The New Hampshire Gazette

From PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 23.

Last evening arrived the brig Mary, Capt. Fleming, from Bordeaux, which he left on the 19th of October. Capt. Fleming was at Paris the 7th, at which time every thing was tranquil—the people was highly elated with the success of their armies, and of their cruising ships, who take an amazing number of prizes. Provisions were in great plenty, and not so high as might be expected. Two divisions of waggons, loaded with treasure, under an escort of dragoons, arrived at Paris while he was there. The Brest fleet was still in port.

Extract of a letter from a Lady in L'Orient, dated October 5—received by the ship Dispatch, Capt. Morey.

'Upwards of 80 sail of the West-India fleet is taken—we parted with our convoy 27 days after we left St. Kitts in a great storm—Our ship was taken the sixth day after we got soundings.

'Was I not to mention to my friends the attention and civility I have received from the French nation, from the first moment of being captured, to the present time, I should be guilty of the greatest ingratitude: It exceeds the most distant hope I could ever have expected from an enemy—we have a very large house to live in, wood, and so much a day allowed us, and the liberty of walking out daily from 8 o'clock in the morning till 8 in the evening with one of the guards.'

There are letters in town this day, advising that the French have taken EIGHTY SAIL of the British windward islands fleet, inward bound to London, and carried them into Port L'Orient.

Capt. Morey of the ship Dispatch, 57 days from L'Orient, informs that the brig Olive Branch, Capt. Buington, from Salem, bound to Bordeaux, was taken by the French squadron on the banks of Newfoundland, and carried into L'Orient: she lay at L'Orient 38 days before she left it, with her hatches sealed up.

Capt. M. further informs, during his stay there two frigates, a 54 and a 48, besides a 74 were launched in a few days after he left it. Four 74's and two frigates were on the stocks and the keel of another 74 laid.

Capt. M. also informs, that between 60 and 70 sail of the homeward bound West-India fleet were taken and carried into different ports in France: to wit: 38 sail into Brest, and 18 sail were sent into L'Orient, about the 1st of Oct.

About 11 days ago, off Nantucket, Capt. M. fell in with part of Admiral Murray's squadron, the Africa, and the Argonaute, which detained him about 8 hours, and carried him eastward 10 leagues—they afterwards released the ship, and restored his crew.