The New Hampshire Gazette

Portsmouth, March 22. To satisfy your Enquiry, as to the Ceremony used in the Execution of the late Admiral Byng, I am to acquaint you, that the Place where Offenders generally die by shooting is on the Foreca stile; but he was so far indulged as to suffer on the Quarter Deck.

Twelve o'Clock being the Time fixed for his Death, Capt. Montague looking at his Watch, acquainted him the Time was come. The Admiral returned for Answer, it was some Minutes, and he would take to the last. Soon came up with a becoming Steadiness, though with a visible Trembling, as the Struggles of Nature tried from an observing Eye.
Three standing: five Shot went thro' his Body into the Ship's Side, and so far that they could not be bored out with a Gimblet, and one lay in his Body.--The Reason assigned for no Blood issuing is, that his Body was wrapped round with Cotton in such a curious Manner, as that not one Drop appeared.-He fell on his Left Side, and made but one Shudder in the Agonies of Death, upon which a Cloak was thrown over him till the Coffin was ready to receive him, into which he was put.-with all the Cloaths he had on except his Coat. -The Chaplain of the Monarque attended him from Thursday Morning to the last, and it is said had a Present of six Guineas.--The Shot Holes in the Monarque's Sides have since been plugg'd up.-- The Inscription on the Coffin is : The Hon. John Byng, died March 14, 1757, aged 52. March 24. Admiral Byng has bequeathed to his Nephew, the Right Honourable Viscount Torrington, the fine Picture of the King of Sardinia, enriched with Diamonds, which was presented him by that Monarch, for his Services in the Mediterranean during the last War.