Since our last was sent in here, the ship William, Captain [John] Bond, from Jamaica for Liverpool, with 150 hds. of sugar, 9 hds. of rum, and 2 bales of cotton, taken by the privateer sloop Chance, and a brig from Barbados for London, with 200 hds. rum, taken by the Continental sloop Providence.
By the ships from Jamaica, we learn, that provisions have become very scarce there, that the negroes had actually rose and cut off several plantations in that island, and that the Governor had proclaimed martial law. We also learn, that the humane Butchers of Britain had ordered the scattered remains of the 60th regiment, stationed there since the year 1772, to this continent to cut our throats, instead of letting them remain there to protect the island.
Last Saturday a number of officers and privates, belonging to the American army, and who had been taken prisoners in Canada, arrived in this city agreeable to the proclamation of Gen. Carlton. They were sent in four transports, under convoy of the Pearl frigate of thirty-two guns, from Quebec to New-York, where Gen. Howe detained them on board a fortnight....
