Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Extract of a letter from an American Captain in Kingston, (Jamaica) April 2.

The inhabitants of this town have been for a considerable time past under the most violent apprehensions from us. A citizen of the United States is regarded here with an eye of the most jealous severity, and every word we utter is catched at to make something of to our disadvantage. What their suspicion of our design of burning their town can originate from is hard to tell, except their own guilt, and a consciousness of the most unprincipled and rascally conduct in depriving us of our vessels and cargoes here without the shadow of right. Poor Flowerdew is continually under such apprehensions from us, that I am told he talks of nothing, in his sleep, but rebels, incendiaries, fagots and firebrands, and is almost wasted to death with his circle of guards, halberdiers and black-guards-men, for fear of these terrible Americans, who, after having wrested thirteen provinces from his master, he apprehends may at length be casting a longing eye on Jamaica also.