no more than 7 Men killed in the whole, *Commodore B y also behaved scandalously, not firing one Gun I cannot conceive (if true) why this Barbarity was Committed, une scandalously surrendered the Fort,

Men repented their Shameful Surrender, or there must have been a Quarrel between the

French and Indians.

The accounts received from Albany since our last, concerning Oswego, are more favourable, than those that have been inserted heretofore ; for we are Assured from good Authority, that some white

People are returned to Albany, who were despatched to Oswego, in order to reconnoitre the Woods, and, if possible, to get a View of the Place, who report that they lay two Nights there, where every thing that could be of service to the French was carried away, and the Forts and Houses entirely

demolished, that no signs of Murder or Massacre was to be seen, and that they found only three Graves, which were very handsomely made up, and one in particular, which they imagined was Col. Mercer's. 'Tis also said, That a Negro Fellow, who made his Escape, after the Garrison of Oswego was taken, is lying sick at Onida Castle, and

says, that immediately after Col. Mercer was killed, the Place was given up to the French, by Order of Lieutenant Colonel Littlehill ; that the Number of the Besiegers

were but little superior to those of the Besieged

;

and that the Enemy had no other Cannon, than

those they got at Fort Ontario.