The Virginia Gazette

Extract of a Letter from Belfast, in the North of Ireland, by Way of Port Patrick, March 24.

"Yesterday, in the Afternoon, about Half past three o'Clock, the Sixty Second Regiment of Foot, and five Companies of Highlanders, came up with a Party of about two Thousand of the Hearts of Oak, &c. who are entirely composed of disbanded Soldiers, and the Militia that so bravely distinguished themselves in Munro's Invasion in 1760, when a general Engagement immediately ensued, in which the Regulars were obliged to retire, with the following Loss: Sixty Second Regiment, killed, one Captain, two Lieutenants, two Ensigns, and one Hundred and nine Rank and File; wounded, two Captains, one Lieutenant, and one Hundred and forty Seven Rank and File. Highlanders, killed, two Captains, three Lieutenants, one Ensign, and ninety Rank and File; wounded, two Lieutenants, two Ensigns, and eighty four Rank and File. Killed, wounded, and Prisoners, of the Insurgents, five Hundred."