The American Gazette, Or, the Constitutional Journal, 1776-06-19

SALEM, June 19. By Captain Joseph Cook, of the Schooner Elizabeth, who arrived at Portsmouth, New-Hampshire, rj rjterday - terday rjterday from Canfo, in Nova-Scotia, me are favored with Two Halifax Papers, of the Fourteenth and Twen Twenty-eighth - ty-eighth Twenty-eighth of May : They contain many lengthy Articles of Importance to the Public from LONDON, down to the Nineteenth of April ; but the Multiplicity of other Business in the Office prevents giving our Custom Customers - ers Customers more than the following Extracts ; at the fame Time would request their ^ence until next Tuesday, ,@ we Jball publife all their Con Contents, - tents, Contents, Captain Cook having made a Prevent of both the above Papers to the Publisher. Captain Cook informs us, That on the Seventeenth of April iafl, on his Pqfage from Sandwich, be being bound to St. Peter's, a French Island, to pro procure - cure procure farms and Ammunition for the Use of the Continent, was ta taken - ken taken by one of the MiniJierial Pirates, and carried into Canfo, who, after robbing bis Feffel of the & greatef Part of the Cargo, Provifons, all his Hands, except bimfelf and Mate, tbefe kind Plunderers ^ere so gen genteel - teel genteel and polite as to give him bis Veflel again, and permitted him to proceed on bis Voyage without Men or any Thing else necessary for the Prosecution thereof, which obliged him to fell bis Peffel and the Jmall Remains of the Cargo for less than half their Value : They also robbed him of. about Forty Dollars in Qfo. - Before the Vessel was board boarded - ed boarded by the Enemy, the Captain threw all bis Letters and Papers over overboard - board. overboard - Captain Cook further in informs, - forms, informs, That at the Inland of St. John's they have been greatly dis distressed - tressed distressed for Provisions, and many have Juffered within a few Months past. He afo gives the following Jl:ock. ing Inflance of the Scarcity oj Pro Provisions, - visions, Provisions, at St. John's, viz. That

the four crout, from similar circum circumstances, - stances, circumstances, cost them Seven Hundred Pounds. - -Query: If an army of Fifty Thousand men, at the distance of Three Thousand miles, are to be fed at this expence (allowing them to be vigorous) is it not paying too dear for filch a conquest ? Colonel St. Paul is appointed Mi Minister - nister Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of France. Orders ,are laid to be given from the War-office, and also from the Viaualing-office, to flop all Provi Provisions - sions Provisions from being put on board the Transport fllips, and for the Soldi Soldiers - ers Soldiers laying at Portsmouth, Chatham, &c. from embarking, and to hop all other proceedings for 20 days. Yesterday morning four waggons laden with Money were sent off from the Bank, under a proper Escort, to Portsmouth, for Payment, of his Majesty's Ships, and the Transports lying there bound to America. March go. Previous to the de departure - parture departure of the foreign mercenaries to America, the sums Stipulated for their hire and pay is to be advanced by Great-Britain. The Prince of Waldeck, and several of the Ger German - man German Princes who have engaged to furniSh troops, are expected in Eng England. - land. England. These Princes have a juster notion of the finances of England to permit their Subjects to embark be before - fore before they are paid for their hire. It is aftoniShing how any man could ever dream of fending cavalry ^ America. Only let us for a mo mo%ent - %ent mo%ent conceive, a dragoon with his bags, his bucket, his boots, his belts, his havre sack, his cloak, his can cantine, - tine, cantine, his broad sword and his car carbine, - bine, carbine, galloping round a tree to catch a rifle-man or an Indian! It is a cow catching a hare. The idea is laughable if the consequences were not serious. Notwithstanding the pacific no notions - tions notions of the Spaniards, as we have been hitherto amused with, we orc

as a Boat shaving on board a Family, was going from thence to another Ijland, a Child of Eight Tears of Age perijhed with Hunger on the P^foge, when the unhappy Parents were obliged to eat the dead Body thereof to preserve their own mife mifeferable - ferable mifeferable Lives. - He also fays, that at the River St. John's, the Indians are highly incensed against the Minijierial Party, and are determined at all Hazards to join the Americans. HALIFAX, May 28. Last Sunday Morning ar arrived - rived arrived the Schooner Three Friends, Captain Stalker, in Five Weeks from LON LONDON, - DON, LONDON, by whom we have received Prints to the Nine Nineteenth - teenth Nineteenth of April, from which the following Articles are taken, viz. Westminster, April 2. THIS day his Majesty went to the House of Peers, and being in his Royal robes seated on the Throne with the tifual solem solemnity, - nity, solemnity, Sir Francis Molybeaux, Gen Gentleman - tleman Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, was sent with a message from his Ma Majesty - jesty Majesty to the House of Commons, commanding their attendance in the House of Peers; The Commons being come thither accordingly, his Majesty was pleased to give the Royal Assent to twelve public and ten private bills. LONDON, March 29. An evening paper of last night fays, out of the provision article of hogs lately sent to Boston, we tan afire the public, that what from diseases, and other accidents, only four bogs were landed, which, after paying every expence, flood govern government - ment government in the very moderate sum of Eleven Hundred founds per hog ; w