After being out four weeks from Glasgow, I fell in with two transports with troops; one was the Archer, Coats commander; she mounted eight four pounders, and had 150 soldiers on board. The other the Prince George, Fairholm, with 120 soldiers on board. Two days before I spoke with them, they had an engagement with a schooner privateer of 12 carriage guns, who got off from them, but has done a great deal of damage to their sails and rigging. I kept company with them 20 days, when we got safe to New York.