The Patowmac Guardian, And Berkeley Advertiser

BALTIMORE. January 4.

The schooner Harriot, captain Luce, arrived at Alexandria, on Wednesday last from Martinique, brings intelligence, that on the 10th ult. a brig arrived there, which had been dispatched from the British fleet for the West-Indies, on the 13th of November, then three days at sea. That this fleet was stated to consist of 8 ships of the line and 18 frigates, and to have 32000 troops on board— That 3000 negroes, furnished by the different islands were dispatched from Martinique to Barbadoes on the 10th ult. to join the fleet and act as pioneers on an expedition said to be against Guadaloupe and St. Lucia, for which great preparations were making both in Barbadoes and Martinique—That a party of French, said to be about 180 men, (from St. Lucia) with 200 stand of arms, &c. had effected a landing on the east end of Martinique, but were immediately routed with the loss of all their military apparatus.