The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle — Portsmouth, N.H., 1773-06-25 00:00:00, page 2

Norton, %#e 17:
By a Vcfolrarrived at New-York from London,
we have Advices one Day later than by Capt.
Hall, viz.
LONDON, April 24.
THE present fleet is certainly intended
for nothing but to be a squadron of
observation ; yet it is apprehended that the
Houle of Bourbon is too far engaged with
its allies, to permit the gathering storm to
blow over without breaking.
Admiral Saunders is to hoist his flag on
board the Barfleur of 90 guns.
A Proclamation (bearing date Thursday
lift the 22d inst.) for encouraging seamen,
and landmen, to enter themselves on board
his Majesty's Ships of war, is published, giv
ing to all able seamen a bounty of three
pounds ; toall ordinary seamen two pounds;
and to all such able landmen twenty Shillings
as Shall voluntarily enter them (elves to serve
an the Royal Navy, on or before the 31st
Day of May next.
Orders ate lent over to Ireland to lay an
embargo on the Irish victuallers, & to pre
vent the exportation of provisions from the
ports of that kingdom, except on govern
ment account.
We can allure the publick, that Admiral
Saunders is appointed to the command of
the grand fleet, now fitting out with the ut
most expedition, at Portsmouth, whose or
ders are to fail immediately for the Medi
terranean.
Yesterday there was a full board of Ad
miralty held at Charing Cross, at which
Lord Sandwich presided; at the breaking
up of which, expresses were sent oft to Cha
tham, Portsmouth, & Plymouth dock yards.
The following intelligence may be de
pended on, that eight fail of the line are or
dered for the Mediterranean immediately ;
fix are to be fitted out with ail expedition,
with some frigates for the Weft-Indies, and
eight more, making in the whole twenty
two fllips of the line, which are designed
for Asia and America.
Yesterday fix rendezvous houses for the
inlifting seamen into his Majesty's service,
were opened at Wapping and Rotherhithe.
Twenty-four Surgeons were taken from
the half pay lift,by order from the Admiral
ty board, to serve on board the Royal Navy.
The commissioners of the victualling of
fice. have received orders for getting ready
27,000 tens of salt provisions, for the men
of war at Spithead, and Plymouth in* four
teen days.
His Majefly's.fhips Barfleur, Royal Oak,
Worcester, Dyon, Superb, and Archilles, are
ordered out from Portsmouth to Spithead
with all speed, to wait for failing orders.
The French Consul, who lately embraced
Mahometanifm, and had retired too near
Adrianople, was last month found strangled
in his bed.
It is laid, Lord North had three motives
for calling the House of Commons on the
26 of April, for the sense of the constituents
upon the propriety of opposing France in
its project of fending a fleet to the Baltic,
and another to the Mediterranean, for re
floring to his Majesty instead of his present
allowance, the revenues fettled upon his
grand father, and for obliging the plunde
rers of the raft to refund.
It is asserted very confidently that the cause
of fending out a fleet so expi^litioufly, is on
account of some diSpatches from Gibralter;
which brought advice that a very large fleet
of men of war, confiding of French, Spa
niflr, Portuguese & Danish, were collecting
together in the Mediterranean, for what
purpose was not known ; tho' it is gi#en out
that they intend driving the Ruffians out of
thole seas ; but it is strongly fufpeded that
they have some other grand design in view,
and therefore the ministry have thought it
proper to fend out a fleet of observation.
The Englifi News-writers were all taken
in by pretended alliance with France, and
Spain. Indeed it served them to fill their
papers on Monday with? absurdities which
supplied them with the Means of contra
dicting them on Tuefday.*
It is the declared intention of theHoufe
of Commons to take no monnotice of Mr,
Wilkes's letter than if it had not been re
ceived by the Speaker.
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On Tuesday lad, his Excellency General
Gage, with his amiable La ty and Family ;
also Major Sheriff, Capt. Kemble, Captain
Dobfon, Doctor Brown, and Several other
Passengers embarked on board the Ship Earl
of Dunmore, Capt. Effingham Lawrence ;
and the Wind being fair, immediately fail
ed for London. The General was attended
by the principal Officers of the Army, to the
Water-fide, at Murray's Wharf, near the
Coffee-Houfe, where a Company of Royal
Artillery, waited his coming. As toon as
the Ship got under Sail, he was saluted by
19 Discharges of two Field Pieces, belong
ing to the Artillery ; and as he passed the
Battery by the like Number from thence.
The destinations of the different compa
nies in the fourth battalion of the Royal
American regiment of artillery, expedted
from Europe, viz/ Major William Martin's
and Capt. Anthony Farrington's, New-York,
Captain George Anderson's, Philadelphia ;
Capt. William Johnston's, East and Weft-
Florida ; Captain Edward Foy's, Montreal;
Captain Thomas Jones's, Quebec ; Captain
Tho's Davies's, Halifax ; and Major Fran
cis James Buchanan's, Newfoundland.
PROVIDENCE, June 12.
Wednesday Night we had a violent Storm
of Wind and Rain, which has done some
Damage in the Country, by blowing down
Trees, &c. & 'tis feared the Shipping must
have Suffered.—Captain Field from Nan
tucket, with a Number of Ladies on board,
belonging to this Town, happily got into
Newport about Eleven o'Clock, just before
the Height of the Storm.
Tueiday last the firft Stone of the Market
House was laid by Nicholas Brown, Esq;
From a Providence Paper, just received.
Wednesday last one Hunt, a Seaman, fell
from the main Stay of a Brig lying in the
Harbour, on some Stone Ballast in the Hold
and fractured his Skull very badly.
The fame Day the Body of Christopher
Beadle, mentioned in our last as supposed to
be drowned, was taken up at Sabins's Point,
and interred here.
Monday last was the annual Election of
Town Officers ; At the said Meeting a Mo
tion was made for the Town to inffru& its
Representatives, that in the next Session of
Assembly they ufetheir Influence to displace
John Cole, Esq; from being a Member of
the Committee &( Correspondence lately ap
pointed, he having, in a very flagrant Man
ner, fhamefully violated and betrayed the
Faith and Confidence reposed in him by his
Country, in yielding Obedience to ^a Man
date from the Commissioners of Enquiry at
Newport, and answering before them on
Oath, thereby fully acknowledging their
Jurifdi&ion, and endeavouring to counteract
the laudable Design of theHoufe,in appoint
ing the said Committee.—The Motion was
over-ruled,on a Supposition that his Conduct
will naturally be inquired into at the next
Session. of Assembly.
Daniel Hitchcock,Efq; Attorney at Law,
and Arthur Fenner, jun. Esq; Clerk of the
Superior Court, were likewise Summoned
to appear before the faidCommiffioners, and
have done themselves high Honour, in nob
ly refufing to pay them the lead Regard.—
These two Gentlemen are not of the Com
mittee.
We learn by the Pott, that the Court of
Enquiry broke up Yesterday, without hav
ing been able to discover any of the Parties
concerned in destroying the Gafpee Schoo
ner.
By a Letter from Capt. Fuller, late of the
Sloop Elizabeth, of this Port to his Owners
dated at Antigua, we learn that on his Pas
sage from hence to Granada, in Lat. 24 N.
Long. 59: 50 W. his Vessel unhappily took
Fire, and was burnt, owing to some Hog
sheads of Lime in the Hold getting wet.—
Capt. Fuller had been 12 Days at Sea when
he met with this Disaster. The People,
after remaining two Days and two Nights
in the Boat, were providentially taken up by
a Dutch Ship.
St.JO H N's (in Antigua) May 8.
On Thursday lad arrived here the sloop
King George, Joshua Hillton, from Cafco-
Bay ; he Spoke a Dutch (hip from St. Euf
tatia bound for Amsterdam, the 24th of
April last, wl,o took on board Capt. Eben
ezer Fuller and five men, late of the (loop
Elizabeth, belonging to Nahum Wildet, of
Providence, in Rhode-lfland, which place
they left the 3d of April last, laden with
stone lime, hoops and haves, bound to Gre
nada, On the 15th of. said month, in lat.
24. N. long. 59, 50, W. they difeovered a
smoke issuing from the hold into the cabbin
and Peerage, which they supposed was from
the lime taking fire, they threw the hoops
overboard that were on the deck, and on
opening the hatches the flames and smoke
burst out in such a manner as to set fire to
the fails, rigging, mast, &c. so that it was
with much difficulty they could throw the
boat overboard ; they had just time to get
a little bread, a few pieces of beef; and a
small 1 runk of the Captain's, that contain
ed two or three shirts, when the fire burst
through the deck, and they were obliged to
quit the (loop. They were on board the
boat two days and two nights when they
met the Dutch (hip, on board ofwhich they
continued seven days before they met the
above (loop.
BELF AS T, April 6.
The number of ships and their tonnage, that failed with pas
sengers from the North of Ireland for North-America in the
two last years ; taken from the advertisements published in the
News-Letter.
Ships, In 1771. Tons Ships. In 1772, Tons.
13 from London 3650 9------- 2650
7 Belfaft- 1750 10 2650
9 Newry - 2800 5-- 1600
X Portru/h - 250 x------- 250
2 Larne-- 450 g-.-..-- x 3 oo
3 z 89:0 30 8450
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Total in 1,7' 32 Ships. 8900 Tons.
1772 30 $450
63 16350
N. B. It may be supposed, on a moderate computation, that
the number of passengers were equal to thetons.
The greatest part of these emigrants paid their passage which
at 31. [as, each,amounted to 60,725 b most of them people em
ployed in the linen manufacture,or farmers, &of some property
which they turned into money and carried with them : (In
evidence of this, it was computed that one ship last year, had no
Jess than 40001. in specie on board.)
Their removal is sensibly felt in this country This preva
lent humour of induftricus Protestants withdrawing from this
once flourishing corner of the kingdom, feemslo be increasing;
and it is thought the number will be considerably larger this
year than ever.
The North of Ireland has been occasionally used to emigra
tion, for which the American settlements have been much be
holden : But, till now, it was chiefly the very meanest of the
people that went off, mostly in the Ration of indented servants,
and such as had become obnoxious to their Mother Country ,
In ffiort, it is computed from many current circumstances, that
.the North of Ireland has in the last five or fix years been drai
ned of one fourth of its trading caffi, and the like proportion of
the manafiauring people. Where the evil will end, remains
in the womb of time to determine.
Just Imported, and to be fold by
George Bell & C°' y
At their Shop at New-Fields in New
market, A large and general Aflortment
of English, India and Scotch Goods,
among which are —-—•
J^ROAD CLOTHS, Calicoes, Crapes,
Taffity's, Cambricks, and Lawns
flower'd and plain ; flower'd Aprons,
Grip'd flower'd and spotted Gauze, plain
ditto ; Gauze Handkerchiefs, a fine Affort
meQ of Ribbons of the newest Patterns,
Silk Mitts, Breeches Patterns, silk Hand
kerchiefs of different Colours.—A fine As
sortment of crockery and hard Ware —
Tea, Coffee, Chocolate, Sugar, Molasses.
=-Deer and Moose-Skin Leather— With
many other Articles, too tedious to men
tion ; which they are determined to fell as
low forCafh as can be bought in any Part of
the Province. These that please to favour
them with their Custom, may depend on
being well used and their Favours grate
fully acknowleged.
N. B, constant Attendance given at said
Stores •