The Virginia Gazette

A truce boat, with some persons taken prisoners by the Georgians, was some weeks ago sent to St. Augustine, and returned about ten days since to Savannah. Accounts received by her of the Augustinians being in great want of provisions, and that the scarcity was actually so great, several persons, in order to avoid starving, had taken their passages in the packet boat for Falmouth. Col. Lawson, and some other Virginians, mentioned in a former paper to be prisoners at St. Augustine, were, previous to the arrival of the truce boat, kept close prisoners in the castle, but on the treatment our captives received being made known, they have been allowed the liberty of the town. It is said there is some kind of a proposition made from St. Augustine to Georgia, to suspend all the petit guerre by land and on rivers, plundering, stealing Negroes, &c. All the Negroes carried from hence and Georgia were hard at work on the fortifications; but the property had not been yet altered.

The garrison of St. Augustine, we are informed, does not exceed 800 soldiers, most of them foreigners. The whole garrison and inhabitants had been very sickly.