The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

BOSTON, August 7.
MORE WAR SEED.

Capt. Crust, who arrived here on Wednesday last, in 45 days from Bilboa, informs, that at the time of his departure (June 17) a Declaration of War was momently expected--and that on his passage he fell in with five or six British men of war, who were cruising off the Spanish coast.--He soon after spoke with a Spanish Galleon, bound into port--he gave the Captain information of the British cruizers--but the Captain of the Galleon, pointing to his guns, merely laughed at the information.

In England it is believed, that a Spanish squadron of 6 line of battle ships, besides frigates, has sailed from Spain for the protection of their West-India Islands. This, if true, does not indicate peace.

The peaceable accounts from Spain, related in the papers, are dated anterior to the above--But so various is our European intelligence, that it would puzzle an Oedipus to make a judgment of what the events will be, with which the womb of time appears pregnant.

If a War takes place, France cannot be an idle spectator of the ruin of Spain--as her existing Treaties obliges her to assist her Allies: And though her government and finances are deranged, her navy is in as fine order as any in Europe--and if she wants money to pay them, Spain has enough of it.

St. John's (Antigua) June 21.

"From the circumstance of an American brig being boarded by a Spanish frigate, it is highly probable that hostilities have commenced between the two powers, and that had the brig been British property, she would have been captured, and we think it equally probable that the Spanish West-India Colonies will have the first information of the war: for as the courier who had been dispatched with the last requisition from the British Court, would be at least seven days in returning to England, the Spanish Court would certainly avail itself of the advantage of that time to apprize its colonies of the result of this important business; besides that advantage from the situation of Cadiz, a passage to the West Indies might be performed in one half the time in which it could be done from any part in England; so that upon the whole, we think, we may fairly conclude that a war has actually taken place."