The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

September 11. Last Saturday afternoon Mr. J. Sanfum arrived here express from General Greene's Head-Quarters, near Charlestown, which he left on the 6th ult. He brings us a confirmation of the agreeable and important news of the certainty of a speedy evacuation of that place, near 600 persons having come out of the town on terms prescribed for them by government; other particulars are contained in the following extracts of letters from that quarter, dated the 12th of August.

"We expect to take possession of Charlestown by the first of October next, perhaps sooner, as the British are making every preparation to evacuate it: the vessels were all careening, part of the cannon removed, and the powder, &c. &c. Perhaps sooner than the first of October, I say, as they momently expect the transports from New-York for that purpose.

"The loyalists have had their meetings at the state house in consequence of the occasion, and proposed that they, with the refugees (a parcel of the most abandoned wretches, and may be justly styled the refuse of the earth) and the Ethiopians would man the lines and defend the town, but this they have miscarried in; as Gen. Leslie told them, he could not answer to leave behind him any of the cannon, ammunition, arms or stores belonging to the King: he has also ordered a return of all kinds of ammunition and other warlike stores in the possession of persons who have them for sale; which indicates he is resolved that nothing of the kind shall be left for their diabolical purpose: I am credibly informed, he says, that if the King's troops cannot defend the place, how could a rabble expect to do it against the forces of the United States. Bellingal, Champney and others were great orators at their meetings: some of them threatened, if they could not keep the town, to plunder the poor inhabitants of what little they have left, and then destroy the metropolis; but in this also they are disappointed—as the General declares that a proper guard will be left on the embarkation of the troops, with orders to put them to death who should commit any depredation or plunder.

"Such as have taken protection from the British, have experienced more than all the plagues of Egypt."