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The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Report from London on April 26 detailing the tragic fates of French prizes captured by British forces in the recent war, including losses of ships like Ville de Paris and Glorieux, with only Ardent and Jason remaining.
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There never was in any war a set of prizes taken that were more fatal to the captors, than those taken in the last war from the French. Of Rodney's prizes taken from Count de Grasse, there remains now only the Ardent of 64 guns. The Glorieux, and all her crew, are lost; the Ville de Paris, with near 1800 persons on board, has perished; the Hector has gone to the bottom, though her company was fortunately saved; the Caesar is blown up; the Caton, one of Lord Hood's prizes, taken in the Mona passage, it is feared, will never more be heard of; there remains however the Jason, consort of the Caton, and also taken in the Mona passage: Nay, the Pallas that has been lately shipwrecked near Fayal, was a prize: and was taken by Admiral Keppel's fleet on his first sailing, and struck to Lord Longford in the America, of 64 guns, after having given his Lordship a broadside.
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Mona Passage
Event Date
April 26
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only the ardent and jason remain; glorieux and crew lost; ville de paris with near 1800 perished; hector sunk but crew saved; caesar blown up; caton feared lost; pallas shipwrecked near fayal.
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Prizes taken from the French in the last war proved fatal to captors; Rodney's captures from de Grasse mostly lost; Hood's Caton and Jason taken in Mona passage, Caton missing; Keppel's Pallas captured by Longford in America but lately wrecked.