Friday last arrived at a safe port, a prize brig 1 with 900 hogsheads of salt, taken by the privateer sloop Satisfaction, Captain [John] Stevens, of this port, who was in chase of a sail when this prize left them. ー Since which we learn the above Prize is safely moor'd.
By a Person from Plymouth, we learn, That a Vessel arrived there on Friday last from Maryland, the Master of which we hear, reports, That seven of the Enemy's Frigates, with their Tenders were cruising in Baltimore [Chesapeake] Bay, to intercept any Trade that might be carried on at that Place.
We hear a flagg arrived at Marblehead on Tuesday last from Halifax, with ten or twelve masters of vessels ー It is said the tories have petitioned this State, that they might return and be received into favor.
