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We hear that the stations of the several regiments are fix*
ed as follows:
In Great-Britain. ll* Borland's
Horse 1034 33. Griffon’s
Dragoons 2655 37. Stewart's *
Light dragoons 402 Making 2116 effective men.
Foot guards In America.
ift F. 2d battalion Erskine’s 20 battalions, 500 men each
6. Guise's 4. Duroure's
7. Lord Robert Bertie's 9. Whitmore's
.8. Barrington's 15. Amherst's
13. Pultney’s 17. Monckton's
14. Jeffereys’s 22. Gage’s
21. Panmure's . * 27. Warburton'^
23. Bofcawen's 28. Townlhend’s
25. Lord George Lenox’s 34. Lord Fred. Cavendiffi’s
31. Oughton's 35. Otway's
32. Leighton's 38. Talbot’s
36. Lord Robert Manners’s j.o. Armiger’s
Each regiment confiding of 42. Lord John Murray’s
529 men. 43. Noel's
Gibraltar . 44. Abercrombie's
19, Lord Geo. Beauclerk's 45. John Bofcawen’s
20. Kingsley's 46. Thomas Murray's
24. Cornwallis's 49. Stanwix's
30. Loudon’s 60. Royal Americans, 2 bat-
Making 2116 men. talions
Minorca. 63. Boothby’s ,
3. Howard's Making 10000 effe&ive men
All the rest it is expedled will be sent to Ireland.
The additional duty that is to be laid on wines, is said to
be 81. per ton on ail French wines imported, and4l. per ton
on all other wines without diflindtion that are imported into
*his kingdom; the produce of which is to establish a fund
for the payment of the interest of the 3,500,000!. to beraif
cd for the service of the prefen t year.
March Ig. We hear that Norborne Berkeley, Esq; Lieu
tenant and Cuftos Rotulorum, and one of the Knights of the
ihire for the county of Gloucester, and Groom of the King's
Bedchamber, will Ihortly be created Baron Battitoe, which
is the oldest barony in England.
Major John Maunfell, of Gen. Otway's regiment, is ap
pointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the 7 2d regiment, command
ed by the Duke of Richmond.
March 26. We are informed, that the Right Hon. the
Earl of Harcourt, Master of the Horse to the Queen, will
be*appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
And that James Stuart Mackenzie, Esq; Member of Par
liament for the county of Ross in Scotland, will go Ambas
sador to the Court of France, on the return of his Grace the
Duke of Bedford.
March 28.. .We can assure our readers, that his Majesty
‘will not visit his ele&oral dominions this year.
; Match 30. Anew treaty of commerce is on the carpet be
tween France and Holland.
March 31. We are told that a great change is already
begun amongst the Ministry. It is said his Grace the Duke
of Devonshire will be madeFirft Lord of the Treasury, in
the room of Lord Bute, who will be made Lord Chamber
lain or the Houfhold; Mr. Pitt to be Secretary of State;
and several great Commoners, who now enjoy high polls*
on their resignation, will be created Peers.
. Ten (hips of war are ordered to be fitted for North-Ame
rica, and to be there stationed.
There appears to be no foundation for the report of the
King of Prufiia’s setting up claims on the Dutch.
car go of the Spanish man of war loft near Ramfoate
is valued at upwards of 70,0001. 6
A. M E R I C A.
Nt tv-York, April 18, * •
$ St. Mary’s on Lake Superior, being the
J I advanced post the French ever had in the
F Indian country in Cahada, was, by fomc un-
I known accident, on fjie 20th December last,
m the night, reduced to alhes, with the bar
racks, and every thing that was in the fort, and the com
manding officer, an gentleman, (the fort having
been in the possession of the English since the redudion of
Canady) was much torched in endeavouring to avoid the
names, . • ‘ • ’ *
St. John's in Antigua, April 27.
Extra? of a Utter from Bartholomew Putman, matter of A,, r ?
*er Leopard, whofailedfhm this if and the 21 tt iJ bc/frlT
Martinique, dated Basseterre, Guadeloupe, , April th
a perjon in this town. r to
“ It is with much grief I acquaint you of my r w
fortune which I met with the 23d, at one o'c od l /’
mormng, five leagues di.We from DottunicoV S w
bemg boarded by a Spanifl, pirate, and after beW fin! ’
ana used barfcaroufiy was turned adrift with mv boat
out water, or provisions of any kind. 1 cannof info™ you
nghtly where ihe belonged to; only from what they told
me, wmch was, that (he did belong to the island of Mar*i
ritta, and that the Captain’s name is'Antoney she h' !
one carriage and 12 swivel guns, and a 4 hands; but had
manned fit prizes, and for the molt part cruises off Domi
mco, md ms been there for five weeks. I beg you will
fend this account to my owners in Salem.’*
Bcfcn, May 9. Tliurfday last Capt. fofter arrived at Si
lem, in 26 days from ‘Statin; and by a passenger that fincl
came to town we learn, that on the sth of April, three of
the pirates lately mentioned to be carried into the Weft Tn
dies, were haaged viz. the Master, Male, 2nd another*
and the owner branded. 7he pirate u'as a sloop, having
only fmali arms; they confeffed that the method they u fJ
to destroy the people they took, was to blindfold them and
°£ Cr ‘Tis said two others are hovering
about Martinico, and that two armed brigs from ’Statia are
in pursuit of them.
AVw-/V,, May 16. Thobrigt. Betsey, Capt. Buckma
j’..a£,vei her ® . Dn Monday in 33 days fiom Berbicia,
and informs .us; That on the 26th March he failed f om Su
rinam for that place, w ith 120 officers and soldiers, and on
Jus arrival found that moft of the white inhabitants of Ber
bicia had repaired to Fort St. Andrew, at the river's mouth
the negroes having possessed themselves of all the plantati
ons which lay along the river: That he was informed by the
Governor, that the negroes had murdered between 40 and
5° whites, and had several of the white women in poffeflw
on: I hat he, in company with two (hips, took the Gover
nor and soldiers on board, and went up. to the said Gover
nor s plantation, which, on their appearance, the negroes
quitted ; but two days after 5 or 600 of them came and at
tacked it, whom the whites, with the loss of one man, soon
beat offi That after they had been at this plantation fix days,
the Governor received a letter from the negroes, letting
1m know, that if he would make peace with them, the/
wou and give him the lower part of the colony, and they
would keep the upper ; if net, they would wait on him in
aday or two, burn the ships, and cut all the people's throats.
Gaps. .Buckmafter came away the evening after this letter
was received, and failed out of the river two days after,
when he met with a brig from Barbadoes, w ith 500 soldiers
on board, bound to Demarara, being appreheniive the ne
groes would rebel there also.
- Gonnc&icut papers we find, that letters have been
£ ce . I™* 1 ™* t * l^ re f rom the Secretary of StateJ fignifying his
. J .X s disapprobation of the Connecticut people’s at
tempting settlements on the river Susquehanna and Dela
ca^*e can be the King:
I he rcfpe&ive committees have accordingly given notice to
all persons concerned, not to proceed to enter upon, or
make any settlement on said lands, till his Majesty ’3 plea
lure is known. ’ * 4
- MtWrtirh May 19. On Tuesday last arrived a Hoop
rom Martinico, which brought letters for several gentlemen
in town. We hear that a vcflel had just arrived there, that
was met at sea by another vessel from the Eaft-lndies, bound
/1 * having Col. Coote on board, who ftopt the vef
lel till he w'rote and sent on board her a letter for Gen. Ru r
lane, Governor of Martinico, giving an account of the
tonauejt of the island of Manilla, by Col. Draper, in Not
whereKe found two millions, fome fay twi and
a half.millions Sterling in specie, and that a rich Acapulco
Ihip had also fallen into his hands.
Same day Capt. ——-arrived from the Havana* which
he left the 2d inst. He acquaints us, that the day
before he failed, an English officer, that had formerly been
a ferjeant, but had obtained a commission for his bravery at
the atrack of the Moro, was executed there for the murder
of an Engliih foldicr, which was oceafioued by means ol I
tronuup *