The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, November 26, 1756, Page 3

v » 457 We are we!l tfeared !;eie T hepe to be fent to France of " England before long, ‘as-this Piace do€s not very wel agree “with m ‘ Cou tmutmn, h‘awnq beer 0z x\p?Heme Time ; bd’t' thank’ ; am now beiter, | tould be glad to write'you at large, Bur—I hope it God you way ntver kuow what it is 1o be taken Prifoner™ Capt. Lieacraft from Coracoa, informs, That Capt Wat- ks in an »\muu‘a Privateér has taken two_Dutch Sloops lnden wita French Sugar and Indigo, and fent them into "8t Kits— That there were g or 6 French floops at Cora- ‘¢4, not caring to {tir eut of Port, the Engh(h Privateers appearnn g tog thick among the ‘{‘andx—-— I'hat 40 Days 2go G French th'ps left the Cape for France, and went thro’ the Gu'ph to avoid cur Frivateers. — And that near 20 fhips put into Cape Francois, to repair the Damage they {uftain’d an the late‘ftormy Weearher, . BOS T O N; November 22. “From the St. Chriftopher’s Gazzette, of Olober 13th. 1755 > Copy of @ Letter from bco'be Hazell, late Commander of the private Slup ofrl ar Litile Betiey, #2 Richard Mansfield and John Hazel!, of St. Chriftophers. Lorth Royal, in Martinico, Sept. 21. 1756. . Dear Fiiends, ' (44 rfile (erves to acqha'nt you of our Misfortune in being taken the firt Day of this Month by a Frigate and a 10 Gun Sloop, and bro'tto this Hflacd and laid in Goal ; *The Caprain, and every Maun, without Diftin€lion, is in Irons : The Allowance we have is one Ounce of Beef, with B-ead in Proportion, for 24 Heurs, and no Liberty to buy auy Thing out ofthe Goal; “fo that you maym!udge 5w long wehave to Live ; an’fi uni€ls you geta ot d'ruze very foon and fend for u:, you w: 1' not fee any ot us alive. Our LO!?.ng‘ is the co:d Eaith, and thereis not.a Maz among us who has any Thing more than one thirt and Trowiers, except that fome of us have Hats, There is allo in the fame Goal with us Capt Huit and his Company,and one Capt. Thomas, who wastaken in d 10 Gua {loop be- lunb'nb to Antigua : L'hey have feat fome of our People a:d fome of Lap.. Thomas's to Fort St. Pierre. Capt Hart efives you wil et M —— koow of bis being in Goal, and he wiii aflit you in getting a Fiag of Truce. 1If you (hould fu.ceed, it will be neceflary for you to mention all our Nines, in particalar, which I fhall give you in this Let-er: 1 beg you will make all the Difpatch you can, for they threaten to fend us all to Old France, and we' may as weil be dead at once. 1 defire you will make all the Friends you can for us, and that you wi'i fpeak to Mr. C-— and M. , to m(orm Admiral F- of our cruel Treat- ment, and defire him to fend a Flag of Truce for the Eng- lilhmen here, who are upwards of zoo. I once more beg, for the LORD’s fake, youa will make all pofiihe Difpatch, cr you will never fee us more ; for we are now in the Jaws of Death, and nothing bat Mifery will attend us here. [ beg of you alfo to acquaint the L—t—t G—n—1 of our Ulage ; for furely Prifoners were never treated as we are, If you don’c fucceed in getting a Flag of Trace, we mult refign ourfelves to the Protetion of the Almlghty, for we cannot expeét any Thing but Death in our prefent fituation: -~ We have feen Capt. H——, who will write you a full Ac- count of our Condition. I fhould have wrote to my Own- ers by this Opportunity, but have no Paper. My People are 33, fome of their Names I have wrote down, but I , have not Time to mcnuon them all, \ - George Hazzll, of 6-Car: S Db SNSRI it ‘i Extrafl of a Letter from Port St, Pierre'sin M artin?co,' datea Oftober 1. —* There is no News here worth mentioning, but that ‘the Hurricane hath done great Damage to this liland, feve- ral Houles on 'the Eaft fide being blown down, and whole Pieces of fugar Canes torn up by the Roots. There are fe- veral Veflels calt away ; in particalar, two large Privateers, with 300 Men on board, which were fitted cut to take the Engl th Privateer Brig Capt. Read, are both loft, and only cne Man out of both Crews faved — The French compute their Lofs of Men to be 1400. Inclofed isa Lift of Veilels bro’t in here as Prizes, tho’ there are feveral at Gaudaloupe tiat [ don’t know the Names of. i There are obove 260 Englith Prifokers in this Ifland ard the moft Part in a miferable Condition thro® fcarcity of Provifiens, bad Ufage, Unhealthinefs of the Place, ard the Weigit of their Ircns, fo that if a Flag of T'ruce does ot foon arrive, they maft certamly pen{h The Commanders of_?!;. the Englith Veflels have been keptin Jail, till within the e’t“o Days palt they were fet at Liberty on their Pa- roles, alter {feveral Petiygons ; and are a! iom.da Bit’s woith of Prov fom per Day to {ubfilt on. ‘T'here are nigh T hirty Privateers fitted out of this Place already, and failed ; butthey bave not Lrougbt ina Prize thefe three Weeks pait. L ifl of Viffels carried into Martinico before the firff of Oiob. Schicorer Hawk, Owen Morris Mafter, from Africa for Antigua, with 75 Slaves—St. Margo, Rcbert Hall, fiem Virginia for Ditto with Provifions— Friendflup, D. Mon- crief, from London for Alfrica, with Dry Goods—-Slocp : I}cmac —— Harris, from BoftoWtoe Antigua, with Fifh, —Drig Loncond George Thompfon, from Malaga fer Londan, with i":ui:—-B‘rig Fox, Cornelius Robertfon, ficm Virginia for Darbados, with Grain. &c —Sicop William, Anthony Alien, {rom Ditto, for Ditto, with Ditto—Schoon- er Sea Horfe, Hemy Hammend, from Maryland for Dic. w th Ditto. —Sloup Frovicence, Robert ]acklbr‘ from N. ‘arolina, for Ditro with Ditic—= Schooner William, Wil- )m‘, (onucr frem Ea rl:ados for Virgicia, \H[h Rum— S.co Lhnrmmt Fauy, Eartholomew L) nch, from DMary- land f\r Antiges, with i'ork, &c.—Schooner Little Betiy, Alexander L;“r.cs, from I‘I itferrat for Virginia, wita Rum, &c —Frivateer flocp Tryal, Lapt Thomas, of 10 Carriage Gues, on 2 Cruze. — Ditto Little Betley, Capr. age Guuos, on a Cruize from St. Friends, Wiiliarn Hurt, of St nrricane.— 1 here are, befides the Kiits— Schooner Three Kis, calt away in the 13 above, {everal Vifiels from St. Euflatia made Prizes, Liff of Vefels tuken crd .q;ma’ into Gauda'oupe before 2";':; cf Sepe. A Schooner, Wiilias Im lor, Mafter, with 73 flaves— ) %4 b Another Di'.:o, Ni d‘n as ‘Taylor, from, }.xvac Hland—— Ditto, John Ayres, frem P from Cork . — A Sloop. Harris from Boflon.— A Snow - Anderfon, from Whitehaven.2=A Sloop, Aaron Lyr, fiom Antigua.— A Schaoner, Nichols, Ditto, Benjamin Hynd, i rch.e, from Cork— A Snow, Samuel Green, fxuux Fhi- ladelphia.— A Sleop from Arntigua to B.flon, There is an Account from G‘audalouge 1o- St, that there were lofl in the late bad Wy thirty two fail of Veilgls ; Eufia'ia, sherat May tc cO; mifing. Seiogd 3 By . flon— A Brig, Robert Hecrn,. from Marytand == . from Marblchead — A Bog, Joha and twen ity that put ost are’