The New Hampshire Gazette

PHILADELPHIA, September 27:

In our last we gave an Account of the Sloop Desire, Capt. Styles, being taken by the French; and since we have learnt, from a Gentleman who left Port au Prince the 26th ult. that the Sloop was brought in there before he came away, but not one of her former Crew on board. She was taken by one Fernandez, in a Privateer Sloop, of fourteen four Pounders, whom Captain Styles and his People bravely engaged for a considerable Time, but being boarded, were obliged to ask Quarters, when, it was generally believed, they were all butchered in cold Blood: however, so much our Informant certainly knows (from the French Prize Master's own Confession) that Capt. Styles, his Mate (Silas Parvin) and one of the People, were killed after they Struck, by the Captain's Orders. The Vessel was seized for the King, by the French General's Orders. This Savage Capt. was heard to say before he went on his Cruise, that he would treat the first Englishman he met with, that should fight from Close Quarters, and give him the Trouble of boarding, in the same Manner he has done Capt. Styles.