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in a few months. He gives the following {hiking instance
of the scarcity of provisions at St. John's, viz. That as a boat,
having on board a family, was going from thence to another
island, a child of eight years of age perished with hunger on
the passage, when the unhappy parents were obliged to eat
the dead body thereof to pfeterve their own miserable lives.
He also ftys that, at the river St. John's, the Indians are high
ly incensed against the ministerial party, and are determined,
at all hazards, to join the Americans.
WATERTO W N, June 24.
Yesterday afternoon thirteen large ships were seen Handing
in for Boston, thought to be the remainder of the Scotch fleet,
with tneir convoy.
N E WPOR T, June 24.
The Hon. the General Assembly of this colony is adjour
ned to the third Monday in August, then to meet in this
town.
.The House have passed an a& permitting an inoculating
hospital for the Smallpox to be ereded in each county in this
colony, under the direction of the Town-Councilstor Com
mittees.
Within about a fortnight past, Capt. Grimes, in one of
, gallies, has grappled up three cables and anchors between
, town and Conanicut, having been left by the min ft ri 1
rtes, when they were driven out of this harbor. Two of
t ' cables are sixteen inches, and the other nine ; the largelt
3 chor weighed 24 c. 2 qrs. and 12 lb. marked with the Scar
ycugh's name on the flock.
Capt. Robert Campbell, lately arrived here paflenger from
Curacoa, informs that he was taken the 24th of November
last, by the Viper sloop of war, on his passage from St. Croix
to New-York, and carried in Antigua the 21st of December,
where his vessel and cargo were condemned, as mentioned in
the papers lome time palt. Capt. Campbell fays he left An
tigua about the eighth of April, and that there had been
about forty American vessels carried into that ifland/^efore
he came away.
NEW-HA V E N, June 26.
Thirty-three and one quarter t ns of SALT-PETRE, ma
nufaaureu in this colony, before the firft of June inst. has al
ready been received into store for the colony, to supply the
powder mills therein; three of which are already going, one
of them is in this town, and was built in little more than one
month.
NEW YORK, July 1.
The number of transports now at Sandy-Hood, we hear,
amounts to one hundred and thirteen, and we have not the
PROVIDENCE, June 22.*
Wednesday last Capt. James Munro, of this port, in a let
ter of marque sloop, arrived here from Hispaniola. On the
fever© kit he retook two Hoops, loaded with lumber, from
Eden &n, in North-Carolina, which had been taken by the
Ade frigate, and ordered to Antigua. Capt. Munro sent
the } zes to Hispaniola, and has brought home with him a
perf taken on board one of them, who calls himlelf a bro
ther the present Lord Crandon.
V dnefday lari the officers taken by Capt. Biddle out of
two ./anfport fhip§ from Scotland, arrived here, and have
since been conducted to a place of fafety in the country, as
were allo a number of officers belonging to the British navy,
who had been confined here for lome time path
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lead reason to doubt that Gen. Howe is in this fleet. Fioti
the number of troops now here, and those on their way fro a
different parts of the country, it is computed our army will
soon amount to twenty-five thousand men.
A boat from the fleet was reconnoitring in our harbour last
Saturday night, but a shot from one of our batteries soon
made her tack about.
Lalt Friday in the forenoon was executed in a field between
the Colonels M'Dougall and Huntington's camp, near the
Bowry-lane (in the presence of near twenty thousand fpeaa
tors) a soldier belonging to his Excellency General Washing
ton's guards, for mutiny and conspiracy ; being one of those,
who formed, and was soon to have put in execution, that hor
rid plot of affaffinacing the Staff officers, blowing up the ma
gazines, and securing the passes of the town on the arrival of
the hungry ministerial myrmidons. It is hoped the remainder
of those mifereants, now in our possession, will meet with a
punishment adequate to their crimes.
We hear it is proposed, that after three months, the cur
rency of all copper coin made of base metal, or wanting in
weight, is to be totally suppressed, and that the rest is to pass
at the rate of fifteen for an eighth part of a dollar. And if it
fhal.lappear that there is not a fufficiency for common use,
that it will be allcalled in, and a new impression struck of Con
tinental copper coin of a large size ; twelve of which is to
pals for an eighth of a dollar, of which no other coppers are
to pass current.
Last Thursday week the privateers Montgomery and Schuy
ler, of this port, retook and carried fare into a port to the
eastward, two whaling brigs from Brazils, belonging to
Nantucket, a schooner belonging to cape Ann, with sugar
and molasses, and a sloop from Rhode-ifland, with lumber
and flour.
On board, one of the whalers, Capt. Burkes, came pas
senger William Hallock, of the whaling brig Elliot of this
port, who, on the 19th of May, was taken and carried into
Antigua, having on board two hundred and fifty barrels of
oil, and gives us the following account, viz. That Captain.
Helins, with four hundred barrels, was carried into Antigua
allo, and Capt. Jenkins, into Dominico with one hundred
and titty barrels. That Capt. Jagger, with four hundred
barrels, had got into Guadeloupe; and Capt. Darling, with
four hundred barrels more, had arrived at St. Lucee. That
Capt. Finkman, with two hundred and twenty barre s, was
left on the Brazil coast, and he supposed all the other wha
lers were well.
One of the abovementioned vessels was taken by the Grey
hound frigate, Captain Dickinson, from Halifax for New-
York, having Gen. Howe on board. The mip failed frorg
Halifax the 9th of June, in company with a fleet of one hun
dred and thirty fail.
We hear that four more transports, with troops, besides
those already mentioned, have been lately taken, and carried
into some of our ports to the eastward.
PHI LADELTIII July 2.
Extract of a letter from an officer in St. Mary's county, Mary
land, dated the ninth uit.
“ Our neighbour Dunmore has removed up to Gwyn's is
land, and has there intrenched himielf. Four days ago he
sent a party of marines and tailors on shore, to get wood, to
the amount of fifty, who to a man deferred, with their arms
and tools. Three of them would have inlilted with us, but
we, being full, could not take them. They fay he intends
to make a p^ih at us in harvest. I apprehend his crop will
hardly be worth gathering."