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below, got his musket, returned on 
deck, shot the chief, and gave him 
his mortal wound. 
‘¢ John Goodwin, 
mate, shot dead. 
«© John G, Rackstraw was dag- 
gered, and died immediately. 
‘s {uyman Plummer was daggered, 
and lived until theship was got cut, 
when he requested the surviving 
crew to take care of the ship, and 
find captain Brown. 
ss Isaac Summers, cooper, Luther 
and Samuel Lapham, Peter Spooner, 
seamen, and John Williams, cook, 
were all killed. The cook defended 
himself bravely, as long as his hot 
water lasted, but that being ex- 
pended, they cut him down with an 
axe. Three seamen, one Sandwich 
islander, and a Kodiac Indian, were 
dangerously wounded. Five more 
of the crew were slightly wounded ; 
and three men and a Sandwich 
islander were all that escaped un- 
hurt. 
‘¢ These four at length bravely 
ushed through the crowd of In- 
dians, got below, and finding a few 
muskets loaded, fired them through 
the loopholes, in the break of the 
forecastle, which terrified the na- 
tives, and many jumped overboard. 
The four men then regained the 
deck, and after fighting some time 
with a few Indians, who seemed de- 
termined to hold their prize, killed 
or drove all overboard. One canoe 
was now scen under the bows, en- 
deavouring to cut the cable; but 
a swivel was brought from the after 
part of the ship, and discharged at 
them ; ten were killed by the swivel, 
and one by a musket-shot, so only 
one was left alive in the canoe. 
‘¢ The crew lost their jacket 
Knives, by plunging them into the 
sculls of the Indians, from whence 
the second 
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they were unable to draw them out. 
After the decks were cleared, the 
topsails were loosed, when the ship 
swung her head off shore, the cable 
was cut, and after some time beat- 
ing, was able to get out of the 
Sound. Two days after were off 
Newatta; the wind coming a-head, 
shaped a course northward. 
‘¢ On the 13th of June, deposited 
the bodies of our murdered shipmates 
in the deep.” 
10th. This evening, at nine 
o’clock, a dreadful fire broke out at 
the dwelling-house of Mr. Steptoe, 
butcher, in Bear-alley, Fleet-market, 
which consumed nearly the whole 
of his house, and a part of the ad- 
joining one: very little of the pro- 
perty was saved. Mr. and Mrs. 
Steptoe were both at their shop in 
the market when the’ accident hap- 
pened, and three fine children, who 
were in bed, perished in the flames. 
Asa young girl, named Anderson, 
of Deeping St. James, Lincolnshire, 
was returning from school, she was 
struck by a fire-ball, which caused 
her instant death. 
Christopher Simpson, lately exe- 
cuted at Lancaster for highway rob- 
bery, confessed he had broken open 
above eighty houses, stolen thirty 
horses, an] committed more high- 
way robberies than he could re- 
member ! 
The Gazette of this night con- 
tained his majesty’s proclamation 
for a new copper coinage, of 150 
tons of penny-pieces, 427 tons and 
a half of half-penny pieces, an1 22 
and a half tons of farthings. The 
peuny-pieces are in the proportion 
of 24 to the pound avoirdupois of 
copper, and so on with the others, 
The Vigilant, of 74 guns, in ore 
dinary at Portsmouth, which sunk 
in January, is raised. It appears 
Dd 2 that 
