The Virginia Gazette

BOSTON, April 22.

Agreeable to Orders from the Hon. Commodore Warren, which came last Monday, Capt. Durell, in the Eltham, of 40 Guns, sailed from Piscataqua on Tuesday, in order to join with him and our Fleet on the present Expedition; and we hear that Capt. Gayton, in his Majesty's Ship Bien Aime, has Orders to the same Purport.

Last Friday Morning the Transport Vessels, with the Connecticut Forces on board designed for Cape Breton, were spoke with off Nantucket, standing their proper Course.

By the same Vessel his Excellency received Letters from General Pepperrell, dated at Canso, the 10th Instant, informing, that all the Troops raised in this Province, and that of New-Hampshire, were arrived safe at Canso, except those on board a few Transports, who were in at Winter Harbour, and daily expected. That the Men were in good Health and high Spirits, and that upon the Arrival of the rest of the Troops, he designed to sail for Chapeaurouge-Bay with the first fair Wind.

Capt. Donahew, in his Passage to Canso, had the good Fortune to take 3 of the Cape Sable Indians, who inform'd him, that Monsieur Duvivier had ordered all the Indians in the French Interest, to be ready at Minas by the last of May, when he would be back from France with two 20 Gun Ships, &c. to attack Annapolis-Royal.

We don't find by any Letters taken in this Prize, that the French at Martinico had any Account or Intelligence of this Expedition: Nor do we learn from the Indians, that they at Cape Breton had the least Knowledge of it.

We hear that last Friday the General Assembly here ordered Fifty Pounds new Tenor, to be laid out in live Stock, &c. as a Present to Commodore Warren with all possible Speed, as a Token of their Respect for that worthy Commander.