Ireland
Cork, May 24 last Thursday The Auke Capt.
Ashfield to this day and Dublin laden
with wine, was taken within a leaque
of the Derley Islands, near Beehoven, by
the Oliver Cromwell Privateer of Salem,
Captain Sims of 16 Sixpounders and 140
men. The name was taken the 15th November
last on her way from Barbadoes, and retaken
on the 3rd of January and sent to St.
Augustine, in East Florida, The Oliver
Cromwell Dee took The Susannah Capt.
Samuel Dee from Waterford to Newfoundland,
with beef, pork and butter; and a Danish Snow,
Capt. Jago from Waterford to the West Indies
with 2400 barrels of beef, pork and flour. The
Americans put the Captain, passengers and seamen
on board Coastin Brig, often plundering them of
everything valuable, and they were landed last
Saturday off Skibbereen.
By the Swan, Capt. Potts, which arrived here last
Saturday from St. Lucia, we are informed that Mons
D'Estaign was still blocked up in Martinico, after
working three attempts to get out; that the island
was in such want of provisions that it was thought
he must have seen risque coming out of quite Samifshed,
as Admiral Byron had taken every precaution to prevent
the least supply.
We are sorry to hear that there are letters from officers
of known probity, dated St. Lucia April the 2nd and
3rd, which carries out army there being so much reduced
by sickness, that companies which consisted of 41 to 50 men
each when they landed on that unhealthy island, had only 10
to 12 men fit for duty. The grenadiers and light infantry
companies had been called in to their respective regiments
after which the sickness increased, on hospital was
building and would be, it was feared the thickest
inhabited part of the island twenty one officers died
from the end of December to the beginning of April and
May lay sick. This day the King's Royal Irish Light
Dragoons arrived in their City from Mallow to act in
case of a surprise from our presidious enemies the
French.
