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men paricied, a volly of Imall arms, fired from thefort, mixed fometimes with cannon. About no’doclc at night it ceafed for about half an hour, when, to our great furprizr, we faw fiver*! other botffes a fire, which are jull now confumed. It isnow I o’clock.Another letter from Co'. Sco’t, to Capt. Southall, dated, Great Bridge, Dec. 5th, 1775.Since my laft, we have feat a party of 100 met! under the command of Co'. Stevens, of the minute battalion, over the river, who fell in laft night, a-ix»it ix o’clock, with a guard of about thirty men,thiciy’ftegroes. They got up to the centinels un-diTcovered ; the ciyitinel challenged, and was not anfwered, upon which he fired.—Our people, being too eager, began the fire immediately, without orders, and kept it up very hot for near 15 minutes. we'Killed one, burnt another in the houfe, and took two prifoners (all blacks) with four exceeding fine inufqueti, and defeated the guard. There is hardly an hour in the day but we exchange a few fhot. I am, as ufual, in haftc, Sec.BALTIMORE, (Maryland) Decemhrr 16. Iitelligtaee juft received from the army at the Great-bridge ne«r Norfolk,St turd*y tnoniiag the 9*h, about 3 o'clock* the mt* BifttrUl garrifon at the bridge was rein forced with a-bode *06 of the 14th regiment, under the comm*ad of Capt. and at brtik of day about 500 ptffed the'bridge to force our brtafl-work, but were repu'.ftd with Iftfr 0f Capt, Fordycc, tad i * private! fhin, Lieut, Bir* lit, tad 17 private* taken, all wouadcd. The reft re-Ifratd under cover of their cannoa' from the fort, tad £«« allowed to rttur* and col left .heir dead and wounded, fuppofed In the whole to be about 50, Du* ‘tfogthc whole aflioo (thanki be to GodI we did not lefc a Cagle man, only one wa» (lightly wounded in theAsad.PHILADELPHIA, December a.o*We are iaforned that a camp for *0,000 French Tii.marked oat at Hifpaniola* and that 7000 of ware hourly fxpefted.'JKxtr*B if a Utfir from Dimene'ca* November 6.H. By a gtntlemm from MwtintcodC am told that fe« ta) thonfand French troopa were already arrived and ore ''coming to Msrtiafoo sad Guadaloupe, and the ighboUting ifltada,,fr ait if a lit fir frm St, Euftaita* December I.« We have an uadoubted account of the ^arrival of 500 men at Martintco, and 1800 at Gaudaloupe.they part of a reinforcement of 10,000 men, ordered out thofc iflandi 1 there li alfo 4000 ordered out for St.. omingo part of which are arrived.,f By a gentleman from Virgiaia we learn, that Lord fiunmori in the ft vecal fklrasifhes with the Virgioiint, ^ad loft 150 men killed and taken prifoners, which had {0 far weakened hit Lordlhlp, that he had Bed on board lit (hip* with fatttt of the belt of hi* negroes, after tell -tne other'dive* (both black and whi'e) in Norfolk, aauft (hift for thcmftlves, at he could iffrrd them ao fattier'iffiittnce. That while iftN^rfo*k,be had taken 'life to levy costrlbu ions on hii Mends, out of one he fcaetxed 800I. no doubt for hii loyalty.NEW-YQRK, December 28.rift of a letter from Cape Nkrhola^MoIe, dat«d]No-vember ry, 1775.91 There is great preparation making in 'this quarter receive a number of French troops, lodgi/igi are tn* ged for the officers, birracUs building and refitting to tceive the men at Cape Francois as well as here. 1 iav« ii from the beft authority here, who fay it is keptprofound ftcret at home; hut a fevere blow ii to be Brack by them end the Spaniards, who ate to aft toller,”NTE W • L ON DO N, December 29.* By hi hen k advices from Martinico, we learn, that the 4th of Oftober laft, Capt. Grant Gordon, com-aade* of the Argus, an Englilh frigate, lying in the hour of St. Pierre, fent a boat wrh 1 * men 00 board French floop in that harbour, in fearch of powder, fappofi' g her to be an Englifh vefTel bound to North-merica.) Intelligence of this coming to the miller of floop, who was oi fhore, he immediacy repaired board hii ye Act to know the reifja of hia conduit ; Lieutcaant of the f.tgate demanded his paperi, and the mailer’s refuting to exhibit them, • (quibble en-which being difcorercd by the people on (hore, y wist to the afltftance of the French mailer, on fetch iki Lieutenant and fome other officers and failors eat-on (hore, where they we*e fjon lur roundtd by a i*crou» mob, which this infult had .collected; mean ile the people in the boat were drove from the (hore hh ffiiwera of (lanes which were thrown at them,officer* at the fame ami were homed at by numbers*CAMBRIDGE January 4.Ext rail of 1 litter fnm Accomack, m f^irginia^ da*ted December *8 th$ 1775. *€t Our troops under Cuioncl Woodford entered Norfolk hii Thurfoay, without oppolition. Tbe Governor (Lord Diinmorc) has drdwn his fleet of fbips from before the town, and fallen/down the river ten miles. Col. Woodfordlt;hts not loft a man in this expedition, notwithftarfdrngjhe Governor's troops attempted to force his lines at the Great-Bridge. Every man, outoffixty two grenadiers, ware killed, wounded, or taken prifoners : indeed all thofc taken prifoners were wounded, and but ten remained alive when chc^ccount came away. Cape. Fordyce and Capt. Leflie are angpEg frain.”By letters from General Schuyler we learn, that CoL Eafton had taken the veflels bound from Montreal for Chiebec, under the command of Carleton, or Prefcot.—That Carleton with four or five Canadians had landed from the fleet, and were making the beft of their way to Quebec in the drefs of pea* fants— That the brig Gafpee, together with feven (loops and fchooncrt which were taken as above, had on boardt (who are alfo taken) BrigadicrGene-ril Prefect, Captain William Dunbar, Major of Brigade, Captain William Gamble, Quartcr-Maf-ter General—-Captains Anftrufher, Swan, Crawfordand Harris j Lieutenant Cleveland—Enfigns Cam-b!c, Leflie and M^onald, D »£lor Beaumont, 150private*, and moft of them of the a6ih regiment, and the artillery. There were on board the veflels,% cannon of 9 and 1 of 6 pounders : Thirty* fixcannon cartridges, five ball ; three barrtlsof powdtr, 1380 md®fetxartridges, eight chcfts of arms 200 pair of (hotw, a quantity of intrenching tools, 760 barrels of flour, 20 of bifcuit, 675 barrel* of bctf, and 376 firkins of butter. We further learn, that Col. Allen and his party who were taken prifoners near Montreal are adually fent to England in irons, by Major Prefcot j and that Gen. Montgomery, with a ftrong detachment, was to leave Montreal on the 25:1* of November, to reinforce Col. Arnold at Queocc.We hear that the Thurfday ieflure,which has been held in Bo Aon for upwards of 130 years without any interruption, was clofed about a fortnight fince, by the Rev. Dr. Elliot, who delivered a difcourfe welladapted to the occafion.On Wcdncfday the week before laft, Major Genera! Lee fet out for Rhode-Ifland : he was attended by his guard and a party of rifle-men ; and from Providence by the Cadet company of that place, atid a number of minute men. He entered the town of Newport the Monday following, preeeeded by the Cadets,hisGuard, and theRifl^*men. While there, he called before him a number of obnoxious perfons, to whom he tendered the oath of fidelity to the country, which was taken by all of them, exceptingCol. Jofeph Wanton, jun. Nicholas Ltchmete, and Richard Beale, two Cuftom houfe officers, who rcfu* fed taking it ; upon which they were put under guard, and brought to Providence. The General after having viewed the ifland, and given djreSions for ere£liog fome fortifications fet out forProvidence on Wednefday, from whence he carnc to town on Saturday laft.We heat that a gcntlejpan is arrived at Bofton from theMole, who fays, that ** vaft preparations for war are making there by the Spaniards j and that Jamaica is their immediate objedL”A gentleman who came paflenger in a tranfport which arrived at Bofton* laft Week, lrom London, informs, that 26 fail of veflels, laden with ftores and provifions, ware, when be leftEngland, failed or fitting out for Bofton, for the fupport of the gartifon the prefont winter; but that no troops might be ex* petFhrd before the Spting : and that no fine large (beep were brought out in the vc(T;l in which he came pafTcngtr, but that only two of them wereearned into Button a‘ive.Laft Saturday about 120 more of the inhabitants of Bofton, arrived at Chelfea, among whom were M'. Peter Edes, (fon to Mr. Benjamin Edes, Printer) and M\ VVilliam Starr, both of whom were confined in Bofton goal for federal maothr by order of the execrab'e T. Gage.Wc arc credibly ioformcd that tbe miniftcria!(
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