Hicky's Bengal gazette, or The original Calcutta general advertiser (42.1781)

ENGAL GAZETTE?

OR T R E '0 £•! G I N A L

cuttA General AdvertifeL

A TVtt'My Political end GithmeficTM Fr.per, Open to all Parties, tut influenced by None,

94 From Saturday November the 3d; to Saturday November ioift 1781. {No. XLIX ]

%ztra& of a letter from Madras ddicd crofTed over ib Deptford, rebounded "glilh Army to return to Tahjore for pro-

OHober 7th 8r. through the Borough Market to St. visions. ,

T'i&3£#£4; ARtsYthis Morning, arriy. James, and back again to . the Old A'drn. Hughes being difappbihted in

ed His M'ajefty's Frigate Stocks Market place, near the ManTi- the. Company's Troops, propofed ( if

m % Active Capt, Thomis Mc' onhobfe, which Oecafipned an immehfe pollible) keeping his Station off" of Nc-

. .->: Kc'nzie from,England.---- Number of Bucks to'Waddl'e into Ex- • g&patam'; 'till the Trahfports and Troops

-irW#.&Sv:r Commodore Johhfton's Se'etj' change Alk y for fale, Bull Beef, and arrive;, as they are provided with Stores

knd teft froni Sir Edward HugheVSqua-' Bear Hams were cryed ih.Bajfkets up fe and Jmpletnthts for Storming, as the

jd'ron; Cruising off of N'egap'ltanr,. She down .Lombard Street} COrnhill. and Men of /v'a'r can't'come hear enough td

brings Account of the fafe arrival of j Threadneedlc Street', but met with few Negapatam to Batter their Walls; which

His Majefty's Ship Moriarqu'e ..of 73.; i purch'afers, as many people we're affraid have bee:! daily Itrengthenfcd with addi-

Guns, Who had joined Sir Edward j they rather fmelled Rankifh, had a bad fcional Works, -firtce the Englifll Flee!!

flavour; and wou'd not re-fell a*rongir appeared; and Had cut out all the .Vcf-

the Old Nabobiar.s at the Weft End of feis lying in Negapatam Roads.- .
the Town, for the Mynheers had the - Admiral. Sir Ed. Fitlghes' Meet in-

patched frorii' the MauritioUs for France; |'preceeding Month imported fuch a tend fpendifig. the (hi-fting of the Men-

been rakeri bv fome of our Cruizers; | Quantity as had Glutted the Markets ioons in Trincomalee Bayj the Dutch

Srid reduced the prices they had fold at; Troops are retired from the Town and
at the laft Lord Mayors Feaft and the
Country Elections.

places feyeral had been

Hughes' Fleet ofi Wednefday direct
}~orn England;

And that Luckily a French Ship' dif-

and brought fafe infcb Eriglarid April
r. • i r;8i. by whofe difpatches it were
il Kno-vn in England that Hyder Ally
Cawn had invaded the Carhatic:—Arid
D feaied the Unfortunate Col. Bailie's
Detachment Augutt 10th 1780; the dif-
patches further Mentioned, that the
French made, no doubt, but that their
Friend arid Aide Hyder Ally Cawn,

ftas then or wou'd be foo'ri in poffeffion j India Fleet having been reduced in
bf Madras; and that fdecours and Ships j Number on the Mhdras Station; by the
lent immediately from* France,' Would | return of the Bellillej Rippon, and
foon reinftate the French Nation, and ! Afia to England, Unexpected His Ma-

fuffocated, owing to the Land _
on convened of the Conversing call ex-
fcfacted from the Eafrern Ores.

The Clamour becoming fo General
stid alarming; oft Account of the Eaft

BacR-B?.v to the Fort' on the Hill near

., Commodore Johnfrnn had taka'h five
Dutch {Hips Home wild bound. .Richly-,
laden—they were lying in Sakiahoa Bay,
being lent there by the Governor of the
Cape Good Hope: On hearing of a Rut-
turt With the MiVghfh:

The Active and jafeh being, izi:^ bv
Commodore- John (I on to. Reconnoitre
Table Bay; they difedvered thirteeri'Sail
of different Ships lying in the. Bay, and
h; and Captured a Veiled '.villi

Extirpate the EngUlhj who MA Beeri jefty's Ship Mdmirque of 74 Guns was

Governed, firice the lmprilbnmerit of immediately difparched Exprcfs to Coir- I Treafure, :oljtefiy Gold bound for Ceylon
Lord Pigoti bf People who knew littlle fTfddo'fe Joh'tifto'ii then oh his pafiage to i valued at • Three • Hundred Thouiiurd
of the Pdiice of the Carnatic, and atteri- i the Cape Good Hope, to lay aiide the in- | Pounds Sterling, froni the Cape Good
ded to their own private Emoluments . tended Expedition^ and tb djfpatch the Hope
only"; and not the linereft of the Engliih | Men of War and Trar.fports,' with the'
Nation; and that the Governor of Mau- j Troops under the Command ,of General
f.tious had difpatched all the Ship's of j Meadows,' to the ailiftance of Madras.;-

Except the ttpttiafif and Jupiter,

ar hb could fp'are to' annoy the Engldh
On the Coromandell Coaft; v/ith fome
'O:iii'cers for th'e ufe of Hyder Ally's
Troo'ps,- referving only a few' Frigates
for the Defence of the Ifland MauritioUs
and it's dependarrcies,' that Money and
Provisions ran ibort with him, but by
the Accounts they had received from the
Privateers fitted out from the Mauritr-
bus- again ft the Engliih who had been
fucceuful, He was' in hopes' that they
fhould get a fupply of Rice and Trea-
sure,- a Country outward bound China
Ship and anothef from' the Perfi'an"
O'ulp'h with large firms of Money and!
fome Rice Laden Veffels" from the Coro
fnandell Ccaft; being arrived at Mauri-

Ob Thurfkiy. Sept. ifih, Crn. Sir
Eyre Coote's Van,' by a forced M.°.rch,
fell in with Hyder Ally Cawn's AilriyJ
eb'..ting the Feaft of Viftnow,- near

which he was to return and Convoy the Sheagar, Hircarrahs were immediately;
Hotnev/ird bound Ships that might be difpa.tched to the Gen'e;al,- who march'.<!
ready at St Helena,- the Mercury Frigate the whole in two divifions," the. Ail.on
of 28 Guns Capt. Prefcott; had been j began before H\d'ers People-had time to
difpatched to the Weft Indias,' and the I Fo:rn,; and our Jnfahrry made .great
Active (arrived) was fehf off immediate- flaughter amongft the En ' •-. r're con-
l'y to acquaint Admiral Sir Etl. Hughes,'-fu-ffon was fo great; f?ftui.ng themfelves
and the Madras Government; of the! attack'd in three different Quarters,
new Orders received.' I that great Numbers," and a'General. Re*

Two Ships'of 74 Guns were Ordered j treat took place* our People purfuing
to take the latter Fleet of the Laft In- them bear two hours.—Tally the French.
dia Ships under Convoy, and to proceed Officer was firif fecn at the head of the
thro' with thenf to the Coaft, and wou'd | Red Coat Cavalry,' afterwards at the
be difpatched in a few Days after the
Monafque;

Head of the Green Ceat CavalryV botli
in great confufion. .

We loft one Officer Mr, Deacon, and
about 30 Rank and File killed and'
Wounded. ....

Col. Braithwaite,' and Col. Nixon,
fious; which had put the Inhabitants in-' with eleven Battalions of Sepdyf deftined
to great fpirfts; as' all of them in Gene- again ft Negapatam, have had a Bloody
ral were concerned. in fitting out Priva-J Aftioh with the combined Hbrfe and Hyder A-fly is faid tb have 1 off bp-"
teers their Ownaries being- fubdivided j Foot fent by Hycler Ally to affift the [ Sard's of Eijfht Thbufand People,
into very fmall fhares. Dutch, the Engliih kept the Field,'' A Brafs , G'un''formerly belonging tb'

On the News being whifpered abroad.' came off Victorious, and took feVeral Col. Bailie's Detachment,' was ' retaken
eln univerfal Clamour arofe in Leaden-' FieW pieces from Hyders people, who , in this Battle,- which was more Glorious'
hail Market, and fpread many Miles to j had laid watte the Country before the {than-tire two former Ones', and h?il tiw
the fcaft ward of White Chapel M'arkw/j.Engliilfstriye'V whitfh obliged'the En-' • Engliih' been affi'fted with Tso Th'cdv