The American Gazette, Or, The Constitutional Journal

WILLIAMSBURG, June 15. We learn from Gloucester, that Lord Dunmore has erected hospitals upon Gwyn's Island: that his old friend Andrew Sprowle, is dead, and that they are inoculating the blacks for the small-pox. His Lordship before the departure of the fleet from Norfolk harbor, had two of those wretches inoculated and sent ashore, in order to spread the infection, but it was happily prevented.

The men of war have made prize of a Spanish brig that was bound to Philadelphia, reported to have on board 12,800 dollars. Some deserters from the Fowey, it is said, give this account; likewise, that they were very weak upon the island as to number, fearful of being attacked, and chiefly depend upon the fleet for their protection.

Mr. Robinson, late of York town, who has been a prisoner on board the fleet for some time past, but escaped Gwyn's Island, confirms the above accounts with respect to Andrew Sprowle's death, and the capture of the Spanish brig, which was from the Havannah, taken off the Capes of Delaware, and sent in by the Liverpool; but that Capt. Bellew had retained the dollars. This gentleman further says, that there are not above 200 blacks now alive, 75 at least having died within six days after they left Norfolk, and that the number of whites on shore is very inconsiderable.