The New Hampshire Gazette

PHILADELPHIA, April 29.

From Cape Francois we have Advice, that the following French Fleet arrived there from Brest, on the 17th of last Month, under the Command of Admiral Blenac, with 1000 or 2000 Troops on board, viz. Le Duc de Bourgogne, of 80 Guns; Le Hector 74; Le Defonneur, 74: Le Dindem, 74; Le Brilliant, 64; Le Proteus, 64; L'Opal, 36: Le Diligent, 32: Le Zephys, 24; and La Calypso, of 16 Guns. The Dragon, of 64 Guns, missed Stays and ran ashore, where she soon bilged. Nothing will be saved out of her but a Part of her Guns, and some Rigging. That the above Fleet was designed to reinforce Martinico, off of which Island it arrived the 4th of March, when the Calypso Frigate was sent in shore to get Intelligence; but her Signals not being properly answered from the Shore, it being then in Possession of the English, and having that Account from a Brig they took the Fourth, they immediately proceeded for Cape Francois: That off the Cape they, in the Night, fell in with two English Frigates, who, firing eight Shot at them, put them into great Confusion: That next Morning they were within Gunshot, and remained so, till they got into the Harbour; during which Time they neither fired at, or gave Chase to them: That Monsieur Bory, General of the Island of St. Domingo: Monsieur Belfance, Field Marshal of the Troops; the Chevalier de St. Croix, Governor of Belleisle during its Siege, and a Number of other Officers, came out with this Fleet: That the Troops with what were before at the Cape, amounted to about 3500 Regulars: And that it was said this French Fleet was to be joined by a Spanish one, in order to go on some Expedition. The Calypso Frigate of 16 Guns, and 100 Men, in returning to the above Fleet off of Martinico, fell in with Capt. Charles Jenkins, in the Brig John and Richard, of Barbados, of 16 Guns, and 28 Men, who engaged the Frigate for near three Hours, and obliged her to sheer off: but Capt. Jenkins's Powder being then near out, and seeing a Fleet standing towards him, which he imagined to be English, he made for them, and coming up with the headmost Ship, which he found to be a French Man of War, the Brilliant, of 64 Guns immediately struck his Colours; notwithstanding which she fired the greatest Part of her Broadside, and several Vollies of Small Arms into his Vessel. Captain Jenkins, nor none of his People received any Hurt, but the Brig was much shattered. The Frigate lost six or seven Hands, and the French acknowledge that Capt. Jenkins and his People behaved most gallantly in fighting the Frigate so long, which was so vastly superior to him in Force.