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List of capital prizes drawn in the preftat Lottery fince our laft.

No. 34,904, 20,000l.
No. 33,501, 10,000l.

No. 29,253, 20 733, 2,372, 5.0ool each.
No.
11,205, 11,246, 42,123, 18,479,

37,837 2,000l. each.

No. 9,035, 39,237, 2,474, 9,901, 32,984, 11,892, 1,000l, each.

No. 16,576, 38,970, 12,655, 20,178, 16,661, 27,511, 40,706, 44,056, 37,35%, 500l. each. AMERICA.

Penfacola, Sept. 16. Notwithftanding the rupture with Spain, we live upon as good terms as ever with our neighbours the Spaniards; the fame trade is carried on as before, and they are as forward to buy as we to fell. Our lumber trade to Jamaica increases daily, and, if we had but more negroes, we might fill extend it, but for want of them we cannot da fo much business as we could with. This colony increases daily in number of people, which the troubles in the northern provinces greatly contribute to.

and the next morning advice came that they were French fhips, and I concluded that they had been drove here by distress. However, on the 7th, a letter was wrote by captain Henry, commander of his majesty's hip Fowey, that forty-two fail of French fhips appeared off Tybee Bar, and on the 8th five of them, very large hips, came in over the Bar, on which the Fowey and Rofe fhips of war were obliged to retreat, and come up the river; and on he 12th feveral of the French fleet went in at Offiban, and at night began to land their troops at Beaulieu, and on the 15th the count D'Estaing fent a fummons to general Prevolt to furrender the town and province to the King of France; on which fome mellages and letters pafled, and on the 17th the truce ended in declaring it was the unanimous opinion and refo ution of the civil and military, that the town should be defended. This, my lo d, made me very happy: the particulars of the negociation your lo dihip will rece.ve from general Prevolt, and from this time hoftilities began, and both fides were very active in railing redoubts and batteries, and opening trenches, &c. And now, my lord, give me leave to mention the great abi i- New-York, O. 9. Early lift Sunday morn ties and exertions of capt. Moncrief, the chief ing a small detachment of cavalry and intanengineer, who was indefatigable day and night, try, confifting of an officer and 23 men of and whofe eminent fervices contributed valily Captain Diemar's hullare, with an offic.r to our defence and fafety; and on the 3d of and 30 infantry of the 64th regiment, un October, at half after eleven at night, the der the command of Capt. Beckwith, Aid French began to bombard the town; and at the de Camp to his Excellency Lieutenant-general firing of the morning gun on Monday the 4 h, Knyphhaulen, atacked a rebel pa role of Moy they began a moft furious cannonade, which land's dragoons, under the command of Lieut. continued more or lefs till Saturday the 9th, Gill, near East Chester, took that officer priwhen juft before break of day, an attack was foner, with one private, left another ded made by the united armies of the French and upon the fpo, and put the refl to flight. One rebels; and we have it from very good autho-Heffian was flightly wounded upɔn this occ • rity, that the flower of both armics, to the amount of two thousand five hundred French, and one thousand five hundred rebris, came against us: the conflict was sharp, and lifted fo about an hour and half, and we were well Informed by French officers, who were wound- | ed and taken, and alfo by fome who came with Rags, and by deferters and others, that they loft feven hundred killed and wounded; and fome accounts mention one thousand, amongit which are fixty-three officers. D'Eftaign was wounded in the thigh and arm, Polafki in the hip with a grape fhot, and is fince dead; and the rebels, it is faid, had killed and wounded five hundred aftonishing to thik, we had only feven killed and fourteen wounded. And I have it, my lord, from feveral perfons, who faw the condition of the French flet when they were ready to depart from our coaft, that the hips were much out of repair, and the mea exceedingly fickly.

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Very late accounts from Quebec inform us, the inhabitants had enjoyed a plentiful harvest, and that the province, under the vigilance and excellent administration of General Haldimand, continues in a perfect state of tranquility.

We are informed that the morning and evening guns are no longer fired by the rebel veffels in Bolton harbour: this now is performed by a ship of France lying in that port.

Surinam, 08. 19. Nine fail of English veffels, one a thip, four brigs, two fnows, and two fchooners, are detained here, and will not be fuffered to depart, until the Dutch veffels taken by the English, and carried inta Jamaica, and other islands, are released. The Dutch have now a good naval force in thefa feas, and their islands being well_garrifoned with large reinforcement of troops, &c. they ave determined to carry on a free trade, eyca if enforced from the muzzle of their guns.

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