Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Letters from Lisbon say that 20 chests have already been taken out of the sea. These chests were sunk with St. Pedro, off Alcantara, and contain each 2500 piastres, being 15,000 livres tournois, which, in all, amount to 375,000 livres tournois. It is expected that the others will be got up, by the means of twelve remarkable divers, who are exerting themselves to save so much riches from the womb of the sea. Four of the divers are from Biscay, three Portuguese, three Germans, and two Englishmen. It would be fatal to many capital houses in Portugal and London, if these 50 millions were lost, as before the end of the present year a bankruptcy, nearly equal to that which took place in 1756, would be necessarily the consequence.