North Carolina Gazette

              m l o n d o n march 15 jfc t t t l r s from bilboa bring advice that there were b fix fail of american veficl there taking in doarhing jmj and warlike itores ; that they were expected all to fail ■ j about the zoth inibht that they are ilout fhips and f^f carried from twelve to eighteen guns betides fwi fwli is almoft inipofl&ie to concci the injury done to our trade mk the american privateers much longer befidcs 210 vefisls pken by the nev ftngisn'd privateers there are now 70 more w n 3 c "'"^^ there is no account buc yet are feared to have m^zred the fame fate 8f the provincial privateers have taken to the amount of weft dia hips £- 1,069,000 m newfoundland 5^500 m african 137,000 j canada and nova scotia ., 16,500 * : transports victuallers and f:crs fttips 167,000 ■?\. iritb 3»5 co l mediterranean . 14,000 1 sundry traders 60,000 % . . i»575»5 a qvatleman juli returned from rnakirg the tour ot france m s fent us the following note from dunkirk to bre f.om mencc through bcurdeaux to bayonne then chrodgh thouloule k marfeilies and la-:ly through lyons and dijon 10 paris i set neither men nor women in high or low itacioni but were iends to the aoerica^s „ fm 25 express are daily paffing botvveea germany id london from whence it is thought the little iiate of thac jfcnpire who have articled to furniih the troups for america flave been et on by a certain court to bie.ik their engagement tthry continue iheir excufes f-.rit for not providing tae num er agreed upon nd next for th's delay in not bciug ready to 3/f"the favourite toaft among people ia trade i m mr tempte f|tuttreil and luccciv • j his bill tor manning of the r.avy and ffiie failors add thereto ** mav hevvho opjjc.ic ivir tiuttroll's jjili it-rve for wati of flip or li noakcu l.r ws?jt of grog mjdpril 3 the anfwer cf the i.ates general to the laic niento of our court evidently fnews that the hollanders ire not to mfc bullied out < of meafures conducive to heir intcreft th$y flpave fupplied zva wiil continue to foppfy the amciicaris with warlike uores our dutch creditors are loo numerous to be ir ; ticated w could mach eafier wife tivocy ti.an p.iy off their memands th fabric of cur public credit is fo execefiingly de dicate that even the fpirauon of aneflemy might biow i in:o l orders are fent^to ireland for getting ready provifions fum\:i nt to load 40 fail of tranfporfs for amerlav which are to be t cork by the 20th of april ntxx 0 april 8 our miniiter at the kague afiusred an air of eu?ho m t y when he prefented his lalt m'er»ioria but the anfwer hath wught him a little more humility 7,1 advice was yelterday received in town from cadiz of the fail g of the glorious and subtile men of war from that port with jfceo troops on board for carthagena diiabied fldier arrived from ntw york who w2s in the jttkion a the taking fort vvafhington fa^s we loit at le it 1000 bod trcops by that affair wthey write from ireland as a proof of their defencelef llatc i this criiis that feveral american priva'eers have entered their tt>rts and taken freih water and proviiions what a placid fchaviour to an enemy at open war j a private letter received from lifbon brings advice that an american privateer cf 20 guns had put iuto ins tagus but was jbdered to depart immediately which the did ; and the next my off the rock of lilbon fell in with two fleet portuguefe crchant fhipi which the privateer made and carried th her boston june 12 friday laft arrived in a fafe port the fnow salljr a prize ta ken by capt harriden in the brig tyrannicide bclouging to this 1 ate having on board a variety of european goods among which are 3 or 4000 blankets this veffej with the intrepid salilbury jane and anne were loaded by a merchant in lon don and failed in company ; tleir cargoes amounted to 22,cccl and confighcd to a gentleman in quebec we hope captain harriden will meet with the other three vefleis as we unuer iland he was in purfuit of them wh*n the prize maiter left him the salfy's cargo amounts to near 60o0i fterling and in arti cies as beneficial for the ftates of america as for mr carlton or any britifb fdbjeft at quebec we alio karn that captain harriden hzs taken a traofport boand from ireland to new york with 63 helgan foldiers oa board whicl may be hourly looked for capt fifk in the watachufetts has likewife taken a fhip with 84 htilfans on board which are arrived in a fafe port thefe two trar.fports were part of a iieet of 14 fail under con vey of two frigates with about 600 recruits which failed from ireland about the 10th of may and poffibly have arrived by this time and no doubt we fnall receive a pompous account from gaine's lying gazette of a reinforcement of as many tboufands as there are hundreds nine fail of tranfports failed at the fame time for qfiebtfc with troops making up we hear in the whole 1500 men saturday laft returned into port a prize brig bound from hence tor south carolina laden with rum fugar kc she was taken on her paflage by one of the enemy's cruizers and after ards retaken by the tartar privateer of this ftate sunday arrived fafe in port a prize hip from tiaby in wales with about one hundred and forty tons of coa!s she was taken by the fchooner , of this port capt daniel mcneil the fcllarxing letter ivas received by a gentleman in cambridge from a per fen of char after and veracity in a u<wn on the frontiers f the ftate of nt<w hat.tpfiirn about 1 40 stilts from fort st john's in canada vix s . cohofj haverhill zd june ljjj *'* one of our fcouting parties is returned from canada this day with ieveral frenchmen who report that there are about 300 men of the britifh aimy ftaticned at hie aux noix 200 at st john's and 30 only at chamblee a number of others quar tered up and down through the country to keep the canadians in order who very generally refufe tc take up arms fome of them fuffer imprifunoient rather than enter the englifn fervice the indians too have determined not to take up arms againft the americans ; they have difpericd and g»ne to their homes general burgoyne arrived at quebec the ibth of may without recri>its ; he tells them there are 30 fail of trar.fports with troops coming after him the median and britifh foldiers have been very iickly near halt of them dead out of about 7000 men and the reft refufe going out of garrifon to fight alled^ing their times are out two regiments were lately marched oft for que bec and another gorhg ; it is fuppoftrd they have fosse expecta tion of a french fleet coming up the river st lawrence thefe are favourable circtimitances and i believe may be depended upon p h i l a d e lphia june 25 in our lalt we informed o%r readers that general howe with a large part of his army were marched from brucfwick and encamped at somerfet while there col morgan with 500 ri flemen continually harrafled them and in a fraall re encounter we are told killed 18 heffians and took feveral pnfocer which together with the defer:crs c readied his fay th&re fo difa greeable that in a few days after hhurnral being ftizsd with the horribles at the fight of gcner&f wafhington on one fide and general sullivan on the other he packed up his all ai.d pufhed off to brunfwick in his route he sir william hout itole every thing worth carrying off burnt oomerfet cqbtthgaso semper pro libertate et bono publico with the lateft advices foreign and domestic i8 1777 t fc e number 385 0rth-c4r0lina gazette