Thursday, Feb. 1st ー Capt. [Benjamin] Cole, in the brig Liberty arrives from the Straits with a cargo of salt. The ship "Senegal" took her into custody, and took all the hands except the mate, and a negro.
Friday, Feb. 2d, ー The Senegal keeps the brig in custody, and the hands on board, and has also detained the master on suspicion that contraband goods are on board, tho I cannot learn there is any.
Saturday, Feb. 3d, ー The brig in custody still. Cold weather. A small schooner comes in and goes along side the man of war. Proves to be from Port Roseway, Abraham Knowlton, master. The Senegal took one man out of her. He came from the West Indies passenger with Capt. David Smith, of Barrington, who has been taken by a man of war in the West Indies, and lost some considerable, and his people had the small pox.
