Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

NOVEMBER 8.

BY the last accounts from the Combined American fleet, we learn, "That after having put to sea with a fair wind, and a glorious prospect of a successful voyage, some dispute arose on board of several of the ships. The officers and part of the crew refusing to obey the directions of the Admiral and Commodores, resolved to steer their own course, the ship York leading the way; by this imprudent conduct, they were driven towards a lee shore and embayed—the Hampshire had near been lost among the breakers but for the spirited conduct of the Captain and some of his officers who nipped in the bud a dangerous conspiracy of the crew for destroying the ship. The Boston, the oldest ship in the fleet, is, by the mutinous conduct of the crew, land locked amongst rocks and sand banks; and is not like to get clear, unless the officers and men see their common danger and inevitable ruin, and join hand in hand to warp the ship in the main channel again, or assistance is sent for that purpose from the other ships. The crew on board the Rhode-Island, are all in an uproar, the officers having introduced paper tickets in lieu of gold and silver as pay notes; this is like to cause a dangerous mutiny or a desertion of part of the crew, if persisted in. Notwithstanding there has long subsisted a difference between the officers of the Philadelphia, a very fine ship, yet the Captain being an old experienced veteran, knows so well to play his card, as to keep in with both parties, and to prevent that difference from being detrimental to the voyage. It is said to be his wish, and also of most of his officers, that the Admiral and Commodores be obeyed; she and most of the other ships are come to an anchor, waiting to observe the conduct and fate of the York. It is said that the man at the sounding line and lead, has often called out 'veer ship, the water lessens, gravelly bottom and breakers ahead,' without being heeded by Rough-hewer the master pilot; many of the well wishers to the fleet hope that a surge of the sea may take that pilot overboard, as it has been suspected that he means to run the ship ashore. But most people entertain sanguine hopes, that at the stated meeting of the officers, they may resolve to put the ship about, before any of the fleet are totally lost on the coast of France or Holland.—The news farther is, that the Lion and Unicorn ships of observation, belonging to the unnatural enemy of the American fleet, are watching every manoeuvre of them, anxiously expecting that part of the fleet will get ship-wrecked, and the others separate, when they mean to take the advantage of their situation and commence hostilities—May they be disappointed, is the wish of

TOM BOWLING."