The Virginia Gazette

WILLIAMSBURG, April 4.

The Nansemond, Capt. Hews, is arriv'd in James River, from London, but brings no News, having had upwards of 13 Weeks Passage. Not having receiv'd any Public Papers from the Northward, since the Beginning of November 'til this Week, we shall now give our Readers an Abstract from them, of such Articles as are most worthy of Notice.

A Boston News-Writer, in November, after giving an Account of an English Sloop's running away with a great Sum of Money, belonging to the Spaniards who were cast away in North-Carolina, Says, "It Should seem a little strange, that (if the Accounts received be true) there were upwards of 50 English Prisoners on board those Ships when they were cast away; many of them taken out of English Vessels which had put into their Ports in Distress, where they had been seized, and the Men obliged to work for nothing, as Prisoners and Servants, to Old Spain; there to get home as they could; and these Prisoners have no Notice taken of them by the English, into whose Hands their unjust Captors have fell! Might it not be here queried, whether the Spaniards ought not to have been all seized, 'til every Capture they have made on the English since the Peace, were restored? Or, are the English resolved to let the Spaniards always treat them as Gallinas, as they call us, and at our Hands take no Wrong, nor do no Right?--If the News be true, that is said to come lately from Cape Francois, that three English Vessels laden with Logwood, are arrived there from the Havanna, which had been taken; and that five others were also actually taken, and carried to the Havanna; amongst which was a Ship from this Port, which had not yet arrived at the Bay, but on the high Seas:--Must not all indifferent Persons think we are indeed the Dupes of those People? And can any Man who ever suck'd one Drop of British Milk, or have one Drop of British Blood in his Veins, hear this without the utmost Indignation." What is here said, is not in order to palliate the Crime, as it certainly is in those Englishmen, but to shew that Britons do not always give such Measure as they receive.