The men of war are seizing all the vessels belonging to the Rebel Colonies. They are carried into English harbour. The men are put on board the ships of war as prisoners. The Viper sloop, blown off her station in America, accidentally met with, and carried into Antigua, a ship from Philadelphia bound, by leave of the Congress, to Cadiz, with 2200 barrels of flour. 2 The Captain of the ship jumped overboard at Dominique, where they first put in, and drowned himself.
1. London Chronicle, March 26 to March 28, 1776.
2. The ship Peggy, taken December 9, 1775.
