On the 25th June, as our two Corsairs were cruising between the Islands of Couis and the Galops, one of them being near the Bay of Niagara, got intelligence of a schooner returning to Chouaguen. He gave chase and found liimself in doubling a point quite close on Chouaguen. The Schooner had time to enter the River, were it not for which she would not have escaped this Corsair. f This, My lord, is what the movements and exploits of our little Navy of Lake Ontario is at present
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reduced to.
am w ith most profound respect, My Lord, r
Your very humble and very ob* Servant, Vaudreuil.
ACTION BETWEEN THE FRENCH AND ENGLISH. [N. Y. Mercury, July 19.]
Albany, 13 July, 1756.
On the 3d, about 3 o'clock in the Af-
On Monday Colonel Bradstreet arrived here from Oswego.
ternoon, nine Miles on this side that place, having about 300 Battoemen with him, in their Battoes,
he was attacked from the North side of the River by about 700 of the Enemy, of winch 200 were Regulars, the Rest Canadians and Indians.
Col. Bradstreet,
who at that time was near the Front of
his Party, proceeded with six Men to a small Island near the
Enemy, and ordered a few more to
follow him there, to keep back the Enemy from fording the River, till the rest of his Men could land
on the South side of it.
He had no sooner landed with the Six Men, but he was attacked by Twenty