The New Hampshire Gazette

Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman on board the Fleet at St. Helen's, to his Brother in Town, July 3.

I make no Doubt before this Time you have heard of the Arrival of our Fleet in the Road of St. Helen's, from which I imagine you would expect to hear from me. After we had finished our Business at St. Maloes, the Troops embarked again; and we lay a Week in the Bay of Cancalle, without the least Molestation, waiting for a Wind, and then proceeded to Harre de Grace, where we shewed ourselves for two Days, which in Appearance put the whole Coast in the greatest Consternation. We then sailed all along the Coast, and on Thursday June 29, anchored in the Road of Cherburgh, where we expected to land the next Morning; but the Enemy seemed to be too well provided for us to do our Business in a short Time, and our Provisions being nearly expended, it was thought proper to defer the Attempt, and come into Port to victual our Ships, which we are doing with the greatest Expedition, and imagine, we shall then pay our Neighbours another Visit. The Troops which guard their Coast must certainly be prodigiously harassed, as they can have no Intelligence of our Motions: for to day we appear off the Coast of Brittany, which causes them to collect their Troops that Way: then in a Day or two we are seen off the Coast of Normandy. This must be of the greatest Consequence to the allied Army; and we make no Doubt but Prince Ferdinand already feels the happy Effects.