The New Hampshire Gazette

BOSTON, November 22.

From the St. Christopher's Gazette, of October 13th. 1756.

Copy of a Letter from George Hazell, late Commander of the private Sloop of War Little Betty, to Richard Mansfield and John Hazell, of St. Christophers.

Port Royal, in Martinico, Sept. 21. 1756.

Dear Friends,

This serves to acquaint you of our Misfortune in being taken the first Day of this Month by a Frigate and a 10 Gun Sloop. and bro't to this Island and laid in Goal : The Captain, and every Man, without Distinction, is in Irons : The Allowance we have is One Ounce of Beef, with Bread in Proportion, for 24 Hours, and no Liberty to buy any Thing out of the Goal ; so that you may judge how long we have to Live ; and unless you get a Flag of Truce very soon and send for us, you will not see any of us alive. Our Lodging is the cold Earth, and there is not a Man among us who has any Thing more than one shirt and Trowers. except that some of us have Hats. There is also in the same Goal with us Capt Hurt and his Company,and one Capt. Thomas, who was taken in a 10 Gun sloop belonging to Antigua : They have sent some of our People and some of Capt. Thomas's to Port St. Pierre. Capt Hurt desires you will let M-- know of his being in Goal, and he will assist you in getting a Flag of Truce. If you should succeed. it will be necessary for you to mention all our Names, in particular, which I shall give you in this Letter: I beg you will make all the Dispatch you can, for they threaten to send us all to Old France. and we may as well be dead at once. I desire you will make all the Friends you can for us, and that you will speak to Mr. C-- and Mr.--, to inform Admiral F.t-- of our cruel Treatment, and desire him to send a Flag of Truce for the Englishmen here, who are upwards of 200. I once more beg, for the LORD's sake, you will make all possible Dispatch, or you will never see us more ; for we are now in the Jaws of Death, and nothing but Misery will attend us here. I beg of you also to acquaint the Lt. General of our Usage ; for surely Prisoners were never treated as we are. If you don't succeed in getting a Flag of Truce, we must resign ourselves to the Protection of the Almighty, for we cannot expect any Thing but Death in our present situation: - We have seen Capt. H--, who will write you a full Account of our Condition: I should have wrote to my Owners by this Opportunity, but have no Paper. My People are 33, some of their Names I have wrote down, but I have not Time to mention them all.

Extract of a Letter from Port St. Pierres in Martinico, dated October 1.

"There is no News here worth mentioning, but that the Hurricane hath done great Damage to this Island, several Houses on the East side being blown down, and whole Pieces of sugar Canes torn up by the Roots. There are several Vessels cast away ; in particular, two large Privateers, with 200 Men on board, which were fitted out to take the English Privateer Brig Capt. Rea, are both lost, and only one Man out of both Crews saved -- The French compute their Loss of Men to be 1400. Inclosed is a List of Vessels bro't in here as Prizes, tho' there are several at Gaudaloupe that I don't know the Names of.

There are above 200 English Prisoners in this Island ; and the most Part in a miserable Condition thro' scarcity of Provisions, bad Usage, Unhealthiness of the Place, and the Weight of their Irons, so that if a Flag of Truce does not soon arrive, they must certainly perish. The Commanders of all the English Vessels have been kept in Jail, till within these two Days past they were set at Liberty on their Paroles, after several Petitions ; and are allowed a Bit's worth of Provisions per Day to subsist on.

There are nigh Thirty Privateers fitted out of this Place already, and sailed ; but they have not brought in a Prize these three Weeks past.

List of Vessels carried into Martinico before the first of October.

Schooner Hawk, Owen Morris Master. from Africa for Antigua, with 75 Slaves--St. Mungo, Robert Hall, from Virginia for Ditto, with Provisions-- Friendship. D. Moncrief, from London for Africa, with Dry Goods--Sloop Thomas,--- Harris, from Boston for Antigua, with Fish.

-Brig Concord, George Thompson, from Malaga for London, with Fruit-Brig Fox. Cornelius Robertson, from Virginia for Barbados, with Grain. &c --Sloop William, Anthony Allen, from Ditto. for Ditto, with Ditto--Schooner Sea Horse, Henry Hammond. from Maryland for Ditto with Ditto --Sloop Providence, Robert Jackson. from N. Carolina, for Ditto with Ditto-- Schooner William. William Conner, from Barbados for Virginia, with Rum--

Sloop Charming Patty. Bartholomew Lynch, from Maryland for Antigua, with Pork, &c.-Schooner Little Betty; Alexander Baynes, from Montserrat for Virginia, with Rum, &c --Privateer sloop Tryal, Capt. Thomas, of 10 Carriage Guns. on a Cruize. --Ditto Little Betty. Capt. George Hazell. of 6.Carrage Guns. on a Cruize from St. Kitts-- Schooner Three Friends. William Hurt. of St. Kitts, cast away in the Hurricane.-- There are, besides the above. several Vessels from St. Eustatia made Prizes.

List of Vessels taken and carried into Gaudaloupe before 27th of Sept.

A Schooner, William Taylor, Master, with 73 slaves-- Another Ditto, Nicholas Taylor. from Rhode Island-- Ditto, John Ayres, from Boston-- A Brig, Robert Heern, from Cork.-- A Sloop. Harris from Boston.-+ A-Snow Lis Anderson, from Whitehaven.t-A Sloop, Aaron Lyr, from Antigua.-- A Schooner,--Nichols. from Maryland -- Ditto, Benjamin Hynd, from Marblehead - A Brig. John Trehie, from Cork- A Snow, Samuel Green, from Philadelphia:-- A Sloop from Antigua to Boston.

There is an Account from Gaudaloupe To- St. Eustatia, that there were lost in the late bad Weather at Martinico; thirty two sail of Vessels ; and twenty that put out are missing.

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