The American gazette, or, the Constitutional journal — Salem, Mass., 1776-06-19 00:00:00, page 1

SALEM, June 19.
By Captain Joseph Cook, of the
Schooner Elizabeth, who arrived at
Portsmouth, New-Hampshire, rj
terday from Canfo, in Nova-Scotia,
me are favored with Two Halifax
Papers, of the Fourteenth and Twen
ty-eighth of May : They contain many
lengthy Articles of Importance to the
Public from LONDON, down
to the Nineteenth of April ; but the
Multiplicity of other Business in the
Office prevents giving our Custom
ers more than the following Extracts ;
at the fame Time would request their
^ence until next Tuesday,
,@ we Jball publife all their Con
tents, Captain Cook having made
a Prevent of both the above Papers
to the Publisher. Captain Cook
informs us, That on the Seventeenth
of April iafl, on his Pqfage from
Sandwich, be being bound to St.
Peter's, a French Island, to pro
cure farms and Ammunition for
the Use of the Continent, was ta
ken by one of the MiniJierial Pirates,
and carried into Canfo, who, after
robbing bis Feffel of the & greatef
Part of the Cargo, Provifons, all
his Hands, except bimfelf and Mate,
tbefe kind Plunderers ^ere so gen
teel and polite as to give him bis
Veflel again, and permitted him to
proceed on bis Voyage without Men
or any Thing else necessary for the
Prosecution thereof, which obliged
him to fell bis Peffel and the Jmall
Remains of the Cargo for less than
half their Value : They also robbed
him of. about Forty Dollars in
Qfo. —Before the Vessel was board
ed by the Enemy, the Captain threw
all bis Letters and Papers over
board. —Captain Cook further in
forms, That at the Inland of St.
John's they have been greatly dis
tressed for Provisions, and many have
Juffered within a few Months past.
He afo gives the following Jl:ock.
ing Inflance of the Scarcity oj Pro
visions, at St. John's, viz. That
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W EDNES DA Y, June 19, 1776.
3, 14 AirW^ A Q^
§lwin m^ffir
as a Boat shaving on board a Family,
was going from thence to another
Ijland, a Child of Eight Tears of
Age perijhed with Hunger on the
P^foge, when the unhappy Parents
were obliged to eat the dead Body
thereof to preserve their own mife
ferable Lives.—He also fays, that at
the River St. John's, the Indians are
highly incensed against the Minijierial
Party, and are determined at all
Hazards to join the Americans.
HALIFAX, May 28.
Last Sunday Morning ar
rived the Schooner Three
Friends, Captain Stalker,
in Five Weeks from LON
DON, by whom we have
received Prints to the Nine
teenth of April, from which
the following Articles are
taken, viz.
Westminster, April 2.
THIS day his Majesty went
to the House of Peers, and
being in his Royal robes seated on
the Throne with the tifual solem
nity, Sir Francis Molybeaux, Gen
tleman Usher of the Black Rod, was
sent with a message from his Ma
jesty to the House of Commons,
commanding their attendance in the
House of Peers; The Commons
being come thither accordingly, his
Majesty was pleased to give the
Royal Assent to twelve public and
ten private bills.
LONDON, March 29.
An evening paper of last night
fays, out of the provision article of
hogs lately sent to Boston, we tan
afire the public, that what from
diseases, and other accidents, only
four bogs were landed, which, after
paying every expence, flood govern
ment in the very moderate sum of
Eleven Hundred founds per hog ;
w
the four crout, from similar circum
stances, cost them Seven Hundred
Pounds.—-Query: If an army of
Fifty Thousand men, at the distance
of Three Thousand miles, are to be
fed at this expence (allowing them
to be vigorous) is it not paying too
dear for filch a conquest ?
Colonel St. Paul is appointed Mi
nister Plenipotentiary to the Court
of France.
Orders ,are laid to be given from
the War-office, and also from the
Viaualing-office, to flop all Provi
sions from being put on board the
Transport fllips, and for the Soldi
ers laying at Portsmouth, Chatham,
&c. from embarking, and to hop
all other proceedings for 20 days.
Yesterday morning four waggons
laden with Money were sent off from
the Bank, under a proper Escort, to
Portsmouth, for Payment, of his
Majesty's Ships, and the Transports
lying there bound to America.
March go. Previous to the de
parture of the foreign mercenaries
to America, the sums Stipulated for
their hire and pay is to be advanced
by Great-Britain. The Prince of
Waldeck, and several of the Ger
man Princes who have engaged to
furniSh troops, are expected in Eng
land. These Princes have a juster
notion of the finances of England to
permit their Subjects to embark be
fore they are paid for their hire.
It is aftoniShing how any man
could ever dream of fending cavalry
^ America. Only let us for a mo
%ent conceive, a dragoon with his
bags, his bucket, his boots, his belts,
his havre sack, his cloak, his can
tine, his broad sword and his car
bine, galloping round a tree to catch
a rifle-man or an Indian! It is a
cow catching a hare. The idea is
laughable if the consequences were
not serious.
Notwithstanding the pacific no
tions of the Spaniards, as we have
been hitherto amused with, we orc
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