The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Last Saturday the privateer Ship Grand Turk, Capt. Pratt, of this port, arrived from a successful cruise. Her last prize was a schooner from Antigua, bound to Penobscot, which arrived in a safe port on Monday last.

She left St. John's on 17th ult.. The intelligence received by her, of two engagements between the British and French fleets in the West-Indies, we shall give our readers, verbatim, as reported by the passengers, viz.

"On Sunday the 12th ult. a cartel arrived at Antigua from Guadaloupe, the Captain of which informed, that the Tuesday preceding his departure the British and French fleets, the former consisting of 25, and the latter of 33 sail of the line, had an action off Guadaloupe, in which he knew of no ship being taken or destroyed on either side: There two French ships of the line put into Guadaloupe in great distress, one with the loss of her fore-mast and bowsprit, occasioned by some of their own ships running foul of her: And that on Saturday the 13th, in his way to Antigua, he saw the two fleets engage a second time, in which he saw distinctly one ship blow up, but knew not whether French or English, nor what the event of the engagement was.--Just as the schooner was getting under way, the Triton frigate arrived from Admiral Rodney, the Captain of which informed them (the passengers) that in the second action, of Saturday the 13th, the following French ships were taken and destroyed viz. La Ville de Paris, of 110 guns, Count de Grasse; la Glorieux, 74; le Nectar, 74, and l'Ardent, 64, taken; le Cesar, 74, burnt; and le Zodiaque, 84, sunk.--The Triton left the two fleets going into St. Kitts, when it was expected another action would ensue. The British were very much damaged in their masts and rigging, but are said not to have lost many men,-The French fleet had several transports, with 1,500 troops with them, bound to Cape Francois, which fell out in the commencement of the action, and it's supposed reached the Cape in safety, as none of them were known to be taken when the Triton left the fleet.-Before she left it, the Count de Grasse was removed from his own to Rodney's ship."

It will be considered, that this account is from the enemy, the truth of which is doubted by many: and we hope it will prove entirely without foundation. Certain intelligence has been received at Philadelphia of the arrival of Count de Guichen, with ten of the line and 130 transports, at Martinico; and that the French fleet at that island amounted to 40 sail of the line, and the British, at St. Lucia, to 39.

The French and Spanish naval force, now in the West Indies, as accurately stated in a Philadelphia paper of the 20th ult. amount to 69 sail of the line, fit for service:--a considerable number of capital ships at the Havana not included.