WEDNESDAY 7. A proclamation was iffued by his majefty for the encouragement of privateers, and for regulating prizes, &c. by which it is declared, That the flag-officers, commanders, and other officers, feamen, marines, and foldiers, on board his majesty's fhips, fhall have the fole intereft in, and property of every fhip and cargo which they fhall take from and after the 17th of May 1756, during the continuance of this war with France; befides which, they, and privateers also, are to be paid five pounds for every man alive on board any ship taken, funk, burnt, or otherwife deftroyed, at the beginning of the engagement between them. The reft of the proclamation lays down the method of proving their right to the faid A large quantity of gold lately arrived at Falmouth from Lisbon, was brought to the Bank under a ftrong guard, which confirms the account that Lifbon did not fuffer fo much by the late earthquake as was at first imagined. In the afternoon fix waggons brought treasure to the Bank from Portimouth, for the Jamaica merchants. SUNDAY 11. A great perfonage at Kenfington declared that he had received an account, that there were 10,000 French troops embarking, with a defign to invade this kingdom. Arrived in the river from Shetland, the Picton-Caftle jagger, with pickled herrings. By the advice the brings, the beginning of the fishery has been very fuccefsful, but an accident retarded the arrival of the company's jagger at Hamburgh, and gave the Dutch an opportunity of getting to market firft. MONDAY 12. The first battalion of each of the three regiments of foot guards have orders to march to Byfleet, near Cobham in Surry, to encamp. Orders arrived at Portfmouth for victualling the Severn, Capt. Gambier, juft arrived from Jamaica. "Tis reported, that the and fome other fhips in the Downs, are defigned to intercept a convoy of Dutch fhips with military ftores for Breft, which are determined not to be fearched. A train of artillery, confifting of 55 pieces of ordnance, feveral mortars, and a great number of covered waggons, were drawn from the Tower for the ufe of the camp at Byfleet. All the officers in the guards received ceived orders to hold themfelves in readiness to march at a moment's warning. It has been faid, that the motions of the French on the oppofite coaft is a feint to withdraw our attention from the great Martinico fleet daily expected from the West-Indies; but it may be remembered, that their preparations against Minorca were treated a feint allo to cover fome other defign. TUESDAY 13. A large Dutch thip, laden with mafts and yards for Breft, was brought into Portfmouth by the Happy loop, Capt. Burnet. [The Dutch complain of this as a hardship, and the magiftrates of Rotterdam, by way of retaliation, have Jaid a taxequal to four guineas a week, upon all English fhips that load there, and even in a manner prohibit our fhips from taking in goods there at all, except they ask it as a favour.} Capt. How in the Dunkirk, with 3 frigates, took a fmall island in the neighbourhood of Guernsey, and made the garrison of the fort that defended it prisoners. [About 100 men.] SATURDAY 17. The feffions ended at the Old Bailey, when Wm. Hart, for deer ftealing, and John Girle, for the murder of Thomas Roberts, received fentence of death. Roberts and Girle were birdcatchers, and the deceafed having fold a linnet too cheap, Girle ran a stick into his eye, which, after fome months anguifh caufed his death At this feffions Dr. Wilkinson was tried for celebrating clandeftine marriages at the Savoy chapel, and found guilty. THURSDAY 22. Was obferved a general faft throughout Scotland, for deprecating the divine vengeance, and for imploring a blefling upon his majefty and all his people. FRIDAY 23. Bruffels. All the letters from France confirm the account of the fire at Rochfort, by which an immense quan tity of naval ftores have been destroyed. SATURDAY 24. Admiralty Office. By letters from Admiral Byng, dated June 23 at Gibraltar, he gives an account of his arrival there on the 19th, that he found Capt. Broderick with five fhip of the fine, which arrived on the 15th, and had landed the regiments he had carried out with him. The admiral fays he would lofe no time to put to fea again, but adds, watering was tedious, and the hips which had received damage in the late action would take fome days in repairing. Admiralty Office. Capt. Spry of the Fougeaux, commander of a fquadron off Louisbourg, gives an account, that on the 29th of May he took a French dogger, with provifions and flores for that garrifon: That on June 12, the Litchfield and Norwich, 50 gun fhips, took the Arc-en-ceil, a French man of war of 50 guns, having 518 men, and alfo a quantity of provifions and ftores for the garrifon: That on the 18th the Centurion and Succefs took the Amitie of 300 tons, having on board 70 foldiers, 200 barrels of powder, two very large brafs mortars, a number of new carriages for 24 and 12 pounders, and other warlike ftores for Louifbourg; alfo a large fchooner, with provifions for St. John's Inland. TUESDAY 27. Admiralty Office, July 27. His majefty's fhip the Antelope, which failed from England the 16th of June laft, with Sir Edward Hawke, Lord Tyrawley, and Rear Admiral Saunders, arrived at Gibraltar on the 3d of this month, and Sir Edward Hawke took upon him the command of his majefly's fquadron there; and on the 9th, the Antelope failed from thence for England, having Admiral Byng, Lieut. Gen. Fowke, and other officers on board, and arrived yefterday at Spithead, where Admiral Byng was put under arreft: Sir Edward intended to fail with the fquadron from Gibraltar the day after the Antelope left that place. place. It is remarkable, that the Antelope performed this voyage to and from Gibraltar in nearly the fame time, namely, in 18 days going and 17 coming back; that Commodore Broderick run thither in 16 days with his squadron; and that Admiral Byng was 28 days in running it.] SATURDAY 31. Portsmouth, July 29. Yesterday the Hon. Edw. Byng, Efq; arrived here much out of order, and went on board the Antelope in the afternoon, to pass the evening with his brother Adm. Byng; and being of a tender conftitution from long illness, and overcome by the fatigue of his journey, in which he had made great expedition, he was this morning feized with convulfions, and died about noon. AMERICAN News. New-York. June 17. On the 7th inftant arrived here after a long paffage of eight weeks, Col. Webb; as did alfo, on the 16th major-gen. Abercrombie, with all the transports, except one with two companies of the highfand regiment on board, which having been feperated from the others about ten days before, is not yet arrived. Letter from Philadelphia, May 31. Urfuant to agreement fome months ago, the four governments of New-England, in conjunction with New-York, (which laft furnished 1,300) have now affembled 8,000 men, for the attack of Crown-Point at Albany, 150 miles north of New-York, and about 130 from Crown-Point, under General Winflow; and as men continually join them there will foon be 9,000. As people were not fo eager to engage in this undertaking this year as laft, an imprefs of part of the militia was ordered in New-York and Maffachufet's government, to prevent which fubfcriptions were fer on foot to engage volunteers by high bounties; fome got 9 to 121. fterl. to enlift. Whether this army moves immediately, or waits the long-delayed arrival of VOL. XII. Lord Loudon, or fome other general From England we cannot learn. We are well aflured by fishermen, that a French fleet with foldiers on board, croffed the banks of Newfoundland twenty days ago, bound for Canada; hence, as thefe troops may get to Crown-Point, and reinforce the forts before our army will go up there, you may judge the bad confequences of this delay. The 44th, 48th, goth, and gift regiments of Great Britain, with three independent companies, and the Jersey provincials, are destined for the cam paign on the great lake Ontario, and moftly marched for Ofwego, thence to be carried over in 200 whale-boats, which are now at the lake, and were built laft winter at Schenectady on Mohawks river, and are long, round, and light; for the batteaus being flatbottomed and small, would not answer the navigation of the lake, where the waves were often very high: They are to attack Fort Frontenac and the other French forts on the lake. Upwards of 2000 batteau men are employed to navigate the batteaus, each à tun burthen, loaded with provisions and stores from Albany, up the Mohawks river, then through Oneyda lake and river down to Ofwego. There are 300 failors hired and gone up from NewYork to Ofwego, to navigate the four armed fhips on the lake, built there laft year for the king's fervice, which are about 150 tuns each, and two more are now building, fmiths, car penters; and other artificers having arrived there fome weeks ago. The troops already mentioned for this fervice are about 3600 men befides officers. The two regiments which went from Ireland to Plymouth are not yet arrived here. In this province 1500 men are new raised, and yet we act only on the defenfive, owing to party difputes, and our own inexperience; 400 of them are going to build a good fort at Shamakin, up the Sufquehanna in the Allegenny mountains, a noted pafa, about M 150 150 miles north-west of this city, but it is conducted in fuch a manner that few hope for fuccefs, though, (as the Indians have left off their ravages for fix weeks paft, for what reasons we do not well know *) we believe they would meet with no oppofition. Indeed the want of good arms has been a great differvice to us, but that complaint is now removed by the arrival of 2,000 fine pieces on the government's account. Virginia was as badly off as we, five or fix counties there being depopulated for a time, and the correfpondence with fort Cumberland on Will's Creek cut off; but now all is quiet there again Befids the 60, oool. currency, given by this province laft winter, 40,000l. more is juft voted by tax on lands and eftates, &c. Maryland likewife, has voted 40, pool and Virginia 45,000. This Jatt province is erecting a chain of forts at the back of the country, along the Allegenny mountains, which will join in the fame line with those we have erected. When the act for naturaliz the foreign officers in the American regiments was pafling, a claufe was moved to be inferted, to oblige the members of our affembly to take the oaths for three years, but the men of interest among their brethren in England interpofed, and promifed, that next election here all who profeffed non-refiftance fhould go out of the houfe. Whether they will fulfill their friends promifes I cannot fay. P.S. June 2. We hear to day, that The reason was this: Early in the fpring Gov. Morris declared war against the Delaware · Indians, who had committed fuch cruelties on the back fettlements; But Sir William Johnfon having had a conference with the chiefs of Six Nations, in which every cause of com plaint had been fifted to the bottom, he exhort ed them to endeavour to put a stop to the violent proceedings of their coufins the Delawares and Shawnese, and to bring them to liften to terms of peace. This, joined to a friendly Conference, which fome of the principal quakers had procured with another company of the Six Nations, feems to have had the defired effeet, fince by their mediation all hoftiue proceedings cealed. fix quakers will refign their feats in the affembly to-morrow. Some deputies from the meeting in London are coming over to adjust thefe matters. I find that fome of their preachers, who have done no good by preaching up non-refiftance with infinate pains, are going over to Ireland. All is quiet to the weftward; fome disturbances from the Indians in the north part of Jerfey, up the Delaware. An embergo is laid on provifions in this and the other corn provinces, to prevent the French being fupplied. Letter from a Gentleman in Monferrat, June 6. 66 7E fcarcely get the fight of an European once in three months, I never knew fhips drop in to feldom in the height of the last war, when privateers were as thick as bees in a hive. At prefent the danger is not much here, tho' our fleet, if it may be fo called, for it confifts of only one 50, one 20 gun fhip, and a snow, dare not offer to flir out, yet the French have been very complaifant hitherto; they have only taken a schooner belonging to Rhode Island, from Africa, and two fmall New England veffels Laft Saturday fe'ennight they failed with a fleet of merchantmen, a 74 gun fhip, a 40 ditto, and the Warwick, whether they are returned,, or where they are bound, no body knows.-Now I have mentioned the Warwick, I am forry to tell you, that when a proper enquiry is made, I am afraid the giving her away will not redound much to the credit of the officers, if our own people are to be believed. The captain has been tried before, and fought bravely, but he was certainly furprized and unready to engage any thing of equal force, not knowing there was any fuch, nor expecting in the least to meet with any. of March, their cruize being out that Early in the morning of the 11th day, the Warwick was ftanding to the fouthward for Barbadoes, they fell clofe elofe in with a French frigate of 40 guns, and there were two men of war at two leagues distance, a 74 gun fhip, and another frigate: the Warwick made all the fail the could to get away, but in vain, all the French fhips going much better than fhe. The 40 gun fhip first attacked her, tho' not till the other two were pretty near, when all three furrounded her, and the immediately ftruck. I have three of the Warwick's men now with me, who broke out of goal and came down in a small canoe. They all tell the fame ftory, and think that they might very eafily have difabled the firft hip before the others came up, had they taken in their proper fails for fighting, and then might have had a chance to have got clear of the other two; but Capt. S- would not attack first and the Frenchman took care not to begin till the others were at hand to fecure him; and what makes this opinion more probable is, that the 70 gun fhip actually received a fhot by the fings of the main-fail yard, that when they made fail it broke in two. "All was hurry and confufion on board the Warwick. On the 70 gun fhip fheering along fide, the helm was put to weather to wear, but they could not get their yards braced about, and brought their fhip by the lee, with all fails fet; by which means the had like to have filled with water. They had likewise a great long boat on deck, which fell to leeward among the guns and greatly confused them." As we are engaged in war with the French, the following account of goods imported by them, from their W. India islands, &c. into France, during the last year, may be agreeable to the publick, and afford useful hints to our commanders of men of war and Privateers. From Martinico, the islands La Granda, Guardeloup, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent, 26,400 Hhds of white or firft clayed fugar 11, 200 ditto, fecond; 8,900 ditto, tates or thirds; 16,270 ditto, brown.-N. B. Each Hhd weighs about 800 lb neat.] 3,600,000 lb. coffee; 573,000 lb. cotton; 82,000 lb. ginger. From Hifpaniola, (called St. Domingo by the French.) 106,200 Hhds, of which 1-5th are white fugars [Each hogfhead contains about 1000 lb fugar.] 22,000 lb, coffee; 184.000 lb. cotton ; 900,000 lb. indigo; 230,000 lb. ginger; 184,000 lb. pimento. 1 From the ifland Maritens, alias Bourbon. 680,000 lb. coffee. From Senegall. 1 2,700,000 lb. gun; 12,000 tortoife-fhell; 120,000 elephants teeth. The above account, when compared with their former imports from thefe places, difcovers, that their commerce has encreafed in a prodigious degree, and greatly exceeds any other power in Europe; and yet two thirds of the above commodities are the produce of lands ftolen by them, from their nominal friends and allies.Hifpaniola they robbed the Spaniards of. The neutral iflands every body. knows their falfe title to.-Nor have they a better right to Senegal, or any other part of Africa. |