The Pennsylvania Gazette from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • Page 3

HaffomeTYo theryere for fomeTime reduced to half a from an eminent Merchant in io another in Wa. Vbc a confiderable Number of Horfe. Pint of Water a Day, andad but four Day's terford, mentioning, That a French Fleet, cbnfifting of March 10. It is believed that the Ruffians wll not aft left when ithey were taken 5 that one Man diedin the nine Sail of the Line, and Frigates, rfrom Breft, entea the enfumg Campaign, if we wil freak plain and good Top, and four others were fo emaciated, that they could, voured to pafs the Straights of Gibraltar that; "Admi FlhSwwml owing fcarcely ftand and that on the 4th of April, Captain ral Ofborni feU in with them, and Took three Ships of the KhLN eWh'ebe. Line and a Frigate, and Carried them into dibraltaK and to Illnefs ot the do fcarce mittances not any Czarina, or ing of Provisions, and embarked on board Captain What became of the reft the Fleet he does not knew.

xiieitic I umuits, as was at tnat i lme given our. T'HOSE who incline to become Adventurers in the From the The fameTDay Capt. Bethel came up in 31 Days frorrija Academy Lottery, are defired to be fpeedy coaru ziamirai jeoicawen rieer, we are anurea, mat in. maica He lailed from thpnrp xiu December laft the Inhabitants ot Quebec were reduced to War, whoon the of April, about ten Leagues to the brawinffwillbennunauallnMondav.thothTrflnt. Half a Pound of Bread a Day and that Horfe Flelh was ierved up at the Interidant's Table that nearly the like Scarcity prevailed at the ame Time at Louifbourg.

Great Encomiums are given to the extraordinary military Skill of the Hereditary Prince of Brunfwick, who, tho not ac Yeais or Aere, nas civen very uncommon Froots fs ther 11 a 1 pni 12 Eaftward of Cape Tiberon, ran a Sloop which he Custom House Philadelphia, Inward Entries. imagined came froirithe but had been taken Ship Carrington, Samuel Appowen, from Barbados; by fome French Privateer fiie had a long Quarter deck, Schooner Dolphin, Edward Spence, from Jamaica. i and feemed to have Horfes trpon 'Ship Fanny, Archibald Gardner, from Newry. I Pe, Nichola Capt. Bethel fpoke with a Schooner Two Brothers, Francis Rod gers, from N.

York. m. i.uuwr.Ja, wunu lu Jamaica ana 0ntne24.cn or isnsr uetiy, uavia a. rrom Xinri at the of his Generalfhip and as he is pofTefled of all April, Platform, he fpoke with the Captains Jauh Ship Union Qualifications that can adorn a Prince, we may ex Cey, Fenton, wight and Skinner, all in Privateers of this Ship Myrtill ShiD Mvrtilla. pect to fee him a fecond Hero of Pruffia It is rumoured that a noble Perfonage will foon refume his Employments.

with Suear, Coffee, Sec. Captain Bethel faw feveral Veffels To.U.t 1 xrJTUl ucar mat a otncinc 15 urawing up 10 oc prcicntcu iu on tne Uoait. the Government, for the fpeedy difchargine the Debt of the Navy. The Hope of Glafgow, Hutchifon, which was mentioned to have met with great Damage in a Storm, is fince arrived at Greenock. March 11.

We hear from Paris, that Marfhal Belleifle is appointed Secretary of State, with the Department of War. Five large Ships, laden with Provifions, Ammunition and Stores, have been fent to Louifbourg, under the Efcort ot two Men of War. Marfhal Richlieu was, in Appearance, very well'received notwith (landing which it js reported, that a ftri6t Enquiry will be made into his Condudt but the Prince de Soubife maintains his Credit, and is to command in Bohemia, in Conjunction with Field Marfhal Bathiani. Yeiterday the Honourable General Yorke fet out on a Commifiion of Importance to the King ot Fruilia We hear a Regiment of Foot will embark fome Time this put into Port aeinJ the other fix beine fmaller Veffels, Month to reinforce the.Garrifon at Gibraltar. fuppofed Frigates, proceeded the Voyage." The French Squadron, under the Command of M.

de la By a Letter from William Finney, late Lieutenant of Clue, which failed the cth ult. is put back again and Ad the Dogger Privateer Decoy, Captain Knights, of this xniral Ofbcrne's Squadron, which was forced out of the port, dated the iid of February, at Briftol, we learn, Gutt of Gibraltar, is returned again, and watching the That the faid Privateer was taken the fecond Day of Oc french Fleet. tober laft, by two French 74 Gun Ships, on the S. W. Side His Majefty's Sloop the Lizard is arrived at Plymouth of the Ifland of Anta Cofta the Dogger fent into Louif from off of Breft, and brings Advice, that eight Ships of bourg; but the Crew were carried to Old France, where the Line are in Breft Water, ready for Sea.

Captain Knights died: And that the Privateer Snow The Emprcfs of Ruflia is fo dangeroufly ill, that the Hornet, Captain Spelling, of this Port alfo, was taken in jvews or ner is aaiiy expectea. It is the young Count de Bruhl (Son of the Prime Mini ller) who is fet out from Warfaw, charged witha Com miflion to the feveral Northern Courts. Portfmouth. March o. Oh Mondav the Court of Enauirv hegan and ended onboard the Royal George, concerning His Majefty's Ship Invincible.

The Principals examined were the Pilots, who made it appear that it was no Mif condutt in the Mailer, for had the Ship" been their own, they mould have behaved juft as he had done, whereupon ihe Matter was fet at Libertv. wounded another; the Remainder of the Party efcaped. Yefterday returned here from a Cruize, the Privateer Snow Royal Hefter, Capt. RoOme, and brought in with him two French Ships, which he took abdut thirty Days ago, three Hours after they came out of Cape Francois, bound for Old France. Extract of a Letter from Madeira, dated April i.

175S. Juft how a Letter of Marque Ship is arrived rom Briftol, and has brought in a French Ship with 1200 Barrels of Flour, bound to Louifbourg. She failed from Rochfort the Tenth of March, with feveral others, under Convoy the Latitude of Bermuda, by two Frigates, and carried to Old France. A at AT W1LLIAMSBUKU, May By an Expreft arrived in Yefterday from Augu The Account of the Confpiracy againft the King of fta, we learn that the Enemy Indians are very riumerous Pruffia, is entirely without Foundation. on the Frontiers, that they hayelatelv taken and burnt two We are allured, from good Authority, that the Report of our Forts, where were ftationed one of our ranging cf Mr.Mitchell, his Majefty's Envoy at the Court of Ber Companies, 40 of whom were killed and fcaljJed, and lin, being recalled, or ill, is intirely without Foundation1.

Lieutenant Dunlop with 19 Men miffing March io. It is expedted Sir Edward Hawke will fail in jti Friday laft arrived here Captain Boyd from Liver a Day or two, as all the Pilots for his Squadron are order pool, who that Day three Weeks faw Admiral Bofcawen's ed on board, as likewife the Mariners Gojport, March 5. Some of the Men belonging to the Jrivincible were tried at a Court Martial for taking away her Long Boat, and leaving the Ship in Diftrefs but the Court cortfidering they hadno other Motive than the Preservation of their Lives, they were Jonathan Crathoni from Lifbon. Richard Budden. from Lohdon: Port, who acquainted that they had a few Days be Ship Richard and William, Thomas Dailey, from.

Ditto iuiv, laavii uuiuimisoi 14. uufls. oretrv wen loaaeu is.initon ierer tram uitro. a 1 1 1 onw inpjjcnnam, vnai les irom lirxo. Smn Cni ohna.

"Ronerf Dimcan. from Ditto: i By the laft Mail from Albanv we learn; That about ii Sloori Thomas. Thomas "Morton, from New Vork: Days ago, a6 of the Inhabitants at the German Flats, were Schooner Edinburgh, Robert Shaw, from Bermuda, cut off by a Party of French and Indians; that a Compa Sloop Harlequin, Alexander Magee, from Jamaica. .1 ny of Rangers, poftedon the Mohawks River, came up Sloop John and Richard, Charles Jenkins, from Barbados; yn.i4 wi "fciny, js nicu uuc, aiiu onip Anna, Kooert waraie, rromuitto. Sloop Margarer, Hugh Bowes, from Montferrat.

Philadelphia, May TO be fo'd, by pablick Vendue, on der the Court houfc, on Wednefdty, the 31ft Ioftant. at Three Clock, in the Afternoon, A Parcel of Deeifkini, in Lota of about One Hundred Pounds etch, and fome Fun. By Order of the CommiJJianert for Indian Affairtt v. RoBtaT Owin, Clerk or nine men or war, inree or wn en oeing or mc Linc, Jaa in tbc laft Saipt from London and Lmrpool. ad to lie fold bf JOHN WALL AC At hit Store in CbertouMireet, A Affortment of European and Etft India Goodi, fuitable for the Seafon; Tbc.

6Wi Juft imported in the Carolina, Captain Duncan, from London, and the laft VefiVa from and to De fold by ICHA RDFOO TMAN and Cdmpany; At their tore in Water ftreet; the fecond Door below Arch Erect. A NEAT Affortment of European Goodi, fuitable for the Sefon for Ready Money: or fliort Credit, by SAMUEL HOWELLi At fciaStore, in Cheftnut ftrect, A Lare Affortment of European and Eaft IndU Goodi, fultabldf AMMATnT TQ TViixr lor tne beiioo. Capt. Cole, ori his Paflage hither from Barbados, took Taft imported in the laft Snips tiero Looaen and Liverpool, and! iip the Mafter bne Dove) arid Crew of a Veflel, bound Into Norfolk from Barbados, and has brought them hither. The Veflel funk in about Two Hours after the People ivefe taken out.

ILAD.E PH I May 18. to be fold cheap for Ready Moo 67 by JOHN RELFEj At hit Store in Second ftreet, late Mr. Alexander be tween the Engiifh Church and the Baptift Meetin houfa, GRE AT Variety of European and Eaft India Goods, fuitable for the Seafon, Fleet otf of Bermuda, all well, confiding of ten Ships of Imported in the laft Ships from London and and to bef the Line, two and two Firefhips. Cur London yeflels left Spithead the Eleventh of March, in Company with the Carolina Convoy, the Surprize and Penguin Men of Wan The fame Day Admiral Hawke failed with Sail of the Line, and feveral Frigates, and was to be joined by more Capital Ships before he left (fed. was carried into Martineco.

The Ship Ellis, Capt. Somriiefville, from Maryland for 'London, was taken on her Paflage, and ranfomed for Two Hundred and Fifty Pounds The roily, Dunn, trom this Fort, is arrived at fold by JOHN and ET.ER WIKOFF At their Store, io Front ftreet, Large Aflbrtment of European aod Eaft India Coodi, fuitable for the beafon. Philadelphia, May 16, I7cS. Ship1 Boreas, from a Cruize, and bfought in with imagined he was going to block up Breft, as it was gene 7 0 hltehel Pr of him a lare Dutch Shio of between 6 and 700 Tons, her rallv believed in England, that no Fleet, of anv Confe Woofe, four of Mens Thread Stockinga, fup i him a large Dutch Ship of between 6 and 700 Tons, her rally believed in England, that no Fleet, of any Confe ft a wAaaa m. a vjva wa mm i Uvllvvj tla tllvli AllvU A Jk til a lilvl A by 4 or 5 New' York Privateers, and ordered into that Captain Smith, in the True Briton left Briftol for tliis J'ort, but was retaken by a French Privateer Brig, who Place the Fifth of March.

was carrying her into Louifbourg when Captain Boyle met Captain Hardie, from Barbados, 6n the Third Inftant, and took them both and the Privateer Brig arrived fpoke with a Veflel, from Whitehaven for Virginia, the here laft Tuefday. I Captain of which told him, the Day before he faw a Ship May and Snow, and that all of a fudden the latter went to the Several Fifhermen are arrived at Marbleheaa froffi the Bottom. Banks, who all agree, That laft Tuefday was fe'ennight, about two o'Clock in the Afternoon, the Weather, clear, being irpon the N. N. W.

Part of the BankQuero, at about 40 Leagues Diftance from Louifbourg, they heard the Report of a great Number of Guns, fired very quick and irregular, which was fo violent as to caufe their Veflel to tremble, and lafted about an Hour fo that 'tis tho't there Ahj Perfon laying Claim to them, mav hue them again, proving their Property, and paying Chargci. gg jAMta Whitih a it, Juft imported in the Ship Richaid and William, Captain DaUcj; fiora London, and to be fold by FRANCIS AWL (For reidj Mane; or ftoit Crtiiit) it hit Houfe, copofiW' i ine rerry nouie, in waermcet. near Arcn ftreet. Captain Bo'weS, from Montferrat, advifes, they had a AN Affortment of European and Eaft India Coodi, fuitable for eporttnere, tnata snip trom iNortn zimenca, aumait tne lu has Beefi an Eiigaement with fome Ship or Ships of the dos as is the Friendfliip; Ccchran Enemy i By the Keport of the Guns, the Filhermen fup poieq mem to oe at lomejjutance trom ouiiDourg, anu nearer towards then Veffels. Yefterday fe'ennight arrived at Newport, a French Dutch iioop or aoout 70 1 ons taicen Dy tnernvateer ing rnnce at Antigua.

In a Letter from Charles Town, in South Carolina, dat ed ult there is the following remarkable Paragraph from an eminent Merchant4n Briftol to his Correfpondeht there, dated the Sixth of March, viz. It may be of Ufe to you to know that our Admiralty Frederick of Newport, Capt. Porter, and Sloop Harlequin Courts, or London and Dublin, condemn all Ships and leetat Louifbourg, while our Ships were Diftrefs, is Louilbourg, but was prevented by the Ice; and had Deen entirely broke and difcarded, and that Monf. Montcalm is chaced by Captain Rous, and others of our Ships, but they fent for home, to anfwer for his Conducl in not doing could not come up with her And that fome ot the French more againit us the Jait Year. NEW YORK, May i.

Saturday laft Captain Caldwell arrived herefrom Li verpool; but laft from Belfaft in about feven Weeks. Capt. Bradford, late of a Ship belonging to Bofton, came in with Capt Caldwell, and gives us the following Relation That he failed from Pifcataqua the 16th ot March laft, bound for Jamaica, in'the Ship Ranger; but on the azd of the fame Month, in a violent Gale of Wind, his Veflel fprung a Leak, 3nd filled with Water, which obliged him to cut away his Main and Mizen Mafts, when he, with his Crew, ip in Number, took to the Fore Top, and remained there.till the 9th of April, but were happily relieved by Captain Ogilvy, from Hull, bound to Iw Juft imported in the laft Veffels from Londnn, and to be fold by THOMAS MIT Hj At hit Store in Water flreet; between Market and Arch and next Door to the Ferry, AN Affortment of Zoropean and Eaft India Gooi, fuitable for the efon Juft imported htm unaon, me. Chippenliam, Captain Lyon and to be fold by HENR YX and OdDHAMj At their Stoic in Watcr flreet, near Market flreat, next Doot to Mr. William Henry or iNew yoric; ine is Jaaen witn ury ooas ana awivei cargoes, in general, mat come airecuy rrora nicrrcucu Large Affortment of and Eaft India Good foita Guns, and was bound from Coracoa to Cape Francois.

Plantations in the Eaft or Weft Indies, or America, agree blefor the Seafon trith Scfthca Sicklei Shor lh fiii i luay arnveu nere a jerter or marque ricnuii oic to a rvtiuiuuun, wxutii uas uccii iiuuiicu iu owiw rnze or about 400 I ons. 20 Cjuns; and had Soivieti, general. taken by the Captains Sevmour of New York, and Sam fk of this Place She was homeward bound from. Cape Francois, and is laden with Sugar, Cocoa, Indigo, we near trom Hautay. that thev had Advice trom We learn from Halifax that our Cruizers have lately fent in there four Prizes, one of which a Letter of Marque, from Breft for Louifbourg, with Packets for the Governor, and Provifion tor the Garriion.

That a 50 Gun French Europe, that the Admiral who commanded the French Ship of War had attempted feveral Times to get into Prifoners informed, that this Ship had a great Sum ot Money on board, for the Payment ot the 1 roops. sr ti at rw uonpiwoer sun rvajunt, repper, xea, XMutmega, Uinnamon, Clo teaand Mace, Gloucelter and Chefbire Cheefe, ice, tec. Sec Imported in the laft thipi from London and LirtrpooJ and to be foid cheap for Cafli or ftott Credit, by JOHN and PETER CHE VAL 1R i ai then itore in Water ftieet, the next Door above the Corner of Walntft ftreet, A Neat Affortment of European and Eaft India Goodf, fiiti ble tor the Seafon. I ALL PERSONS TTNDEBrED co the 8ateof Ann Dawfoo, tecafed, are 3c fired We hear from Fort Littleton, that a Party of 12 Che I mA and have brought with them four Scalps. They fell in with a large Party of Enemy Indians, and killed and fcalped eight of them, but were fo clofely purfued, that they loft four of the Scalps in their Wav to the Fort.

Bv a Letter from Winch efter. dated the iith Inftant, aie de fired to bring their Account to be fettled and paid' by Jamxs Whitx Adminiflratof Philadelphia May iSth, I75S. OnWednefday. the 14th Infiant, at the late Dwelling ilotjfe of faid Dawfon, in Strawberry Alley, will be fold by pub1ik venone, tne anop iiooai, noamoia xurmtore, ana wearing there Is Advice that the Virginia Troops are compleat, Apparel of faid Deeeafed. and on their March to that Place.

Sundry Dya ft uffa and Earopean Goodi, lately imported, and From New York we have Advice, that on Sunday laft to.be fold near the Br a abridge, rery theap, White, who arrived there a Ship in fix Weeks Paflage front WaterTord, fiVe ready Mdney for dean Linen Rg; haa WilleoxS beft tjax'd the Captain of which fays, he read aParagraph of 3 Letter Piefa and Boncet Pajpeit to fall, aad fondry ihap.Goadi, aa ofaaU 1.