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As it is agreed on atfHands, that the late Advantage' gained by the French over the Allies, was entirely owing to their Superiority of Numbers, it is now faid, thatMea fares are concertina to form an Arniv on the Confines of Wight, are gone. A great many Scaling Ladders of a New Conftruction, made in the Tower, are on board the Tranfports going round to Spithead fome of which may be aimoft inftan taneoufly fixed, and will admit more than 30 Men to a fcend a breaft. Auguft iy It being a Queftion in aimoft every Company, How his majefty received the News of the Duke's Defeat, and the Lois or Hanover We can aflure the Public, upon good Authority, that his Majefty received the News of thofe two important Events without the leaft Emotion that he has ever fince tranfadted the great Affairs of State with the fame Readinefs and Eafe as ufual and that thofe neareft his Perfon could perceive no Difference in Temper or Behaviour, but that of more affiduous Application. We hear Col. Haldane of the Guards is going Gover nor of Tamaica.

Auguft 26 The intended Expedition is the Scheme of ascertain worthy, tho much neglected, Sea Officer. The Plan of Operation carries with it the higheft Probability 1 1.1 1 loot guaras, is ordered to begot ready to let out at a minute's Since the re eftablifliment of the late a cool nefs has arifen between the firft Commiffioner of a certain Board, and a noble ke, which, it is feared, if not happily accommodated, will have a very bad influence on our American affairs. 1 The account given in the public papers of Admiral Bofcawen's refignation is not true that Admiral ftill continues his rank and "credit in the navy, and his employment in the Admiralty his unexpected recal from a favourite expedition, for fecret reafons of ftate, gave fome occafion of difguft but the character of that worthy Admiral isflich, as to fet him above any felfifh cohliderations, when the honour and intereft of his country are at ftake. He is now, as he always has been, fince he had the Honour of his Majefty's Commifficn, read)'' to facrince his life for his King and Country. From Hanover they write, that their new French Governor has given public notice to the inhabitants, If any French Soldier quartered upon them fliall commit any ex cefs, to give notice to the neareft guard, and juftice ffiall be immediately done them.

This declaration has greatly quieted the minds of the people, who expecled nothing lefs than to be plundered of their all But they, on their part, are not to fuffer the French to want for any thing. The Duke of Cumberland has withdrawn the garrifoN, cannon and ftores that were in Nienbourg. Every thing goes on as yet very quietly at Hanover. The French receive the public Revenue; but the exactions over and a bove from the particular principalities, are very confi derable, Aug. 27.

By a Gentleman from the Borders of Norfolk we are advifed, that the Harveft was nearly over there laft Week and that the Corn of all Kinds is extraordinary good, and a vaft rich Crop. It is the Opinion of many, that this Year's Produce will fupply the Nation for three Years at leaft. All the Advices from Spain fay, that the King invariably perfifts in his Refolution not to engage in the prefent Broils. The Nclfon, Hubbard, from Virginia for London, is retaken by the Hercules Privateer, Captain Bifhop, and fent into Briftol. Two Ships of War are gone for Helvoetfluys, fome fay to bring the Duke home.

Laft Week 30,000 lb of Gunpowder was (hipped for Carolina. Letters from Conftantinople advife, that in the Night, between the aift and 22d of June, 184 Janifaries wanted to begin a Rebellion but that Notice thereof being in ftantly sjiven to the Aga, and by him to the grand Vizir, this prime Minifter caufed the Ringleaders to be immediately leized and executed, and fent the reft to work on the Fortifications. Since that time all is quiet, and the foreign Minifters have, it is faid, received frefh AiTuran ces from the Grand Sultan, that he will not embroil him felf, without juit Reaiony cither with Vienna or Peterf burgh. The Duke d'Aquilon, the Tartar's Prize, is bringing round from Portfmouth, to be refitted for a Privateer: with a prize in comoanv. in order to cut out fome of the fhips in that harbour but as foon as they got iiito twenty fathom water, on the 8th inftant, they fell in with the fhip Turbett, and a brig and a fnow in company with her, whom they took.

Capt. Hutchinfon difpatched the Guernfey privateer and three prizes (all bound for Canada) for Kinfale, and immediately gave chace to three the'r veftels in fi ht. The prize parted with her conforts off the Oldhead of Kinfale, faw the privateer gave chace to a vefiel in fight, and as the wind was contrary, bore a way for this port. Capt. Hutchinfon7tefbre he fell in with thefe prizes, had chaced a 17 gun privateer on fnore on the coaft of France, and had deltroyed a riming fchoo ner, which heftript; and burnt, after he had taken the pri foners onboard.

Our laft advices from Naples, which city is now become of Succefs, however infignificant the Enemy may repre were but indifferently adiufted at the laft general peace 1 nr .1 1 i 1 .1 1 fent it. therefore fhe thinks a properer feafon can never offer than Some officers of the train of Artillery, and fome gun the prefent to make them good and if the courts of Vi ners of the Navy, being foliated for by Admiral Knowles, enna and Verfailles do not fpeedily enter into her views, it to accompany him in the intended expedition, they were is very probable the world will be inftructed as to the mo immediately granted, and are gone for Portfmouth, to tives of thofe armaments, which have been the objecl: of embark on board the fleet. fo much fpeculation for feveral years paft. iii ii. .1.1 1 he held baggage oeiongmg to the three regiments ot By BOS Letter from TON, October 24..

the Weft Indies, dated the 23d of Cordage, O'zenbrigs, and is a fine Ship, about ii Years old. The above Ship had taken, on the 15th of a Snow from Maryland, bound to Samuel Hanover, that fhahput a Check to the Progrefs of the She is to be caUed the Volunteer, to mount 30 Nine pound Wife, Mailer, and after plundering her of every French in that Quarter ers, befides Orgons and Swivels, and to carry 300 Men. valuable fcuttled her. Captain Wife and his People are The Seahorfe Man of War, Capt Taylor, is fitting out She is about 700 Tons, and a remarkable fine Sailer. now here.

About the 8th of September Capt. Wife fpoke with all Expedition, at Sheernefs, in order to proceed a Auguft 30. witlj the Ship King of Pruffia, Capt. GruHie, of Bolton. gain on the fame Cruize as they know the two Privateers Extracl: of a letter from Briftol, Auguft 27.

who had weathered the Gale of Wind that happened re at Flufhing repairing their Damage. The late Engage The Prince Edward man of war is arrived here with four Days before, but had loft fome of his Tcp maits. jnent was certainly as gallant a Thing as has happened du the lofs of her main and mizen mails, and very much Capt. Dennier informs us, That on the 29th of Sep ringtheWar. Capt.

Taylor had. only Nine Founders mattered, which wascccahoned by an engagement me naa temoer, Capt. beymour lpcKe with a uutcn acnooner. 2. Three Pounders, and 15Z Men, and 2 'blpops or 14.

Wednefday evening with a rencn rrigate trom 36 to Guns Whereas the French had between them both, 60 40 guns, 26 leagues to the weftward of Scilly, 49. 52. Twelve Pounders befides Swivels, and 4.00 Men. The which was renewed on Thurfday and continued "Engagement laftd three hours, aimoft within Pi.ftol fnot till eleven o'clock in the forenoon, when the frigate Iheer the whole Time. What makes our People the more eager ed off It happened unlucky the Prince Edward had her is, to tajte Kevenge tor their cruelty in nring rieces 01 ISars of Iron, old Nails, and other Combuftibles (this generous Enemy, as they would be called) wherea', as one of our Sailors writes in a Letter, he gave them nothing but found Doclrins.

We hear that the Right Hon. Lord Littleton, and Mr. Baftide, Surveyor to the Board of Ordnance, have been at Milford Haven to furvcy the Harbour at that Place, in order for carrying the intended Fortifications into Eexcution. We are informed, that fome Officers belonging to the French King, have been detected in inveigling fome People in Scotland and Ireland, to inlift into the Service of that Crown, and narrowly efcaped the Hand of Juftice. Aug.

23. The People of Holland highly commend the Conduct of the Duke of Cumberland, who. after having ftopt the French Army, retired in good Order. They nanimoufly agree, that if he had had 20,000 Men more, the Enemy would have been totally defeated. The Carriages for a new Train of Artillery are drawn out upon Tower WharfF, in order to he embarked.

main and mizen maits mot away me nnt Droaunue, anu could never bring more than five guns to bear on the Frenchman and the fea ran fa high that fhe could not (Iho attempted) open her lower ports, which her to great difad vantage. She had ten men killed, and upwards of forty wounded, feveral of them mortally. When the ensrajrement bejran, theyTaw two large mips, on the Plate Wreck (the Particulars of which were inlert ed in our laft) that it was very fickly at the Weft End of Hifpaniola; and that many of their Merchantmen were detained in Port, for want of Seamen that Majefty's Ships the Edinburgh, Dreadnought, and Augufta, a peared lo often on the coait oKHilpanioia, that the in one without her tore topmait, wincli they tooK to De iuDitants were apprenennve they a ueicent on French men of war." the Ifland, for which Reafon an had been laid On Thurfday arrived at Liverpool the fhip Turbett, on all Shipping for three Months but that a large let burthen 200 tons, laden with 500 barrels or npur, 400 barrels of wine in hogiheads, 200 barrels of pork, 100 ditto of beef, 100 anchors of brandy, two trulTes of gold and filver laced hats, 2000 in each, three buts of Ihoes, quantity 3000 pair, and a parcel of flops, a French prize taken by the fhip Liverpool privateer, capt. W. Hutchinfon commander, and the Fame privateer, of 10 guns and 70 men, belonging to Guernfey.

The two privateers made an agreement to cruize in confort, and to mare what thev fhould meet with in proportion to their rJ 1 r. jr TJ .1 1 1 1 i 1 ttV. I il. 1 4." un lueiaay ana leneraay a great iuanuryoi dihicls guns ana men, unrn tney arrived ar jwiniaie me pu.ee ui were (hipped from the Tower, for the Ule of the Troops rendezvous, the Guernfey captain being extremely well intended for a fecond Expedition, which, it is faid. will be acouainted with the French coaft.

Thev cruized ciofe in executed as loon as the preient Troops at the iiie or bound to St. Euftatia, from Porto Paux, on the Mafter whereof acquainted, him, That Capt. William Murray, of the Privateer Brig Prince George, of this Port, with feveral of his Officers and Men, in the wholy 24, arrived there in their Barge fome Time before, hav was foon to fail for Old France. The 15th Inftant, Capt. Dennier fpoke with the Privateer Snow Dreadnought, Capt.

Taylor, in Lat. 30 34, Long. 74 29, all well on board. Capt. Shoals, in a Letter of the fecond Inftant, That on the 23d of September he fell in with a large French Ship, which he foon came up with, and engaged fmartly but Night coming on, obliged him, it being very dark, to defift; and next Morning fhe was fo far a Head, that he could not come up with her, tho1 he ran Knots, until fhe got into Cape Francois, where he faw the, Pilot go on beard her.

In the Engagement Capt. Shoals was wounded thro' the flefhy Part of the Arm Joab Tay fhore, and had laid a fcheme to go into Bourdeaux river, lor, and Tohn Potter, killed outright Thomas Headon the little Lruermey raan to appear as a rencn privateer wounded in leven different rarts and loleph bcannelire ceived a Shot between his Windpipe and Collar Bone. and another in his Belly, but was in a Way or Recovery. Four Days after, Captain Shoals retook the Schooner Charming Betfy, of and from Pifcataqua, bound to Jamaica, and fent her to that Ifland, fhe being taken twelve Days before by a Letter of Marque Ship called the Count Saxe, of 16 6 Pounders, and 70 Men, bound from Quer bee for the Cape, which Ship was the next Day run afliore by three Englifh Men of War that were lying at Samana Bay, Extraft of a Letter frojn Captain William JVaynman, Commander of the Privateer Brig King George, of this Fori, dated at Turk's Iland, Oflober 6 17 S7 On the fecond of this Inftant we fell in with a Ship, bound, from Quebec to Cape Francois, the which we took, after an Lngagement ot three Hours. I parted with her 1 .1 1 1 1 ft 1 II the center of politicks in Italy, reprefent affairs in that this Day, to the Northward of this Ifland, and hope fhe part of Europe in much confufion.

The Spanilh branch of will arrive fafe in your Port. Her Cargo is of no great Va the houfe of Bourbon has its claims and pretenfions, which lue fhe is a fine Ship, goes well, and is corhpleatlv found. 1 carrying 14 hour pounders. In the Attack, ihe mattered our Sails and Rigging very much, wounded both our Mafts, killed one of our Men, and wounded feveral thers. I have got the VelTel in good Repair again, and am going directly to Monto Chrifto, to land my Prifoners, where I intend to cruize for the Fleet which "13 expedted to fail from thence every Day.

Captains Seymour and Shoals were both in Company when we firftfaw the Ship, but they bore away (being in Concert) after another Ship, which was 111 vuinuany wiui tne one we iook, wnen we nnt September laft, we have Advice, That the Captures to the fpied them, but feparated on our Approach, and at 10 P. Windward are very numerous, not one in twenty efcap M. we loft Sight of them at 6 in the Morning we came up ri 1 TV tr: rr 1 it i nr i ing. 1 nac tne rnvatecr cng xving or rruma, vapt. xs.unc, Commander, belonging to Rhode Iliand, and who failed from this Port in Auguft laft, was loft upon Anguilla Reef.

The Mafter of her, Capt. White, was killed by the burft ing of a Cohorn, and Mr. James Wendell, the Captain's with our Chace, and at 9 fhe ftruck. No Vefiel was in, Sight, nor any Agreement made with one or other, further than ufual, as being in Sight. I have fent all the Papers in the Prize by Captain r.

o. captain iviurray was can away aoout vv eeKS ago, Clerk, wounded, 'tis feared, mortally The other People on the Plate Wreck: he, with his faved. were faved in the Barge, and sot Officers, and 18 Men into Porto Paux two Extract cf a Letter from a Gentleman at Fort Cumberland, efcaped in the Dory, one of which is on board Captain 7i dated uctober 0, 1757. beymour. We are all well, and the Works go on brifkly 5 Laft Week a Number of Artificers were fet to Work.

we have now about 3000 good Troops, and the Garriion to erect on the Common, near Frefh Water, a Range of in a good Pofture of Defence, befides a ftrong Entrench Barracks, 422 Feet in Length, and will accomodate about ment in Front. I imagine the Reafon of the Enemy's 1000 Soldiers This Building is to be finifhed at the Ex not troubling us is, becaufe their reconnoitring Parties pence of the Corporation, and to be carried on with all have feen the Number of our VeiTels we have here, fo they pofilble Expedition. muft think our Numbers much larger than they really are, Extracl of a Letter from cur Correffondent at Fort 'Hcrek as we have 15 Sail of Topfail Veflels, apd thofe large, be heimer, (commonly called Hackermer's) fituated on our fides 20 Sail of Sloops and Schooners. This Night a Par Frontiers, dated Oclober the zd, 1757. 4...

1 a. 1 TT ZC tir. 1 1 a 1 1 iy ui 300 ivxen uwancs lowarus use any vciu, to ice ve mueea nave continual nave one even they can difcover any Motions of the Enemy, and do what now whilft I am Writing, a Boy this Inftant firing at five Damage to the Road they can.1 NEW YORK, Oclcberii. Monday laft arrived at Sandy Hook, from a Cruize, the Privateer Brig Prince of Orange, Capt. Canton, of Bermuda, mounting 18 Guns, and 120 Men On the 17th of September, off the Havannah (wherefhe as bound to join the Spanilh Fleet) he took a fine French Snow, loaded with Sugar, Coffee, and a large Quantity of Indi go, fuppofed a very valuable Prize He parted from her in Lat.

31, Long. 71, and imagined, by the Winds he had, fhe ftood to the Northward, as he endeavoured to get into Bermuda, but could not effect, it. He failed for Bermuda laft Saturday, where he expects to find his Prize. The Ship Grand Sultan, MonfieurBriol, late Commander, from Martineco, of and for Bourdeaux, is taken and parried into Rhode Ifiand, by the Privateer Brig Mars, Capt. Hunt, of that Ifland, and the Sloop Jolly Batchelor, of Providence She is a Ship of about 300 Tons, mounted 10 Iron Guns, had 50 Men, and is loaded with Sugar, Coffee, and Cotton On the 30th ultimo, fhe took the Sloop Sally, Capt.

Montgomery, of this Port, bound to the Weft Indies, and fent the Sloop to Martineco, but detained Capt. Montgomery on board, who arrived here laft Thurfday from Rhode Ifland, in a verjkkly Condition. Next Day the Ship Brilliant; Monfieur de Rabine Am meline, late Commander (but came in under the Command of Capt. Dennier) from Quebec tor Cape Francois, was fent in here by the Frivateer Ship King of PrufHa, Capt. Thomas Seymour, and the Snow Mary Ann, Capt.

John Shoals, both of this Port Thev tcck her the 2d Inftant, without firing a Gun, tho ihe mounts 16 Six pounders, and had 60 Men She has on board fome Oil, Indians They are only a fcouting Party, after wnom we have ordered a Puriuit and hope a good Account. We have often been told we fnould be attacked at fuch and fuch a Time, but it has hitherto proved falfe. We are always alert, are now healthy, and full of Spirits, and truft in God we mail always be able to give Account of our felves, whenever called to it by Friends, or real Enemies. As to what Mifchief has been done fince I have been here, take as fellows. None but fcalping Parties have appeared on the German Flatts The greateft Number they confifted of, as by the belt Intelligence we have had, has not been more than Thirty.

July 17, 1757, Sunday, the firft fcouting Party appeared, and attacked on the North Side of the River, our Garrifon being oni the South They took Prifoners Nine, and killed Three, one of" them a Soldier belonging to the Garrifen. Auguft the 5th, on the North Side they killed Two, and fcalp ed them. Auguft the 25th, on the fame Side they killed One, and fcalped him alfo wounded another, but dui not take him Prifoner. September the 3d, they killec and fcalped One other, befides wounding Two more, but took neither of the Two Prifoners. Total taken, killcujd 1 lI.f .1 ana wounaea, unce tne 24m ot May, 1757, Nineteen.

I am, The Difafter of the Ehglifh Squadron off Louifbourg the 25th of September laft, is confirmed as follows viz TheTilbury Man of War, and Ferrit Sloop, loft the Nottingham loft her Mizen maft and two Anchors, and had 7 Feet Water in her Hold; the Invincible of 74 Guns, Grafton of 70, NafTau of 70, Prince Frederick of 70; Devonfhireof 66, Sunderland of 60, Eagle of 60, and Centurion of 50, all loft' their Mafts alfo the Captain Juft publifhed, and to be fold at the Ncvj Printing Office, POOR RICHARD5 ALMANACK, for the Year 1 7r S. ot.