PAPERS RELATING TO OSWEGO.
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ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.
Our artillery thundered on their camp and at the moment we were thinking only of our destruc-tion we were about to witness the glorious termination of our labours I had seven men of mypicquet killed or wounded within an hour and a half and I had still the whole day before me whenwe heard the Rappel and saw the White Flag hoisted on the turret of their embattled house. Criesof Vive le Roi informed the French of the fact. The loss of their commander; that of the officer ofartillery; the tears of their wives; the terror of those who saw their husbands exposed to the samedanger; induced them to surrender. We made 1640 prisoners, 120 of whom were Women, fiveStandards,' 120 fire eaters (cannon) and six large Barks. Their Stores were provided with everything to maintain our army during the next Campaign. The loss of the king of England is esti-mated at 20,000,000. The least superstitious attribute our success to Providence. They could, intruth Sir, hold out much longer. We have lost, notwithstanding, 80 men, and our little army hadbeen swamped if that valour so justly attributed to the troops of^Old England had extended to theirColonies. Our’s is now more flourishing than ever; trade entirely re-established; lake Ontario our’swithout any opposition. We can hardly recover from our astonishment. The bulwark (le boulevard )of New England .was originally but the house of an individual whom the Iroquois had permitted tobuild; of this the King took possession some years afterwards for purposes of Trade. He increasedit with all the works which we demolished. Their loss, Sir, is incredible. The Canadians and In-dians have had a very considerable slice of the cake; the latter perpetrated there a multitude ofhorrors and assassinated more than 100 persons included in the capitulation, without our being ableto prevent them or having the right to remonstrate with them. This species of animal I look uponas mad dogs; when they are intoxicated they are uncontrolled.
THE EXAMINATION OF MONS* BELESTRE
A French Ensign taken before the hon blk edmund atkyn esq his majestys agent for, and supekin-
TENDANT OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, IN THE SOUTHERN DEPARTMENT ; IN PRESENCE OF COL. WASHINGTON ANDGEORGE CROGHAN ESR* DEP T TO SIR W* JOHNSON.
• [Lond. Doc. XXXIV.]
He says he is a native of Canada and served Mons r Vaudreuil, that he came last from Fort Du-
quesne with a party of 40 Indians and 12 White men, 3 of whom were officers.‘ That
only 100 of the Garrison at Fort Duquesne are quartered within the Fort the rest lodging in barrackswithout. That the train of Artillery taken from General Braddock was sent down after liis defeatto Niagara, and that it was the same train the French had used at the taking of Oswego. 2
1 The Marquis de Vaudreuil caused to be deposited in the Churches of Montreal, Quebec and Three Rivers, with the usualceremonies, the four Standards of Shirley’s and Pepperel’s regular troops and that of Schuyler’s Regiment of Militia.-;Another Account.
2 The same day the French invested the place with about 5000 men and 32 pieces of Cannon, from 12 to 18 pounders besidesseveral large brass mortars and hoyets (among which artillery was part of Genl. Braddock’s .)—lournalof the Siege of Usicego;G*n Ueman’e Mag. xxvii. 76.
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