and the world in general, that we have fent our enemies to the lower regions, by the mortal wounds of our skilful fwords. They were furrounded at the camp of Singar, and prevented from being fupplied with any kinds of provifions or water, which obliged them at laft to kill and eat their cows, whom they used to worship as the Almighty God, as alfo to fearch their dung for the grain they had eaten on. unhappily fituated, they refolved to die rather than fubject themselves longer to the miseries of famine, and

Thus

ftones, &c. all which are laid at his majefty's feet.

Ye fhall fend copies hereof to all our cities, and publish this joyful news to the whole world. Praife be to God, the ungrateful enemy is cut off from the pleasures of life, as the stars fall from heaven.

Capitulation for the citadel of Belleifle, made June 7, 1761.

Preliminary Article.

HE chevalier de St. Croix,

lakhar, (or January 1761) their whole camp was ordered to be in readiness to make their laft effort, which our officers and army, of zealous hearts, received with intrepidity, and returned as quick as lightning, and terrible as thunder. In a moment of time they dispatched them to Johannum, (hell;) this feparated the head of Viffvafraw, (the commanding officer) from his body,

and caft it on the earth: Bhavoo or Sadobo was firft wounded and then trampled to death by his own elephant; Mallarfie Holcar was cut down; Chingofie and Damafie are taken prifoners, and their inferior officers and feapoys were flain in numbers, impoffible herein to exprefs.

Twenty-two thousand of the enemy, male as well as female, have been made Moors, and distributed the handsomeft of the women as concubines to our officers, and the others as flaves to our army; but the riches they have taken cannot be afcertained, the following is only part fifty thoufand horfes, four hundred thousand head of cattle, one crow and three quarters of rupes, eleven thousand camels, five hundred elephants, befides pearls, precious

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and commandant of the citidel of Belleifle, proposes that the place shall furrender on the 12th of June, in cafe no fuccours arrive before that time; and that, in the mean while, no works fhould be carried on, on either fide, nor any act of hoftility,

nor any

communication between the English befieging, and the French befieged.

Refused.

The covered waggons are refused; but care fhall be taken to tranfport all the baggage to the continent by the shortest way.

IlI. Veffe's shall be furnished for carrying the French troops by the fhortest way into the nearest ports of France, by the firft fair wind. Granted.

IV. The French troops that are to embark, are to be victualled in the fame proportion with the troops of his Britannick majefty; and the fame proportion of tonnage is to be allowed to the officers and foldiers which the English troops have. Granted.

V. When the troops fhall be embarked, a vefiel is to be furnished for the chevalier de St. Croix, brigadier in the king's army, to M. de la Ville, the king's lieutenant, to M. de la Garique, colonel of foot, with brevet of commandant in the abfence of the chevalier de St. Croix, and to the field officers, including thofe of the artillery, and engineers; as alfo for the three pieces of cannon, as well as for the foldiers of the Cour Royale, to be tranfported to Nantz, with their wives, fervants, and the baggage which they have in the citadel, which is not to be vifited. They are to be victualled in the fame proportion with the Englifh officers of the fame rank.

Care fhall be taken that all thofe who are mentioned in this article fhall be tranfported, without lofs of time, to Nantz, with their baggage and effects, as well as the three pieces of cannon, granted by the firft article.

VI. After the expiration of the term mentioned in the firit article, a gate of the citadel fhall be delivered up to the troops of his Britannick majefty; at which there fhall

be kept a French guard of equal number, until the king's troops fhall march out to embark. Thofe guards. fhall be ordered to permit no Englifh foldier to enter, nor no French foldiers to go out.

A gate fhall be delivered to the troops of his Britannick majefty, the moment the capitulation is figned; and an equal number of French troops fhall occupy the fame gate.

VII. A veffel fhall be furnished to the commiflaries of war, and to the treafarer, in which they may carry their baggage, with their fecretaries, clerks, and fervants, without being molested or vifited. They fhall be conducted, as well as the other troops, to the nearest port of France. Granted.

VIII. Meff. de Taille, captain general of the Garde Cofte, lamp major, two lieutenants of canoneers of the Garde Cofte, and ninety bombardiers, cannoneers, ferjeants, and fufileers, Gardes Coftes of Belleisle, paid by the king, fhall have it in their choice to remain in the island as well as all the other inhabitants, without being molested, either as to their perfons or goods. And if they have a mind to fell their goods, furniture, boats, nets, and, in general, any effects which belongs to them, within fix months, and ta pafs over to the continent, they fhall not be hindered; but, on the contrary, they fhall have proper affistance, and the neceffary paffports.

They fhall remain in the island under the protection of the king of Great Britain, as the other inhabitants, or shall be transported to the continent, if they please, with the garrison.

IX. M. Sarignon, clerk of the treasury of the French troops, the armourer, the Bourgeois cannoneers,

the

the ftore keepers, and all the workmen belonging to the engineers, may remain at Belleifle with their families, or go to the continent with the fame privileges as abovementioned. Granted to remain in the island, upon the fame footing with the other inhabitants, or to be tranfported with the garrifon to the continent, as they fhall think proper.

X. The Roman Catholick religion fhall be exercised in the ifland with the fame freedom as under a French government. The churches fhall be preferved, and the rectors and other priests continued; and, in cafe of death, they fhall be replaced by the bishop of Vannes. They fhall be maintained in their functions, privileges, immunities, and

revenues.

All the inhabitants, without diftinction, fhall enjoy the free exercife of their religion. The other part of this article muft neceffarily depend on the pleasure of his Britannick majesty.

XI. The officers and foldiers, who are in the hofpitals of the town and citadel, fhall be treated in the fame manner as the garrifon; and after their recovery, they fhall be furnished with veffels to carry them to France. In the mean while they fhall be fupplied with fubfiftence and remedies till their departure, according to the ftate which the comptroller and furgeons fhall give

in. Granted.

XII. After the term mentioned in the preliminary article is expired, orders fhall be given that the commiffaries of artillery, engineers, and provisions, fhall make an inventory of what shall be found in the king's magazines, out of which, bread, wine, and meat fhall be furnished to

fubfift the French troops to the moment of their departure.

They fhall be furnished with ne ceffary fubfiftence till their departare, on the fame footing with the troops of his Britannick majesty.

XIII. Major Gen. Craufurd, as well as all the English officers and foldiers, who have been made prifoners fince the 8th of April, 1761, inclufive, fhall be fet at liberty after the figning of the capitulation: and fhall be ditengaged from their parole. The French officers of different ranks, volunteers, ferjeants, and földiers, who have been made prifoners fince the 8th of April, shall alfo be fet at liberty.

The English officers and foldiers, prifoners of war in the citadel, are to be free the moment the capitulation is figned. The French officers and foldiers, who are prifoners of war, fhall be exchanged according to the cartel of Sluys.

All the above articles fhall be executed faithfully on both fides, and fuch as may be doubtful fhall be fairly interpreted. Granted.

After the fignature, hoftages fhall be fent on both fides, for the fecurity of the articles of capitulation. Granted.

All the archives, registers, public papers, and writings, which have any relation to the government of the ifland, fhall be faithfully given up to his Britannick majetty's commiffary: two days fhall be allowed for the evacuation of the citadel i and the tranfports neceffary for the embarkation, fhall be ready to receive the garrifon and their ef fects. A French officer fhall be ordered to deliver up the warlike ftores and provifions; and, in geevery thing which belongs [U] 4

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to his moft Chriftian majefty, to an English commiffary appointed for that purpose. And an officer fhall be ordered to fhew us all the mines and fouterains of the place.

S. HODGSON. A. KEPPEL.
Le Chevalier de St CROIX.

from the hunting parties meeting in the woods.

VI. To prevent as much as may be any disturbances that may arise between the Cherokees and the white people on the Back-Settlements, no Cherokee Indian fhall come down into this province, within the limits of Twenty-fix mile river, on any pretence whatsoever, without fome

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Cherokee Indians.

ARTICLE I.

LL English prifoners, negroes, horfes and cattle, in their poffeffion, fhall be delivered up immediately to colonel Grant.

II. Fort Loudoun and the cannon belonging thereto, now lying at Chote, fhall be delivered up to any perfons fent to take charge of them; and any forts fhall be built hereafter in the Cherokee nation, when the fame is thought neceffary by the English.

III. The Cherokees fhall not admit any Frenchmen into their nation, and if any fhould come, the Cherokees fhall affift us, at leaft shall not pretend to interpofe their protection, to prevent us, when we think proper to apprehend the Frenchmen.

IV. Any Indian, who murders any of his majesty's fubjects, fhall be immediately put to death by the Cherokees, as foon as the murder and murderer are known in the Cherokee nation, and that the head or fcalp of the murderer be brought to the commander of the next Englifh fort.

V. The Cherokees fhall not hunt to the eastward of Twenty-fix mile river, nor the English to the weft ward of it, to prevent any quarrels or mifchief that may be occafioned

by the order or permiffion of this government; and that all white men, whether French or English, who have been amongst the Cherokees, and have aided and affifted them during the late war, shall be delivered up.

VII. The Cherokees fhall not moleft the creatures belonging to, nor trefpafs on the grounds neceffary for planting pafturage for the ufe of the garrison of forts built, or to be built, in their nation.

VIII. The Catawbas and Chickefaws to be comprehended in this peace.

IX. That all the Cherokee prifoners we have taken fhall be reftored.

X. Our friendship shall be granted to them; a firm peace fhall be made and finally ratified in Charlestown; trade fhall be renewed, and plenty of goods fent up to be exchanged for their skins, to fupply their wants.

XI. And as equal justice is the fureft foundation of a lafting peace, it fhall be agreed, that when an Englishman murders a Cherokee, the Cherokees fhall not put him to death, but he fhall be delivered to the officer of the fort, fent prifoner to Charles-town, and there tried according to our laws, and if found guilty to be executed in presence of

fome

fome Cherokees, if they defire to be prefent; and when the Cherokees think they are injured by the English in their nation, the Cherokees are not to take revenge themfelves, but shall make complaint to the commander of the next English fort, to be from thence tranfmitted to the English governor, who will right them therein, according to our laws; and when the Cherokees injure any English among them, on the complaint thereof, the Cherokees fhall right the injured; thus the guilty will only be punished on both fides; thus friendship, peace, and trade will be preferved; but when they cease to obferve this treaty, friendship, peace, and trade will also cease.

XII. That Attakullakulla communicate these ftipulations to the nation on his return, and acquaint them, that in order to have thefe articles of peace finally ratified and confirmed, so that our old friendthip may be renewed, and laft as long as the fun fhines and rivers run; fome of the headmen from the upper, the valley, the middle and lower fettlements fhall come down to Charles-town, and confirm thefe ftipulations, and then fettle fuch matters, as concern the trade to be

carried on with their nation.

of every thing that paffed in the army; and particularly, of the difpofitions made of the troops in their quarters of cantonment; and, as the country thereabout was well known to him, he formed a project of furprifing his Pruffian majefty, in the night of the ift of December, which was to have been executed in this manner: a small body of refolute cavalry were to penetrate, in the night, into the suburbs of Strehlen, where his Pruffian majefty lodged, to which they were immediately to fet fire; and during the confufion that this muft neceffarily occafion, to endeavour to feize and carry off the king of Pruffia, which Wargotfch thought was very practicable, as the quarters were, at that time, but flightly guarded.

The whole affair is reported to have been accidentally discovered by one of Wargotfch's own fervants, who had often been employed to carry letters to a Popish priest, in a neighbouring village. Thefe letters were directed to an Auftrian lieut. col. and the priest had the care of tranfmitting them. The fervant obferving, when his master gave him the laft letter, he was uncommonly anxious about the fafe delivery of it, and appeared to be in great agitation of mind, began to fufpect that he was employed in a dangerous fervice; however, he took the letter, and promised to deliver it as ufual; but inftead of that, carried it directly to Strehlen, where he put it into the hands of M. de Crucemark, the adjutant-general, who immediately fent out two small parties of dragoons, to feize Wargotfch and the priest, who were both made prifoners, but efcaped afterwards. The trial of Wargotfch, who has been cited to appear, is actually

carrying