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NHG-P.763.019
5 Aug 1763:13 (357)
Boston, August 1. Monday last arrived here the Schooner
Humbird, Captain Stedman, from Jamaica: The schooner having
sprung a leak, was obliged to put into the Havanna, where
she arrived in 40 days: From the Havanna she has had 18
days passages. By a gentleman passenger, we are informed,
that the latter end of June ten Spanish men of war, capital
ships, arrived there from Spain, with a number of
transports, having on board 4000 troops to take possession
of that island, agreeable to the late treaty of peace; that
on Wednesday the 6th of July, at four o'clock in the
afternoon, the Spanish guards took possession of the Moro
Castle and other fortresses, together with the city and town
of Havanna; when the English flag was struck and the Spanish
hoisted in many places. The British troops marched with
music playing and drums beating, making a grand procession,
down to the water side, where the boats from the English men
of war and transports were waiting to receive them, and
carried them on board their respective ships. The Spanish
gentry were greatly elated on the re-possession of the city.
They gave the Spanish populace great quantities of wine, &c.
and in the evening there were bonfires, and all kinds of
rejoicing. . . [11 more lines]
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