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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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The brig Holbrooke from New York, Capt. Sayer, arrived in Boston from Greenock after 47 days, bringing European papers to May 6 and news of Melas's army defeat in Italy with 7000-8000 casualties; a May 12 Glasgow Gazette was seized by a privateer.
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On Saturday last, the brig Holbrooke of N. York, Capt. Sayer, arrived here, from Greenock, in 47 days.
The papers received by this arrival, are to May 6, from which we have extracted the most material articles of Intelligence, which are to be found under the foreign head. Since the receipt of these papers, we learn from Capt. Sayer, that he had on board, when he sailed, a Glasgow Gazette of May 12, which contained an official account of the defeat of Melas's army, in Italy, in which between 7000 and 8000 men were killed and taken prisoners.
This paper was taken from Capt. Sayer by a privateer which boarded him off the Western Isles.
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Boston
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June 30
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defeat of melas's army in italy, between 7000 and 8000 men killed and taken prisoners
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Brig Holbrooke of N. York, Capt. Sayer, arrived in Boston from Greenock in 47 days on Saturday last, bringing papers to May 6 with extracted intelligence under foreign head; Capt. Sayer had a Glasgow Gazette of May 12 detailing the defeat, which was taken by a privateer off the Western Isles.