The New Hampshire Gazette

PHILADELPHIA, Feb.24.

On Friday last arrived Captain Condy, from St. Christophers, by whom we have the following Advices, viz. That about the 16th or 18th of last Month, eight Sail of English Privateers sailed from that Port, in order to attack the Island of St. Bartholomew, Capt. Cook, in the Cicero, of New York, Commodore: That they got there the Day after they set out, and immediately attacked and took the Place: That in the Engagement, a Sloop belonging to New London, Capt. Gale, accidentally blew up, by which 18 of his Men, and as many of Captain Cook's were killed: That they took in the Harbour three French Privateers, and carried them to St. Christophers: That three of our Privateers were left to take Care of the Place, Capt. Cook having erected an 8 Gun Battery in the Harbour, of the Guns which belonged to Capt. Gale's Sloop: That Capt. Cook received a slight Wound in his Arm, and several of the Enemy were killed: That our Privateers in general behaved well: That the Commodore had returned to St. Christophers in a fine French Privateer Schooner he had taken before the Engagement, and was gone to Antigua to receive the General's Orders relating to St. Bartholomew: That the French had received Advice of the Design of our Privateers against them, the Night before they arrived, and had put the Guns of one of their Privateers ashore, in order to erect a Battery: And that the Inhabitants on the French Part of St. Martins, expecting an Attack, had left their Habitations, and carried their Effects to the Dutch Quarters. The taking of the above Island must be of great Service to our Trade, as it was a general Rendezvous for French Privateers, and has a fine Harbour, in which Vessels may ride safely in any Hurricane.

Capt. Condy further advises, That Capt. Acney, in a St. Christophers Privateer, had taken a French one, of 4 Carriage and 6 Swivel Guns, with a Prize Sloop she had with her, and brought them into that Island: That Capt. Bishop, in another Privateer of St. Christophers, had taken a French Sloop, bound from Martinico to St. Eustatia, and sent her in there: And that a Snow belonging to Barbadoes, had been taken by the French, but retaken by Capt. Cook, of the same Island, and carried into St. Christophers.