The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

By the Albany Indiaman, who has made the quickest voyage that has been known, advice has been received at the India-House, that the troubles were happily terminated on the Coromandel Coast; that Madura and Pollicata were in the hands of the English; that that rebel Joseph Caun (whose name we do not remember to have read before) was subdued and executed; and that all was quiet at Bengal, where Governor Vansittart had overcome all difficulties, and was on the point of delivering up his Government to Mr. Spencer, a gentleman of distinguished character and ability.

The death of Joseph Caun is thus related; that M. Marchaud, with some French troops, having undertaken to support his pretensions against the reigning Nabob, was in possession of Madura; but finding the Nabob, by means of English auxiliaries, likely to prevail, he dispatched a French officer with a flag of truce from the fort to the English camp, demanding a safe-guard for his own troops, pay for the black troops, and pardon for those who had deserted; and offering at the same time to deliver up Joseph Caun the moment these terms were granted, having already arrested him for that purpose; the terms were accepted, the town was given up, and Joseph Caun delivered over to the Nabob, who ordered him to be hanged next day in the front of the lines.