Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

FROM ST. VINCENTS, June 13.

Extract from a letter.

'It may be interesting to you to know how things go with the French and English. St. Lucia is totally in possession of the former; they stormed the forts, and succeeded in carrying them. Some negroes, and naturalized French were hanged, and some brought to this place for the same purpose. The commander in chief, Sir Ralph Abercrombie, arrived from thence to this place, seven days ago, with part of the forces to retake the windward side of this island from the French and Caribs, who have had possession, a long time past. On the 10th at sunrise, the British commenced their attack with 4300 men; at two in the afternoon they stormed and took the old fort, and three redoubts between it, and the new fort, About three the firing ceased; and a flag of truce from the French came in.-Finally it was settled to surrender all the possessions on the island to the British, and the French prisoners to receive the honors of war. Those who were natural subjects of Great Britain, and had joined the French, were to be at the discretion of the commander in chief -as also those negroes who fled to them.The Caribs, however, -in the night, as well as the plantation negroes, got into the woods, and a body of rangers and riflemen are after them. On the 11th, at 3 o'clock, P. M. the prisoners came in, and were conveyed on board the different ships in the harbour. Such a shabby set I never beheld before. They amounted in all to above 400, out of whom only five or six were white men ; the others were negroes and mulattoes. They were commanded by a negro, who had a French commission of Captain, as had also many of the other negroes and mulattoes. They came into town with their side arms, and (omitting the bulk of the prisoners, who were the dirtiest and most ragged crew under heaven) appeared decently dressed in their uniform.'