The New Hampshire Gazette

By the last Accounts from the Havannah we learn, That the Viceroy of Mexico, and Governor of Carthagena, were at the Havannah all the Time of the Siege: That the Governor of the Havannah should have said, That Providence had taken the Place; for that during the Time he had resided there, he never knew a Month, in which there were not Gales of Wind sufficient to have drove the English Fleet on Shore until the Siege commenced: That the Spanish Officers, it was reported, went to their Governor, in the Time of the general Attack on the Eleventh of August, and told him, That the English Fire was So hot, there was no Possibility of standing by their Guns with any Safety: and that they could not nor would not, do it any longer: And that during the ten hours our Batteries played on the Town and Fortifications, 300 Spaniards were killed; but that the Town was not much damaged, the Firing being chiefly against their Forts.

N. B. On the 29th of July, a Spanish 36 Gun Frigate, which enfiladed our Lines, and retarded the finishing our Batteries, was sunk in the Harbour: but in less than an Hour's Time, her Place was supplied by a 74 Gun Ship.