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The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Accounts from East Indies via ship Harmony from Bengal report plentiful harvest prospects, low cotton prices in China, peace in English settlements, recovery of treasure from wrecked East India Company ship Vansittart, loss of ships Durham and another in a gale, and Tippoo Sultan's depopulation of a 80-90 mile region from Belipatam to Callicut to punish tributary princes.
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The Ship Harmony, Capt. Willet, is arrived at Philadelphia from Bengal.—Accounts from the East-Indies state—there is a most pleasing prospect of a plentiful harvest in that part of the world—that Cotton has sold so low as 11 Tales in China—that the English settlements enjoy a profound peace—that the greatest part of treasure on board the Vansittart one of the East-India company's Ships lately lost, had been recovered from the wreck, that the Ship Durham, Capt. Kepling, and another ship were lost in a gale of wind, foundering in the road—that Tippoo Sultan, to punish the faults of some of the tributary Princes, had depopulated and laid waste their country from Belipatam to Callicut, an extent of 80 or 90 miles, where the late powers of its fields and habitations are seen no more.
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East Indies
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Recent Accounts From East Indies
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treasure recovered from vansittart wreck; ships durham and another lost in gale; region from belipatam to callicut depopulated and laid waste.
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Ship Harmony arrived from Bengal with reports of plentiful harvest prospects, cotton sold for 11 Tales in China, peace in English settlements, treasure recovery from lost East India Company ship Vansittart, loss of Ship Durham and another in a gale, and Tippoo Sultan's punishment of tributary princes by depopulating 80-90 miles from Belipatam to Callicut.