cannon, which they had taken in the former actions with his Majesty's forces.

G. LAKE, Lt. Gen.

Names of the principal Officers of the French force taken at the battle of Ballinamuck, Sept. 8, 1798.

Humbert. General en Chief--Sarazin, General de Division--Fontaine, General de Brigade, Laberure, Chef de Brigade, attache a l'Etat Major, Duour; ditto ditto ditto, Autty, Chef de Battalion, Demarche, ditto, Touissant, ditto, Babin, ditto, Subermon, ditto, Menon, Commissaire Ordonnateur, Brillier, Commissaire de Guerre, Thibault, Payeur, Puton, Aid de Camp, Framair, ditto, Moreau, Capitaine Wagremestre General, Ardouin, Chef de Brigade, Serve, Chef de Batalion, Hais, ditto, Mouchard, ditto, Brand, Masonnet, Officers de Sante.

RECAPITULATION

Sous Officers 96

Grenadiers 78

Fusiliers 40

Carbiniers 33

Chasseurs 60

Cannoniers 41

Total 748

Officers 96

844

Certifie par le Chef de Brigade,

P. ARDOUIN.