The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Extract of letter from Martinico, dated July 1.

Three vessels arrived here successively, in the course of last week from Marseilles, but last from Malaga, whose report to government contain the following circumstances:

The active and implacable enemy of the British in the East-Indies, Hyder Ali Khan, having taken by storm after three unsuccessful attempts, a garrison called Arcot, in the vicinity of Pondicherry, put every man to the Sword, except such as escaped by flight, and about 200 British officers whom the French concealed. On this occasion between 2 and 4000 Moors & 1200 Europeans, were massacred, including among the latter upwards of 20 officers. Pondicherry being also taken by assault, the garrison underwent the same fate. Porto Novo and Pondicherry were also taken, and these accounts add, that 60000 Moors were marching to attack Bengal, which had thrown the English there into the greatest confusion.

Our enemies have received the mortifying confirmation of these circumstances by a packet arrived at Antigua; adding, that Hyder Ali Khan was besieging Vellore, the strongest establishment of the British in the interior parts of Indostan, when those expresses left the coast of Coromandel, & that it would be impossible for that garrison to hold out more than 6 weeks.