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• -V*;.ct SZpV'L*. ^4 ... I- ■ .?r:v: ••■;.- **'“•' ' ' ■' *..... V‘’^v '•W .V :• f*V .*'’* ** I hid a;, paflage of eighfc .^feelm, ana- naveeveiy ■ diiflg; in^ B»e prdvihce extremelyIf a French war-habw.h;dec!8r6d’ beforebOUpdWeft Indiamen. In the jl^titude 44. o;•itadfefO. o. I fell in with a ContinentalvateCr ^18 guns, fixandniod pounders, and;. aving as I fappofe from. 150. to 200 men ; at feven in. the morning I faw- her three miles to the .windward, Aid hoifted Engljih colours,,and fo 'did die direly -double reefed her and I. being under cbfe reefed top-fails, tone TeeSf to make the (hip work the better,, jthen hiuled up my courfes. At eight in morning the came fo near that I could heayea, hifcuit on boardher, but fhe, took care to lay on, my bow j therfefore I fcould not .get all my gups,to bear; fhe then hoifted American odours, and aflspd what Ihip ; I did not reply, bit w.as impatient to get the Howe properly along fide.* -“..My- adverfary feemed very pneafy, and hailed us, enquiring from whence we came; I anfwrred from Great Britain; and ordered roy men to compmnce the engagement i—^thp fire was very hot on both Tides, until I. had net a brace Or bowling, Handing, the entire fifcging being torn to pieces ; the privateer was likewifein a lhatiered condition, thereforelhehauled off' ' to repair her damages, and I was em^lbyed • in the fame manner. Every thing ..feeing put |orights in half an hour, the fight was renewed,which continued until eleven o’clock, with round, grape, and can.nrfter fhot; we drove them ftom their guns, and ftill kept Up the fife ; $: :theft brought the Howe under h«r ftern, and dlfcharg-ed my guns ferilk into the cabin windows. -At that, lime we obferved the privateers name to be the Franklin, and I thinjl tfeje Door nevergot fuch a dofe; at length me fet her fails andgot under way. I gave chace, but to no purpofe, . as Ifee wencthree feet for my one; had the Howe failed well, I fhouid have given a good accoiiht of. the Franklin; one of my people, was killed, and another- fhot through the body with a fwivel ball ; he is in a fair way of recovery, but npt out ofdanger; the other accidents are very trifling.** The Howe was deeply laden, had two nine pounders, eighteen fix pounders, and-fixtyjaen.’*A _ J. wr • l - a f.' *n
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General Advertiser and Morning Intelligencer
London, Middlesex, GB
Wed, Oct 07, 1778
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