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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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A gentleman reports from Amsterdam (left May 14) on Dutch naval weakness at Texel: 20 under-manned, poorly provisioned ships; 60 sailors deserted to an English frigate without pursuit. Public discontent over business stagnation due to French specie requisitions. Nearly 100 transports prepare for French troops to invade England or Ireland.
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A gentleman who left Amsterdam the 14th May last, gives the following account:—That there were then lying at the Texel about 20 sail of men of war large and small, not one half manned, and badly provisioned. That while he was there, sixty men of the Admiral's ship, seized the launch in open day, and deserted to an English frigate then cruising off, no pursuit was attempted—that universal complaint exists among the common people at the new order of things, owing to the general stagnation of business, which is attributed to the country's being exhausted of specie by French requisitions.
The gentleman further informs that nearly one hundred transports were ready and preparing for the embarkation of French troops, supposed to be destined for England or Ireland.
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Texel
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14th May Last
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sixty men of the admiral's ship deserted to an english frigate
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There were then lying at the Texel about 20 sail of men of war large and small, not one half manned, and badly provisioned. While he was there, sixty men of the Admiral's ship, seized the launch in open day, and deserted to an English frigate then cruising off, no pursuit was attempted—that universal complaint exists among the common people at the new order of things, owing to the general stagnation of business, which is attributed to the country's being exhausted of specie by French requisitions. Nearly one hundred transports were ready and preparing for the embarkation of French troops, supposed to be destined for England or Ireland.