The New Hampshire Gazette

NORFOLK, May 7.

Yesterday arrived here the sloop Jenny, Capt. Vaughn, in 33 days from Martinique. A gentleman who came passenger in the above vessel, and was in sight of the action at Leogane, has furnished us with the following particulars:

That on the 19th March the English fleet consisting of 73 sail, weighed anchor at Port au Prince. On the 21st they began landing the army, and by two P. M. the whole of them were ashore; they then formed into two columns, under the command of generals Forbes and Bowyer, one of which filed off to the eastward and the other to the west of the town; the Swiftsure, Africa, and Leviathan, anchored close to the fort with springs on their cables, and commenced the attack. By this time the western division had formed, and advanced towards Leogane. In their route they passed through a sugar plantation, where a large number of French troops were in ambush, who attacked them with great intrepidity, and obliged them to fall back with the loss of 400 men killed and wounded. The French then set fire to the plantation, and the English troops advanced by another route close to the town, and a general action commenced between the main armies, which continued without intermission till dark, when the British troops fell back a mile from the town.

During the night the English took possession of an eminence that commanded the town, on which they raised a battery of 4 guns. On the morning of the 22d at day light they opened the battery, and continued playing on the town for three hours, during which time three attempts were made to storm the town, but proved unsuccessful. About 9 o'clock a body of French troops, formed into two columns, came out of Leogane, stormed the British battery, and put all in it to the sword.

On the evening of the 23d, a cutter came down from Port an Prince to the commodore, who fired a gun and made a signal for raising the siege--by dark the troops were re-embarked and the fleet got under way, leaving behind them a few bags of cotton and some horses. Every American vessel at Leogane was taken possession of by the British fleet and carried to Port au Prince. The town of Leogane was greatly injured by the shot from the shipping and 4 gun battery. The Revolutionnaire man of war was greatly damaged, and obliged after an hour's firing to slip her cables and retire.