The New Hampshire Gazette

PHILADELPHIA, April 12.

Extract of a Letter from Antigua, March 17, 1759

" This Evening we have Accounts, which I think may be depended on. That some Days ago His Majesty's Sloop Barbados was chaced by 8 French Ships of the Line.and 2 Frigates,about 10 Leagues to Windward of Martinico ; and it is supposed they are arrived there. This, I presume, can have no great Effect upon our Guadaloupe Expedition ; and it is generally hoped Fort Royal will not be strong enough to protect those Ships against the Superiority of Commodore Moore's Squadron. North America Privateers, well manned, would be of Service here at this Time, & they might make it well worth their while."

The Substance of the other Letters from Antigua (which we have had an Opportunity of seeing) is pretty much as follows, viz. That it was thought there was not above 1000 of the Enemy (White-Men) under Arms on Guadaloupe: That our Army landed safely on the Back Side of that Island, without any Loss, where they had it in their Power intirely to cut off all Supplies from the French, and intended immediately to attack them : That Commodore Moore, who, it is said, was going to Martinico with most of the Capital Ships, had offered great Encouragement to all Privateers that would join the Fleet : That in Antigua they had raised a great many Volunteers, white and black, to go to the Assistance of our Forces on Guadaloupe,and that some Ships lay ready to carry them off : That a Number of our Soldiers, who got sick soon after their Landing, were so well recovered as to be fit for Service again ; That it was the general Opinion the Enemy must surrender soon after the 22d ult. (when Capt. Jones left Antigua) And that two or three of our Ships had been at Dominica, and destroyed the Forts there.