The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Messieurs Printers,

The following are the established Rules and Orders from the Commander in Chief in New York to the Capt. and Officers of the Prison Ship, viz. All the Prisoners are sent on Board with an Officer, & delivered to the Commander on board taking a Receipt for the same. Every Prisoner then is sent aft, his Name taken down in the Ship's Books, with his Rank, & his Pack and Packets search'd, then sent below to shift for himself. The Officers of the Ship are a Lieutenant of a 64, one chief Mate, one acting Purser & Clerk, one Midshipman, one Boatswain, one Steward and one Cooper. Guard by Day, 1 Sergeant, 1 Corporal, and 12 Privates and reinforced at Night by the same Number: besides which two Guard Ships are always stationed, one at the Bow and the other at the Stern of the Prison Ships. No Boats are allowed to come alongside only from Sun to Sun, and then not without a Pass from the Commander at New York. At sun set all Prisoners are ordered below, and the Hatches bar'd down, and not open'd 'till Sun rise; upon which some of the Prisoners are obliged to wash the Deck every Morning. No Provisions allow'd to be cook'd 'till every Requisition is fully comply'd with. The present Naval Commander, (Admiral Graves.) to the Honour of his Humanity, has made a thorough Reform on Board the Prison Ship, and, unlike the debauch'd inhuman Scotch Brute Arbuthnot, has established such Regulations, as if attended to, will conduce to alleviating the Horrors of a Confinement in such Hell invented Prisons.

A LATE PRISONER.

Quere, Whether similar Regulations to the above would not tend to lessen the Balance of Prisoners against us, and thereby many be preserved from deserting the Cause of their Country from Sickness in its most distressing Forms, and Death, without Pity or a Friend to mitigate the Horrors of the scene.