The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Further particulars of the savage cruelties of the British troops in their depredatory excursion (under the infamous Arnold) to New London, &c. on Thursday the 6th instant; which ought to be recorded to their eternal infamy.

Extract of a letter from New-London, dated Sept. 13.

Our dear valuable friend Col. Ledyard is no more. He was most wantonly murdered after he had surrendered himself a prisoner.--Arnold was heard to enquire for particular houses, for the express purpose of burning them, and from their actions it fully appears, that they deliberately determined to plunder and burn private dwelling houses: to distress the poor, the widow and the fatherless--They left Fort Trumbull, the cannon, and all warlike appurtenances in good order. The fort at Groton is also left in good order, the barracks and magazines safe with 45 barrels of powder having only knocked off some trunnions: They have only distressed the poor innocent inhabitants: The more than savage barbarity of these troops at Groton in murdering the garrison after surrender, the tying the wounded into a waggon, and rolling it down the steep hill of Groton, over ledges of rocks, with a design it should run them into the sea, cannot be expressed

Poor Capt. Shapley was one wounded in the fort, and of the number of those that was thrown into this waggon; he told me the officers damn'd the soldiers, and bid them set the waggon a going, and the shake it gave them at its bringing up against a tree, half way down the hill, was more distressing than the wounds received.

Old Mr. Beebe, was shot at his own door begging for mercy; he has not carried a gun for 20 years."

Another letter says,--Soon after the British had subdued Fort Griswold, on Groton-Hill (Connecticut) they loaded a waggon with our wounded men, by order of their officers, and set the waggon off from the top of the hill, which is long and very steep; the waggon went a considerable distance with great force, till it was suddenly stopped by a tree: the shock was so great to those faint and bleeding men, that part of them died instantly: The officers ordered their men to fire on the waggon while it was running."

We have pretty good authority to assure our readers, that General Arnold in his late excursion to New-London and Groton, lost, out of 1800 refugees, tories, &c. at least one fifth part of the whole army he brought with him, in killed and wounded.