The New Hampshire Gazette

CHARLES-TOWN. (South Carolina) March 2.

On Saturday last arrived here, the Sloop Bahamian, Captain Sears, from New-Providence, and was the same Night put ashore on the Fort Point, in a violent Snow Storm, but received little Damage. By this Sloop we have the following Advices, viz. That a Spanish Schooner was lately seized there, for having purchased and taken in a Quantity of Flour to carry to Cape-Francois, where it is sold for forty to fifty Pieces of Eight a Barrel; and which is the Occasion of an extraordinary Number of Flags of Truce being sent thither: That Capt. Roberts had returned from a Cruize on the Coast of Hispaniola, whence he had brought nine Slaves: That the English Privateers have carried several Dutch Vessels into Monte Christi, and sent an Express to Admiral Coates, for his Opinion what to do with them: And, that a French Flag of Truce with English Prisoners, amongst whom was Capt. Charles Bardin of Rhode Island, who (being come Passenger, in the Bahamian) contradicts the Report of 5 Frigates being arrived at the Cape, and gives us the following Account, That he was taken on the 10th of August last, in his Passage from Jamaica for Rhode Island, by a small Privateer Sloop fitted out at Mississippi, and kept on board her 'til the 24th, when he and two of his Sailors were put ashore on a Maroon Key near the West End of Cuba, inhabited only by a Spanish Turtler, who was so kind as to put him the next Day upon the Island of Cuba, about 60 Leagues from the Havannah; to which he travelled in 11 Days, over hideous Mountains, and scorched Plains, and thro' many cold deep Rivers: That the poor Country Inhabitants treated him with great Humanity and Kindness in this long and painful Journey; but, as he approached the Capital of the Island, he found Charity greatly abating, and by the Time he reached it, quite exhausted; so that he became most miserable where he expected most Relief and Assistance, and almost perished in the Midst of Plenty--for being an Heretic, and destitute of Friends or Money: That during two Months that he was at the Havannah, upwards of 40 English Sailors were obliged to abjure their Religion; and go in Spanish Ships or perish; and that this is frequently the Case, or Want of an English Consul there, who, by claiming and relieving all that are taken and carried thither, or are cast away on the Coast of that Island, would save a great many Subjects to the Nation, otherwise totally lost.-- Capt. Bardin observes further, That the Dutch, French, and Danes, have Consuls at the Havannah, who take particular Care to release all People of their Nation, that by any Means come there.-- Capt. Bardin has also favoured us with the following List of Commanders of English Vessels that were at Port o'Prince in January last, viz. Edward Church and Thomas Webber, of Rhode Island; Clement Cardif, and -- Hunt, from New York; Randal Wilson, and Huston, from Philadelphia; Foster, of Liverpool; Tucker, of a Prize Sloop, re-taken; Chipman, from Plymouth in New-England; and Lightbourn, from this Port, besides their Mates, 60 Carpenters, Coopers and Sailors; 34 of which were sent in two Flags of Truce to Providence, and the Remainder to Jamaica: He adds, that Andrew Cuzzens of Rhode Island, was taken and carried into Port o'Prince, the beginning of last Month.