Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

PHILADELPHIA, August 19.

A late English paper says that the following extraordinary circumstance may be depended on as fact. A young woman who had formerly lived as a servant to a publican on Tower-hill, bearing that her lover was in the custody of a press gang, and sent on board the tender, dressed herself in the habit of a sailor, and immediately entered with the officers who commanded the party.

Shortly after they were sent on board the ship which conveyed Admiral Rodney to the West-Indies, and then the admiral took command of the fleet on the occasion, the faithful pair were ordered on board the Formidable, the young woman doing her duty with uncommon diligence, and without a single man on board the ship (save her lover) having the least suspicion of her sex. In the battle with De Grasse, they were stationed aloft, and at the close of the action, a random shot struck the unhappy girl in the forehead, which in an instant put a period to her existence: as Thomson expresses, who can paint the lover as he stood! Recovered in a short time from this scene of horror, he, in a few words, told his companions who the object was that lay at that moment at his feet. He then embraced the corpse with a tenderness not to be described, and clasping her sad remains fast in his arms, leapt with them from the round top into the sea, amidst the tears and lamentations of his brave companions.